With the aim of producing counterstories that participate in social resistance, Critical Clinical Social Work focuses on integrating critical theory with direct clinical practice. Exploring the impact of oppression and power in constraining and limiting people’s voices, this timely resource moves social work forward by highlighting the practical application of feminist, narrative, anti-racist, and postcolonial frameworks. The contributors tackle a range of substantive issues including ethics, working with complex trauma, men’s use of violence, substance use among women and girls, Indigenous social work praxis, critical child welfare approaches, counterstorying experiences of (dis)Ability, and animal-informed social work practice. Written by Canadian social work educators and filled with illustrative case studies, this text offers a Canadian perspective on the diverse issues social workers encounter in the field. This edited collection is an indispensable resource for social work practice and theory courses, and a must-read for professional practitioners. Features • promotes critical clinical skills consistent with anti-oppressive and social justice paradigms of social work
• offers case histories and examples of direct critical clinical practice
• concludes with reflections on social resistance and transformation through counterstorying Table of Contents Part I: Introduction Introduction: Critical Clinical Social Work: Counterstorying for Social Justice
Catrina Brown and Judy MacDonald Chapter 1: Critical Clinical Social Work: Theoretical and Practical Considerations
Catrina Brown Chapter 2: Critical Clinical Ethics in Social Work Practice
Merlinda Weinberg Part II: Critical Clinical Practice: Mental Health, Trauma, and Social Justice Chapter 3: Feminist Narrative Therapy and Complex Trauma: Critical Clinical Work with Women Diagnosed as “Borderline”
Catrina Brown Chapter 4: Critical Clinical Approaches with Girls and their Experiences of Sexualized Violence
Marion Brown Chapter 5: Exploring Trauma and Masculinity Among Men Who Perpetrate Intimate Partner Violence
Tod Augusta-Scott Chapter 6: Strategies for Critical Clinical Practice in Veteran’s Mental Health
Catherine Bryan and Tessa Barrett Chapter 7: Safety, Belonging, and Voice: Critical Clinical Practice with Girls and Women Struggling with Substance Use
Nancy Ross and Jean Morrison Chapter 8: Animal-Informed Social Work: A More-than-Critical Practice
Cassandra Hanrahan and Darlene Chalmers Part III: Critical Social Welfare and Institutional Practices Chapter 9: Postcolonial Theory Clinical Approaches to Marginalised Groups’ Quest for Social Services
Ifeyinwa Mbakogu Chapter 10: Critical Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Practice: Applying Knowledge and Skills to Prevent Entry or Re-entry of Children and Youth into State Care
Sara Torres, Monique Nutter, Donna Mae Ford, Yvonne Chiu, and Kathy Campbell Chapter 11: Epistemic (In)Justice in Child Welfare Risk Assessment
Marjorie Johnstone Chapter 12: AIDS Quarantine Revisited in British Columbia’s Treatment as Prevention: Possibilities for Critical Clinical Social Work in the Era of HIV Criminalization
Eli Manning and MT O’Shaughnessy Part IV: Working in the Context of Marginalization, Oppression, and Diversity Chapter 13: Spirituality as a Resource for Well-Being in African Canadian Communities
Wanda Thomas Bernard, Josephine Etowa, and Barbara Clow Chapter 14: Indigenous Social Work Praxis In-Between Worldviews
Gail Baikie Chapter 15: Counter-Balancing Life with Chronic Pain Through Storying Women’s Experiences of (dis)Ability
Judy MacDonald Chapter 16: Validating Voice in Critical Clinical Work with Older People
Joan Harbison and Donna Pettipas Part V: Conclusion Chapter 17: Doing Critical Clinical Work from the Ground Up: Exploring the Dalhousie School of Social Work Community Clinic
Jeff Karabanow, Sarah Oulton, Cyndi Hall, and Michelle Titus Conclusion: Practices of Resistance Through Counterstorying for Social Justice
Catrina Brown and Judy MacDonald About the Editors: Catrina Brown is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University, with cross-appointments in Gender and Women’s Studies and Nursing. Her anti-oppressive work centres on women’s health and mental health, substance use, feminist narrative research, and integrating critical theory into direct practice. Judy MacDonald is the Director of the School of Social Work and Assistant Dean of Equity and Inclusion in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University. Her work focuses on access and inclusion within post-secondary institutions for students with (dis)Abilities, autoethnographic and narrative storying of (dis)Ability, and anti-oppressive ways of working across abilities.
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