EMPOWERMENT – THEORY, HISTORY AND CURRENT SITUATION IN SOCIAL WORK: LITERATURE REVIEW
Ľuboš Kminiak, Zuzana Senáriková, Miloš Candrák, Michal Kozubík
Abstract: Empowerment, a multidimensional social process that helps people get control over their lives, has not yet been analysed in literature review studies in the Slovak Republic. The objective of the present study is to provide literature review of foreign professional literature on this concept. We used the literature sources available in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The objective was to quantitatively analyse the papers in the WoS database published from 1992 to 2023. In the defined period, 637 professional papers on “Collective Empowerment in Social Work” were published. Up to 92 papers were linked directly to social work; they were cited 1,175 times in total. Using the methods of narrative literature review and content analysis, we summed up knowledge about empowerment and collective empowerment. Another objective was to depict historical development of the concept. The literature available suggests the need for greater scientific focus on the concept. In the future, it would be beneficial to carry out literature reviews of research papers focusing on the effects of empowerment approach and examples of good practice in various countries.
Keywords: Empowerment. Collective empowerment. Concept history. Empowerment in practice.
Pages: 5-15
Doi: 10.17846/PP.2024.7.1.5-15
Source: Pomáhajúce profesie, 2024, vol. 7, issue 1, pp. 5-15 (PDF)
Language: English
