This book is aimed at assisting practitioners to achieve the goal of providing more relevant services to clients whose life experiences have been shaped by the forces of oppression. That is, it focuses on those who are excluded from realising their creative potential as a result of the disadvantaging contexts that they contend with daily. It seeks to go beyond the additive approach to oppression whereby each social division, be it class, ‘race’, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation, is considered separately from the others while the effects of each different form are ‘added on’ to the one initially under consideration.