General Flashcards
What is a social yarn?
- 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
What is a diagnostic yarn
- Practitioner facilitates patient’s health story
- Open-ended questions
- Non-judgemental listening
- tell me your concerns
- Interpret story through bio-medical lens
What is a Management yarn
- Employs stories and metaphors as tools to explain health issues
- Direct and ‘straight-up’ health information
- Develop a shared or agreed plan for care
What does the SPA ATSI Culturally Responsive Framework aim to do?
- 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
What are the four principles of the SPA ATSI culturally responsive framework?
- centred within ATSI sovereignty, culture, identity and languages
- a collective responsibility
- supports the development of genuine relationships and connections to create safe environments for ATSI peoples
- an ongoing commitment to combating racism
what are the five capabilities all the SPA ATSI culturally responsive framework?
- Cultural mentoring for aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speech pathologists and students
- community driven service provision
- community led research and evidence based practise
- culturally capable and responsive workforce
- critical reflection and lifelong learning
What does the aboriginal holistic view of health refer to?
- 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
What are the eight connections in the holistic view of healthcare?
- connection to family
- connection to community
- spirituality
- physical well being
- mental well being
- emotional well being
- connection to country
- connection to culture
What is the relevance of narrative skills, culture and history? (3 more points about storytelling)
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
What is SWAY?
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
What are the main components of SWAY?
- 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
What are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Centres?
Organisations involved in language conservation and revitalisation and often have resources to support people learning and using Indigenous languages in their communities
What do the Aboriginal Healthcare worker guidelines tell us?
- Aboriginal HCWs play a key role in combating the high burden of disease and mortality rates in ATSI communities of NSW.
- They work collaboratively within multidisciplinary healthcare teams to achieve better health outcomes for ATSI people and communities
- They play a key role in facilitating relationships between ATSI patients and other health professional
What is the NSW Aboriginal Health Care Plan 2024-2034?
- 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
What are the social determinants of health?
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