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October 2003
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Australasian Psychiatry
Objective: To identify issues and concepts to guide the development of culturally appropriate mental health promotion strategies with Aboriginal populations and communities in Canada. Methods: We review recent literature examining the links between the history of colonialism and government interventions (including the residential school system, out-adoption, and centralised bureaucratic control) and the mental health of Canadian Aboriginal peoples. Results: There are high rates of social problems, demoralisation, depression, substance abuse, suicide and other mental health problems in many, though not all, Aboriginal communities. Although direct causal links are difficult to demonstrate with quantitative methods, there is clear and compelling evidence that the long history of cultural oppression and marginalisation has contributed to the high levels of mental health problems found in many communities. There is evidence that strengthening ethnocultural identity, community integration and political empowerment can contribute to improving mental health in this population. Conclusions: The social origins of mental health problems in Aboriginal communities demand social and political solutions. Research on variations in the prevalence of mental health disorders across communities may provide important information about community-level variables to supplement literature that focuses primarily on individual-level factors. Mental health promotion that emphasises youth and community empowerment is likely to have broad effects on mental health and wellbeing in Aboriginal communities.
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... Vast differences exist among the world's Indigenous populations in their political and economic situations, cultures, and relationships with colonizing societies, encompassing more than 5,000 classifications and more than 4,000 languages (Alfred & Corntassel, 2005). But there are also many parallels in the histories of Indigenous peoples across the world (Kirmayer et al., 2008): most of these populations have been subjected to some form of marginalization (Walls et al., 2014) besides being targeted for cultural, political, and physical eradication by states and colonial authorities (Alfred & Corntassel, 2005). The economic and political systems of colonial states centered both on the repression of "native peoples" and on the exploitation of colonized lands through intensive resource extraction for the benefits of European markets and industry (Fanon, 2007). ...
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July 2009
... After the staggered closure of IRS, there was a widespread effort in the 1960s and 1970s to remove Indigenous children from their homes and place them in the care of non-Indigenous families (known as the Sixties Scoop) (Kirmayer et al., 2016). Ultimately, these colonial policies broke apart traditional family units, often exposed children to abuse from authority figures in their most formative years, and stripped children of their opportunity to learn their culture, language, and traditional parenting practices (Kirmayer et al., 2003). These experiences have resulted in not only long-term effects, where survivors of residential or boarding schools have reported feelings of anger, hopelessness, sadness, and other disruptions in their emotion regulation and capacity (Brave Heart, 1999), but intergenerational effects as well. ...
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October 2003
Australasian Psychiatry