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1
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Guidelines for conducting research in Indigenous populations

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National Health and Medical REsearch Council Ethical guidelines for research involving Aboriginal and TOrres Strait Islander Peoples

2
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Narratives in psychology

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Presently there are two [hidden] narratives within psychology

1) If culturally appropriate, well-designed, empirically-validated psychosocial interventions will have long-term positive effects on self-destructive tendencies [focuses on individual and continues to blame the victim]
2) Psychological interventions have not worked and are unlikely to work until cultural and spiritual dispossession is resolved - this is an unsolvable wicked problem from a psychological perspective [and thus leads to no action]

3
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Issues with society and psychology (5)

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  • Tend to attribute problems to the individual - if have depression you need to go get treatment
  • If in protected society, makes resources available but if in collective society, need kin and community around me,
  • If disadvantage so bad, what support do you have to advance yourself
  • Facing discrimination each day, continuous
  • Nobody tackles the overall problem - blaming victim
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Major problems with psychology [as a science or an intervention] (3)

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1) The notion of universalism
2) The constraint that psychology is behavioural science and should not make direct [political] pronouncements on social issues
3) The cultural notion of individualism

5
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The notion of universalism

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The dominance of ethnocentrism over cultural relativism (all ruled by set of same rules)

6
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The constraint that psychology is behavioural science and should not make direct [political] pronouncements on social issues, which led to (2)

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  • Silence on the stolen generation
  • Silence on the current Interventions in the NT and QLD

(Silence associated with stolen intervention, apologized for silence but still remain silent and don’t change future behaviour)

7
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The cultural notion of individualism leads to… (2)

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1) blaming the victim for their disadvantage
2) Failure to accept any blame - most non-indigenous Australians do not believe that they are responsible for the disadvantage and see no reason why they should apologise

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From a social justice, there are three fundamental reference points in terms of Indigenous people

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1) Equitable treatment
2) Equal access to resources and opportunities
3) Respect for [cultural] differences

9
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Psychological arguments against being involved in social justice issues (3)

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1) Psychology should be value-free
2) Psychology does not have the knowledge-base to be political
3) Intervention at the individual level is the domain of psychology, but not at community or society level

10
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But is psychology value free?

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However, in the past [stolen generation], psychological research was not value free, it contributed to the narrative, and it became involved in implementing social policy

11
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What was the Australian Psychologists’ role in the policies associated with the Stolen Generation?

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  • Actively involved in carrying out official government policy
  • Not just remaining silent on this issue

(Apologised because actively engaged in stolen generation)

12
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Australia voted in 1967 to change the Australian constitution in regards to indigenous people. The referendum included:

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  • Allowed indigenous people to be counted as Australians
13
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How was not including Indigenous Australians justified

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Terra nullius

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Terra nullius (7)

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  • Terra nullius is a Latin expression meaning “nobody’s land”, and
  • Was a legal principle that indicated that land was unoccupied or uninhabited
  • Was used in international law to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state’s occupation of it.
  • in Australia, British colonizers regarded the continent as terra nullius at the time of the original settlement

However, it was a myth that indigenous people were counted as flora rather than people

  • Convenient way to take over country without paying compensation but means saying they aren’t real people
  • Don’t have to live in this area, don’t need passport to move out
15
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Apology from psychology in Australia

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APS apology to Indigenous Australians