Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans (eBook, PDF)

Speaking in Red
Redaktion: Nebelkopf, Ethan; Phillips, Mary

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Substance abuse, mental illness, and violence are a self-perpetuating vicious cycle in many Native American communities. In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health disparities and increasing the access of Native Americans to critical substance abuse and mental health services. Dedicated educators, researchers, and clinicians in the Native community demonstrate how practitioners can work within both the walls of western medicine and the circles of traditional healers, and promote healing through changes in the way we treat our sick_spiritually, traditionally, ceremonially, and scientifically_whether in rural areas, on reservations, or in cities. They emphasize the importance of non-profit community-based health organizations as nodes for community interaction and sources of mental health services for Native Americans in multi-tribal, multi-ethnic, and multi-racial urban areas. This excellent collection will be invaluable for medical and mental health professionals and the Native health community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216255918
• Artikelnr.: 74833122

Autorenporträt

Ethan Nebelkopf, Ph.D., is director of the Family & Child Guidance Clinic of the Native American Health Center in Oakland and San Francisco. He has worked for community-based non-profit organizations for thirty years and is a licensed family therapist in California. Mary Phillips (Omaha/Laguna, Pueblo) has experience in program coordination, managed information systems development, evaluation, and community assessment for the Native American community and works for First Nations Development Institute. She has participated in several publications on mental health and Native Americans and received her Bachelors degree at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Speaking in Red: Morning Star Rising in Native American
Communities
Part 1: Healing Substance Abuse
Chapter 2: The Historical Trauma Response among Natives and Its
Relationship to Substance Abuse: A Lakota Illustration
Chapter 3: Reducing Substance Abuse in American Indian and Alaska Native
Communities: The Healthy Nations Initiative
Chapter 4: Substance Abuse Treatment at Friendship House: Transformation
and Culture
Part 2: Innovations in Mental Health
Chapter 5: Urban Trails: Holistic System of Care for Native Americans in
the San Francisco Bay Area
Chapter 6: Joining and Sustaining Yup'ik and Cup'ik Healing with Behavioral
Health Treatment
Chapter 7: Mandan and Hidatsa Families and Children: Surviving Historical
Assault
Part 3: Building Healthy Communities
Chapter 8: Community Readiness: The Journey to Community Healing
Chapter 9: Mobilizing Communities to Reduce Substance Abuse in Indian
Country
Chapter 10: A Data Reconnaissance for Native Americans
Part 4: Traditional Ceremonies and Healing
Chapter 11: Perspectives on Traditional Health Practices
Chapter 12: Healing the Kashaya Way
Chapter 13: Peacemaking Ceremonies for Substance Abuse Treatment
Part 5: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS
Chapter 14: The Morning God Comes Dancing: Culturally-Competent Mental
Health and HIV Services
Chapter 15: HIV/AIDS Care Programs for American Indians and Alaska Natives
Chapter 16: American Indians and HIV/AIDS
Part 6: Working with Special Populations
Chapter 17: Aiming to Balance: Native Women Healing in an Urban Behavioral
Health Care Clinic
Chapter 18: Substance Dependency Among Homeless American Indians in Oakland
and Tucson
Chapter 19: American Indian Involvement in the Criminal Justice System
Chapter 20: American Indian Public Charter School: Why it is a Model School
for Students?
Index
About the Authors