“Rebuilding our community”: HearinG silenced voices on Aboriginal youth suicide

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-72

  Walls, Melissa L ^a   Hautala, Dane ^b   Hurley, Jenna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indian; First Nations; suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; CANADA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; SUICIDE; ABORIGINE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMMUNITY CARE; GAMBLING; HOPELESSNESS; IDENTITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CANADA; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; SUICIDE;

EID: 84893107633     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461513506458     Document Type: Article

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