. Discusses the link between poverty (state of being extremely poor) and mental health / illness with reference to primary health care principle and practices.

The term mental illness is defined, as a health issues that considerably affects how people thinks, behaves and cooperate with other people (Government of Western Australia Mental Health Commission, 2010). The word poverty means not be able to have basic needs such as food, health care, clothing, and education.

Aboriginal community is suffering from different types of issues such as lack of medical and disability services, litter education, high rate of unemployment, broken families and high crime rates due to all this issues the individual lead to mental illness.

According to Scaraceno (1997), stated that poverty is one of the main risk factors of progressing mental health illness among Aboriginal community.

In Aboriginal community, economic poverty is not the main issue that public are going through however, spiritual, emotional, behaves poverty pass through generation-to-generation, which affects whole community. The outcomes of spiritual, emotional, economic poverty plenty of people develops mental illness which lead them for suicide case (Bowers, 2013). Lack of education on social and health wellbeing cause depression and stress, which becomes worsen when time pass and lead to metal health issues.

2. Identifies and explains tools, techniques and skills used to promote mental health and wellbeing.

There are few techniques, skills and tools that are mentioned in the deadly thinking documentary, which is self-help techniques, seeking help, problem solving skill and good listening skills. Those tools, techniques and skills are used to primary prevent mental health and social well being in remote area of Aboriginal community. Self help is a technique that is use for your own to prevent mental illness such as continually doing daily activities, talking to other people about issues that they going through. Seeking help is another technique which means reaching out to a family, friends or some health profession with whom we can get a different point of view such as talking to your family and friends and asking for their opinion.

Aboriginal people are more than happy to have someone from their own community member to use those techniques and skills to assist other people for example, participator in the documentary stated that, it would be more beneficial if they get care from their own people. Most of people are willing to express or talk about their feeling to the person / health professional who are same culture, who understand their own language and who been through the similar situation. Therefore the techniques and skills were educated for natural helper and Aboriginal people.

Participators who participate in deadly thinking workshop stated that the techniques, tools and skills that were taught during workshop was very useful for them to use it individually and for their loves ones to primary prevent mental illness without clinical treatments.

3. Explain how community participation may contribute to the promotion of health and wellbeing.

Community is the group of people living with the same values and beliefs.

Health and wellbeing promotion works through concrete and successful community action in setting main concern, making decisions, planning strategies and implementing them to achieve better health and social wellbeing. Deadly thinking workshop brought whole community into one and educates them to raise their issues and to take action to solve the problem within community for example, in the documentary participator are stating that they can help by listening to each others.

According to Robinson (2011), the purpose of workshop is to draw out two ways understanding about emotional wellbeing issues and defensive reason and to make available structure for community leaders to help ongoing discussion and information sessions.

4. Explains the role of education in community based primary prevention

Kelher & Macdougall (2011) defined “primary prevention is about preventing illness or disease before it occurs and may include interventions such as health education, screening and immunisation”. The primary prevention is the one of the most important technique that is used to make mental health a safe topic in a deadly thinking workshop.

The main purpose of deadly thinking workshop is to educate an Aboriginal people on social and health well being. Their goal is to preventing mental health illness, which is very common illness in Aboriginal community.

The deadly thinking workshop gives education on how to prevent illness and disease before it occurs to become serious. The participator talks about how deadly thinking workshop helped them to build up trust and feel comfortable enough to share their personal experience with other people in the group. Aboriginal people who participate deadly thinking workshop knows how to recognise the symptoms in yourself and others, information about suicide and where to get help, importance of expressing their feelings with family and friends moreover, they explains the main causes of mental illness.

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