Bibliographic record
Abstract
T his is the first book dedicated to bringing together research and reflection on the mental health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada from a wide range of perspectives, with contributions from psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, women's studies, sociology, and education.This is not a handbook of practice but a resource for thinking critically about current issues in the mental health of indigenous peoples.Thus there is an emphasis on cultural analysis of the concepts, values, and assumptions that shape mental health theory and practice and on the nature of Aboriginal identity and experience.Understanding the multiple meanings of Aboriginal identity requires an appreciation of history and contemporary and political realities.This book examines some of these contexts and culturesand traces their implications for mental health.Although the focus is necessarily on social suffering and affliction, we have tried to strike a balance between looking unflinchingly at the problems faced by Aboriginal peoples and recognizing their equally evident wellbeing, resilience, and renewal.We believe this approach will be useful for a wide range of readers in Aboriginal communities as well as in the general population, including health professionals, community workers, planners and administrators, social scientists, researchers, educators, and students.Our title, Healing Traditions, has several potential meanings.First, it refers to recovering and applying traditional methods of healing.Aboriginal peoples had a wide range of methods of healing that served to integrate the community and provide individuals with systems of meaning to make sense of suffering.These traditions were displaced and actively suppressed by successive generations of Euro-Canadian missionaries, governments, and professionals.Restoring these traditions, therefore, makes available a great variety of potentially effective forms of healing that may fit especially well with the values or ethos of contemporary Aboriginal peoples.More broadly, the recovery of traditional healing involves ceremonies and practices that engage not just individuals but also families and communities in ways that can promote solidarity, social support, and collective transformation.Many indigenous ways of understanding the person include an ecocentric sense of self that contrasts with the individualism that underwrites most contemporary mental health theory and practice.For most Aboriginal peoples, traditional subsistence activities (e.g., hunting, fishing, trapping)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.398 | 0.188 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".