Comments on: Life on Mars – Radical social work is back!

By: rickwilsontg

rickwilsontg — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:46:51 +0000

I agree, I feel there is the opportunity for a significant systemic shift in power within our society, thus our interventions and approaches must promote collaboration, support diversity and be open to wide system change. The circumstances remind me of Bill Torberts ideas about transformational power which can only be exercised in conditions of ‘mutual vulnerability’ – interesting times. Rick

By: heather

heather — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:20:35 +0000

One in the middle looks like Rick, doesnt he?
On a serious note, it really is about a shift in power , on recognising that the circumstances people find themselves in are often as a result of the way society works rather than an individual pathology, and the solution needs to be wider, a focus on the community rather than the individual.
I still have my copy of Radical Social Work from when I qualified in 1980 if anyone wants to borrow it….. !