The therapy professions do not operate in isolation; they reflect general trends in the wider society. Consequently, it is instructive to follow developments in allied disciplines such as social work. Arnoldo Cantu, a social work academic and friend of CTA, and his co-author, Nathan Gallo, have just published a piece providing an overview of the current state of play in social work professional education.
A few months ago, the organisation Do No Harm (DNH) in the US called out the social work accrediting body, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) asking them to remove their DEI standards. The CSWE recently rejected their request.
Cantu and Gallo lay out in detail the extent to which the social work accrediting body has been ideologically captured. They refer to a recent influential scoping review of social work interventions published by the University of Wyoming which is titled “Dismantling White Supremacy in Social Work Education” and note that:“
“Far-left ideologies such as critical race theory (CRT) and critical whiteness theory (CWT) are cited as reasons why higher education must subvert its long-held ideals of objectivity, intellectual rigor, and merit-based achievement. ‘CRT and CWT provide tested frameworks for both identifying and dismantling these oppressive structures within higher education,’ the authors opine, ‘and more specifically, schools of social work.’ ”
The parallels in the therapy professional bodies are obvious to any observer. You can read their full article here.
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