Overcoming personal biases in social work by Dawn Belkin MartinezCall Number: Streaming
Publication Date: 2016
This video speaks to the challenges of overcoming personal biases in social work. Dawn Belkin Martinez, PhD MSW, examines how preconceived ideas about race, class, religion, sexual orientation, age, individualism, and consumerism affect us. She asks, where do these ideas come from? Are they taught or otherwise learned? And most importantly, how do they influence our relationships with clients? In a clinical demonstration between Maya, a social worker, and her client Ana, we see just how Maya's biases and dominant worldview adversely affect her work with Ana.