PANEL PRESENTATION - Assessment and Advancement of Mental Health of Young Indigenous People
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Mossman - In-Person
| Thursday, November 7, 2024 |
| 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM |
| Mossman Ballroom |
Overview
Professor Aleksandar Janca and Dr Zaza Lyons, University of Western Australia, Dr Ernest Hunter, YETI (Youth Empowered Towards Independence), Dr Siva Bala, Consultant Psychiatrist, and Kim Mulholland
Presenter
Professor Aleksandar Janca
Emeritus Professor
University of Western Australia
Assessment and Advancement of Mental Health of Young Indigenous People
Abstract
This panel presentation and discussion will focus on the assessment and promotion of mental health and social and emotional wellbeing. of young Indigenous people in Australia. The session will also serve to launch the mental health screening tool entitled Here and Now Aboriginal Assessment-Youth Version or HANAA-Y. The presenters will be the experts who participated in the development of HANAA-Y and also did some other important work relevant to young Indigenous people such as development of Alternative Learning Environments (ALEs).
Three Key Learnings:
1. To learn how to screen for mental health problems in young Indigenous people in culturally appropriate way.
2. To learn how to administer HANAA-Y screening tool.
3. To learn about the ways of improving social and emotional well-being of young Indigenous people including alternative approaches to their education.
Three Key Learnings:
1. To learn how to screen for mental health problems in young Indigenous people in culturally appropriate way.
2. To learn how to administer HANAA-Y screening tool.
3. To learn about the ways of improving social and emotional well-being of young Indigenous people including alternative approaches to their education.
Biography
Aleksandar Janca is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In the period of 2006 – 2014, he was Head of School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia and Director of WHO Collaborating Centre in Perth.
From 1991 to 1997 Professor Janca worked as a Medical Officer at WHO Headquarters in Geneva. He has a special interest in social and emotional wellbeing of the First Nations and Indigenous people in Australia and has developed a mental health screening tool “Here and Now Aboriginal Assessment” (HANAA) which has been used across Australia
Dr Zaza Lyons
Senior Lecturer
University of Western Australia
Assessment and Advancement of Mental Health of Young Indigenous People
Abstract
This panel presentation and discussion will focus on the assessment and promotion of mental health and social and emotional wellbeing. of young Indigenous people in Australia. The session will also serve to launch the mental health screening tool entitled Here and Now Aboriginal Assessment-Youth Version or HANAA-Y. The presenters will be the experts who participated in the development of HANAA-Y and also did some other important work relevant to young Indigenous people such as development of Alternative Learning Environments (ALEs).
Three Key Learnings:
1. To learn how to screen for mental health problems in young Indigenous people in culturally appropriate way.
2. To learn how to administer HANAA-Y screening tool.
3. To learn about the ways of improving social and emotional well-being of young Indigenous people including alternative approaches to their education.
Three Key Learnings:
1. To learn how to screen for mental health problems in young Indigenous people in culturally appropriate way.
2. To learn how to administer HANAA-Y screening tool.
3. To learn about the ways of improving social and emotional well-being of young Indigenous people including alternative approaches to their education.
Biography
Zaza Lyons is a senior academic in the Division of Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia Medical School.
Zaza has a research interest in Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing. She has been involved in a project that developed the Here and Now Aboriginal Assessment (HANNA), a screening instrument to screen for social and emotional wellbeing among Indigenous people. More recently, the research group have developed a youth version of the instrument, the HANAA-Y. It is hoped that the HANAA-Y will provide a useful, easy to administer and culturally appropriate screening instrument for social and emotional wellbeing among young Indigenous people.
Dr Siva Bala
Consultant Psychiatrist
Assessment and Advancement of Mental Health of Young Indigenous People
Abstract
This panel presentation and discussion will focus on the assessment and promotion of mental health and social and emotional wellbeing. of young Indigenous people in Australia. The session will also serve to launch the mental health screening tool entitled Here and Now Aboriginal Assessment-Youth Version or HANAA-Y. The presenters will be the experts who participated in the development of HANAA-Y and also did some other important work relevant to young Indigenous people such as development of Alternative Learning Environments (ALEs).
Three Key Learnings:
1. To learn how to screen for mental health problems in young Indigenous people in culturally appropriate way.
2. To learn how to administer HANAA-Y screening tool.
3. To learn about the ways of improving social and emotional well-being of young Indigenous people including alternative approaches to their education.
Three Key Learnings:
1. To learn how to screen for mental health problems in young Indigenous people in culturally appropriate way.
2. To learn how to administer HANAA-Y screening tool.
3. To learn about the ways of improving social and emotional well-being of young Indigenous people including alternative approaches to their education.
Biography
Dr Ernest Hunter
Mental Health Consultant
YETI (Youth Empowered Towards Independence)
Assessment and Advancement of Mental Health of Young Indigenous People
Abstract
This panel presentation and discussion will focus on the assessment and promotion of mental health and social and emotional wellbeing. of young Indigenous people in Australia. The session will also serve to launch the mental health screening tool entitled Here and Now Aboriginal Assessment-Youth Version or HANAA-Y. The presenters will be the experts who participated in the development of HANAA-Y and also did some other important work relevant to young Indigenous people such as development of Alternative Learning Environments (ALEs).
Three Key Learnings:
1. To learn how to screen for mental health problems in young Indigenous people in culturally appropriate way.
2. To learn how to administer HANAA-Y screening tool.
3. To learn about the ways of improving social and emotional well-being of young Indigenous people including alternative approaches to their education.
Three Key Learnings:
1. To learn how to screen for mental health problems in young Indigenous people in culturally appropriate way.
2. To learn how to administer HANAA-Y screening tool.
3. To learn about the ways of improving social and emotional well-being of young Indigenous people including alternative approaches to their education.
Biography
Dr Ernest Hunter is a psychiatrist and public health physician who has worked closely with Cape York and Torres Strait Island communities for 30 years. He has extensive research experience with a particular focus on the impact of social disadvantage and its historical determinants on the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples.
