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  • Creating Culturally Safe Vocational Rehabilitation Services for Indigenous Australians: A Brief Review of the Literature

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    Author(s)
    McLennan, Vanette
    Taylor, Natalie
    Rachow, Amanda
    South, Grant
    Chapman, Kelsey
    Griffith University Author(s)
    McLennan, Vanette
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    This article reviews the research evidence on vocational rehabilitation services and rehabilitation counselling practice with Indigenous Australians. It applied a context sensitive, cultural safety and reflexivity approach to construct salient themes from the research evidence. Findings suggest Indigenous Australians with disabilities experience significant ‘double-disadvantage’, and that vocational rehabilitation service providers lack the knowledge and skills in culturally safe practice in order to enhance the opportunities for social and economic inclusion of Indigenous Australians. A whole-of-profession approach, ...
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    This article reviews the research evidence on vocational rehabilitation services and rehabilitation counselling practice with Indigenous Australians. It applied a context sensitive, cultural safety and reflexivity approach to construct salient themes from the research evidence. Findings suggest Indigenous Australians with disabilities experience significant ‘double-disadvantage’, and that vocational rehabilitation service providers lack the knowledge and skills in culturally safe practice in order to enhance the opportunities for social and economic inclusion of Indigenous Australians. A whole-of-profession approach, incorporating and ensuring Indigenous client equity and cultural safety in vocational rehabilitation, is critically and urgently needed.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling
    Volume
    22
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1017/jrc.2016.8
    Copyright Statement
    © 2016 Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Social work
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/100868
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