Critical Analysis Of Social Work
Critical Analysis
Social Work Practice with Canadians of Aboriginal Background: Guidelines for Respectful Social Work Brad McKenzie & Vern Morrissette
University of Manitoba & Red River College
Professor: Jason Albert Class: ISW200 Student: Donna-Lee Mitchell
Introduction:
The article that I choose for discussion, Social Work Practice with Canadians of
Aboriginal Background was an insightful and enlightening piece of literature. Brad
McKenzie and Vern Morrissette opened the article up with background history on
Aboriginal people. I believe this was to help the reader better understand Native peoples
dynamics in today’s society and how history has impacted their lives. The …show more content…
The article
highlights this fact and shows stats on the different tribes living on and off the reserve.
I really liked the fact that McKenzie and Morrissette point out how Canada is considered
the best country to live, but still has the Native problem.
The Federal Statistics Canada show these stats clarifying McKenzie and Morrissette’s
points: Husbandwife families accounted for 70% of all Indian families, the lowest
proportion of any province or territory, six percentage points below average and fully 21
percentage points below the proportion of nonIndian husbandwife families in Sask.
Just over onequarter of Indian families were female lone parent families, more than three
times the nonIndian proportion of such families. The situation was even more
pronounced offreserve, where the husbandwife/female loneparent proportions were 63
versus 34 %. The proportion of Indians living in loneparent families were larger than
among others, 26% versus 7%, a ratio of almost 4:1. This statistic points out a …show more content…
Offreserve Sask. registered women had the highest
average fertility rate in Canada. The rate of births outside marriage for Indian women
was 69% as opposed to 19% of nonIndians. Husbandwife families and female single
parents had more children than the average for Sask., especially if they lived on the
reserve. The number of children in offreserve families between onreserve and reference
population totals.
Summary:
The “World View”, is a justified concept aimed at helping isolated and segregated groups
that have been traumatized by European contact. A basic concept that can adapt
ideologies on understanding values, traditions and cultures can help social workers better
understand people that are distinct and different from societies norms. It is unfortunate
that society has adapted a one way thinking that the European traditions are the normal
way of living and that everyone should have that concept. Society has been forced to
look at a different way of dealing with the Aboriginal society as a whole, due to
Social Work Practice with Canadians of Aboriginal Background: Guidelines for Respectful Social Work Brad McKenzie & Vern Morrissette
University of Manitoba & Red River College
Professor: Jason Albert Class: ISW200 Student: Donna-Lee Mitchell
Introduction:
The article that I choose for discussion, Social Work Practice with Canadians of
Aboriginal Background was an insightful and enlightening piece of literature. Brad
McKenzie and Vern Morrissette opened the article up with background history on
Aboriginal people. I believe this was to help the reader better understand Native peoples
dynamics in today’s society and how history has impacted their lives. The …show more content…
The article
highlights this fact and shows stats on the different tribes living on and off the reserve.
I really liked the fact that McKenzie and Morrissette point out how Canada is considered
the best country to live, but still has the Native problem.
The Federal Statistics Canada show these stats clarifying McKenzie and Morrissette’s
points: Husbandwife families accounted for 70% of all Indian families, the lowest
proportion of any province or territory, six percentage points below average and fully 21
percentage points below the proportion of nonIndian husbandwife families in Sask.
Just over onequarter of Indian families were female lone parent families, more than three
times the nonIndian proportion of such families. The situation was even more
pronounced offreserve, where the husbandwife/female loneparent proportions were 63
versus 34 %. The proportion of Indians living in loneparent families were larger than
among others, 26% versus 7%, a ratio of almost 4:1. This statistic points out a …show more content…
Offreserve Sask. registered women had the highest
average fertility rate in Canada. The rate of births outside marriage for Indian women
was 69% as opposed to 19% of nonIndians. Husbandwife families and female single
parents had more children than the average for Sask., especially if they lived on the
reserve. The number of children in offreserve families between onreserve and reference
population totals.
Summary:
The “World View”, is a justified concept aimed at helping isolated and segregated groups
that have been traumatized by European contact. A basic concept that can adapt
ideologies on understanding values, traditions and cultures can help social workers better
understand people that are distinct and different from societies norms. It is unfortunate
that society has adapted a one way thinking that the European traditions are the normal
way of living and that everyone should have that concept. Society has been forced to
look at a different way of dealing with the Aboriginal society as a whole, due to