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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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 362.2/08997071
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780774815239 9780774815253
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- RC451.5.I5
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- H44 2009eb
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (xxii, 503 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00223502 (OCoLC)758351844 (CaOOCEL)422886
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- List of Illustrations 10
- Foreword 12
- Preface 14
- PART 1 THE MENTAL HEALTH OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 24
- 1 The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Transformations of Identity and Community 26
- 2 Mental Health and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia and New Zealand 59
- 3 Culture and Aboriginality in the Study of Mental Health 79
- 4 Social Competence and Mental Health among Aboriginal Youth: An Integrative Developmental Perspective 103
- PART 2 SOCIAL SUFFERING: ORIGINS AND REPRESENTATIONS 130
- 5 A Colonial Double-Bind: Social and Historical Contexts of Innu Mental Health 132
- 6 Placing Violence against First Nations Children: The Use of Space and Place to Construct the (In)credible Violated Subject 163
- 7 Narratives of Hope and Despair in Downtown Eastside Vancouver 183
- 8 Suicide as a Way of Belonging: Causes and Consequences of Cluster Suicides in Aboriginal Communities 201
- 9 Disruptions in Nature, Disruptions in Society: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada and the “Making” of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome 219
- PART 3 RESILIENCE: TRANSFORMATIONS OF IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY 242
- 10 Cultural Continuity as a Moderator of Suicide Risk among Canada’s First Nations 244
- 11 The Origins of Northern Aboriginal Social Pathologies and the Quebec Cree Healing Movement 272
- 12 Toward a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History 295
- 13 Locating the Ecocentric Self: Inuit Concepts of Mental Health and Illness 312
- 14 Community Wellness and Social Action in the Canadian Arctic: Collective Agency as Subjective Well-Being 338
- PART 4 HEALING AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 358
- 15 Aboriginal Approaches to Counselling 360
- 16 Respecting the Medicines: Narrating an Aboriginal Identity 378
- 17 A Jurisdictional Tapestry and a Patchwork Quilt of Care: Aboriginal Health and Social Services in Montreal 404
- 18 Six Nations Mental Health Services: A Model of Care for Aboriginal Communities 424
- 19 Encountering Professional Psychology: Re-Envisioning Mental Health Services for Native North America 442
- 20 Conclusion: Healing / Invention / Tradition 463
- Contributors 496
- Index 504
- A 504
- B 506
- C 506
- D 509
- E 510
- F 511
- G 512
- H 512
- I 513
- J 515
- K 515
- L 515
- M 516
- N 518
- O 519
- P 519
- Q 520
- R 521
- S 521
- T 524
- U 525
- V 525
- W 525
- Y 526
- Z 526
