Facing the growing domination of neoliberalism and new public management in welfare services, social work scholars and practitioners are engaged in efforts to resist it. Using Schram's concept of radical incrementalism, this article describes and analyzes the development of the Poverty-Aware Paradigm (PAP) in Israel in light of this resistance. The PAP is a critical framework that focuses on poverty as a central axis of the analysis of power relations between service users and social workers. Since 2015, when the Israeli welfare ministry adopted the PAP as a leading model for social work practice in the social service departments, the paradigm has had a surprisingly warm reception, and its implementation has been extended to the health and justice systems as well as to additional welfare ministry units. The article discusses these developments as examples of ‘radical incrementalism’ that is, strategies of resisting neoliberalism by collaborating with the establishment to ‘bend’ the power of the state to benefit marginalized groups. The article analyzes the contribution of specific elements of the PAP-its dialectic process of bottom-up and top-down development; its discursive contribution; its organizational framework; and its training model. Finally, the article discusses the radical nature of the PAP.

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贫困、社会工作和激进的渐进主义：贫困意识范式的当前发展

面对新自由主义和新公共管理在福利服务领域的日益统治，社会工作学者和从业者正在努力抵制它。本文利用施拉姆的激进渐进主义概念，针对这种阻力，描述和分析了以色列贫困意识范式（PAP）的发展。PAP 是一个关键框架，将贫困作为分析服务使用者和社会工作者之间权力关系的中心轴。自 2015 年以色列福利部采用 PAP 作为社会服务部门社会工作实践的领先模式以来，该范式受到了令人惊讶的热烈欢迎，其实施已扩展到卫生和司法系统以及额外的福利部单位。文章将这些发展作为“激进渐进主义”的例子进行讨论，即通过与当权者合作来“弯曲”国家权力以使边缘化群体受益来抵制新自由主义的策略。文章分析了人民行动党具体要素的贡献——其自下而上和自上而下发展的辩证过程；它的话语贡献；其组织框架；及其训练模型。最后，本文讨论了人民行动党的激进性质。其组织框架；及其训练模型。最后，本文讨论了人民行动党的激进性质。其组织框架；及其训练模型。最后，本文讨论了人民行动党的激进性质。