Social Work Empowerment Approach

As an undergrad social work student at University of Texas-Arlington we are taught how to become a generalist social worker. Becoming a generalist social worker will provide us with a broad range of skills to work with micro, mezzo and macro groups from all different ethnicities, ages, and religions. Professors here at UTA teach us many different models and theories that we can use as tools to work with our clients or groups successfully. A …

…and paradigms studied in social work. To optimize the results from a client or group the empowerment must be continual and adjustable to each specific crisis and person. I myself have used the empowerment approach in my life with both positive and negative results, which has only further pressed my opinion that it is not the perfect approach for every situation but can be highly effective towards a person's self-worth and image if it works.