Social Work Theory in Australia

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This paper examines the viability of applying the social advocacy-based social development model to help improve the lives of the indigenous people of Australia by helping social workers better understand the unique problems facing these marginalized people, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.

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"Developing an overview of social work theory as it applies to the Asia-Pacific region requires an initial decision as to the nature of social work itself. One such approach would be to define social work in highly professional terms, which would thereby limit its presence in the region to a small number of countries, and then proceed to overview developments in those countries; however, such an analysis would not comprise much of the adoption of Western social work by the more developed or industrialized countries of the region, together with less developed countries where the introduction of social work was influenced strongly by colonial or military relations with the West. The main countries to be included in such a review would then include Australia, as well as Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Sri Lanka (Elliott, Mayadas & Watts 1997). In the alternative, such an analysis can adopt a more flexible definition of social work in terms of its traditional origins in various countries, its understandable diversity in the face of varying levels of national development, and its different roles responding to differences in the development of welfare and social services in the various countries."

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