In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the "soul wound" of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression and experiences of parallel and multiple realities. Through stories and strategies that are grounded in Indigenous worldviews and embedded with cultural knowledge, Linklater offers purposeful and practical methods to help individuals and communities that have experienced trauma. Decolonizing Trauma Work, one of the first books of its kind, is a resource for education and training programs, health care practitioners, healing centres, clinical services and policy initiatives.
Wonderful read. Well written and flowed together nicely
"Wonderful read. It was well-written and flowed together nicely. I am currently a nurse in Northern Ontario and found that this book contained great information on how to better care for our indigenous population. I had attended a mandatory training on cultural awareness while working in acute care and wish that it had touched on more of this information. It introduced concepts that I wasn't yet aware of and wholistic methods that I wish were embraced more often. It is a bit of a shorter book, so I was able to read it in two days."
