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Author:   Laurence J. Kirmayer ,  Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.840kg
ISBN:  

9780774815246

ISBN 10:   0774815248
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   01 July 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Foreword Preface Part 1: The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples 1 The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Transformations of Identity and Community / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Caroline L. Tait, and Cori Simpson 2 Mental Health and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia and New Zealand / Mason Durie, Helen Milroy, and Ernest Hunter 3 Culture and Aboriginality in the Study of Mental Health / James B. Waldram 4 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 Representations 5 A Colonial Double-Bind: Social and Historical Contexts of Innu Mental Health / Colin Samson 6 Placing Violence against First Nations Children: The Use of Space and Place to Construct the (In)credible Violated Subject / Jo-Anne Fiske 7 Narratives of Hope and Despair in Downtown Eastside Vancouver / Dara Culhane 8 Suicide as a Way of Belonging: Causes and Consequences of Cluster Suicides in Aboriginal Communities / Ronald Niezen 9 Disruptions in Nature, Disruptions in Society: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada and the Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Caroline L. Tait Part 3: Resilience: Transformations of Identity and Community 10 Cultural Continuity as a Moderator of Suicide Risk among Canada's First Nations / Michael J. Chandler and Christopher E. Lalonde 11 The Origins of Northern Aboriginal Social Pathologies and the Quebec Cree Healing Movement / Adrian Tanner 12 Toward a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History / Naomi Adelson 13 Locating the Ecocentric Self: Inuit Concepts of Mental Health and Illness / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Christopher Fletcher, and Robert Watt 14 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 15 Aboriginal Approaches to Counselling / Rod McCormick 16 Respecting the Medicines: Narrating an Aboriginal Identity / Gregory M. Brass 17 A Jurisdictional Tapestry and a Patchwork Quilt of Care: Aboriginal Health and Social Services in Montreal / Mary Ellen Macdonald 18 Six Nations Mental Health Services: A Model of Care for Aboriginal Communities / Cornelia Wieman 19 Encountering Professional Psychology: Re-Envisioning Mental Health Services for Native North America / Joseph P. Gone 20 Conclusion: Healing / Invention / Tradition / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gregory M. Brass, and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis Contributors Index

Reviews

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

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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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