Helping Professional Practice with Indigenous Peoples
The Bedouin-Arab Case
(University Press of America, 2009)
EME 1101
This book discusses issues helping professionals must confront when working with indigenous peoples, particularly the Bedouin Arab. Northern-based helping professional theory and methods have historically been aloof to the concerns within such societies as the Bedouin-Arab, particularly regarding their culture and religion, family structure and group orientation, and cultural and religious strategies for dealing with psychosocial problems. The literature has made some strides in making its myriad epistemologies less culturally oppressive but much remains to be done. According to the authors, it is essential for social welfare practitioners, structures, and Bedouin-Arab communities to integrate paradigms, which the helping professional carries out in practice methods and which could lead to the ongoing emergence of a newer social work epistemology, better anchored to the needs and realities of the Bedouin-Arab world.
(Description Source: University Press of America)
Author
John R. Graham is a professor of Social Work at UBC Okanagan and former director of the school. Prior to coming to UBC Okanagan, he was the director of the School of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University, and before that at The University of Calgary for 17 years where he held a 10-year research chair as Murray Fraser Professor, and served successively as MSW International Concentration Program Coordinator and PhD Program Coordinator.
Alean Al-Krenawi is the Chair of Spitzer Department of Social Work at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
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Paper ISBN: 9780761844075
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