Social work theories and perspectives are at the core of every social workers practice framework. Theories drive the worker to understand the best way to work alongside clients. The following essay discusses‚ analyses and critiques a specific practice theory. The theory that was chosen is empowerment theory. The key factors‚ political and historical aspects will also be shown throughout and the theory will be assessed for its effectiveness in regards to a specific case study. Empowerment theory
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The Aboriginal culture is complex and diverse. The Indigenous cultures of Australia are the oldest living cultural history in the world – they go back at least 50‚000 years. Cultural heritage is seen as ’the total ways of living built up by a group of human beings‚ which is passed from one generation to the next’‚ given to them by reason of their birth. In Australia‚ Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passing their knowledge‚ arts‚ rituals and performances from one generation
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take many aboriginal and Torres Strait children away from their families in an attempt to destroy the Aboriginal race and culture. There was an impact on the aboriginals with a particular policy the Australian Government had introduced‚ which was the policy of ‘Assimilation’. This policy was to encourage many Aboriginal people to give up their culture‚ language‚ tradition‚ knowledge and spirituality to basically become white Australians. Unfortunately this policy didn’t give the Aboriginals the same
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In Canada‚ the term Aboriginal refers to First Nations‚ Metis and Inuit people who were the first to inhabit Canada. The aboriginal community represents 4% percent of the population in Canada with 1.4 million people having an Aboriginal heritage in 2011. (Statistics Canada‚ 2015). As aboriginals were the first people to inhabit Canada comes a long history full of injustices including a major injustice know as residential schools. Aboriginal people face multiple barriers in modern Canada such as
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boulders and on the walls of rock shelters and caves. There is evidence that Aborigines were painting on rock over 30 000 years ago. Aboriginal Australians drew about daily life‚ hunting and spirits. Images that are usually found in rock art are hands or arms‚ animal tracks‚ boomerangs‚ spear throwers‚ and other tools such as stone axes. There are three main styles of Aboriginal rock art. The first is the style of engraved geometric figures. It consists of engraved
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information about the Aboriginal peoples of Canada‚ I found it hard to distinguish the Aboriginal peoples from non Aboriginal peoples because I am not familiar with many tribes of Canada‚ especially Aboriginal peoples. The information seems to vary since most of my researches were conducted online. Besides‚ finding the
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is an affective colonialism on aboriginal women in Canada. The histories of colonization have forced aboriginal women out of their community and family support. The violence of cultural assault or physical brutality of residential schools. It is essential to make efforts towards ending of violence against aboriginal women in Canada. The aboriginal people have grown up in poverty. Many aboriginal women run in to racism and they may shut out of labor markets. Aboriginal women turn to drug trade and sex
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SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY To better understand why destroying ancient cultural heritage sites and artifacts can be considered a form of ethnic cleansing‚ I turn to Social Identity Theory. As described by Danielle Renee Clark (2014)‚ “Social identity theory is the social psychological process that prompts group affiliation and identity formation‚ intergroup conflict‚ and subsequently fosters links between groups and any relevant cultural heritage property.” (Clark‚ 2014‚ 9) Membership to a group is
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this simple process‚ YOU just used the social judgment theory! The beginnings of social judgment theory can be traced to early experiments on attitude and persuasion in social psychology‚ but it was first given its foundations with the work of Muzafer Sherif and Carl Hovland in 1961. Sherif and Hovland explored social judgment theory further in their 1961 book‚ Social judgment: Assimilation and contrast effects in communication and attitude. Social judgment theory claims that there are
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Social Class is one system of Social Stratification‚ social class is a form of structured inequality which has been apparent in many generations over time. A definition of Social Class is that people are classed as more ‘important’ and placed at the top of the hierarchy if they have a lot of wealth and higher status but lower if they do not. Social class can impact people in many ways including their chances in education‚ employment‚ and health but there is possibility for people to move up the
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