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Re-imagining Mental Health Services for American Indian Communities: Centering Indigenous Perspectives

When

Monday January 22, 2018: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

For Whom

Adults

Description

The indigenous peoples of North America are heirs to the shattering legacy of European colonization. These brutal histories of land dispossession, military conquest, forced settlement, religious repression, and coercive assimilation have robbed American Indian communities of their economies, life ways, and sources of meaning and significance in the world. The predictable consequence has been an epidemic of “mental health” problems such as demoralization, substance abuse, violence, and suicide. This presentation will review the implicit logics that structure mental health service delivery as well as key ethno-psychological commitments of many American Indian communities in an effort to re-imagine counseling services in a manner that truly centers indigenous perspectives.

Joseph P. Gone is Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. His interdisciplinary scholarship explores the sociocultural foundations of healthy and disordered psychological experience on one hand, and the normative and prescriptive activities of mental health professionals on the other hand. His current projects are dedicated to integrating indigenous healing practices into clinical mental health settings that serve Native American people.

This program is part of the "Exploring the Mind" series and is a partnership with The University of Michigan Department of Psychology.

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Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room