Affirmative action and equity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Exploration of Australian and New Zealand indigenous people’s spirituality and mental health
Background: Spirituality has been defined as an overarching construct that involves personal beliefs or values that provide a sense of meaning and unity with self, people, nature and universe. Spirituality may be experienced within or outside formal religion. At least in English-speaking countries, therapists reported discussing spiritual issues with service users more frequently than before. […]
Ambivalent helpers and unhealthy choices: Public health practitioners’ narratives of Indigenous ill-health
Public health practitioners in Australian indigenous health work in a complex political environment. Public health training is limited in providing them with conceptual tools needed to unpack the postcolonial nexus of ‘fourth-world’ health. A workshop was designed by the authors to facilitate critical reflection on how the concepts of race and culture are used in […]
Strong and Smart: the story of Chris Sarra and the Cherbourg State School
Tells the story of the rise of the Cherbourg State School from a situation of aimless despair and chaos to an institution with a sense of purpose, direction and unity. The film shows the turn-around in the school’s fortunes over the last 4 years, since the arrival of a dynamic new teaching staff led by […]
Incorporating Indigenous and crosscultural issues into an undergraduate psychology course: experience at Curtin University of Technology
There has been a clear expression of the need to incorporate Indigenous and crosscultural issues into psychology curricula and to develop models to guide the process. This paper outlines the process of developing an Indigenous and crosscultural psychology unit at Curtin University of Technology. A conceptual framework that includes foundational, professional, and socially responsive knowledge, […]
Working with Indigenous Australians: A handbook for psychologists
A practical guide for psychologists and associated mental health professionals, addresses the practical issues of working in Indigenous settings and with Indigenous people in urban, rural and remote environments. Covers individual, family and community approaches and describes appropriate models of intervention.
Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network – Indigenous children and families
When an Indigenous child or adolescent experiences trauma, loss or grief, there can be extra complexities that need to be taken into account. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians’ experiences of loss are multifaceted and complex, and involve the ‘normal’ losses that people experience as well as the other losses that are specific to Indigenous […]
CUC107 Cultural Intelligence and Capability
Cultural Intelligence and Capability explores important issues related to living, studying and working as a professional in the diverse social and cultural environments of contemporary society. The unit examines broad interactions between culture, knowledge experience and behaviour and the way in which these interactions and our perceptions of culture shape our interactions at a personal, […]
Addictions – Violence and Spirituality
We Al-li community and workplace workshops are an Indigenous therapeutic response to individual, family and community pain that many people carry as part of their life experience. For Aboriginal peoples this pain is more specifically defined as the traumatic impacts of the multiple intergenerational experiences of colonisation resulting in ill-health, individual, family and community dysfunction […]
Trauma and Recovery
We Al-li community and workplace workshops are an Indigenous therapeutic response to individual, family and community pain that many people carry as part of their life experience. For Aboriginal peoples this pain is more specifically defined as the traumatic impacts of the multiple intergenerational experiences of colonisation resulting in ill-health, individual, family and community dysfunction […]
Children at risk: Developmental trauma within a complex trauma environment
Patron of We Al-li, Judy Atkinson’s presentation on the multiple and complex experiences of trauma and loss that impact on Indigenous children and families and how to start healing.
Institutional Indigenous Cultural Competency Program
The Indigenous Cultural Competency Program (ICCP) responds to a series of strategic priorities at CSU where we aim to improve the education and lives for Indigenous Australians. The entire Indigenous Cultural Competency Program has three components: Stage 1: The Individual Online Cultural Competency Program is available for all staff. This individual component of the journey […]