Indigenous evaluation: best practices for social and emotional wellbeing and suicide prevention
This paper provides an in-depth review of Australian literature on Indigenous evaluation practices related to social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB), mental health, and suicide prevention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Focused solely on published sources, including peer-reviewed journal articles and some grey literature, it highlights the principles, best practices, and challenges of current […]
Preventing suicides of First Nations people
First Nations people have long called for greater understanding and action to prevent suicide in their communities. Suicide is deeply complex, shaped by the ongoing impacts of colonisation, intergenerational trauma, systemic racism, and socioeconomic marginalisation. These experiences intersect across the life course and are influenced by cultural, historical, and structural contexts. The aim of this […]
Social and Emotional Wellbeing: a Review
he paper first introduces the SEWB model and provides an overview of its key features, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander selfhood, SEWB domains, determinants of health, and expressions and experiences of SEWB. The challenges that have been faced in the effective implementation of the model across research, policy, and practice are then presented. The […]
Flourishing in later life: promoting older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ mental health and suicide prevention
Older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) people are central in family and community life. Older First Nations people hold important roles and responsibilities that support the social and emotional wellbeing of families and the community. Many older First Nations people, however, experience complex and intersecting lifelong health, social and disability conditions. These conditions […]
Relationship between systemic anti Indigenous racism and social and emotional wellbeing and mental health: recent national and international evidence, policy and programs
There is substantial national and international evidence that anti-Indigenous racism is a driver for the adverse social determinants of mental health and wellbeing. In response to this evidence, key international health organisations have designed policy which seeks to eliminate anti-indigenous racism, strengthen the healing potential of Indigenous self-determination and achieve rights based racial equity and […]
Themes in contemporary Indigenous mental health and suicide prevention research – an analysis of the Research and evaluation register
This paper presents a thematic analysis of the Indigenous Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Clearinghouse’s Research and evaluation register, curated by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Drawing on over 130 records, the paper identifies and synthesises key themes in contemporary research focused on the mental health and social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal […]
Psychology education needs to reflect the lives of aspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
To support aspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to engage in psychology education in Australia, psychology curricula and teaching and learning programs should reflect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander worldviews and lived experiences.
Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project (AIPEP) – Curricular approaches to increasing cultural competence and Indigenous participation in psychology education and training
Dudgeon, P. (2019). Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project (AlPEP) – Curricular approaches to increasing cultural competence and Indigenous participation in psychology education and training. Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing Grant, The University of Western Australia, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. https://timhwb.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AIPEP-Final-Report.pdf
Annexure to the APAC evidence guide: Standard 3 Program of Study, criterion 3.8. Australian Psychology Accreditation Council
This document has been developed with the extensive direction and expert knowledge of the members of the Working Party and serves as an annexure to the APAC Evidence guide. The Working Party recommends that providers focus their attention to this criterion from the perspective of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as a matter of […]
Having the Hard Conversations: A guide to good practice in Indigenous health and cultural safety education
This ‘Guide to Good Practice’ (the Guide), is one of the major educational resources arising from a National Senior Teaching Fellowship awarded to Professor Dennis McDermott in 2014 by the (then) Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT). The programme of work, Having the Hard Conversations: Strengthening pedagogical effectiveness by working with student and […]
The need for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Coalition on Climate and Health: Policy position paper
Lowitja Institute has published a policy position paper, Let’s walk together, work together, we’ll be stronger together: The need for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Coalition on Climate and Health, which outlines our recommendation for the Australian Government to fund the establishment of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Coalition on Climate and Health.
Guidance in Creating Honours (Fourth Year) and Postgraduate Equity Pathways in Tertiary Psychology for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Applicants: A Report from the Equity Pathways Working Group as part of the AIPEP Community of Practice
Guidance in Creating Honours (Fourth Year) and Postgraduate Equity Pathways in Tertiary Psychology for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Applicants: A Report from the Equity Pathways Working Group as part of the AIPEP Community of Practice
Needs assessment report: Training health providers to work with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ young people
Needs assessment report: Training health providers to work with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ young people
Partnership for Justice in Health: Scoping Paper on Race, Racism and the Australian Health System.
Partnership for Justice in Health: Scoping Paper on Race, Racism and the Australian Health System.
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander LGBTQIASB+ people and mental health and wellbeing
The high rates of suicide-related behaviour among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, combined with similar evidence relating to LGBTQIA+ people, suggest that there is a need to investigate the compound risk of suicide-related behaviour among people who are both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and LGBTQIASB+. This report highlights gaps in existing data collection […]
Make Healing Happen – It’s Time to Act
AIATSIS Guide to evaluating and selecting education resources
The purpose of the AIATSIS Guide to evaluating and selecting education resources (the Guide) is to assist educators to critically self-reflect on their positionality and support them to work from a foundation of integrity. In doing so, teachers can ensure curriculum resources selected for teaching do not cause harm to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander […]
statUS Report: A case for First Nations LGBTIQA+SB Self-Determination
Joining the dots: A dental Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islandercultural safety curriculum
Commissioned by the Australasian Council of Dental Schools, this document describes a Dental Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Safety Curriculum to inform educational preparation of dental practitioners with reference to Standard 6.3, Australian Dental Council Accreditation Standards, 2021. (See Appendix 1 & 2). The purpose of cultural safety preparation in dental practitioners is to […]
Solutions that Work: What the Evidence of our People Tell Us: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Report.
Significance of Culture to Wellbeing, Healing and Rehabilitation
The Bugmy Bar Book is pleased to announce the publication of Significance of Culture to Wellbeing, Healing and Rehabilitation, a report by Vanessa Edwige, registered psychologist, and Dr Paul Gray, Associate Professor, UTS Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research. Both of the authors are Directors of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA). This report […]
Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices)
Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) project builds on the legacy of the 1986 Women’s Business Report. The Australian Human Rights Commission (the ‘Commission’) and the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) have partnered on a national conversation to elevate the voices of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander women and girls. Led by the Aboriginal and Torres […]
Trauma-informed care: Culturally responsive practice working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Trauma-informed care is often poorly defined in Australia’s healthcare field and is even less defined when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our program, Damulgurra – the Larrakia word for ‘heart’ – seeks to address some missing elements of trauma-informed care in Australia through a process for knowing, being and doing with Aboriginal […]
Cultural safety
As an Aboriginal psychologist, who for some years has worked out of an Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) in northwest New South Wales, I have often had people referred to me after they requested to see an Aboriginal psychologist. My first thought has often been, “How can I help this person?” and what is it that […]
Getting it Right: Creating Partnerships for Change. Integrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges in social work education and practice.
