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Key references

2007

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2007)
Mental health services in Australia 2004-05.
(AIHW catalogue no. HSE 47)
Canberra : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View report (PDF - 1.05MB - large file warning)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Wilczynski A, Reed-Gilbert K, Milward K, Tayler B, Fear J, et al. (2007)
Evaluation of the Bringing Them Home and Indigenous Mental Health Programs, final report.

Canberra : Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
View report (PDF - 606KB)
View website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH)

2006

Hunter E, Milroy H (2006)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide in context.
Archives of Suicide Research ;10(2):141-157
View abstract: PubMed
View website: Archives of Suicide Research

Senate Select Committee on Mental Health (2006)
A national approach to mental health: from crisis to community, final report.

Canberra : Commonwealth of Australia
View report (PDF - 2.39MB - large file warning!)
View website: Parliament of Australia, Senate

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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
View Chapter 2: Demographic, social and emotional context (PDF - 421KB)
View report (HTML)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Cheney C, Milroy H, Fong N, Waters L (2005)
WA Aboriginal social and emotional well being and mental health strategy 2005-2008 [draft].

Perth : Office of Mental Health
View report (PDF - 453KB)
View website: Western Australian Office of Mental Health



De Maio JA, Zubrick SR, Silburn SR, Lawrence DM, Mitrou FG, et al. (2005)
Measuring the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal children and intergenerational effects of forced separation.
(The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey)
Perth : Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
View report (PDF - 2.55MB - large file warning)
View website: Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey

Kreger A, Hunter E (2005)
Unfenced road ahead: a review of rural and remote mental health service delivery and policy.

Brisbane : University of Queensland , Queensland Health
View report (PDF - 1.48MB - large file warning)
View website: University of Queensland, North Queensland Health Equalities Promotion Unit

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2006) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health workers: position statement. (Renewed November 2006)
Melbourne: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
View position statement (PDF - 22KB)
View website: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Thomson N, Krom I, Trevaskis G, Weissofner N, Leggett N (2005)
A scoping study of depression among Indigenous peoples.

Perth : Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet for beyondblue, the national depression initiative
View report (PDF - 1.48MB - large file warning)
View website: beyondblue, the national depression initiative

Zubrick SR, Silburn SR, Lawrence DM, Mitrou FG, Dalby RB, et al. (2005)
The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal children and young people
(Volume 2)
Perth: Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Curtin University of Technology
View report (PDF - 16.6MB - large file warning)
View website: Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey

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2004

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council (2003)
National strategic framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health 2003-2013: framework for action by Governments.
Canberra: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council
View report (PDF - 350KB)
View web pages: National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
View website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH)

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
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View report (HTML)
View website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH)

South Australian Aboriginal Health Partnership (2004)
Aboriginal health - everybody's business: social and emotional wellbeing: a South Australian strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2005-2010.

Adelaide: South Australian Aboriginal Health Partnership
View report (PDF - 1.02MB - large file warning)
View website: South Australian Department of Health

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)
View paper: AeJAMH (PDF - 62.4KB)
View website: Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health

Westerman TG (2004)
Engagement of Indigenous clients in mental health services: what role do cultural differences play? [guest editorial].
Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health;3(3)
View paper: AeJAMH (PDF - 47.1KB)
View website: Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health

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2003

Australian Health Ministers (2003)
National Mental Health Plan 2003-2008.

Canberra: Australian Government
View report (PDF - 1.33MB - large file warning!)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing

Delaney P, Raphael B, Wooding S (2003)
Suicide and self-harm.
In: Couzos S, Murray R, eds. Aboriginal primary health care: an evidence-based approach. 2nd ed.
South Melbourne: Oxford University Press: 617-630

Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (2003)
Evaluation of responses to Bringing Them Home Report: final report.

Hobart : Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Department of Premier and Cabinet
View report (PDF - 986KB)
View website: Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs

Steering Committee for the Evaluation of the Second National Mental Health Plan 1998-2003 (2003)
Evaluation of the Second National Mental Health Plan.

Canberra : Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
View report (PDF - 1.06MB - large file warning)
View website: Australian Department of Health and Ageing

2002

Hunter E, Tsey K, Baird M, Baird L (2002)
Indigenous mental health promotion: process, politics, paradox and practicalities.
In: Rowling L, Martin G, Walker L, eds. Mental health promotion and young people: concepts and practice.
Sydney: McGraw-Hill: 201-214

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2001

Dudgeon P, Garvey D, Pickett H (Eds.) (2000)
Working with Indigenous Australians: a handbook for psychologists.

Perth: Gunada Press
View abstract: Curtin University of Technology
View website: Curtin University of Technology

Hunter E, Reser J, Baird M, Reser P (2001)
An analysis of suicide in Indigenous communities of North Queensland : the historical, cultural and symbolic landscape.

Cairns: University of Queensland, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service & the Yarrabah Community Council, James Cook University of North Queensland, School of Psychology and Sociology
View report (PDF - 3.10MB - large file warning)
View website: Australian Department of Health and Ageing

Sheldon M (2001)
Psychiatric assessment in remote Aboriginal communities.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
;35(4):435-442
View abstract (HTML)
View website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)

Tatz C (2001)
Aboriginal suicide is different: a portrait of life and self-destruction.

Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View website: Aboriginal Studies Press

Urbis Keys Young (2001)
Evaluation of the emotional and social well being (mental health) action plan.

Canberra : Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
View report (PDF - 946KB)
View website: Australian Department of Health and Ageing

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Prior to 2001

Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services (1998)
Second national mental health plan.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health & Family Services
View report (PDF - 153KB)
View website: Australian Department of Health and Ageing

Commonwealth Government (1997)
Government response to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission report 'Bringing them home'.
Canberra : Commonwealth Government

Hunter E (1997)
Double talk: changing and conflicting constructions of Indigenous mental health.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry;31:820-827
View abstract: PubMed (HTML)
View website: Blackwell Publishing (publishers)

National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families Australia (1997)
Bringing them home: report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families.
Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission
View report (HTML)
View website: Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission

New South Wales Department of Health (1997)
NSW Aboriginal mental health policy: a strategy for the delivery of mental health services for Aboriginal people in New South Wales .
Sydney : NSW Department of Health, Centre for Mental Health
View report (PDF - 4.96MB - large file warning)
View website: New South Wales Department of Health

Raphael B, Swan N (1997)
The mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
International Journal of Mental Health;26(3):9-22

Reser J (1991)
Aboriginal mental health: conflicting cultural perspectives.
In: Reid J, Trompf P, eds. The health of Aboriginal Australia.
Sydney: Elsevier Australia:218-291
View chapter (PDF - 3.99 MB - large file warning!)
This chapter has been reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher

Swan P, Raphael B (1995)
Ways forward - National Consultancy Report on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health

Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service
View report
(PDF - 587KB)
View website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH)

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