Journey to Healing: Aboriginal People with Mental Health and Addiction Issues: What Health, Social Service and Justice Workers Need to Know

by Peter Menzies (Editor), Lynn Lavallée (Editor), Vern Harper (Foreword)

Helping to promote healing in Aboriginal people with addiction and mental health issues requires specialized knowledge and unique skills. Health, social service and justice workers must first have a grasp of history and the emotional legacy that today’s generation of Aboriginal people carry. They must also be prepared to blend Aboriginal and Western approaches to match their clients’ unique world views.
Journey to Healing is a comprehensive and practical evidence-based resource. It was written to help prepare students and professionals to provide counselling and social services to Aboriginal people with mental health and addiction issues in urban, rural and isolated settings. The scope of the book is broad; each chapter focuses on a specific topic. Many of the authors are Aboriginal and all are respected experts in their fields. Each author shares his or her scholarly learning, insight, wisdom and experience of addressing addiction and mental health issues in Aboriginal populations.
The guide is intended to serve as a course text for health, social service and justice programs in universities and community colleges. It will also be of interest to social workers, addiction and mental health service providers, and prison, probation, parole and police officers working with Aboriginal communities.

480 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 10, 2015

Reviews

[catto doggoland · Rating 5 out of 5]

If there is a library of post -post secondary school texts that you want to keep. This would definatly be in it.. because It's well written, from the prespected of Indigenous professionals and clients regarding their needs for services that are compatible and their cultural worldview. The text also is one of resilence and highlights the work that was accomplished in past generations in the dialog of non-indigenous indigenous human service. To help further narrow the gap of proximity to their cultural needs in the future. Namely continue the work of uplifting our Indigenous hosts and rebuild both societies for a system that works. The text highlights this work with a very optimistic and hopeful tone that empowers and motivates any read regardless of if they're being trained for human service or not.