The Just Practice Framework in Action Contemporary Case Studies

The Just Practice Framework in Action presents a collection of case studies illustrating the integration of social justice into social work practice from the most intimate spaces of individual, clinical practice to macro-level advocacy and community building. The contributors to this volume offer detailed accounts of how they have brought the Just Practice framework to inform and transform their practice as clinicians, researchers, advocates, organizers, and educators. Their stories bring the framework to life, illustrating its potential for transformative social work practice.

Each case illustration in this text speaks to the nuances of meaning that shape practice; social workers' navigation of complex power relations; the historical, cultural, political, organizational, and community contexts of social work; and the possibilities and constraints social workers have faced. Contributors address housing rights and homelessness, refugee resettlement, neighborhood gentrification, Indigenous rights, and immigration. They explore campus and community action around issues of food security, mental health care, disability rights, and water as a human right. Their accounts offer grounded insights into challenges and possibilities of social justice-oriented social work that both strengthen and inform the Just Practice framework.

Janet L. Finn, MSW, PhD, is Professor of Social Work at the University of Montana-Missoula. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books and articles about social justice, community, women, and youth and childhood issues including Just Practice, Fourth Edition (2021) Gender Oppression
and Globalization: Challenges for Social Work (2013), and Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte Montana, 1900-1960 (2012).

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Just Practice Framework.
Janet L. Finn, MSW, PhD

Part 1. Integrating Social Justice in Direct Social Work Practice
Chapter 2: ?Just as I Am?: Moving from Biopsychosocial to Just Practice Assessments.
Robyn Brown-Manning, LMSW, PhD, and Willie Tolliver, DSW

Chapter 3: Just Practice with Midlife and Older LGBTQ Adults.
Charles Pitre Hoy-Ellis, MSW, PhD

Chapter 4: Just Practice in the Context of a Therapeutic Group Home.
Sarah Fielding, MSW

Chapter 5: A Very Good Day: Just Practice and the Therapeutic Alliance.
Elizabeth Urschel, MSW, MFA

Part 2. Integrating Social Justice in Neighborhood and Community Contexts of Practice
Chapter 6: Just Process: Determining the Location of a Homeless Shelter.
Amie Thurber, MSW, PhD

Chapter 7: Just Practice for Housing Equality.
Kara Byrne, MSW, PhD

Chapter 8: Just Practice for Water as a Human Right.
Ann P. Rall, MSW, PhD

Chapter 9: Just Practice in a Gentrifying Neighborhood.
Amie Thurber, MSW, PhD

Chapter 10: Practicing Social Justice Work in Refugee Resettlement.
Jen Barile, MSW, and Jesse Littman, MSW

Part 3. Integrating Social Justice School Settings
Chapter 11: Just Practice and Restorative Justice in Schools.
Jen Molloy, MSW, PhD

Chapter 12: Verbatim Theater and Social Work: A Just Practice Approach to Trauma-Informed Education.
Erin Butts, MSW, and Sarah Butts, MFA

Chapter 13: Social Workers in Schools: A Just Practice Perspective.
Katie Baumler, MSW

Part 4. Integrating Social Justice in the Criminal Justice System

Chapter 14: Social Justice Work in Jail: Navigating Tensions of Care and Control.
Deanna Cooper, MSW

Chapter 15: Diana's Story: From Incarceration to Social Justice Advocacy.
Vickii Coffey, MSA, PhD

Part 5. Integrating Social Justice in University Contexts of Practice
Chapter 16: Healthy Market: Addressing Food Insecurity at an Urban College Campus.
Sonya Crabtree-Nelson, PhD, LCSW, Marissa Cirilo, MSW, and Eric Crabtree-Nelson, LCSW

Chapter 17: Using Just Practice to Structure Learning in Field.
Laura Dresser, MSW, PhD

Chapter 18: Just Practice for Disability Rights.
Amy Capolupo, MSW

Part 6. Integrating Social Justice in Organizational Contexts of Practice
Chapter 19: Just Practice: Lessons from the East Side Clinic.
Diane Kempson, MSW, PhD

Chapter 20: Bringing Just Practice into a Corporate Law Context.
Kao Nou L. Moua, MSW, PhD

Chapter 21: Social Justice and the Triple Bottom Line: Integrating Social, Environmental, and Economic Sustainability.
Katherine Deuel, MS, MSW

Part 7. Integrating Social Justice in Indigenous and International Contexts of Practice
Chapter 22: Just Practice in Indigenous Communities.
Ashley Trautman, MSW, JD, and Marilyn Bruguier Zimmerman, MSW, PhD

Chapter 23: Indigenous Knowledges, Social Justice, and Disaster Risk Reduction.
Marjorie Balay-as, PhD, and Jay Marlowe, MSW, PhD

Chapter 24: Social Work and Justice on the U.S.-Mexico Border: From Critical Consciousness to Collaborative Action.
Janet L. Finn, MSW, PhD

Epilogue
Contributors
Index