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The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation,

Schissel, Terry Wotherspoon, Oxford University Press Canada, 2003, 0195416643, 9780195416640, 176 pages. Education is expected to assist students in the development of their personal identities and…

Counseling Intervention and American Indian Tradition

The training of American Indian counseling and community psychologists should move away from conventional counseling tenets toward the use of culturally sensitive mental health approaches that…
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Risk, resilience, and natural recovery: a model of recovery from alcohol abuse for Alaska Natives.

An Alaska Native understanding of the recovery process from alcohol abuse and consequent sobriety is explored and the PA heuristic model points to important cultural elements in AN conceptualizations of recovery.
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Unheard Alaska: Culturally Anchored Participatory Action Research on Sobriety with Alaska Natives

Important issues that arose in doing culturally anchored participatory action research included the development of a community of inquiry, key methodological decisions, the empowerment of participants as coresearchers, and flexibility in research implementation.
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Suicide prevention as a community development process: understanding circumpolar youth suicide prevention through community level outcomes

The feasibility and potential utility of methodological approaches that use community-level variables beyond individual level outcomes in circumpolar suicide prevention research are demonstrated.
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A Protective Factors Model for Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Prevention Among Alaska Native Youth

Results suggest prominent roles for these predictor variables as intermediate prevention strategy target variables in a theoretical model for a multilevel intervention to increase the ultimate outcome variables of Reasons for Life and Reflective Processes regarding the consequences of alcohol abuse.
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Associations of very high intakes of eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids with biomarkers of chronic disease risk among Yup'ik Eskimos.

Increasing EPA and DHA intakes to amounts well above those consumed by the general US population may have strong beneficial effects on chronic disease risk.
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Building a community-based participatory research center to investigate obesity and diabetes in Alaska Natives

This manuscript describes the organizational development of the CANHR study and the procedures employed in its progression to date.
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Cultural and spiritual coping in sobriety: Informing substance abuse prevention for Alaska Native communities.

Culture and spirituality have been conceptualized as both protecting people from addiction and assisting in the recovery process. A collaborative study, utilizing focus group and survey methods,…
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Feasibility of a Community Intervention for the Prevention of Suicide and Alcohol Abuse with Yup’ik Alaska Native Youth: The Elluam Tungiinun and Yupiucimta Asvairtuumallerkaa Studies

Results suggest implementation in these rural Alaska settings is feasible when sufficient resources are available to sustain high levels of local commitment, and measureable effects are sufficient to warrant a prevention trial.
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