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Living on the edge: social and emotional wellbeing risk and protective factors for serious psychological distress among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Belle Glaskin
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Closing the Gap
Social determinants of health
First Peoples mental health
Trauma (psychological)
Public health
Aboriginal people (Australia)
Torres Strait Islander people
Race discrimination
Wellbeing
Cultural awareness
Australia
Description
This paper has been prepared by the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA) to generate discussion around the determinants of Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB), and to provide a range of recommendations for addressing the current gap in social and emotional wellbeing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The paper concludes with a number of recommendations to progress the development of the Indigenous social
and emotional wellbeing field and prevention of serious psychological distress.
Publication Details
ISBN:
978 0 7340 4112 8
Copyright:
Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association and Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, 2009
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
5 Mar 2010
