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  • Working with young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia

    Author(s)
    Ingamells, Ann
    Westoby, Peter
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Ingamells, Ann T.
    Year published
    2008
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    Abstract
    Social workers who are new to working with young people who are refugees may feel overwhelmed, out of their depth and inclined to defer to the powerful psychiatric profession. Arguing a role for social work engagement with young people as they face the personal, social, communal, cultural, political and economic challenges of settlement, this paper proposes a reflexive, deconstructive approach within a broadly ecological model. All settlement tasks require mediation through the powerful discourse (language, values, constructs, social practices) of both the young person's own community and those of the new context. Creating ...
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    Social workers who are new to working with young people who are refugees may feel overwhelmed, out of their depth and inclined to defer to the powerful psychiatric profession. Arguing a role for social work engagement with young people as they face the personal, social, communal, cultural, political and economic challenges of settlement, this paper proposes a reflexive, deconstructive approach within a broadly ecological model. All settlement tasks require mediation through the powerful discourse (language, values, constructs, social practices) of both the young person's own community and those of the new context. Creating spaces where young people can identify and negotiate the forces vying to shape them underpins and complements the urgent task of combating racism and ethnocentricity in Australian institutions.
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    Journal Title
    European Journal of Social Work
    Volume
    11
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713421612~link=cover
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13691450701532180
    Copyright Statement
    © 2008 Taylor & Francis. Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Counselling, Welfare and Community Services
    Social Work
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/23302
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