L2 Flashcards
Indigenous Names
First Nations, First peoples, Aboriginal
Some including Maori, PPN, the init, Northern Canada, Greenland and alaska
2010 WEIRD
96% psych research w/ WEIRD. 12% of population. 0 perspective of indigenous
Culture Blindness
1 - not recognised or realised how prominent it is and how we are shaped by it
2 - given little credit for how much it can influence cognitions, behaviours, interactions, and even wellbeing.
3 - western theories relies on individual perspective
Individualism vs Collectivism
obvious
Articulation of Emotion PHYS/EMOT
Mental health is conveyed emotionally whereas they are expressed physically such as headaches as symptoms of depression in cultural
65K years of culture belief,social,connections
Aus has 65k years of complex social structures belief systems and connections to country that influence ID think feel and behave
Culture
Constantly changing, what we live and experience. Shapes our emotions, thoughts and feelings
1788 James cook
600 nations and 250 known id languages Language marginalises people
1967 aboriginals
impact trauma of colonisation still felt today,
recent 1967 aboriginals were not considered people in aus gov law. only equal to FLORA AND FAUNA
Disadvantages
3x more developed diabetes
17x more likely for hosptilissed assault
13x more imprisonment
2.5x for suicide
5x for murder
4x less likely to finish school
3x less likely to be employed
1 in 3 aussie mental illness
cycles of poverty
Racism has been related to many mental and psychical health issues
torres strait islanders can expect to live 11 years later
Language Barrier Treatment
Asking cultural questions are important. language is a barrier to delivering effective treatment
Psychosis
Aboriginals say they have seen Spirits and we have to mark them as a potential psychosis
Cultural Grief Sorry Cuts
Aboriginals make sorry cuts after grief. you can be sentenced to a psych ward due to saying yes to engaging in deliberate acts of self harm NORMAL PART OF CULTURAL GRIEF.
PEOPLE are getting this very wrong by not understand the culture
we are predominately getting assessment wrong, no evidence based to guide clinicians around indigenous people,
mainstream psychologists do not understand soryr cuts
normal people says cutting gives reliefs and dont feel the pain, indigenous dont feel pain either
Cameron and Robinson (2014)
Negative perceptions of tertiary education and psychology due to institutionalised trauma.
A lack of indigenous representation and perspectives in the course content
A lack of indigenous teaching staff
Cultural insensitivity of university staff
Indigenous students have more responsibility than non-indigenous students within their family and the community.
Ethics VS Comm Elders
While the western approach is to get approval from institutional ethics committees and then permission from the participant, research with Indigenous people will most likely require any research project to be approved by a community’s elders before it can commence.