Abstract
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore how social work professionals understand and approach the core social work value of social justice. Thirty individuals who were employed as social work practitioners in medical settings completed a 14 question online survey to elicit their views on and experiences with social justice in social work practice. Although 67% of participants stated that they were able to address social justice in their practice settings, only 30% felt that the social work profession was adequately addressing social justice. Participants tended to describe the barriers that prevented clients from realizing justice in structural terms, but reported their own social justice activities as individual-level interventions which did not address these structural barriers.