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Transgenerational Trauma and Suicide
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Fact Sheet 4
Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP); Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia.
2019
Abstract
There is widespread agreement that Indigenous suicide needs to be viewed through a ‘trauma informed lens’ and within a social and historical context if the complex reasons for the growing rates are to be fully understood and effectively addressed. The combined effects of colonisation and oppressive policies and practices have had a profound and enduring impact on Indigenous health and social and emotional wellbeing. The devastating impacts of events including massacres and forced removals from family and country, remain in the hearts and minds of Indigenous people1. Current policies are still influencing the overrepresentation of Indigenous children and young people in out of home care and the justice system—continuing ongoing generational trauma.
Details
- Title
- Transgenerational Trauma and Suicide
- Authors/Creators
- Patricia Dudgeon - The University of Western AustraliaC. HollandRoz Walker - Murdoch University, Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
- Publication Details
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Fact Sheet 4
- Publisher
- Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP); Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia.
- Identifiers
- 991005872936107891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
- Resource Type
- Other
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