Full Description
Aboriginal Social Work Voices is a ground-breaking collection of writings from Aboriginal social work educators who have collaborated to develop a toolkit of appropriate behaviours, interactions, networks, and intervention.
The text explores a range of current and emerging social work practice issues such as cultural supervision, working with communities, understanding trauma, collaboration and relationship building, and the ubiquity of whiteness in Australian social work. It covers these issues with new and innovative approaches and provides valuable insights into how social work practice can be developed, taught and practiced in ways that more effectively engage Indigenous communities. This book reflects evolving discourse around gender identity and debates around decolonising practice and teaching.
Contents
Foreword
Part 1 Theory
1. Reckoning with the Past: Aboriginal History in Social Work
2. Australian Social work and the cultural determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
3. Decolonisation or Indigenisation of Social Work? Definitional Distinctions and Application within Education, Practice, and Research
4. Developing Aboriginal identity as a light-skinned person
Part 2. Practice
5. The Importance of Connection to Country for Aboriginal Peoples
6. Kaadaninny: It is a two-way process of listening, learning and working together.
7. Indigenous Males Growing Strong: Eight Social Work Approaches
8. Indigenous Knowledges in the Nature-based Space and Beyond: Implications for Social Work
Part 3. Contemporary Issues
9. Relationships and Sexuality Education as a Response to Social Needs in Australia: Empowering Social Workers to Support the Sexual Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ Indigenous Communities
10. Embracing fear: Building a framework for allyship
11. "We Are Our Own Experts": Integrating Indigenous Cultural Knowledge into Artificial Intelligence-Driven Simulations
12. Decolonising mental health in Australia
13. The Five pillars: Indigenous equine assisted pedagogy
Index
