A new paradigm: bringing a historical and sociopolitical trauma lens to the training for welfare practitioners working with Aboriginal families

Title: A new paradigm: bringing a historical and sociopolitical trauma lens to the training for welfare practitioners working with Aboriginal families
Creator: Menzies, Karen
Relation: Children and Society Vol. 34, Issue 5, p. 408-423
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/chso.12375
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2020
Description: This article argues that child protection agencies must provide mandatory training about the Aboriginal experience within the welfare state and the resultant trauma that exists in Australian Indigenous communities. This article highlights the areas of curriculum to be included in training for welfare practitioners working with Aboriginal families in the New South Wales child protection system. The training content explores the Stolen Generations' trauma experiences of child loss and examines the dichotomy between past child welfare laws and present child protection laws and intergenerational racism. Another key component of the training comprises information about the impacts of trauma on brain development.
Subject: brain development; child protection training; Indigenous Australians; trauma; trauma-informed practitioners
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1425766
Identifier: uon:38309
Identifier: ISSN:0951-0605
Language: eng
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