Publications
Reports
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Report: Decision-Making, Emotion and Behaviour Regulation 18-25 Year-Olds: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective (2025)
The purposes of this report are to provide a neurodevelopmental overview of the ages 18 to 25 years, a period referred to as ‘young adulthood’. This period has unique psychosocial considerations that are distinct from the teenage and adult years. This period also has unique physical and biological considerations: although legally recognised as an adult, the young adult brain has not yet reached full maturation.
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Report: Impacts of Institutionalisation (2024)
The Impacts of Institutionalisation report is a psychiatric report authored by Dr Robyn Shields AM, an Aboriginal doctor from the Bunjalung Nation working in forensic psychiatry, and Dr Andrew Ellis, a forensic psychiatrist.
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Report: Significance of Culture to Wellbeing, Healing and Rehabilitation (2021)
A report by Vanessa Edwige, registered psychologist, and Dr Paul Gray, Associate Professor, UTS Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research. Both of the authors are Directors of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA).
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Research Papers
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Research Paper: Incarceration in Australia since 1967 – Trends in the Over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (2022)
A report by Dr Robyn Shields AM, an Aboriginal doctor from the Bunjalung Nation working in forensic psychiatry, and Dr Andrew Ellis, a forensic psychiatrist.
Read more: Research Paper: Incarceration in Australia since 1967 – Trends in the Over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (2022)