Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Preface xiii
6. The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples
7. The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Transformations of Identity and Community 3
8. Mental Health and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia and New Zealand 36
9. Culture and Aboriginality in the Study of Mental Health 56
10. Social Competence and Mental Health among Aboriginal Youth: An Integrative Developmental Perspective 80
11. Social Suffering: Origins and Representations
12. A Colonial Double-Bind: Social and Historical Contexts of Innu Mental Health 109
13. Placing Violence against First Nations Children: The Use of Space and Place to Construct the (In)credible Violated Subject 140
14. Narratives of Hope and Despair in Downtown Eastside Vancouver 160
15. Suicide as a Way of Belonging: Causes and Consequences of Cluster Suicides in Aboriginal Communities 178
16. Disruptions in Nature, Disruptions in Society: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada and the “Making” of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome 196
17. Resilience: Transformations of Identity and Community
18. Cultural Continuity as a Moderator of Suicide Risk among Canada’s First Nations 221
19. The Origins of Northern Aboriginal Social Pathologies and the Quebec Cree Healing Movement 249
20. Toward a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History 272
21. Locating the Ecocentric Self: Inuit Concepts of Mental Health and Illness 289
22. Community Wellness and Social Action in the Canadian Arctic: Collective Agency as Subjective Well-Being 315
23. Healing and Mental Health Services
24. Aboriginal Approaches to Counselling 337
25. Respecting the Medicines: Narrating an Aboriginal Identity 355
26. A Jurisdictional Tapestry and a Patchwork Quilt of Care: Aboriginal Health and Social Services in Montreal 381
27. Six Nations Mental Health Services: A Model of Care for Aboriginal Communities 401
28. Encountering Professional Psychology: Re-Envisioning Mental Health Services for Native North America 419
29. Conclusion: Healing/Invention/Tradition 440
30. Contributors 473
31. Index 481