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Munbanda - Bush Tucker
(c1991)
Doris Gingingara
This artwork is provided by the Edith Cowan University Art Collection.
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The painting:
Around the big yam are different types of bush tucker, or Munbanda. There is Walila, a yam; Warpiritja, a kind of bush onion; Nalpur , a plant that is used for colouring leaves for making baskets; and Pinyi-pinya, another type of yam.
The artist:
Doris Gingingara was born in Maningrida Arnhemland in 1946. She spent her childhood in the traditional way with her parents and her tribe, hunting and gathering.
Publications: general
This section contains non-specific, general publications on Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing. Included are journal articles, reports, theses, and other literature.
General
2008
Australian Network for Promotion Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health (Auseinet) (2008)
Mental health promotion and illness prevention: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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View article (PDF - 211KB)
View website: Auseinet
Australian Network for Promotion Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health (Auseinet) (2008)
Mental health promotion and illness prevention: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people [summary].
Auseinetter;1(30):22-25
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View website: Auseinet
Hunter E (2008)
The Aboriginal tea ceremony: its relevance to psychiatric practice.
Australian Psychiatry;16(2):130-132
View abstract: Informaworld
View website: Informaworld
Panegyres PK, McGrath F (2008)
Huntington disease in Indigenous Australians.
Internal Medicine Journal;38(2):130-132
View abstract: Internal Medicine Journal
View website: Blackwell Synergy
2007
Alzheimer's Australia (2007)
Dementia: a major health problem for Indigenous people: briefing prepared for Parliamentary Friends of Dementia.
Hawkwers, ACT: Alzheimer's Australia
View report (PDF - 169KB)
View website: Alzheimer’s Australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2007)
Intellectual disability in Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability;32(3):222-225
Hawkwers, ACT: Alzheimer's Australia
View article: Informaworld (PDF - 170KB)
View article: Informaworld (HTML)
View website: Informaworld
Australian Psychological Society (2007)
Psychologists call for recognition of Indigenous trauma
[media release].
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media release: Australian Psychological Society
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website: Australian Psychological Society
Brideson T, Jones C (2007)
New South Wales Aboriginal Mental Health Workforce Program.
AusEinetter;2(29):20-22
View publication: AusEinetter (PDF - 4.2MB - large file warning)
View website: Auseinet
Calma T (2007)
Creating futures: influencing the social determinants of mental health and wellbeing in rural, Indigenous and Island peoples.
Australasian Psychiatry;15(Supplement):s5-s9
View article: Informaworld (HTML)
View article: Informaworld (PDF - 120KB)
View website: Informaworld
Clelland N, Gould T, Parker E (2007)
Searching for evidence: what works in Indigenous mental health promotion?
Health Promotion Journal of Australia;18(3):1
View abstract: Health Promotion Journal of Australia
View website: Australian Health Promotion Association
Cooke M, Mitrou F, Lawrence D, Guimond E, Beavon D (2007)
Indigenous well-being in four countries: an application of the UNDP'S Human Development Index to Indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
BMC International Health and Human Rights;7(1):1
View article: BMC International Health and Human Rights(PDF - 288KB)
View abstract: BMC International Health and Human Rights
View website: BioMedCentral
Duke M (2007)
The dawn of Aboriginal psychiatry.
Australasian Psychiatry ;15(4):305-309
View abstract: PubMed
View website: National Center for Biotechnology Information
Hampton R, McCann W (2007)
Developing a postgraduate program in Indigenous mental health and wellbeing at University of Southern Queensland.
Australasian Psychiatry;15(Supplement):s75-s79
View abstract: Informaworld
View website: Informaworld
Henderson G, Robson C, Cox L, Dukes C, Tsey K, et al. (2007)
Social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the broader context of the social determinants of health.
AusEinetter;2(29):14-19
View publication: AusEinetter (PDF - 4.2MB - large file warning!)
View website: Auseinet
Hooper K, Thomas Y, Clarke M (2007)
Health professional partnerships and their impact on Aboriginal
health: an occupational therapist's and Aboriginal health
worker's perspective.
Australian Journal of Rural Health;15(1):46-51
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abstract: Australian Journal of Rural Health
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website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)
Hunter E (2007)
Disadvantage and discontent: a review of issues relevant to
the mental health of rural and remote Indigenous Australians.
