Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis was to identify culturally appropriate means of engaging with Blackfoot and Indigenous clients seeking counselling.Blackfoot prayer is symbolic of the entire sacred worldview and universe of the Blackfoot people.This research intended for a holistic understanding of wellness to emerge from the study of Aatsimoiskaan (Prayer).This thesis employed an Indigenous research paradigm to ensure that the methodology was culturally appropriate.The research question was, "What does prayer say about wellbeing?"The researcher interviewed four members of sacred societies within the Blackfoot Confederacy.The interviews were qualitative and interpreted hermeneutically.The research identified five aspects of Blackfoot wellness to guide clients towards living a meaningful Indigenous life.Prayer provides practitioners with: 1) key ingredients of Blackfoot citizenry; 2) co-creation and autonomy in self healing; 3) decolonization of identity, self, and life; 4) conscious purpose; and 5) healthy identity formation.The findings of this research have practical use for counsellors who work directly with Indigenous clients.Any changes in practice and program delivery, which include these findings, will result in better outcomes for Indigenous, specifically Blackfoot, people seeking counsel.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".