Mental Health

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2012.

Study involved front-line service providers and clients of centre located in the Halifax Regional Municipality in a series of focus groups, sharing circles and pathway building exercises. Themes discusses were: Indigenous traditional knowledge and wellness, cultural healing and service provision; encounters with criminal justice and mental health systems; and promising practices to support reintegration of families.

Survey results show a higher prevalence of heath-risk behaviors in urban American Indian and Alaska Native youth compared to other youth.

Looks at existing resources for youth, challenges that exist for for accessing resources, and how suicide is viewed culturally by community members.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2010

Summarizes trends in diabetes services and clinical outcomes among American Indian/Alaska Native patients at participating Urban Indian Health Institutes.

Health Sciences Thesis (M.S.)--University of Lethbridge, 2009.

Study conducted with 93 residents of Seattle, Washington looked at levels of economic, social and psychological adjustment, and correlations between those variables and length of residence and strength of cultural identity.

Compares socioeconomic factors, social support, selected clinical characteristics, and more, between First Nations and Anglo Canadian mental health patients.

Looks at the health strengths and needs of urban American Indians based on a survey involving six hundred and fifty adults and youth.

Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2019.

Survey results done on 2,595 people from two different tribes that examined the use of biomedical services and traditional medicine for both physical health and psychiatric problems.

Examines a subset of oral literature that teachs listeners about human health concerns, including how to prevent certain illnesses, avoid bodily harm, deal with mental health issues, instruct in sexual matters, discuss spirit-power contact and deal with old age.

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

Looks at three communities which worked virtually to discuss and act on culturally safe and gender specific services for Northern women experiencing homelessness, and mental health and substance use concerns.

Art Education and Creative Arts Therapies Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 1999.

Using concept mapping to discuss the impact of factors affecting the access to health care for Indigenous elders.

Discusses the effectiveness of the RFL questionnaire in assessing youth suicide risk and as a tool for addressing the gap between European therapies and traditional healing.

The project was an Aboriginal-led men's initiative to develop community capacity and resilience, promote healing and prevent family violence.

Advocates combining Western concepts of therapy with Aboriginal concepts of health when dealing with Aboriginal clients.

Based on interviews with 103 women, study supports need for primary health professionals to offer postnatal screening for women who may be at risk for postpartum depression .

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2003.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2008.

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

Educational Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1998.

Study attempts to calculate the lifetime occurrences of potentially traumatic events (PTDs) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and evaluate the relationship between them and sociodemographic factors.

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.

Looks at the research on dementia and the relationships between the community and the health care system, from the perspectives of First Nation peoples.

Looks at the relationship between abuse, mental health, substance abuse, and high risk sexual behavior in the American Aboriginal women populations.

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.

Education, Health and Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Charles Darwin University, 2008.

Comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the recommendations to address the commission's findings.

Discussion of Native American religion with special emphasis on the vision quest and its importance with respect to shamans.

Presents results of a three year research project involving interviews of 13 women and a literature review.

Presents the third installment in a webinar series on social paediatrics which focuses on vulnerable populations, including inner city and aboriginal children and youth Duration: 1:26:36.

Based on presentations given at a three-day healing gathering held for residential school survivors in November 2009 at the Kwanlin Dün First Nation.

Study of 56 Indigenous youth uses focus groups and a strengths based perspective to understand what gives them hope and how they demonstrate this hope to others in their community.

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

Chronicles development and discusses key features of the initiative.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2014.

Contends that people who maintain a balance of emotional, spiritual, mental and physical well-being have a healthier lifestyle.

Clinical Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fielding Graduate University, 2010.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lehigh University, 2006.

Poem about the strength of First Nations peoples.

Statistics from various sources gathered to assist tribes in developing public health programs and priorities.