Journal of Rural Health;15(2):88-93
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abstract: Australian Journal of Rural Health
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website: Blackwell Synergy
Hunter E, Travers H, Gibson J, Campion J (2007)
Bridging the triple divide: performance and innovative multimedia in the service of behavioural health change in remote Indigenous settings.
Australasian Psychiatry;15(Supplement):s44-s48
View article: Informaworld (HTML)
View article: Informaworld (PDF - 117KB)
View website: Informaworld
Hunter E, Walter G (2007)
Creating futures: influencing the social determinants of mental health and wellbeing in rural, Indigenous and Island peoples [editorial].
Australasian Psychiatry;15(Supplement):s1-s4
View article: Informaworld (HTML)
View article: Informaworld (PDF - 102KB)
View website: Informaworld
Kowal E, Gunthorpe W, Bailie RS (2007)
Measuring emotional and social wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations: an analysis of a Negative Life Events Scale.
International Journal for Equity in Health;6(18)
View abstract: Pubmed
View website: PubMed
McMahon E (2007)
Psychiatry at the frontier: surveying Aboriginal mental health in the era of assimilation.
Health and History;9(2):22-47
View article: Health and History
View website: Australian Society of the History of Medicine
O'Brien LM, Jackson D (2007)
It's a long way from the office to the creek bed: remote area
mental health nursing in Australia.
Journal of Transcultural Nursing;18(2):135-141
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abstract: Journal of Transcultural Nursing
View website:
Sage Journals
Pattel N (2007)
Aboriginal families, cultural context and therapy.
Counselling Psychotherapy and Health; 3(1):1-24
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article: Counselling Psychotherapy and Health (PDF - 184KB)
View website: Counselling
Psychotherapy and Health
Schlesinger CM, Ober C, McCarthy MM, Watson JD, Seinen A
(2007)
The development and validation of the Indigenous Risk Impact
Screen (IRIS): a 13-item screening instrument for alcohol
and drug and mental health risk.
Drug and Alcohol Review;26(2):109-117
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abstract: Drug and Alcohol Review
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website: The Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol
and Other Drugs
Semchison MRS (2007)
Rights of passage: the coming of the 'wild west': constructs of identity and their effects upon Indigenous people.
Counselling, Psychotherapy and Health;3(2):39-45
View article: Counselling, Psychotherapy and Health (PDF - 81KB)
View website: Counselling, Psychotherapy and Health
Tarantola D (2007)
The interface of mental health and human rights in Indigenous peoples: triple jeopardy and triple opportunity.
Australasian Psychiatry;15(Supplement):s10-s17
View abstract: Informaworld
View website: Informaworld
Ypinazar VA, Margolis SA, Haswell-Elkins M, Tsey K (2007)
Indigenous Australians' understandings regarding mental health and disorders.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry;41(6):467-478
Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
View abstract: PubMed
View website: National Center for Biotechnology Information
2006
ACT Health, Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
ACT Inc (2006)
A new way: the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
health and family wellbeing plan 2006 - 2011.
Canberra: ACT Health
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 1.0MB - large file warning!)
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website: ACT Health
Alzheimer's Australia NT, University of Western Australia, National Ageing Research Institute (2006)
Validation of the Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment Tool (KICA) in rural and remote Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory.
Hawker, ACT: Alzheimer's Australia
View report (PDF - 1.1MB - large file warning!)
View website: Alzheimer’s Australia
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2006)
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Survey: Australia, 2004-05.
Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics
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abstract: HealthBulletin
View report (PDF - 1.7MB - large file warning!)
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state and territory details
View website:
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2006)
Australia's health 2006: the tenth biennial health report
of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (AIHW
Catalogue no. AUS 73) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (HTML)
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section 4.5: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
(PDF - 526KB)
View website:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Bishop B, Colquhoun S, Johnson G (2006)
Psychological sense of community: an Australian Aboriginal
experience.
Journal of Community Psychology;34(1):1-7
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article (PDF - 80KB)
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website: Wiley (publishers)
Eley D, Hunter K, Young L, Baker P, Hunter E, et al. (2006)
Tools and methodologies for investigating the mental health
needs of Indigenous patients: it's about communication.
Australasian Psychiatry;14(1):33-37
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abstract: Australasian Psychiatry
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website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)
Hunter E (2006)
Back to Redfern: autonomy and the ‘Middle E’ in
relation to Aboriginal health. (Research discussion paper,
no. 18)
Canberra: Research Program, Australian Institute of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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report (PDF - 814KB)
View website:
AIATSIS
LoGiudice D, Smith K, Thomas J, Lautenschlager NT, Almeida
OP, et al. (2006)
Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment tool (KICA): development
of a cognitive assessment tool for older Indigenous Australians.
