"We're still in a struggle": Diné resilience, survival, historical trauma, and healing

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1019-1036

  Goodkind, Jessica R ^a   Hess, Julia Meredith ^a   Gorman, Beverly ^a   Parker, Danielle P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboriginal people, North America; Adolescents youth; Healing; Health and well being; Mental health and illness; Resilience; Stress distress; Suffering; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECORDING; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAPE RECORDING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863665708     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312450324     Document Type: Article

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