L2

Question 1

Indigenous Names

Answer 1

First Nations, First peoples, Aboriginal
Some including Maori, PPN, the init, Northern Canada, Greenland and alaska

Question 2

2010 WEIRD

Answer 2

96% psych research w/ WEIRD. 12% of population. 0 perspective of indigenous

Question 3

Culture Blindness

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Individualism vs Collectivism

Answer 4

obvious

Question 5

Articulation of Emotion PHYS/EMOT

Answer 5

Mental health is conveyed emotionally whereas they are expressed physically such as headaches as symptoms of depression in cultural

Question 6

65K years of culture belief,social,connections

Answer 6

Aus has 65k years of complex social structures belief systems and connections to country that influence ID think feel and behave

Question 7

Culture

Answer 7

Constantly changing, what we live and experience. Shapes our emotions, thoughts and feelings

Question 8

1788 James cook

Answer 8

600 nations and 250 known id languages Language marginalises people

Question 9

1967 aboriginals

Answer 9

impact trauma of colonisation still felt today,
recent 1967 aboriginals were not considered people in aus gov law. only equal to FLORA AND FAUNA

Question 10

Disadvantages

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Language Barrier Treatment

Answer 11

Asking cultural questions are important. language is a barrier to delivering effective treatment

Question 12

Psychosis

Answer 12

Aboriginals say they have seen Spirits and we have to mark them as a potential psychosis

Question 13

Cultural Grief Sorry Cuts

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Cameron and Robinson (2014)

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Ethics VS Comm Elders

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Researcher Motivation

Answer 16

Traditional western research is instigated when a researcher wants to understand why a certain observed behaviour or outcome while the Indigenous psychology approach asks community members what research they want to be conducted and what questions they want to be answered.

Question 17

Indigenous Psychology(mental health strats)

Answer 17

Indigenous psychology gives First Nations People ownership of their mental health strategies.

Emotions, memory, and decision-making can manifest differently across cultures, forcing us to refine our theories and avoid ethnocentric interpretations.

Question 18

spiritual and emotional poverty

Answer 18

dpiritual and emotional poverty goes throguh generations and affects communities, people dont talk to their family anymore, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OCCURS

Question 19

Stolen generations

Answer 19

The Stolen Generations is a term used to describe the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were forcibly removed from their families by Australian government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments, between approximately 1905 and 1970

Question 20

ratio for psychology to aboriginal

Answer 20

218 for 800k aboriginal
we cant meet the reuqirements for the community

Question 21

kids suicide

Answer 21

kids as young as 10 choosing to die than live
self harm is 5th leading cause of death
among children suicide accounted for 40% of child deaths in 2017

Question 22

218 for 800k aboriginal

Answer 22

we cant meet the reuqirements for the community