Family Violence and Aboriginal Communities: Building Our Knowledge and Direction through Community Based Research and Community Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
L. Jane McMillan
Description
Study conducted over five years consulted with over 150 Mi'kmaq through interviews, focus groups, and community forums in order to develop strategies to address violence.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, vol. 77, no. 4, 2009, p. 751–762
Description
Examines the meaning of healing among the staff and clients of a Native American community-based counseling program regarding the therapeutic approach used to address the harmful psychosocial legacy of the Aboriginal residential schools.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-18
Description
Authors examine the current understandings of trauma and the resulting frameworks for treatment and healing; use critical literature review to make recommendations for effective trauma treatments for residential school survivors.
Discusses the qualities necessary for facilitating the healing process and things that may be accomplished by using a variety of western or traditional tools.
Presents brief articles concerning residential school misconceptions and history, current efforts to address impacts, work of the foundation, and challenges that lay ahead.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 11-31
Description
Looks at the key findings of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and its relevance to residential school experience.
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, Lecture 4
[2018 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Tanya Talaga
Description
Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the fourth of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Saskatoon.
In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities. In this Lecture Talaga focuses specifically on healthcare and the disparity in the quality of care available to Indigenous peoples.
Duration: 53:59
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, vol. 38, no. 5, Special Issue, September 2012, pp. 421-427
Description
Compares adults who either attended boarding schools or were raised by someone who had attended to those with no boarding school history. Reports higher rates of illegal drug use and alcohol use disorder with an association.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal Peoples, March 2007, pp. 79-95
Description
Looks at the activities undertaken by Thessalon First Nation in the development of a social safety net to deal with the inter-generational effects of the residential school system on the family and community.
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, Lecture 5
[2018 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Tanya Talaga
Description
Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the fifth of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Thunder Bay.
In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities, and advocates for Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance.
Duration: 53:59