The Impact of Neoliberalism on Social Justice-Based Social Work Practice in Mental Health
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article provides a critical view of the landscape of social workers’ experiences in mental health service provision in Canada. This national research project builds upon and supports the findings of a recent Nova Scotia study which found that the professional and social justice–based ethical paradigm of social work is often in conflict with the dominant biomedical model and is severely restricted by neoliberal managerial fiscal constraints on mental health service provision. Mental health social workers in Canada report a lack of professional autonomy, as well as professional disempowerment, devaluation, and a lack of decision-making opportunities in policy and approaches to practice. These results strongly suggest that, taken together, the climate of neoliberalism — with its emphasis on fiscal constraint and the rationalization of care and the corresponding biomedical, decontextualized, standardized, and individualized approach to mental healthcare — betrays social work’s social justice–based professional practice and identity, calling for the protection of the social work profession through establishing effective resistance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.027 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.091 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".