Cultural Safety in Australia
Reflective Worksheet: Conversations about Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) – VCE Psychology
This reflective worksheet corresponds with the webinar held in March 2023, in which Belle Selkirk and Dr Joanna Alexi from TIMHWB and AIPEP explored Indigenous Psychology and Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB). It is designed to support Unit 3 and 4 Psychology teachers (VCE Psychology 2023-2027) to develop knowledge of social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) […]
Healing among Indigenous people is more crucial now than ever. Here’s a way forward
OPINION: The referendum campaign already has me overwhelmed. Here’s how you can look after yourself
OPINION: The referendum campaign already has me overwhelmed. Here’s how you can look after yourself
A guide to writing and speaking about Indigenous People in Australia
New research shows how Indigenous LGBTIQ+ people don’t feel fully accepted by either community
Over 70% of Indigenous LGBTQIA+ experience discrimination, new research finds
Embracing Queer Indigenous Australia
Australia needs to decolonise its mental health system and empower more Indigenous psychologists
Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives through program and practice
As part of our Quality in Practice series, Jessica Staines, Director of the Koori Curriculum explores National Quality Standard 1.2 and shares ideas on how educators can embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives through their program and practice.
Australia needs to decolonise its mental health system and empower more Indigenous psychologists
Difficult Knowledge and Uncomfortable Pedagogies: student perceptions and experiences of teaching and learning in Critical Indigenous Australian Studies
This research presents a grounded interrogation of students’ perceptions and experiences of teaching and learning in two mandatory stand-alone Critical Indigenous Australian Studies subjects at an Australian university. The study proffers rare empirical insight into the student experience of teaching and learning about colonialism, racism, whiteness and privilege. It contributes to building a better understanding […]
Culturally responsive pedagogies of success: Improving educational outcomes for Australian Aboriginal students
How an Aboriginal approach to mental health is helping farmers deal with drought
Psychological tools developed with Aboriginal people can also support Australian farmers whose land is suffering the effects of climate change.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: Suicide data 2020
Achieving stability for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care – SNAICC Policy Position Statement
SNAICC and many of its members have been watching with concern as, around the country, a range of processes are undertaken to progress longer-term care arrangements for children. They vary in detail but have been broadly described as permanency planning measures. Some of these proposals have already taken the form of legislative changes (NSW, Vic. […]
A 10-year-old girl kills herself, and a nation asks: what can be done?
Last week’s terrible news that a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl had taken her own life shook many Australians. Yet there would be few Aboriginal families who have not already been affected by the suicide or attempted suicide of their young people. This includes our own extended families and kin.
Our Healing: Indigenous men break the cycle of violence
On White Ribbon Day a few weeks ago the Healing Foundation celebrated the success of Our Men, Our Healing, a groundbreaking capacity-building pilot for Indigenous men in Darwin and three remote NT communities – Ngukurr, Wurrumiyanga and Maningrida. The program aims to strengthen, support and empower Aboriginal men through cultural, educational and therapeutic healing activities. […]
9 Ways Native Men Can Heal From Historical Trauma
Historical trauma has taken its toll on Native people, and Clayton Small, Northern Cheyenne, founder of Native Prevention, Research, Intervention, Development, and Education, or Native P.R.I.D.E., spent years developing ways to help Native men overcome the effects.
Health services explore new technology to overcome language barriers in Indigenous healthcare
With a life expectancy gap of about 10 years and poor health outcomes, some health services are looking towards new forms of technology to bridge the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health services in Australia.
A reference list for teaching about Indigenous Australians in psychology
The purpose of the list is to compile a reference list for psychology professionals who might be searching for relevant research to cover in their undergraduate courses. The list is partial and doubtless will expand in future updates. Sections include: 1) Scholarly articles 2) Coverage of relevant issues in psychology textbooks; 3) Psychology studies with […]
Closing the Gap Clearinghouse
A clearinghouse for research and evaluation evidence on what works to overcome Indigenous disadvantage
Billibellary’s Walk (Guided Map)
Billibellary’s Walk is named after the Ngurungaeta, or clan head, of the Wurundjeri people at the time of Melbourne’s settlement. The self-guided walk is a cultural interpretation of the University’s Parkville campus landscape and provides a narrative, from an Aboriginal perspective, for participants to explore and imagine the university landscape across time and seasons whilst […]
