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Assignment:

Social workers engage with diverse populations and must have a professional level of cultural competence to interact respectfully with clients, such as being aware of biases in language and history. At the macro level, social workers serve as social justice advocates for vulnerable populations and collaborate with communities, organizations, and leaders to promote policy decisions to improve justice for affected groups. Advocates may participate in panel forum discussions to explore diverse perspectives in social justice issues and determine culturally informed approaches to social work practice.

As a social worker and advocate for a specific population, an agency has asked a social worker to prepare for a social justice panel discussion focused on national-level issues. The social worker panel will examine the intersection between social oppression and culturally responsive social work practice for a selected population. The forum's coordinators have shared their general questions with participating panelists to aid them in preparing for the discussion, which are listed below.

Systemic oppression: Racism and colorism

Population affected: African American men

Assessment Deliverable

Respond to the panel prompts below as if you were a social worker preparing for a forum discussion on national-level social justice issues for a specific population affected by systemic oppression.

Cite at least 2 scholarly sources in your responses.

Panel Prompts Question 1: Answer the following:

Describe the disenfranchised or marginalized population and form of systemic oppression that a social worker chose as the focus of their research. Give 2 examples of ways that a social worker can promote social justice and collective empowerment when working with this population.

Question 2: Answer the following:

Explain how a social worker might apply power and privilege as a social worker in macro-level practice with the selected population. Describe consequences of oppression that are more likely to affect the population and explain why.

Question 3: Answer the following:

Explain the role of self-awareness in a social worker's ability to recognize unconscious bias, avoid microaggressions, and promote cultural respect. Give 2 examples of microaggressions that the selected population might encounter and explain how social workers could handle each situation with cultural competence.

Question 4: Answer the following in:

Explain how cultural awareness and cultural humility can help promote trust and overcome barriers to culturally responsive social work practice with this population. Describe actions that a culturally responsive social worker might take to promote trust with this population. Explain how the tenets of the NASW Code of Ethics Standard 1.05 Cultural Competence apply to interculturally competent social work practice.

Question 5: Complete the following:

List APA citations for the scholarly sources cited in your responses. Following are citations for the textbook and the NASW Code of Ethics, as examples:

Austin, M. J. (2014). Social justice and social work: Rediscovering a core value of the profession. SAGE Publications.

National Association of Social Workers. (2021). NASW code of ethics.