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 […]
Decolonising Australian Psychology: The Influences of Aboriginal Psychologists
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have been profoundly impacted by colonisation and continue to counter its affects by rebuilding language, regaining access to lands and living culture, and enhancing social and emotional wellbeing. The discipline of psychology has played a major role in perpetuating harm towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples […]
Young, Indigenous, LGBTIQ+: Understanding and Promoting Social and Emotional Wellbeing
The following resource contains journal articles related to a special edition section in the Social Inclusion Journal entitled: Young, Indigenous, LGBTIQ+: Understanding and Promoting Social and Emotional Wellbeing.
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 […]
Understanding the Frontier Wars
This resource accompanies the SBS documentary The Australian Wars (produced by Blackfella Films) about the Frontier Wars – Australia’s longest war fought on home soil between 1790 and the 1940s. SBS Learn strongly advises completing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols Guide – for Teachers before engaging with this teaching resource. This is essential […]
Indigenous community psychologies, decolonization, and radical imagination within ecologies of knowledges.
As the American Psychological Association Taskforce on Indigenous Psychology acknowledges, fidelity to the inalienable right to self-determination is the ethical foundation of Indigenous psychology. The task of decolonizing psychology is not only about divesting from Eurocentric paradigms that have controlled and limited Indigenous wellbeing, but producing new paradigms founded on Indigenous knowledges. The Indigenous paradigm […]
Developing cultural responsiveness
How do higher education providers introduce an understanding of cultural responsiveness to psychology students? We’re joined by three academics from the University of Western Australia to discuss the issues. Professor Pat Dudgeon is Australia’s first identified Indigenous psychologist. Dr Joanna Alexi is a research associate. And Professor Romola Bucks is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Health and Medical […]
Australia needs to decolonise its mental health system and empower more Indigenous psychologists
Cultural Safety in Trauma-Informed Practice from a First Nations Perspective: Billabongs of Knowledge
Indigenization in clinical and counselling psychology curriculum in Canada: A framework for enhancing Indigenous education
This article considers how to advance Indigenous education in counselling and clinical psychology in Canada, particularly at the intersection of curriculum, programmatic, and systemic shifts in graduate education. This article focuses on the curricular practices that the counselling and clinical psychology field could enact in efforts to advance reconciliation, reduce educational and mental health disparities […]
Indigenous peoples and professional training in psychology in Canada
With the release of the Canadian Psychological Association’s (2018) response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015) there has been increased attention on the ways psychology in Canada might better serve the needs of Indigenous communities, in particular in terms of education and professional training. To date, there has been almost no research […]
We Were Just Little Boys
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 […]
Viewpoint: Professor Jeffrey Ansloos on the importance of Indigenous content in Canadian classrooms
Decolonising higher education: First Nations student perspectives in Australia
First Nations students at RMIT shared their perspectives on how universities can promote inclusion and Indigenous perspectives at the recent UNESCO World Higher Education Conference in Barcelona, Spain.
Collaborative practices and partnerships to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
Griffith University has one of the largest cohorts of Indigenous students, with 815 enrolments to date. The Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) and Bachelor of Psychological Science programs attract a high number of students from around the country each year. Of the 295 students enrolled in health-related degrees, 70 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students are […]
Australia needs to decolonise its mental health system and empower more Indigenous psychologists
Decolonising psychology and the transformative role of the AIPEP
Webinar 45 | Using online resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health & wellbeing
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have always adapted to new technologies and are finding creative ways to maintain their health and wellbeing in the digital world. There are a range of websites, apps, videos and other online resources that our health and community workforce can use with their Indigenous clients to help them […]
Webinar 44 | Supporting Indigenous wellbeing through digital resources: an introduction for clinicians
The use of digital mental health resources has steadily gained traction. With the advent of Covid-19, the relevance and application of digital mental health is now at the forefront of treatment options. However, for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, mainstream digital mental health platforms lack cultural appropriateness and engagement. In this webinar we […]
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.
