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Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, United States
As an Indigenous clinical health psychologist, I have spent decades specializing in harm and risk reduction, HIV/AIDS prevention, chronic disease prevention (e.g., diabetes and cancer) and addictions (i.e., food addiction and substance use). Stemming from my clinical training, my research has mostly centered upon Indigenous women and children for obesity prevention, utilizing a community based participatory research framework with quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. Moving from clinical to community settings across the previous 13 years, I have designed innovative land-based healing interventions; (e.g., gardening, increased physical activity, community feasts). This work has broadened the field to consider the impact of historical trauma, discrimination, and environment/land on healing, as well as the need to identify and provide culturally appropriate healing methods across the lifespan in order to reduce health risks. I have further led methodological innovation in designing culturally specific frameworks (e.g., Relationship-Centered Decision-making framework, Land-based Healing Framework, and Indigenous Tribal Health Sovereignty) as well as culturally specific measures (e.g., perceived ethnic salience scale, cultural identity – i.e., Choctaw cultural identity scale) in collaboration with the Choctaw Nation and the United Houma Nation.
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Ecosystemic Ripple Effects, COVID-19 Factors Affecting Indigenous Families and Children
Friday, October 25, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CT