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Connecting with Culture: Growing Our Wellness: Activity Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment Project?]
Hands-on activities were developed to work with Indigenous Wellness Framework, which resulted from the project Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment. Designed to foster a closer spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical connection to Indigenous culture. Related Material: Facilitator's Handbook
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Connecting with Culture: Growing Our Wellness: Facilitator's Handbook

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment Project?]
Designed to provide step-by-step guidance for helping clients think about how Indigenous culture can improve their well-being. Developed to work with Indigenous Wellness Framework, which resulted from the project Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention. Related Material: Activity Guide
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Connection to Culture Helped Walker Cope With Residential School Years

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Creeson Agecoutay
Eagle Feather News, vol. 15, no. 7, July 2012, p. 8
Brief profile of a residential school survivor and health support worker whose role was to assist other survivors at the June 2012 Truth and Reconciliation National event in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Article located by scrolling to page 8.
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Considering Trauma in an Indigenous Context

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ernest Hunter
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 5, September/October 1998, pp. 9-18
Presents an overview of trauma experiences that have affected a specific group of Australian Indigenous populations.
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The Construction of “Trauma” in Canadian Residential School Survivors and Impacts on Healing Interventions and Reconciliation Initiatives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bianca Braganza
Gerald McKinley
Shannon Sibbald
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-18
Authors examine the current understandings of trauma and the resulting frameworks for treatment and healing; use critical literature review to make recommendations for effective trauma treatments for residential school survivors.
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Consumers Dance To Traditional Tunes

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lynten Johnson
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 5, September/October 2004, pp. 13-14
Report on the annual National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) celebrations at The Park - Centre for Mental Health in Queensland, Australia.
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The Contemporary Situation: The Puyallup Tribal Community: [Chapter] II

Alternate Title
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, [Monograph No. 2, pp. 33-40]
The People Who Give More: Health and Mental Health Among the Contemporary Puyallup Indian Tribal Community
[Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health] ; Monograph 2, 1989
Articles » General
Author/Creator
George M. Guilmet
David L. Whited
Description and background of the social situation of the Puyallup Community and of the health and social services available.
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The Context and Causes of the Suicide of Indigenous People in Australia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pat Dudgeon
Tom Calma
Christopher Holland
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 2, September 2017, pp. 5-15
Looks at the increasing Indigenous suicide rate and suggests that the current approach to prevention is not working.
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Contextual Issues For Strategic Planning and Evaluation of Systems of Care For American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: An Introduction to Circles of Care

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda Freeman
Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs
Douglas K. Novins
Pamela L. LeMaster
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 11, no. 2, 2004, pp. 1-29
Provides background on the nature of the initiative as well as the historical, political and cultural context of health care delivery.
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Conversations About Historical Trauma: Part One

Alternate Title
Spotlight on Culture
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Vivian H. Jackson
Impact Newsletter (National Child Traumatic Stress Network), Spring, 2013, p. [?]
Comments on the historical trauma intervention model which uses four components designed to foster healing from grief: confronting the history, understanding the trauma and its effects, releasing the pain, and transcending the trauma. Part 1 of 3.
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Conversations About Historical Trauma: Part Three

Alternate Title
Spotlight on Culture
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Vivian H. Jackson
Impact Newsletter (National Child Traumatic Stress Network), Spring, 2014, p. [?]
Comments on the experiences of survivors of the Jewish Holocaust, the Japanese American WWII camps and key events affecting Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Part 3 of 3.
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Conversations About Historical Trauma: Part Two

Alternate Title
Spotlight on Culture
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Vivian H. Jackson
Impact Newsletter (National Child Traumatic Stress Network), Summer, 2013, p. [?]
Discusses Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Part 2 of 3.
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Conversations About Indigenous Counselling and Psychotherapy

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jeannie Wright
Sue Webb
Mary Montu
Lai Wainikesa
Counselling, Psychotherapy and Health, vol. 3, no. 2, Indigenous Special Issue, 2007, pp. 115-126

Explores some of the key issues in working with indigenous cultural traditions written by counselors and counselor educators who have worked in the South Pacific.

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Coping With Sorrow, Loss and Grief

Articles » General
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, July/August 2007, pp. [12-15]
Describes symptoms and causes along with treatment options for people struggling with these conditions.
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Core Competencies for Indigenous Public Health, Evaluation and Research (CIPHER): A Health Inequity Mitigation Strategy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lauren Y. Baba
Jeffrey L. Reading
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 44, no. 2, Indigenous Peoples Health and Health-Care Equity, 2013, pp. 123-128
Group of 12 Indigenous scholars from Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada convened and agreed that Indigenous health could be improved by promoting culturally safe public health practices.
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Correlates of Perceptions of Bullying at School among First Nations Youth Living Off Reserve

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rubah G. Arim
Evelyn Bougie
Dafna E. Kohen
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 03 10, 2020, pp. 3-32
Using a distinction-based approach, from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, to identify the relationship between schools, academics, and health in regards to perceived bullying for high school students in Canada.
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'Corruption' at Moose

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Frits Pannekoek
The Beaver, Spring, 1979, pp. 4-11
Discusses the problems of isolation and problems in single resource communities.
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Counseling Intervention and American Indian Tradition: An Integrative Approach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Teresa D. LaFromboise
Joseph E. Trimble
Gerald V. Mohatt
The Counseling Psychologist, vol. 18, no. 4, 1990, pp. 628-654
Argues that the training of Aboriginal counseling and community psychologists should move away from conventional counseling to a more culturally sensitive position that includes Aboriginal values.
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Counseling the Inupiat Eskimo

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alfred Yazzie
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 38, no. 2, Winter, 1999, p. [?]
Book review of: Counseling the Inupiat Eskimo by Catherine Reimer.
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Creating Transformative Aboriginal Health Research: The BC ACADRE at Three Years

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jo-ann Archibald
Eduardo Jovel
Rod McCormick
Richard Vedan
Darien Thira
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 4-11
Chronicles the progress of the BC Aboriginal Capacity and Developmental Research Environment (ACADRE) in building research capacity by partnering with Aboriginal organizations and communities.
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