Download or read book Tip 61 Behavioral Health Services for American Indians and Alaska Natives written by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indians and Alaska Natives have consistently experienced disparities in access to healthcare services, funding, and resources; quality and quantity of services; treatment outcomes; and health education and prevention services. Availability, accessibility, and acceptability of behavioral health services are major barriers to recovery for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Common factors that infuence engagement and participation in services include availability of transportation and child care, treatment infrastructure, level of social support, perceived provider effectiveness, cultural responsiveness of services, treatment settings, geographic locations, and tribal affliations.
Download or read book Counseling With Native American Indians and Alaska Natives written by Roger D. Herring and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-07-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a thorough background to helping professionals on the developmental, cultural, and special mental health needs and concerns of Native American Indian and Alaska Native clients. Looks at specific cultural and ethnic issues, describes methods for establishing rapport and intervening with diverse Native populations, and discusses counseling with youth and adults, career counseling, and using creative arts in counseling. An appendix lists reproducibles, films and videos, reservations, literature and music resources, and Native organizations. Includes chapter summaries, questions, and activities. Herring is professor of counselor education at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Counseling Native Americans written by John Reimer and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the professional journey of a Native American counselor, who, although educated in mainstream American universities, found herself, once on the job, lacking in skills necessary to be therapeutic for her cultural clients. "Counseling Native Americans: Spiritual and Multicultural Insights from Swan Circle," provides authentic observations of how American Indian clients relate to the natural, social, personal, and spiritual environments. The book is a significant contribution to the large literature on cross-cultural therapy. ?Dr. Catherine Reimer?s search for cross-cultural understandings and techniques is a fascinating read. Insights on how to integrate nature and spirituality should be especially helpful to counselors, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and related professionals who may sometimes feel that they are being educated in a ?spirit free? zone.? Clemmont E. Vontress, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Counseling, George Washington University. ?Wonderfully organized and thoughtfully constructed, this comprehensive engaging book will be a major source for understanding the complexities associated with providing mental health services for counseling American Indians and Alaska Natives for years to come.? Readers are asked ?to think deeply about the realities of the indigenous groups that people write about and how mental health services and research can be effectively and sensitively provided and conducted. Anyone who is curious about the depth and scope of providing counseling services to indigenous populations should keep this book close by, as it will prove to be a valuable resource.? Joseph E. Trimble, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor, Professor of Psychology, Western Washington University. Foreword by Martha Norman Rashid, Professor Emerita, George Washington, University and Jane A. Simington, Ph.D. Originally published in 2013 as The Circle of Swans: Journey of a Native American Counselor.
Download or read book Counseling Across Cultures written by Paul B. Pedersen and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a primary focus on North American cultural and ethnic diversity while addressing global questions and issues, Counseling Across Cultures, Seventh Edition, edited by Paul B. Pederson, Walter J. Lonner, Juris G. Draguns, Joseph E. Trimble, and María R. Scharrón-del Río, draws on the expertise of 48 invited contributors to examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling diverse clients. The book’s chapters highlight work with African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/as, American Indians, refugees, individuals in marginalized situations, international students, those with widely varying religious beliefs, and many others. Edited by pioneers in multicultural counseling, this volume articulates the positive contributions that can be achieved when multicultural awareness is incorporated into the training of counselors.
Download or read book Mental Health Care for Urban Indians written by Tawa M. Witko and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mental Health Care for Urban Indians: Clinical Insights From Native Practitioners is the first clinical book written by American Indian scholars working in Indian communities. This groundbreaking volume provides the reader with a basic understanding of the historical impact of colonization, the ensuing results of urban migration and boarding schools, and the effects that these events have had on the Native community. These lingering effects include a lack of cultural identity, a loss of tradition, and a sense of isolation that may lead to violence, alcoholism, and risky behaviors. Chapter authors acknowledge this history while developing culturally sensitive practice recommendations that incorporate traditional healing methods. This will be an invaluable resource for psychologists and other helping professionals who work with Native clients"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
Download or read book Healing the Soul Wound written by Eduardo Duran and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eduardo Duran—a psychologist working in Indian country—draws on his own clinical experience to provide guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples. Translating theory into actual day-to-day practice, Duran presents case materials that illustrate effective intervention strategies for prevalent problems, including substance abuse, intergenerational trauma, and internalized oppression. Offering a culture-specific approach that has profound implications for all counseling and therapy, this groundbreaking volume: Provides invaluable concepts and strategies that can be applied directly to practice. Outlines very different ways of serving American Indian clients, translating Western metaphor into Indigenous ideas that make sense to Native People. Presents a model in which patients have a relationship with the problems they are having, whether these are physical, mental, or spiritual. Includes a section in each chapter to help non-American Indian counselors generalize the concepts presented to use in their own practice in culturally sensitive ways.
