Counseling Native Americans

Native Americans: traditional healing.

There are an estimated 4.1 million people who are classified as American Indian and Alaska Native alone or in combination with one or more other races. This racial group composes 1.5% of the total U.S. population. The leading causes of illness and death among American Indians are heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries (accidents), diabetes, and stroke. American Indians also have a high p...

Exploring pain processing differences in Native Americans.

OBJECTIVE Several chronic pain conditions are more prevalent in Native Americans than in any other group in the United States; however, little has been done to identify factors contributing to this disparity. The study presented here was designed to examine whether there were pain processing differences in Native Americans relative to non-Hispanic White controls. METHODS Participants were hea...

Wealth of Immigrant and Native-born Americans*

This study examines immigrant-native differences in wealth. It improves upon past research by contrasting immigrant-native differences against racial-ethnic differences and by operationalizing spatial segregation and spatial mismatch. Drawing on theories on wealth and theories on immigration, it hypothesizes a discounted positive effect of education and a weaker detrimental effect of spatial se...

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Understanding and Counseling Korean Americans: Implications for Training

Article: Korean Americans are a growing subgroup of the U.S. population with distinct characteristics and counseling needs. These characteristics and needs are considered and implications for counselor training are explored. Asian and Pacific Islanders are the fastest growing minority group in the United States (Gould, 1988). In 1990, there were over 7.4 million Asian and Pacific Islanders livi...