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    A history of Indigenous psychology

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    Authors
    Dudgeon, P.
    Rickwood, D.
    Garvey, Darren
    Gridley, H.
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Dudgeon, P. and Rickwood, D. and Garvey, D. and Gridley, H. 2014. A history of Indigenous psychology, in Purdie, N. and Dudgeon, P. and Walker, R. (eds), Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice, chapter 3, pp. 39-54. Barton, ACT: Commonwealth of Australia.
    Source Title
    Working together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice.
    School
    Centre for Aboriginal Studies
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/60773
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This chapter discusses how the discipline and practice of psychology has been part of the colonising process influencing the mental health of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It outlines events where the discipline of psychology has been supportive of, and responsive to, the Aboriginal mental health movement, heralding the empowerment and inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples at all levels of mental health service provision. The chapter identifies key milestones in psychology, pointing to positive ways in which psychologists can work together with Aboriginal Australians to improve their social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. The chapter examines the different ways that psychology has impacted upon Aboriginal Australians—through science, practice and reflective action—and how these three domains intersect and interrelate, influencing the discipline’s understanding of, and responses to, Aboriginal mental health and wellbeing.

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