"Wise Practices": Integrating traditional teachins with mainstream treatment approaches
This article addresses the integration of traditional wisdom with “mainstream” (medical model) approaches to healing in First Nations communities, and with Aboriginal peoples in offreserve settings. The “wise practices” concept that emerged from the Canadian Aboriginal Aids Network (Thomas, 2007 as...
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ftlaurentian:oai:zone.biblio.laurentian.ca:10219/1981 2023-08-20T04:06:19+02:00 "Wise Practices": Integrating traditional teachins with mainstream treatment approaches Nabigon, Herbert Wenger-Nabigon, Annie 2012-12-03 application/pdf https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/1981 en eng 1206-5323 https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/1981 Article 2012 ftlaurentian 2023-07-31T10:21:10Z This article addresses the integration of traditional wisdom with “mainstream” (medical model) approaches to healing in First Nations communities, and with Aboriginal peoples in offreserve settings. The “wise practices” concept that emerged from the Canadian Aboriginal Aids Network (Thomas, 2007 as cited in Wesley-Esquimaux & Snowball, 2010, pp. 390-391) is a “best practices” model for integration of approaches. A wise practices approach facilitates good clinical judgement in complex cases (O’Sullivan, 2005). The Seven Grandfather Teachings and the Cree Medicine Wheel are presented in brief, not as the main focus, but as examples of traditional teachings which can be integrated into some contemporary mainstream theoretical approaches. Cognitive Behaviour Theory and General Systems Theory are used as examples. Article in Journal/Newspaper esquimaux First Nations LU|ZONE|UL @ Laurentian University |
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This article addresses the integration of traditional wisdom with “mainstream” (medical model) approaches to healing in First Nations communities, and with Aboriginal peoples in offreserve settings. The “wise practices” concept that emerged from the Canadian Aboriginal Aids Network (Thomas, 2007 as cited in Wesley-Esquimaux & Snowball, 2010, pp. 390-391) is a “best practices” model for integration of approaches. A wise practices approach facilitates good clinical judgement in complex cases (O’Sullivan, 2005). The Seven Grandfather Teachings and the Cree Medicine Wheel are presented in brief, not as the main focus, but as examples of traditional teachings which can be integrated into some contemporary mainstream theoretical approaches. Cognitive Behaviour Theory and General Systems Theory are used as examples. |
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