Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing

Research Publications

Social and Emotional Wellbeing: A Welcome Guide for the Aboriginal Workforce

Social and Emotional Wellbeing: A Welcome Guide for the Aboriginal Workforce Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services (2022). Social and Emotional Wellbeing: A Welcome Guide for the Aboriginal Workforce. University Of Western Australia. DOI:10.26182/z4gr-4975 ABSTRACT This manual is a reference tool for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people working in Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) teams. Section […]

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Exploring Mental Health Presentations in Remote Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia Using an Audit and File Reviews

Exploring Mental Health Presentations in Remote Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia Using an Audit and File Reviews Carlin, E., Cox, Z., Orazi, K., Derry, K. L., & Dudgeon, P. (2022). Exploring Mental Health Presentations in Remote Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia

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Indigenous community psychologies, decolonization, and radical imagination within ecologies of knowledges

Indigenous community psychologies, decolonization, and radical imagination within ecologies of knowledges Ciofalo, N., Dudgeon, P., & Nikora, L. W. (2022). Indigenous community psychologies, decolonization, and radical imagination within ecologies of knowledges. American Journal of Community Psychology, 68(3-4),1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12583 ABSTRACT As the American Psychological Association Taskforce on Indigenous Psychology acknowledges, fidelity to the inalienable right to self-determination is the ethical foundation of

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Responding to COVID-19 and Beyond: Key Recommendations for the Effective Public and Mental Health Response to Support the Well-Being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia

Responding to COVID-19 and Beyond: Key Recommendations for the Effective Public and Mental Health Response to Support the Well-Being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia Dudgeon P., Alexi J., Derry K., Carlin E., & McPhee, R. (2022). Responding to COVID-19 and Beyond: Key Recommendations for the Effective Public and Mental Health Response

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Mental health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia during COVID-19

Mental health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia during COVID-19 Dudgeon, P., Alexi, J., Derry, K., Brideson, T., Calma, T., Darwin, L., Gray, P., Hirvonen, T., McPhee, R., Milroy, H., Milroy, J., Murray, D., & Sutherland, S. (2021). Mental health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in

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Connection between family, kinship and social and emotional wellbeing

Connection between family, kinship and social and emotional wellbeing Dudgeon, P., Blustein, S., Bray, A., Calma, T., McPhee, R., & Ring, I. (2021). Connection between family, kinship and social and emotional wellbeing. Produced for the Indigenous Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Clearinghouse. Cat. no. IMH 4. Canberra: AIHW. https://www.indigenousmhspc.gov.au/publications/family-kinship ABSTRACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

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Beyond evidence-deficit narratives in Indigenous suicide prevention

Beyond evidence-deficit narratives in Indigenous suicide prevention Dudgeon, P., Bray, A., Ring, I., & McPhee, R. (2021). Beyond evidence-deficit narratives in Indigenous suicide prevention. The Indigenous Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Clearinghouse. Cat. no. IMH 6. Canberra: AIHW. https://www.indigenousmhspc.gov.au/publications/evidence-deficit-narratives ABSTRACT Most of the evidence for suicide and suicide-related behaviour in the community is not reported

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Decolonising psychology: Why voice matters.

Decolonising psychology: Why voice matters. Dudgeon, P., Darlaston-Jones, D., & Alexi, J. (2021). Decolonising psychology: Why voice matters. In Griffith Review: States of Mind (Vol. 72 ed., pp. 159-166). Griffith University. ABSTRACT Pat Dudgeon, Australia’s first registered Indigenous psychologist, and her colleagues Dawn Darlaston-Jones and Joanna Alexi make the case for decolonising psychology and celebrate

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