Full Description
Understanding and respectfully engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is vital for the future of social work in Australia.
Authored by an all-Aboriginal Australian team, this book offers a ground-breaking collection of writings to develop a toolkit for culturally responsive practice. Structured in three parts, Aboriginal Social Work Voices explores key contemporary issues in social work, including allyship, anti-racist practice and the ubiquity of whiteness in Australian social work.
This book will help you to:
- Deepen your understanding of the histories, cultures and ongoing struggles of Aboriginal communities in Australia
- Critically reflect on your role in social work and how you can contribute to social justice and the advancement of Aboriginal rights
- Build the cultural responsiveness needed to engage respectfully and meaningfully with Aboriginal peoples
- Foster a more inclusive and compassionate approach to social work practice
With reflective questions and further reading at the end of each chapter, this book centres Aboriginal voices to enrich your understanding of both the challenges and the resilience within Aboriginal communities.
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
