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Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling
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ABSTRACT
North America’s Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system. Indigenous peoples face certain historical, cultural-linguistic and socioeconomic barriers to mental health care access that government, health care organizations and social agencies must work to overcome. This volume examines ways Indigenous healing practices can complement Western psychological service to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples through traditional cultural concepts. Bringing together leading experts in the fields of Aboriginal mental health and psychology, it provides data and models of Indigenous cultural practices in psychology that are successful with Indigenous peoples. It considers Indigenous epistemologies in applied psychology and research methodology, and informs government policy on mental health service for these populations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART 1 East: Indigenous Spirituality in Western Psychology
chapter 1|14 pages
Reclaiming Grassroots Traditional Indigenous Healing Ways and Practices Within Urban Indigenous Community Contexts
chapter 2|16 pages
A Laughing Matter: Native American Humour as an Indigenous Healing Tradition and Way of Life
chapter 3|18 pages
Gifts of the Seven Winds Alcohol and Drug Prevention Model for American Indians
part |2 pages
PART 2 South: Innovative Integration in Psychological Practice
chapter 5|10 pages
Indigenous North American Psychological Healing Ways and the Placement of Integration and Decolonization
chapter 7|15 pages
Lessons From Clinical Practice: Some of the Ways in Which Canadian Mental Health Professionals Practice Integration
part |2 pages
PART 3 West: Trauma and Contemporary Indigenous Healing
chapter 9|16 pages
Historical Perspectives on Indigenous Healing
part |2 pages
PART 4 North: Healing Through Western and Indigenous Knowledges