Johnson-Jennings Michelle, Huyser Kimberly R, Collins Katherine A, Jessome Mary G, Christianson Traci-Lee D, Chavez Tamara, Lockhart Felix J
School of Social Work, University of Washington.
Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia.
Am Psychol. 2025 May-Jun;80(4):494-509. doi: 10.1037/amp0001372.
Given that Indigenous Peoples in Canada continue to face health disparities as a result of ongoing colonial attempts at genocide, reconciliation requires using a decolonized health framework that identifies oppression and marginalization while seeking to improve Indigenous Peoples' health and facilitates a shared understanding of well-being. Community and land-based interventions hold promise in providing insight into how the reconciliatory process can occur and have been shown to successfully address the health disparities experienced by Indigenous Peoples by connecting participants to their kin, culture, and identity. However, the impact of these interventions on facilitators, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, is lesser known. This qualitative study explores the reconciliatory effects of a decolonized framework on 10 Indigenous and ally community-engaged facilitators during a land-based healing lodge using semistructured pre- and postinterviews. Findings indicate that engaging with the land as an equitable research partner while being reflective allows facilitators to develop a decolonized relationship with the place an intervention is being held, themselves, and effectively engage with the partner community. Furthermore, by implementing a decolonized approach to culturally centered interventions, several facilitators' perspectives of healing transitioned from understanding healing as an outcome to a holistic process that engages place and the broader ecology. These findings signal a need for those working toward reconciliation (e.g., researchers, evaluators, health and health-allied professionals) to consider the influence of Indigenous ways of knowing and being on both Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals involved in the healing process. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
鉴于加拿大的原住民由于持续存在的种族灭绝殖民企图而继续面临健康差距，和解需要使用一种去殖民化的健康框架，该框架能够识别压迫和边缘化，同时致力于改善原住民的健康状况，并促进对福祉的共同理解。基于社区和土地的干预措施有望为和解进程如何发生提供见解，并且已证明通过将参与者与他们的亲属、文化和身份联系起来，能够成功解决原住民所经历的健康差距。然而，这些干预措施对原住民和非原住民促进者的影响鲜为人知。这项定性研究通过半结构化的干预前后访谈，探讨了一个去殖民化框架对10位参与基于土地的疗愈小屋活动的原住民和盟友社区促进者的和解效果。研究结果表明，将土地作为平等的研究伙伴并进行反思，能够使促进者与干预实施地点、自身建立去殖民化的关系，并有效地与伙伴社区互动。此外，通过对以文化为中心的干预措施采用去殖民化方法，一些促进者对疗愈的看法从将其视为一种结果转变为一个涉及地点和更广泛生态的整体过程。这些发现表明，那些致力于和解的人（如研究人员、评估人员、健康及相关专业人员）需要考虑原住民的认知和存在方式对参与疗愈过程的原住民和非原住民个体的影响。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
