Indigenous Mental Health in Remote Communities

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Lewis Mehl-Madrona ◽  
Barbara Mainguy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health

scholarly journals An Approach to Treating Depressive and Psychotic Illness in Indigenous Communities

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia Nagel ◽  
Gary Robinson ◽  
Thomas Trauer ◽  
John Condon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Problem Solving Therapy ◽  
Randomised Controlled ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health

This study is one of the activities of a multi-site research program, the Australian Mental Health Initiative (AIMhi), funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council. AIMhi in the Northern Territory collaborated with Aboriginal mental health workers and Northern Territory remote service providers in developing a range of resources and strategies to promote improved Indigenous mental health outcomes. A brief intervention that combines the principles of motivational interviewing, problem solving therapy and chronic disease self-management is described. The intervention has been integrated into a randomised controlled trial. Early findings suggest that the strategy and its components are well received by clients with chronic mental illness, and their carers, in remote communities.

Two-way approaches to Indigenous mental health literacy

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia M. Nagel ◽  
Carolyn Thompson ◽  
Gary Robinson ◽  
John Condon ◽  
Thomas Trauer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health

This study was designed to provide important new information about relapse prevention in Indigenous 1 people with chronic mental illness. It aimed to explore Indigenous mental health promotion with Aboriginal mental health workers (AMHW) in order to develop strategies for effective mental health intervention. The research was conducted in three remote Indigenous communities in the top end of the Northern Territory with AMHW. Assessment, psycho-education, and care-planning resources were developed with local AMHW through exploration of local Indigenous perspectives of mental health promotion. Qualitative research methods and an ethnographic approach were used to elicit information, and data included key informant interviews, participant observation, music, photography and story telling. The study confirms that Indigenous people in remote communities prefer to use story telling and local language, local artwork and local music to convey health information. It also confirms that family and local practitioners are key cultural informants and that indirect, holistic and ‘two-way’ messages are preferred.

Yarning about Indigenous mental health: Translation of a recovery paradigm to practice

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia Nagel ◽  
Rachael Hinton ◽  
Carolyn Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health

scholarly journals Advancing Indigenous Mental Health Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-249
Author(s):  
Joseph P Gone ◽  
Laurence J Kirmayer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Transcultural Psychiatry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health

The articles in this issue of Transcultural Psychiatry point the way toward meaningful advances in mental health research pertaining to Indigenous peoples, illuminating the distinctive problems and predicaments that confront these communities as well as unrecognized or neglected sources of well-being and resilience. As we observe in this introductory essay, future research will benefit from ethical awareness, conceptual clarity, and methodological refinement. Such efforts will enable additional insight into that which is common to Indigenous mental health across settler societies, and that which is specific to local histories, cultures and contexts. Research of this kind can contribute to nuanced understandings of developmental pathways, intergenerational effects, and community resilience, and inform policy and practice to better meet the needs of Indigenous individuals, communities and populations.

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