Serving The Aboriginal People

Ruining Head: SOCIAL WORK FIELDS Topic 1-Practice skills in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Topic 2–Practice skills in child welfare and protection Name of the Student Name of the University Unit Code Date Student ’sNote 2 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS Table of Contents Topic 1............................................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 3 Discussion ................................................................................................................................... 3 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Topic 2............................................................................................................................................. 8 Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 8 Discussion ................................................................................................................................... 8 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................. 11 References ..................................................................................................................................... 13 3 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS Topic 1 Introduction Serving the aboriginal people of the Torres Strait Islander Australia is becoming increasingly acore area of social work and interest of curriculum for the country's social work degrees. The practitioners of social work are very much interested in teaching and producing culturally responsive and including social work particular to the indigenous people of the island. Development of new curriculum resources and the emergence of multidimensional knowledge and skills have restructured the idea of ademonstration by integrating aboriginal peoples by fostering better ways of knowing doing and being into practice the aim of this study reflex the practice skills regarding social work attached with aboriginal and Torres strait islander people of Australia (Bennett, Redfern & Zubrzycki, 2017). The aim of the paper is to discuss the practice skills in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Discussion For the sake of developing the construction of the fact-based case study of the land and its people, the help of aboriginal stakeholders has been taken extensively to delineate and exhibit the real portraits of the society. The skills and values will demonstrate the state of this community and the need for social work that they desperately require. Moreover, when communities engage in leadership processes itescalates the development towards growth and inclusion by fostering opportunities and building relationships thereby heading towards abetter community and acultural model of responsiveness. The Australian association of social workers is the body to activate itsocial work and associated degrees in the country have released a curriculum Framework in 2012 for Australian social work education (AASW) (Bennett, Redfern & Zubrzycki, 2017) .The transformation has mainly been addressed with the stipulation that 4 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people embrace the skills of knowledge doing and being for qualifying the social work degrees (Wilson et al., 2020). The AASW code of ethics 2010 professes practice standards by means of developments that reflects the growth of international emphasis on the record and needs for ensuring the social work students with the state-of-the-art capacity for becoming competent and responsive in terms of cultural attributes (Luke et al., 2020). The social work students of Australia are also informed by the aboriginal people for sticking to the outcome-based reflection of higher education that is undertaken by the government of Australia for seminal review that induces reforms of curriculum and development-based growth for or the indigenous people. There are distinct links between aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples ’knowledge and the content that the courses provide that helps in participating and engaging the people in higher education (Wilson et al., 2020). Thus, there is an increased capacity for non-indigenous students to peacefully and inclusively work with the people of the island? The main idea behind integrating the aboriginal people of the island is to foster social work-based curriculum in Delhi practice by sticking to strict guidelines of achieving objectives that are clear and by expelling the colonial hangover that Australians have gained from the British, who have made the condition of the actual natives of the land very poor and distressed. Between 1788 and 1997 more than 50000 aboriginal people of the island were admitted to institutions for fostering social work-based education (Zingleman et al., 2020). However, the application of protectionist policies has which the country into a situation of stalemate consisting of suspicion distrust, and the ceremony between the social workers. These people are not very want to be attached with the aboriginal people of the Torres Strait Island along with their communities ’individuals and families and thus, is enhancing the gap for the more (Bell et al., 2020). The students of social work courses and graduates most of 5 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS the time field list prepared than the actual questions and practical that they had to face in exams because of which they become extremely anxious about their work collaborations and social abilities for respectively dealing with the people of the Torres strait Island and the entire community (Withal et al., 2021). Australia is acountry that is deeply tarnished why the stigma of racism and white skin-based supremacy in power politics penetrates into all sectors of social work including medicine and health. This gap inherently deprives the real natives of the land of their resources from adeveloped and inclusive life of growth, peace, and abundance. Hence the anti-racist stance must be the core of the Australian social work curriculum. That is why, nurturing empathy will subside racism and activism by including the deprived people from political, social, and