Indigenising Curriculum at The University of Queensland
This publication is a collection of scholarly chapters exploring Indigenising the curriculum across diverse disciplines at the University of Queensland (UQ). The edited collection will be framed by the Indigenising Curriculum Design Principles developed by Tracey Bunda and the Indigenising Curriculum Working Party (Bunda, 2022) and explores the pedagogies, processes, benefits and difficulties of Indigenising […]
AIPEP Learning Resource: Working Together and the Psychology Board of Australia Professional Competencies for Psychology – Competency 8 Resource Map
The AIPEP Learning Resources aims to support Ahpra registered psychologists build their capacity to meet Psychology Board of Australia’s Professional Competency 8: Demonstrates a health equity and human rights approach when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This online resource maps chapters from the Working Together (2014) textbook against the Psychology Board of […]
AIPEP Learning Resource: Psychology Board of Australia Professional Competencies for Psychology – Competency 8 Resource Map
The AIPEP Learning Resources aims to support Ahpra registered psychologists build their capacity to meet Psychology Board of Australia’s Professional Competency 8: Demonstrates a health equity and human rights approach when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This online resource maps a wide range of Indigenous-led publications against Competency 8 sub competencies. Readers will […]
Indigenous psychology in Australia
Experiences of colonial oppression have had a profound and enduring effect on the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and communities throughout Australia and other indigenous nations globally. On almost every headline, indicator statistics show that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fare worse than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Australian psychology has been implicated […]
Epigenetic Echoes: Bridging Nature, Nurture, and Healing Across Generations
Trauma can impact individuals within a generation (intragenerational) and future generations (transgenerational) through a complex interplay of biological and environmental factors. This review explores the epigenetic mechanisms that have been correlated with the effects of trauma across generations, including DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding RNAs. These mechanisms can regulate the expression of stress-related genes […]
The need for culturally valid psychological assessment tools in Indigenous mental health
A clear understanding of the nature and extent of suicidal behaviour and other mental health issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations has been limited by the national failure to develop clinically and culturally valid assessments and to ensure the cultural competence of practitioners. The default position for Australian mental health researchers is to […]
Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne-Volume 1: Truth
Dhoombak Goobgoowana acknowledges and publicly addresses the long, complex and troubled relationship between the Indigenous people of Australia and the University of Melbourne. It is a book about race and how it has been constructed by academics in the University. It is also about power and how academics have wielded it and justified its use […]
Listening more: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision. A Guide for Psychology Supervisors.
The Listening More: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision. A Guide for Psychology Supervisors is designed to support supervisors in being culturally safe and responsive in their supervision of Australia’s psychologists, specifically when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This project was led by the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project (AIPEP), in collaboration with […]
Listening more: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision. A Reflective Journal for Psychology Supervisors.
Welcome to the one of two companion documents to the Listening More: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision. A Guide for Psychology Supervisors. (hereafter, the Guide). This document is the Listening More: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision. A Reflective Journal for Psychology Supervisors (hereafter, the Journal). The second companion document is the Listening More Manual of […]
Listening more: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision. Manual of Resources for Psychology Supervisors.
Welcome to the one of two companion documents to the Listening More: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision. A Guide for Psychology Supervisors (hereafter, the Guide). This document is the Listening More: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision. Manual of Resources which includes a sample of recommended reading and resources to assist psychology supervisors’ learning journeys. The […]
Indigenous Australian Understandings of Holistic Health and Social and Emotional Wellbeing
Through colonisation in Australia, Western paradigms of health and mental health have dominated the discourse on mental health and excluded Indigenous knowledges, which consider wellbeing from a more holistic perspective. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (the Indigenous peoples of Australia) understand health through the Social and Emotional WellBeing (SEWB) model, which considers the body […]
Chapter 3: Indigenous Psychology in Australia
The new sixth edition of the Burton Psychology is the gold standard ANZ resource on the market. After comprehensive consultation and research, the new edition has been reduced in size by 19%, and refreshed to include cross-cultural psychology throughout the book. The text has also been reorganised to place new chapters on Indigenous Psychology and […]
The Role of Psychologists in a Changing Time
This is the third video in a three-part video series and collaboration between the Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing project and Pearson Australia. This dynamic three-part video series provides foundational learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural knowledges, and explores contemporary global issues, such as the Black Lives Matter movement. Together, the video […]
Kaartajin Ngundabut Indigenous Cultural Knowledge
This is the second video in a three-part video series and collaboration between the Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing project and Pearson Australia. This dynamic three-part video series provides foundational learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural knowledges, and explores contemporary global issues, such as the Black Lives Matter movement. Together, the video […]
Introduction to Indigenous Psychology
This is the first video in a three-part video series and collaboration between the Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing project and Pearson Australia. This dynamic three-part video series provides foundational learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural knowledges, and explores contemporary global issues, such as the Black Lives Matter movement. Together, the video […]
An introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health cultural protocols and perspectives
This document provides a guide to appropriate and respectful behaviour with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is intended to give RACGP members and staff background information and guidance on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, along with an understanding of important protocols and other relevant cultural issues. It can be used to guide […]
Apologising for past wrongs: Emotion-reason rhetoric in political discourses
This chapter examines how a discursive reframing of Australia’s history was accomplished through a national apology offered to Australia’s Indigenous peoples in 2008 by the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for the forced removal of Indigenous children during the twentieth century. It analyses how this was achieved rhetorically by linking emotion to reason and thus […]
What are the Frontier Wars?
The Frontier Wars refer to conflicts between Europeans and Aboriginal people including battles, acts of resistance and open massacres from 1788 to the 1930s. This website provides an overview of Aboriginal resistance to European colonisation and details a number of specific conflicts across the country. The site includes video discussion with Aboriginal and non-Indigenous peoples […]
Challenging Psychology: Reflecting on Riley’s ‘Manifesto for Change’
This paper reflects on the personal and professional implications for the colonization project of psychology critiqued by Rob Riley’s seminal address at the 1995 Australian Psychological Society conference.
A Radical Activist’s Manifesto for Indigenous Australian Mental Health: Rob Riley’s legacy twenty years on
In 1995, Indigenous leader and activist Rob Riley became the first Aboriginal person to deliver a keynote address at the Australian Psychological Society (APS) annual conference. He presented a manifesto for change not only for the practice of psychology but for society as a whole. Calling for recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to […]
Benny and the Dreamers (1992)
A small group of Pintupi living in west Central Australia today can remember their first meeting with a white man, their first impressions of the white man’s world and their expectations of what the white world had to offer. Benny and the Dreamers reveals for the first time on film the Australian Aboriginal peoples’ version […]
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 […]
