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An Aboriginal Family Wellbeing Model of Empowerment

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Promoting Aboriginal Health

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The chapter presents the Aboriginal Family Wellbeing Model of Empowerment. The model incorporates four interconnected central elements: beliefs and attitudes; skills and knowledge; agency; and outcomes. All of these elements occur within a social context. The relationships between the four elements and the social context are described.

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  1. Department of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Mary Whiteside

  2. The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia

    Komla Tsey

  3. The Cairns Institute and School of Indigenous Australian Studies, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

    Yvonne Cadet-James

  4. The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

    Janya McCalman

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Whiteside, M., Tsey, K., Cadet-James, Y., McCalman, J. (2014). An Aboriginal Family Wellbeing Model of Empowerment. In: Promoting Aboriginal Health. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04618-1_3

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04618-1_3

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