Indigenous Peoples' Mental Wellness

3 cr · Graduate

This required course provides an overview of how colonialism affected and continues to affect the mental wellness of Indigenous peoples in Canada. It reviews the responsibilities of psychologists to provide culturally safe, competent, and ethical, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment to their Indigenous clients and how best to do this. It also reviews the responsibilities of researchers to conduct respectful, pragmatic, and ethical community-partnered research that is governed by Indigenous communities. The course introduces theoretical models that are used to inform case conceptualization, evidence-informed intervention, and research. Permission of instructor for non-Clinical students.