A Theory for Indigenous Australian Health and Human Service Work: Connecting Indigenous knowledge and practice

ISBN-13: 9781743317198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Lorraine Muller

Opis

Lorraine Muller outlines a theory for professional practice with Indigenous clients in the human services, based on traditional Indigenous knowledge and spirituality.

Spis treści

Foreword

Acknowledgements

1 The power of story

2 Story of colonisation

3 Decolonisation

4 Aboriginal knowledge

5 Grounding the research

6 Responsibility of knowledge

7 Racism

8 Spirituality

9 Indigenous Australian Social-Health Theory

10 Healing and Forgiveness

11 Holding knowledge

References

Index

O autorze

LORRAINE MULLER is a Murri woman with many years experience in community work. She holds a PhD in Social Work, and is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University, where she is undertaking her second PhD.