Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

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Healing Traditions

The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Edited by: Laurence J. Kirmayer and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2009

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About this book

Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse cultures but share common social and political challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness. This collection addresses the origins of mental health and social problems and the emergence of culturally responsive approaches to services and health promotion. Healing Traditions is not a handbook of practice but a resource for thinking critically about current issues in the mental health of indigenous peoples. Cross-cutting themes include: the impact of colonialism, sedentarization, and forced assimilation; the importance of land for indigenous identity and an ecocentric self; and processes of healing and spirituality as sources of resilience.

Author / Editor information

Laurence J. Kirmayer is James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University; Director of the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit of the Institute for Community and Family Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal; and Co-Director of the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research. Gail Guthrie Valaskakis was Director of Research, Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Ottawa, and Co-Director of the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research.

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Malcolm King, Principal Investigator, Alberta ACADRE Network, University of Alberta, and Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health, Edmonton:

Kirmayer and Valaskakis’ Healing Traditions is a comprehensive guide to the role of Aboriginal history, culture, and identity in mental health and healing. Well-written and readable, this book should become the important source for mental health professionals working with indigenous peoples. Healing Traditions is a fitting tribute to Dr. Gail Valaskakis.

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Medicine Clinical Medicine Psychiatry, Psychotherapy

Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Foreword Georges Henry Erasmus Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples
The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Transformations of Identity and Community Laurence J. Kirmayer, Caroline L. Tait and Cori Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Mental Health and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia and New Zealand Mason Durie, Helen Milroy and Ernest Hunter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Culture and Aboriginality in the Study of Mental Health James B. Waldram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Social Competence and Mental Health among Aboriginal Youth: An Integrative Developmental Perspective Grace Iarocci, Rhoda Root and Jacob A. Burack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Social Suffering: Origins and Representations
A Colonial Double-Bind: Social and Historical Contexts of Innu Mental Health Colin Samson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Placing Violence against First Nations Children: The Use of Space and Place to Construct the (In)credible Violated Subject Jo-Anne Fiske Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Narratives of Hope and Despair in Downtown Eastside Vancouver Dara Culhane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Suicide as a Way of Belonging: Causes and Consequences of Cluster Suicides in Aboriginal Communities Ronald Niezen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Disruptions in Nature, Disruptions in Society: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada and the “Making” of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Caroline L. Tait Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Resilience: Transformations of Identity and Community
Cultural Continuity as a Moderator of Suicide Risk among Canada’s First Nations Michael J. Chandler and Christopher E. Lalonde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
The Origins of Northern Aboriginal Social Pathologies and the Quebec Cree Healing Movement Adrian Tanner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Toward a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History Naomi Adelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Locating the Ecocentric Self: Inuit Concepts of Mental Health and Illness Laurence J. Kirmayer, Christopher Fletcher and Robert Watt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Community Wellness and Social Action in the Canadian Arctic: Collective Agency as Subjective Well-Being Michael J. Kral and Lori Idlout Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Healing and Mental Health Services
Aboriginal Approaches to Counselling Rod McCormick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Respecting the Medicines: Narrating an Aboriginal Identity Gregory M. Brass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
A Jurisdictional Tapestry and a Patchwork Quilt of Care: Aboriginal Health and Social Services in Montreal Mary Ellen Macdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Six Nations Mental Health Services: A Model of Care for Aboriginal Communities Cornelia Wieman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
Encountering Professional Psychology: Re-Envisioning Mental Health Services for Native North America Joseph P. Gone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Conclusion: Healing/Invention/Tradition Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gregory M. Brass and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	440
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481

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528

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