Developing Culturally Responsive Supervision Through Yarn Up Time and the CASE Supervision Model

ABSTRACT

This article explores a culturally focused supervision training program supporting Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal supervisors to provide cross-cultural supervision for Aboriginal staff within mainstream and Aboriginal community and human service organisations. The key features of the training program, Yarn Up Time and the CASE supervision model are a culturally respectful approach to cross-cultural professional supervision practice with the purpose of contributing to the development of culturally responsive supervision with Aboriginal staff and their clients. The article concludes with feedback from participants who attended the training and supports the future advancement of cross-cultural supervision practice and models in Australia.

IMPLICATIONS

• There continues to be a need for more culturally responsive supervision for Aboriginal staff and for non-Aboriginal social work practice with Aboriginal people.

• Yarn Up Time and the CASE model is a culturally appropriate approach for supervising Aboriginal staff and non-Aboriginal social workers’ supervision of social workers’ practice with Aboriginal communities.

• Social work supervisors need to be able to use an effective cultural supervision model to support Aboriginal staff in Yarn Up Time.

本文讨论了着眼文化的监督培训计划，该计划针对主流和原住民社区以及人道服务机构工作人员，帮助原住民与非原住民监管员实施跨文化监督。培训计划的主要特点在于Yarn Up Time和CASE监督模式是一种重视文化的跨文化职业监督实践，目的是在原住民员工和客户那里形成文化上积极的监督。本末介绍了培训参与者的反馈。笔者支持未来在澳大利亚继续促进跨文化监督的实践和方式。

KEYWORDS:

• Supervision
• Cultural Supervision
• Yarning
• Yarn Up Time

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Kieran O’Donoghue http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0005-1030