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This guide will help you to get started with locating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources applicable to many units in Social Work, Counselling and Psychological Science.
You can find more information about finding ebooks and journal articles, referencing and other research skills from libguides.navitas.com/learn.
Warning: Some records in online or print resources may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.
A good place to start if you need definitions, history, trends, or overviews of a topic is to search the GALE Social Science Encyclopedias.
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Find resources (books, articles, ebooks and audiovisual) on these topics.
Here is a sample of books and ebooks with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content. Search the catalogue to find more resources
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal relations
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' healthcare. First edition
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Aboriginal suicide is different: A portrait of life and self destruction
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Because This Land is Who We Are: Indigenous Practices of Environmental Repossession (1st ed.).
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The biggest estate on earth: How Aborigines made Australia
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The colonial fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve Black problems
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Community-Led Research: Walking New Pathways Together
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Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work
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Cross-cultural social work : Local and global
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Cultural Safety in Trauma-Informed Practice from a First Nations Perspective
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Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice
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Expanding the conversation: International Indigenous social workers' insights into the use of Indigenist knowledge and theory in practice
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Genocide and settler society: Frontier violence and stolen Indigenous children in Australian history
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Healing in justice: Giving a voice to the silent and forgotten people
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Health care and Indigenous Australians: Cultural safety in practice
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Indigenous Australian Youth Futures: Living the Social Determinants of Health.
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Indigenous Law and the Politics of Kincentricity and Orality (1st ed.)
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Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Governance
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Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia: Histories and Historiography
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Indigenous social work around the world: Towards culturally relevant education and practice
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Let's talk kinship: Innovating Australian social work education, theory, research and practice through Aboriginal knowledge: Insights from social work research conducted with the Larrakia and Warumungu Peoples of the Northern Territory
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Mia Mia Aboriginal community development: Fostering cultural security
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My tidda, my sister: Stories of strength and resilience from Australia's first women
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Our voices: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social work
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Power and Dysfunction: The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883–1940 (1st ed.)
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Psychology and Indigenous Australians: Foundations of cultural competence
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Rethinking social justice: From 'peoples' to 'populations'.
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The rise and rise of judicial bigotry
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Sand talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world
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Social work with Indigenous communities: A human rights approach
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Southern theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science
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The stolen children - their stories: Including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families
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A theory for Indigenous Australian health and human service work: Connecting Indigenous knowledge and practice
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Torres Strait Islander women and the pacific war
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Trans dilemmas: Living in Australia's remote areas and in Aboriginal communities
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Trapped in the gap: Doing good in Indigenous Australia
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Searching Journals
Each field of study has a number of key journal publications which cover the major themes in that area. Searching within these journals, rather than searching an entire database, may provide research that is more relevant to your assessment task.
To help you begin searching:
Key Journals
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources: key journals in the ACAP Library
Using any of these databases, run a search with the keywords you have already tried out in the library catalogue. Remember to combine your keywords with AND or OR.
Organisations
Reports and Statistics
Other Useful Resources
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) people, good health is more than the absence of disease or illness; it is a holistic concept that includes physical, social, emotional, cultural, and spiritual wellbeing, for both the individual and the community. This page highlights some of the key issues in First Nations health and includes links to more detailed information.
Preparing for culturally responsive and inclusive social work practice in Australia: working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.[AASW 2016] This practice information sheet provides introductory and general information regarding the importance of ensuring social work practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and communities is culturally responsive and inclusive. The document from the Australian Association of Social Workers begins by providing an overview of the historical and continued disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and then moves on to discuss the strengths, capacities and resilience of Australia’s first peoples; and the importance of social workers engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing to ensure practice is culturally responsive and inclusive. See alsoAASW Practice Standards 2023 - 2. Working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. p. 8
Country and Culture
Biography and personal stories
Mental health, health and wellbeing
Colonisation: history and ongoing impact
Contemporary