International Psychogeriatrics;18(2):269-280
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abstract: International Psychogeriatrics
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website: Cambridge (publishers)
McDermott DR (2006)
Growing up brown in a white-shirted time.
Medical Journal of Australia;185(8):464-466
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paper: MJA (HTML)
View paper: MJA (PDF - 212KB)
View website:
Medical Journal of Australia
Nagel T (2006)
The need for relapse prevention strategies in Top End remote
Indigenous mental health.
Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health;5(1)
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paper: AeJAMH (PDF - 78KB)
View website:
Auseinet
Paradies Y (2006)
Race, racism, stress and Indigenous health.
Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy thesis, University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Victoria.
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abstract
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website: University of Melbourne
Silburn SR, Zubrick SR, De Majo JA, Shepherd C, Griffin JA, et al. (2006)
Strengthening the capacity of Aboriginal children, families and communities.
(The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey, v. 4)
Perth: Curtin University of Technology and Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
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View summary booklet (PDF - 2.3MB - large file warning!)
View website: Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey
Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health, Statistical Information Management Committee (2006)
National summary of the 2003 and 2004 jurisdictional reports
against the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance
indicators.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indicator 46 relates to hospitalisation ratios for mental health conditions
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abstract: HealthBulletin
View report (HTML)
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section: Outcomes for people (PDF - 418KB)
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website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
2005
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare (2005)
Health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples 2005.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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current topic: HealthBulletin
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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Chapter 2: Demographic, social and emotional context (PDF
- 421KB)
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Chapter 8: Health risk factors (PDF - 307KB)
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report (HTML)
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summary booklet (PDF - 759KB)
View website:
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Booth A, Carroll N (2005)
The health status of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Australian National University, Centre for Economic Policy
Research
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report (PDF - 522KB)
View website:
Australian National University
Brown A, Blashki G (2005)
Indigenous male health disadvantage: linking the heart and
mind.
Australian Family Physician;34(10):813-819
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abstract: Australian Family Physician
View website:
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Nagel T (2005)
Remote mental health: Indigenous women of the Top End.
O & G;7(4):23-25
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article: O&G (PDF)
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website: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians
and Gyneacologists
Tse S, Lloyd CR, Petchkovsky L, Manaia W (2005)
Exploration of Australian and New Zealand Indigenous people's
spirituality and mental health.
Australian Occupational Therapy Journal;52(3):181-187
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abstract: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
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website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)
2004
Armstrong T (2004)
Counselling interventions and Indigenous mental health
Lismore: Medicine Australia
View article
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2004)
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social
Survey, 2002.
Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (PDF - 3.7MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2004)
National summary of the 2001 and 2002 jurisdictional reports
against the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance
indicators. (AIHW catalogue no. IHW12)
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indicator 46 relates to hospitalisation ratios for mental health conditions
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report (HTML)
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report (PDF - 961KB)
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section: Outcomes for people (PDF - 404KB)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Chief Minister's Department (2004)
A social and cultural profile of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people in Canberra.
Canberra: Chief Minister's Department, ACT Government
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report (PDF - 1.4MB - large file warning!)
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website: Chief Minister's Department
Eickelkamp U (2004)
Egos and ogres: aspects of psychosexual development and cannibalistic
demons in Central Australia.
Oceania;74(3):161-189
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paper
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website: Oceania
Hunter E (2004)
Commonality, difference and confusion: changing constructions
of Indigenous mental health [guest editorial].
Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health;3(3)
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paper:AeJAMH (PDF - 43.5KB)
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website: Auseinet
King C (2004)
Scratching the surface of cultural learnings.
PARC Update;14:2-3
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paper (PDF - 762KB)
View website:
Primary mental health care Australian Resource Centre (PARC)
Martin G (2004)
On social justice [editorial].
Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health;3(3)
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paper: AeJAMH (PDF - 32.3KB)
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website: Auseinet
Nagel T (2004)
Rural news: update from the NT.
Australasian Psychiatry;12(4):425-427
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paper: Australasian Psychiatry
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website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
(NACCHO) (2004)
NACCHO Community LIFE report.
