"It runs in the family": Intergenerational transmission of historical trauma among urban American Indians and Alaska natives in culturally specific sobriety maintenance programs

American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 17-40

  Myhra, Laurelle L ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ALASKA; CULTURE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861128876     PISSN: 08935394     EISSN: 15337731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5820/aian.1802.2011.17     Document Type: Article

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