professionalization

Social Work as a ‘Bullshit Job’: Critiques of Social Work’s Potential for Social Justice in the Context of Professionalization and its Code of Ethics

Posted on March 12, 2015February 22, 2022 by yellowsweatygorilla

I recently participated in a focus group examining “contemporary social work students’ responses to social justice practice principles as stated in the Social Work Code of Ethics”, and thought I’d collect some of the ideas I had shared about the topic. Some see the code of ethics and mobilization within Continue Reading

Posted In WritingsTagged In anti-psychiatry, professionalization, social work, writings

Anarchist Re-Imaginations of Mental Healthcare

Posted on February 26, 2015February 22, 2022 by yellowsweatygorilla

Today, I attended a great talk by Bonnie Burstow on anarchist re-imaginations of mental health care, entitled ‘Toward a World with Commons and without Psychiatry: an Anarchist Vision’. The talk spoke to a lot of my concerns having worked in the mental health field for the past couple years, but Continue Reading

Posted In WritingsTagged In anarchism, anti-psychiatry, mental health, pathologization, professionalization, social work, writings

About

Edward Hon-Sing Wong, PhD (he/him) is based in Tkaronto/Toronto. With a background in mental health practice and community organizing, his research centres on social work abolitionism, mutual aid, social work and colonialism, and institutional violence in the mental health field. He is currently a union researcher and was previously a lecturer at York University’s School of Social Work and the chair of the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter.