Anni Hine Moana
Dr. Anni Hine Moana is a lecturer in the Master of Addictive Behaviours in the School of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health at Turning Point, Monash University.
She was born in Naarm/Melbourne and completed studies at The University of Melbourne, Deakin University V.U. and La Trobe University.
Anni has worked for many years in higher education at a number of Universities and in mental health and alcohol and other drug (AOD) services as a counsellor, trainer and counselling supervisor.
Anni is a unit coordinator for Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Addiction, Addiction Treatment and engaged in the redevelopment of a number of units in the Master of Addictive Behaviours.
Anni has worked as a researcher at the University of Melbourne in the Indigenous Health Equity Centre and taught undergraduate and post-graduate students in Addiction Studies, Counselling, Multicultural approaches to Health and Wellbeing and Alcohol and other Drug Treatment.
She currently supervises Masters students undertaking a Masters in Addiction by research.
Anni served as a committee member of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of Victoria (CAPAV) prior to its amalgamation with PACFA.
She is a Member of the Australian Counselling Association.
Anni’s approach to teaching and research has been shaped by client centered practices and post modernist ideas as expressed through narrative therapy. Research interests include the relationship of experiences of trauma and the self-conscious emotion of shame to the development of problems with alcohol and other substances, participatory action research, culturally safe approaches to counselling, language and the impacts of settler-colonisation on Indigenous peoples.
Supervisors: Professor Victoria Manning Turning Point Monash University, Dr.Kirsten Schliephake, Course Director Graduate Programs in Addictive Behaviours Turning Point Monash University, and Dr.Peter McKenzie The Bouverie Centre La Trobe University
Phone: 0433 606 707
Address: Naarm
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
She was born in Naarm/Melbourne and completed studies at The University of Melbourne, Deakin University V.U. and La Trobe University.
Anni has worked for many years in higher education at a number of Universities and in mental health and alcohol and other drug (AOD) services as a counsellor, trainer and counselling supervisor.
Anni is a unit coordinator for Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Addiction, Addiction Treatment and engaged in the redevelopment of a number of units in the Master of Addictive Behaviours.
Anni has worked as a researcher at the University of Melbourne in the Indigenous Health Equity Centre and taught undergraduate and post-graduate students in Addiction Studies, Counselling, Multicultural approaches to Health and Wellbeing and Alcohol and other Drug Treatment.
She currently supervises Masters students undertaking a Masters in Addiction by research.
Anni served as a committee member of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of Victoria (CAPAV) prior to its amalgamation with PACFA.
She is a Member of the Australian Counselling Association.
Anni’s approach to teaching and research has been shaped by client centered practices and post modernist ideas as expressed through narrative therapy. Research interests include the relationship of experiences of trauma and the self-conscious emotion of shame to the development of problems with alcohol and other substances, participatory action research, culturally safe approaches to counselling, language and the impacts of settler-colonisation on Indigenous peoples.
Supervisors: Professor Victoria Manning Turning Point Monash University, Dr.Kirsten Schliephake, Course Director Graduate Programs in Addictive Behaviours Turning Point Monash University, and Dr.Peter McKenzie The Bouverie Centre La Trobe University
Phone: 0433 606 707
Address: Naarm
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
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It has been reported that the high prevalence of alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems among Aboriginal Australians (Wilson, Grey, Stearne & Saggers, 2010) bears a direct relationship to the devastating effects of colonisation and its practices (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1997, 2008). Although social science is often based on what is purported to be ‘objective research’, much of the discourse within the field serves to uphold a widespread view of Aboriginal Australians as being somehow in deficit. This paper will explore not only how the construction of deficit narratives based on notions of race (Friere, 1970; Solorzano & Yosso, 2002) has distorted and silenced the narratives of Aboriginal Australians, but also how modernist therapeutic discourse, in representing AOD issues in a manner that locates the problem within the individual, can create counter-productive situations.
Narrative methodologies rest on the critique of established therapeutic discourses as to how a ‘problem’ is constituted, and propose to de- and re-constitute the problem in a manner that attends to social, historical and political contexts. In describing a problem as being constituted through specific events, narrative methodological approaches contextualise consumption in a manner that challenges dominant social narratives. Such methodologies have profound implications for how counselling may be performed.
In presenting a case for providing culturally safe ways of working therapeutically with Aboriginal Australians experiencing problems with AOD use, the benefits of including therapeutic discourses that recognise the power of language, the relativity of truth and the relational nature of objectivity would appear to be self-evident. Narrative approaches to therapy, originally developed in Australia out of collaborations between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal practitioners, have been reported to offer such a culturally safe approach through positioning each therapeutic subject, or person, as an expert on that person’s own lived experience (Wingard & Lester, 2001).
