Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne, 2022
This article considers how to advance Indigenous education in counselling and clinical psychology... more This article considers how to advance Indigenous education in counselling and clinical psychology in Canada, particularly at the intersection of curriculum, programmatic, and systemic shifts in graduate education. This article focuses on the curricular practices that the counselling and clinical psychology field could enact in efforts to advance reconciliation, reduce educational and mental health disparities that exist among Indigenous peoples in Canada, and strengthen Indigenous education in the field. To do this, the authors present a literature review on the status of Indigenous education research in counselling and clinical psychology and related fields in Canada and in similar international contexts. Centering analysis on the concept of Indigenization, a project concerned with infusing mainstream courses with content and pedagogical processes which speak to some experiences and concerns of Indigenous people, the authors present a framework for targeted changes in graduate curriculum. This framework organizes around the primary curricular domains of professional psychology, as well as some emerging domains of relevance for the fields of counselling and clinical psychology. The authors provide examples of Indigenous-specific psychological curricula and resources for Indigenization within psychology curriculum. Finally, the authors discuss the challenges and opportunities that Indigenization efforts in advanced psychological education present currently, as well as consider the role of self-determination in the future of Indigenous psychological education.
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) solidarities in colonially called North America ar... more Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) solidarities in colonially called North America are frequently theorized within the ongoing histories of white heteropatriarchal supremacy and colonial ideologies and structures. Within these discourses, whiteness continues to be centered while the voices, theorizations, lived experiences, and contributions of Black peoples are overlooked, a perpetuation of the anti-Blackness embedded within colonization. The centering of whiteness also subsumes differences across BIPOC communities and frames kinship relations as emerging solely from the shared goal of dismantling systemic violences experienced across BIPOC communities. But, Black feminist theorizations of love recognize that differences and incommensurabilities are integral to positive and meaningful BIPOC solidarities. Thus, decolonization and BIPOC solidarities must center Black feminist theorizations of love as integral to building decolonial otherwises of freedom.
Abstract Background: Indigenous people continue to experience high rates of multiple chronic cond... more Abstract Background: Indigenous people continue to experience high rates of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) at younger ages than other populations, resulting in an increase in health and social care needs. Those who provide services designed to address MCC for Indigenous communities require synthesized information to develop interventions that meet the needs of their older adult population. This review seeks to answer the research question: What are the health and social care needs, priorities and preferences of Indigenous older adults (living outside of long-term care settings) with MCC and their caregivers? Methods: A scoping review, guided by a refinement of the Arksey & O’Malley framework, was conducted. Articles were included if the authors reported on health and social care needs and priorities of older Indigenous adults. We also included articles that focused on Indigenous conceptions of wellness, resilience, well-being, and/or balance within the context of aging, and articles where authors drew from Indigenous specific worldviews, ways of knowing, cultural safety, cultural competence, cultural appropriateness, cultural relevance and community needs. Results: This scoping review included 9 articles that were examined using an Indigenous determinants of health (IDH) theoretical framework to analyze the needs of older adults and CGs. Five areas of needs were identified: accessible health services; building community capacity; improved social support networks; preservation of cultural values in health care; and wellness-based approaches. Conclusion: The review highlights key determinants of health that influenced older adults’ needs: education and literacy, ethnicity, and social support/network (proximal); health promotion and health care (intermediate); and a combination of historical and contemporary structures (distal). The findings highlight the importance of local Indigenous knowledge and perspectives to improve accessibility of culturally relevant health and social services. Keywords: Scoping review, Multimorbidity, Older adults, Caregivers, Health care providers, Needs, Indigenous, Determinants of health, Well-being
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2021
This paper considers how Indigenous studies can inform the evolution of critical research on suic... more This paper considers how Indigenous studies can inform the evolution of critical research on suicide. Aligned with critiques of mainstream suicidology, these methodological approaches provide a roadmap for structural analysis of complex systems and logics in which the phenomenon of suicide emerges. Moving beyond mere naming of social determinants of suicide and consistent with calls for a theory of justice within suicide research, Indigenous studies helps to advance conceptual knowledge of suicide in descriptive means and enhance ethical responses to suicide beyond psychocentric domains. Through centering Indigenous theories of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations, this article examines what new knowledge of suicide can emerge, as well as what ethical responses are possible to suicide and to a world where suicide exists. This new knowledge can inform practices for critical suicide studies which are invested in resisting structural violence, nourish agency, dignity and free...
Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne, 2022
This article considers how to advance Indigenous education in counselling and clinical psychology... more This article considers how to advance Indigenous education in counselling and clinical psychology in Canada, particularly at the intersection of curriculum, programmatic, and systemic shifts in graduate education. This article focuses on the curricular practices that the counselling and clinical psychology field could enact in efforts to advance reconciliation, reduce educational and mental health disparities that exist among Indigenous peoples in Canada, and strengthen Indigenous education in the field. To do this, the authors present a literature review on the status of Indigenous education research in counselling and clinical psychology and related fields in Canada and in similar international contexts. Centering analysis on the concept of Indigenization, a project concerned with infusing mainstream courses with content and pedagogical processes which speak to some experiences and concerns of Indigenous people, the authors present a framework for targeted changes in graduate curriculum. This framework organizes around the primary curricular domains of professional psychology, as well as some emerging domains of relevance for the fields of counselling and clinical psychology. The authors provide examples of Indigenous-specific psychological curricula and resources for Indigenization within psychology curriculum. Finally, the authors discuss the challenges and opportunities that Indigenization efforts in advanced psychological education present currently, as well as consider the role of self-determination in the future of Indigenous psychological education.
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) solidarities in colonially called North America ar... more Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) solidarities in colonially called North America are frequently theorized within the ongoing histories of white heteropatriarchal supremacy and colonial ideologies and structures. Within these discourses, whiteness continues to be centered while the voices, theorizations, lived experiences, and contributions of Black peoples are overlooked, a perpetuation of the anti-Blackness embedded within colonization. The centering of whiteness also subsumes differences across BIPOC communities and frames kinship relations as emerging solely from the shared goal of dismantling systemic violences experienced across BIPOC communities. But, Black feminist theorizations of love recognize that differences and incommensurabilities are integral to positive and meaningful BIPOC solidarities. Thus, decolonization and BIPOC solidarities must center Black feminist theorizations of love as integral to building decolonial otherwises of freedom.
Abstract Background: Indigenous people continue to experience high rates of multiple chronic cond... more Abstract Background: Indigenous people continue to experience high rates of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) at younger ages than other populations, resulting in an increase in health and social care needs. Those who provide services designed to address MCC for Indigenous communities require synthesized information to develop interventions that meet the needs of their older adult population. This review seeks to answer the research question: What are the health and social care needs, priorities and preferences of Indigenous older adults (living outside of long-term care settings) with MCC and their caregivers? Methods: A scoping review, guided by a refinement of the Arksey & O’Malley framework, was conducted. Articles were included if the authors reported on health and social care needs and priorities of older Indigenous adults. We also included articles that focused on Indigenous conceptions of wellness, resilience, well-being, and/or balance within the context of aging, and articles where authors drew from Indigenous specific worldviews, ways of knowing, cultural safety, cultural competence, cultural appropriateness, cultural relevance and community needs. Results: This scoping review included 9 articles that were examined using an Indigenous determinants of health (IDH) theoretical framework to analyze the needs of older adults and CGs. Five areas of needs were identified: accessible health services; building community capacity; improved social support networks; preservation of cultural values in health care; and wellness-based approaches. Conclusion: The review highlights key determinants of health that influenced older adults’ needs: education and literacy, ethnicity, and social support/network (proximal); health promotion and health care (intermediate); and a combination of historical and contemporary structures (distal). The findings highlight the importance of local Indigenous knowledge and perspectives to improve accessibility of culturally relevant health and social services. Keywords: Scoping review, Multimorbidity, Older adults, Caregivers, Health care providers, Needs, Indigenous, Determinants of health, Well-being
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2021
This paper considers how Indigenous studies can inform the evolution of critical research on suic... more This paper considers how Indigenous studies can inform the evolution of critical research on suicide. Aligned with critiques of mainstream suicidology, these methodological approaches provide a roadmap for structural analysis of complex systems and logics in which the phenomenon of suicide emerges. Moving beyond mere naming of social determinants of suicide and consistent with calls for a theory of justice within suicide research, Indigenous studies helps to advance conceptual knowledge of suicide in descriptive means and enhance ethical responses to suicide beyond psychocentric domains. Through centering Indigenous theories of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations, this article examines what new knowledge of suicide can emerge, as well as what ethical responses are possible to suicide and to a world where suicide exists. This new knowledge can inform practices for critical suicide studies which are invested in resisting structural violence, nourish agency, dignity and free...
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