Healing Traditions
The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Healing Traditions
The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
528 pages

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 Ment
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