A5041764779- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
- Law in Society and Culture
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Community Health and Development
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
Queensland University of Technology
2011-2022
University of Southern Queensland
2022
The University of Queensland
2006-2016
City, University of London
2014
Northampton Community College
2014
Victoria Park
2013
National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition
2013
University of Manitoba
2009-2011
Southern California Earthquake Center
2003
University of Southern California
2003
This article offers a critical exploration of the concept resilience, which is largely conceptualized in literature as an extraordinary atypical personal ability to revert or ‘bounce back’ point equilibrium despite significant adversity. While resilience has been explored range contexts, there little recognition social process arising from mundane practices everyday life and situated person-environment interactions. Based on ethnographic study among single refugee women with children...
Journal Article Digital Storytelling as a Social Work Tool: Learning from Ethnographic Research with Women Refugee Backgrounds Get access Caroline Lenette, Lenette * *Correspondence to Dr School of Human Services and Work, Griffith Health Institute, University, University Drive, Meadowbrook 4131, Queensland, Australia. E-mail: c.lenette@griffith.edu.au Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Leonie Cox, Cox Mark Brough The British Volume 45, Issue 3, April...
Nurses and midwives of Australia now is the time for change! As powerfully placed, Indigenous non-Indigenous nursing midwifery professionals, together we can ensure an effective robust curriculum in our schools education. Today, finds itself a shifting tide social change, where voices better safer health care ring out loud. Voices justice, equity equality reverberate across cities, streets, homes, institutions learning. It call new songlines reform. The need to embed meaningful curricula...
This paper reviews the diversity in parenting values and practices amongst Aboriginal peoples Torres Strait Islanders. First, issues arising from historical traumatic disruption of families' attachments are discussed. Then contribution Indigenous makes to development healthy vulnerable individuals becomes central focus. Family therapists can draw a broad understanding context strength‐based approach.
SUGAR (Service User and Carer Group Advising on Research) is an initiative established to develop collaborative working in mental health nursing research between service users, carers, researchers, practitioners at City University London, United Kingdom. This article will describe the background of SUGAR; how group operates; some achievements date, including researcher reflections; case studies this collaboration influences our research. Written reflective narratives user carer experiences...
Objective: To determine the prevalence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) carriage and infection among children living in an Indigenous community Queensland. Design, setting participants: Swabs for culture S. were collected from nose, throat skin wounds primary school children. Main outcome measures: MRSA carriage, antibiotic sensitivity, genotype, presence virulence factor Panton–Valentine leukocidin (PVL); epidemiological risk factors carriage....
Troubled dynamics between residents of an Aboriginal town in Queensland and the local health system were established during colonisation consolidated those periods Australian history where policies 'protection' (segregation), integration then assimilation held sway. The status is, part, related to interactions residents' current historical experiences criminal justice systems as together these agencies used medical moral policing legitimate dispossession, marginalisation,...
Blood metaphors abound in everyday social discourse among both Aboriginal and nonAboriginal people. However, ‘Aboriginal blood talk’, more specifically, is located within a contradictory contested space terms of the meanings values that can be attributed to it by non-Aboriginal In colonial context, talk operated as tool oppression for people via quantum discourses, yet today, draw upon notions blood, namely bloodlines, articulating their identities. This paper juxtaposes contemporary...
The nursing/midwifery professions are facing a sea change with the inclusion of cultural safety in Code Conduct for Registered Nurses [Nursing and Midwifery Board Australia. (2018a). Midwife standards practice. Retrieved January 30, 2021, from https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/codes-guidelines-statements/professional-standards.aspx], Midwives (2018b). conduct nurses. Nurse Accreditation Standards (Australian Nursing Council. (2019). Standards. https://www.anmac.org.au/), [Australian...
Research shows that Indigenous Australians' suspicion and fear of being 'locked up' may influence mental health service avoidance. Given this, the aim this study was to explore, by qualitative analysis in-depth interviews (n = 3), how three people experienced controversial practice seclusion. Hans-Georg Gadamer's phenomenology guided material, allowed narrated experiences be understood within their cultural historical context. Participants viewed seclusion negatively: police involvement in...
This study assessed the pharmacodynamics of ceftaroline against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), heteroresistant (h) vancomycin-intermediate S. (hVISA), VISA and vancomycin-resistant (VRSA) using an in vitro model. Two methicillin-susceptible (MSSA), one community-associated (CA)-MRSA, healthcare-associated (HA)-MRSA, hVISA, three two VRSA were studied. The pharmacodynamic model was inoculated with a concentration 1 × 106 cfu/mL dosed every 12 h (at 0 h) to simulate ƒCmax...
This study will be of interest to anyone concerned with a critical appraisal mental health service users’ and carers’ participation in research collaboration the potential postcolonial paradigm cultural safety contribute user ( SUR ) movement. The history nature field its relationship colonial processes provokes consideration whether could focus attention on diversity, power imbalance, dominance structural inequality, identified as barriers tensions . We consider these issues context...
When settling, people often use cultural schema from their original homeland to build familiarity in unfamiliar surrounds. This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the first author Brisbane, with Karen community Burma, during which participant observation and interview methods were used. We present an account of Brisbane wrist‐tying ceremony. The ceremony acts as insight into challenges for whilst settling Australia. It reflects multiple accounts history tradition, but...
This article describes structured responses to young Indigenous people whose paint-sniffing in Brisbane attracts public attention. It gives an emic account of the sniffers’ these processes and argues that expresses their alienated marginalized social status is part encoded revolt against White cultural authority its imposed norms. Foucault’s view freedom as capacity act question taken-forgrantedness one’s milieu (Dreyfus, 2004), his notion body locus power control, are used examine unequal...
Troubled dynamics between residents of an Aboriginal town in Queensland and the local health system were established during colonisation consolidated those periods Australian history where policies 'protection' (segregation), integration then assimilation held sway. The status is, part, related to interactions residents' current historical experiences criminal justice systems as together these agencies used medical moral policing legitimate dispossession, marginalisation,...
Abstract A sociological conceptualisation of space moves beyond the material to relational, consider as a social process. This paper draws on research that explored reproduction legitimated knowledge and power structures in intensive care units during encounters, between patients, who were experiencing mental illness, their nurses. Semi‐structured telephone interviews with 17 nurses from eight Australian conducted 2017. Data analysed through iterative cycling participants' responses,...
ABSTRACT This two part paper considers the experience of a range magico‐religious experiences (such as visions and voices) spirit beliefs in rural Aboriginal town. The papers challenge tendency institutionalised psychiatry to medicalise critiques way which its individualistic practice is intensified face an incomprehensible ‘other’ become power imbalance that characterises relationship between Indigenous white domains. work reveals internal differentiation politics domain, meanings these...
ABSTRACT This is the second part of a paper that explores range magico‐religious experiences such as immaterial voices and visions, in terms local cultural, moral socio‐political circumstances an Aboriginal town rural Queensland. political cultural symbolism meaning suicide. It charts saliency suicide amongst two groups kin cohorts social meaningfulness problematic visions relation to suicide, identity family forms funerals heavily drinking lifestyle. I argue are used reinterpret experience...