Reflective piece
Reflective piece
2. Why is there inequality for Aboriginal Australians?
3. What roles has social work played in contributing to human rights abuse of Aboriginal people in the past? What role should social work play now and in the future?
This task requires you to use critical reading and reflective thinking skills. In preparing your response you should read and consider t he readings listed below as well as AASW Code of Ethics (2010) when developing your response.
The piece must address all aspects of the question and use of literature and relevant concepts to support reflective engagement.
When writing about own culture and experience, please consider the culture as Chinese that may include traditional values, beliefs that may be influential to the personality.
The researcher should answer them separately, but not in a whole piece.
So for question one, the client would like the researcher to take Chinese culture as the consideration in making comparison to the Australian culture.
For question two and three, it is more typical questions that require the researcher to answer based on knowledge and other resources from the reading list.
Reflective piece
REQUESTED SOURCES:
Gilbert, S. (2009). Aboriginal Issues in Context. In M. Connolly & L.Harms (Eds.) Social Work: Contexts and practice (2nd ed.). (pp. 94-106) Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Calma, T & Priday, E. (2011). Putting Indigenous human rights into social work practice. Australian Social Work 64(2) pp.147-155.
Briskman, L. (2007). Social work with indigenous communities. Avondale NSW: Federation Press.
Green, S. and Baldry, E. (2008). Building Indigenous Australian Social Work. Australian Social Work 61(4), pp.389-402.
Australian Social Work (2011) Special Issue on Australian Indigenous Social Work and Social Policy
AIHW (2011) The Health and Welfare of Australian’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: and overview 2011. Cat no. IHW 42. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health Welfare