Culture is healing: a design for youth suicide prevention in northern Manitoba
Depression, self-harming acts and suicide are mental health issues that seriously plague specific Indigenous communities in Canada. First Nations youth have an alarmingly higher suicide rate than the majority of the Canadian population. Usually occurring in and around small reserve village environme...
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ftcanadathes:oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:MWU.1993/4490 2023-05-15T16:15:28+02:00 Culture is healing: a design for youth suicide prevention in northern Manitoba Hailey, Connor Beecher, Mary Anne (Interior Design) Hart, Michael (Social Work) Beaverford, Kelley (Interior Design) 2011-04-08T16:41:16Z http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4490 en_US eng http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4490 Interior Design Cree 2011 ftcanadathes 2014-03-30T00:50:46Z Depression, self-harming acts and suicide are mental health issues that seriously plague specific Indigenous communities in Canada. First Nations youth have an alarmingly higher suicide rate than the majority of the Canadian population. Usually occurring in and around small reserve village environments, these suicides rupture entire communities that are forced to deal with the sadness, frustration and loss that surrounds the death of a young person. In response to this issue, this interior design practicum inquiry addresses the tragedy of youth suicide in Manitoba’s northern, remote, and reserve communities. To help reduce the epidemic prevalence of suicide, a treatment and prevention center formulated out of ideas gathered from research into Cree world view, hybrid and Indigenist approaches to culture, cultural continuity, mental health healing methods and environmental design has been designed to provide care for First Nations adolescents living in the North. Other/Unknown Material First Nations Theses Canada/Thèses Canada (Library and Archives Canada) Canada |
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Depression, self-harming acts and suicide are mental health issues that seriously plague specific Indigenous communities in Canada. First Nations youth have an alarmingly higher suicide rate than the majority of the Canadian population. Usually occurring in and around small reserve village environments, these suicides rupture entire communities that are forced to deal with the sadness, frustration and loss that surrounds the death of a young person. In response to this issue, this interior design practicum inquiry addresses the tragedy of youth suicide in Manitoba’s northern, remote, and reserve communities. To help reduce the epidemic prevalence of suicide, a treatment and prevention center formulated out of ideas gathered from research into Cree world view, hybrid and Indigenist approaches to culture, cultural continuity, mental health healing methods and environmental design has been designed to provide care for First Nations adolescents living in the North. |
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Beecher, Mary Anne (Interior Design) Hart, Michael (Social Work) Beaverford, Kelley (Interior Design) |
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Culture is healing: a design for youth suicide prevention in northern Manitoba |
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Culture is healing: a design for youth suicide prevention in northern Manitoba |
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Culture is healing: a design for youth suicide prevention in northern Manitoba |
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