Exploring possibilities for Indigenous suicide prevention: Responding to cultural understandings and practices

Résumé

In this chapter, the authors focus on suicide prevention in North American Indigenous communities. They illustrate how scientific and medicalized descriptions of suicide – which characterize most mainstream prevention and intervention efforts – risk recolonizing the very people the efforts are designed to help. In a call for a more culturally responsive approach to suicide prevention, the authors examine the effects of multidimensional trauma and the role of interpersonal social responses. They underscore the need for approaches that engage with the longer-term project of decolonization. CANADA ÉTATS-UNIS PRÉVENTION AUTOCHTONE INUIT CULTURE INTERVENTION SANTÉ-MENTALE PROMOTION COMMUNAUTÉ