Cultural ‘Inclusion’ or Institutional Decolonisation: How should prisons address the mental health needs of Indigenous prisoners?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 307-308

  Shepherd, Stephane M ^a   Phillips, Gregory ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGY;

CULTURAL COMPETENCY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PRISONERS; PRISONS;

EID: 85014307395     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004867415616696     Document Type: Note

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