"Renee Linklater is a member of Rainy River First Nations in the traditional territory of Treaty #3..." -- Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175).

Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1. Colonialism, Indigenous Trauma and Healing. Colonialism, Indigenous health and Western psychiatry ; Trauma terminology and psychiatric language ; Indigenous peoples and languages ; Lens of resiliency with a decolonizing approach ; Indigenous worldviews ; Indigenous knowledge ; Indigenous trauma theory ; Indigenous healing ; Trauma responses ; Moving beyond trauma ; Indigenous health care practitioners -- 2. Indigenous Health Care Practitioners Join the Circle. Darlene Pearl Auger ; Tina Vincent ; Janice St. Germaine ; Gilbert Smith ; Janice Linklater ; Yvon Lamarche ; Sylvia Marcos ; Carrie Johnson ; Ed Connors ; Nina Desjardins ; Practising decolonized trauma work -- 3. Indigenous Perspectives on Wellness and Wholistic Healing. Wellness in Indigenous communities ; Respecting different worldviews ; Honouring the Spirit and spirituality ; Interconnectedness ; Medicine Wheel approaches ; Identity development ; Connecting with family ; Community involvement ; Drawing on teachings and cultural resources ; Restorative justice practices ; Wellness and wholistic healing -- 4. Psychiatry and Indigenous Peoples. Psychiatric diagnoses ; Using DSM diagnoses ; When diagnoses are helpful ; Diagnoses and program funding ; Diagnoses and identity ; Limitations of diagnoses ; Residential school syndrome ; Culture-bound syndromes ; Psychiatry and culture ; Psychotropic medication ; Using discretion in prescribing medication ; Medication is not always the answer ; Psychiatry does not recognize colonization -- 5. Indigenous Strategies for Helping and Healing. Helping with trauma ; Helping with depression ; Helping with experiences of parallel and multiple realities ; Experiencing Spirit ; One final story ; Decolonized strategies -- 6. A Decolonizing Journey. Decolonizing trauma work ; Implications for a decolonizing practice ; Resilience -- References.