Professional Practice – CSTU5930Tikanga in Practice

Tepora Pukepuke – Ngai Tuhoe, WhakatoheaBachelor of Social Practice

Unitec, Waitakere – 16 September 2013

The objectives of this session

• Get you to look at your own values• Understand more deeply tikanga• To see how to apply tikanga in practice• To find resources to help you• To learn, to have fun!

New teaching techniques

Ako Aotearoa teaching award in 2017Mixed method for all learning typesA bit different but still heaps of learningPadlet for realtime feedback, and evaluation

http://padlet.com/wall/ProfPracTikanga

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Seven social work principles

• Each client is an individual• Listen well and allow expression of feelings• The social work has controlled involvement• Acceptance of client• Non-judgemental• Client self determination• Confidentiality

Biestek

Ethics and Tikanga

• Overarching guide for social work practice• Fits alongside personal values, and workplace• Aligns with Codes of Ethics & Practice

What are some key principles?

• Honesty, love, work hard, dignity, respect, non judgemental, non-maleficience

Find others with one core principle that you also hold and stand together

3 key principles

• do your job, do what is right, natural justice, mana-enhancing, the right response, following process, law abiding, following orders,

• good work ethic, be honest, tell the truth, act with clients knowing, tell your supervisor, be real, be genuine, be yourself, see the client for who they are, telling the truth, saying the hard stuff, integrity

• love, care, help, guide, be kind, be nice, be good, help them get better, respect, empathy, compassion, joy

Role play your one point

• You are social workers and working with a local family, give a 2-minute role play highlighting some of the key points of your group-principle

He aha to kupu Maori?

•What is one Maori word that best sums up the principles of your group?

Scenario One

• You are working with a Maori family around some mild neglect in terms of truanting, inadequate lunches and weather-appropriate clothing. Mum tells you that last night she got mad and got one of the kids on the ground and tried to strangle them.

• In your group discuss only your group-value and say what are the important points

Scenario Two

• If you wish, move to a new group now

Your work mate invites you to a weekend family event and uses the work car to transport you, and their family to the distant event. They do not have permission to use the car. What is the biggest group-worry, and a response you might give?

Group discussions

• Group One• Group Two• Group Three

Consultation

• What was it that you didn’t know, or was confusing for you.

• Present back to the class five resources that would have helped your thinking (people, agency, consultants, specialists, documentation)

Three groups or more

• Move to where you think your own values most resonate• You might stand between two, or

firmly in one, or in the middle• What stops you being in just one

group?