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Clayton S. A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2024. [PMID: 38676432 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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Social psychologists have conducted research relevant to environmental problems for many decades. However, the climate crisis presents a new problem with distinctive aspects and distinctive urgency. This paper reviews some of the principal ways in which social psychological research and theory have approached the topic, looking at perceptions, behaviour, and impacts linked to climate change. Each of these areas is becoming more sophisticated in acknowledging the diversity of experience among groups that vary in demographics and social roles. I close by identifying three important facets for future research: a focus on social justice, an effort to participate in interdisciplinary efforts, and an emphasis on maximizing our impact.
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Drew N, McAllister M, Coffin J, Robinson M, Katzenellenbogen J, Armstrong E. Healing Right Way randomised control trial enhancing rehabilitation services for Aboriginal people with brain injury in Western Australia: translation principles and activities. BRAIN IMPAIR 2024; 25:IB23109. [PMID: 38640359 DOI: 10.1071/ib23109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/21/2024]
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Background This report provides the theory, method and practice of culturally secure translation and knowledge exchange in the Healing Right Way Clinical Trial (2017-2022), outlining activities to date. Healing Right Way was a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial conducted in Western Australia, aimed at enhancing rehabilitation services and quality of life for Aboriginal Australians following acquired brain injury. The trial translation plan was aspirational and action-oriented, with its implementation iterative and ongoing. Translational activities aimed to inform service and research planning for Aboriginal people with brain injury. Situated in the intercultural space, the work guards against undertaking activities that are monocultural, colonial and appropriating in favour of work that is authentically viewed through the dual lens of whiteness and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing, and is strengths-based. Methods Three translational and knowledge exchange components were identified, relating to the role of Aboriginal Brain Injury Coordinators, cultural training of hospital staff and the research process itself. Knowledge plans were developed for key audiences, with potential translation products to be monitored for ongoing impact. Results Results demonstrate that translational and knowledge exchange were iteratively embedded throughout the trial life cycle. Data sources included community engagement, partnership meetings and interviews. Activities involved presentations to diverse audiences including bureaucrats, community and participants. Conclusions This report provides a snapshot of the first translation knowledge exchange plan and activities constructed in relation to brain injury rehabilitation services for Aboriginal people. Challenges encountered, as well as successes to date, are discussed.
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- Neil Drew
- Kurongkurl Katitjin, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Ngangk Yira Institute for Change, Murdoch University, Broome, WA, Australia
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- Ngangk Yira Institute for Change, Murdoch University, Broome, WA, Australia
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- School of Population and Global Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- University Department of Rural Health South West, Edith Cowan University, Bunbury, Australia
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Rivers C, Haynes E, LoGiudice D, Smith K, Bessarab D. Best practice models of aged-care implemented for First Nations people: a systematic review aligned with the Good Spirit Good Life quality of life principles. BMC Geriatr 2024; 24:210. [PMID: 38424491 PMCID: PMC10905862 DOI: 10.1186/s12877-024-04781-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Aged-care programs that are based in First Nations worldviews are believed to translate to improved quality of life for First Nations Elders. First Nations perspectives of health and well-being incorporates social and cultural determinants in addition to traditional Western biomedical approaches. This is exemplified by the Good Spirit Good Life (GSGL) framework, which comprises 12 strength-based factors determined by First Nations Elders as constituting culturally appropriate ageing. Our objective was to conduct a systematic review of existing aged care models of practice to determine the degree of alignment with the GSGL framework. Recommendations of the national Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety informed this work. METHODS We conducted a systematic search of academic and grey literature in the PubMed, Scopus, Ovid Embase, and Informit online databases. Inclusion criteria comprised English language, original research describing the implementation of First Nations culturally appropriate aged care models, published before August 2022. Research that was not focused on First Nations Elders' perspectives or quality of life was excluded. We subsequently identified, systematically assessed, and thematically analyzed 16 articles. We assessed the quality of included articles using the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Quality Assessment Tool (ATSIQAT), and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal tool for qualitative research. RESULTS Most studies were of medium to high quality, while demonstrating strong alignment with the 12 GSGL factors. Nine of the included studies detailed whole service Models of care while 7 studies described a single program or service element. Thematic analysis of included studies yielded 9 enablers and barriers to implementing models of care. CONCLUSIONS Best-practice First Nations aged care requires a decolonizing approach. Programs with strong adherence to the 12 GSGL factors are likely to improve Elders' quality of life.
