Advocate, mentor or master? Worker-client power dynamics in HIV prevention for injection drug users

Author: Egan J.

Source: Studies in the Education of Adults, Volume 35, Number 2, 1 September 2003 , pp. 173-184(12)

Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education

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Abstract:

This article examines the experiences, perspectives and practices of HIV prevention workers whose clients are injection drug users (IDUs). In particular the nature of client-worker power relations are analysed, using a Foucauldian framework. These workers' accounts demonstrate how different approaches to these relationships - as advocate, mentor or master - significantly impact service provision. The particulars of practice and beliefs, and their implications for working with IDUs, as well as other realms of adult education with a social justice orientation, are discussed.

Document Type: Research article

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