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55 Int'l Soc. Work 3 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk55 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial International Social Work 55(1) 3-4 Editorial @ The Author(s) 201I Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.ulk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/002087281 1429899 isw.sagepub.com *SAGE This issue of International Social Work contains seven papers from col- leagues drawing on work across four continents. Although the authors are from diverse settings and explore a variety of specific issues, all seven papers included in this issue focus on the issue of culture and cultural diver- sity as they pertain to social work education and practice. The issue opens with a paper from Kieran O'Donoghue and Ming-sum Tsui on social work supervision. The authors review the development of supervision in New Zealand, arguing that it has established a professional culture encompassing a plurality of approaches and widespread diversity. The paper reinforces the complexity of cultural dynamics in social work practice and is relevant for ongoing debates about the role of clinical super- vision in an era of managerialism. The second paper in the issue, a brief note by Susan Lord, offers an essay on international collaboration in social work. She argues that in the context of globalization, all social workers are engaged in international social work to some extent. She illustrates the benefits of international collaboration in social work education through the example of an African student studying in the US and outlines how this experience has helped her to challenge insu- larity of concept and practice in the social work classroom. Next, Huang Yunong and Zhang Xiong further respond to Gray (2010) and Gray and Coates' (2010) responses to a previous article in ISW on indi- genization of social work (Huang and Zhang, 2010). They urge a degree of caution in dichotomous division of 'western' and 'indigenous' discourses in social work. They argue that proponents of indigenization in social work have tended to neglect the different social, historical and political systems between western and indigenous societies which, they suggest, may block indigenous people from pursuing liberation and freedom. In the fourth paper of the issue, Patrick Leung, Monit Cheung and Venus Tsui present the results of a survey of depressive symptoms and help-seeking behaviours in a group of Asian Indians living in the USA. The findings suggest that service providers need a better understanding of the cultural practices, belief systems and attitudes of Asian Indians if they

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