Our Voices: Aboriginal Social Work
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Editors note -- The current situation: -- The chapters -- PART 1: Theory -- 1 The importance of Aboriginal history for practitioners -- Introduction -- History -- Recent policy -- Social work and Aboriginal peoples -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Acknowledgement -- Further reading -- References -- 2 Race and the Indigenous social work academic in the Australian academy -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- Discussion points -- Further reading -- References -- 3 Colonialism and the atrophy of Indigenous male identities -- Introduction -- Colonialism -- Social work practice -- Cultural socialisation and identity -- Conclusion -- Discussion points -- References -- 4 Australian social work is white -- Introduction -- On being white: whiteness and white fragility -- Whiteness theory and social work -- Understanding race relations in Australia -- Social work and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lived reality -- Moves towards decolonisation -- Moves to decolonise practice -- Moves to decolonise social work education -- Moves to decolonise teaching and learning in social work -- Conclusion -- Discussion points -- Further Reading -- References -- 5 Indigenising social work -- Introduction -- History of Australian social work -- An Australian social work -- Indigenising social work -- A Wiradyuri social work model -- Steps towards Indigenising social work -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Further reading -- References -- PART 2: Practice -- 6 Indigenous social work and a Wiradyuri framework to practice -- Introduction -- History of identification of Aboriginal people in Australia -- Decolonisation -- Sovereignty -- The role of social work -- Indigenising and Wiradyurising social work -- Conclusion -- Questions -- Additional reading.