Exploring the Concepts of Recognition and Shame for Social Work

Frost, Liz

doi:10.1080/02650533.2015.1132689

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“…Those who live in impoverished material and social conditions live on the margins of society and according to Chase and Walker (2013) adopt a range of strategies to mitigate feelings of shame and worthlessness. However, for many service users, engagement with services exacerbates feelings of shame (Frost, 2016;Gibson, 2015), and over time, and through multiple engagements with services, feelings of inadequacy and inferiority become entrenched (Houston, 2016). The strategies identified here have synergies with the experiences of the vulnerable young people in the current study; keeping quiet about the realities of their circumstances is a useful strategy for mitigating feelings of shame and unworthiness.…”

Section: Shamementioning

confidence: 78%

“…Honneth (1995) proposes that well-being can be achieved through recognition at three levels summarized as "self-confidence, selfrespect and self-esteem" (Frost, 2016, p. 3). Finally, the third level involves the valuing of an individual's skills and talents and appreciation of their contribution to their community and social life (Frost, 2016;Graham et al, 2017;Houston, 2016). The second level is concerned with social and political rights where the individual is accorded respect, is able to be involved in decision making, and exercises citizenship.…”

Section: Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Central to this relational practice is the disruption of the passive acceptance of misrecognition alongside supporting individuals to speak out, acknowledge, and disclose the conditions of misrecognition (Connolly, 2014;Frost, 2016;Houston, 2016;Turney, 2012). This practice begins with trust-based and respectful relationships (Munford & Sanders, 2015) that are based on mutuality as a starting place for achieving recognition and ultimately for social change (Frost, 2016). Houston (2016) situates this relational practice and the promotion of service user recognition within a framework for critical social work practice that connects the personal and the political, that is, understanding that personal troubles are connected to wider contexts that shape individual experience.…”

Section: Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Being loved and cared for are closely connected to the other forms of recognition (Frost, 2016), respect and being valued. This begins at infancy and involves attachment to significant adults.…”

Section: Love and Carementioning

confidence: 99%

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Shame and recognition: Social work practice with vulnerable young people

Munford

Sanders

2019

Child & Family Social Work

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Drawing on the findings from a longitudinal study of vulnerable young people's transitions to adulthood, this paper explores the ideas of shame and recognition. The young people, aged between 12 and 17 years at the first interview, had experienced chronic exposure to adversity from an early age (abuse, violence, mental health issues, addictions, and expulsion from school). They were clients of statutory and non-governmental services: child welfare, juvenile justice, remedial education, and mental health services. This paper draws on the qualitative phase of the study (n = 107); young people and a trusted other, nominated by the young person, participated in three annual qualitative interviews. Interviews focused on young people's experiences of services, key transitions, their relationships, and the strategies they used to locate support and resources. Experiences of shame, misrecognition, and seeking recognition emerged as dominant themes in the young people's accounts, and these are explored in this paper. The paper concludes with a discussion on responsive social work interventions that generate a deeper understanding of young people's experiences of shame and misrecognition. Central to this practice are critical and relational social work practices that actively support young people to achieve recognition.

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Section: Shamementioning

confidence: 78%

Section: Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Love and Carementioning

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Shame and recognition: Social work practice with vulnerable young people

Munford

Sanders

2019

Child & Family Social Work

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“…In doing this, Humphries claims a role for social workers in fighting oppressive state practices. The idea that social workers should be vigilant to state power when working with vulnerable service users is not new (Frost, 2016;Houston, 2015). Social work researchers have called on practitioners to give recognition to power's effects, and develop a morally and ethically driven social justice education for professionals entering the field (Beddoe and Keddell, 2016;McAuliffe et al, 2016), which includes realistic guidance about fighting for social change in neoliberalising worksites (Marston and McDonald, 2012).…”

Section: Dirty Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recollection-as-method in social welfare practice: dirty work, shame and resistance

Dobson

2017

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to introduce a methodology for critical welfare practice research, "recollection-as-method", and to use this to demonstrate the social relations of social welfare institutions.Design/methodology/approach -The paper analyses a series of personal recollections from the author's experiences of academic life and welfare work to establish a methodology for critical welfare practice research. This uses concepts memory, dirty work, shame and complicity, and is grounded in critical feminist and critical race work, and psychosocial and socio-cultural approaches to governance.Findings -The paper establishes a methodology for critical welfare practice research by demonstrating the significance of using an ontologically driven approach to governance, to achieve a realistic and complex understanding of statutory welfare work.Research limitations/implications -Recollections are post hoc narrations, written in the present day. The ethics and robustness of this approach are deliberated in the paper.Practical implications -The focus of the paper is on statutory welfare practice that involves the assessment and regulation of homeless people. Principles and arguments developed in this paper contribute to reflective and reflexive debates across "front-line" social welfare practice fields in and beyond homelessness. Examples include assessment of social groups such as unemployed people, refugees and asylum seekers. Arguments also have application for criminal justice settings such as for prison work.Social implications -This foregrounds practitioner ambivalence and resistance in order to theorise the social relations of social welfare institutions.Originality/value -The recollection-as-method approach provides a methodology for critical practice research by demonstrating an alternative way to understand the realities of welfare work. It argues that understanding how resistance and complicity operate in less conscious and more structural ways is important for understanding the social relations of social welfare institutions and the role of good/bad feeling for these processes. This is important for understanding interventions required for anti-oppressive social change across the social worlds of policy-practice life.

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