All My Relations: Understanding the Experiences of Native Americans with Disabilities (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Weaver, Hilary; Yuen, Francis K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Containing case studies from the US, Canada, and Australia, and spanning a diverse range of settings from remote rural areas, to reservations, to college campuses, this book seeks to shed new light on the previously under-researched study of Native peoples with disabilities. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315470672
• Artikelnr.: 56837417

Autorenporträt

Hilary N. Weaver is a Lakota scholar, Professor, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at the University at Buffalo, NY, USA. She is President of the American Indian Alaska Native Social Work Educators' Association, has written numerous publications, and has presented her work regionally, nationally, and internationally, including at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Francis Yuen is a Social Work Professor at California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA. He has published widely and served as the editor for the Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation since 2003. He has been a principal investigator, evaluator, and trainer for national and local service organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - All My Relations: Understanding the Experiences of Native
Americans with Disabilities 1. Disability Through a Native American Lens:
Examining Influences of Culture and Colonization 2. Toward a Culturally
Informed Rehabilitation Treatment Model for American Indian/Alaska Native
Veterans 3. American Indians' Response to Physical Pain: Functional
Limitations and Help-Seeking Behaviors 4. Mental Disabilities in an
Aboriginal Context 5. Impact of Disability and Other Physical Health Issues
on Academic Outcomes Among American Indian and Alaskan Native College
Students: An Exploratory Analysis 6. Understanding the Challenges to
Providing Disabilities Services and Rehabilitation in Rural Alaska: Where
Do We Go From Here? 7. Jordan's Principle and Indigenous Children with
Disabilities in Canada: Jurisdiction, Advocacy, and Research 8.
Environmental Exposures to Metals in Native Communities and Implications
for Child Development: Basis for the Navajo Birth Cohort Study