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Week 3 - Social Work Theories Seen Through an Indigenous Lens Flashcards

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Psycho-therapeutic theories put the problem on the individual, how is SW theories different?

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SW theories looks at other causes of the person’s problem

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Which theory is:

contends that present-day society is characterized by many social divisions, such as class, race, gender, age, and ability, which personify and produce inequality, discrimination, and marginalization

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Oppressive

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Which theory is:

Society is characterized by differences that are used to exclude certain populations since relationships among us are created through the use of power on individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels.

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Oppressive

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Which theory is:

focuses its intervention on social divisions and structural inequalities.

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Oppressive

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Which theory is:

values equality, freedom, both individuality and collectivity, and cooperation

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Oppressive

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Which theory is:

Acknowledgement of the effects of the structural dimensions that cut across class, gender, sexual orientation, ability. AND promotion of co-participatory rather than authoritarian practice

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Oppressive

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Which theory is:

understands social problems as originating from a liberal or neo-conservative societal context

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Structural Social Work Theories

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Which theory is:

assumes inadequate social arrangements are primarily responsible for personal problems, and aims to help persons modify the social situation that limits their functioning

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Structural Social Work Theories

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Which theory is:

Focuses on structures in society (education, employment, justice) that create barriers for specific populations based on oppressions such as racism, capitalism, and sexism

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Structural Social Work Theories

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Which theory is:

Rather than blame people or groups for social conditions, this theory examines structures that create barriers to accessing resources, services, and social goods

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Structural Social Work Theories

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This criticism is from which theory:

Tends not recognize that marginalization of Indigenous peoples as different from other oppressed groups

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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BOTH Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories

Indigenous peoples are fighting for the right to be distinct from other Canadians as they have a right to their own land and culture and don’t want to be assimilated into the Canadian culture

Whereas other racial/ethnic groups are fighting to be at the same level as Canadians

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This criticism is from which theory:

Identity is a crucial concept for Indigenous peoples and communities throughout the world

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Postmodernism

The author disagrees that there are no essential truths and there is no right or wrong.

Tell that to the Indigenous survivors of the residential school system!

It continues to be very important for Indigenous Peoples to be able to assert our truths.

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This criticism is from which theory:

If we ignore the identities then we are erasing the identity of marginalized groups. How do you promote social justice when social justice isn’t real (as according to postmodern there is no universal truth)

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Postmodernism

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This criticism is from which theory:

Potential to revert to a politics of binary opposition that implies clear cut distinctions between the colonized and the colonizer

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Post-Colonialism

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This criticism is from which theory:

Presumption of an essentialized, shared experience of colonization among groups and within group members

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Post-Colonialism

Colonization is different in different countries and those who are colonized even within Canada has been different (i.e. some Indigenous groups completely wiped out)

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This criticism is from which theory:

Preoccupation with questions of race, ethnicity, and culture, sometimes to the exclusion of forms of oppression based on gender or class

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Post-Colonialism

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This criticism is from which theory:

Often little discussion of settler colonialism and the writings of Indigenous Turtle Islanders are largely ignored

Often overemphasizes power relationships while relegating Indigenous knowledges to the periphery

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Colonial Theory

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This criticism is from which theory:

Focus on Indigenizing and decolonizing academia while support for land returns, reparations, and self-government are often conspicuously absent

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Colonial Theory

Schools want to bring in more of an Indigenous presence but really just to bolster their image

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Which theory is:

Thinking that reality is socially constructed through language, maintained through narrative, and carries no essential truths

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Postmodernism

Kicked off in 1980s

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Which theory is:

Asserts that language is an instrument of power and those who have the most power in society are the ones who have the most ability to participate in the discourses that shape society

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Postmodernism

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Which theory is:

Rejects “identity politics” as reductionist or limiting

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Postmodernism

Idea that only women can speak on women’s issues or Indigenous can only speak on Indigenous issues – but from postmodern they would say anyone can speak on an issues as identity is socially constructed

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Which theory is:

discuss how colonization has affected colonized peoples, as well as the particular relationships that exist between colonized peoples and colonizing peoples

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Post-Colonialism

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Which theory can:

provide language and concepts that may help explain the experiences of peoples who have been, and/or continue to be, colonized.

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Post-Colonialism

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Which theory is:

to look at patterns among colonized peoples and provide information about decolonization strategies that have been attempted in other places

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Post-Colonialism

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Which theory is:

1- Revisit, remember, and “interrogate” the colonial past and its aftermath in today’s context

2- Critically analyze the experiences of colonialism and their current manifestations

3- Expand our understanding of how conceptualizations of race, racialization, and culture are constructed within particular historical and current neocolonial contexts

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Post-Colonialism

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Which theory is:

to recognize that colonialism does not end when the oppressor leaves or presents a more compassionate face

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Colonial Theory

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Which theory is:

saying that colonialism is alive and well and shapes the society

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Colonial Theory

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Which theory is:

Indigenous knowledges a basis for resistance and challenging colonial domination. There are many Indigenous knowledge (hence knowledges)

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Colonial Theory

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Which theory is:

Notions of ‘nation,’ ‘community,’ and ‘citizenship’ have powerful implications for colonized peoples; a politicized evocation of cultural identity required to challenge colonial hegemony

Anti-Oppressive
Structural Social Work Theories
Postmodernism
Post-Colonialism
Anti-Colonial Theory

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Anti-Colonial Theory

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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

Over the past three decades, has directed helpers to become more aware of, and sensitive to, the specific norms, practices, and behaviours of “cultural” and “ethnic” groups

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the cultural competency model

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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

Services may then be offered within the framework of a particular culture.

