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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | From Deficit to Strength-Based Aboriginal Health Research—Moving toward Flourishing |
Author: | Bullen, J. Hill-Wall, T. Anderson, K. Brown, A. Bracknell, C. Newnham, E.A. Garvey, G. Waters, L. |
Citation: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023; 20(7):5395-1-5395-20 |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
ISSN: | 1661-7827 1660-4601 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jonathan Bullen, Trish Hill-Wall, Kate Anderson, Alex Brown, Clint Bracknell, Elizabeth A. Newnham, Gail Garvey, and Lea Waters |
Abstract: | Aboriginal Australians have a fundamental human right to opportunities that lead to healthy and flourishing lives. While the impact of trauma on Aboriginal Australians is well-documented, a pervasive deficit narrative that focuses on problems and pathology persists in research and policy discourse. This narrative risks further exacerbating Aboriginal disadvantage through a focus on 'fixing what is wrong' with Aboriginal Australians and the internalising of these narratives by Aboriginal Australians. While a growing body of research adopts strength-based models, limited research has sought to explore Aboriginal flourishing. This conceptual paper seeks to contribute to a burgeoning paradigm shift in Aboriginal research, seeking to understand what can be learned from Aboriginal people who flourish, how we best determine this, and in what contexts this can be impactful. Within, we argue the case for a new approach to exploring Aboriginal wellbeing that integrates salutogenic, positive psychology concepts with complex systems theory to understand and promote Aboriginal wellbeing and flourishing. While deeper work may be required to establish the parameters of a strength-based, culturally aligned Aboriginal conceptualisation of positive psychology, we suggest the integration of Aboriginal and Western methodologies offers a unique and potent means of shifting the dial on seemingly intractable problems. |
Keywords: | Aboriginal; First Nations; wellbeing; salutogenesis; flourishing; positive psychology; complex systems |
Rights: | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). |
DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph20075395 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1137563 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/2020636 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1176651 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075395 |
Appears in Collections: | Medicine publications |
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