“Being responsible, respectful, trying to keep the tradition alive:” Cultural resilience and growing up in an Alaska Native community

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 693-712

  Wexler, Lisa ^a   Joule, Linda ^b   Garoutte, Joe ^b   Mazziotti, Janet ^a   Hopper, Kim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Northwest Alaska Community Members ^*  (United States)

^c Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska Native; community resilience; cultural strengths; indigenous youth; social change

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONSANGUINITY; CULTURAL VALUE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ARCTIC; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; INUIT; MALE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ALASKA; ARCTIC REGIONS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84907153836     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461513495085     Document Type: Article

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