“You didn’t just consult community, you involved us”: transformation of a ‘top-down’ Aboriginal mental health project into a ‘bottom-up’ community-driven process

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 614-619

  Singer, Judy ^a   Bennett Levy, James ^a   Rotumah, Darlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal health; Community engagement; Community involvement; Community based participatory research; Indigenous mental health

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; FUNDING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; WORKFORCE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TRENDS;

AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION;

EID: 84988477971     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1039856215614985     Document Type: Article

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