Mental Health Care For Urban Indians PDF Download

Outlining effective mental health care treatment is urgent in the American Indian community because of its vulnerable and high-risk status for mental disorders. When routine Western contemporary mental health care treatment models are utilized, those seeking care in the American Indian community can be a conundrum for non-Native mental health care service providers. Most commonly, studies focusing on American Indian populations and mental health care center Western modalities of treatment and singular tribal or rural area populations that incorporates elements of quantitative data. This study focuses on American Indians in intertribal urban populations and uses personal interviews to ask how spirituality as a matter of cultural identity factors into mental health care for treatment seeking American Indians as an element of mental health manageability. Mental health care providers talk about how spirituality is utilized as a method of care and care seeking individuals in the American Indian community talk about spirituality as factor in achieving good mental health outcomes. This study highlights spirituality as an element often overlooked in Western mental health care treatment and offers suggestions and some solutions to a wider community of mental health care providers working with urban American Indians.