The The Violence of Colonization and the Importance of Decolonizing Therapeutic Relationship: The Role of Helper in Centring Indigenous Wisdom

Dupuis-Rossi, Riel

doi:10.32799/ijih.v16i1.33223

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“…If a central aspect of colonialism is disconnection from place, community, culture, land, ecology, and spirituality, then conversely, decolonialisation and healing must centre and focus upon restoring a sense of connection with community, place, culture, land, ecology, and spirituality [68,80,129,130]. Though relatively small, the body of research and literature on land-based and land-informed healing initiatives is rapidly growing [108,131,132].…”

Section: A Broad Survey Of Current Work About Land-based and Land-inf...mentioning

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Grounding Wellness: Coloniality, Placeism, Land, and a Critique of “Social” Determinants of Indigenous Mental Health in the Canadian Context

Josewski

Leeuw

Greenwood

2023

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Authored by a small team of settler and Indigenous researchers, all of whom are deeply involved in scholarship and activism interrogating ongoing processes of coloniality in lands now known to many as Canada, this paper critically examines “social” and grounded determinants of Indigenous mental health and wellness. After placing ourselves on the grounds from which we write, we begin by providing an overview of the social determinants of health (SDOH), a conceptual framework with deep roots in colonial Canada. Though important in pushing against biomedical framings of Indigenous health and wellness, we argue that the SDOH framework nevertheless risks re-entrenching deeply colonial ways of thinking about and providing health services for Indigenous people: SDOH, we suggest, do not ultimately reckon with ecological, environmental, place-based, or geographic determinants of health in colonial states that continue to occupy stolen land. These theoretical interrogations of SDOH provide an entry point to, first, an overview of Indigenous ways of understanding mental wellness as tethered to ecology and physical geography, and second, a collection of narrative articulations from across British Columbia: these sets of knowledge offer clear and unequivocal evidence, in the form of Indigenous voices and perspectives, about the direct link between land, place, and mental wellness (or a lack thereof). We conclude with suggestions for future research, policy, and health practice actions that move beyond the current SDOH model of Indigenous health to account for and address the grounded, land-based, and ecologically self-determining nature of Indigenous mental health and wellness.

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Section: A Broad Survey Of Current Work About Land-based and Land-inf...mentioning

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Grounding Wellness: Coloniality, Placeism, Land, and a Critique of “Social” Determinants of Indigenous Mental Health in the Canadian Context

Josewski

Leeuw

Greenwood

2023

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“…The authors in no way wish to perpetuate the idea that Indigenous people are sick peoples, but rather are culturally rich peoples who were and continue to be victims of settler colonial practices and ethnocide. Turtle Island’s Indigenous peoples are not sick, but they are suffering from physical, psychological, and spiritual symptoms born of a sick colonial system (Dupuis-Rossi, 2020; Nelson, 2012). If anything, their very presence, their continued sense of community, living languages and active cultures, speak to their strength and resilience in the face of so many unyielding obstacles and historical traumas.…”

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Acute and enduring effects of naturalistic psychedelic use among Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States.

Salle¹,

Gran-Ruaz²,

Davis³

et al. 2022

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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Experiences of past and present oppression/discrimination towards Turtle Island's Indigenous peoples are pervasive, contributing to symptoms of stress and trauma. Psychedelic substances have been shown to be effective for treating multiple disorders; however, there is a lack of research within Indigenous groups. This study examined the effects of naturalistic psychedelic use on recalled psychological distress and trauma symptoms among Indigenous peoples living in the United States and Canada who had experienced racial trauma. Participants were asked to recall a memorable psychedelic experience and report experiences of past racial trauma and retrospective changes in mental health symptoms within a cross-sectional internet-based survey focusing on people of colour in North America. Sixty-six participants (74.3% residents of Canada, 60.6% female, mean age of 35.9 years) self-identified as Indigenous. Participants mostly reported oral intake of psilocybin, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or lysergic acid diethylamide, and reported frequent experiences of ethnic discrimination and high levels of related stress. Participants recalled experiencing fewer symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, symptoms of discrimination, and alcohol use in the 30 days after (vs. before) the psychedelic experience. Greater overall changes were recalled following psilocybin consumption, whereas differential effects were found based on Tribal land, reservation, or reserve residency and participant sex. Exploratory analyses suggested that measures of ethnic discrimination, residency, substance consumed, and sex were related to recalled changes in symptoms. As the healing powers of psychedelic medicines gain in mainstream popularity, one must consider the historical contexts, implications, and perspectives of Indigenous peoples. Several reflection questions are recommended to aid psychedelic stakeholders in conducting their work in an allied manner. Public Significance StatementThe present study found that naturalistic psychedelic substance consumption led to recalled improvements in symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, trauma symptoms of discrimination, and alcohol use, in the 30 days after (vs. before) the psychedelic experience in Indigenous people who had experienced racial trauma. In particular, psilocybin led to the greatest recalled improvements, whereas differential

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Artikulasjoner av kjønn og kultur i samisk psykisk helsevern

Dankertsen¹

2021

TFK

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I denne artikkelen undersøker jeg hvordan forståelser av kjønn og kultur artikuleres av ansatte innenfor feltet samisk psykisk helsevern. Disse artikulasjonene kan gjenspeile både positive og negative diskurser om kjønn og kultur i samiske samfunn. Artikkelen baserer seg på et kvalitativt materiale hvor jeg har intervjuet personer som jobber med psykisk helsevern i samiske områder. Jeg er inspirert av Judith Butlers (1990) teori om performativitet, hvor kjønn skapes og gjenskapes gjennom performative handlinger. Jeg kombinerer dette med perspektiver på myter og realiteter (Kuokkanen 2007; Nystad 2003) knyttet til forståelser av kjønn i samiske samfunn. Jeg argumenterer for at ansatte innenfor psykisk helsevern må reflektere rundt hvordan de selv potensielt kan bidra til å forsterke negative stereotypier i møte med samiske pasienter, gjennom å ureflektert reprodusere dem, noe som kan gi de samiske pasientene et dårligere helsetilbud.

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The The Violence of Colonization and the Importance of Decolonizing Therapeutic Relationship: The Role of Helper in Centring Indigenous Wisdom

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Grounding Wellness: Coloniality, Placeism, Land, and a Critique of “Social” Determinants of Indigenous Mental Health in the Canadian Context

Grounding Wellness: Coloniality, Placeism, Land, and a Critique of “Social” Determinants of Indigenous Mental Health in the Canadian Context

Acute and enduring effects of naturalistic psychedelic use among Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States.

Artikulasjoner av kjønn og kultur i samisk psykisk helsevern

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