Aboriginal Mental Health: The Statistical Reality
Discusses treatment frameworks for mental illness and social ills.
Discusses treatment frameworks for mental illness and social ills.
Shares the experiences of a Métis man who has struggled with his bipolar disease.
Presents a brief overview of the work of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
Comments on 10 goals and initiatives the Native Mental Health Association of Canada has committed to.
Comments on the effects of unemployment.
Looks at a workshop held at Alert Bay, British Columbia to promote an understanding, by the media, about the health issues affecting Aboriginal people and their resiliency in the face of adversities.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.16.
Discusses ways to reduce alcohol and drug abuse among Aboriginal people.
Presents a story of a top student turned drug addict and how she turned her life around.
Explores problems some Aboriginal communities have recruiting and retaining health care professionals.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.22.
Summary of a 3 year study which looked into how to improve mental health and addiction services to be more responsive to the needs of Aboriginal people.
Author describes resilience and what it means to her.