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Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin: An Aboriginal Approach to Helping

Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin: An Aboriginal Approach to Helping

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Indigenous StudiesPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 1552660737
ISBN13: 9781552660737
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Published: Jan 1 2002
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Historically, social work and psychology professions have pressured and coerced Aboriginal peoples to follow the euro-centric ways of society. The needs of Aboriginal peoples have not been successfully addressed by helping professioan due to a limited attempt to incorporate Aboriginal perspectives and practices of helping. Michael Hart briefly discusses colonization from an Aboriginal perspective, ontological imperialism, social work's role in colonial oppression, and the dynamic of resistance. Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin encourages Aboriginal concepts, values and perspectives to be effectively incorporated by helpers trained in counselling, supporting, and teaching disciplines.

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