Orange Shirt Day: Selected Articles & Grey Literature

Mental Health

• Maar, M.A., & Shawande, M. (2010). Traditional Anishinabe healing in a clinical setting: the development of an Aboriginal interdisciplinary approach to community-based Aboriginal mental health care. Journal of Aboriginal Health, 6, 18-27. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/222d/a856d15279153bd908e5ca7233a6624e3f7d.pdf

• Vukic, A., et al. (2011). Aboriginal and Western conceptions of mental health and illness. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 9, 65-86. http://www.pimatisiwin.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/04VukicGregory.pdf

Suicide

• Aboriginal Healing Foundation & Kirmayer, L.J., et al, (2007).  Suicide Among Aboriginal People in Canada.  http://www.ahf.ca/downloads/suicide.pdf

• Caldwell, D., (2008). The suicide prevention continuum.  Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 6(2), 145-153.  http://www.pimatisiwin.com/uploads/110287809.pdf

• Circumpolar Health Organization & the Working Group for a Suicide Prevention Strategy for Nunavut, (2009).  Qaujijausimajuni Tunngaviqarniq: Using knowledge and experience as a foundation for action: A discussion paper on suicide prevention in Nunavut. http://circumpolarhealth.org/library/Nunavut-suicide.pdf

• Issak, C.A., et al, (2010).  Community-based suicide prevention research in remote on-reserve First Nations communities.  International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 8(2), 258-270. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=50132690&site=ehost-live&scope=site

• Saskatoon Tribal Council, Lemstra, M., et al, (2013).  Risk indicators of suicide ideation among on-reserve First Nations youth.  Paediatrics & Child Health, 18(1), 15-20. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680266

Addiction & Substance Use

• The Aboriginal Healing Foundation & D. Chansonneuve, (2007).  Addictive behaviors among Aboriginal People in Canada. http://www.ahf.ca/downloads/addictive-behaviours.pd

• Dell, C., et al, (2008).  Horse as healer: An examination of equine assisted learning in the healing of First Nations youth from solvent abuse. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 6(1),  81-106. http://www.pimatisiwin.com/online/?page_id=265

• Dell, D., & Hopkins, C. (2011). Residential volatile substance misuse treatment for Indigenous youth in Canada. Substance Use & Misuse, 46, 107–113. https://doi-org.ezproxy.adler.edu/10.3109/10826084.2011.580225

• Hansen, J. & Calihoo, N., (2014). How the urban Aboriginal community members and clients of the friendship centre in Saskatoon understand addictions recovery.  Aboriginal Policy Studies, 3(1 & 2), 88-111. https://doi.org/10.5663/aps.v3i1&2.21702

• International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, Special Issue on Indigenous Health, 2010.  Vol. 8, No. 2.  http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.adler.edu/ehost/results

• Crawford, A. (2014). “The trauma experienced by generations past having an effect in their descendants”: Narrative and historical trauma among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(3), 339–369. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461512467161
   

• Dell, C.A., Dell, D.E., & Hopkins, C. (2005).  Resiliency and holistic inhalant abuse treatment.  Journal of Aboriginal Health, 2(1) 4-13. 

• Oviedo-Joekes, E., Guh, D., Marsh, D.C. et al (2010).  Characteristics and response to treatment among Aboriginal people receiving heroin-assisted treatment.  Canadian Journal of Public Health, 101(3), 210-112. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03404375

• Tait, C.L., (2008).  Ethical programming: Towards a community-centred approach to mental health and addiction programming in Aboriginal communities.  Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, 6(1), 29-60.  http://www.pimatisiwin.com/uploads/445206868.pdf

• Mushquash, C. J., Comeau, M. N., McLeod, B. D., & Stewart, S. H. (2010). A four-stage method for developing early interventions for alcohol among Aboriginal adolescents. International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, 8(2), 296–309. https://doi-org.ezproxy.adler.edu/10.1007/s11469-009-9240-2

• Canadian Population Health Initiative. (2009). Mentally healthy communities: Aboriginal perspectives. Canadian Institute for Health Information.   https://secure.cihi.ca/free_products/mentally_healthy_communities_aboriginal_perspectives_e.pdf
• First Nations Health Authority. (2014). Traditional wellness strategic framework. First Nations Health Authority. https://www.fnha.ca/WellnessSite/WellnessDocuments
• First Nations Health Authority. (2018) FNHA's policy on mental health and wellness. First Nations Health Authority. https://www.fnha.ca/WellnessSite/WellnessDocuments/FNHA-Policy-on-Mental-Health-and-Wellness.pdf
• Kirmayer, L.J. & Valaskakis, G.G. (Eds.). (2009).  Healing traditions: The mental health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.  Vancouver: UBC Press.  http://www.ubcpress.ca/asset/9291/1/9780774815239.pdf
• Smye, V. & Mussell, B. (2001).  Aboriginal Mental Health: 'What Works Best': A Discussion Paper. Mental Health Evaluation and Community Consultation Unit, Aboriginal Mental Health Committee, Adult Mental Health Division, Ministry of Health Services, B.C. http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/carmha/resources/aboriginal-mental-health-what-works-best.pdf
• First Nations Centre. (2006). An Annotated Bibliography: Cultural Intervention Models in Mental Health. National Aboriginal Health Organization. 
• Nelson, S. (2012). Challenging Hidden Assumptions: Colonial Norms as Determinants of Aboriginal Mental Health. National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. http://www.nccah-ccnsa.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/Attachments/70/colonial_norms_EN_web.pdf
• Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research. (2014). Research Projects. Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  http://www.namhr.ca/research/research-projects/overview/
• Blackstock, C. 2008. Rooting Mental Health in an Aboriginal World View: Inspired by Many Hands One Dream.  Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child & Youth Mental Health.
• Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre, (2010).  Child and Youth Mental Health Intervention, Research and Community Advocacy Project in Nunavut: Child and Youth Mental Health Services in Nunavut Needs Assessment.  https://www.qhrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/component_3_-_needs_assessment_-_final.pdf