economic development for giving them the platform to understand the past damages and consequences that decision had made to them and thereby restructuring the existing shall framework of the society into an inclusive conducive and prosperous one (The Journal of Australian Political Economy, 2021) .Colonial injustice has arbitrarily damaged the social work profession of Australia and to deal with this backwardness the aboriginal people of Torres Strait Island must come up and join social professions so that they could actually mitigate the loopholes. The major barrier in the process is that the Eurocentric social work education framework is restricting the participation of tribal people and impeding the growth of an inclusive curriculum by critically the colonial icing and destabilizing social work graduation (Reath et al., 2018). For developing aculturally responsive pedagogy, recognition of knowledge that encompasses historical social, and cultural contexts must be included. The aboriginal knowledge is center at the heart of the cultural contacts of the island for critical consideration regarding the development and social reforms (Gupta et al., 2018). collaborative space that nurtures the 6 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS aboriginal and non-indigenous people by engaging them in avery meaningful apprehensive, and collaborative engagement for making insights, and development by understanding basic concepts of social work that itincludes position identity and the emergence of the local people (Zingleman et al., 2020). Shifting from aposition to another integrates the aboriginal people into the curriculum by providing them the integral and essential social elements including theory, practical, and real assessment based cases (Bell et al., 2020). The main barrier in developing skills is the indigenous languages and dialects that reference them from the use of the English language and its understanding thereby practically making inclusive knowledge and impediment for the bureaucrats and policymakers (Mullins & Khawaja, 2018). The pedagogical shift is possible in acase where the educators will respect and recognize the epistemologies and ontologies of the indigenous people by providing them with fundamental changes requiring organizational support from the institution by acknowledging the cultural expertise of the aboriginal people of the land (Luke et al., 2020). However, in acolonialized context, the student of social work must hold hands with each other by thinking and providing everyone the equal status opportunity of participation and the same platform for growth that will foster abetter society (Wilson et al., 2020). The aboriginal ways of knowing doing and being is instilled in the due course of the graduation by providing afour-year curriculum encompassing outcome-based student learning bye not only building foundation knowledge but also providing awareness of the backwardness that British colonial rule has misdone on the native people of the land and thus creating abetter platform of equal opportunities (Bennett, Redfern & Zubrzycki, 2017) . Conclusion During the articulation of the humility planning process, the outcomes were found to be really clear and practical based by providing pragmatic knowledge and practical learning 7 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS objectives. Furthermore, working in the initial parameters that the team facing developmental issues were also mitigated by inclusiveness mutual camaraderie and team support by going out of the cultural impediments. That is why, nurturing empathy will subside racism, and colonial- activism by including the deprived people from political, social, and economic development for giving them the platform to understand the past damages and consequences that decision had made to them and thereby restructuring the existing shall framework of the society into an inclusive conducive and prosperous one. 8 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS Topic 2 Introduction Child welfare services (CWS), intense to discuss the developing and conditioning factors for participatory relationships with children. Children ’sparticipation has become area of emerging growth and interest by the social work researches but 8000 most neglected part of the modern day dynamic society. The reason is attributed to the ineptness, and incompetence of the social workers of Australia and across the globe so that they are able to include and build a robust child development framework for participatory practice and growth. The lack of willingness of the social workers is also amajor reason for this lag that is contributing to children's access to information and help better education destitute condition of the offense and children ’sbasic access to development (Tirbury & Ramsay, 2018). The aim of the paper is to study the practice skills in child welfare and protection. Discussion Researchers of Norway have shown the difficulty in implementing child welfare services because of lesson number of child participation. The focus of the research paper emphasizes nurturing and scaling the competence of the social workers by attributing children's participation and all-around development. The challenges for implementing children's participation are also discussed in this paper and thereby framing better policies growth-oriented services and upgrading the social skill of the volunteers and social workers. Various research has shown that children's participation and feel of getting connected and committed to the decisions may have an emerging impact of the increase in their self-esteem and afeeling of assertiveness to control over the senses. That is why children's participation has been mandatory in several countries 9 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS such as Norway and Australia buy statistical framing child conducive policies (Seim & Sletteb ø, 2017) . In order to attend and inclusive children participation and welfare competencies child safety is of the highest importance that could be achieved by supporting parents and support within their society (Colvin et al., 2018). During childhood to adolescence lifelong nurturing and securing