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Guidance in Creating Honours (Fourth Year) and Postgraduate Equity Pathways in Tertiary Psychology for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Applicants: A Report from the Equity Pathways Working Group as part of the AIPEP Community of Practice

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Evaluating a social and emotional wellbeing model of service piloted in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in Western Australia: an Aboriginal Participatory Action Research approach Ohan, J., McMullen, S., Clark, Y., Mackelprang, J. L., Magiati, I., Mattock, K., Narchal, R., O’Shea, M., Rahimi-Golkhandan, S., Ruby, M., Shires, A., Taylor, A., Thielking, M., Selkirk, B., Alexi, …

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Embracing the emerging Indigenous psychology of flourishing

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Embracing the emerging Indigenous psychology of flourishing Dudgeon, P., Bray, A., & Walker, R. (2023). Embracing the emerging Indigenous psychology of flourishing. Nature Reviews Psychology ABSTRACT Indigenous psychology draws on the oldest continuing knowledge systems but remains largely ignored by dominant Western psychological theories and practices. This exclusion results in ongoing negative effects on Indigenous social …

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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

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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 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

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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

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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 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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Connection between family, kinship and social and emotional wellbeing

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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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Decolonising psychology: Why voice matters.

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Decolonising psychology: Why voice matters. Dudgeon, P., Darlaston-Jones, D., & Alexi, J. (2021). Decolonising psychology: Why voice matters. Griffith Review 72: States of Mind. ABSTRACT In November 2020, the long-awaited Productivity Commission Inquiry Report into Mental Health in Australia was released publicly. Among its many recommendations, it highlighted the concept that health is more than …

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Impact of COVID-19 on suicide prevention in Aboriginal peoples, InSight+, The Medical Journal of Australia.

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Impact of COVID-19 on suicide prevention in Aboriginal peoples, InSight+, The Medical Journal of Australia. Dudgeon, P., Chang, E. P., Derry, K. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 on suicide prevention in Aboriginal peoples, InSight+, The Medical Journal of Australia. https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2021/10/impact-of-covid-19-on-suicide-prevention-in-aboriginal-peoples/ ABSTRACT Suicide is a major public health concern worldwide. Yet suicide has only emerged in the …

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