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040 _aAFVC
100 _aMoyle, Paora
_96141
245 _aFrom family group conferencing to Whānau Ora :
_bMāori social workers talk about their experiences
_cPaora Moyle
246 _aA thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work in Social Work, Massey University, Manawatu.
260 _c2013
300 _aelectronic document (144 pages) ; PDF file: 1.42 MB
500 _aMSW (Massey University, Manawatu)
520 _aThis thesis explored the challenges faced by seven very experienced Māori social workers within the care and protection system. The views of these practitioners on what has improved for Māori whānau around recent changes to FGC and newer initiatives such as Whānau Ora were also examined. In Aotearoa New Zealand the family group conference (FGC) is the legal mechanism through which matters related to the care and protection of children are dealt with; Māori are half of the total families who have participated in FGCs. A critical factor inhibiting our understanding of this disproportionate participation is the culture of silence that exists around the effectiveness of the FGC and related care and protection issues for Māori. This research uses a Māori centred research approach to explore the challenges participants faced in care and protection and a thematic analysis of their accounts was undertaken. From this analysis it was found that: (a) the participants creatively walked between two world views in order to best meet the needs of their own people; (b) that these Māori practitioners felt over-worked and under-valued; and (c) the participants viewed the practices within FGCs as biased, demonstrating a lack of bicultural ability and contributing to significant barriers that whānau experience. They also noted that these issues were not being talked about in the sector. The implications of this for Māori relate to them being generalised into the greater mainstream mix of academic research, policy and ministerial reports, rendering them invisible. Only the individual factors of social need are being focused on for Māori because they are measurable, whilst the drivers such as colonisation, structural discrimination and cultural genocide that perpetuate the marginalisation of Māori are ignored. This is proactive monoculturalism and this study talks about it. (Author's abstract). Record #5169
650 _aCHILD PROTECTION
_9118
650 _aFAMILY GROUP CONFERENCES
_9243
650 _aMĀORI
_9357
650 _aSOCIAL WORK
_9560
650 _aTHESES
_9606
650 _aWHĀNAU ORA
_93544
650 _aRANGAHAU MĀORI
_95532
_2reo
650 _aTOKO I TE ORA
_95247
_2reo
650 _aTUHINGA WHAKAPAE
_95598
_2reo
650 _aWHĀNAU
_9642
_2reo
650 _9252
_aFAMILY VIOLENCE
650 _95382
_aTŪKINOTANGA Ā-WHĀNAU
_2reo
650 _95534
_aPATU TAMARIKI
_2reo
650 _9103
_aCHILD ABUSE
651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
_92588
856 _uhttp://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/4731
942 _2ddc
_cTHESIS