relationships must be apriority by giving desperate efforts for identifying and securing permanency of children care. To integrate and continue the various stages of development and incorporation of involvement of children and families (The Routledge Handbook of Global Child Welfare, 2021). The well-being of the children is however afactor of the families and dependence on the communities for meeting their mental, behavioral, health, and physical behavior. Primary providers of children's needs of the family and therefore itis aprimary duty to provide children safety, and to take care of the children till adulthood and in partnership with children welfare system community development teams and teachers of the pre-schooling to high schools (Zuchowski et al., 2019). However, the public child welfare staff actively engages and listens to the participatory needs of the children that help the government and NGOs for active policymaking by paying attention to real needs engagement ideas and bettering the overall condition of the children (Keddell & Hyslop, 2019). The Australian association of social workers encompasses ascope for social work practice in children protection by attributing scope, contribution, role, and evidence-based social work. In the recent decade, child abuse is becoming aserious headache to policymakers and children welfare NGOs across the globe (Taplin, 2017). The high prevalence of children ’sdevelopmental disparities and profound negligence have very long-term repercussions on the condition and mental health of the children. Different types of child abuse of physical mental and sexual levels if condition to mental trauma and abrupt 10 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS aggression of the children. The contributing factors must be identified that currently look interlocking why not only edemanding practice-based development but also by understanding the long history of social work with regards to the children and to foster program development and policy Framework that ensures inclusiveness, and participation in the coming future (Malvaso, Delfabbro & Day, 2017). As aresult of abuse, and sexual exploitation, significant harm is caused to the children and their mental health. The local and union government of Australia along with their legislature and jurisdiction have given different frameworks to protect the rights of the children by robust policies and frameworks across the country. For the social workers and NGOs, itis mandatory to abide by the legislative frames and legal rules that are statutory in nature (Jenkins et al., 2018). Working in the role of children development enablers emotionally challenges the workers to you always win over itand reinvigorate their communication skills to practically understand the real needs of the children. Since the last two decades, social workers are becoming increasingly conscious about the complex social issues encompassing children that were earlier ineffective in achieving good results due to excessive rulebook implementation of policies and lack of free will in social work (Modderman, Threlkeld & McPherson, 2017). The framework between the government agencies NGOs and the social workers will enable abetter Framework for children development and enabling the facilities for a better mental physical and psychological well-being of the children across the country that not only actor colleges collaboration but also in favor of out-of-the-box Divas thinkers and entrepreneurs who could directly or indirectly motivate the thought process of the children. A broad range of theories research skills and knowledge will ensure acomprehensive and holistic solution to the recurring situation of the country where the children are subjected to various kinds of depreciation destitution and extreme torture (Toros, DiNitto & Tiko, 2018). The holistic 11 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS views will address strengths and psychological needs and social factors at the same time. That is why itbecomes very important for the social workers who deal with children ’sdevelopment to continuously upgrade their communicating, visualizing, and implementation skills for bettering the conditions of child welfare at par with the changing role of geopolitics, stability of the government, and active engagement by self-help groups (Taylor, 2020). The social workers must also think about the place to talk with the children as this becomes very crucial in understanding the psyche and mental condition of the children. Social relations are embedded in practical context bi place and space that turns influential relations simply by the understanding material mental and psychological architecture of the children and the impact of the society on his upbringing so far. Talks with the children must be from two different timings at various contextual factors; one by talking to the child alone, and then talking to the child in presence of the family will help to represent abetter socio-material understanding. the conditions of the children will be better by contributing to an organizational level within the state child protection systems by promoting stability development safety and inclusiveness of the child growth and structured level of professionalism by the social workers that safeguard the children's rights and mitigates the risk of abuse the return of the children to their families will facilitate lesser intervention rate and better success rate (Withall et al., 2021). Conclusion A successful child welfare social worker must possess agood sense of humor apositive attitude and apleasant personality that attracts the children. Never the social worker should possess good work satisfaction from the job is doing or else itwill be detrimental for the children's counseling and thus there should be agood work-life balance in the individual life of the social worker. Critical thinking problem solving organizational efficiency time management 12 SOCIAL WORK FILEDS skills and good communication skills are the major attributes of agood social worker who shows professional commitments to the children with flexible high energy and resilience. 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