False Closure: Narratives of Trauma, Healing and American Nationhood
Theses
Author/Creator
Alison Fields
Description
American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2009.
Discusses how Indigenous and Western constructivist therapies can support and assist counsellors, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists and can positively impact Indigenous families.
Looks at Indigenous child development through the use of a medicine wheel.
Includes a report from the Cariboo Tribal Council, today known as the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council, entitled "Faith Misplaced: Lasting Effects of Abuse in a First Nations Community".