The Red Road to Wellness: Cultural Reclamation in a Native First Nations Community Treatment Center

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 187-202

  Gone, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; Community psychology; Cultural analysis; Healing; Medicine wheel; Substance abuse treatment

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; COUNSELING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; COUNSELING; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 78650995765     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-010-9373-2     Document Type: Article

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