Cultural Sensitivity

Program is designed to help health care providers become comfortable in treating this group. Aimed at physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, Indigenous healers, etc.

Looks at practical applications and resilience strategies for clinicians working with Indigenous youth and families.

Designed to accompany workshop. Discusses methodology and includes participant and facilitator materials.

Looks at effective and culture-based approaches to research that is grounded in a holistic methodology from the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional aspects, not only from the researcher's point of view, but also from the community members themselves.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1992.

Author comments on the preconceived notions that non-Indigenous Australians have regarding gender roles in the Indigenous community in Australia.

Reports on research findings related to how the Cherokee male achieves self-reliance and how health care professionals can incorporate the Cherokee concept of self-reliance into health care.

Looks at a different perspective for the counseling profession to use based on American Indian perspectives on leadership and relational-cultural theory.

Describes the treatment regime of the facility located in Kinchela, New South Wales, Australia which has a unique blend of Western techniques adapted to Aboriginal culture.

Looks at the need to make the environment of care homes less institutional and more home-like.

Looks at a program providing knowledge to professionals on the culture of indigenous peoples in Australia.

Population Health Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2010.

Investigates 17 different publications that evaluated different forms of intervention. Community ownership was found to be essential for project success.

Results of survey of 68 mental health professionals.

Author, who is the Senior Medical Officer, Port Adelaide (Australia) Community Health Service feels that Aboriginal health workers should become more assertive to influence positive health outcomes.

Summarizes the progress of the project, focusing on the strategies and tools used to influence a positive outcome.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Regina, 2012.

Discusses the medicalization of women’s in health in Mexico; articulates considerations of separation from traditional healthcare providers and practices, invasive Western practices surround pregnancy and birth, and discrimination against Indigenous and/or Afro-descendant women. Analyzes the way that poor women use the phrase “being cut” to describe “multiple experiences of frustration, mistreatment, and violence during childbirth.”

Study cohort consisted of 160 survey respondents and 288 focus group participants. Topics included barriers to accessing and successfully completing treatment, suggestions for overcoming them, and promising practices.

Looks at medical practice under Pierre Bourdieu's model of sociological reflexivity.

Brief article reports results of survey using both open-ended and closed questions. Identifies barriers against, or facilitators for, desire to practice in an Aboriginal context.

Discusses the history of racialized injustice faced by Indigenous, African, Caribbean and Black communities in the Americas, with a focus on Canada. This background provides context for findings of an arts-based intervention that explored notions of identity, resistance and solidarity-building between young people from these groups.

Supports the need for Australian Aboriginal health worker to continually promoted themselves as distinct.

Article examines a research partnership between health leaders in Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory and a team of scientists at Laurentian University and highlights the lessons learned through community-engaged approach to research.

Bibliography is divided into five categories: Social and cross cultural aspects of health and disease, Health, health education, and health care delivery, Genetics and metabolism, Infectious diseases, and Noninfectious/Chronic health problems.

Describes the results of a 6 week trial which attempts to integrate current and traditional cultures in a positive manner.

Discussion of Aboriginal belief systems including ethics as an aspect of beliefs and practices.

Celebrates opening of health care facility for Aboriginal people on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

Mass Communications Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007.

Describes a program undertaken in Port Augusta, South Australia that offers an integrated, culturally appropriate range of nutrition advice that includes community input.

Reviewed 18 articles. Looked at the components of models, which were most effective and what were the barriers and facilitators of successful implementation and sustainability.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2003.

Looks at the disparities in health which are compounded by discriminatory attitudes and behaviours of clinicians.

Explores the relationship between place of birth and spiritual connections to land and water.

Book review of: Body, Land and Spirit edited by Janice Reid. Review located by scrolling to page 202.

Explores how body-related experiences of young Aboriginal women living in urban and reserve settings has been researched but not those of young Aboriginal women living in rural settings.

Book reviews of 5 books: Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest edited by Katharine Berry Judson. Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 by Richard S. Mackie. Tribal Boundaries in the Nass Watershed by Neil J. Sterrit et al. The Spirit of the Land: Statements of the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Chiefs in the Supreme Court of British Columbia 1987-1990 by Wa Gisday and Elgam Uukw. Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy's Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse by Ruth Teichroeb.

Study employs a method of qualitative inquiry to interview six Aboriginal Latinx non-binary youth, and a narrative story map tool to analyze the data collected. Findings indicate a need for a culturally relevant and social justice–based training model for mental health care providers.

Presents experiences and insights from 20 Manitoba youth confirming the need for services and supports for both youth and adults.

Focuses on the disconnect between the profession's required emphasis on bureaucratic policy and procedure, and Inuit collective belief systems. Specifically looks at child protection services.

Report provides occurrence and mortality statistics and suggests holistic local initiatives are preferred for treatment.

Looks at the reasons for high noncompliance rates among American Indian women.

Paper reflects on some of the issues raised in the study of expanding the service to remote areas of Queensland, Australia. Key recommendations were to implement a mobile, culturally relevant program in order to improve participation rates.

Interview and focus group participants in study were primarily grandmothers and mostly great grandmothers who were asked questions about traditional and contemporary practices, and reasons for the increase in dental problems.

Nursing Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 2005.

Discusses course offered at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire School of Nursing.