Themes of Healing Among Squamish Nation Members After a Loss to Suicide
This research was a response to the disproportionately high suicide rates, risk forsuicide clusters, and need for a suicide postvention plan in the Squamish Nation community. Using a community-based research approach and working collaboratively with Squamish Nation, I interviewed 8 community members...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/71303 2023-05-15T16:16:35+02:00 Themes of Healing Among Squamish Nation Members After a Loss to Suicide Campbell, Jennifer 2021-11-02 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jisd/article/view/71303 eng eng Journal of Indigenous Social Development https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jisd/article/view/71303/55260 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jisd/article/view/71303 Copyright (c) 2021 Journal of Indigenous Social Development Journal of Indigenous Social Development; Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference 2021; 3-28 2164-9170 Suicide Healing Postvention Community Based Research First Nations Suicide postvention Inidgenous healing info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article text 2021 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:16:34Z This research was a response to the disproportionately high suicide rates, risk forsuicide clusters, and need for a suicide postvention plan in the Squamish Nation community. Using a community-based research approach and working collaboratively with Squamish Nation, I interviewed 8 community members who had lost a loved one to suicide within the past 1–10 years to understand what helped in their healing journey, as well as their recommendations for helping families after a loss to suicide. Findings indicate 5 themes of helpful postvention supports: healing self, social supports, formal community supports, wider world supports, and culture. Culture was found to aid healing across all levels. These themes do not exist in isolation, but are interrelated, both individually and communally helping community members in their healing journey. Recommendations for suicide postvention highlight the integration of healing supports from dominant mental health models and an Aboriginal wellness model. These findings should be considered with caution due to the small sample size; however, they are in line with the available Aboriginal suicide postvention literature and an Aboriginal worldview. Aboriginal communities across Canada are not homogenous, therefore generalizability to other communities is unknown. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Calgary Journal Hosting Canada |
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This research was a response to the disproportionately high suicide rates, risk forsuicide clusters, and need for a suicide postvention plan in the Squamish Nation community. Using a community-based research approach and working collaboratively with Squamish Nation, I interviewed 8 community members who had lost a loved one to suicide within the past 1–10 years to understand what helped in their healing journey, as well as their recommendations for helping families after a loss to suicide. Findings indicate 5 themes of helpful postvention supports: healing self, social supports, formal community supports, wider world supports, and culture. Culture was found to aid healing across all levels. These themes do not exist in isolation, but are interrelated, both individually and communally helping community members in their healing journey. Recommendations for suicide postvention highlight the integration of healing supports from dominant mental health models and an Aboriginal wellness model. These findings should be considered with caution due to the small sample size; however, they are in line with the available Aboriginal suicide postvention literature and an Aboriginal worldview. Aboriginal communities across Canada are not homogenous, therefore generalizability to other communities is unknown. |
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Themes of Healing Among Squamish Nation Members After a Loss to Suicide |
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Journal of Indigenous Social Development |
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Journal of Indigenous Social Development; Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference 2021; 3-28 2164-9170 |
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