Exploring Colonization and Mental Health from the Perspective of a First Nations Community in Labrador
Social Work Thesis (MSW) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2020.
Social Work Thesis (MSW) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2020.
Reprint of a contracted report including recommendations, based on 1997-1998 interviews in the Springhill Institution, Prison for Women, the Regional Psychiatric Centre (Prairies) and the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. Report notes significant drop in percentage of Aboriginal women incarcerated during period of report writing.
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.
Discuss the training of Indigenous facilitators to use traditional Indigenous medicine in compliment with contemporary treatments to reduce the effects of intergenerational trauma.