Culture & Mental Health Research Unit Report ; no.10
Proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Gregory M. Brass
Caroline L. Tait
Ernest Hunter
Duncan Pedersen ... James Waldram ... [et al.]
Culture & Mental Health Research Unit Report
Description
Reviews research on mental health; presents social issues underlying problems and some individual and community responses to these challenges. Argues cultural psychiatry can contribute to rethinking services and heath promotion.
American Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 48, no. 3-4, 2011, pp. 426-438
Description
Presents a study which demonstrates that family life is essential to Inuit conceptions of well-being and that interventions for mental health promotion should be community-based and family centered.