Using a trauma informed approach, this workbook encourages readers to deepen our emotional vocabularies so that we can work towards a more enlivened, healthy interdependence. Indigenous stories and strategies by renee linklater isbn. Indigenous stories and strategies linklater, renee. I am currently a nurse in northern ontario and found that this book contained. The diversity of perspectives, decolonizing methodologies, and the shared struggle to provide effective professional social work interventions is reflected in the international nature of the subject matter and in the mix of contributors who write from their contexts in different countries and cultures, including australia, canada, cuba, japan.
Historical trauma informed clinical intervention research. Decolonizing trauma work university of toronto libraries. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in any of these webinars are those of the. Moreover, this research will be a particularly relevant resource for health policy initiatives, agency programming, and education and training institutes. Decolonizing trauma theory must involve an awareness of entrenched western notions of ideological superiority, as well as a distancing from these cultural prejudices. New titles, recently rated, and recently tagged by the library community. Through stories and strategies that are grounded in indigenous worldviews and embedded with cultural knowledge, linklater offers purposeful and practical methods to help individuals and communities that have experienced trauma.
This ecosystemic view of trauma encompasses both direct and indirect experiences of trauma, including transgenerational trauma and systemic oppression trauma. This approach can also inform social work with africanamerican and indigenous hispanic peoples since these groups have also been negatively affected by the oppression of colonization. The development and application of psychology as a discipline as it has emerged predominantly in the united states has been influenced by the economic and political ideologies of the current era. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, linklater engages ten indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding indigenous worldviews, notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnos. When i used to work full time as an antiviolence crisis counselor, another counselor confided in me that she was currently being battered by her partner. Decolonizing trauma work download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl.
Chase, phd, msw social work faculty, oglala lakota college. Riding on the success of indigenous social work around the world, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major analytical and activist paradigm among many of the worlds indigenous peoples, including educators, tribal leaders, activists, scholars, politicians, and citizens at the grassroots level. Using a traumainformed approach, this workbook encourages readers to deepen our emotional vocabularies so that we can work towards a more enlivened, healthy interdependence. A description of decolonizing social work practice and education through the application of postcolonial theory and approaches is provided.
Decolonizing trauma work, one of the first books of its kind, is a resource for education and training programs, health care practitioners, healing centres, clinical. By drawing on a decolonising approach to indigenous health research, this study engaged 10 indigenous healthcare practitioners in a dialogue. Renee linklater is a member of rainy river first nation in northwestern ontario and is the manager of aboriginal community engagement for the provincial system support program at the centre for addiction and mental health camh in toronto. Decolonizing trauma studies roundtable discussion stef craps 1, bryan cheyette 2, alan gibbs 3, sonya andermahr 4 and larissa allwork 5, 1 department of literary studies, ghent university, blandijnberg 2, 9000 gent, belgium. She did not want anyone to know because she feared losing her job. Colonialism, indigenous trauma and healing indigenous health care practitioners join the circle indigenous perspectives on wellness and wholistic healing psychiatry and indigenous peoples indigenous strategies for helping and healing a decolonizing journey. An indigenous response raquel deherrera debbie manuel, lmsw 1 this project is supported by grant no. Explores healing and wellness in indigenous communities on turtle. Canada and usbased orders can be taken via the womens center for creative work and coconspirator press websites.
Hidden collective memories of trauma, or a collective nonremembering, is passed from generation to generation, as are the maladaptive social and behavioural patterns that are symptoms of many social disorders. Presented by raquel deherrera and cinnamon ronneng, red wind consulting, inc. Alan gibbs, was recorded as part of the decolonizing trauma studies symposium. For about a decade i have been teaching a graduate seminar in anthropology at columbia university called decolonizing methodology which takes linda tuhiwai smiths groundbreaking book decolonizing methodologies. Or is a cumulative emotional and psychological wounding. Research and indigenous peoples as its starting point and also draws on other key texts focused on research methodologies specifically. Decolonizing trauma studies 15 may 2015, my120, avenue campus, the university of northampton school of the arts image. Pdf empty cradles oranges and sunshine download full. Housing programs may overlook the importance of broad services and focus on a few mainstream options for tenants.
Renee linklater is the author of decolonizing trauma work 4. Introduction to the special thematic section despite unprecedented access to information and diffusion of knowledge across the globe, the bulk of work in mainstream psychological science still reflects and promotes the interests of a privileged minority of people in affluent centers of the modern global order. Including decolonization in social work education and practice. Using mindfulness research and traditional indigenous ceremonies to delete the neural networks of colonialism introduction to building research capacity. The collective nature of violence requires a reassessment of the prevailing biomedical model of individual trauma that guides conventional psychiatric responses to such events.
As such, i propose a more comprehensive view of trauma that includes the systemic and sociopolitical conditions and can lead to more socially just trauma informed counseling practice. Abstract decolonizing trauma theory has been a major project in postcolonial literary scholarship ever since its first sustained engagements with trauma theory. Decolonizing trauma work, one of the first books of its kind, is a resource for education and training programs, health care practitioners, healing centres, clinical services and policy initiatives. Indigenous practitioners share stories and strategies doctor of philosophy 2011 renee lynn broadbridge legge linklater graduate department of adult education and counselling psychology university of toronto abstract this dissertation explores the areas of healing and wellness within indigenous communities on turtle island.
Decolonizing practices offers experiential training and dialogue facilitation grounded in indigenous ways of knowing. Npps line of work focuses on uncovering the impacts of colonialism, social oppression, historical trauma and its role in impairing relationships indigenousdescent people. Pdf decolonizing trauma studies roundtable discussion. Decolonizing trauma work book edmonton public library. Decolonizing cultures in the pacific is a valuable addition to the fields of pacific and postcolonial studies and also contributes to struggles for cultural decolonization in oceania. Renee linklater is a member of rainy river first nation in northwestern ontario and is the manager. Choice decolonizing social work challenges the profession to take a new path that is creative, critical, and revolutionary. Bringing forth indigenous strategies for helping and healing is a vitally important contribution to the field of trauma work. A webinar for black, indigenous, women of color and black, indigenous folx of color raised as girls created intentionally to help you begin the journey of decolonizing your mind so that you can liberate your spirit. As duncan brown cautions, the inability to move beyond conventional paradigms can undermine potentially groundbreaking projects in this area 29, p. Decolonizing trauma work professors and instructors in canada. Beginning in suicide prevention and moving on to work in rape crisis advocacy with systeminvolved and sexually exploited minors, meenadchi brings a strong sense of steadiness and presence to all professional environments. Liberation psychology and childhood trauma in palestine springerlink. Explores healing and wellness in indigenous communities on turtle island.
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