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Decolonizing trauma work : indigenous stories and strategies / Renee Linklater.

Linklater, Renee, 1969- (author.).

Summary:

"In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous worldviews, notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression and experiences of parallel and multiple realities. Linklater offers purposeful and practical methods to help individuals and communities that have experienced trauma, through stories and strategies that are grounded in Indigenous worldviews and embedded with cultural knowledge. Decolonizing Trauma Work, one of the first books of its kind, is a resource for education and training programs, health care practitioners, healing centres, clinical services and policy initiatives."

Record details

ISBN: 9781552666586 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1552666581
Physical Description: 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Halifax : Fernwood Publishing, 2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1. Colonialism, Indigenous trauma and healing -- 2. Indigenous health care practitioners join the circle -- 3. Indigenous perspectives on wellness and wholistic healing -- 4. Psychiatry and Indigenous peoples -- 5. Indigenous strategies for helping and healing -- 6. A decolonizing journey -- References.