Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
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Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
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Opinion piece in which the author works to document their efforts to close the spatial distance between researcher and researched through a series of vignettes, and later reflects on the results of their work.
Ryan McMahon travels across Ontario talking to Indigenous leaders, lawyers, historians, researchers and policy makers about the building of roads and the effects on Indigenous people and their land. Includes stories about isolation from people of Shoal Lake 40.
Duration: 44:07.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 11, no. 1, Wellness-Based Indigenous Health Research and Promising Practices, 2016, pp. 50-74
Description
Comments on a palliative care model which reduces the disparities in access to quality palliative home care and is grounded in community values and Indigenous culture.
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 2, no. 2, Global Solidarity Symposium, 2016
Description
Presentation, by the Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre, University of Saskatchewan, at the Global Solidarity Symposium, State University of New York, November 7, 2016.
Duration: 37:07.
Research Project Report (Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network) ; 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John R. Sylliboy
Tuma Young
Description
Through 20 in-depth interviews project gathered information on socio-cultural context, state of mental health and well-being during process, and supports which were relied upon.
A Comment on John Rowzée Peyton and the Mound Builders: The Elevation of a 19th Century Fraud to a 20th Century Myth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeffrey K. Yelton
American Antiquity, vol. 54, no. 1, January 1989, pp. 161-165
Description
Discusses how the mound builder myth may have been created from stories of John Rowzée' Peyton's in 1774, and writings of John Lewis Peyton, his grandson.
American Antiquity, vol. 54, no. 4, October 1989, pp. 851-855
Description
Criticism of the article, "Identification of Cultural Site Formation Processes through Microdebitage Analysis" by Kathleen Hull in American Antiquity, Vol. 52, No. 4. (Oct., 1987) at pages 772-783.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 141-149
Description
Describes the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) process for distributing its research funds. Advocates changes to be more relevant to Indigenous needs.
Searched conducted for articles and reports published between August 2015 and January 2017 using PsychINFO, Embase, CINAHL and Medline. Identified 14 items of strong and moderate quality with content pertaining to the U.S., New Zealand, and Australia.
Reports on findings from literature search and key informant interviews to assess feasibility of adopting the model of open air traditional food markets.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 520-532
Description
Article examines non-fiction texts about the search for the Northwest Passage to illustrate the contributions of Inuit people and communities to Arctic exploration.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 142-163
Description
Based on analysis of transcripts of Hirsekorn case in which judges had to render a decision on the Métis identity of the accused and his membership in a rights-holding Métis community.
Reports on issues raised by Indigenous clients themselves and discusses features of Aboriginal varieties of English and how linguistic prejudice may affect interactions between lawyer and client and court outcomes.
Provides guidance to government employees when conveying information face-to-face, in print, online, by television, video, and radio, and through images.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 5, 2016, pp. 1-14
Description
Data for study was collected from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). Sedimentary activities reported include watching TV or videos, playing video games and using the internet, and reading during leisure time.
Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research, vol. 8, Winter, 2016, pp. 22-42
Description
Identifies and summarizes 34 scholarly articles with a focus on five research areas: epidemiology; health service delivery and continuum of care; health and wellness outcomes; psychosocial issues and barriers to treatment; and knowledge translation.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1-20
Description
Comments on how an inner-city university has used internal policies and programs to help support the self-determination of Indigenous peoples and provides an overview of the positive outcomes of these initiatives.
Behavioral Health Risks for American Indian/Alaska Native Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Serafini
Dennis M. Donovan
Dennis C. Wendt
Brandon Matsumiya
Carolyn A. McCarty
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-17
Description
Study found that Indigenous youth suffered from more depressive symptoms, discrimination, and generalized anxiety, and were more likely to have initiated substance abuse than the rest of the cohort.
Focuses on reforms that could be make by provincial and/or federal government justice departments in the areas of policing, prosecutions, corrections, victim services, crime prevention, policy and legislation.
University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2017, pp. 1-8
Description
An analysis of four primary sources published by William Johnson, Superintendent of Northern Indian Affairs, British General Charles Lee, University of Pennsylvania Provost William Smith, and plantation owner and British soldier Peter Williamson.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-22
Description
Studies barriers to implementing the Zimbabwean language education policy in primary school grades and the perception of socio-economic benefits that come with the English language.
Published by Canadian government's Indian and Northern Affairs, Indian and Eskimo Affairs Program and intended for dissemination to First Nations people.
Contains links to each issue of the newspaper and the entire collection is searchable.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
[Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum, November 2016]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frances Abele
Erin Alexiuk
Satsan (Herb George)
Catherine MacQuarrie
Description
Paper given at the Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum, dialog and conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, November 2-3, 2016.