[Commpsych] FW: NEW RELEASE: Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice

[Heather Gridley]

Dear Community Psychology friends and colleagues,

Please consider ordering this free book, it is one of the projects the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA) has been involved with. The book can be ordered by visiting the website mentioned below.

Please feel free to distribute this to all people you think would be interested.

Apologies if this is the second, or third etc time you might have received this information, but we are very excited by it and sending the news far and wide!

All my best, Pat Dudgeon (Chair, AIPA)

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The Working Together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice has just been released. The production of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing book was a collaboration between the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER) and the Institute’s Kulunga Research Network funded through the Department of Health and Ageing.

The book is intended for staff and students and all practitioners working in areas that support Indigenous mental health and wellbeing and is being offered free of charge.  Please go to Kulunga website at the Telethon Institute for Child Health research http://www.ichr.uwa.edu.au/kulunga/working_together to peruse or download the electronic version of the book and access the order forms for hard copies.

Working Together offers new approaches to Indigenous mental health that acknowledge the importance of cultural identity and resilience as well as the pervasive effects of racism, and the disempowerment of colonisation and assimilationist policies.

The book incorporates culturally specific clinical mental health assessment processes and culturally appropriate treatment interventions.

This book has been widely endorsed by relevant Australian Government Ministers and senior personnel in their departments reviewed by peer across several disciplines, as well as market tested in three sites across Australia. The feedback has been very positive and inspiring and testimony to your commitment to produce a high quality, comprehensive examination of issues and strategies influencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander mental health and wellbeing.

Obtaining Hard Copies
Please email your contact details to enquiry at ichr.uwa.edu.au<https://webmail.vu.edu.au/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>  specifying the number of hard copies to be delivered for your organisation, staff or students. We will be keeping a register so would appreciate receiving a brief description or copy of your dissemination list (number of people, organisations covered etc.) if you disseminate information or books more widely.

We hope you find the book useful and look forward to your feedback in the future.

regards

Dr Roz Walker


Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, Western Australia, 6008
PO Box 855, West Perth, Western Australia, 6872
Ph +61 8 9489 7952  Fax +61 8 9489 7700
Mobile: 0427 011 023
Email: rozw at ichr.uwa.edu.au<https://webmail.vu.edu.au/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>
Adjunct Associate Professor
Centre for Aboriginal Studies
Curtin University of Technology



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