Healing Traditions

The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Av Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis

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Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse cultures but share common social and political challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness. This collection addresses the origins of mental health and social problems and the emergence of culturally responsive approaches to services and health promotion. Healing Traditions is not a handbook of practice but a resource for thinking critically about current issues in the mental health of indigenous peoples. Cross-cutting themes include: the impact of colonialism, sedentarization, and forced assimilation; the importance of land for indigenous identity and an ecocentric self; and processes of healing and spirituality as sources of resilience.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-07-01
Mått178 x 254 x undefined mm
Vikt840 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor528
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774815246

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Laurence J. Kirmayer is James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University; Director of the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit of the Institute for Community and Family Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal; and Co-Director of the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research. Gail Guthrie Valaskakis was Director of Research, Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Ottawa, and Co-Director of the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research.

IllustrationsForewordPrefacePart 1: The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples1 The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Transformations of Identity and Community / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Caroline L. Tait, and Cori Simpson2 Mental Health and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia and New Zealand / Mason Durie, Helen Milroy, and Ernest Hunter3 Culture and Aboriginality in the Study of Mental Health / James B. Waldram4 Social Competence and Mental Health among Aboriginal Youth: An Integrative Developmental Perspective / Grace Iarocci, Rhoda Root, and Jacob A. BurackPart 2: Social Suffering: Origins and Representations5 A Colonial Double-Bind: Social and Historical Contexts of Innu Mental Health / Colin Samson6 Placing Violence against First Nations Children: The Use of Space and Place to Construct the (In)credible Violated Subject / Jo-Anne Fiske7 Narratives of Hope and Despair in Downtown Eastside Vancouver / Dara Culhane8 Suicide as a Way of Belonging: Causes and Consequences of Cluster Suicides in Aboriginal Communities / Ronald Niezen9 Disruptions in Nature, Disruptions in Society: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada and the "Making" of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Caroline L. TaitPart 3: Resilience: Transformations of Identity and Community10 Cultural Continuity as a Moderator of Suicide Risk among Canada's First Nations / Michael J. Chandler and Christopher E. Lalonde11 The Origins of Northern Aboriginal Social Pathologies and the Quebec Cree Healing Movement / Adrian Tanner12 Toward a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History / Naomi Adelson13 Locating the Ecocentric Self: Inuit Concepts of Mental Health and Illness / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Christopher Fletcher, and Robert Watt14 Community Wellness and Social Action in the Canadian Arctic: Collective Agency as Subjective Well-Being / Michael J. Kral and Lori IdloutPart 4: Healing and Mental Health Services15 Aboriginal Approaches to Counselling / Rod McCormick16 Respecting the Medicines: Narrating an Aboriginal Identity / Gregory M. Brass17 A Jurisdictional Tapestry and a Patchwork Quilt of Care: Aboriginal Health and Social Services in Montreal / Mary Ellen Macdonald18 Six Nations Mental Health Services: A Model of Care for Aboriginal Communities / Cornelia Wieman19 Encountering Professional Psychology: Re-Envisioning Mental Health Services for Native North America / Joseph P. Gone20 Conclusion: Healing / Invention / Tradition / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gregory M. Brass, and Gail Guthrie ValaskakisContributorsIndex