Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing

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Embracing Social and Emotional Wellbeing Can Create Transformational Change in Psychology

Embracing Social and Emotional Wellbeing Can Create Transformational Change in Psychology Selkirk., B., Alexi, J., Hirvonen, T., & Dudgeon, P. (2025). Embracing Social and Emotional Wellbeing Can Create Transformational Change in Psychology. In S. Bhatia, J. S. Fernández, & C. C. Sonn (Eds). Decolonial Psychology: Academic and Activist Perspectives. Taylor & Francis Group. ABSTRACT Aboriginal […]

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Yarning sessions to facilitate cultural responsiveness and decolonising the curriculum in a university psychology setting

Yarning sessions to facilitate cultural responsiveness and decolonising the curriculum in a university psychology setting Selkirk, B., [Noongar], Alexi, J., Gibson, C., [Gamilaraay], Naragon-Gainey, K., Ohan, J. L., Farrell, S., … Dudgeon, P., [Bardi]. (2025). Yarning sessions to facilitate cultural responsiveness and decolonising the curriculum in a university psychology setting. Australian Psychologist, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/00050067.2025.2492024ABSTRACT Psychology higher

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Untying Settler-Colonial Knots in Australian Psychology

Untying Settler-Colonial Knots in Australian Psychology Selkirk, B. (2025). Untying Settler-Colonial Knots in Australian Psychology. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 54(1), 60–70. https://doi.org/10.63146/001c.132290 ABSTRACT This reflexive paper is written from the positionality of an Indigenous psychologist in response to the majority-Australia vote against constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the National

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Social and Emotional Wellbeing Gathering 5 Report: October 2024

Social and Emotional Wellbeing Gathering 5 Report : October 2024 Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing. (2024). Social and Emotional Wellbeing Gathering 5 Report: 15-17 October 2024. University of Western Australia.https://doi.org/10.26182/zjsn-r648 SUMMARY Over three days, from October 15-17 2024, SEWB network members from across Australia attended the fifth SEWBG to discuss SEWB for Aboriginal and

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Workforce wellbeing Guide

The Worker Wellbeing Guide was written in Rubibi (Broome) and was developed by the WIC-K project team in collaboration with KAMS, and the University of Western Australia (Rural Clinical School and the School of Indigenous studies). We would like to thank the Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) workers, and Aboriginal Health Workers who contributed their time, knowledge and lived experience to the development of this guide.

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Wellbeing-Informed Care – Kimberley Project Update

The Worker Wellbeing Guide was written in Rubibi (Broome) and was developed by the WIC-K project team in collaboration with KAMS, and the University of Western Australia (Rural Clinical School and the School of Indigenous studies). We would like to thank the Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) workers, and Aboriginal Health Workers who contributed their time, knowledge and lived experience to the development of this guide.

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New resources to improve cultural safety in psychology supervision

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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