Indigenous Psychological Services | Company
Indigenous Psychological Services
Phone: 08 9362 2036
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24.01.2022 In full flight delivering my Aboriginal Mental Health Assessment & Suicide Prevention in Aboriginal Communities Workshops. After 22 yrs of training I still love contributing to Australia’s education on these issues. 30,000 practitioners & counting personally trained #BuildAnArmy
16.01.2022 Please help us address the unacceptable rates of Indigenous child suicide, incarceration, mental health & well-being by donating to the Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health today. Go to: thejilyainstitute.com.au All donations are tax deductible. We are currently supporting 15 Indigenous psychology students through donations received! Help us as we continue to #BuildAnArmy of Indigenous Psychologists.
08.01.2022 A trauma response explanation; Flight/fight/freeze are common responses to trauma. The ability to activate all three mechanisms is why people both survive & he...al from traumatic events. Much of this is genetic & biological (what we inherit as a stress response mechanism) & the balance is environment (what is modelled; extent of trauma exposure & nature of the trauma itself -personal or sexual assaults increasing trauma likelihood for example) Post trauma occurs when cognitions become so altered after trauma that the mind tells the body to see threat everywhere (imagined rather than real). Essentially there is a misfiring; ensuring the flight/fight response is activated regardless of threat. Over time this response can become normalised. Freeze has dissociative elements which has the outcome of forcing the heart rate down to enable access to the higher level thinking part of your brain. This ensures higher level problem solving is possible to ensure survival or planned escape. The flight/fight response is the body in hyperarousal. The brain tells the body to arm itself to enable either physical escape (flight) or to defend itself (fight) It makes sense that flight/fight/freeze are all needed in order to survive traumatic events. Switching between dissociation and hyperarousal being the critical survival & post trauma healing elements.
07.01.2022 Look at me with my South Australian Dr Tracy Westerman Indigenous Psychology Scholarship recipients at a lovely dinner in Adelaide. So rapt to finally meet you ...all in person! Dom Barry, Michael Cullen & Corey Kennedy - what exceptional young men you are. Thank you Kyp Boucher Life Without Barriers, SA; Riggle Berry, KWY & Position Promo for your support in our desire to #BuildAnArmy of Indigenous Psychologists #BuildAnArmy
06.01.2022 Missed this shout out
02.01.2022 These Northern Territory groups are just the best - thank you Darwin, Mission Australia for hosting my 3 day Mental Health & Suicide Prevention workshop. The ...NT is so very close to my heart being the first work I did outside of WA when I started my business all those years ago. The extent to which NT mob embraced the work from the start has humbled me. Thank you!!! Now off to the equally lovely Adelaide for the final stretch before finally heading home to Perth on Monday #BuildAnArmy See more
02.01.2022 Brilliant day with the Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health board & volunteers undertaking our strategic planning! We have achieved significan...t amounts just in 6 months with 15 Indigenous Psychology students being financially supported through our many donors & sponsors. Our future looks so bright. We are not only continuing to #BuildAnArmy but are starting a long overdue revolution to ensure the words child suicide will no longer belong in a sentence. Australia is joining us in that aspiration
