erstand. Questions of meaning, identity and value, both within the private world and the public world, are often socially constructed in ways where the powerful shape identity and dictate what is accepted as true or normal in a given culture. When these constructed values provide equal opportunity and privilege for all individuals, then social justice has achieved its goal of constructing a sustainable environment for conviviality and mutual development. As Rossiter (2001) asserts, ôIn social work, two identities are sustained through helping-helper and helped, one who has, one who needs, one less vulnerable, one more vulnerableö (p. 2).
Another theoretical approach or framework that will significantly guide my work as a beginning practitioner is the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders û IV, (DSM-IV), published by the American Psychiatric Association to make diagnoses and select interventions for treatments for specific ment
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