This article critically examines the fulsome embrace of Antiracist, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) rhetoric by social work institutions in the United States, identifying historic precedents and contemporary implications. We examine theories that captivated the profession in the last half century and the corollary political developments.…

The heart can care but be misled by fine sounding words that obscure harms. Discovering harms is often hard work, for example determining exactly what outcomes clients experience in agencies and how to improve these, what avoidable errors social work educators and practitioners make and how to minimize these, what students actually learn and use…

Social work education, practice and research is rightly composed of a wide variety of behavioral and social science theories, practice perspectives and models, and various ethical principles and values. Positions that lend themselves to empirical analysis will, over time and with appropriate research, sort themselves out into views that are…

Contemporary events, including the recent Presidential campaign, have demonstrated the symbolic and political significance of language in our society and culture. Language is a primary tool for "naming the world" and defining our desires roles - as subjects and ojects - in the environments we inhabit. Yet, as often as language is a means…

The social work profession is grounded in principles of social justice, emphasizing the recognition and addressing of inequalities. Social work pedagogy has increasingly focused on anti-racist and anti-oppressive frameworks to confront historical injustices within the field. Despite their value to social work, when these frameworks are applied as…

In this article, I argue that antiracist political activism modeled after the teachings of critical race theory (CRT) and critical social justice theory (CSJ) more generally, is an unethical form of pedagogy and clinical praxis that will likely damage members of society by producing incompetent mental health professionals. If the premises and…