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Training Native Americans to Deliver Mental Health Services to Their Own People
Author(s) -
RUNION KEITH,
GREGORY HIRAM
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1984.tb00610.x
Subject(s) - mental health , psychology , training (meteorology) , health services , procurement , native american , service (business) , mental state , medical education , nursing , applied psychology , psychiatry , medicine , business , marketing , sociology , environmental health , population , ethnology , physics , meteorology
Very little has been done to assist Native Americans in the procurement of mental health services. Cultural barriers and lack of understanding have limited the contact between Native Americans and the predominantly White mental health delivery system. The project described herein attempted to decrease and neutralize some of the impediments to Native Americans receiving services by training them to provide minimal mental health care for their own people and by training them to gain access to various state service agencies.