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Title: Good Practice when working in Aboriginal communities in Victoria


1
Good Practice when working in Aboriginal
communities in Victoria
  • Prepared by Libby Lesock and Tania Jones
  • (Barwon Southwest Indigenous Family Violence)

2
  • Cultures are not learned or understood by
    scientific observation, but experienced by
    living. Dana (1993)

3
Family Ties
  • The non-Aboriginal family emphasizes conjugal
    ties between a man and a woman
  • Aboriginal families put much more emphasis on
    filial ties between parents and children and
    extended family/community

4
Parenting Styles
  • Australian families focus time and energy in
    developing in their children, particular
    correctness concerning dress, manners, health and
    hygiene.
  • Aboriginal families value, and work to develop,
    in their children, an autonomous or independent,
    self-sufficient character which may often promote
    impulsivity.

5
Composition, mobility, size and fluidity of
families
  • Aboriginal households are often
  • Highly mobile
  • More likely to live in multi-generational
    households

6
Composition, mobility, size and fluidity of
families
  • Aboriginal households
  • Higher number of single parents in the family.
  • Many single parents live with/reliant upon their
    extended family or Kin for family support.

7
Composition, mobility, size and fluidity of
families
  • In Aboriginal households
  • Children are more likely to be in care of adults
    other than their biological parents
  • Central role played by older women in the care of
    the children particularly Grandmothers.

8
Ideology
  • Aboriginal people hold onto their fundamental
    beliefs, values and social structures, with
    important ties to land, language, culture, family
    and kinship.
  • They are not easily influenced by consumerism
    and individualism.

9
Ideology
  • 1 in 5 Aboriginal people are affected by stolen
    generations.
  • (Any adult ATSI person separated / removed at
    a young age from community, family, language,
    land or culture. This also affects the families
    of that separated child) BTH report 1997.

10
Demand sharing
  • Extended family and kinship obligations are
    grounded on core Aboriginal traditions and values
    about closeness, caring, sharing and mutual
    respect.

11
Demand sharing
  • Family members are often reliant on other
    relatives/kin to share available cash and
    resources, and often fall back upon culturally
    based values such as their own system of shared
    child care, networks of economic support and
    demand sharing, to keep each other fed, housed
    and financially afloat.

12
Feast to famine cycle
  • Research (Smith and Daly 2000) demonstrates that
    Aboriginal people are often locked into a
    fortnightly pattern of immediate consumption,
    lending and borrowing linked to their Centrelink
    payments.

13
Shame
  • Aboriginal people describe shame or shame job
    for a range of things usually in relation to
    doing something wrong culturally, being put on
    the spot or doing something embarrassing.

14
Shame
  • The concept of shame is important it is
    holistic, in that it affects not just the
    individual, but how they are perceived within
    their community, and how this affects themselves,
    their families, community and Aboriginal people.

15
Good cultural practice
  • Ask all clients if they are Aboriginal or Torres
    Strait Islander (never assume).

16
Good cultural practice
  • Be aware of intergenerational clan hostilities
    when obtaining information about families.

17
Good cultural practice
  • Dont rely on just one contact within Community.

18
Good cultural practice
  • Home visits
  • never enter without an invitation.
  • be prepared to do business on the front door
    steps in full view of others.
  • Ask an Aboriginal worker or Community member to
    be present

19
Cultural competence Cultural proficiency
  • Proficient practitioners display attitudes and
    behaviours that demonstrate a high regard for
    culture and wish to continue to learn.

20
Cultural competence Cultural proficiency
  • How effective you are with Aboriginal people is
    more about the process (being within the clients
    reality) than the content (using the best
    therapeutic techniques).
  • Without rapport and understanding, there is
    nothing.

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Cultural competence Cultural proficiency
  • Proficient practitioners exhibit a willingness to
    embrace cultural diversity, value it and respect
    the differences that exist.
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