Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing

Social and Emotional Wellbeing

An Indigenous-governed, Co-designed Approach to Improving Cultural Safety in Mental Health Services

An Indigenous-governed, Co-designed Approach to Improving Cultural Safety in Mental Health Services Prof. Helen Milroy, Dr. Shraddha Kashyap, & Dr. Jemma Collova SUMMARY Research fellows in the TIMHWB team (Dr Shraddha Kashyap and Dr Jemma Collova) were awarded a prize for best poster and lightening presentation at the Science on the Swan conference held in …

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Chapter 3: Indigenous Psychology in Australia

Chapter 3: Indigenous Psychology in Australia Dudgeon, P., Alexi, J., Selkirk, B., Derry, K. (2022). Chapter 3: Indigenous Psychology in Australia. In L. Burton, D. Weston, R. Kowalski (6th Edition), Psychology, Sixth Australian and New Zealand Edition. John Wiley & Sons Australia. Abstract The new sixth edition of the Burton Psychology is the gold standard …

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COVID-19 National Roundtable Issues Paper 2​

COVID-19 National Roundtable Issues Paper 2 Dudgeon, P., Collova, J. R., Sutherland, S., Derry, K., Milroy, H., Al Yaman, F., Alexi, J., Ansloos, J., Banjavcic-Booker, S., Bower, M., Brand, T., Bandler, L., Brideston, T., Calma, T., Campbell, M., Chang, E.P., Cox, A., Daniels, G., Darwin, L., Douglas, R., Duarte, B., Dyall, D., Edwige, V., Gibson, P., Gotovac, N., …

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COVID-19 National Roundtable Discussion Paper

COVID-19 National Roundtable Discussion Paper Dudgeon, P., Collova., J.R. Sutherland., S., Derry, K., & Milroy, H. (2021). The  Impacts of COVID-19 on the Wellbeing and Mental Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: A Discussion Paper.  Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing Grant, The University of Western Australia, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health.    …

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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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AHCWA – ACCHS Social & Emotional Wellbeing Service Model

AHCWA – ACCHS Social and Emotional Wellbeing Service Model AHCWA. (2021). ACCHS Social and Emotional Welbeing Service Model. AHCWA. SUMMARY Aboriginal people have a holistic conceptualisation of health. Community, Family, Culture, Spirituality, Language, Country, Emotions and the Physical are all seen as integral in both an individual, and a community, for achieving and sustaining health. …

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Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice

Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice Pat Dudgeon, Helen Milroy and Roz Walker. SUMMARY Published in 2014, Working Together was funded by the Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Telethon Kids Institute/Kulunga Aboriginal Research Development Unit in collaboration with the University of Western Australia. …

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Solutions That Work: What The Evidence and Our People Tell Us

Solutions That Work: What The Evidence and Our People Tell Us Professor Pat Dudgeon, Professor Jill Milroy AM, Professor Tom Calma AO,Dr Yvonne Luxford, Professor Ian Ring, Associate Professor Roz Walker,Adele Cox, Gerry Georgatos and Christopher Holland SUMMARY This report summarises the evidence-base for what works in Indigenous community-led suicide prevention, including responses to the …

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