Mental Health Promotion and Cultural Competency Development for Pacific Mental Health Workers

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sauaina Vaoita Turituri
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Competency Development

Two-way approaches to Indigenous mental health literacy

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia M. Nagel ◽  
Carolyn Thompson ◽  
Gary Robinson ◽  
John Condon ◽  
Thomas Trauer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health

This study was designed to provide important new information about relapse prevention in Indigenous 1 people with chronic mental illness. It aimed to explore Indigenous mental health promotion with Aboriginal mental health workers (AMHW) in order to develop strategies for effective mental health intervention. The research was conducted in three remote Indigenous communities in the top end of the Northern Territory with AMHW. Assessment, psycho-education, and care-planning resources were developed with local AMHW through exploration of local Indigenous perspectives of mental health promotion. Qualitative research methods and an ethnographic approach were used to elicit information, and data included key informant interviews, participant observation, music, photography and story telling. The study confirms that Indigenous people in remote communities prefer to use story telling and local language, local artwork and local music to convey health information. It also confirms that family and local practitioners are key cultural informants and that indirect, holistic and ‘two-way’ messages are preferred.

Reducing Burnout Among Mental Health Workers

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Geurts ◽  
W. Schaufeli ◽  
J De Jonge
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers

Fostering Resilience in Response to Terrorism Among Mental Health Workers

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen W. Saakvitne ◽  
◽  
B. Hudnall Stamm ◽  
Laura Barbanel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers
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