Connecting to the Good Life through outdoor adventure leadership experiences designed for Indigenous youth

Ritchie, Stephen D.; Wabano, Mary Jo; Corbiere, Rita G.; Restoule, Brenda M.; Russell, Keith; Young, Nancy L.

doi:10.1080/14729679.2015.1036455

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“…With respect to the marked increases in resilience displayed by Māori youth, our findings are consistent with recent work involving Aboriginal youth in Canada (Ritchie, Wabano, Russell, et al 2014;Ritchie, Wabano, Corbiere, et al 2015). For example, Ritchie et al (2014) developed and implemented a 10-day wilderness canoe expedition with youth from Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve in northern Ontario, Canada.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Ritchie, Wabano, Russell, et al's (2014;Ritchie, Wabano, Corbiere, et al 2015) research and methods provide a promising path for extending the current study. Indeed, although the quantitative approach taken to the concepts of social identity allows us to integrate it to a much wider literature investigating the link between social identity and multiple aspects of health (Haslam et al 2009;Jetten et al 2012;Cruwys et al 2014), it provides a limited view of concepts such as identity, connection, and belonging.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moving beyond the quantitative approach employed in the current study, Ritchie et al (2015) collected qualitative data in the field, through participant interviews, journals, focus groups, and talking circles, with the aim of understanding how the expedition promoted resilience. Although using different methods, similar to the present study, connection was identified as a central concept that helps to promote resilience.…”

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Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme

Arahanga-Doyle

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Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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Within Aotearoa New Zealand there is growing interest in positive youth development (PYD). A PYD approach provides balance to narratives surrounding outcomes for youth and broadens our views of what we consider beneficial developmental outcomes. In the current study we used sail training as a method to promote PYD in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents. Specifically, 54 Māori and 37 New Zealand European adolescents completed the 7-day youth-development voyage on-board the gaffed rigged schooner, R. Tucker Thompson. We demonstrate that, for both Māori and New Zealand European adolescents, psychological resilience, self-esteem, and positive outlook on life increased from the first day to the last day of the voyage. In addition, we demonstrate that the increases in psychological resilience were driven by the social/collective identity adolescents formed with their group over the course of the voyage. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme

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“…Albeit diverse based on various unique histories, cultures, and languages, Indigenous perspectives of resilience are often grounded at a cultural level and are focused on the relationships that exist between community, identity, land, and culture across generations and geo-graphical settings [22,[45][46][47][48]. Indeed, notions of resilience here illustrate a strong link with culture and community and are largely based on processes of resistance to a history of oppressive colonial systems, discrimination, and loss.…”

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“…In this way, young peoples' views of resilience are often reflective of local culture and context in a holistic way, and "consist of a balance between the ability to cope with stress and adversity and the availability of community support" ( [52], p. 5). Recent research has also shown that Indigenous youth perspectives of resilience draw on family and local environment as supporting factors that can be similar among cultures [45,53].…”

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Land and nature as sources of health and resilience among Indigenous youth in an urban Canadian context: a photovoice exploration

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Background: Population and environmental health research illustrate a positive relationship between access to greenspace or natural environments and peoples' perceived health, mental health, resilience, and overall well-being. This relationship is also particularly strong among Canadian Indigenous populations and social determinants of health research where notions of land, health, and nature can involve broader spiritual and cultural meanings. Among Indigenous youth health and resilience scholarship, however, research tends to conceptualize land and nature as rural phenomena without any serious consideration on their impacts within urban cityscapes. This study contributes to current literature by exploring Indigenous youths' meaning-making processes and engagements with land and nature in an urban Canadian context. Methods: Through photovoice and modified Grounded Theory methodology, this study explored urban Indigenous youth perspectives about health and resilience within an inner-city Canadian context. Over the course of one year, thirty-eight in-depth interviews were conducted with Indigenous (Plains Cree First Nations and Métis) youth along with photovoice arts-based and talking circle methodologies that occurred once per season. The research approach was also informed by Etuaptmumk or a "two-eyed seeing" framework where Indigenous and Western "ways of knowing" (worldviews) can work alongside one another. Results: Our strength-based analyses illustrated that engagement with and a connection to nature, either by way of being present in nature and viewing nature in their local urban context, was a central aspect of the young peoples' photos and their stories about those photos. This article focuses on three of the main themes that emerged from the youth photos and follow-up interviews: (1) nature as a calming place; (2) building metaphors of resilience; and (3) providing a sense of hope. These local processes were shown to help youth cope with stress, anger, fear, and other general difficult situations they may encounter and navigate on a day-today basis.

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A Framework for the Adaptation of Positive Psychological Interventions to North American Indigenous Populations

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Positive psychology research has led to the development of brief interventions designed to promote positive emotions: positive psychological interventions (PPIs). Randomized controlled trials examining PPIs have found them to be effective in increasing well-being and decreasing depressive symptoms. PPIs have been studied in samples consisting primarily of White Americans; however, PPIs may be useful for members of North American Indigenous groups. PPIs align well with Indigenous views on health, which tend to be strengths-based, holistic, and encompassing the whole body (including the medicine wheel's four dimensions of spirit, mind, heart, and body). This paper provides a framework for the adaptation of PPIs for Indigenous communities and a review of preliminary data on the relationships between positive psychological characteristics and health outcomes including substance use. Implications include the potential widespread impact of culturally adapted PPIs given their alignment with Indigenous thoughts on health and relative ease of administration.

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Connecting to the Good Life through outdoor adventure leadership experiences designed for Indigenous youth

Cited by 33 publications

References 27 publications

Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme

Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme

Land and nature as sources of health and resilience among Indigenous youth in an urban Canadian context: a photovoice exploration

A Framework for the Adaptation of Positive Psychological Interventions to North American Indigenous Populations

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