Module 1: Client-Centred Practice & Professional Reasoning Flashcards

Question

CCP & Indigenous Knowledge: Indigenous Health Characteristics

Answer 1

Indigenous Health Characteristics: diverse medical and healing traditions - surgical & community-based responses to illness and injury - holistic understanding of health & wellbeing

Answer 2

Generally, knowledge is contextual: built from the land and environment, experience, given & not necessarily for everyone Western science does not need to validate indigenous knowledge As OT's: advocate for indigenous knowledge for clients, connect them

Answer 3

"Locally-appropriate actions, tools, principles, or decisions that contribute significantly to the development of sustainable and equitable conditions" Less dogmatic than "best practice" guiding principles - make space for multiple ways of knowing Assume indigenous peoples & communities have the wisdom, strength, and abilities to create their own solutions Implement reconciliation into healthcare

Answer 4

Process that employs modes of control to manage a population and/or expropriate land, resources, and people purpose is to secure wealth and/or privilege and power for colonizers. Often enacted through policies and laws Is a KEY DETERMINANT OF HEALTH for Indigenous Peoples.

Answer 5

``` Benefits of occupation understood from a white perspective - focused on reintegrating back into white, middle-class society ``` Daily occupations experienced through a filter of british colonialism - "occupy" the land = removal of indigenous people from their land and is built into how Indigenous land rights are understood and upheld in canada - consequence: limits opportunities for Indigenous people

Answer 6

Not necessarily shared by Indigenous People - but our models, assessments, and research are shaped by these assumptions ex: 1. evidence-based practice and best-practice guidelines are appropriate for ALL clients 2. the approach and values of our services are beneficial and wanted by ALL clients 3. clients can/will tell us when our services are not a good fit for them

Answer 7

understanding of own identities and social positions birthplace, language, culture community and safety govt systems working for or against us (ex: child welfare, police) family belief systems and histories adherence to colonial narratives

Answer 8

Express humility - recognize your own social positions, assumptions, and biases and respectfully acknowledge and build space for diverse worldviews and experiences Week diverse perspectives and ask whose voices are missing? How can they be included? Looks different for everyone - based on history, indigeneity, relationships Listen to and prioritize indigenous experiences and knowledge (94 calls to action, MMIWG calls to justice, include indigenous resources and scholarship.

Answer 9

Right to self-determination right to be actively involved in developing and determining health, housing and other economic and social programmes affecting them

Answer 10

- negates the real differences in power and types of knowledge held between a person seeking health care and a health care provider and focuses on an individualistic perspective. - relatively silent on therapists’ acknowledgment of their own social positionality and how their social positions affect therapy relationships. - limited acknowledgement of oppressive structures and practices.