experienced by colonization. Instead of looking solely to the dominant western ideas to
address these issues, Māori social workers are using ancestral, cultural, spiritual, and
contemporary indigenous practices to meet the health and well-being needs of Māori. This
chapter presents Tā (Sir) Mason Durie's (2001) Māori model of practice Te Whare Tapa
Whā, an extension into Pitama's et al.(2007) Meihana model, and then applies the Meihana …