Treaty of Waitangi
This essay will attempt to show you strategies for incorporating bi-cultural approaches into my field of practice in the drug and alcohol sector. The key points I have covered include: Partnership, culture history, building rapport with a client, body language, protection, Te Whare Tapa Wha, participation and kanui to kanui.
The primary basic for biculturalism in New Zealand is the Treaty of Waitangi a historical document of agreement signed between Maori and the Crown in 1840. The Treaty of Waitangi can provide all New Zealanders, especially those seeking equity, with clear guidance and support to reflect the three Treaty principles of partnership, protection, and participation.
In the New Zealand Association of Counselors code of ethics they make mention to the Treaty of Waitangi.
“Counselors shall seek to be inform about the meaning and implications of the Treaty of Waitangi for their work. They shall understand the principles of protection, participation and partnership with Maori”
I feel that protection, participation and partnership should be the keys things that I look at when setting up a bi-cultural practice because it is not only about needs but also it is the right that all Maori and Pakeha have guaranteed to them by the virtue of the treaty of Waitangi.
First I will look at Partnership this is one of the core values in the code of ethics for counselors.
A partnership involves working together with all cultures, understanding differences, working together in separate roles, respecting each other’s values and beliefs, developing strategies and understanding how decisions are made.
In order to establish a partnership with a client I need to first establish an awareness of my culture history.
I was born in the United States of America and raised in New Zealand. I have parents who were born and raised in New Zealand, I would consider myself to be a New Zealand Pakeha, by taking up this identity, and I am taking up the moral commitments to
The primary basic for biculturalism in New Zealand is the Treaty of Waitangi a historical document of agreement signed between Maori and the Crown in 1840. The Treaty of Waitangi can provide all New Zealanders, especially those seeking equity, with clear guidance and support to reflect the three Treaty principles of partnership, protection, and participation.
In the New Zealand Association of Counselors code of ethics they make mention to the Treaty of Waitangi.
“Counselors shall seek to be inform about the meaning and implications of the Treaty of Waitangi for their work. They shall understand the principles of protection, participation and partnership with Maori”
I feel that protection, participation and partnership should be the keys things that I look at when setting up a bi-cultural practice because it is not only about needs but also it is the right that all Maori and Pakeha have guaranteed to them by the virtue of the treaty of Waitangi.
First I will look at Partnership this is one of the core values in the code of ethics for counselors.
A partnership involves working together with all cultures, understanding differences, working together in separate roles, respecting each other’s values and beliefs, developing strategies and understanding how decisions are made.
In order to establish a partnership with a client I need to first establish an awareness of my culture history.
I was born in the United States of America and raised in New Zealand. I have parents who were born and raised in New Zealand, I would consider myself to be a New Zealand Pakeha, by taking up this identity, and I am taking up the moral commitments to