title: Woman dancing dreaming: Psychosocial benefits of the aboriginal outstation movement.
abstract: The establishment of an Aboriginal outstation, or small autonomous community, is described. Some of the beneficial psychosocial changes observed during an eighteen-month period are described, and some possible reasons for them outlined. The outstation movement is presented as a viable, Aboriginal-initiated solution to some of the dilemmas facing present-day Australian Aborigines.
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001315:Australia; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D012922:Social Change; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012931:Social Environment; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples