Intradisciplinary teams include professionals

from different disciplines with no shared professional background.

Culture is irrelevant in social work because the

helping process is never influenced by clients' values, beliefs or behaviour.

Cultural competence includes the social worker's

ability to understand how and why people are different and the effects of

oppression and discrimination.

Oppression and discrimination can make it

difficult for victims to obtain adequate housing, quality education, employment

and healthcare.

Horizontal oppression may occur when oppressed

individuals or groups direct frustration toward other oppressed individuals or

groups.

Social justice assumes that only selected groups

deserve basic rights and opportunities.

External oppression occurs when a dominant or

powerful individual or group restrains or mistreats a powerless or voiceless

individual or group.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states

that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

A developmental approach to social welfare is

sensitive to issues of human rights, oppression, discrimination, social

injustice, culture and ethnic diversity.

The social action model has a power focus, is

conflictual in nature and aims at structural change.