Pandora's Box:Unleashing Technology in the Human Services

摘要: By promoting certain beliefs and values in the human services environment, technology can enable or disable processes ultimately outcomes service provision. The value of respect is undermined by influences medical model government policies, controlling how sector deals with clients. helping professions’ ideal ‘doing good’ displaces interpersonal transactions when it perpetuates blaming victim. Similarly, engagement new administrative practices complex has mainly inhibited empowerment staff, clients organisations. Thus, instruments to implement policy couched this framework challenges rites conflicts idea for empowerment. As a key component relationships, paper argues that should be essential provision services. Therefore, utilising concept direct use technologies becomes tantamount innovative empowering practice arena.