Aboriginal and First Nations approaches to counselling
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Abstract
Chapter 11, 'Aboriginal and First Nations approaches to counselling' by Judy Atkinson, Dwayne Kennedy, and Randolph Bowers, presents narratives of reflection that highlight three different and unique views of working in counselling in Indigenous contexts. Following the literature review by Nadine Pelting in the previous chapter, the current work takes a more personal voice and sits within a practice-based and culture-based awareness of what it means to each author to work, and to live, in the context of Indigenous issues and culture. The views presented are a welcome contribution to the counselling literature for a number of reasons. There is much rhetoric about inclusion, justice, and multicultural issues in the field. However, there could be more examples of creating space for, and valuing in real terms, the contributions of Indigenous people. Likewise, there is a very large body of literature on Indigenous issues across the fields of anthropology, sociology, medicine, health, psychology, and more recently in counselling, where many writers make comments about Indigenous people and Indigenous issues, and yet there is a sort of authored silence when it comes to hearing the perspectives of Indigenous social actors where their views are most needed. It is likely that the politics and political dynamics of professional systems encourage this lack of equity, and to take steps towards changing these circumstances requires concerted mutual efforts. Furthermore, the voices of the authors taken together suggest a great collective sharing of their experience in grappling with some of the cultural issues involved in applying Western European and colonial counselling theories and practices; in this case, in Aboriginal Australian and First Nations Canadian contexts. These 'voices from the field' are meant to encourage and challenge practitioners and students of counselling to look outside the rhetoric that often dominates professional discourse. In so doing, when we reach the threshold of truly appreciating cultural issues we will also begin to realise that some of our most prized theories or concepts of counselling need to change, and we need to change, in order to engage authentically in intercultural dialogue.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".