{"id":167375,"date":"2020-06-04T23:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T21:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=167375"},"modified":"2020-06-04T23:36:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T21:36:58","slug":"indigenous-people-take-the-lead-in-healing-the-trauma-of-the-stolen-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=167375","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous people take the lead in healing the trauma of the Stolen Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The forced removals of children from their families have brought trauma to generations of Indigenous communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But there&#8217;s now hope a groundswell of Indigenous-led healing programs, which are culturally sensitive and acknowledge how history has shaped collective identity, will help these communities on their healing journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article may contain images of people who have died.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The abuse, including sexual abuse, that these children suffered after being taken from their families and placed in institutions was documented in the 1997\u00a0Bringing them Home Report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2008 then prime minister Kevin Rudd gave a historic\u00a0apology\u00a0to the Stolen Generations survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While these were important steps towards healing and reconciliation, there&#8217;s still a long journey ahead.\u00a0So far, governments have been struggling to &#8216;close the gap&#8217; when it comes to Indigenous mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The healing programs, however, seem to be making a difference in bridging this gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And 81-year-old Stolen Generations survivor Aunty Lorraine Peeters is a pioneer here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This Weilwun and Gamilaroi woman from western NSW has been on a long journey of healing after being taken from her family at the tender age of four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mainstream mental health care has often failed Indigenous people, she says, by focussing on behaviours like drinking rather than what&#8217;s driving them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>&#8220;So being assessed for my behaviour, not for what I&#8217;m feeling. Not for my story. They&#8217;re not interested in that.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Indigenous psychologist Kelleigh Ryan, who specialises in trauma healing, combining Western and Indigenous knowledge systems, agrees with Aunty Lorraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We know a lot of the symptoms that we treat \u2014 and that we&#8217;re funded to treat \u2014 are not the problem. They&#8217;re merely the symptoms of the problem,&#8221; says Ms Ryan, who is a descendant of the Kabi Kabi people of south east Queensland and of Australian South Sea Islanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She says problematic behaviour such as addictions are normally the coping behaviour of deep pain, usually trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;So I can teach you all sorts of cognitive and behavioural skills to manage that addiction. But if I don&#8217;t heal the pain now, that pain will come out some other way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The legacy of trauma<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The trauma of the estimated 17,000 survivors doesn&#8217;t just sit with them \u2014 left unhealed it can pass from parents to children. And there are about 100,000 second generation descendants of survivors spread across Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This intergenerational trauma caused by past forced removals has been\u00a0linked\u00a0to higher rates of family violence, suicide and incarceration in today&#8217;s Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ms Ryan sits on the board of the\u00a0Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association\u00a0and says assessment and treatment often miss the mark because a lack of trauma awareness and lack ofcultural sensitivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mainstream approaches can also misunderstand Indigenous grief processes, which might for some include seeing or hearing spirits of deceased aunties and uncles, she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;So, if that person is actually in a grieving process and that&#8217;s quite normal, then treating them like they have psychosis or schizophrenia would further harm them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community-led programs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One move to counter this is the training of more Indigenous psychologists like Ms Ryan. Another is bettertraining non-Indigenous mental health care practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2016 the Australian Psychological Society offered its own\u00a0apology\u00a0to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, vowing they would listen more to them in the future, collaborate more and follow more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/cm\/rimage\/12225758-4x3-large.jpg?v=2\" alt=\"Kelleigh Ryan Indigenous psychologist\"\/><figcaption><em><strong>Indigenous psychologist Kelleigh Ryan works with communities<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, Indigenous communities themselves have been taking the lead, including Aunty Lorraine who set up the\u00a0Marumali Program\u00a0of healing based on her own experiences 20 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ms Ryan says there are an eclectic range of healing programs around today, which makes sense because addressing intergenerational trauma is not one-size-fits-all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2012, a\u00a0review of Indigenous healing programs\u00a0from around the world was released by\u00a0The Healing Foundation, which is a government-funded body that supports Stolen Generations and their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It found that such programs tended to focus on collective approaches to healing \u2014 not just of the individual, but the community they are connected to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They also drew strongly on Indigenous healing knowledge and the idea that connection to culture is important in wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Working with communities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/cm\/rimage\/12219662-4x3-large.jpg?v=3\" alt=\"Aunty Lorraine Peeters (in the centre, wearing green) gives healing workshops across the country.\"\/><figcaption><strong><em>Connecting to culture is an important part of community-led healing, says Aunty Lorraine Peeters (in the centre, wearing green)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The trend today is for governments to fund researchers and practitioners to work with communities to &#8220;co-design&#8221; programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The idea is to use the community&#8217;s knowledge about the problems they&#8217;re facing to find the likely most effective solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;[For example], is it running men&#8217;s groups? Is actually giving the men somewhere to be so that they&#8217;re not drinking, not getting violent, not being frustrated &#8230; not having to act out their pain and sorrow in their community?&#8221; says Ms Ryan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But, she says, proper co-design can be challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>&#8220;The person who has the funding has to actually be prepared to give up some of the power.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They have to build trust with the community before they can get a working relationship going, she adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And then they have to design a program, including measures of success, which are guided by what&#8217;s important to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;That&#8217;s not easy, especially if it&#8217;s your funding, and you also have KPIs to meet and you also have a belief system.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Culturally-appropriate evaluation key to success<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Healing Foundation found in their\u00a02012 review\u00a0that the most effective healing programs addressed local community issues, valued cultural connectedness, and empowered the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ms Ryan argues a successful healing program is one in which individuals use what they learn to influence others in their community, to understand and heal their collective trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But she says mainstream models of evaluation focus on counting things like how many people were trained, and ticking off what symptoms were treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Just as assessment and treatment needs to be culturally appropriate, she argues so does evaluation of healing programs.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/cm\/rimage\/12244312-4x3-large.jpg?v=2\" alt=\"A younger woman holding an older woman\"\/><figcaption><em><strong>Healing takes a lot of care<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ms Ryan is also concerned about the short-term nature of funding, that undermines building of trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Trauma is not a quick fix,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>&#8220;A lot of programs are funded for one year. Intergenerational trauma needs more than six sessions.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Why would someone from the Stolen Generations trust you? 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