Healing-Centred Approaches to Suicide Prevention and Postvention Webinar

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• More details about Professor Pat Dudgeon

  Professor Pat Dudgeon

  Professor Pat Dudgeon AM, a Bardi woman from Western Australia, is a psychologist and professor at the Poche Centre for Aboriginal Health and the School of Indigenous Studies at The University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing and suicide prevention. She is the Director of the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention, and the lead Chief Investigator for the national Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing research project. Professor Dudgeon has served on numerous boards, including the National Suicide Prevention Office Advisory Board, NACCHO Culture Care Connect, Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit Australia) and AIPA, and was a National Mental Health Commissioner for five years. A leading voice in Indigenous mental health, her significant publications include the Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice (2014) and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project Report – What the Evidence and Our People Tell Us (2016).  She was part of a group of Indigenous psychologists who developed the much used Social and Emotional Wellbeing model.

• More details about Associate Professor Clinton Schultz

  Associate Professor Clinton Schultz

  Associate Professor Clinton Schultz is a Gamilaraay man, registered psychologist, internationally recognised researcher and a leading voice in Aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing. His award-winning work explores how culture, holistic wellbeing and Indigenous knowledges strengthen culturally safe mental health care, suicide prevention and the wellbeing of Aboriginal health and community workforces. Drawing on his expertise in psychology, research and community-led practice, Professor Schultz is committed to strengthening culturally safe, healing-centred approaches that empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, families and communities.

• More details about Tanja Hirvonen (Psych), CEO, Thirrili

  Tanja Hirvonen (Psych), CEO, Thirrili

  Qualifications BPsychSc, BBus(HRM), BPscyhScH, MPsych(Clin) Tanja Hirvonen a proud Jaru and Bunuba woman (Kimberley, Western Australia), born and raised on the lands of the Kalkadoon people – Mount Isa, Queensland. Tanja is a clinical psychologist and mid-career researcher with expertise in mental health, social and emotional wellbeing, suicide prevention and working with persons impacted by trauma, and workplaces who are bringing cultural and clinical knowledges together. She brings a combination of academic research, corporate expertise and clinical experience working with remote, regional communities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing to her role at the Black Dog Institute and Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association. She is an advocate for increasing the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing practitioners in Australia, as well as for upskilling mainstream organisations with an understanding of how to provide culturally appropriate social and emotional wellbeing care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and individuals.