Culture and Community Psychology: Toward a Renewed and Reimagined Vision

Kral, Michael J.; García, Jorge I. Ramírez; Aber, Mark S.; Masood, Nausheen; Dutta, Urmitapa; Todd, Nathan R.

doi:10.1007/s10464-010-9367-0

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“…Narrative-based, qualitative methods are consistent with Indigenous perspectives of knowledge transmission and understanding (e.g., Mihesuah 1998;Smith 1999). Collaborative, participatory methods linked to community action are particularly relevant to the concerns of community psychology (e.g., Brydon-Miller et al, in press;Kidd and Kral 2005;Marshall and Rossman 1995;Kral et al 2011;O'Donnell 2006;Rappaport 2000;Trickett 1996), as is work with Indigenous communities (Berlin 1987b;Gone 2011;Fisher and Ball 2003;Hobfoll et al 2002).…”

Section: A Brief Historical and Colonial Backgroundmentioning

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Unikkaartuit: Meanings of Well‐Being, Unhappiness, Health, and Community Change Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada

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American J of Comm Psychol

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Suicide among young Inuit in the Canadian Arctic is at an epidemic level. In order to understand the distress and well-being experienced in Inuit communities, a first step in understanding collective suicide, this qualitative study was designed. Fifty Inuit were interviewed in two Inuit communities in Nunavut, Canada, and questionnaires asking the same questions were given to 66 high school and college students. The areas of life investigated here were happiness and wellbeing, unhappiness, healing, and community and personal change. Three themes emerged as central to well-being: the family, talking/communication, and traditional Inuit cultural values and practices. The absence of these factors were most closely associated with unhappiness. Narratives about community and personal change were primarily about family, intergenerational segregation, an increasing population, more trouble in romantic relationships among youth, drug use, and poverty. Change over time was viewed primarily as negative. Discontinuity of kinship structure and function appears to be the most harmful effect of the internal colonialism imposed by the Canadian government in the 1950s and 1960s. Directions toward community control and action are encouraging, and are highlighted. Inuit community action toward suicide prevention and community wellness is part of a larger movement of Indigenous self-determination.

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Section: A Brief Historical and Colonial Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unikkaartuit: Meanings of Well‐Being, Unhappiness, Health, and Community Change Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada

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Minore³

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American J of Comm Psychol

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“…Latino mental health researchers have used ecologi-cal theories and their variants to study and understand the mental health of Latino youth (e.g., Kral et al, 2011;Szapocznik & Coatsworth, 1999;Gonzales et al, 2011). The models stem from Bronfenbrenner (1979) ecological model of human development which draws attention to the embedded-ness of micro (e.g., family, peers), and macro (e.g., institutions, neighborhoods, polices) social contexts, and their inter-relation.…”

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Mental Health Care for Latino Immigrants in the U.S.A. and the Quest for Global Health Equities*

García

2012

Psychosocial Intervention

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“…In examining these issues, this study considers explicitly the shared meaning of culture as a contextual feature of disasters and post-disaster interventions (Cruz and Sonn, 2011;Kral et al, 2011;O'Donnell and Tharp, 2012). In examining these issues, this study considers explicitly the shared meaning of culture as a contextual feature of disasters and post-disaster interventions (Cruz and Sonn, 2011;Kral et al, 2011;O'Donnell and Tharp, 2012).…”

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Culture, local capacity, and outside aid: a community perspective on disaster response after the 2009 tsunami in American Sāmoa

Binder¹,

Baker

2016

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Research on diverse cultural contexts has indicated that aid organisations often fail to leverage local, culturally-grounded resources and capacities in disaster-affected communities. Case-study methodology was employed to explore the relationship between local and external disaster response efforts in American Sāmoa following the earthquake and tsunami on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean, with a specific focus on the role of culture in defining that relationship. Interview and focus group data from 37 participants, along with observational data, suggested that the local response to the event was swift and grounded in Samoan cultural systems and norms. External aid was viewed as helpful in some respects, although, on the whole, it was seen as a disruption to village hierarchies, social networks, and local response efforts. The study discusses the implications for the role of outside aid in diverse cultural contexts, and makes suggestions for improving the ecological fit of post-disaster interventions.

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Culture and Community Psychology: Toward a Renewed and Reimagined Vision

Cited by 40 publications

References 69 publications

Unikkaartuit: Meanings of Well‐Being, Unhappiness, Health, and Community Change Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada

Unikkaartuit: Meanings of Well‐Being, Unhappiness, Health, and Community Change Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada

Mental Health Care for Latino Immigrants in the U.S.A. and the Quest for Global Health Equities*

Culture, local capacity, and outside aid: a community perspective on disaster response after the 2009 tsunami in American Sāmoa

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