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Date: Monday 21 November 2011
Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Venue: BankWest Lecture Theatre
Building 200
Curtin University
Kent Street, Bentley, WA
Lunch, morning and afternoon tea
will be provided.
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or email
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Public Seminar
IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES
FOR INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS
Staff, students and members of the public are warmly invited to
attend our free seminar. The keynote talk will feature a presentation from
Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson, who is highly regarded in her field, as well as
presentations from other researchers in the field of Indigenous mental health.
BUILDING MENTAL WEALTH:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s
‘Building Indigenous Research Capacity’.
Professor Aileen Moreton-
Robinson (BA (Hons) ANU;
PhD Griffith University) is
a Geonpul woman from
Minjerribah Stradbroke Island,
Quandamooka First Nation
(Moreton Bay) in Queensland,
Australia. As Professor of
Indigenous Studies at the Queensland University
of Technology she is Director of the Indigenous
Studies Research Network and is responsible for the
Indigenous postgraduate research capacity building
program. Her books Talkin’ up to the White Woman
and Sovereign Subjects have been nominated for
the Indigenous book of the Decade prize sponsored
by the Native American and Indigenous Studies
Association. Professor Moreton-Robinson is Deputy
Chair of the national Indigenous Higher Education
Advisory Council, and with Dr Maggie Walter is
the editor of the international Journal of Critical
Indigenous Studies. In 2010 Professor Moreton-
Robinson received an Australian Learning and
Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence in
Indigenous Research Methodologies.

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IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS
BUILDING MENTAL WEALTH:
Presentations from other researchers working in the field of
Indigenous mental health include:
Darren Garvey
Negotiating the ‘contested arena’ of Indigenous mental health: progress update and preliminary
findings.
Dr Pek Ru Loh
The Aboriginal perspective on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Michelle Webb
If your Kaarty and you know it clap your hands.
Glenn Pearson
Do you see what I see? An exploration on the delivery of child protection, child health and primary
educational services to Aboriginal people in Perth and Geraldton Regions.
Dr Angela Durey
Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander care in mainstream health services: are we asking
the right questions?
Kelly Prandl
Exploration of Nyoongar women’s explanatory model of stress during pregnancy and the
development of a culturally sensitive assessment tool.
Dr Lizzie Finn
Courageous communication and clear collaborative working pathways: developing bi-cultural
partnerships to improve Aboriginal access to mainstream health services.
Dr Michelle DiGiacomo
Elements of effective interventions to facilitate smoking cessation in Indigenous populations.
Shirley McGough
Improving mental health outcomes for Aboriginal people within mainstream mental health
services in Western Australia.
James McCloy
Towards a cross-cultural psychotherapeutic framework for psychologists working with
Western Australian Aboriginal people.
Lydia Timms
The relationship between otitis media and literacy outcomes of urban Indigenous Australian
school children.
Caris Lae Jalla
Understanding health, wellbeing and disability in young people: an Aboriginal perspective.