Roots of Resilience: Transformations of Identity and Community in Indigenous Mental Health

我们建议制定一个跨国家的跨学科研究计划，研究促进土著人民在整个生命周期中心理健康复原力的因素和过程，重点是幼儿、学龄儿童、青春期和青年期。我们将开展一系列相互关联的项目，以确定三国土著人民个人和集体复原力的独特特点。这种研究的联系将以三种方式发生：(1)在个人、家庭、社区和社会层面建立一个综合的复原力模型，可以在三个国家中应用；(2)设计针对同一人群的多方法研究，以便对结果进行三角测量，以提高结果解释的有效性；(3)利用跨国比较来考察弹性过程中潜在的社会结构、文化和历史差异。这些项目将包括临床、社区和以人口为基础的复原力研究，使用定性生活史和人种学方法以及流行病学数据的定量分析。合作研究人员开发了不同年龄组心理弹性研究的具体方法，包括：婴儿期和幼儿期的养育和家庭环境；以学校为本的绩效与留任结果研究基于社区的个体生命轨迹民族志研究社区逆境反应的社会历史研究以及基于人口的纵向数据集研究。在这些研究中，我们的重点将是确定土著人民的独特经历，以便适当地解释和应用有关复原力的研究，以改善这些人口的健康。

We propose to develop a cross-country interdisciplinary research program on factors and processes that promote resilience in mental health among indigenous peoples across the lifespan, with an emphasis on early childhood, school age children, adolescence and young adulthood. We will carry out a set of linked projects to identify the distinctive characteristics of individual and collective resilience among indigenous peoples in the three countries. This linkage of studies will occur in three ways: (1) developing a comprehensive model of resilience at individual, family, community and societal levels that can be applied across the three countries; (2) designing multi-method studies of the same population so that results can be triangulated for greater validity of interpretation of results; (3) using cross-national comparisons to examine potential social structural, cultural and historical differences in the processes of resilience. The projects will include clinical, community and population-based studies of resilience using both qualitative life history and ethnographic methods and quantitative analysis of epidemiological data. The collaborating investigators have developed specific methods for studies of resilience in different age groups, including: parenting and family environment during infancy and early childhood; school-based research on outcomes of performance and retention; community-based ethnographic research on individual life trajectories; social historical research on community responses to adversity; and population-based research on longitudinal datasets. Throughout these studies our emphasis will be on identifying what may be distinctive about the experience of indigenous peoples so that research on resilience can be appropriately interpreted and applied to improve the health of these populations.