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Cultural Safety in Practice
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Cultural Safety in Practice
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Description
Now in its fourth edition, this core textbook offers a comprehensive framework for creating a culturally safe environment and enhancing health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Through case studies, discussions, reflections and critiques of health issues in Australia today, Health Care and Indigenous Australians offers a starting point for learning about cultural safety in an Indigenous health context, and is essential for students, academics and practitioners alike.
New to this edition:
- New indigenous co-author and a range of indigenous chapter contributors.
- Incorporates a strengths-based approach to working with and talking about Indigenous health.
- Discussion of intergenerational trauma.
- New chapters on social and emotional wellbeing, decolonising practice, racism, discrimination and truth telling.
- Expanded discussion on the continuum of cultural safety.
- Discussion on the nuances of reflective and reflexive practice.
- Updated research, referencing, policy and statistics.
- A focus on decolonisation throughout and how colonialism can impact practice.
- New case studies and scenarios.
This is key reading for anyone taking Indigenous health modules on nursing, midwifery and health related courses at undergraduate or postgraduate level, as well practitioners and academics.
Table of Contents
1. Health and Indigenous people
2. Cultural safety and other cultural frameworks
3. Reflection and reflexive practice
4. Taking a 'history'
5. Determinants of health
6. Intercultural communications
7. Racism, discrimination & truth telling
8. Decolonising practice
9. Social and emotional wellbeing
10. Health services and workforce issues
11. Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing
12. Changing the discourse
13. Indigenous health in a global context
14. Putting cultural safety into practice
Index
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 4th |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350562080 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 25 B&W |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

























