Working Together: to enhance Aboriginal Mental Health and Wellbeing - Roz Walker & Pat Dudgeon

The book aims to: • increase the knowledge, understandings and skills of the mental health workforce and all relevant services to provide more effective, culturally competent engagement, assessment, referral and treatment for Aboriginal people; and, • address the negative impacts of colonisation and psychology on Aboriginal mental health and wellbeing. [...] OATSIH also appointed a high level expert reference group to oversee the five initiatives and guide the development of the book – to determine the scope of content, the format, to recommend authors and to specify the target audiences, key stakeholders and the dissemination strategy. [...] Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice (1st & 2nd eds) Written by recognised experts, practitioners and researchers in a range of disciplines within the mental health field presenting a variety of perspectives related to the causes and possible solutions to many of the social and emotional and mental health issues experienced by. [...] Working Together- 2nd Edition The new edition examines issues across the life course, with a greater focus on children and young people; the significant impacts of mental health in the justice system; the cultural determinants of social and emotional wellbeing; and intellectual and development disabilities. [...] The centrality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family and kinship as well as the broader concepts of family and the bonds of reciprocal affection, responsibility and sharing.