Canberra: NACCHO
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abstract: HealthBulletin
View website:
NACCHO
Paradies Y (2004)
A review of the relationship between psychosocial stress
and chronic disease for Indigenous and African American peoples.
Darwin: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
View report (PDF - 232KB)
View website:
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
Social Health Reference Group (2004)
Social and emotional well being framework: a national
strategic framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
mental health and social and emotional well being 2004-2009.
Canberra: Australian Government
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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report
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website: Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
(OATSIH)
Vicary D, Westerman TG (2004)
"That's just the way he is": some implications of
Aboriginal mental health beliefs.
Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health;3(3)
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paper: AeJAMH (PDF - 62KB)
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website: Auseinet
Wade T (2004)
A holistic approach is the key to better outcomes in Indigenous
mental health.
PARC Update;14:1-2
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paper: PARC Update (PDF - 762KB)
View website:
Primary mental health care Australian Resource Centre (PARC)
2003
Agius T, Hamer J (2003)
Thoughts on narrative therapy: contributions to Indigenous
mental health.
Auseinetter;18(2):8-9
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Auseinetter, issue 18 article is available on pages
8-9
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website: Auseinet
Davidson G (2003)
Indigenous health and mental health: APS monitors policy changes.
InPsych;June 2003
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paper
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website: Australian Psychological Society
Parker R (2003)
The Indigenous mental health worker.
Australasian Psychiatry;11(3):295-297
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)
2002
Collinson SL, Copolov DL (2004)
Challenges and opportunities for mental health research in
Australia.
Journal of Mental Health;13(1):29-36
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abstract: Journal of Mental Health
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website: Taylor & Francis (publishers)
Davidson G (2002)
Toward an applied Aboriginal psychology.
In: Bolitho FH, Carr SC, eds.
Psychology in the South
Pacific: global, local and global applications.
New Zealand: Massey University:37-49.
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chapter (PDF - 162KB)
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book (HTML)
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South Pacific journal of Psychology
Hoban R and the Rumbalara community (2002)
Mental health promotion and work: Rumbalara community's roundtable
discussion 2002.
Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health;1(3):1-10
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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paper: AeJAMH (PDF - 168KB)
View website: Auseinet
Hunter E (2002)
'Best intentions' lives on: untoward health outcomes of some
contemporary initiatives in Indigenous affairs.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry;36:575-584.
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abstract: HealthBulletin
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website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)
Kluetz AJ (2002)
Counselling issues of Australian Aboriginal females.
Unpublished Master of Science, University of Wisconsin-Stout,
USA.
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thesis (PDF - 274KB)
Pugh R (2002)
Ya pulingina kani: good to see you talk.
Hobart: Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Department of Premier
and Cabinet
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report (PDF - 1.1MB - large file warning!)
View
website: Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Tasmania
Wenitong M (2002)
Indigenous male health.
Canberra: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health
Chapter 3 concentrates on Social and Emotional Wellbeing
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report
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website: Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
(OATSIH)
2001
Brown R (2001)
Australian Indigenous mental health.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing;10(1):33-41.
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
View
website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)
Daniel M, Rowley KG, Herbert CP, O'Dea K, Green LW (2001)
Lipids and psychosocial status in Aboriginal persons with
and at risk for Type 2 diabetes: implications for tertiary
prevention.
Patient Education and Counseling;43(1):85-95
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abstract: PubMed
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website: Elsevier (publishers)
Ferdowsian V (2001)
Aboriginal beliefs about mental health and culturally appropriate
therapeutic practice in the west Pilbara.
Unpublished Master of Psychology (Counselling) dissertation,
School of Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, Perth.
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abstract
Judd FK, Humphreys JS (2001)
Mental health issues for rural and remote Australia.
Australian Journal of Rural Health;9(5):254-258
View
abstract: PubMed
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website: AJRH
Sheldon M (2001)
Psychiatric assessment in remote Aboriginal communities.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry;35:435-442.
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
View website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)
2000
Dance P, Brown R, Bammer G, Sibthorpe B (2000)
Needs for residential aged care and other services by
the older Indigenous population in the ACT and Region.
Canberra: National Centre for Epidemiology & Population
Health
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abstract: HealthBulletin
View
report (PDF - 721KB)
Senior KA (2000)
Testing the ICIDH-2 with Indigenous Australians: results
of field work in two Aboriginal communities in the Northern
Territory.
Wollongong: University of Wollongong
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report (Word doc - 183KB)
View website:
University of Wollongong
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