Social-Ecological Resilience of Indigenous Adolescents in the United States and Canada

• Published in: Advances in Nursing Science
• Main Authors: Hodgson, Christine, Godfrey, Timian, DeCoteau, Rhea N., Allison-Burbank, Joshuaa D., Taylor-Piliae, Ruth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2023
• Subjects: General Nursing; Canada; Indian; First Nations; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ans.0000000000000483; https://journals.lww.com/10.1097/ANS.0000000000000483

For the past decade, resilience research with American Indian/Alaska Native and First Nations/Métis/Inuit adolescents has improved our understanding of how adolescents overcome mental health challenges. A new situation-specific theory is presented to guide nurses in applying the evidence to their practice with Indigenous adolescents in the United States and Canada. The social-ecological resilience of indigenous adolescents (SERIA) theory was derived from integrating ( a ) existing social-ecological frameworks by Bronfenbrenner, Ungar, and Burnette and Figley, ( b ) findings from a systematic review of 78 studies about resilience factors for mental health of Indigenous adolescents, ( c ) clinical experience, and ( d ) Indigenous knowledge.