E-book
Kiskâyitamawin miyo-mamitonecikan urban Aboriginal women and mental health
Record details
- ISBN: 9781897250303 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1897250304 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xvi, 96 p.) : - Publisher: Winnipeg, Man. : Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence, 2010
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "June 2010." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-83). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Methodology and procedures -- Limitations -- Participant demographics -- Lifelong experiences -- Looking back over a lifetime: framing Aboriginal women's experiences -- Women's reflections and narratives on childhood, teen and adulthood experiences -- Framing childhood/teen experiences -- Child sexual abuse -- Child protection services -- Racism/discrimination and identity -- Residential schools -- Aboriginal women's perspectives on mental health -- Defining mental health -- Self-assessed mental health -- Coping with their mental health -- Barriers to "knowing mind fullness" -- Anonymity -- Confidentiality and trust -- Inter-personal relationships -- Fear of losing children -- Lack of childcare within mental health programming -- Cookie cutter approaches -- Lack of cultural awareness and training of mental care workers -- Fear of institutionalized care settings -- Misdirected focus of mental health programs -- Process: waiting lists, diagnosis and referrals -- Lack of validation -- Distribution, usability and access to mental health information racism -- Physical disabilities -- Side-effects of medication, over-medication and the wrong medication -- Stigma -- Aboriginal women's mental health needs: through their own eyes, in their own words -- The need to be heard and receive answers -- The need to talk to someone -- The need for care, support and acceptance -- Conclusion: Aboriginal women envisage "knowing mind fullness" -- Appendix 1: One-to-one interview guide -- Appendix 2: Focus group guide -- Appendix 3: Interview guide with elders -- Appendix 4: Interview guide with front-line workers -- Appendix 5: Interview guide with researcher -- Appendix 6: PWHCE project team member observations on researching mental health services and programs in Winnipeg. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language Note: | English with summary in French. |
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| Topic Heading: | Aboriginal. First Nation. Aboriginal. First Nation. |
