Evaluating a social and emotional well-being model of service piloted in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in Western Australia: an Aboriginal Participatory Action Research approach
Introduction The delivery of services to improve Aboriginal health and well-being must centre culture and integrate a social and emotional well-being understanding and approaches. These approaches are essential in increasing access to, and engagement with, health services, as well as ensuring culturally safe, person-centred and community-centred care. This study will evaluate the Aboriginal Health Council […]
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
Conversations about Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) – VCE Psychology – Fact sheet
Conversations about Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) – VCE Psychology – Fact sheet
Information, resources, and supports relating to the Voice to Parliament Referendum
Information, resources, and supports relating to the Voice to Parliament Referendum
Cultural safety and Aboriginal health in mainstream health organisations
Cultural safety and Aboriginal health in mainstream health organisations
Aboriginal Cultural Safety: How to be an Ally
Aboriginal Cultural Safety: How to be an Ally
Keeping Our Kids Safe: Understanding Cultural Safety in Child Safe Organisations
Keeping Our Kids Safe: Understanding Cultural Safety in Child Safe Organisations
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.
Borderlands: an Australian Duo-Ethnography of First Nations and Western Psychology
Borderlands: an Australian Duo-Ethnography of First Nations and Western Psychology
Conversations about Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) – VCE Psychology
Conversations about Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) – VCE Psychology
Q&A on Cultural Responsiveness
Q&A on Cultural Responsiveness
Blak women’s healing: Cocreating decolonial praxis through research yarns
Blak women’s healing: Cocreating decolonial praxis through research yarns
Caring for Country: Indigenous Wellbeing, Law, and Environmental Justice
Climate change is emerging as a global determinant of mental health and wellbeing impacting existing and escalating socio-economic inequities (Charlson, et al, 2021). There is clear evidence that the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous peoples in general are being adversely impacted by climate change (HEAL Network & CRE-STRIDE […]
The Indigenous Turn: Epistemic Justice, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Social and Emotional Well-Being.
Colonial research practices across centuries have appropriated, exploited, and effectively ignored Indigenous knowledges across time. Part of Indigenous struggles for justice is to validate their own knowledges and knowledge holders. The protection of Indigenous knowledge is widely acknowledged by a number of human rights conventions and declarations. Article 31 of the United Nations Declaration of […]
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 […]
A guide to writing and speaking about Indigenous People in Australia
Embracing the emerging Indigenous psychology of flourishing
Reflexivity: a model for teaching and learning cultural responsiveness in mental health
Cultural responsiveness is a term accepted by many as the best descriptor for professionals working with Indigenous clients in cross-cultural situations. This article sets out a guideline and a model of cultural responsiveness that can be adopted by mental health professionals worldwide. This model positions reflexivity at the centre and as the source and force […]
Power of the Ngangkari – Ngankari’s Traditional Healers Practices
Challenging the Hegemony: Decolonising Neuropsychology
Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) Gathering 3 / Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country, Canberra, ACT
ANZMHA Podcast: Pat Dudgeon
“Treasure your difference and your local connectedness. Serve your community in a way that makes your heart happy.” Today we have the trail blazing Pat Dudgeon on the podcast. We discuss with Pat how she started out in her studies, her motivations and the projects she’s been a part of. We discuss the big events […]
Webinar: Decolonising Mental Health Systems – Global Experiences of Wellbeing
What does decolonisation within psychology mean for me?
Overview This panel discussion will explore the definitions and application of decolonisation in Australia. Specifically, it asks: What role can psychology and psychologists carry out within a decolonisation agenda?What does it look like for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples & for non-Indigenous Australians? What actions/attitudes/behaviours are involved?, and What can the discipline do to […]
Cultural safety in Trauma-Informed Practice: What’s culture got to do with it?
Overview This webinar explores the importance of culture in therapeutic practice, and will cover: concepts of cultural awareness levels cultural protects holistic client conceptualization cultural worldviews the journey from unconscious incompetence through to unconscious competence taking a systems approach historical trauma 6 guiding principles of Trauma-Informed Practice the 5R’s of Trauma-Informed approach cultural practices of […]