Aboriginal Social Work Voices is a ground-breaking collection of writings from Aboriginal social work educators who have collaborated to develop a toolkit of appropriate behaviours, interactions, networks, and intervention. The text explores a range of current and emerging social work practice issues such as cultural supervision, working with communities, understanding trauma, collaboration and relationship building, and the ubiquity of whiteness in Australian social work. It covers these issues with new and innovative approaches and provides valuable insights into how social work practice can be developed, taught and practiced in ways that more effectively engage Indigenous communities. This book reflects evolving discourse around gender identity and debates around decolonising practice and teaching.

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Dr Bindi Bennett is a Gamilaroi cis gendered mother and social worker. She is a Professorial Research Fellow at Federation University, Australia Dr Jacob Prehn is a proud Worimi man raised and living on Palawa Country. He is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

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Understanding and respectfully engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is vital for the future of social work in Australia.

Authored by an all-Aboriginal Australian team, this book offers a ground-breaking collection of writings to develop a toolkit for culturally responsive practice. Structured in three parts, Aboriginal Social Work Voices explores key contemporary issues in social work, including allyship, anti-racist practice and the ubiquity of whiteness in Australian social work.

This book will help you to:

• Deepen your understanding of the histories, cultures and ongoing struggles of Aboriginal communities in Australia
• Critically reflect on your role in social work and how you can contribute to social justice and the advancement of Aboriginal rights
• Build the cultural responsiveness needed to engage respectfully and meaningfully with Aboriginal peoples

• Foster a more inclusive and compassionate approach to social work practice

  With reflective questions and further reading at the end of each chapter, this book centres Aboriginal voices to enrich your understanding of both the challenges and the resilience within Aboriginal communities.

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  Foreword

  Part 1 Theory

  1. Reckoning with the Past: Aboriginal History in Social Work
  2. Australian Social work and the cultural determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
  3. Decolonisation or Indigenisation of Social Work? Definitional Distinctions and Application within Education, Practice, and Research
  4. Developing Aboriginal identity as a light-skinned person

  Part 2. Practice

  5. The Importance of Connection to Country for Aboriginal Peoples
  6. Kaadaninny: It is a two-way process of listening, learning and working together.
  7. Indigenous Males Growing Strong: Eight Social Work Approaches
  8. Indigenous Knowledges in the Nature-based Space and Beyond: Implications for Social Work

  Part 3. Contemporary Issues

  9. Relationships and Sexuality Education as a Response to Social Needs in Australia: Empowering Social Workers to Support the Sexual Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ Indigenous Communities
  10. Embracing fear: Building a framework for allyship
  11. "We Are Our Own Experts": Integrating Indigenous Cultural Knowledge into Artificial Intelligence-Driven Simulations
  12. Decolonising mental health in Australia
  13. The Five pillars: Indigenous equine assisted pedagogy

  Index