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Re-storying “Hardship” and “Ease”: Towards a Spiritual Social Work Praxis
Section 11: Spirituality in Social Work
From: Critical Social Work Praxis
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Siham Elkassem and Sobia Shaheen Shaikh’s praxis chapter illustrates how an anticolonial, anti-racist and intersectional approach to narrative practice can help social workers meet service users on their spiritual and religious terms. Narrative concepts such as re-storying, re-authoring and double-listening, as Elkassem and Shaikh show, can help workers and service users find sources of hope and strength that can assist in unpacking and challenging conditions of oppression.
Contributors
Siham Elkassem
Siham Elkassem is a clinical therapist specializing in children and families. She is a community activist who is pursuing her PhD at Memorial University School of Social Work with a focus on anti-Muslim racism.
Sobia Shaheen Shaikh
Sobia Shaheen Shaikh is a faculty member at the School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dr. Shaikh’s community-engaged scholarship works to redress racisms, Islamophobia, sexism, ableism, environmental degradation and other interlocking relations of oppression within universities, non-profit organizations and local communities. Dr. Shaikh brings a critical lens to a range of scholarship which explores the subjectivity and motherwork of women and girls who have experienced intimate partner violence; relocation in northern and rural communities; and the everyday work of parents vis-à-vis individualized education plans in K-12 schools.
