Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing

Psychology

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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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

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 Dudgeon, P., Carlin, E., Kate Derry, K., Alexi, J,. Mitchell, M., & Agung-Igusti, R. (2023) BMJ Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075260 ABSTRACT The delivery of services to improve Aboriginal health and well-being must centre

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Lessons Learned during a Rapidly Evolving COVID-19 Pandemic: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-Led Mental Health and Wellbeing Responses are Key

Lessons Learned during a Rapidly Evolving COVID-19 Pandemic: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-Led Mental Health and Wellbeing Responses are Key Dudgeon, P., Collova, J. R., Derry, K., & Sutherland, S. (2023). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ABSTRACT As the world journeys towards the endemic phase that follows a pandemic, public health authorities are

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Embracing the emerging Indigenous psychology of flourishing

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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Caring for Country: Indigenous Wellbeing, Law, and Environmental Justice. Chapter from ‘Climate Change and Mental Health Equality’

Caring for Country: Indigenous Wellbeing, Law, and Environmental Justice. Chapter From ‘Climate Change and Mental Health Equality’ Dudgeon, P., Bray, A., Walker, R., Wright, M., & Sutherland, S. (2023). Caring for Country: Indigenous, wellbeing, law, and environmental justice. In R. Moore (Eds.), Climate Change and Mental Health Equality. Springer Publishing. ABSTRACT Climate change is emerging as a

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Identifying the key characteristics of a culturally safe mental health service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: A qualitative systematic review protocol

Identifying the key characteristics of a culturally safe mental health service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: A qualitative systematic review protocol Milroy, H., Kashyap, S., Collova, J., Platell, M., Gee, G., & Ohan, J. L. (2023).  Identifying the key characteristics of a culturally safe mental health service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

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Co-designing research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers of mental health services, mental health workers, elders and cultural healers

Co-designing research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers of mental health services, mental health workers, elders and cultural healers Milroy, H, Kashyap, S, Collova, J, Mitchell, M, Derry, KL, Alexi, J, et al. Co-designing research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers of mental health services, mental health workers, elders and cultural healers. Aust

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The Interface: Western Tools and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

The Interface: Western Tools and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Milroy, J., Platell, M., & Kashyap, S. (2022). The Interface: Western Tools and the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. In B. Mercer, H. Macdonald & C. Purves (Eds) Psychological Interventions from Six

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