From colonisation to conciliation: A collaborative examination of social work practice with Indigenous populations

社会工作专业与许多其他公共服务专业一样，在与土著居民合作方面有着复杂的历史。维持这种有问题的关系的一个重要因素是土著问题在主流社会工作实践中被边缘化。该项目将与澳大利亚和美国的土著社区、社会工作从业人员和学者合作，审查当前的实践需求及其与当前社会工作教学法的相互关系。这项分析将确定社会工作实践可以促进而不是抑制土著福祉的方式，以及如何重新调整社会工作教育以产生这种做法。

The social work profession, along with many other human service professions, has a complex history of working with Indigenous populations. One of the significant factors in the maintenance of this problematic relationship is the marginalisation of Indigenous issues within mainstream social work practice. This project, in collaborating with Indigenous communities, social work practitioners and academics in Australia and the United States, will examine current practice needs and their interrelationship with current social work pedagogy. This analysis will identify the ways in which social work practice can enhance, rather than inhibit, Indigenous well-being, and how social work education can be reframed so as to engender such practice.