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Shaping a Stories of Resilience Model from Urban American Indian Elders' Narratives of Historical Trauma and Resilience

Author(s) -

Reinschmidt

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

american indian and alaska native mental health research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.44

H-Index - 24

ISSN - 0893-5394

DOI - 10.5820/aian.2304.2016.63

Subject(s) - narrative , citizen journalism , psychological resilience , resilience (materials science) , community resilience , personal narrative , participatory action research , historical trauma , psychology , sociology , gerontology , medicine , social psychology , psychotherapist , anthropology , political science , engineering , philosophy , linguistics , law , reliability engineering , thermodynamics , physics , redundancy (engineering)

American Indians (AIs) have experienced traumatizing events but practice remarkable resilience to large-scale and long-term adversities. Qualitative, community-based participatory research served to collect urban AI elders' life narratives on historical trauma and resilience strategies. A consensus group of 15 elders helped finalize open-ended questions that guided 13 elders in telling their stories. Elders shared multifaceted personal stories that revealed the interconnectedness between historical trauma and resilience, and between traditional perceptions connecting past and present, and individuals, families, and communities. Based on the elders' narratives, and supported by the literature, an explanatory Stories of Resilience Model was developed.

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