Cultural Values and Healing
For many Native American communities, grief may be experienced not only individually but also in this broader way involving family and community.
What is collectively?
This type of trauma can affect multiple generations after a group experiences major collective trauma.
What is historical trauma?
This model involves examining and rewriting a client’s personal life stories.
What is Narrative therapy?
This cultural approach encourages therapists to ask what grief, healing, spirituality, and tradition mean to each individual client instead of making assumptions.
What is cultural humility?
In McKinley et al. (2022), what percentage of participants in the survey screened positive for PTSD?
What is 39%?
Name two interventions that a therapist employing RWV may use within this client context.
What are talking circles?
What is mindfulness?
What is community engagement?
What is storytelling/narrative work?
Family, Elders, spirituality, ceremony, cultural identity, and connection to this may all serve as sources of resilience and healing for some Native American women.
What is the land?
Experiencing the deaths of multiple loved ones over time is an example of this type of loss.
What is cumulative loss?
What are the 4 key tenets of RWV?
What are Mind, Body, Spirit, and Context?