Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy - Tataihono Stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry

Zusatztext 101930947 Informationen zum Autor Wiremu NiaNia was apprenticed as a child to a spiritual healer of the NiaNia whanau. In 2005 he became the cultural therapist at Te Whare Marie, the Maori mental health service at Capital Coast District Health Board. He is now an independent healer, writer and consultant. Allister Bush is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Te Whare Marie, the Maori mental health service in Porirua, and at Health Pasifika (integrated Pacific mental health service, Capital Coast District Health Board). David Epston is an honorary clinical lecturer at University of Melbourne and an affiliate faculty member at North Dakota State University. Klappentext Comprised of transcripted interviews and detailed meditations on practice, this book demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and careful psychiatric care. Zusammenfassung Comprised of transcripted interviews and detailed meditations on practice, this book demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and careful psychiatric care. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Foreword List of Abbreviations Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Context Chapter Three: Hey Moko, Slow Down! Chapter Four: George and the Thing Chapter Five: The Lesson Chapter Six: ‘I Will Not Leave My Baby Behind’ Chapter Seven: Into the World of Light Chapter Eight: Tataihono Glossary Acknowledgements Index

Product details

• Authors: Allister Bush, Bush Allister, David Epston, Epston David, Wiremu NiaNia, Wiremu Bush Niania, NiaNia Wiremu
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138230286
• ISBN: 978-1-138-23028-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Psychiatry, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Clinical psychology, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, New Zealand, Relating to Maori people, New Zealand / Aotearoa