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Task Write an issue paper
Case study
A Women’s Refuge Worker, and previous student of this subject, had a client who received heartbreaking news from her country. The worker reported:
As this woman was crying; she was pulling her hair and her clothing which is a cultural way of grief for her. Family Welfare Services was called by someone who witnessed it. As a result her child was removed and she was hospitalised as a mental health patient. The worker who did this intervention was a social worker.
Other background:
The client, was from a Middle Eastern country and aged 25. She had been in Australia for 2 years, and had very basic English when the incident occurred. Her husband was 40 years old.
At the time the child (male) was about 3 years old.
She had no family or friends in Australia other than her husband and his sister (30 years old never married living with the brother).
Her husband was her cousin. This type of marriage is very common in the Middle East. Therefore the husband’s sister was also her cousin.
The cousin/sister-in-law was her only support. However she was supportive only when her brother was not around. The sister-in-law had a great fear of her brother as he was a violent man and she was working at his business and financially dependent on him.
The woman said that she was judged for this type of marriage (to a cousin) many times and she didn’t understand why.
The husband was trying to prove that she was mentally ill (which does happen in some in DV cases).
On the night in question the husband called the police and the mental health crisis team. They phoned Family Welfare Services. The client said the Family Welfare Services workers who attended on the night were a male and a female worker from helpline and they were not CALD background.
Her Family Welfare Services Case manager allocated after that night was a 28 years old female Anglo-Australian woman.
The mental health workers were from crisis team. She didn’t give much information about the gender or age but was sure that they had no ethnic background.
She also stated that on that night the husband was interpreting. No other interpreter was used.
After the incident the husband, the child and the Family Welfare Services worker had AVO’s. My client had no support or advocacy. She was not allowed to be with the child alone. As she couldn’t get her child back, she went back home to be with the child with the husband’s conditions. The domestic violence was very severe she had to leave again and could not take the child as Family Welfare Services did not allow her to take him.
She came to my service (Women’s Refuge) more than a year after the incident.
When I became involved she was severely depressed and was on medication. She had no legal representation or appropriate support or intervention. Even the woman believed that she was mentally ill.
Question
You are commissioned to write an interdepartmental issues paper for Family Welfare Services and Mental Health based on this case.
In your issues paper you must include the following items as sub headings.
1. Discussion on access and equity
2. Racism and racist practice
3. General reasons for the service delivery problems
4. Structural reasons for service delivery problems
5. Evidence of discriminatory practice
6. Intervention modalities
7. Attractiveness influencing sets
8. Communication (including high and low context and non-verbal)
9. Recommendations (in response to the issues raised above)
You should also include a final Conclusion section, followed by a Reference List.
Information to assist with completing this assignment:
Think about what an ‘issues paper’ could be. What is the purpose? Who will be reading it? At the very least, an issues paper should have four sections: the issue itself, background information, a discussion of the current issue, and a recommendation section.
Do an online search to find examples of ‘issues papers’.
Government websites will have good examples. Avoid the overly lengthy ones but note the way they are set out. They will generally:
– give an overview of a situation relating to an issue;
– outline the issue and the impact on a particular situation;
– offer points for further discussion, submission of ideas, or specific strategies to address the situation;
Share ideas of current issues papers on the student subject Forum.
Visit the link to the CSU Student Services page [online] Learning Skills, to find out ways you could improve your writing skills.
Visit the link to the CSU Library page [online] to find out ways to search for relevant material, and particularly how to find the best resources concerning your topic area, in this case, ‘issues paper’.
Read all the Module 1 Readings to gain minimum understanding and assistance to help you analyse what is happening here in this case study.
Rationale
This assessment item gives students the opportunity to explore issues of racism and discrimination and to explore appropriate responses in a commonly used industry format.
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