Description: One of the challenges involved in trying to Indigenize Psychology is tied to fact that western Psychology is rather deeply grounded in the same a-cultural, individualistic perspective that defines the western or settler perspective. What this can mean is that while Psychology as a discipline CAN consider issues of culture, stigma and social stereotypes… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Indigenous Psychology
Coming to Cultural Terms with (Indigenous) Youth Suicide
Description: This past week I ran a workshop for an agency I have worked with over the past two decades (Metis Calgary Family Services). The agency provides supports, services and cultural and community connections for urban Aboriginal and Metis children, youth, adults and families. The workshop was focused on the issue of suicide and the… Read more »
Trying to Understand the Links Between Historical Trauma and Health Outcomes: Indigenizing Psychology
Description: In previous posts I have directed attention towards a couple of aspects of a perceived need for those interested in Psychology (well, everyone actually) to reflect up and act towards the indigenization of the discipline of, and the doing or, Psychology. Figuring out what this means and figuring out how to act in theory… Read more »
Drought, Australian Farmers, and Indigenous Psychology
Description: How might efforts to develop appropriate suicide prevention strategies for Australian aboriginal populations be of use in addressing burgeoning issues of stress and depression among mainstream Australian farmers trying to cope with ongoing drought conditions? The answer is also of relevance to issues I raised in my previous post regarding taking on the challenge… Read more »
Indigenous Psychology and Psychological Ethics
Description: How does (or just Does) Psychology deal with culture? How does (or just Does) Psychology deal with historical trauma? How universal are Psychology theories and applications? How these questions are understood and how they are addressed are important for how Psychology comes to terms with its past, present and future engagements with indigenous persons…. Read more »
The Impact of Stigma, Stereotype and Bias on Aboriginal Student Performance
Description: Ok, after a couple of rather dense posts looking at issues related to Indigenization I think it would be helpful to look at a very pragmatically focused piece of research bearing on the education experiences of aboriginal children in mainstream schools. There are a number of belief stigma and biases held to vastly varying… Read more »
Indigenizing Psychology: Where to Start?
Description: I am going to spend some time over the next little while writing about and posting links to articles and other media about the need to indigenize Psychology. (Note: in what follows I will be referring to features and aspects of the Canadian historical and current experience, however, indigenization and all that it involves… Read more »
Mental Health and Indigenous Youth: Cultural Connections Online
Description: In my previous post (http://wileypsychologyupdates.ca/general-psychology/health-psychology/elders-and-the-elderly-steps-towards-indigenous-respect-in-psychology/), I wrote about the distinct cultural perspectives that give diverse meanings to the terms Elder (aboriginal culture) and elderly (mainstream cultures). In this post I am shifting ages a bit and am asking you to consider how aboriginal and mainstream teenagers and youth in Northern British Columbia access and… Read more »
Elders and the elderly: Steps towards indigenous respect in Psychology
Description: In my previous post (http://wileypsychologyupdates.ca/neuroscience/expanding-psychology-starting-with-wisdom/) I introduced a new thread I am going to be focusing on, among other things, over the spring and summer. In that post I introduced an article looking at the place of the concept of wisdom in western society and thought and introduced the idea of rethinking about what… Read more »
Expanding Psychology: Starting with Wisdom
Description: As we enter into spring I am shifting gears a little bit on my posts. Specifically, I am going to focus a little bit on the edges of Psychology – on things that are not part of the mainstream parts of the discipline or on approaches to Psychology that are based on different assumptions… Read more »
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