Mental Health

Study looks at which protective factor fosters resilience in at-risk to high-risk youth.

Suggests five areas for future research surrounding the themes of youth and resilience.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--Smith College School for Social Work, 2003.

Chronicles a study involving 94 young offenders that suggests that FASD did not have an influence on their history of offences.

Tries to isolate and look at Aboriginal spirituality and its relationship with resilience.

Based on a 2017 Adult Caregiver Survey for 44 Hopi women unpaid caregivers of elderly family members. The findings support that higher resilience was associated with lesser stress for the caregivers.

Looks at the research focusing on the strengths of four urban Aboriginal women, including a critique of the Western concept definition of resilience, and the process of resilience from the cultural framework of the Medicine Wheel, while applying post-colonial Indigenous epistemological and methodological approaches.

Review of 33 published and grey literature sources. Analysis includes population characteristics, age, method, definition of resilience and key findings for each item.

Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--University of Alberta, 2007.

Comments on the goals and two key findings from the study.

Examines how American Indian elders have been able to adapt and overcome adversities to achieve well-being.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Montana, 2006.

Reports results of national survey of members, partners, and grantees (over 40 organizations) about issues they were experiencing on the front lines. Primary community needs were employment placement, housing stability, food security, and mental health services. Organizations' were facing severe budget issues as a result of disruption of revenue streams and therefore were being forced to scale back operations. Includes recommendations for governments and philanthropies.

Overview of eight commitments to develop and engage stakeholders and Nunavummiut communities.

Reports that government policies and practices must leave individuals in a better state than before an intervention occurred.

Brief description of study and results of the Survey on Counseling Native American Clients and literature review. Lists 70 recommended books and videos.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1999.

Examines how different types of assessment methods as well as interviewer's gender, ethnicity and residency can effect responses.

Describes how a sample of adolescents interpreted and acted upon disclosures of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation on Facebook or Twitter and what resources they felt were needed.

Discusses areas needing attention in order to provide services tailored to the care of Indigenous seniors in the urban context. Looks at relevant social determinants of health outcomes such as racism and discrimination, poverty, housing food security, transportation, urban and off-reserve migration, and the residential school experience.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Regina, 2010.

Overview of dissertation that looks at reasons for certain interventions to be on patients who were aggressive, violent or self-harming.

Discusses strategies and frameworks for developing an alternative approach which avoids essentialism and generalism.

Introduction to issue on historical trauma and implications for mental health and practice. Compares the Holocaust to Indigenous Trauma.

Discusses how four generations of an American Indian family have dealt with historical trauma.

Using a targeted literature search, critiques mainstream approaches to suicidology and suicide prevention because they ignore key social and structural dimensions of Aboriginal suicide.

Reports observations from an ongoing collaborative project on resilience in Inuit, Métis, Mi’kmaq, and Mohawk communities that suggests the value of incorporating indigenous constructs in resilience research.

Nursing Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of San Diego, 2011.

Outlines the results of two studies, one Canadian, the other from the United States comparing urban and reserve aboriginal health.

Findings show that healing from generations of trauma and unresolved grief appears feasible.

Discusses a new teaching technique that is culturally appropriate for the treatment of trauma. Access article through table of contents.

Counselling Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2016.

Focuses on agencies delivering housing to Indigenous Australians rather than the consumer. Housing is determined to be a significant factor in the occupant's physical and psychological health.

Discusses the sociological and psychological factors that drove Ernest Gribble to become the Anglican Church's longest serving missionary to the Aboriginal people. Chapter from Lectures on North Queensland History, no.5 edited by B. J. Dalton.

Focuses on mortality and morbidity.

Current literature indicates more culturally relevant programs are needed to increase participation and improve outcomes.

Comments that strong family ties and communities build resilience that enable youth to thrive mentally.

Comments on promising practices in reducing the impact of stress on Indigenous peoples based on 16 intervention studies including randomized control trials, retrospective cohort study and demonstration studies.

Looks at prevention programs and intervention efforts that have reduced suicidal behaviours.

Book reviews of: Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes by Michael L. Jennings. Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson. Choctaw Tales collected and annotated by Tom Mould. De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois edited and translated by John L. Steckley. Evil Corn by Adrian C. Louis. Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately? by Harvey Arden. Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J.

Book reviews of: A Study of Pueblo Architecture in Tusayan and Cibola by Victor Mindeleff. The Faithful Hunter: Abnaki Stories by Joseph Bruchac. Navajo Coyote Tales by William Morgan. Secrets From the Center of the World by Joy Harjo and Stephen Strom. Kickapoo Vocabulary by Paul H. Voorhis. An Ojibwe Text Anthology edited by John D. Nichols. "Statement Made by the Indians": A Bilingual Petition of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, 1864 edited by John D. Nichols. Pisiskiwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik/Talking Animals told by L. Beardy.

Public Policy Project (MPP)--Simon Fraser University, 2016.

Discusses feasibility and efficacy of Reducing Risk through Interpersonal Development, Empowerment, Resiliency, and SelfDetermination (RezRIDERS) program based on data collected during 2012-2015 pilot run in the Pueblo of Jemez.

Tribute to an adolescent who committed suicide after moving in and out of 28 foster homes. This film deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised. Duration: 29:10.

File contains a letter written by Diefenbaker regarding Louis Riel's conviction and execution, as well as Dumont's involvement, a photocopied photograph of Gabriel Dumont and "The Halfbreed General" from the History Magazine, an article entitled "Gabriel Dumont and Friends Meet Dr. Gatling's Travelling Salesman, or Plainsman Versus Mechanical Man", and a copy of the Canadian Historical Review containing Dumont's account of the North-West Resistance.

Explores the use of methamphetamine among American Indians in treatment programs funded by Los Angeles County.