Culturally Based Substance Abuse Treatment for American Indians/Alaska Natives and Latinos

The Historical Trauma and Resilience of Individuals of Mexican Ancestry in the United States: A Scoping Literature Review and Emerging Conceptual Framework

“…The use of conceptual models varied; the majority of articles explicitly link historical trauma to IMA-US (Carvajal and Young 2009;Estrada 2009;Stevens et al 2015), but other sources focused on related models that can be traced to the HT (see Figure 2). For example, the Indigenist Stress and Coping Model (Estrada 2009;Stevens et al 2015) and the multi-level transmission for exploring impacts of historical trauma on individuals, families, and communities (Hanna et al 2017;Stevens et al 2015).…”

“…The concept of an ambiguous homeland (Perez and Arnold-Berkovits 2018) was the focus of one study, but this theme was evoked in other studies that discussed immigration issues, border movement, and land displacement (Anzaldúa et al 2003;Hanna 2017;Stevens et al 2015). Impacts from HTEs were also indirectly discussed with concepts of acculturation and minority stress (Carvajal and Young 2009;Perez and Arnold-Berkovits 2018;Stevens et al 2015).…”

“…The discussion of specific intergenerational trauma transmission and responses included, SUDs, mental health problems. The main venues for transmission included popular culture and oral tradition (Carvajal and Young 2009;Hanna et al 2017;Stevens et al 2015). Concepts related to the history of broken land treaties and current health disparities included institutional betrayal and institutional mistrust (Hanna et al 2017;Ramirez and Hammack 2014;Talebreza-May 2015;Zentella 2004).…”

American Indian Cultures: How CBPR Illuminated Intertribal Cultural Elements Fundamental to an Adaptation Effort

“…The paradigm undergirding evaluation of program effectiveness by quantitative means is a Western construct (Carvajal and Young, 2009). This approach targets measurement of outcomes (effectiveness) using Western scientific methods as the crucial test of program efficacy rather than measuring cultural resonance (Kincheloe and Steinberg, 2008).…”

“…This approach targets measurement of outcomes (effectiveness) using Western scientific methods as the crucial test of program efficacy rather than measuring cultural resonance (Kincheloe and Steinberg, 2008). In response, there is growing acknowledgement among researchers of the wisdom of integrating substance abuse interventions with culturally relevant practices which appropriately represent “clients whose lifestyles and cultural orientations are strongly anchored to non-Western perspectives” (Carvajal and Young, 2009, p. 207). In the current study, CBPR illuminated significant differences in belief systems, world views, and communication patterns that, together, challenged the appropriateness of the kiR curriculum on numerous fronts.…”