Healing traditions
Subtitle: the mental health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada
By: edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Publisher: Brand: Univ of British Columbia Pr; UBC Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9780774815239; 9780774815246
Subjects: Mental health; Autochtones; Native peoples; Cultural assimilation; Rites et cérémonies; Guérison par l'esprit; Social Identification; Santé mentale; Psychologische Beratung; Indigenous peoples; Santé mentale, Services de; Mental health services; North American Indians; Community Mental Health Services; Mental Health; Traditional Medicine; Inuits; Ethnology; Rites and ceremonies; Acculturation; Indians of North America; Mental healing; Ureinwohner; Kulturelle Identität; Psychische Gesundheit
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. The mental health of indigenous peoples.; title: The mental health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada: transformations of identity and community  -- Laurence J. Kirmayer, Caroline L. Tait, and Cori Simpson; title: Mental health fand the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand  -- Mason Durie, Helen Milroy, and Ernest Hunter; title: Culture and Aboriginality in the study of mental health /rJames B. Waldram --; title: Social competence and mental health among Aboriginal youth: an integrative developmental perspective  -- Grace Iarocci, Rhoda Root, and Jacob A. Burack -- Part 2. Social suffering: origins and representation.; title: A colonial double-bind: social and historical contexts of Innu mental health  -- Colin Samson; title: Placing violence against First Nations children: the use of space and place to construct the (in)credible violated subject  -- Jo-Anne Fiske; title: Narratives of hope and despair in downtown Eastside Vancouver  -- Dara Culhane; title: Suicide as a way of belonging: causes and consequences of cluster suicides in Aboriginal communities  -- Ronald Niezen; title: Disruptions in nature, disruptions in society: Aboriginal peoples of Canada and the "making" of fetal alcohol syndrome -- Caroline L. Tait.; title: Part 3. Resilience: transformations of identity and community.; title: Cultural continuity as a moderator of suicide risk among Canada's First Nations  -- Michael J. Chandler and Christopher E. Lalonds; title: The origins of Northern Aboriginal social pathologies and the Quebec Cree healing movement  -- Adrian Tanner; title: Toward a recuperation of souls and bodies: community healing and the complex interplay of faith and history  -- Naomi Adelson; title: Locating the ecocentric self: Inuit concepts of mental health and illness  -- Laurence J. Kirmayer, Christopher Fletcher, and Rober Watt; title: Community wellness and social action in the Canadian Arctic: collective agency as subjective well-being  -- Michael J. Kral and Lori Idlout -- Part 4. Healing and mental health services.; title: Aboriginal approaches to counselling  -- Rod McCormick; title: Respecting the medicines: narrating an Aboriginal identity  -- Gregory M. Brass; title: A jurisdictional tapestry and a patchwork quilt of care: Aboriginal health and social services in Montreal  -- Mary Ellen Macdonald; title: Six Nations mental health services: a model of care for Aboriginal communities  -- Cornelia Wieman; title: Encountering professional psychology: re-envisioning mental health services for Native North America  -- Joseph P. Gone; title: Conclusion: healing / invention / tradition -- Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gregory M. Brass, and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis.