American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Mental Health: Development, Context, Prevention, and Treatment (Child Psychology and Mental Health)
• Addresses topics commonly featured in popular media nationwide, signaling wide general interest and a need for information about the subject• Includes comprehensive information on history, current events, psychology, politics, public policy, sociology, economics, and more• Examines the specific factors that conspire to undermine American Indian children's achievement and mental health, such as poverty, substance abuse, and the historical consequences of colonization• Provides information about programs that are proving effective to help these children succeed• Includes both a subject and author index to facilitate further research"This work, part of theChild Psychology and Mental Healthseries, is an important addition to the literature regarding American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) health and health care. . . . This book belongs in the library of any college with programs in Native studies and/or health programs to prepare care providers to effectively meet the needs of AI/AN clients. Highly recommended."-Choice"In this work, we now have a psychology book about American Indian and Alaska Native children that edifies us with its depths as well as with its particular Native points of view. . . . Further, its topics are wielded into a corpus of interdependent material elegantly bound together into an organic whole. . . . As I finished this book, I considered that more work in this area is needed. Such a thought is a compliment. Good writing always leads to more writing."-PsycCRITIQUES