Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, vol. 5, no. 22, 2010, p. [?]
Description
Attempts to fill knowledge gap regarding occurrence, characteristics and relationship to drinking problems. Recommends community support and education as part of a prevention strategy.
Qikiqtani Truth Commission Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Commission was established to create a record of how government policies between 1950 and 1975 affected the Inuit living in the Baffin region. Report based testimonies and interviews, and archival research. Includes recommendations.
Examines reactions to the 2009 film by Warwick Thornton which is about bravery, hopelessness, optimism, and the struggles of two Indigenous youth, and the dialogues it has created.
Discussion on the effectiveness of a non-Aboriginal recovery system and the provision of culturally appropriate
services and programs to meet the needs of Aboriginal people.
Reports results from an adult and a youth survey regarding personal experiences, and nine focus groups. Themes and findings included victimization, the role of alcohol and drugs, reporting of incidents, perceptions of law enforcement and court responses, appropriate court sanctions, youth and teen dating violence, services and community awareness.
Public Health Reports, vol. 125, Supplement 4, 2010, p. 43–50
Description
Study identified sociocultural factors that contribute to rapid advancement of the disease; discusses the need for traditional healing practices to be included in treatment regimens.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 109-137
Description
Looks at how the concepts of ‘Kijigabandan’ and ‘Manadjitowin’ can assist Aboriginal social work to address two key barriers that often impede Aboriginal-specific harm reduction discussions, widespread support for abstinence and prohibition, and the belief that harm reduction and Aboriginal culture are incompatible.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 87-107
Description
Discusses the role of an Elder in counseling sessions with Aboriginal clinicians trained in Western healing intervention, providing insight into their problems both from an Aboriginal perspective as well as from a western clinical perspective.
Uses review of literature, focus group interviews, statistical data and the administration of Quality of Life for Homeless and Hard-to-House Individuals inventory to assess reasons for homelessness, gaps in services and potential solutions for individuals residing in Inuvik and communities in the Beaufort Delta.
Discusses government strategy which hopes to reduce the number of new infections; improve quality of life in infected individuals and reduce risk factors for acquisition of HIV infection.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 8, no. 1, Special Issue: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), 2013, pp. 26-40
Description
Article suggests that more attention should be given to the social aspects of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and the impacts on human service workers.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 5, September/October 2002, pp. 30-31
Description
Service manager of the service explains the programming that has been developed after more than two years of consultations with Aboriginal communities along Australia's South Coast.
Spirituality in the 21st Century: Journeys Beyond Entrenched Boundaries
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Stephanie McKenzie
Description
Looks at spiritual, moral and physical damages resulting from the destruction of culture and traditional belief systems.
Chapter in book: Spirituality in the 21st Century: Journeys Beyond Entrenched Boundaries edited by Wim Van Moer, Duysal Aşkun Çelik and John L. Hochheimer.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 36, no. 3, June 2002, pp. 404-410
Description
Study discusses differences in suicide methods and high levels of untreated mental illness and substance abuse among many of the individuals who had taken their own lives.