• Nola Purdie, Pat Dudgeon, Roz Walker eds.
• Kulunga Research Network

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30 August 2010This book offers a high quality, comprehensive examination of issues and strategies influencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and social and emotional wellbeing. 

A new book on social and emotional wellbeing Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice, edited by Nola Purdie, Pat Dudgeon and Roz Walker was released in July 2010.

It was developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Kulunga Research Network, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research with funding through the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

The book offers a high quality, comprehensive examination of issues and strategies influencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and social and emotional wellbeing. 

The Working Together book contains 21 chapters and is divided into four parts. 

Part 1 contains four chapters that outline the historical, social, cultural, and policy contexts that have shaped Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing.

Part 2 contains seven chapters on a number of issues that are particularly relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing.

Part 3 contains five chapters that focus on practice within the field.

Part 4 presents examples of models and programs for practitioners working with different groups.

You can download the complete book as a single pdf or download individual chapters and sections.

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Free hard copies are available by emailing enquiry@ichr.uwa.edu.au.  Please provide your full street address, the number of copies you require and the intention of use of the hard copies. 

Components of the book:

Cover [188KB)

Citation, map, contents, foreword, message from the Minister, acknowledgments, contributors, abbreviations, introduction [492KB]

Part 1 introduction - History and contexts [128KB]

Chapter 1 - Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health: An overview [136KB]