Isolated clients internalize personal blame for a structural position.
Evidence
Most client processing is shielded from the scrutiny of other clients. Isolated clients are more likely to think of themselves as responsible for their situa- tions. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 858
Categorization
- QUESTION: The excerpt cuts off mid-word in the source; worth confirming the full sentence to see whether the causal claim completes as ‘responsible for their situation.’
- XREF: connects to: Therapy’s real flaw is privatizing systemic problems as individual self-work — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1923; Clients internalize expected bias, foreclosing direct engagement with the actual cause. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 848; Internalizing personal blame or fatalism both block clients’ growth and mobility. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1132 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Working men internalize self-blame for their own class position.
#exemplifies(0.95) - Victims of discrimination adapt through either externalization or internalization of blame
#exemplifies(0.90) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1048 - Internalizing personal blame or fatalism both block clients’ growth and mobility.
#corroborates(0.85) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1132 - Blamed victims may internalize degrading self-characterizations, compounding their suffering.
#expands(0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 627 - Clients blame individual workers, not the structural decisions workers must absorb.
#contradicts(0.75) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1327