Reflection

SOWK912 Diversity in Social Work Practice Workshop 5 (Week 10)

Practicing social work cross cultural interpersonal skills SOWK912 – DIVERSITY IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

Cross cultural capabilities SOWK912 – Diversity in Social Work Practice

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Overview of Workshop 5

8.30am – 9.30am • Warm up exercise – different or difference? – 5 mins • Refugee experiences upon arriving in Australia 50mins • BREAK – 5 mins 9.35 am – 10.45 am • Exploring an asylum seeker reception centre in Italy 45mins • Subject evaluation 10 mins • Break 15 mins 10.45 am-12.00pm am • case study- practice peer supervision – 70 mins 12.00 – 12.30pm • In pair, prepare assessment 4

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Reflection - Different or difference?

Sok speaks little

English

You speak no Cambodian

Which do you think is correct? Sok is different or A language difference exists between Sok and yourself

You Can't Ask That: Refugee experiences upon arriving in Australia

Watch the video (5mins) and in small group discuss the question below (15 mins) and report back (5mins): • What stood out to you? • Why do some people flee their home country? • Australia is a signatory to the Refugee Convention. Find two or more

obligations of the Convention.

https://www.abc.net.au/education/you-cant-ask-that-refugee-experiences- upon-arriving-in-australi/13763542

The traumatic life of Australia’s Refugees and asylum seekers detained for years in

the Park Hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95HgnR2gAXU

Watch the video (6 mins) and in small group discuss the question below (15 mins) and report back (5mins): • What stood out to you? • How can social work professionally assist in working

with such groups across practice, policy and research?

Lets take a 5 mins break…..

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Explore an asylum seeker reception centre in Italy

Watch the pre-recorded interview with Tony Giardina around 25mins (link is on Moodle).

In small group discuss the question below (15 mins) and report back (5mins): • What are the key takeaways from the interview? • What are some of challenges in the Centre? • How are people seeking asylum treated in Italy and Australia,

respectively? • If you are a social worker in the Centre in Naple, how would

you use critical social work practice processes to work with asylum seekers?

• How do the two videos influence your future practice?

Subject evaluation

https://go.blueja.io/lTjh5e40O EeJkaBU9u-clw

Liverpool students

https://go.blueja.io/q7ZWoyF7Qky93PardqB BMg

Wollongong students

Lets take a 15 min break…..

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Peer Supervision practice

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Critical social work supervision Carolyn Noble (pg 47) –Chapter 3, Pease et al (2016)

It requires practitioners to reflect upon their complicity in reinforcing dominant power relations and their role in reproducing privilege and inequality (Pease 2006). In so doing, this practice uncovers subjugated knowledges, to explore what has been hidden from view by the dominant culture. In making visible other forms of knowledge, experience, cultural artefacts and traditions, a new vision of themselves can be created, including their practice and new ways of acting in the world

Critical social work supervision Carolyn Noble (pg 48) –Chapter 3, Pease et al (2016)

• Can you talk about your previous experience or knowledge that informed your thinking and actions?

• What was the source of that knowledge? How was such knowledge produced? Who benefited from it?

• Can you articulate your feelings in relation to the issues discussed? • What new knowledge did you gain from the workshops? • What, if anything would you like to do with this knowledge? • If you were to work with former refugees, what do you see as your

strengths? • What do you see as your areas for learning and development? • What did you learn, if anything about cultural humility? • What did you learn, if anything about cross-cultural communication?

Peer supervision practice 1

Based on video Rania’s Odyssey, we watched in workshop 4, in pairs roleplay a brief peer supervision session using Noble’s critical social work approach and some of the questions on the previous slide or from Chapter 3 of Pease et al (30mins)

Rania’s Odyssey https://youtu.be/ED Hwt-ooAi4

Resources • This huge fire in Bangladesh, which left 7,000 people

homeless, shows just how 'forgotten' Rohingya refugees have become - ABC News

• Multicultural NSW – community profiles - http://multiculturalnsw.id.com.au/

• NSW Refugee Health Service: http://www.startts.org.au/media/Resource-Working- with-Refugees-Social-Worker-Guide.pdf

• Wollongong City Council – Refugees in the Illawarra http://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/services/communi ty/Documents/Refugee%20Communities%20Summary %202016.pdf

• National Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) - https://www.tisnational.gov.au/

Reflection

• Check In Questions – What have you learnt about yourself? – What have you learnt about others? – What have you learnt about social work in this

context?

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Thank you