SOSC 3921 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Inpatient Care, Biomedicine, Sweat Lodge
16 Feb 2017
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National native alcohol and drug abuse program (nnadap) treatment centres has focused on. Inpatient care to achieve abstinence: increasing individual resilience (ie: aa) Suicide mostly treated through individual therapy and drugs. Often removes individual from community: does not address causes of mental health issues. Western approaches to treatment seen as further colonization: high relapse rate. View mental health issues are symptoms of damaged relationships, lack of reciprocity and imbalance. Focuses on strength in the face of colonialism. Focus on individuals, families, communities, and environment. Community ceremonies / events (bush camps, youth gatherings) Importance of elders, traditional teachers, and healers: need to engage in reciprocity with environment. Early examples: round lake treatment centre and poundmaker"s lodge. Focus on individual, inpatient model: central role of indigenous traditions in treatment. Limited role for western biomedicine / psychiatry: focus on reduction or abstinence. Limited aftercare: root causes of substance abuse are not addressed. Focus on settling land claims and asserting sovereignty over local environments.
