Past Programs
Indigenous - Other Peoples - 2004
Part 2 of 2 - Aotearoa Minds: Maoris Taking on Mental Health
05/06/2004
In the Land of the Long White Cloud, Maori minds are being challenged, but indigenous New Zealanders are leading the charge to change that. In the second part of this All in the Mind series, Natasha Mitchell visits a team injecting Maori traditions back into the fractured lives of people with psychiatric illness. How do Maori views of depression, schizophrenia and psychotherapy diverge from Western psychiatry? And how does the NZ scenario compare with that for indigenous Australians? Leaps and bounds ahead argues one leading specialist in Aboriginal mental health.
Part 1 of 2 - Aotearoa Minds: Maoris Taking on Mental Health
29/05/2004
In the Land of the Long White Cloud, Maori minds are being challenged. Drug abuse, domestic violence, poverty and colonisation have taken their toll, and mental health has become a critical concern for New Zealand's indigenous communities. But over the last decade, a revolution has taken place to reinject Maori values into services and policy, and at the centre of this transformation sits the Treaty of Waitangi. In this special feature, the first of two parts, Natasha Mitchell explores ideas about the mind, body and health with leading Maori movers and shakers.
