Community resilience: Models, metaphors and measures

LJ Kirmayer, M Sehdev, R Whitley… - International …, 2009 - jps.library.utoronto.ca
In this paper, we discuss the importance of community resilience for Aboriginal health and
well-being. The concept of resilience has been used in developmental psychology and …

A review of protective factors and causal mechanisms that enhance the mental health of Indigenous Circumpolar youth

JP MacDonald, JD Ford, AC Willox… - International journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives To review the protective factors and causal mechanisms which promote and
enhance Indigenous youth mental health in the Circumpolar North. Study design A …

Land and nature as sources of health and resilience among Indigenous youth in an urban Canadian context: A photovoice exploration

AR Hatala, C Njeze, D Morton, T Pearl… - BMC Public Health, 2020 - Springer
Background Population and environmental health research illustrate a positive relationship
between access to greenspace or natural environments and peoples' perceived health …

Looking across three generations of Alaska Natives to explore how culture fosters indigenous resilience

L Wexler - Transcultural psychiatry, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Research has established connection between indigenous culture—often described in
terms of cultural identity, enculturation, and participation in traditional activities—and …

Resilience and marginalized youth: Making a case for personal and collective meaning-making as part of resilience research in public health

LM Wexler, G DiFluvio, TK Burke - Social science & medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
The public health research community has long recognized the roles of discrimination,
institutional structures, and unfair economic practices in the production and maintenance of …

Culturally responsive suicide prevention in indigenous communities: Unexamined assumptions and new possibilities

LM Wexler, JP Gone - American Journal of Public Health, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Indigenous communities have significantly higher rates of suicide than non-Native
communities in North America. Prevention and intervention efforts have failed to redress this …

Sexual minority youth, social connection and resilience: From personal struggle to collective identity

GT DiFulvio - Social Science & Medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Sexual minority youth are at increased risk for negative health outcomes including
substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and suicide. Researchers suggest that sexual …

Advancing suicide prevention research with rural American Indian and Alaska Native populations

L Wexler, M Chandler, JP Gone… - … journal of public …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
As part of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's American Indian and Alaska
Native (AI/AN) Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of AI/AN suicide research experts …

The importance of identity, history, and culture in the wellbeing of indigenous youth

L Wexler - The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2009 - muse.jhu.edu
Indigenous people have experienced profound disruptions, including epidemics, forced
relocation, cultural colonization, and genocide over the past few centuries. Indigenous …

Anishinabe youth perceptions about community health: Toward environmental repossession

K Big-Canoe, CAM Richmond - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
This community-based research applied environmental dispossession as a theoretical
framework for understanding Anishinabe youth perceptions about health, social …