The education system has been heralded as a tool of liberation and simultaneously critiqued
as a tool of social control to maintain the oppressive status quo. Critical consciousness (CC) …

Researchers have examined civic engagement as a health promotion tool among older
adults and adolescents, yet less is known about its mental health implications for young …

Today's young people are growing up in an increasingly ethnically and racially diverse
society. How do we help them navigate this world productively, given some of the seemingly …

Oppression has been identified as a fundamental cause of disease. Like a self-replicating
virus, it infects systems from the biological to the political, contributing to personal (eg …

Using constructivist grounded theory, we conducted 15 semistructured interviews of men
and women with criminal justice backgrounds, and three focus groups to examine group …

Critical consciousness represents the transformation from a passive target of oppression to
an active actor with an increased capacity to analyze and negotiate conditions of …

By Alexis Jemal & Sarah Bussey| Developed by Paulo Freire, critical consciousness (CrC) is
a philosophical, theoretical, and practice-based framework encompassing an individual's …

Interdisciplinary study in neurobiology, liberation psychology, and social work highlight the
ways in which the brain is related to various cognitive, personality, and behavioral …

Research shows that sense of community may enable lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB)
individuals to resist and fight against societal heterosexism and increase their positive sense …

If social work's ethical commitment to social justice activism unearths and eradicates the root
causes of inequity, then radical practice should describe the field of social work. Stemming …