Life Promotion: A Strength-Based Approach to Indigenous Wellness – Thunderbird Partnership Foundation

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Connecting with Culture Culture as Foundation First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework (FNMWCF) Healing-Centred Care (Trauma-Informed Care) Life Promotion Mental Wellness Mental Wellness Workforce Development Role of Traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders Strength-Based Approaches

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Life Promotion: A Strength-Based Approach to Indigenous Wellness – Thunderbird Partnership Foundation

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This video shares how strengths-based, life generating strategies which honour Indigenous ways of knowing and reflect relational, familial, social, and spiritual dimensions of selfhood are likely to be more effective than those which are based on expert-driven, individualistic and biomedical understandings of distress. Carol Hopkins outlines an Indigenous approach to facilitate mental wellness.

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