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Aug. 1996 (Creation)
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1 audiocassette
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Audio cassette contains a recorded interview with Bridget Moran for a Social Work class, possibly at UNBC, with questions asked by the instructor and individual students.
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Context: Interview with Bridget Moran for a Social Work class [UNBC?] with questions asked by instructor [Rosalie?] and individual students
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- Interviewer asks what kept Bridget in social work? – “Not a profession but an addiction”
- Possibility of addiction to social work possibly contributed to the breakup of her marriage – “married a charming Irishman who could not keep his charm at home”
- Likes to take the pain of the job home
- Social work students sometimes afraid to get emotionally involved
- “translate your private concerns into public actions”
- Social workers have to be aware of First Nations culture
- Social workers need to a part of the society in which they are living; Bridget could relate because she was on welfare when she was a child
- Psychologically prepared for the repercussions of her social actions towards the W.A.C. Bennett government; Bridget notes her actions reflected the frustrations of the group of social workers in Prince George at the time – but that she didn’t involve anyone else – if it had it might have been more successful
- Important to provide a sense of empowerment to your social work clients
- Speaks about the response to her book A Little Rebellion
- Speaks about how the book Stoney Creek Woman was initiated by Mary John’s daughter Helen
- Speaks about how the inquest into the death of Coreen Thomas, inspired her to write Judgment at Stoney Creek
- Discusses her book about Justa Monk
- Native people can only “heal themselves through their own culture”
- Discusses her Writers Workshop series
- Re: Oath of confidentiality – ethical dilemmas for social workers - Didn’t mean to break her oath of office but because she did violate it [in the governments view] therefore felt she had to resign
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