Centering Indigenous knowledge in suicide prevention: a critical scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Indigenous peoples of Canada, United States, Australia, and New Zealand experience disproportionately high rates of suicide as a result of the collective and shared trauma experienced with colonization and ongoing marginalization. Dominant, Western approaches to suicide prevention-typically involving individual-level efforts for behavioural change via mental health professional intervention-by themselves have largely failed at addressing suicide in Indigenous populations, possibly due to cultural misalignment with Indigenous paradigms. Consequently, many Indigenous communities, organizations and governments have been undertaking more cultural and community-based approaches to suicide prevention. To provide a foundation for future research and inform prevention efforts in

SUBMITTER: Sjoblom E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9761945 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature