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Socially and clinically these can have crucial implications for Native American populations. At the social level, it indicates a large problem as the possibility for social maladjustment not only becomes seen through the eyes of subjective settler citizens within the United States, but it also makes these subjective opinions objective through the scientific gaze (Foucault, 1988). This, therefore, not only ensures that Native Americans be prevented access to things like jobs (for employment screening), but may also be at a higher chance to be criminalized due to their cultural beliefs since the MMPI-2 plays a role in forensic psychology (Butcher Williams, 2009). Not only that, but, as Oliver (2004) points out, â€Å"It is not so much that the†¦show more content†¦In order to really grasp how to approach such a problem from a social work perspective, it becomes important to have a firm understanding of what it might mean to have social work aimed at decolonization. Sium, Des ai, and Ritskes (2012) say that â€Å"Decolonization does not exist without a framework that centers and privileges Indigenous life, community, and epistemology† (p. ii). As such, it becomes necessary to understand social work’s indebtedness to Western epistemological structures and the necessity for change. Rather than understand this problem as one that operates within an existential rubric of gains and losses in which the MMPI-2 could achieve some multicultural understanding, we must begin to think more deeply about the libidinal economies which make such an achievement impossible at the epistemic and ontological levels. The MMPI-2’s commitment to Western epistemologies ensures that a shift towards Indigenous ways of knowing would necessarily undo its project, and, more generally, threaten the entire field of psychiatry as the reason/madness nexus is thrown into question (Hill et al., 2012; Foucault, 1988). 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