Working with Aboriginal Families and People-Centred Care

Running head: CRITICAL REFLECTION 1
Title: Critical Reflection Part A
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CRITICAL REFLECTION 2
Working with Aboriginal Families
Working with Aboriginal community as a health practitioner, Bessarab proposes that
the best approach that can be emulated with these communities is employing the Aboriginal
terms of reference for purposes of participating in reconciliation action and recognizing the
impact of colonization. The book also recognizes the significance of understanding the
community through interacting with various government agencies. Bessarab suggest that
there has to be inclusiveness where these families are made to interact and share various
aspects in the community (Bessarab, 2000).
This is a significant approach of meeting their health outcomes. Being a health
practitioner I must be in a position to develop an approach that makes me question various
aspects in order to deduce meaningful impacts (Lessard, Caine & Clandinin, 2015). I have to
be able to understand that the culture of this community lack knowledge of a typical system
that is used in other areas. In my career as a health practitioner, I must be in a capacity to
entertain the fact that the Aboriginal communities have their own way of thinking, working
and reflecting on knowledge.
This information will play a critical role in enabling me to learn their ways of doing
things in order to be able to show them that they can use other techniques that are more
effective thus influencing their ways. Besides, I must be able to provide therapy using their
own approach in order for me to create interest so that they can be comfortable working with
me as a practitioner of health. I must be in a capacity to understand that colonization played a
critical role in Aboriginal people which led to various unspeakable activities.
The Aboriginal people were made to appear inferior and dispossessed their land. In
my practice as a health professional I must be able to note these events and use them in a
positive way so that they are able to view themselves as deserving in order to create an
interest in accepting my practice (Wieland, 2014). Furthermore, I must be able to

CRITICAL REFLECTION 3
acknowledge that legislative history that discriminated and encouraged atrocities to be
committed on the Aboriginal communities. In order to provide healthcare services, the
Aboriginal people must be able to understand that they are not being targeted by the system
that committed despicable acts but one that is interested in integrating them to the society so
that they can be able to improve their ways of living.
It is my duty as a health professional to make the community understand that the ills
committed by the system would never be revised. Therefore, in order for me to provide health
services, I must be able to ensure that their rightful place in the society is acknowledged so
that I can be able to employ culturally appropriate methods when offering these services.
Clinical yarning
According to Ivan Lin, clinical consultation and communication with the Aboriginal
and Torres Islanders is a challenging situation and most common barrier to deliver healthcare
services to these communities. Ivan Lin suggests that clinical yarning is a patient centred
approach that maximizes the Aboriginal ways of doing things and understanding of health
and disease can play a significant role in reducing the barrier (Zubrzycki, Shipp & Jones,
2017). The article suggest that clinical yarning constitutes key element which include social
yarn, management yarn and diagnostic yarn.
Social yarn implies that I must be able as a health professional to show interest in
patients. I can achieve this by communicating with them about their families and other
matters that are not necessarily related to health. However, these communications have to be
concerned with the things that they value most so that they get to be interested (Mittinty et al,
2018). I must also be able to develop relationship with my patients by finding a common
ground that connects us. I can be able to achieve this by participating in their activities such
as cooking and traditional practices so that they are able to be comfortable (Lin, Green &
Bessarab, 2016). Besides, I can be in position to eat their meals and also bring them some of