Cultural Safety Approach to Health Psychology

Pauline B. Thompson is Professor of Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University Brandywine Campus, USA. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, she has held academic appointments at Flinders University and the University of South Australia in Australia and Waikato University in New Zealand.Kerry Taylor is Associate Professor at Flinders University in South Australia. She has worked and taught in Indigenous health and education, including cultural awareness/safety teaching, for over 30 years.

• 1. Introduction and Terminology.- 2. Culture-focused Frameworks for Service Delivery.- 3. Cultural Safety.- 4. Models of Health and Wellbeing.- 5. History Taking.- 6. Consuming Research.- 7. Determinants of Health.- 8. Stats and Maps.- 9. Special Interests and Priority Areas.- 10. Capacity and Resilience.- 11. Intercultural Communication.- 12. Comparable Contexts.- 13. Reflection as a Tool of Culturally Safe Practice.