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- Caleb Rivers
- Good Spirit Good Life Centre of Research Excellence, Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
- Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
- School of Medicine, M303, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.
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- Good Spirit Good Life Centre of Research Excellence, Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
- Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
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- Good Spirit Good Life Centre of Research Excellence, Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Department of Aged Care, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
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- Good Spirit Good Life Centre of Research Excellence, Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Good Spirit Good Life Centre of Research Excellence, Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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Perkins DD, Sonn CC, Lenzi M, Xu Q, Carolissen R, Portillo N, Serrano-García I. The global development of community psychology as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2023; 72:302-316. [PMID: 37526574 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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This commentary presents a virtual special issue on the global growth of community psychology (CP), particularly, but not exclusively, as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP). CP exists in at least 50 countries all over the world, in many of those for over 25 years. Yet, aside from several early Israeli articles, AJCP rarely published work from or about countries outside the US and Canada until the early 2000s, when the number of international articles began to rise sharply. The focus of CP developed differently in different continents. CP in Australia and New Zealand initially followed North America's emphasis on improving social service systems, but has since focused more on environmental and indigenous cultural and decolonial issues that are as salient in those countries as in North America, but have drawn much more attention. CP came later to most of Asia, where it also tended to follow the North American path, but starting in Japan, India, and Hong Kong and now in China and elsewhere, it is establishing its own way. The other two global hotspots for CP for over 40 years have been Europe and Latin America. The level and focus of CP in Europe varies in each country, with some focused on applied developmental psychology and/or community services and others advancing critical and liberation psychology. CP in Latin America evolved from social psychology, but like CP in Sub-Saharan Africa, is also more explicitly political due to a history of political oppression, social activism, and the limitations of individualistic psychology to focus on social change, overcoming poverty, and interventions by (not just for) community members. Despite those differences, CP literature over the past 23 years suggests an increasingly common interest in social justice, multinational collaborations, and decoloniality. There is still a need for more truly (bidirectional) cross-cultural, comparative work for mutual learning, sharing of ideas, methods, and intervention practices, and for CP to develop in countries and communities throughout the globe where it could have the greatest impact.
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- Douglas D Perkins
- Human & Organizational Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
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- Department of Psychology, College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- Master of Social Work Program, New York University-Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Sonn CC, Fox R, Keast S, Rua M. Fostering and sustaining transnational solidarities for transformative social change: Advancing community psychology research and action. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 2022; 69:269-282. [PMID: 35707931 PMCID: PMC9328190 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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As we planned this special issue, the world was in the midst of a pandemic, one which brought into sharp focus many of the pre-existing economic, social, and climate crises, as well as, trends of widening economic and social inequalities. The pandemic also brought to the forefront an epistemic crisis that continues to decentre certain knowledges while maintaining the hegemony of Eurocentric ways of knowing and being. Thus, we set out to explore the possibilities that come with widening our ecology of knowledge and approaches to inquiry, including the power of critical reflective praxis and consciousness, and the important practices of repowering marginalised and oppressed groups. In this paper, we highlight scholarship that reflects a breadth of theories, methods, and practices that forge alliances, in and outside the academy, in different solidarity relationships toward liberation and wellbeing. Our desire as co-editors was not to endorse the plurality of solidarities expressed in the papers as an unyielding methodological or conceptual framework, but rather to hold them lightly within thematic spaces as invitations for readers to consider. Through editorial collaboration, we arrived at the following three thematic spaces: (1) ecologies of being and knowledge: Indigenous knowledge, networks, and plurilogues; (2) naming coloniality in context: Histories in the present and a wide lens; (3) relational knowledge practices: Creative joy of knowing beyond disciplines. From these thematic spaces we conclude that through repowering epistemic communities and narratives rooted in truth-telling, a plurality of solidarities are fostered and sustained locally and transnationally. Underpinned by an ethic of care, solidarity relationships are simultaneously unsettling dominant forms of knowledge and embrace ways of knowing and being that advances dignity, community, and nonviolence.
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- School of PsychologyCharles Sturt UniversityWaggaAustralia
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- Institute of Health and SportVictoria UniversityMelbourneAustralia
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- Maori and Psychology Research UnitUniversity of WaikatoHamiltonAotearoaNew Zealand
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Taylor KM, Thielking M, Mackelprang JL, Meyer D, Flatau P. Trauma involving violation of trust and mental health help seeking among homeless adults. AUSTRALIAN PSYCHOLOGIST 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00050067.2022.2059337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Kathryn M. Taylor
- Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Health Sciences and Biostatistics, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Social Impact, The Business School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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