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 Searching for evidence: what works in Indigenous mental health promotion?

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikki Clelland ◽  
Trish Gould ◽  
Elizabeth Parker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
What Works ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Indigenous mental health: the limits of medicalised solutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
Ernest Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Excess Burden ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Health Vulnerability ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health

Objective: The excess burden of mental disorders experienced by Indigenous Australians is complexly overdetermined. Social and political factors contributing to the intransigence of vulnerability are reviewed, and the wider arena of neoliberal political change considered. Conclusions: The dynamic relationship between disadvantage and mental health vulnerability requires that practitioners should be attuned to both the ‘big picture’ and ‘modest and practical ways’ to contribute to reducing the developmental embedding of social disadvantage and transgenerational vulnerability.

‘Best Intentions’ Lives on: Untoward Health Outcomes of Some Contemporary Initiatives in Indigenous Affairs

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 575-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health

Objective: A shortened version of a presentation to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, this paper raises questions regarding policy and program directions in Indigenous affairs with consequences for Indigenous health. Method: The author notes the inadequate Indigenous mental health database, and describes contemporary conflicts in the arena of Indigenous mental health, drawing on personal experience in clinical service delivery, policy and programme development. Results: Medicalized responses to the Stolen Generations report and constructions of suicide that accompanied the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody are presented to demonstrate unforeseen health outcomes. Examples are also given of wellintentioned social interventions that, in the context of contemporary Indigenous society appear to be contributing to, rather than alleviating, harm. Problems of setting priorities that confront mental health service planners are considered in the light of past and continuing social disadvantage that informs the burden of mental disorder in Indigenous communities. Conclusions: The importance of acknowledging untoward outcomes of initiatives, even when motivated by concerns for social justice, is emphasized. The tension within mental health services of responding to the underpinning social issues versus providing equity in access to proven mental health services for Indigenous populations is considered.

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