Razon Sharon, Feldman Guy
Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2025;95(3):288-297. doi: 10.1037/ort0000787. Epub 2024 Sep 5.
Social work is considered a human rights-based profession. One of the major domains wherein social workers advance human rights involves carrying out actions directed at ensuring the realization of social rights of underprivileged service users. However, empirical knowledge about the actual everyday practice of social rights take-up in social work contexts is still scarce. Guided by scholarship on social rights advocacy and social work discourse, this study explores how take-up of rights discourse is manifested in social workers' advocacy efforts on behalf of their marginalized service users. To do so, the study draws on 30 rights take-up letters written by practitioners in departments of social services in Israel, relating mainly to users' right to housing, an adequate standard of living, and health care. A critical discourse analysis of the letters shows that in their efforts to secure the rights of service users, social workers primarily employed three discursive moves: and Additional findings show that very few letters used We conclude by offering a structural explanation for social workers' reliance on discourses that depoliticize the idea and practice of securing people's social rights. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
社会工作被视为一种基于人权的职业。社会工作者推进人权的主要领域之一涉及开展行动，旨在确保弱势群体服务对象的社会权利得以实现。然而，关于社会工作背景下社会权利实际日常实践的实证知识仍然匮乏。在社会权利倡导和社会工作话语的学术研究指导下，本研究探讨了权利话语的运用如何体现在社会工作者为其边缘化服务对象所做的倡导努力中。为此，该研究借鉴了以色列社会服务部门从业者撰写的30封权利运用信件，主要涉及用户的住房权、适足生活水准权和医疗保健权。对这些信件的批判性话语分析表明，在努力保障服务对象权利的过程中，社会工作者主要采用了三种话语策略： 以及 其他研究结果表明，很少有信件使用 我们通过为社会工作者依赖使保障人们社会权利的理念和实践去政治化的话语提供一种结构性解释来得出结论。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
