1st Edition
Pacific Social Work Navigating Practice, Policy and Research
PART I: Pacific Social Work
1 Introduction to Pacific social work: Places, peoples,perspectives and practices
Jioji Ravulo, Tracie Mafile’o and Donald Bruce Yeates
2 Contemporary Pacific values and beliefs
Aliitasi Su’a-Tavila
3 Pacific-Indigenous social work theories and models
Tracie Mafile’o, Jean Mitaera and Karlo Mila
PART II: Fields of practice
4 Seeing abilities: Disability in the Pacific
Donald Bruce Yeates
5 Understanding mental health and wellbeing from a Pacific perspective
Jioji Ravulo, Monique Faleafa and Tanya Koro
6 Environmental justice and social work in climate change in the Pacific Islands
Dora Kuir-Ayius and David Marena
7 Pacific-Indigenous community-village resilience in disasters
Siautu Alefaio-Tugia, Emeline Afeaki-Mafile’o and Petra Satele
8 Delivering youth justice for Pacific young people and their families
Jioji Ravulo, Jack Scanlan and Vivian Koster
9 Applying culturally appropriate approaches when working with Pacific adult offenders
Jioji Ravulo and Julia Ioane
10 Community development: Connecting research, policy and practice in Pacific communities
Dunstan Lawihin, Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata and Kesaia Vasutoga
11 Understanding the Vā for social work engagement with Pacific women and children
Selina Ledoux-Taua’aletoa
12 An introduction to sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing for Pacific social work
Michelle Redman-MacLaren and Analosa Veukiso-Ulugia
13 Getting on the K.A.D.: The impacts of kava, alcohol and other drug consumption across Pacific communities
Moses Ma’alo Faleolo and Jioji Ravulo
14 Our Pacific elders as keepers and transmitters of culture
Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi and Ofa K.L. Hafoka-Kanuch
15 Understanding sexual and gender diversity in the Pacific Islands
Geir Henning Presterudstuen
16 Family and domestic violence
Yvonne Crichton-Hill and Rebecca Olul
17 Global migration and resettlement: A case study on the Fijian experience
Litea Meo-Sewabu
PART III: Social policy
18 Navigating social policy processes in the Pacific
Leituala Kuiniselani Toelupe Tago-Elisara and Donald Bruce Yeates
PART IV: Research
19 Towards a Pacific-Indigenous research paradigm for Pacific social work
Tracie Mafile’o, Peter Mataira and Kate Saxton
PART V: Future directions
20 Where to from here?: Integration of indigenous knowledges and practice in contemporary settings
Jioji Ravulo and Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata
Index
Biography
Jioji Ravulo is an Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His father is iTaukei Fijian and mother is Anglo-Australian. He is passionate about diversity and its differences, and how this can be meaningfully included in the work being undertaken in Pacific social work across Oceania and alongside the Pacific diaspora globally.
Tracie Malfile’o is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work, Massey University New Zealand. She is a second generation Pacific New Zealander, her late father Mohetau Sosaia Mafile’o hailed from Te’ekiu in Tonga and also had genealogy linking to Nukulaelae, Tuvalu. Her career has involved two decades in academic roles across New Zealand and Papua New Guinea focusing on Pacific culture-based scholarship, social development and social work.
Donald Bruce Yeates has held senior academic and administrative positions at the University of Papua New Guinea and The University of the South Pacific. He has lived in the Pacific for the last 44 years and is a Fijian/Canadian dual citizen. He is passionate about social and community work practice and its realisation of social and ecological justice in the Pacific and beyond.
