EVENT:
  The Case for an Apology by the Australian Mental Health Professions to Aboriginal and Islander peoples
  - Close the Gap Event - Seminar
		
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:00 - Telethon Institute for Child Health Research Seminar Room
		
Professor Alan Rosen
The Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing is
hosting a Seminar presented by Professor Alan Rosen, Research
Psychiatrist, Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health, University of
Newcastle.

Over many years, psychiatric professionals have dominated the lives of
people with mental illnesses. We have been responsible for their forced
separation and disconnection from their families; incarceration in
remote regions; their being humiliated, stigmatised and sequestered as
moral lepers; the loss of their identities as people, denying them their
human rights, their dignity and entitlement to full membership as
citizens. Mental health professionals have become the officially
anointed custodians of people with mental illnesses – “for their own
good”. We have inadvertently broken their spirits, disempowered them,
alienated them from their kin, and in many instances de-skilled them and
depleted community knowledge of how to look after their own. The case
for regret and apology for the past suffering of Aboriginal Australians
with a mental illness is pressing.
		
URL: http://www.creahw.org.au
		
For more information:
  Tamika Heiden
  theiden@ichr.uwa.edu.au
  08 9489 7772

Starts       : Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:00
Ends         : Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:00
		
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Last Updated : Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:38