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Exploring Social support and wellbeing as preventative factors for psychological distress in American Indian Alaska Native and Indigenous practitioners / Mark Standing Eagle Baez

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Baez, Mark Standing Eagle
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London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.
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American Indians and Alaska Natives remain resilient and continue to succeed despite decades of oppression, violence, and forced assimilation. Their resilience is built through culture, spirituality, shared values, and a strong sense of identity and responsibility. American Indian/Alaska Native Indigenous Practitioners, although trained through high levels of stress and behavioral and mental situations, often experience emotional and personal demands that can impact their quality of life and clinical efficacy. Counselors are highly susceptible to psychological distress due to their feelings of responsibility for clients' well-being, which can lead to deficits in patient care. Understanding the relationships between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Indigenous Practitioners and their mental health is a complex but necessary task. To determine if there is a relationship between social support and culture among AI/AN and Indigenous Practitioners (AI/ANIP), we need to look at how psychological well-being consists of self-acceptance, positive relationships with others, a feeling of purpose and meaning in life, and personal growth and development as AI/ANIPs. The effects of colonialism faced by Indigenous peoples in the United States began when the European colonization of North America proved detrimental to the existence of the AI/ANs. The colonizers conquered and domesticated the AI/AN and, as a result, almost wholly decimated the tribal nations. As AI/ANIPs face the same stressors and adversities, how do AI/ANIPs continue to provide services at optimum to serve their clients? Positive mental health approaches guide this research project and help to highlight the importance of social support and well-being and the importance of culture for AI/ANIPs and call for more studies to address the complex relationship between these constructs.
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9781529684377 : SAGE Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research
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