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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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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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The Tools to Understand

SUMMARY A collaborative research process engaging Alaska Native communities in the study of protective factors in Alaska Native sobriety and the design of a preventative intervention using its…
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"Tied together like a woven hat:" Protective pathways to Alaska native sobriety

Results suggest that preventative interventions should focus on intervening simultaneously at the community, family, and individual levels to build resilience and protective factors at each level.
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Experimental Social Innovation and Dissemination: The Promise and Its Delivery

The origin of the Experimental Social Innovation and Dissemination model and its contribution to and intersection with community psychology are described and the challenges presented to ESID by community psychology's growing emphasis on cultural diversity and participatory approaches to research and intervention are discussed.
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Gender and Serious Mental Illness: A Feminist Perspective

Perhaps in reaction to criticisms of “woman as problem” formulations, psychological literature has nearly ignored women with serious mental illnesses (SMI), although epidemiological research…
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Evaluation of family support services: changes in availability and accessibility.

Changes in availability and accessibility of family support services were studied by surveying county mental health authorities in Michigan before and after the implementation of new policy on and…
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Gender and sex inequalities: Implications and resistance

Research presented in the current issue examines many of the inequalities that disrupt or hinder women and LGBTQ in society, and describes potential solutions involving community interventions, policy change, and political advocacy.
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Characteristics of seriously mentally ill adults in a public mental health system.

The heterogeneous nature of the population and the presence of complicating problems not traditionally served by mental health systems, such as medical illness and substance abuse, point to a need for interagency planning to address the needs of seriously mentally ill adults.
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