Introduction. Indigenous Australians experience a disproportionately high burden of alcohol-related harm. Alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) offers the potential to reduce this harm if barriers to its delivery in Aboriginal Community

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We argue that a sense of agency has interpersonal origins and arises from a contingent coupling of the self and the social and material world. This perspective has implications for the assessment and conceptualization of a sense of agency in the empirical literature. We explore the development of a sense of agency as, in part, an implicit, embodied assumption that arises through the child's experience of "good-enough" contingent responsiveness from caregivers. We contend that a caregiver's capacity for audience uptake and access to a full range of feelings, coupled with the scaffolding of an infant's attempts at creating contingency in his or her environment, will affect the development of a sense of agency. Presenting the experience of infants in neonatal intensive care as an example, we raise a series of questions about the development of a sense of agency in an atypical early environment in which opportunities for interpersonal contingency may be limited.

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