Social-Emotional Development Domain

[SOCIAL AND
EMOTIONAL WELL-
BEING]
2019

Main purpose of this essay is to examine and identify explanation of SEWB used and applied
in the framework of the Aboriginals in Australia; this definition is completely based on their
perspective and is very different from the definition accepted by the Western mental health
definition. This paper will use scholarly and academic articles based on the proper
identification of the social determiners prevailing in the Aboriginals community and changes
made by the health care associations by applying well-structured framework of SEWB for the
development of health services among Aboriginals communities in Australia (Australian
Human Rights Commission; 2011).
This section will discuss difference between the concept of Social and Emotional Well-Being
(SEWB) among Western mental health association and Aboriginal community as;
Indigenous community includes two main divisions Torres Strait Islander People and
Aboriginal peoples who are assumed to live in the land of Australia from ancient decades but
arrival of Europeans changed their entire life and affected them in a very negative manner of
discrimination (Bennet, 2015). Discrimination with the Aboriginal Community of Australia
was very high hence this affected their cultural, social and emotional factors they define
Social and Emotional Well-being in a very different manner from the Western perspective.
Indigenous community covers approximately 2.5 per cent of the total population in Australia,
but this community have a lower life expectancy and high death rate in the country which is a
very challenging situation (AIHW, 2019).
Social and cultural determiners in the Aboriginals play a very significant role in determining
the mental health and emotional well-being in a community because SEWB framework
include varieties of inter-related factors life, mind, feelings and emotions, relationship and
family living, community environment, culture, belief and social experiences. These factors

after colonisation became very critical and affected their life hence indigenous community
involve the major impacts of those challenges on their SEWB determiners as;
Source: (Dudgeon, Bray, D'Costa, & Walker, 2017)
These factors affect the definition of well-being in the community. The proper definition
given by the Aboriginal for their mental health issue is based on the experiences they faced in
the past. Social discrimination, illegal torcher, inequality in the living and prohibition on
them to take part in education and development program affected the community and they
include these all factors in their life very seriously (Bennet, 2015). According to the faiths