Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm

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Discover how human services professionals can help to eliminate cultural oppression! Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm presents a new way of understanding human behavior, attacking social problems, and exploring social issues. This excellent guide shows that understanding the simultaneous forces of oppression and spiritual alienation in American society serves as a foundation for... Read more

Discover how human services professionals can help to eliminate cultural oppression!

Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm presents a new way of understanding human behavior, attacking social problems, and exploring social issues. This excellent guide shows that understanding the simultaneous forces of oppression and spiritual alienation in American society serves as a foundation for understanding the societal problems here. The first book to offer a comprehensive exposition of how the Afrocentric paradigm can be used by human service professionals and community advocates, Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm discusses why and how human service work is hampered by Eurocentric cultural values and will help you to offer fair and effective services to your clients.

Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm provides you with a concrete discription of how the Afrocentric model can be applied in human services to help people of all races and ethnicities. You will expand and diversify your knowledge base in human services by understanding the cultural values, traditions, and experiences of people of African ancestry.

Some of the issues and concepts in the Afrocentric paradigm that you will explore are:

defining the Afrocentric worldview, complete with a discussion of its philosophical assumptions and its shortcomings
understanding traditional helping assumptions and methods of West African societies and how these have influenced the helping strategies of African-Americans
exploring the strengths and weaknesses of some early African-American human service scholars, with special concern placed on their rejection of traditional African methods in favor of Eurocentric ideas
resolving youth violence and helping people with substance abuse problems
examining Afrocentric assumptions about resource distribution, morality, and societal relationships
identifying organizational and conceptual differences in Eurocentric and Afrocentric paradigms
creating organizational empowerment and an enhanced work environment via the Afrocentric paradigm

Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm will help you understand, solve, and prevent problems that are confronted by several races, especially individuals of African descent. This timely and relevant worldview is thoroughly explained to assist you in better serving people of color. The Afrocentric paradigm will help human services practitioners, administrators, policy advocates, analysts, educators, and black studies professors and students achieve educational and treatment objectives by showing you the importance of various cultural values and how to integrate them to make a difference!

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction
Worldviews and Cultural Oppression
Cultural Oppression and Social Science
Toward an Afrocentric Human Services Paradigm
Overview of the Book
Chapter Two: The Afrocentric Worldview
Historic Overview
Crirticisms of This Worldview
Characteristics of This Worldview
Afrocentricity, Equality, and Human Liberation
Chapter Three: The Evolution of Black Social Work and Its Pitfalls
Social Welfare in Traditional Africa
Black Social Welfare in America
Chapter Four: Oppression and Spiritual Alienation
The Relationship Between Oppression and Spiritual Alienation
Spiritual Alienation As Philosophical Foundation of Oppression
Spiritual Alienation As Outcome of Oppression
Chapter Five: Youth Violence and the Afrocentric Paradigm
Overview of Youth Violence
Political Economic Oppression and Youth Violence
Spiritual Alienation and Youth Violence Cultural Misorientation and Youth Violence
Chapter Six: Substance Abuse and the Afrocentric Paradigm
Political Economic Oppression and Substance Abuse
Spiritual Alienation and Substance Abuse
Cultural Misorientation and Substance Abuse
Afrocentric Drug Treatment Programs
Chapter Seven: The Afrocentric Paradigm and Social Welfare Philosophy, Ideology, and Policy
An Afrocentric Critique of American Social Welfare Policy
Foundations of an Afrocentric Political Ideology
Afrocentric Social Welfare Policy Recommendations
Chapter Eight: The Afrocentric Paradigm of Social Welfare Policy Analysis
Overview of the Afrocentric Policy Analytic Framework
Features of the Afrocentric Framework of Policy Analysis
Chapter Nine: The Afrocentric Paradigm and Human Service Organizations
Distinctions Between Afrocentric and Eurocentric Organizational Theories
The Afrocentric Paradigm and Positive Potentiality in Organizations
Empowerment Through Organizational Autonomy
Additional Considerations
Chapter Ten: Social Work Research and the Afrocentric Paradigm
Rationale for Afrocentric Social Work Research
Definition of Afrocentric Social Work Research
Attributes of Afrocentric Social Work Research
Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: Threats to the Survival and Continuation of the Afrocentric Paradigm
The Trend Toward Privatization
The Dominance of Postpositivist Epistemology in Academia
Continued Uneasiness with Spirituality
The Ascendancy of Postmodernism
Continued Cultural Misorientation
The African Oral Tradition
The Afrocentric Paradigm's Asociation with Black People
References
Index

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Jerome Schiele

Human Services and the Afrocentric Paradigm

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