Depression, Suicidal Behaviour, and Mental Disorders in Older Aboriginal Australians

Shen, Yinghao; Radford, Kylie; Daylight, Gail; Cumming, Robert; Broe, Tony; Draper, Brian

doi:10.3390/ijerph15030447

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“…The presence of loving caretakers and sturdy role models, strong social support, support from religion and spirituality, attention to physical health, and good cardiovascular fitness are also associated with resilience. Low resilience has been associated with an elevated incidence of suicidal behaviour, development of psychiatric disorders, and poor general health status .…”

Section: State‐of‐the‐art: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention

Sher

2019

Acta Psychiatr Scand

132

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Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention Sher L. Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention.Suicide is a major medical and social problem. Decades of suicide research have mostly focused on risk factors for suicidal behaviour while overlooking protective factors such as resilience that may help to address this important public health issue. Resilience is the capacity and dynamic process of adaptively overcoming stress and adversity while maintaining normal psychological and physical functioning. Studies conducted over the past 10-15 years suggest that resilience is a protective factor against suicide risk. Resilience is becoming a focus of suicide research and prevention. Building resilience should be a part of universal, selective, and indicated suicide prevention interventions. Promoting resilience may reduce suicide risk in the general population, in groups at elevated suicide risk, and among high-risk individuals. Building resilience in the general population may reduce the incidence of stress-related disorders and, consequently, suicidal behaviour. Improving resilience should be a part of a treatment plan of every psychiatric patient. Mental health professionals will probably have the best success in reducing suicide risk in psychiatric patients if they actively concentrate on increasing stress resilience using both psychosocial and pharmacological interventions. It is critically important to move forward the development of pharmacological and psychological interventions for enhancing resilience.• Mental health professionals should educate the general public regarding issues related to resilience and stress-coping. Promoting resilience in the general population may reduce suicide rates.• Improving resilience may reduce suicide risk among psychiatric patients. Resilience enhancement should be a part of a treatment plan of every psychiatric patient.• Mental health professionals will probably have the best success in reducing suicide risk in psychiatric patients if they actively concentrate on increasing stress resilience using both psychosocial and pharmacological interventions. Limitations• Building resilience is more difficult for some people than for others because some psychobiological factors affecting resilience are not modifiable.• Improving resilience in some cases is difficult because some individuals are very sick and impaired. • Many people around the world who are at elevated suicide risk have a limited or no access to mental health care and to information on resilience and stress-coping.

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Section: State‐of‐the‐art: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention

Sher

2019

Acta Psychiatr Scand

132

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“…Practices encompassed include war, massacres, and genocide; dispossession, displacement, and forced relocation, protectionism, surveillance, and incarceration, loss of traditional lands and ecological destruction, intentional and unintentional spread of deadly diseases, assimilation, regulation of marriage, and removal of children, forced labour, slavery and stolen wages, banning of Indigenous languages, and eradication of social, cultural and spiritual practices (Doyle, 2011;Paradies, 2016). The continuous and pervasive influences of white and/or Eurocentric supremacy, and the consequent racism, marginalisation, social inequity, loss of culture and identity, and issues of transgenerational trauma on Aboriginal health and wellbeing are well recognised (Balaratnasingam et al, 2019;Shen et al, 2018).…”

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Understanding the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Aboriginal LGBTIQ(SB)+ Youth in Victoria’s Youth Detention

Phelan

Oxley

2021

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Aboriginal youth are overrepresented within Victoria’s criminal justice system (Cunneen, 2020). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth are diverse people with diverse needs: It is imperative to understand what those needs are and how they can be supported within Victoria’s youth justice centres. Research has identified that Aboriginal youth in Victoria’s justice system have higher rates of psychopathology (Shepherd et al., 2018), higher rates of recidivism (Cunneen, 2008), higher pre-custody rates and post-release rates of substance abuse (Joudo, 2008) and lower rates of rehabilitation (Thompson et al., 2014) than non-Indigenous counterparts. It is critical to explore how the Victorian youth justice system identifies and implements the provision of services that consider lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, sistergirl and brotherboy (LGBTIQSB+) identities of Aboriginal youth in custody. This is because additional levels of systemic disadvantage, discrimination, stigma, and social exclusion that impact LGBTIQ+ youth specifically (Cunneen, Goldson, & Russell, 2016) as well as Aboriginal identity, further compound and jeopardize the social and emotional wellbeing of those embodying intersectional identities. This article will examine the services available to Aboriginal LGBTIQSB+ youth in the Victorian criminal justice system. Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Indigenous and First Nations People will be used interchangeably throughout this document.

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“…Over the past decades, increasing research interest has been directed towards the psychosocial factors behind health inequalities experienced by Aboriginal Australians. As a consequence of the colonisation process that started in the late 1700s, Aboriginal Australians became a marginalised group within Australia (1). Past and contemporary practices of dispossession, colonial violence, child removal, mass incarceration, and institutional racism contribute to impact the social and emotional well-being and perpetuate inequalities in that disproportionately affect Aboriginal populations (2,3).…”

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Psychological network of stress, coping and social support in an Aboriginal population

Santiago¹,

Soares²,

Smithers³

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Over the past decades, increasing research interest has been directed towards the psychosocial factors that impact Aboriginal health, including stress, coping and social support. However, there has been no study that examined whether the behaviours, cognitions and emotions related to stress, coping and social support constitute a psychological network in an Aboriginal population and that examined its properties. To address this gap, the current study employed a new methodology, network psychometrics, to evaluate stress, coping and social support in an Aboriginal Australian population. This study conducted a secondary analysis of the South Australian Aboriginal Birth Cohort (SAABC) study, a randomized controlled trial in South Australia, which included 367 pregnant Aboriginal women at study baseline. The Gaussian Graphical Model was estimated with least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO). Node centrality was evaluated with eigencentrality, strength and bridge centrality. Network communities were investigated with the walktrap algorithm. The findings indicated that stress, coping and social support constituted a connected psychological network in an Aboriginal population. Furthermore, at the centre of the network were the troubles experienced by the Aboriginal pregnant women, bridging their perceptions of stress and coping and constituting a potential target for future interventions.

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Depression, Suicidal Behaviour, and Mental Disorders in Older Aboriginal Australians

Cited by 21 publications

References 58 publications

Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention

Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention

Understanding the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Aboriginal LGBTIQ(SB)+ Youth in Victoria’s Youth Detention

Psychological network of stress, coping and social support in an Aboriginal population

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