Kelengakutelleghpat: an Arctic Community-Based Approach to Trauma (IN: Secondary Traumatic Stress: Self-Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers, and Educators, edited by B H Stamm Second Edition)

This unique paper, which details the story of an Arctic Alaska Native community, reframes the traditional white western perception of treatment- both physical & mental. In ‘Kelengakutelleghpat’, Michael J. Terry offers us a window into a world where entire communities can come together to address issues of trauma. This paper saddens us because it brings the reality of trauma to our fantasy, but it heartens us because it offers hope for a cooperative, community approach in which everyone in the community is part of the healing. (37 refs)