Mental Health Counselling for Indigenous Cultures

North America’s Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system. Indigenous peoples face certain historical, cultural-linguistic and socioeconomic barriers to mental health care access that government, health care organizations and social agencies must work to overcome. This volume examines ways Indigenous healing practices can complement Western psychological service to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples through traditional cultural concepts. Bringing together leading experts in the fields of Aboriginal mental health and psychology, it provides data and models of Indigenous cultural practices in psychology that are successful with Indigenous peoples. It considers Indigenous epistemologies in applied psychology and research methodology, and informs government policy on mental health service for these populations.

Suzanne L. Stewart a psychologist and Associate Professor of Indigenous healing in Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, CA.

Roy Moodley is Associate Professor of Clinical and Counseling Psychology in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, CA.

Teresa Beaulieu completed her MA in Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in 2010, and is currently completing her PhD in the Counselling Psychology Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, CA.