Dr Tracy Westerman AM

Nyamal woman, MPsych/PhD Clin Psych; 2018 Aust of the Yr (WA);3 xMarathoner, Founder Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health E:[email protected]

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

36 hours ago my paper on Aboriginal-specific testing of attachment theory went live.

It’s now #8 in Clinical Psychologist. Top 4% of 32 million research outputs globally. Altmetric score of 44 and still climbing.

This is what happens when a question has been waiting to be asked.

Share, repost, comment — every interaction counts.
https://t.co/rKxCr7gf4o

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Please share widely.
My paper has just been published in Clinical Psychologist: “Arguing the need for Aboriginal specific testing of attachment theory as a foundation of culturally informed child protection and attachment best practice.”

This paper, I believe is critically important to reducing Indigenous child removals.

The gap it documents is this: Aboriginal child removals have increased 119% over a decade. Non-Indigenous removals are down 12%. And the primary scientific tool used to assess infant attachment — Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Procedure — has been validated in more than 40 countries. Never with Aboriginal Australians.

That is not a footnote. That is a foundation missing from every child protection decision made about Aboriginal families by a workforce that is 94% non-Indigenous.

Based on over two decades of original research and clinical work, this paper presents new models for understanding culturally informed attachment — including collective caregiving, kinship obligation, skin and avoidance relationships, race-mediated trauma, and Black Identity Formation — and what it means for assessment and treatment.

The Westerman Jilya Institute has secured funding to do what this paper argues is urgently needed: validate the SSP with Aboriginal children for the first time, and build the first evidence-based attachment program designed from within Aboriginal culture.

https://t.co/rKxCr7gf4o

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Rosie O’Donnell on Trump: “If you grew up in New York you knew he was an asshole and a liar from day one. He is a con man, he is a narcissist, and he is a psychopath if you ask me”

[Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch @SpeakerWelchIL]

This interview hurt my soul. The mistreatment of black women and journalists by this President is down right embarrassing and unacceptable. Kristin Welker is neither crooked or stupid. She is a history making journalist who has earned the right to be respected. The President should apologize immediately.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Such a devastating loss. Former Australian of the Year Professor Richard Scolyer dies. Vale https://t.co/Ce6aERPyae

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

*Literal baby cries whines shits and moans*

“He’s still got it.”

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

This guy is completely unhinged

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Such a devastating loss. Former Australian of the Year Professor Richard Scolyer dies. Vale https://t.co/Ce6aERPyae

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

New in Clinical Psychologist: my paper titled; “Arguing the need for Aboriginal-specific testing in child protection and attachment best practice”.
Aboriginal kids are being assessed with tools never validated for them — in the highest-stakes decisions there are.
Read & cite: https://t.co/bwUJZHWlej

@NITV @ABC @koorimailnews @NJP_Au

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

36 hours ago my paper on Aboriginal-specific testing of attachment theory went live.

It’s now #8 in Clinical Psychologist. Top 4% of 32 million research outputs globally. Altmetric score of 44 and still climbing.

This is what happens when a question has been waiting to be asked.

Share, repost, comment — every interaction counts.
https://t.co/rKxCr7gf4o

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Wait…Did he just say checkered past ? I’m 28 felonies, 6 bankruptcies, and an Epstein bromance short of his checkered past.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I don't know why any of you haters are surprised I'm the one actually engaging here.

You're the ones who've obsessively pored over the 10,000 photos, the 30,000 text messages, and the 128,000 emails from my hacked iCloud and stolen devices.

If I am anything, I am prolific.

You know what you won't find? Any of the most heinous, hateful things you keep posting about me.

What you'll find from me here is the same thing you found there.

Total transparency. Finally on my terms. Not yours.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Glorification? There was zero glory in my addiction. It was truly the most excruciatingly humiliating and degrading experience you could possibly imagine. I wanted to commit suicide almost daliy, but didn’t have the courage for even that. Instead I’d reach for the pipe or the bottle. The cowards way out. The guilt. The shame. The hurt. The absolute misery of it. Yet here I am. And I am not alone. There are millions upon millions of us. We don’t all agree on politics or people or who we root for on Sunday. But we all have the shared experience of walking through that fire and surviving. I chose to live. That’s not a joke.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

What Mike said

Journalism in Australia cannot possibly sink to any lower depths than it has.
It’s embarrassing

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

@FamilyPathwayWA @FNAAFV_FVPLS @court_crisis @AMSANTaus @KWY147

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Please share widely.
My paper has just been published in Clinical Psychologist: “Arguing the need for Aboriginal specific testing of attachment theory as a foundation of culturally informed child protection and attachment best practice.”

This paper, I believe is critically important to reducing Indigenous child removals.

The gap it documents is this: Aboriginal child removals have increased 119% over a decade. Non-Indigenous removals are down 12%. And the primary scientific tool used to assess infant attachment — Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Procedure — has been validated in more than 40 countries. Never with Aboriginal Australians.

That is not a footnote. That is a foundation missing from every child protection decision made about Aboriginal families by a workforce that is 94% non-Indigenous.

Based on over two decades of original research and clinical work, this paper presents new models for understanding culturally informed attachment — including collective caregiving, kinship obligation, skin and avoidance relationships, race-mediated trauma, and Black Identity Formation — and what it means for assessment and treatment.

The Westerman Jilya Institute has secured funding to do what this paper argues is urgently needed: validate the SSP with Aboriginal children for the first time, and build the first evidence-based attachment program designed from within Aboriginal culture.

https://t.co/rKxCr7gf4o

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

@twm7777 It’s a wonder the bible didn’t combust

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

“Reads the bible eloquently”

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

HAHAHAHA

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Absolutely right, Australia cannot be a global police force. The only reason Labor is pretending we can is because they want to draw us closer to the US and it's next war.

Defense should do just that, defend Australia not threaten our neighbors.

https://t.co/wsbkuFMaMP

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

The cruelty and indifference this Sydney mum faced when she went to the police for help and instead died alone, in distress, in prison is hard to believe. But this is what prisons in Australia do. We need to be helping, not punishing, people like Tammy. https://t.co/U05XRc4OWr