Advocacy and empowerment

Empowerment and Self Advocacy

Empowerment through Advocacy and Consciousness-Raising: Implications of a Structural Approach to Social Work

Empowerment: A Framework to Develop Advocacy in African American Grandmothers Providing Care for Their Grandchildren

Purpose. Based on a review of the literature, this paper presents a unique and innovative model that offers an empowerment framework, which may be used to develop advocacy in African American (AA) grandmother caregivers. This proposed framework centers on education as a catalyst to the empowerment process in these grandmothers. Application of this model has potential to guide the practice of he...

Advocacy.

The Psychology of Advocacy and the Advocacy of Psychology

This article addresses needs and opportunities for advocacy for the science, education and practice of psychology from the perspectives of three leaders within organized psychology, academia, and hospital practice. The authors make distinctions between knowledge transfer and knowledge translation as well as between lobbying and advocacy. They define proactive and reactive advocacy and draw atte...