Evaluation of the Bringing them home and Indigenous mental health programs
1.3 Limitations of the review
- Acknowledgements
- Study Team
- Glossary
- Executive Summary
1. Introduction- 2. Methodology
- 3 Overview of the four programs
- 4 Literature review
- 5 Key outcomes and achievements of the programs
- 6 Key limitations of the programs
- 7 Management and administrative issues
- 8. Workforce issues
- 9. Issues related to the four programs
- 10. Likely future demand
- 11. Conclusions and suggested future directions
- Appendix A: Stakeholders consulted
Appendix B: Literature review- 1.1 Aims of the literature review
- 1.2 Sources used
- 1.3 Limitations of the review
- 1.4 A summary of the history of forced removal in Australia
- 1.5 The BTH Report
- 1.6 Government responses to the BTH Report
- 1.7 The history of forced removal overseas and government responses
- 1.8 Effects and consequences of removal in the Australian context
- 1.9 Provision of mental health services to Aboriginal Australians
- 1.10 Good practice
- 1.11 Findings of the previous evaluations of the Link-Up, BTH and SEWB RC Programs
- References
There were some key limitations to the review, which meant that little of the material very directly addressed its intended aims. It became apparent that there is in fact very little published literature specifically relating to best practice strategies for meeting the SEWB needs of Stolen Generations groups. Although there is an emerging body of literature on SEWB approaches, and also on mental health approaches for Aboriginal Australians, this literature has tended to focus on the Aboriginal population as a whole, rather than specifically on the Stolen Generations.
Where the literature on SEWB does address issues relating to Stolen Generations, these are usually in conjunction with various other causes of social and emotional difficulties such as unresolved grief and loss, physical health issues, incarceration, cultural dislocation, racism and discrimination or social disadvantage (Auseinet 2006).
Further, the literature that does relate directly to Stolen Generations people largely focuses on legal, political, social justice and human rights issues rather than SEWB issues – reflecting the fact that 'public debate in Australia remains focussed on the issue of recognising historical injustices and the resulting trauma' (AHF 2006, p34).