Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 6, November-December 2002, p. 10
Description
Reports on a project that provides a culturally safe environment where women could recover from mental illnesses and substance abuse by employing art therapeutically.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 257-264
Description
Looks at the success of this program which meets the spiritual, medical and psychosocial needs of Native Americans based on community involvement and cultural relevance.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 860-866
Description
Examines the prevalence and clinical correlates of pathological gambling among 1228 American Indian and Hispanic American veterans in the southwest and north central regions of the United States.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 273-280
Description
Outlines the overlap between sexual, physical and substance abuse and increased HIV risk behaviours amid urban Native women in the San Francisco Bay area.
Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology Studies in Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute of Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, 2005.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 7, July 2005, pp. 1238-1244
Description
Describes a public-health-oriented suicidal-behavior prevention program among youths living on an American Indian reservation, and the success in achieving less suicide attempts.
International Journal of Nursing Practice, vol. 11, no. 5, October 2005, pp. 237-241
Description
Contends innovative leadership and clinical practices can benefit the design and delivery of mental health services as well as the individuals for whom it is intended.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol, vol. 63, no. 1, January 2002, pp. 18-24
Description
Study found psychiatric disorders in children and alcohol dependence in parents not correlated, however children living in a single parent households may have increased rates of certain disorders.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2005, pp. 97-147
Description
Book reviews of:
Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes by Michael L. Jennings.
Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson.
Choctaw Tales collected and annotated by Tom Mould.
De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois edited and translated by John L. Steckley.
Evil Corn by Adrian C. Louis.
Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately? by Harvey Arden.
Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 691-706
Description
Author combines Buddhist teaching and the traditional teachings of the Indigenous peoples of the North West Coast to talk about healing from trauma and loss.