In this paper, I will be drawing on my doctoral research from my thesis: Healing in the Yarn: Exploring Culturally Acceptable Responses to Australian Aboriginal Women Who Have Experience of Feelings of Shame and are Seeking Counselling for Problems with Alcohol.
It has been established that the high prevalence of alcohol (and other drug) problems among Aboriginal Australians bears a direct relationship to the devastating effects of settler-colonisation.
Although social science is often based on what is seen as ‘objective research’, much of the discourse within the field serves to uphold a widespread view of Aboriginal Australians as being somehow in deficit. This paper will explore not only how modernist therapeutic discourse, in representing AOD issues in a manner that locates the problem within the individual can create situations which are counter- productive but how the construction of deficit narratives based on notions of race can affect social identity and lead to individuals experiencing high levels of the self conscious emotion shame. Research has shown that experiences of high levels of shame are linked to an increase in vulnerability to harmful alcohol use. Narrative methodologies rest on the critique of established therapeutic discourse as to how a “problem” is constituted, and proposes to address problem in a manner that pays attention to historical and political contexts.
In describing a problem as having been constituted through specific events, narrative methodological approaches contextualise alcohol problems in a manner that challenges dominant social narratives. Such methodologies have implications for how counselling may be performed. In presenting a case for culturally safe ways of counselling Aboriginal Australian women who are experiencing problems with alcohol, the benefits of including approaches that recognise the power of language, the relativity of truth and the relational nature of objectivity would appear to be self – evident.
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It has been reported that the high prevalence of alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems among Aboriginal Australians (Wilson, Grey, Stearne & Saggers, 2010) bears a direct relationship to the devastating effects of colonisation and its practices (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1997, 2008). Although social science is often based on what is purported to be ‘objective research’, much of the discourse within the field serves to uphold a widespread view of Aboriginal Australians as being somehow in deficit. This paper will explore not only how the construction of deficit narratives based on notions of race (Friere, 1970; Solorzano & Yosso, 2002) has distorted and silenced the narratives of Aboriginal Australians, but also how modernist therapeutic discourse, in representing AOD issues in a manner that locates the problem within the individual, can create counter-productive situations.
Narrative methodologies rest on the critique of established therapeutic discourses as to how a ‘problem’ is constituted, and propose to de- and re-constitute the problem in a manner that attends to social, historical and political contexts. In describing a problem as being constituted through specific events, narrative methodological approaches contextualise consumption in a manner that challenges dominant social narratives. Such methodologies have profound implications for how counselling may be performed.
In presenting a case for providing culturally safe ways of working therapeutically with Aboriginal Australians experiencing problems with AOD use, the benefits of including therapeutic discourses that recognise the power of language, the relativity of truth and the relational nature of objectivity would appear to be self-evident. Narrative approaches to therapy, originally developed in Australia out of collaborations between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal practitioners, have been reported to offer such a culturally safe approach through positioning each therapeutic subject, or person, as an expert on that person’s own lived experience (Wingard & Lester, 2001).
In this paper, I will be drawing on my doctoral research from my thesis: Healing in the Yarn: Exploring Culturally Acceptable Responses to Australian Aboriginal Women Who Have Experience of Feelings of Shame and are Seeking Counselling for Problems with Alcohol.
It has been established that the high prevalence of alcohol (and other drug) problems among Aboriginal Australians bears a direct relationship to the devastating effects of settler-colonisation.
Although social science is often based on what is seen as ‘objective research’, much of the discourse within the field serves to uphold a widespread view of Aboriginal Australians as being somehow in deficit. This paper will explore not only how modernist therapeutic discourse, in representing AOD issues in a manner that locates the problem within the individual can create situations which are counter- productive but how the construction of deficit narratives based on notions of race can affect social identity and lead to individuals experiencing high levels of the self conscious emotion shame. Research has shown that experiences of high levels of shame are linked to an increase in vulnerability to harmful alcohol use. Narrative methodologies rest on the critique of established therapeutic discourse as to how a “problem” is constituted, and proposes to address problem in a manner that pays attention to historical and political contexts.
In describing a problem as having been constituted through specific events, narrative methodological approaches contextualise alcohol problems in a manner that challenges dominant social narratives. Such methodologies have implications for how counselling may be performed. In presenting a case for culturally safe ways of counselling Aboriginal Australian women who are experiencing problems with alcohol, the benefits of including approaches that recognise the power of language, the relativity of truth and the relational nature of objectivity would appear to be self – evident.