Indigenous young people's resilience and wellbeing

While some Indigenous youth in situations of adversity can experience the impact of negative behaviours and health outcomes; others do not. This study confirmed the complexity of wellbeing and resilience for Aboriginal young people in the study sites. Belonging, being strong, recognising risk and maintaining positivity were significant to Aboriginal youth. The importance of connections, culture and community to Aboriginal youth also exposed distress from the loss of those relationships and connections. Contemporary measures of social and emotional wellbeing (Strong Souls) and resilience (Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale) require further research before recommended for use in Australia with Aboriginal youth by clinicians and researchers.

Output(s)

Expressions of identity by Aboriginal young peoples’ stories about historical trauma and colonisation within the Gamilaroi Nation

Type

Journal article

Authors

Smallwood, R.

Publisher

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

Publication date

2023

Rights notice

File

smallwood-2023-expressions-of-identity-by-aboriginal-young-peoples-stories-about-historical-trauma-and-colonisation.pdf

Link

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/11771801221146777?icid=int.sj-full-tex…

Project information

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Community / Language group(s)

Project contact(s)

Reakeeta Smallwood

reakeeta.l.smallwood@student.uts.edu.au

Researcher(s)

Professor Rhonda Marriot
Professor Kim Usher
Dr Corinne Reid
Associate Professor Rosalyn (Roz) Walker
Professor Debra Jackson
Associate Professor Carrington Shepherd
Dr Katrina Hopkins
Dr Brody Heritage

Supporting partner(s)

Complete

Yes

Start date

2017

End date2022

Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

Funder(s)

Organisation(s)

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Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

Reakeeta Smallwood is a proud Gamilaroi woman from a place now called Tamworth, located in New South Wales, Australia. She is a registered nurse and PhD candidate studying historical trauma with Aboriginal young people.

The methodology is positioned within the Indigenous research paradigm that is built and nuanced on relational ways of knowing, being, and doing as an Aboriginal person. Being an Aboriginal person conducting research, coined by Wilson (2008), research is ceremony. It follows protocols tethered to context and knowledge, and sharing is not a right, but a privilege (Martin, 2008)...Given the nature of the Indigenous research design methodology and methods, the research worked closely with local Elders, Aboriginal young people, and community members who were part of the research advisory committee...The participants were invited to participate as co-researchers in this study from the rural site that is within the Gamilaroi Nation and mostly identified as Gamilaroi.

Indigenous young people's resilience and wellbeing

Output(s)

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AIATSIS acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of Country and recognises their continuing connection to land, sea, culture and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.