The current Special Issue focuses on the Indigenous and Native American perspectives on mental health and well-being. This introduction highlights the need to explore how psychological health is conceptualized and operationalized among this population and the ways in which their mental health needs can be better met. The article also provides a brief review of each of the articles in the Special Issue.
AdamsG.Gómez OrdóñezL.Kurtis¸T.MolinaL. E.DoblesI. (2017). Notes on decolonizing psychology: From one special issue to another. South African Journal of Psychology/Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Sielkunde, 47, 531–541. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246317738173
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American Psychological Association. (2023). Report on an offer of apology, on behalf of the American Psychological Association, to First Peoples in the United States. https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/indigenous-apology.pdf
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BhatiaS.PriyaK. R. (2021). Coloniality and psychology: From silencing to re-centering marginalized voices in postcolonial times. Review of General Psychology, 25(4), 422– 436. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680211046507
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BlumeA. W. (2020). A new psychology based on community, equality, and care of the earth: An Indigenous American perspective. Bloomsbury.
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BlumeA. W. (2022). Promoting new psychological understandings by use of an Indigenous American psychological paradigm. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 62(4), 540–562. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211049875
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CiofaloN.DudgeonP.NikoraL. W. (2022). Indigenous community psychologies, decolonization, and radical imagination within ecologies of knowledges. American Journal of Community Psychology, 69(3–4), 283–293. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12583
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ClementV. (2019). Beyond the sham of the emancipatory Enlightenment: Rethinking the relationship of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, and geography through decolonizing paths. Progress in Human Geography, 43(2), 276–294. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517747315
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Comas-DíazL. (2020). Liberation psychotherapy. In Comas-DíazL.Torres RiveraE., (Eds.), Liberation psychology: Theory, method, practice, and social justice (pp.169–185). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000198-010
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FernándezJ. S.SonnC. C.CarolissenR.StevensG. (2021). Roots and Routes Toward Decoloniality Within and Outside Psychology Praxis. Review of General Psychology,25(4), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680211002437
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FetterA. K.WiglesworthA.ReyL. F.YoungA. R.AzaraniM. L.GoneJ. P. (2024). Supporting the next generation of indigenous psychologists: An illustrative case example. The Counseling Psychologist, 52(7), 1174–1202.
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GameonJ. A.FireMoonP.SkewesM. C. (2024). Development and preliminary validation of the Complicated and Adaptive Grief Inventory for Native Americans. The Counseling Psychologist, 52(7), 1070–1112.
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GoneJ. P. (2021). Decolonization as methodological innovation in counseling psychology: Method, power, and process in reclaiming American Indian therapeutic traditions. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 68(3), 259–270. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000500
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HeldB. S. (2020). Epistemic violence in psychological science: Can knowledge of, from, and for the (othered) people solve the problem?Theory & Psychology, 30(3), 349–370. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319883943
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JahodaG. (2018). Images of savages: Ancient roots of modern prejudice in Western culture. Routledge.
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MackayR. E.FeaginJ. (2022). “Merciless Indian Savages”: Deconstructing Anti-Indigenous Framing. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 8(4), 518–533. https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492221112040
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McCubbinL. D.TownM. A.Burns-GloverA.ButayE. M. (2023). Creating spaces for decolonization and indigenization among mental health professionals in higher education. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 93(2–4), 296–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2023.2220802
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ParkS.WatersS. F.BarrowN.RichardsonM.EtiD.LinaresA.SeiaJ.RodelaK.Nguyen-TruongC. K. Y. (2024). Multigenerational Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families' perspectives on health and well- being. The Counseling Psychologist, 52(7), 1006–1037.
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RodaughanJ.Murrup-StewartC.BergerE. (2024). Aboriginal practitioners’ perspectives on culturally informed practice for trauma healing in Australia. The Counseling Psychologist, 52(7), 1113–1141.
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SalazarS. B.ShendoB. S.Perez-RojasA. E. (2024). Seventh generation: Voices of the resilient. The Counseling Psychologist, 52(7), 1038–1069.
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SinghA. A.ApplingB.TrepalH. (2020). Using the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies to decolonize counseling practice: The important roles of theory, power, and action. Journal of Counseling and Development, 98, 261–271. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12321
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StringerH. (2023). The healing power of Native American culture is inspiring psychologists to embrace cultural humility. Monitor on Psychology, 54(7) 39–42.
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TeoT. (2017). From psychological science to the psychological humanities: Building a general theory of subjectivity. Review of General Psychology, 21(4), 281–291. https://doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000132
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WilburR. E.PhamT. V.GoneJ. P. (2024). “When I spoke, I spoke from the heart”: Empirical insights and therapeutic lessons from an Indigenous counseling center. The Counseling Psychologist, 52(7), 1142–1173.
