Covid-Cancelled 2020 CCCOSW_Table_Exercise_Including_Human_NeedsRights_ChecklistTheoryChart.pdf

This 11*17 Table Exercise was originally designed for a plenary session of the 2020 Cuyahoga County Conferrence on Social Welfare. The worksheet Rows 1&2 replicate the table exercise of the CCCOSW in 2011. Elsewhere, we draw on theoretical advances over the last 30 years which support an emerging strength-based, rights-based and needs-based approach to practice: theories of human needs (including psychological) (Deci & Ryan, 1980; Doyal & Gough, 1991; Gough, 2017; Ryan & Deci, 2017), human rights-based social work (Mapp, McPherson, Androff, & Gabel, 2019), and a needs-based partial theory of human injustice (Dover, 2019).

In Part I, PART 1: After completing Row 1 of the worksheet, complete checklists 1-2(A and B), below. Identify extent of satisfaction of basic needs for health and autonomy necessary for (1) achieving an implicit universal goal of at least the level of minimally impaired social participation required for avoidance of serious harm and (2) achieving explicit universal goal of engaging in social participation (THN) associated with eudaimonic wellbeing (SDT). Abbreviations to Theory of Human Needs (THN: Doyal and Gough 1991; Gough, 2017), Self-Determination Theory (SDT: Deci and Ryan 1980; Ryan and Deci 2017), and the Needs-Based Partial Theory of Human Injustice (THI: Dover, 2019). Theory Chart Column numbers (e.g., “Col 2G”) refer to boxes in the theory chart, “Theories of Human Injustice, Human Need and Human Liberation” (Dover, 2019).

PART 2: In Part 2, participatged would complete checklists 3-4 based on observation, reports, and documentation. Check only those that apply for 3 (unmet needs) and 4 (elements of serious harm experienced).

PART 3: Complete checklist 5 first, checking those that apply. In text box 6, explain and/or describe other unlisted mechanisms of injustice, using the space provided. The purpose of Part 3 is to determine whether needs are wrongfully unmet due to the source(s) of human injustice (Col 1A) producing systematic inequality of opportunities (Col 1B) to access need satisfiers (Col 2F), leading (absent secondary prevention) to the nature of human injustice (Col 1C). If so, the affected individuals are experiencing not only unmet needs but human injustice (Dover, 2019).

As part of this, participants, based on the disguised case examples, would discusse the Mechanisms of Human Injustice (THI) (Col 1B) Write below, how did oppression (structural racism and other forms of oppression), mechanistic dehumanization, and/or exploitation produce inequality in opportunities to meet human needs? LIST barriers, hurdles, borders, restrictions, constraints, micro/macroaggressions, and other prohibitions over the life course of this person which made it hard to access culturally specific satisfiers of needs (Col 2F) to meet intermediate needs (Col 2G) and describe as necessary.

PART 4: Social work is a human rights profession (Mapp, McPherson, Androff, & Gabel, 2019). Based on reports of the most commonly seen human rights violations in Northeast Ohio from SWK 303 students at Cleveland State University School of Social Work, identify possible violations of Universal Human Rights. Optional: Match to nature of unmet needs in Part 2 and Sources of human injustice in Part 3. In this sections, participants would check which Articles of the Declaraion seem violated for the person in their case example. I trained three dozen table facilitators at several commujnity-based sites and at our School, on how to use this to conduct table discussions at teh February/March 2020 to lead table dicussions. This fillable PDF, prepared with assistance from Karla Fitch, now MSW/LSW, was to be sent in advance to participants who wishes to fill in material based on disguised/composite case examples, after consulting as necessary with supervisors/field instructors. This was n-o-t research, but community-based professional education and continuing education.