American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Mental Health (eBook, PDF)

Development, Context, Prevention, and Treatment
Redaktion: Spicer, Paul; Fitzgerald, Hiram E.; Sarche, Michelle C.; Farrell, Patricia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This unique book examines the physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors that support or undermine healthy development in American Indian children, including economics, biology, and public policies. The reasons for mental health issues among American Indian and Alaska Native children have not been well understood by investigators outside of tribal communities. Developing appropriate methodological approaches and evidence-based programs for helping these youths is an urgent priority in developmental science. This work must be done in ways that are cognizant of how the negative consequences of colonization contribute to American Indian and Alaska Native tribal members' underutilization of mental health services, higher therapy dropout rates, and poor response to culturally insensitive treatment programs. This book examines the forces affecting psychological development and mental health in American Indian children today. Experts from leading universities discuss factors such as family conditions, economic status, and academic achievement, as well as political, social, national, and global influences, including racism. Specific attention is paid to topics such as the role of community in youth mental health issues, depression in American Indian parents, substance abuse and alcohol dependency, and the unique socioeconomic characteristics of this ethnic group.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313383052
• Artikelnr.: 37838057

Autorenporträt

Michelle C. Sarche is assistant professor at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado, Denver, CO; a clinical psychologist; and a tribal member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe. Paul Spicer is professor of anthropology and faculty at the Center for Applied Social Research at The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; member of the board of ZERO TO THREE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to infants and toddlers; and codirector of the American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Research Center. Patricia Farrell is assistant provost of University-Community Partnerships in the Office of University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and is an enrolled member of Taos Pueblo. Hiram E. Fitzgerald is series editor for the Praeger series, Child Psychology and Mental Health. He is associate provost for University Outreach and Engagement and University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Hiram E. Fitzgerald Preface Hiram E. Fitzgerald 1.
Historical Trauma and Native American Child Development and Mental Health:
An Overview Christopher D. Campbell and Tessa Evans-Campbell 2. American
Indian and Alaska Native Children and Families: Social and Economic
Conditions Matthew Snipp and Anjula Saraff 3. American Indian and Alaska
Native Grandfamilies: The Impact on Child Development Suzanne Cross,
Angelique Day, and Patricia Farrell 4. American Indian and Alaska Native
Students with Disabilities: Implications for Research and Practice Susan C.
Faircloth 5. Learning the Community's Curriculum: The Linguistic, Social,
and Cultural Resources of American Indian and Alaska Native Children Mary
Eunice Romero-Little 6. Ethnic Identity and Mental Health among American
Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents Carol A. Markstrom, Nancy Whitesell,
and Renee V. Galliher 7. The Emergence of Problems in Adolescence for
American Indian and Alaska Native Children Amy E. West and Denise L. Newman
8. Intragenerational and Intergenerational Implications of American Indian
Children's Mental Health: The Place for Adult Development Karen Albright
9. Community-Based Participatory Research in Indian Country: Definitions,
Theory, Rationale, Examples, and Principles Lisa Rey Thomas, Dennis M.
Donovan, Robin Little Wing Sigo, and Laura Price 10. Systems of Mental
Health Care for American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Adolescents
Douglas K. Novins and Gary Bess 11. Community-Based Interventions for
Depression in Parents and Other Caregivers on a Northern Plains Native
American Reservation Joshua Sparrow, Minnetta Ironpipe Armstrong, Carol
Bird, Ethyl Grant, Sherry Hilleboe, Brenda Olson-Bird, Renee Tatsey, Sharon
Wagner, Margaret Ann Yellow Kidney, and William Beardslee 12. The
Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Tribal Communities
Michelle C. Sarche, Candace Fleming, and Paul Spicer 13. Culturally Based
Education: Promoting Academic Success and the General Well-Being of Native
American Students William G. Demmert Jr. 14. The Indian Child Welfare Act:
Implications for American Indian and Alaska Native Children, Families, and
Communities Matthew L. M. Fletcher 15. The Process and Dissemination of
Cultural Adaptations of Evidence-Based Practices for American Indian and
Alaska Native Children and Their Families Dolores Subia BigFoot 16.
American Indian Life Skills: A Community-Based Intervention for Indigenous
Mental Health Teresa D. LaFromboise and Azadeh S. Fatemi 17. Cultural
Interventions for American Indian and Alaska Native Youth: The Elluam
Tungiinun and Nagi Kicopi Programs James Allen, Gerald V. Mohatt, Stacy M.
Rasmus, Rick Two Dogs, Tara Ford, Ethleen Iron Cloud Two Dogs, and Richard
Moves Camp Index About the Editors and Contributors