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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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Advancing suicide prevention research with rural American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

A multidisciplinary group of AI/AN suicide research experts convened to outline pressing issues related to this subfield of suicidology and proposed directions to advance the field of suicide research in Indigenous communities and beyond.
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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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Mapping resilience pathways of Indigenous youth in five circumpolar communities

This introduction to the Special Issue Indigenous Youth Resilience in the Arctic reviews relevant resilience theory and research, with particular attention to Arctic Indigenous youth. Current…
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Seeking balance between the past and the present: Vietnamese refugee parenting practices and adolescent well-being.

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Being useful: achieving indigenous youth involvement in a community-based participatory research project in Alaska

Youth-guided CBPR meant involving youth in the process of not only understanding the research process but living through it as well, and finding findings from the research project were translated into serviceable action in the community where they live.
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Assessment of awareness of connectedness as a culturally-based protective factor for Alaska native youth.

The proposed Awareness of Connectedness Scale (ACS) displays good convergent and discriminant validity, and correlates positively with hypothesized protective factors such as reasons for living and communal mastery, and has utility in the study of culture-specific protective factors and as an outcomes measure for behavioral health programs with Native American youth.
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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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Personality Assessment With American Indians and Alaska Natives: Instrument Considerations and Service Delivery Style

Existing research raises significant questions regarding the conceptual equivalence of standardized personality assessment instruments with American Indians and Alaska Natives. Standardized…
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