Re: aboriginal social psych. (fwd)
Lloyd Strickland (lstrick who-is-at ccs.carleton.ca)
Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:57:11 -0700 (PDT)
Mike Cole has asked me to post this on xmca. The student involved is
named Allison Fisher, and as soon as she gets to her new set-up, she
will subscribe. In the meanwhile, if anybody thinks of anything along
the lines she's following, your response through me would be greatly
appreciated.
Lloyd Strickland writes: >
>From lstrick Thu Aug 15 11:48:59 1996 > From: lstrick (Lloyd Strickland)
> Message-Id: <9608151548.AA05606 who-is-at superior>
> Subject: Re: aboriginal social psych.
> To: mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu (Mike Cole)
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 11:48:58 EDT
> Cc: lstrick (Lloyd Strickland)
> In-Reply-To: <199608121547.IAA10858 who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu>; from "Mike Cole" at Aug 12, 96 8:47 am
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>
> I'm supervising an honours essay of a mature aboriginal woman, who's been
> working in Canada's External Affairs Department (there are projects
> comparing sociocultural problems of Arctic natives in Russia and Canada).
> She will soon start graduate training in clinical/counselling psychology,
> with the ultimate aim of working with young people in our disintegrating
> aboriginal communities. She has found the Russian group stuff the first
> that has really made any sense to her - Petrovsky's notion of "responsible
> dependence" being the first formal definition in what she'd been raised in
> since a kid.
>
> Do you know any resource persons I could tell her to contact before she
> assemble her final draft. She finds "gold" in things like MCA, old LCHC
> newsletters, etc., but group stuff is rare there, and most North American
> group-as-collection-of-individuals stuff is, she says, simply not helpful.
> Maybe she could post her essay somewhere when it's finished. Lloyd
>