Towards an understanding of Indigenous social work

Title: Towards an understanding of Indigenous social work
Creator: Gray, Mel; Yellow Bird, Michael; Coates, John
Relation: Indigenous Social Work Around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice p. 49-58
Relation: Contemporary Social Work Studies
Relation: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=7052&edition_id=9706
Publisher: Ashgate
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2008
Description: The social work profession's involvement with Indigenous Peoples has frequently been viewed through the same lens as work with people outside these cultures. Not surprisingly, the social work literature views its work with Indigenous Peoples from cross-cultural, anti-oppressive or structural perspectives. Indigenous social work has arisen, by and large, as a response to the lack of effectiveness of Euro-American social work approaches and as part of broader efforts to develop effective relevant interventions with the understanding that a great many of the personal and social problems encountered are a direct consequence of around the World the decades of mistreatment and exploitation that have taken place under various government policies aimed at colonization.
Subject: social work; Indigenous; profession; cross-cultural studies; colonialism
Identifier: uon:6630
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804497
Identifier: ISBN:9780754648383

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