General Flashcards

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What is a social yarn?

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  • Building a relationship and having a conversation where information is exchanged.
  • Establishes connection and relatedness
  • Attentive and non-confrontational non-verbal communication
  • Ask questions and share – it’s a conversation
  • Share own experiences
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What is a diagnostic yarn

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  • Practitioner facilitates patient’s health story
  • Open-ended questions
  • Non-judgemental listening
  • tell me your concerns
  • Interpret story through bio-medical lens
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What is a Management yarn

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  • Employs stories and metaphors as tools to explain health issues
  • Direct and ‘straight-up’ health information
  • Develop a shared or agreed plan for care
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What does the SPA ATSI Culturally Responsive Framework aim to do?

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  • Increase our capabilities to deliver culturally safe and responsive health and well being services in collaboration with ATSI people
  • emphasises increasing the number of ATSI SPs - ATSI SPs can provide information to organisations about how to engage in and be accountable for personal cultural learning.
  • 4 principles
  • 5 capabilities
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What are the four principles of the SPA ATSI culturally responsive framework?

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  1. centred within ATSI sovereignty, culture, identity and languages
  2. a collective responsibility
  3. supports the development of genuine relationships and connections to create safe environments for ATSI peoples
  4. an ongoing commitment to combating racism
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what are the five capabilities all the SPA ATSI culturally responsive framework?

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  1. Cultural mentoring for aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speech pathologists and students
  2. community driven service provision
  3. community led research and evidence based practise
  4. culturally capable and responsive workforce
  5. critical reflection and lifelong learning
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What does the aboriginal holistic view of health refer to?

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  • physical, social, emotional and cultural well being of the whole community
  • each individual is able to achieve their full potential as a human being.
  • Surrounding them is their ancestors, connection to country, mother earth, spirits of the land air and waterways
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What are the eight connections in the holistic view of healthcare?

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  1. connection to family
  2. connection to community
  3. spirituality
  4. physical well being
  5. mental well being
  6. emotional well being
  7. connection to country
  8. connection to culture
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What is the relevance of narrative skills, culture and history? (3 more points about storytelling)

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Storytelling is used in aboriginal cultures to communicate important messages pass on knowledge and wisdom, to record historical facts and document important events
1. Behaviour is a language too
2. deep listening - listening to learn
3. active listening that keeps you engaged with your conversation partner in a positive way

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What is SWAY?

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An acronym for Sounds, Words, Aboriginal Language and Yarning - An oral language and literacy program based on Aboriginal knowledge, culture and stories → use of Aboriginal drawings, their connection to country and the languages that they speak are important to consider

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What are the main components of SWAY?

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  • All learning experiences centre around a yarn or dreamtime story
  • Develops oral language and literacy skills in Aboriginal children
  • Targets listening comprehension, narrative structure, and phonological awareness skills
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What are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Centres?

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Organisations involved in language conservation and revitalisation and often have resources to support people learning and using Indigenous languages in their communities

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What do the Aboriginal Healthcare worker guidelines tell us?

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  1. Aboriginal HCWs play a key role in combating the high burden of disease and mortality rates in ATSI communities of NSW.
  2. They work collaboratively within multidisciplinary healthcare teams to achieve better health outcomes for ATSI people and communities
  3. They play a key role in facilitating relationships between ATSI patients and other health professional
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What is the NSW Aboriginal Health Care Plan 2024-2034?

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  • A healthcare reform based on holistic care and cultural safety
  • A partnership with Aboriginal people and communities
  • Eliminate racism
  • Utilise Aboriginal expertise to drive decision-making and collaboration
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What are the social determinants of health?

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The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and the systems in place that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of life outcomes and risks

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How can trust in the healthcare system be achieved?

What does it lead to?

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  • Presence of ATSI staff
  • Continuity of care
  • Time spent by professional in building the relationship
  • leads to a belief in the accuracy of information and diagnosis
  • leads to transfer of information and care between services
  • leads to willingness to share information
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How can relationships be built at a service level?

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● Working with the right people, and using the right channels
● Aboriginal health workers – know the community and who to speak to
● Requires knowledge of processes, which can differ across communities
● Understanding community structures for networking
● Participation in community events
● Awareness of significant dates (E.g., Jan 26, National Sorry Day, Mabo Day, NAIDOC)
● Spending time getting to know the people
● Gain knowledge of the community e.g., preferred names, custodians, language groups
● Acquire knowledge of the physical, social, cultural and political context

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Define culturally safe practise?

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The ongoing critical reflection of health practitioner knowledge, skills, attitudes, practising behaviours and power differentials in delivering safe, accessible and responsive healthcare free of racism

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What is a Culturally Safe Environment?

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An environment that is spiritually, socially and emotionally safe, as well as physically safe for people, where there is no assault, challenge or denial of their identity

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Steps for a culturally responsive assessment:

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  • Take a speech and language sample of the child and of someone else who speaks their dialect  Compare results against the language of parents / peers across formal and home environments
  • Score a standardised assessment twice - once with standardised norms against SAE and once with adjusted scoring to credit for AAE grammatical forms
  • Dynamic / informal assessments
  • Gather information from teachers, peers, family
  • Keep family involved throughout process (use yarning)
  • Use Aboriginal resources (e.g. pictures, books)
  • Conduct a language sample analysis in a meaningful play environment
  • Conduct assessment in a place comfortable (ag at home or outside)