Mental Wellness

Question 1

Common disparities in health

Answer 1

Bottom of stats in education, employment, health
Top rate of incarceration, foster care, mental and physical health issues

Question 2

Mental illness for indigenous

Answer 2

Not reduced to physical disorder
Interconnectedness of all aspects
physical mental emotional and spiritual
Relationship with environment and creator

Question 3

As part of wholistic wellness, mental wellness of an individual is

Answer 3

Mental wellness of the family and community
Shared responsibility

Question 4

4 R’s

Answer 4

Respect, relevance, reciprocity and responsibility

Question 5

Respect

Answer 5

Creating spaces that allow indigenous students to retain their value systems
Indigenous worldviews and identity cannot be left at door

Question 6

Relevance

Answer 6

Revalue forms of knowledge not found in books
Advances in video television and film creates audio or visual opportunities

Question 7

reciprocity

Answer 7

Giving and receiving or mutual exchange of knowledge
Allow teacher to become student and student to become teacher

Question 8

Responsibility

Answer 8

Indigenous equal access to power, authority, and opportunity and exercise control over their own everyday lives

Question 9

Miyupimaatisiiun (Cree)

Answer 9

“Being alive well”

Question 10

What does being alive well define

Answer 10

Health as holistic experience that combines relationships with kin and land, political and cultural identity, which contribute to individual

Question 11

How many physicians in Canada indigenous

Answer 11

0.1%
1:33,000

Question 12

Treating as whole person

Answer 12

Spirit, mind, emotions and body are not separate entities requring separate treatments

Question 13

Individuals health seen in relation to

Answer 13

Community

Question 14

What is vital in treating the whole person

Answer 14

Retaining traditional knowledge of medicine and ceremonies

Question 15

Two eyed seeing

Answer 15

Weaving of indigenous and western knowledge systems to create hybridized understanding of how to address a particular issue

Question 16

Integrated indigenous ecological model

Answer 16

• approach for promoting PA, sport and recreation
• not a one size fits all approach
• applying model approaches to involves indigenous peoples, families and communities

Question 17

What does the integrated indigenous ecological model do

Answer 17

Combines medicine wheel teaching with socio ecological model
Weaving back and forth between two without dominating other

Question 18

What is indigenous ecological model intended to do

Answer 18

Promote wellbeing while offering practitioners opportunity to engage in constant and conscious reflection of merging ideas and philosophies