ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on identifying structural stressors and on preventive action. It also focuses on promoting the collective interests of groups of clients, who are angry because the provisions are not sufficiently meeting their human needs and human rights. The chapter describes the history of the collective advocacy (CA) method. It discusses the techniques available to social workers, who collaborate with a group of people for the purpose of enhancing their Quality of Life. Using the CA method, the social worker supports a group of clients, who are to some extent angry and dissatisfied in their actions against the structurally wrong situation from the very beginning–in a certain degree angry and displeased in their actions against the structural stressor. The term 'collective advocacy method' originates from what was called 'consciousness movements', 'social action' or 'political action' in the 1960s. Reducing or eliminating the structural stressors and enhancing the strengths which exceed social groups.