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Cultural Competence

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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

Directs professional to become more aware of and sensitive to specific norms, practices and behaviours of “cultural” or “ethnic” groups

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Cultural Competence

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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

that creates set of attributes, which are assigned to the “other” and then catalogued and managed as collective cultural profiles or identities

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Cultural competency

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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

The organizations really benefit for their image or the individual SW because it’s like “I have a black friend” so I can’t be racist

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Cultural Competence

Just because you can cite all these facts about different cultures doesn’t mean you have all the knowledge and have good intensions

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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

Often defined in terms of practices that are culturally unsafe: “…any action that diminishes, demeans or disempowers the cultural identity and wellbeing of an individual”

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Cultural Safety

It is client not the organization who will determine what is culturally unsafe, so if the client says they experience racism we believe them

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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

The idea of the professional understanding their own cultural positioning and increasing their awareness of, and sensitivity to the client’s cultural heritage, values, and needs is foundational

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Cultural Safety

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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

that extends beyond ethnicity to include other vulnerable and marginal cultural groups

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Cultural safety

It wants to flip the lens and look at our own culture and how we behave (i.e. settler or SW)

The idea that the more norms and cultures you adopt the closer you are to settler society – stick and carrot idea

38
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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

an environment, which is safe for people; where there is no assault, challenge or denial of their identity, of who they are and what they need. It is about shared respect, shared meaning, shared knowledge and experience, of learning together with dignity, and truly listening

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Cultural Safety

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Was it Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

involves reflection on racism, power relations, and one’s own privilege and status, as well as the oppression/marginalization and status of those we service.

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Cultural Safety

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Is it a Criticism of Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

Culture is extremely complex and too much info for anyone to become competent in every aspect of it

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Cultural Competence

It’s not practical to think you can learn everything about everyone

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Is it a Criticism of Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

Reproduces simplistic assumptions about various populations that are reminiscent of the imperialism, racism, and paternalism of an earlier era

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Cultural Competence

Has been described as the new racism.

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Is it a Criticism of Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

Does not take structural power inequities into consideration; oppression attributed to individual prejudice and “cultural barriers”

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Cultural Competence

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Is it a Criticism of Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

An emphasis on attempting to learn about cultures may also create generalizations that limit rather than enhance cross-cultural encounters.

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Cultural Competence

Also an assumption that professional is ‘culture free’; only the ‘other’ has culture

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Is it a Criticism of Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

acknowledges structural inequalities, it does little to challenge them.

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Cultural Safety

45
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Is it a Criticism of Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

has to be inclusive of front-line staff and Indigenous communities and cannot be a ‘top-down’ approach

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Cultural Safety

46
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Is it a Criticism of Cultural Competence OR Cultural Safety?

has potential to become another form of paternalistic control disguised as a panacea approach for Indigenous peoples

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Cultural Safety

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Cultural Safety or Cultural Competence?

In relation to Indigenous peoples, it clearly situates health and health inequities within the context of their colonial, socioeconomic, and political past and present

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Cultural Safety

In Canada, this includes an understanding of the intergenerational impact of residential schools on access to health care, and relationships between Indigenous peoples and health care providers

Part of it is that the helper understands the role of colonization in Canada and their own privilege

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Q

T/F - with Indigenous Ways of Helping - there may be a view that white culture is always changing and evolving but other cultures aren’t allowed to change and must stay in the past

A

true

BUT all cultures are always changing

49
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T/F - Indigenous worldviews incorporate ways of turning inward for the purpose of finding meanings through, for example, prayer, fasting, dream interpretation, ceremonies, and silence.

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true

50
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T/F - Within Indigenous worldviews, the personal experiences of helpers do not contribute to the helping process

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false

51
Q

T/F - Indigenous Ways of Helping:
o Everything in the world (both “animate” and “inanimate”) is seen as being an equal.

o Everything has a spirit and is also an interdependent part of the great whole.

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true

52
Q

Baskin (2016) discusses some components of Indigenous 4 ways of helping, what are they

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Introspection
Connectedness
Reciprocity – everyone should benefit from relationships
Spirituality

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Humility is paramount to recognizing the WHAT of the helping process

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reciprocal nature

Practice from a place a humility!

54
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What is the term to describe - We are all related and have a responsibility to one another’s well-being

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Humility

55
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What is the term for - Learning is a lifelong journey that requires patience, introspection, and making mistakes that we can learn from

A

Humility

Drop the expert stance – that we don’t know everything, be open about that. Ex. Elders introducing themselves as someone who doesn’t know

That changes the power dynamic !

56
Q

Indigenous Perspectives on Helping: Mino-Bimaadiziwin (The Good Life) - what are the 6 things?

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  1. Wholeness
  2. Balance
  3. Connection
  4. Harmony
  5. Growth
  6. Healing

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