This paper supports Māori counselling to unpack societal issues that underpinsociological theories applied to Māori in mainstream New Zealand. It employs an indigenous model, specifically created from a traditional mātauranga Māori base for examining contributing factors and links that are not always evident in Western dominant socially constructed systems that scrutinise Māori deficit statistics.
The rationale for developing an indigenous model from a traditional mātauranga Māori perspective allows for the opportunity to critique and analyse subjected perceptions
from a socially constructed viewpoint based on Māori worldviews, and therefore critique dominant Western perspectives using Māori pedagogies. This enables a Māori
counselling practitioner to articulate underlying themes and intergenerational links to Māori crime that Western socially constructed systems do not take into account.