"We never was happy living like a whiteman" : Mental health disparities and the postcolonial predicament in american indian communities
"We never was happy living like a whiteman" : Mental health disparities and the postcolonial predicament in american indian communities
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DOI：
10.1007/s10464-007-9136-x
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发表时间：
2007-12-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Gone, Joseph P.
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作者：
Gone, Joseph P.
在越来越多的关注的背景下，在健康状况的差距，美国之间。S.民族群体，本文探讨了不同的文化习俗的困境，以纠正在美国印第安社区的心理健康状况的差异。从北方平原印第安人保留地的部落长老的民族志采访图，一个典型的话语的困扰，并分析作为一个例子的文化之间的分歧的诊所和社区的文化。在部落国家和美国之间持续的权力不对称的背景下，S.联邦政府，这种文化差异对精神卫生专业人员，从业者和政策制定者的努力的影响被确定为一个困境，只有公约和一个强大的社区心理学的承诺有可能解决。
In the context of increasing attention to disparities in health status between U. S. ethnoracial groups, this article examines the dilemma of divergent cultural practices for redressing disparities in mental health status in American Indian communities. Drawing upon an ethnographic interview with a tribal elder from a northern Plains Indian reservation, a prototypical discourse of distress is presented and analyzed as one exemplar of the divergence between the culture of the clinic and the culture of the community. Situated in the context of continuing power asymmetries between tribal nations and the U. S. federal government, the implications of this cultural divergence for the efforts of mental health professionals, practitioners, and policymakers are identified as a predicament that only the conventions and commitments of a robust community psychology have the potential to resolve.