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The advocate's compromise: strategies and tactics to improve the well-being of people with diminished status
- Author:
- MOXLEY David P.
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 8(3), 2014, pp.277-292.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
The author examines how advocates seek to improve the well-being of recipients who reside in organizations or systems of care in which there is the potential of neglect or abuse. Data from multiple action research projects is used to frame ‘the advocate's compromise’. It is argued that this compromise is actually a proactive strategy of advocacy designed to incrementally improve well-being. It is argued that in systems and organizations regulating people who are considered vulnerable or dependent the advocate must advance collaborative relationships with care providers and supervisors so they become allies in advancing the well being of their charges. The advocate's compromise is placed in context by amplifying a theory of diminished status, which offers a rationale for advocacy in social work. By identifying variation in its forms the author hopes to illuminate the richness of advocacy practice in which the compromise is readily observable and highlight some of its ethical demands. Finally, the author delineates principal strategies and tactics advocates employ to make the compromise a useful tool. (Edited publisher abstract)
Envisioning libraries as collaborative community anchors for social service provision to vulnerable populations
- Authors:
- MOXLEY David P., ABBAS June M.
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 28(5), 2016, pp.311-330.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The authors envision libraries as collaborative centres blending information provision, opportunities through Local Authority and human services in partnership with members of vulnerable populations. The authors offer a rationale for local public libraries as community anchors, offer a dual focus guiding interprofessional collaboration, identify five roles librarians working with social workers can serve to strengthen libraries as community anchors and suggest intersections among libraries and Local Authorities. They conclude the paper by offering blended strategies to enact libraries as community anchors for assisting people who either are reluctant to access formal assistance or who find that assistance too limiting or stigmatising. (Publisher abstract)
The relevance of four narrative themes for understanding vulnerability among homeless older African-American women
- Authors:
- MOXLEY David P., WASHINGTON Olivia G.M., CRYSTAL Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 27(2), 2015, pp.113-133.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Narrative strategy can strengthen social work practice, given its usefulness in revealing how social forces influence people’s experiences with situations that can compromise their well-being. In this paper, a product of long-term developmental research, the authors consider the versatility of narrative strategy to address homelessness among older African-American women, a growing segment of the homeless population in the United States. After considering homelessness as a social issue, and the distress it can produce, often resulting in serious health and mental health problems among older minority women, the authors examine vulnerability from a narrative perspective, offer background on their long-term narrative research and summarise their observations about the nature of narrative practice in working with members of vulnerable populations. The authors develop a thematic framework for conceptualising narrative as a practice research tool for social workers and other human service professionals. For each of the four narrative themes (involving plight, efficacy, hope and recovery), useful in helping people who are vulnerable, the authors document the distinctive focus of each one, and they then conclude the paper with implications for helping people who are vulnerable. (Publisher abstract)
Challenges to the implementation of personal advocacy for older adults
- Authors:
- HYDUK Christine A., MOXLEY David P.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 71(5), September 2000, pp.455-466.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Despite the endorsement of advocacy by the social work profession, the implementation of advocacy in community-service situations for vulnerable populations poses a major challenge to practice. This article examines the implementation of an advocacy project in the USA to address the community living needs older adults of minority status defined as important to the advancement of their quality of life, others background on the need for advocacy among minority other persons and advocacy with the context of empowerment then seven issues social workers should address to ensure the effectiveness and viability of personal advocacy for older adults are discussed. Finally, considers the promise of personal advocacy as a form of prevention at the individual case level of service and the benefits sound implementation can produce for older adults, their families, and social-service systems.