“Sveticic, Milner, and De Leo (2012) analysed all suicides in Queensland between 1994 and 2007, finding the non-Indigenous cases were almost twice as likely to have ever sought help for mental health problems than the Indigenous cases.” 1/5 #AusUPR20 #Auspol 
“This likely reflects a lack of cultural appropriateness of mainstream mental health services. Historically, research has not focused upon determining whether there is a different set of risk factors for suicidal behaviours that can be established at a population level.” 2/5
“This has meant that existing intervention or prevention programmes that have established themselves within a mainstream context often struggle to translate into effective community-based strategies for at-risk Aboriginal people.” 3/5
“This article seeks to fill a gap in the Indigenous suicide prevention field and offers opportunities to address generational suicide risk that tends to cluster around remote locations where service access is limited.” 4/5
Source: Westerman T, Sheridan L. Whole of community suicide prevention forums for Aboriginal Australians. Aust Psychol. 2020;55:363–374. doi.org/10.1111/ ap.12470 @TracyWesterman
Image: By Brian Cassey in Aurukun, Queensland, Australia in 2017. 5/5
Image: By Brian Cassey in Aurukun, Queensland, Australia in 2017. 5/5
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