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Mental Health and poverty in East Nusa Tenggara-Indonesia: an Indigenous psychology perspective
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Mental Health and poverty in East Nusa Tenggara-Indonesia: an Indigenous psychology perspective

Yulius Yusak Ranimpi
USC Research Conference, 2014 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 14-Jul-2014–18-Jul-2014)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2014
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Sociology
There are no studies in Indonesia that have examined in detail the conceptions of mental health and poverty, and in particular, the linkages between them socially and culturally. The approaches used in Indonesia to examine mental health issues and poverty stem from largely Western paradigms of positivism and pathology. These approaches presuppose social and cultural phenomena as being relatively exact and universal. For example, the concept of mental health is significantly formed by definitions derived from the APA or WHO, while poverty is often understood in terminology and criteria developed by the World Bank. A PhD project at USC is examining the conceptions of poverty and mental health in among residents in a remote region of Indonesia and, using an indigenous psychological perspective, within a descriptive phenomenological framework, attempting to recognize the ways in which poverty, social situation and cultural interpretation may influence conceptions and representations of mental health. Outcomes of the study may enhance theoretical and policy representations of mental health and wellbeing in poor or disadvantaged communities existing within distinctive cultural and social traditions.

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