Working with Indigenous Australians

Published Australia, 2000
This handbook has been developed in the spirit of reconciliation. Shared partnerships between indigenous and non-indigenous practitioners have created the text so that non-indigenous people will be able to work with indigenous people in culturally informed ways.

CONTENTS
Contextualising Psychology and Indigenous Australians
Cultural Difference and Cross-Cultural Communication
Psychology and Indigenous People
Alternative Models and Community Initiatives

CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
Indigenous Mental Health Across the Lifespan
Aboriginal Healers
Interacting with Aboriginal Communities
Unresolved Grief and the Removal of Indigenous Australian Children
Child Sexual Abuse
Aboriginal Youth Suicide
Alcohol and Substance Misuse Amongst Indigenous Australians

The editors are associated with the Curtin Indigenous Research Centre in Western Australia
Large-format paperback. 526 pages