Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing
Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project “keeping the fire burning: Blak, loud, and proud” Torre, G. (2024, March 22). Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project: Keeping the fire burning, Blak, loud and proud. National Indigenous Times. https://nit.com.au/22-03-2024/10418/australian-indigenous-psychology-education-project-keeping-the-fire-burning-blak-loud-and-proud ABSTRACT
Australia needs to decolonise its mental health system and empower more Indigenous psychologists Edwige, V., Alexi, J., Selkirk, B., & Dudgeon, P. (2022, June 2). Australia needs to decolonise its mental health system and empower more Indigenous psychologists. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/02/australia-needs-to-decolonise-its-mental-health-system-and-empower-more-indigenous-psychologists
The Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project at The University of Western Australia has launched an Australian-first suite of free resources for psychology supervisors that aims to increase cultural safety when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Listening More: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision initiative was led by Research Fellow Belle Selkirk, a Noongar woman and clinical psychologist with colleague, Dr Joanna Alexi.
The project is under the leadership of trailblazing Bardi woman and psychologist, Professor Pat Dudgeon AM, through the Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing research project.
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The CBATSISP has commissioned local Perth animated film-makers Luisa Mitchell and Rhadeya Jegatheva to produce a short, animated video “Our Wellbeing, Our Way: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing”. The video tells the story of how colonisation has impacted the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities; the importance of self-determination towards a path of healing; and the ways people and communities today strengthen their social and emotional wellbeing.
Trauma Informed Care in the ACCHS Symposium: Summary & Next Steps A Trauma Informed Care in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) Symposium was held in Rubibi (Broome) on July 12, 2023. It was hosted by Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service (KAMS) and the Wellbeing Informed Care – Kimberley (WIC-K), Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and
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Incorporating Indigenous Psychology into courses | Wiley Higher Education Fostering cultural responsiveness in our graduates EXCERPT Graduate psychologists are sensitive to the to the fact that they work in a very diverse society, and now more than ever, there is a real hunger for change. Embedding Indigenous knowledges and ensuring Indigenous participation in the psychology
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New Cultural Exchange Targets Indigenous Suicide Prevention. UWA Media Release about the Anika Indigenous Cultural Exchange. EXCERPT The inaugural Anika Indigenous Cultural Exchange, funded by the Anika Foundation and the Poche Centre of Indigenous Health at The University of Western Australia, will enable six participants aged 18 to 30 to spend two weeks in Winnipeg
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Pat Dudgeon on Decolonising Psychology Pat Dudgeon and AIPEP were featured in UWA’s staff intranet news. EXCERPT “Psychology is a helping science,” Pat says. “I wanted to work with people and be useful. But once I started, I realised that it [the curriculum] was culturally blind to Indigenous realities. It didn’t consider things that are
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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.
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Healing Song – Ngangkari from the NPY Women’s Council What a privilege it was to listen and learn from the Ngangkari from the NPY Women’s Council, speaking at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists conference on Youth Mental Health in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) https://timhwb.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sequence-01_1.mp4
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