Barriers to mental health care and possible solutions in the young: <i>Yarns</i> with the Victorian Aboriginal community
The analyzed <i>yarns</i> provide important detail about everyday barriers Indigenous peoples face in healthcare services and potential ways forward to improve the situation for Indigenous young people and their kinship networks. This paper can help shape future policy and its implementation. In particular, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organizations running traditional Indigenous healing programmes alongside Western health management, ensuring formal processes predominate and are monitored for their day-to-day effectiveness.
Authors
- Alasdair Vance (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7471-9769)
- Sandra Eades (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8629-3390)
- Janet McGaw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1433-7889)
- Naomi Tootell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6382-0458)
Institutions
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (AU)
- Western Health (AU)
- Faculty of Design (SI)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 2025-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00048674251384059
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.17