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Working With Native Americans in a Social Work Setting
Title: Working With Native Americans in a Social Work Setting
Category: History
Details: Words: 1685 | Pages: 7.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Working With Native Americans in a Social Work Setting
Certain aspects of Native American cultures may affect the process and outcome of Native Americans who seek out assistance from social workers. The values and norms inherent in many Native American cultures often present unique circumstances when individuals from those cultures deal with the dominant culture. There are at least 550 different Native American tribes in the United States, and within those tribes are unique and distinct cultural variables to assess. Because all of those tribes …showed first 75 words of 1685 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1685 total…of other cultures. There are often many barriers and obstacles individuals must overcome (including personal, environmental and institutional) before they step foot into a social work agency, and it is devastating to know that they could walk right out as a result of an even just one off-putting element. It is important to be mindful of the fact that our way (American culture) is not necessarily the right way, it is only a different way.
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