Cultural Sensitivity

Examines perceptions regarding health care providers and systems, and access to sexual health care services.

Identifies core operational characteristics when developing intervention programs to fit the needs of both physicians and Aboriginal mothers.

Describes the events arising at the Aboriginal Health Forum which led to the creation of a Coordinator of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heart Care Project in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

Nursing Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 2001.

Results indicate that Sami patients attached a greater importance to the spiritual element of treatment.

Study examines the extent these practices are used by urban patients, identifies related characteristics, associations with health status and functioning and attitudes about care provided.

Explores one aspect of cultural care studied through responses to a questionnaire completed by 100 patients.

Examines a cultural sensitive and responsive framework, developed as a resource for health workers to promote Aboriginal health, which considers factors and approaches, builds on Aboriginal strengths, and reflects on values, assumptions and feedback.

Development of a conceptual framework which could lead to culturally appropriate Pap smear screening tests.

Discusses lessons that can be learned from collaborative inquiry and the advantages of involving the people of the communities that are affected when conducting studies involving Aboriginal groups.

Findings indicate that native Hawaiian drug prevention strategies should originate in culturally significant community locations and incorporate multi generational teaching and learning.

Study uses thematic and NVivo 10 analysis to review the structured interviews of 30 study participants; most participants found the Medicine Wheel to be a useful framework for health-care decision making.

Looks at the development and potential of DARTNA, Drum-Assisted Recovery for Native Americans.

Shows how storytelling, that presents a change of lifestyle, works because storytelling presents ideas and values in a simple, entertaining way.

Reports on the 20 graduates from the program based in Melbourne, Australia.

Discussion of the data collected from First Nations communities in Manitoba focusing on bonding aspects and the Implications on research and policy.

Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--University of Alberta, 1994.

Explores several significant values of Native Americans that may greatly facilitate a positive therapeutic process.

Discusses consequences of the official Australian policy of Assimilation or the Stolen Generation and initiatives in Aboriginal community-controlled Health Services.

Discusses how to use a spiritual approach when counseling Native Americans and practicing intercultural respect.

Research has initiated high-quality information describing the health of Victorian Aboriginal infants and children and more accurate information on births and deaths of Aboriginal infants and children.

Brief article describes the accomplishments of the organization located in the state of Victoria in southeast Australia.

Forum held in this south eastern Australian state enables health workers to gather and discuss issues of common concern.

Brief discussion how Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities view social and emotional wellbeing, culturally-informed approaches to men's behavior change programs, challenges in collecting relevant data to support successful outcomes and examples of specific initiatives.

Reviews eight articles, most focussing on interventions using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy model. Results support using traditional cultural activities in treatments.

Looks at cultural and shared beliefs, poverty, historical trauma in tribes and families, suicide, and substance abuse and treatment.

Population Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2015.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Victoria, 2012.

Reports on the team effort that examined the barriers, needs and supports of Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS in central Alberta.

Concludes that Aboriginal communities need more HIV/AIDS education and prevention strategies.

Summary of articles in issue. Topics include Indigenous methodologies, knowledge translation, Hepatitis C and project called The Water Journey.

Literature review dealing with trends, summary of findings and strategies to fill gaps in knowledge with respect to ethnic, low-income, disadvantaged and rural groups.

Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--Massey University, Albany Campus, 2015.

Counseling and Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--Prescott College, 1998.

Medical Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 1999.

Comments on a combined exercise and healthy eating program aimed at reducing the prevalence of chronic disease.

Briefly describes the program which informs remote Aboriginal Australian communities on the benefits of childhood immunization programs.

Discusses the challenges of staffing the Aboriginal alcohol rehabilitation program with experienced individuals.

Discusses key themes which emerged from four sharing circles conducted as part of the project: strength, resilience and hope; intersectionality; barriers across the care continuum; competing priorities; health literacy; and transformation.

Details the methods used by project's research team for engaging communities and individuals affected by Hepatitis C in the development of leadership and health management strategies.

Report commissioned to discover existing gaps in order to provide culturally appropriate palliative care to the urban Aboriginal community.

Focuses on the Uputāua Therapeutic Approach (UTA) to health-related research and how its use in a study of how some Samoan men coped with impacts of death.

Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the fifth of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Thunder Bay. In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities, and advocates for Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance. Duration: 53:59

Discusses Indigenous family structures, factors unique to Indigenous children, contemporary examples, challenges faced by parents, and models of practice.