Psychoeducational Group Curriculum to Address American Indian Marginalization

Prioritizing Interventions and Research to Address the Cancer Disparities of Arizonaâ•Žs American Indian Population

The aim of the Southwest American Indian Collaborative Network (SAICN) is to reduce cancer disparities by closing the gap between community needs and the promise of cancer prevention and cure through participatory education, training and research programs. In an effort to provide evidence-based recommendations and promote the use of relevant data in tribal communities, the SAICN Data and Evalua...

Assessing Feasibility and Readiness to Address Obesity through Policy in American Indian Reservations.

The Institute of Medicine and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified policy and environmental strategies as critical to the prevention and control of obesity. However such strategies are rare in American Indian communities despite significant obesity-related disparities. Tribal policymaking processes differ by tribal nation and are often poorly understood by researcher...

5. Curriculum-Based Assessment: Implications for Psychoeducational Practice

Do American Indian mascots = American Indian people? Examining implicit bias towards American Indian people and American Indian mascots.

Empirical examinations of American Indian (AI) mascots have only recently entered into the discourse of mainstream psychology. The present studies examined implicit attitudes of non-AI people towards AI mascots and the extent to which they are related to attitudes towards AI people. Significant concordance was observed between negative bias toward AI mascots and AI people. Negative AI mascot bi...

An Information Architect's Approach to Address Indian Farmers' Indebtedness

The Indian farmer, including their counterparts in some developed countries, fell in debt-trap even as GDP and food prices soared and many sectors of the economy shared benefits of GDP growth. Apparently, none of the systems— colonial, socialist, or market-based—have tools to share economic prosperity with the farmer. The paper simulates steps in order to experimentally demonstrate that there c...