American Indian Culture: Treating Native Americans for Historical & Interpersonal Traumas

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

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- Tips for Disaster Responders: Understanding Historical Trauma when Responding to an Event in Indian Country. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 2014. pg. 1-4.
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Update
Community trial evaluating the integration of Indigenous healing practices and a harm reduction approach with principles of seeking safety in an Indigenous residential treatment program in northern Ontario

Morin, K. A., Marsh, T. N., Eshakakogan, C., Eibl, J. K., Spence, M., Gauthier, G., Walker, J. D., Sayers, D., Ozawanimke, A., Bissaillion, B., & Marsh, D. C. (2022). Community trial evaluating the integration of Indigenous healing practices and a harm reduction approach with principles of seeking safety in an Indigenous residential treatment program in northern Ontario. BMC health services research, 22(1), 1045. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08406-3

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References:
Brave Heart, M. Y. H., Chase, J., Myers, O., Elkins, J., Skipper, B., Schmitt, C., Mootz, J., & Waldorf, V. A. (2020). Iwankapiya American Indian pilot clinical trial: Historical trauma and group interpersonal psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 57(2), 184–196.

Gloppen, K., McMorris, B., Gower, A., & Eisenberg, M. (2018). Associations between bullying involvement, protective factors, and mental health among American Indian youth. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 88(4), 413–421. 

Hartmann, W. E., Wendt, D. C., Burrage, R. L., Pomerville, A., & Gone, J. P. (2019). American Indian historical trauma: Anticolonial prescriptions for healing, resilience, and survivance. American Psychologist, 74(1), 6–19.

Online Continuing Education QUESTION 1
What are three ways in which historical trauma can be expressed? Record the letter of the correct answer the CE Test.