Engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Description
Essay question:
After reflecting, how has your learning in this unit influenced your culturally Responsive social work practice framework utilising privilege and or whiteness/ critical race theory?
This task highlights and develops your critical reflection skills which are essential to develop culturally responsive practice. To strengthen your critically reflective analysis, integrate personal and professional values and ethics, and link to the cultural responsiveness framework referred to throughout this unit.
Marking criteria:
– Accurately describes culturally responsive social work.
-Accurately describes the supplied critical reflection model. Provides a minimal reflection that broadly discusses learning experience/s .
-Accurately explains the theory of privilege. Presents an argument that links this theory to cultural responsiveness.
-Minimal errors in sentence formation, punctuation, spelling, grammar and language protocols. Uses topic sentences or links paragraphs. Acknowledges most sources. Mostly adheres to APA7 standards. 10 credible sources
list of references you need to use:
Australian Association of Social Workers. (2013). Practice Standards. Retrieved from
Bennett, B. (2015). “Stop Deploying Your White Privilege on Me!” Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Engagement with the Australian Association of Social Workers. Australian
Social Work, 68(1), 19–31.
Bennett, B., Zubrzycki, J., & Bacon, V. (2011). What Do We Know? The Experiences of Social
Workers Working Alongside Aboriginal People. Australian Social Work, 64(1), 20–37.
Bennett, B., & Green, S. (2019). Our voices: Aboriginal social work (Second edition.). Red
Globe Press.
Briskman, L. (2014). Social work with indigenous communities: a human rights approach (2nd
ed.). The Federation Press.
Davis, A., & Gentlewarrior, S. (2015). White Privilege and Clinical Social Work Practice:
Reflections and Recommendations. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 26(3), 191–208.
Green, S., & Baldry, E. (2008). Building Indigenous Australian Social Work. Australian Social
Work, 61(4), 389–402.
Green, S & Bennett B (2018). Wayanha: A Decolonised Social Work, Australian Social Work,
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Indigenous Allied Health Australia. (2019). CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS IN ACTION: An
IAHA Framework. Indigenous Allied Health Australia. Retrieved from
SWK708_2021_Semester_1/IAHA_Cultural%20Responsiveness_2019%281%29.pdf
Kowal, E. (2011). THE STIGMA OF WHITE PRIVILEGE: Australian anti-racists and
Indigenous improvement. Cultural Studies (London, England), 25(3), 313–333.
Walter, M., & Baltra-Ulloua, J. (2019). Australian social work is white. In Bennett, B., &
Green, S. (Eds.), Our voices: Aboriginal social work (Second edition.) (pp. 65-85). Red Globe
Press.
Walter, M., Taylor, S., & Habibis, D. (2011). How White is Social Work in
Australia?. Australian Social Work, 64(1), 6–19.
