Effect of Racism on Mental Health of First Nations Peoples and Interventions

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
Clearly identifies a relevant consequence of racism..........................................................................3
Psychological framework to explain the cause of racism...................................................................3
Identify appropriate interventions......................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The concept of racism within Australia generally involves the Indigenous Australians
that can continue to be a subjected towards the racist higher administration policies as well as
community attitudes. In this, the racists attitudes within community to the Aboriginal people
have been confirmed as a continuing both the surveys of the Indigenous Australians as well
as the self-disclosure or the racist attitudes by the non-Indigenous Australians. The concept of
discrimination generally illustrates the different ranges of the behaviours as well as the
practices which results in an unfair and avoidable disparities in power, the resources as well
as the opportunities among groups within the community and can serve to empower the
systems of privilege and oppression. In the report, there is a discussion about the effects of
racism over the mental health of the Indigenous people. In addition to this, there is also a
discussion about the possible interventions towards the racism on the mental health of the
Indigenous people (Pierce et. al., 2020).
MAIN BODY
Clearly identifies a relevant consequence of racism.
The term Racism can be a widely defined as a type of the behaviours, the practices,
prejudices and beliefs which can underlie systemic as well as avoidable disparities within the
social power and the prospects among the groups within the community based on the
ethnicity, race, religions and culture. The concept race usually refers to a cultural, instead of
biological, structure of the identity based on the phenotypical appearance, communal ancestry
and a cultural heritage. Racism against the indigenous public is consistently reported across
nation and the racism has been acknowledged as a key factor of the well-being discrimination
which is challenged by the indigenous people. the racism can occur at the three basic
theoretical levels, that can overlap within practices such as internalised racism that is the
integration of beliefs in the worldview of a person who can experiences the racism that
outcomes in an inadequate circulation of the control among ethnic, racial, religions, beliefs,
and cultural. In this, interpersonal racism such as the racist interactions among people. In
addition to this, Institutional or a systemic racism such as the practices, formal policies, the
processes and a condition which can serve to enhance the power differentials among the
ethnic, racial, religious or cultural groups as well (Beagan, 2018).
The discrimination of racism is generally the expression of the racism via the
effective actions that are taken at an individual or an institutional level which can lead to
disparities among various ethnic, racial, religious and a cultural group. These such definitions