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Agency

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In this chapter the element of agency within the Aboriginal Family Wellbeing model of empowerment is presented. Here people take action toward making their lives, and those of others, better.

We do things that we never been doing… like taking my family out.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Mary Whiteside

  2. The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia

    Komla Tsey

  3. The Cairns Institute and School of Indigenous Australian Studies, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

    Yvonne Cadet-James

  4. The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

    Janya McCalman

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Whiteside, M., Tsey, K., Cadet-James, Y., McCalman, J. (2014). Agency. In: Promoting Aboriginal Health. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04618-1_6

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04618-1_6

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