Substance Misuse Among Indigenous Peoples of Canada: The Problem of Inhaling Solvents among the Cree and Blackfoot of Alberta
| Author: | Irvine, Kathryn | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Pages: | 312 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-1595-5 978-0-7734-1595-9 | |
| Price: | $219.95 + shipping | |
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This study explores the lived experiences of Indigenous peoples who formerly used
solvents and identifies the factors that helped them to stop using. Working from a strengths perspective, this study challenges the how of modern racism in the discourse of the academy and media to develop a compassionate response.
solvents and identifies the factors that helped them to stop using. Working from a strengths perspective, this study challenges the how of modern racism in the discourse of the academy and media to develop a compassionate response.
Reviews
“[The author’s] book is among the few studies investigating the experience of
solvent misuse among Indigenous peoples by capturing their stories. . .”
-Prof. Cindy Blackstock,
University of Alberta
“. . . [the author] weaves an account of her own experiences inside the research process – a process that changed her life and her own understandings.” -Prof. Alanaise Goodwin, Brandon University
"The importance of this book is its emphasis on a strengths perspective in working with indigenous peoples and communities and the emphasis on a person in environment (PIE) perspective which looks at the individual from a wider, more holistic and societal perspective...Her aim is to give professionals the tools to work with indigenous peoples in a respectful and empowering way."
Associate Professor Jeanette King,
Aotahi: School of Maori and Indigenous Studies,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
“. . . [the author] weaves an account of her own experiences inside the research process – a process that changed her life and her own understandings.” -Prof. Alanaise Goodwin, Brandon University
"The importance of this book is its emphasis on a strengths perspective in working with indigenous peoples and communities and the emphasis on a person in environment (PIE) perspective which looks at the individual from a wider, more holistic and societal perspective...Her aim is to give professionals the tools to work with indigenous peoples in a respectful and empowering way."
Associate Professor Jeanette King,
Aotahi: School of Maori and Indigenous Studies,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Table of Contents
Preface by Cindy Blackstock
Introduction
Chapter 1: Writing about the Literature
Chapter 2: The Power of Words
Chapter 3: Compassion: Reading the Academy and the Media
Chapter 4: Doing the Research
Chapter 5: Laying out the Research Processs
Chapter 6: Conversations
Chapter 7: Understandings for Social Work
Notes
References
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1: Writing about the Literature
Chapter 2: The Power of Words
Chapter 3: Compassion: Reading the Academy and the Media
Chapter 4: Doing the Research
Chapter 5: Laying out the Research Processs
Chapter 6: Conversations
Chapter 7: Understandings for Social Work
Notes
References
Index