Author

Linklater, Renee

Place of Publication

Halifax, NS

Publisher

Fernwood Publishing

Publication Date

2014

Physical Description

Paperback, 175 p.

Subject

Aboriginal Health

Community Health Services

Leadership/Coaching

Abstract

In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the soul wound of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous 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. Through stories and strategies that are grounded in Indigenous worldviews and embedded with cultural knowledge, Linklater offers purposeful and practical methods to help individuals and communities that have experienced trauma. 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."

ISBN

9781552666586

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF GN 400 LIN 2014

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