Providing effective counselling services to Australia's ethnic minority groups

Adams, Arolyn C. E.; Gilbert, Jillian

doi:10.1080/03124079808411216

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“…Persons with NESB did not necessarily favour family and friends over formal health or disability services, which was contrary to recent Australian analyses (Adams & Gilbert, 1998;Fitzgerald et al ., 1997;Kanelopoulou & Berry, 1992;Pane, 1993). This difference may be due to most respondents with NESB being second generation Australians who were in their adult years and not entirely dependent on their parents for support, and who adopted individual decision-making akin to mainstream cultural values instead of collectivist family values.…”

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“…Improved social and health outcomes can be achieved with a richer understanding of issues related to gender and ethnicity; for example, rehabilitation practitioners need to be mindful of their own particular ethnocentrism and responsive to the preferred coping and support-giving strategies of men and women with different NESB and disabilities (Adams & Gilbert, 1998;Fitzgerald et al ., 1997;Thompson, 1997;Uswatte & Elliott, 1997;Van Der Veen, 1999).…”

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“…In contrast to Western cultural values of individual independence, persons from most other Eastern or European cultures have tended to possess more interdependent views of self where the social unit (usually family and friends of the same ethnic background) took primary consideration over the individual (Thompson). The role of family with its collectivistic emphasis on harmony, obedience and sharing rather than an individualistic preference for independence and assertiveness has been reported in North American (Chan, Lam, Wong & Leung, 1988;Kunce & Vales, 1984;Lam, 1993;Lowrey, 1983;Medina, Marshall & Fried, 1988;Trevino & Szymanski, 1996) and Australian (Adams & Gilbert;Fitzgerald et al . ;Kanelopoulou & Berry, 1992;Pane, 1993) analyses of ethnic minorities.…”

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“…Cultural issues have received attention in the recent disability literature in which dichotomous individualistic and collectivistic cultural paradigms have resulted in differential treatment for minority individuals by rehabilitation service providers (Adams & Gilbert, 1998;Fitzgerald, Mullavey-O'Byrne & Clemson, 1997;Thompson, 1997;Uswatte & Elliott, 1997;Van Der Veen, 1999). In contrast to Western cultural values of individual independence, persons from most other Eastern or European cultures have tended to possess more interdependent views of self where the social unit (usually family and friends of the same ethnic background) took primary consideration over the individual (Thompson).…”

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Gender differences in the perceptions of psychosocial experiences reported by persons with disabilities

Crisp

2002

Aus Occup Therapy J

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The objective of this study was to describe the subjective experience of living with disability. Intensive semistructured interviews were conducted with 35 participants who had a disability. Data were collected and analysed with grounded theory methods, and resulted in typological and thematic analyses. Four groups were identified according to their overall sense of well-being, and these groups were referred to as Battlers, Strugglers, Contenders and Optimisers. The Battlers and Strugglers reported the greatest psychosocial difficulties. The Contenders indicated that they were progressing towards achieving their vocational and social goals, and the Optimisers reported satisfaction in social and vocational activities and a high sense of well-being. Dominant gender stereotypes were evident in most of the participants' self-reports and influenced their perceptions concerning issues related to employment status and social interaction. Issues related to 13 persons with non-English speaking backgrounds were also reported.

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“…Perhaps such dynamics are implicated in the high drop-out rate of people from diverse backgrounds in their contact with 'Anglo' services. One study suggested this drop-out rate was as high as 50% because these one-visit shoppers did not return and noted that their experience of this contact was that it was insensitive (Adams & Gilbert, 1998).…”

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Observing Different Faiths, Learning About Ourselves: Practice with Inter-married Muslims and Christians

Furlong¹,

Ata

2006

Australian Social Work

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The present article offers practitioners initial ideas for work with clients in mixed-faith relationships. Based on local, empirical research that investigated MuslimÁChristian marriages, six patterns of adaptation to a mixed-faith marriage are outlined. In addition, from a practice-oriented review of the data, four questions are identified that can be used by practitioners to clarify their thinking and practice focus. Increasingly technical, these reference questions are: (i) how is the publicÁprivate divide being understood and managed; (ii) how is identity and selfhood being practiced; (iii) how may practitioners position themselves with respect to asymmetries related to gender; and (iv) should religious differences be reframed? Rather than practitioners seeking to be experts on the other, the belief animating the current contribution is that work with diverse clients offers workers a mirror upon which we practitioners can better observe our own outlines. In contrast with the pursuit of imperial generalisations, the authors of the present study commend the benefits of reflectively denaturalising our own positions.

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Researching Moslem-Christian Marriages: Extrapolating From Mixed-Faith Couples Towards the Practices ofConvivencia

Ata¹,

Furlong²

2005

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy

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Moslem—Christian marriage can be seen as a kind of ‘testing place’ for examining and appreciating the practices of difference. This article offers a summary from a recent local research project which investigated these relationships (Ata, 2003). The empirical data from the study was ‘milled’ for its potential to inform practice, a process that generated four themes that practitioners may find useful in their attempts to design practice approaches that are sensitive to alternative anthropologies. Beginning from the contention that the otherness of those for whom we work can be a mirror for our own cultural and practice assumptions, we extrapolate from these themes to practise with other examples of diversity. It is argued that our efforts to practise with diverse populations will be unengaging, even colonising, unless we are able to denaturalise our own positions.

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Providing effective counselling services to Australia's ethnic minority groups

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Gender differences in the perceptions of psychosocial experiences reported by persons with disabilities

Gender differences in the perceptions of psychosocial experiences reported by persons with disabilities

Observing Different Faiths, Learning About Ourselves: Practice with Inter-married Muslims and Christians

Researching Moslem-Christian Marriages: Extrapolating From Mixed-Faith Couples Towards the Practices ofConvivencia

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