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American Indians and Alaska Native Families: Emigrants in Their Own Homeland (IN: Ethnicity and Family Therapy, ed. by M McGoldrick et al)
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This thorough discussion of family therapy with native peoples includes guidelines as to the initial contact, typical problems, native time orientation, the native view of man’s relationship to the natural world, native social relationships, noninterference as a native way of being, traditional family organization, & the native view of the nature of man. Alcoholism & suicide are presented as negative stereotypes that have haunted American Indians. (27 refs.) (LH)