Download or read book Counseling American Indians written by Laurence French and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six essays pertain mainly to substance abuse and its treatment in four Native American populations: the Cherokee, Sioux, Navajo, and Mestizo. Contributors provide some information on the history and culture of these nations, as well as on the history of treatment in Native populations. Topics include fetal alcoholism; bibliotherapy for traumatized children and youth; the UNITY Regional Youth Treatment Center at Cherokee; American Indian spirituality and counseling; clinical and educational programs for Navajo children and youth; and Mestizo traditional remedios. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Mental Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treating Depression Anxiety and Stress in Ethnic and Racial Groups written by Edward C. Chang and published by Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic P. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows therapists how to adapt cognitive behavioral treatments for use with racial and ethnic minority clients.
Download or read book Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision written by Marie Battiste and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision spring from an International Summer Institute held in 1996 on the cultural restoration of oppressed Indigenous peoples. The contributors, primarily Indigenous, unravel the processes of colonization that enfolded modern society and resulted in the oppression of Indigenous peoples.
Download or read book Healing the Soul Wound written by Eduardo Duran and published by Multicultural Foundations of P. This book was released on 2019 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This groundbreaking book provides guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples and other vulnerable populations. Including an important new chapter devoted to working with veterans, the second edition presents case materials that illustrate effective intervention strategies for prevalent problems, including substance abuse, intergenerational trauma, and internalized oppression"--
Download or read book Native American Postcolonial Psychology written by Eduardo Duran and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-03-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a theoretical discussion of problems and issues encountered in the Native American community from a perspective that accepts Native knowledge as legitimate. Native American cosmology and metaphor are used extensively in order to deal with specific problems such as alcoholism, suicide, family, and community problems. The authors discuss what it means to present material from the perspective of a people who have legitimate ways of knowing and conceptualizing reality and show that it is imperative to understand intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression in order to understand the issues facing Native Americans today."--pub. website.
Download or read book Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling written by Suzanne L. Stewart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Affirmative Counseling with LGBTQI People written by Misty M. Ginicola and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This current and comprehensive handbook will guide educators, students, and clinicians in developing the awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to work effectively with LGBTQI+ populations. Twenty-five chapters written by experts in the field provide direction for working with clients in an authentic, ethical, and affirmative manner that is tailored to their individual strengths, needs, and identity. The book is divided into four sections, which explore the science behind gender and affectional orientation; developmental issues across the life span and treatment issues; the specialized needs of nine distinct populations; and the intersectionality of ethnicity and overlapping identities, the role of religion, and counselor advocacy. To further a deeper understanding of the content, each chapter contains an "Awareness of Attitudes and Beliefs Self-Check," a case narrative relating to the material covered, questions for discussion, and a list of online resources. The book concludes with an extensive glossary of terms, both preferred and problematic, which counselors working with these communities should understand and use appropriately. *Requests for digital versions from the ACA can be found on wiley.com. *To request print copies, please visit the ACA website here. *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]
Download or read book American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum written by Teresa Davis LaFromboise and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Suicide is a significant problem for many adolescents in Native American Indian populations. American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum is a course for high school students and some middle school students that is designed to drastically reduce suicidal thinking and behavior.
Download or read book Counseling American Minorities written by Donald R. Atkinson and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1983 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century written by Vine Deloria and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers eleven essays on federal Indian policy.
