Authors: VICKIE M. MAYS, Miguel Gallardo, Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Carol Robinson-Zanartu, Monique Smith, Faith McClure, Laurel Methot, Glenda Ahhaitty

Publication Year: 2009

Last Updated: 2016-01-28

Journal: American Indian Culture and Research Journal

Keywords: American Indian, mental health, disparities, history of trauma, Healthy People 2020, urban American Indians, behavioral health, indigenous, U.S. federal government, treaties, psychological trauma, genocide, self-destructive behavior, PTSD, relocation, UCLA Center for Research, Education, Training, and Strategic Communication on Minority Health Disparities, the Center for American Indian/Indigenous Research and Education, United American Indian Involvement

Abstract:

In the last decade, the United States has increasingly focused on the reduction and elimination of health disparities in racial and ethnic minority groups. Somewhat neglected in these efforts have been mental health disparities for American Indians. American Indians remain in a precarious position as an underserved community with limited culturally competent resources to address their mental health and substance-abuse needs.3 The lack of resources continues to prevail despite emerging data that indicate that American Indian disparities in mental health and behavioral health occur at alarming rates, which calls for the need for interventions and attention for public mental health, medical and educational resources.

Source: Link to Original Article.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181709/