Outlines potential recipients, effective treatments, and principles guiding application. Uses evidence-based approach supplemented by expertise of members of the National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee.
Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being
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Joseph P. Gone
Description
Sidebar for Chapter 15: Mental Health in the Realm of Primary Prevention in book Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being (2nd Edition) edited by Larry Cohen, Vivian Chazeg and Sana Chehimi.
Conversation with Traveling Thunder at Fort Belknap reservation.
American Indian & Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 17, no. 1, 2010, pp. 25-48
Description
Outlines the results of a study, using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, which suggests physical activity greatly improves overall health.
Outlines recommendations resulting from the experiences of the interviewees: interventions with aboriginal individuals contemplating suicide, training and needs of suicide prevention workers, and organization of services.
Discusses Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn's film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open set in Vancouver, BC. The film is about the interactions between two Indigenous women in a lower income neighborhood.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, Technologies Créatives / Creative Technologies, 2010, pp. 39-59
Description
Examines the connection between body and technology and wellness. Also seeks understanding of why local residents consider traditional activities a solution to social problems such as substance abuse.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, September 1979, pp. 32-33
Description
Describes the social and health problems of, 'petrol' (gasoline) sniffing by Aboriginal youth in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia.
Secretariat of National Aboriginal & Islander Child Care Inc. (SNAICC)
Description
Brief discussion of issues as well as recommendations in seven key areas: access to technology; service workforce and funding arrangements; mental health; family violence; prevention and early intervention; support for kinship carers; and family and cultural contact, reunification and permanent care.
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 135-144
Description
Discusses research in Indigenous studies using three themes: worldview and ethics, culturally based research methods and researching both the sources and symptoms of disadvantage.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 27, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1-20
Description
Uses results of parent/caregivers satisfaction interviews and surveys to evaluate the Pathways Youth Program, which integrates culturally appropriate approaches to teaching about health and wellness.
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 258-270
Description
Outlines the research process, key challenges and lessons learned in a collaborative First Nations suicide prevention project conducted with eight north-western Manitoba First Nations communities.
Looks at school related outcomes and self-concept from a sampling of grade 4 - 8 students in northwestern Ontario. Results indicate Aboriginal students have the same or higher self-worth and competence compared to non-Aboriginal students.
Abstracts of works in the Research Series.
Aboriginal Sexual Offending in Canada by John H. Hylton.
Mental Health Profiles for a Sample of British Columbia's Aboriginal Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System by Raymond R. Corrado, Irwin M.
[Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment Project?]
Description
Hands-on activities were developed to work with Indigenous Wellness Framework, which resulted from the project Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment. Designed to foster a closer spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical connection to Indigenous culture.
Related Material: Facilitator's Handbook
[Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment Project?]
Description
Designed to provide step-by-step guidance for helping clients think about how Indigenous culture can improve their well-being. Developed to work with Indigenous Wellness Framework, which resulted from the project Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention.
Related Material: Activity Guide
Comments on the experiences of survivors of the Jewish Holocaust, the Japanese American WWII camps and key events affecting Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Part 3 of 3.
Using a distinction-based approach, from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, to identify the relationship between schools, academics, and health in regards to perceived bullying for high school students in Canada.
Provides examples for health and social service providers in Ontario to help pregnant women create a support system. Includes list of resources for programs and services.