Empowerment: A Social Work Approach for Asian Immigrants

1988 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisashi Hirayama ◽  
Muammer Cetingok
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Major Goal ◽  
Immigrants And Refugees ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Ethnic Heritage ◽  
American Society ◽  
Group Workers

Asian immigrants and refugees are often powerless in American society. Thus client empowerment should be a major goal in working with this population group. Workers should help these clients adapt to their environment without abandoning their ethnic heritage, values, and beliefs.

Teaching Note: Infusing Diversity Content Into the BSW Curriculum: An LGBT Elders Example

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Ginger Meyette
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Diverse Population ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Diversity Issues

Diversity is a topic that is increasingly important in BSW curriculum content. Social work students are going into practice in a multicultural milieu, and there is not enough room in the core curriculum for BSW educators to add unlimited elective courses to cover every diverse population group. As one case example, Baby Boomers of all races and backgrounds are aging, contributing to an unprecedented growth in the aging population. Included in this group are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) elders. Diversity issues, including LGBT elder issues, cross all practice areas; therefore, infusion of content embedded in courses can at least introduce students to the needs of these diverse populations and assist them in envisioning possible solutions to address these needs. This article presents a rationale for the infusion of diversity content into the BSW curriculum focusing on the example of LGBT elders. Suggestions for pedagogical infusion strategies are included.

scholarly journals Pakiwaitara - social work sense for supervision

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Elkington
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Definition Of

Pakiwaitara (Elkington, 2001) came about as a gap identified in social service delivery between western, middle class, dominant culture and the healing of Māori whānau in crisis. While education has responded to this gap by offering bicultural training, ensuring more Māori components within degree programmes, etc, social services statistics are still high for Māori and indigenous peoples. It has helped to shift the definition of cultural supervision to inside the definition of specialised professional supervision (Elkington, 2014), but now continued invisibility of values and beliefs, particularly that of Tauiwi, exacerbate the problem. The challenge must still be asserted so that same-culture practitioners are strengthened in same-culture social work practice (eg, by Māori, for Māori), and to avoid when possible, or otherwise by choice, white dominant-culture practice, for all-and-every-culture social work practice (eg, by Pākehā, for everyone).

Japanese American Ethnicity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeyuki Tsuda
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Ethnic Heritage ◽  
Taiko Drumming ◽  
American Society ◽  
New Generation ◽  
American Ethnicity

This book explores the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans from the second to the fourth generations and the extent to which they remain connected to their ancestral cultural heritage. As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally “Japanese” foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a multicultural America where racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct. Different generations of Japanese Americans have responded to such pressures in ways that range from demands that their racial citizenship as bona fide Americans be recognized to a desire to maintain or recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. This ethnographic study argues that the ethnicity of immigrant-descent minorities does not simply follow a linear trajectory in which increasing assimilation gradually erodes the significance of ethnic heritage and identity over generations. While inheriting the assimilative patterns of previous generations, each new generation of Japanese Americans has also negotiated its own ethnic positionality in response to a confluence of various historical and contemporary factors. In addition, this book analyzes the performance of ethnic heritage through taiko drumming ensembles, as well as placing Japanese Americans in transnational and diasporic contexts.

scholarly journals Māori social work views and practices of rapport building with rangatahi Māori

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Mooney
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Rapport Building

This article presents the results of a qualitative study that explored Māori social workers’ perspectives of working to establish rapport with rangatahi Māori in community mental health services. The research was conducted using a social constructionist perspective, informed and guided by Māori-centred research principles. Six Māori social workers from different parts of the country volunteered to participate in semi-structured interviews. These face-to-face interviews were designed after reviewing current literature and were guided by a practice framework that enabled the voices of the Māori social workers to be heard, eliciting in detail where their views have come from. The findings from the research showed that Māori social workers view rapport as essential in their practice and therefore they practise in a way that facilitates this. They utilise values and beliefs in their practice, integrated with a Māori worldview, that contribute towards rapport building with youth and also with their whänau. Reflective practice is used constantly in order to maintain ethical practice. The practice implications are also discussed; that an understanding of how Māori social workers view and practise rapport can be beneficial, that there is a need for whānau involvement and that this can enhance rapport with rangatahi, that an inherent valuing of rangatahi is key and finally that reflective practice is essential for Māori social work professional and personal development.

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