Back from the Bush

• Main Author: Howard, Damien
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10673594

People generally assume that the initial culture shock of going to work in a remote area is the major transition people will experience in going bush. However, returning from the bush (remote areas of the Northern Territory) can also be a major transition people need to cope with. Returning from working in remote cross-cultural contexts can be as or more challenging that initially going bush. People may experience 'reverse culture shock'. This document was developed originally for the Australian Education Union NT to assist teachers returning from the bush. It has content from work carried by Christian Fourcard as part of his postgraduate training in Psychology. Later Anne Lord, a school psychologist from Western Australia did some more work on it. Content was added to and edited by me (Dr Damien Howard). I am a psychologist interested in the wellbeing of people working remote – both Non First Nations and First Nations.