Listening to Indigenous Girls' Experiences of Warmth and Caring: A Qualitative Study

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dc.contributor.advisorPepler, Debra J.
dc.contributor.authorMajor, Melissa Meadow
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-15T15:35:49Z
dc.date.available2021-11-15T15:35:49Z
dc.date.copyright2021-08
dc.date.issued2021-11-15
dc.date.updated2021-11-15T15:35:49Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology(Functional Area: Clinical-Developmental)
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractIndigenous Girls in Canada face the results of centuries of compounded social, economic, psychological, and spiritual harms due to the disrupting force of colonization, which still carries harms today and reveals itself in gaping disparities between the wellbeing of Indigenous children and the general population of children in Canada. Indigenous scholars frame the residential school system as morphing into the child welfare system (Blackstock, 2007). Family relationships were ruptured under colonization, residential schools, and the child welfare systems. All of these disruptions created intergenerational trauma, leaving children to navigate life with memories of the threads of caring moments they have received from significant relationships. The present study focused on the voices of 16 Indigenous girls and their memories of caring moments. Half of the girls in this study had been referred to services at an Anishinaabe family care center (i.e., an Indigenous child and family mental health care centre); the other half were girls from the surrounding communities. The purpose of this study was to listen to the girls voices regarding what they have received from significant people in their lives. An inductive thematic analysis of interview transcripts with eight clinically referred girls and eight community girls revealed four overarching themes: 1) Moments of Love, Warmth, and Care, 2) Relationship Expectations, 3) The Development of Socioemotional Capacities, and 4) View of Self as Caring. The model derived from these themes elaborates how moments of warmth and care create developmental experiences of growth (i.e., Relationship Expectations, Socioemotional Skills) that enable the girls to view themselves as caring. Implications for culturally competent interventions with First Nations girls are discussed.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38749
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectCanadian history
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenized psychology
dc.subject.keywordsTranscultural psychology
dc.subject.keywordsClinical-developmental psychology
dc.subject.keywordsAttachment theory
dc.subject.keywordsLove
dc.subject.keywordsWarmth
dc.subject.keywordsCare
dc.subject.keywordsPositive youth development
dc.subject.keywordsHumble-relational approach
dc.subject.keywordsTwo-eyed seeing
dc.subject.keywordsRelationships
dc.subject.keywordsAnishinaabe
dc.subject.keywordsOjibwe
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous youth
dc.subject.keywordsFirst Nations
dc.subject.keywordsQualitative methods
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous methodology
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity partnerships
dc.subject.keywordsEthical research practice
dc.subject.keywordsInternal working models
dc.subject.keywordsRelationship expectations
dc.subject.keywordsAngels in the nursery
dc.subject.keywordsSocioemotional capacities
dc.subject.keywordsSocial emotional learning
dc.subject.keywordsGenerativity
dc.subject.keywordsViewing the self as caring
dc.subject.keywordsCaregiving
dc.subject.keywordsIntergenerational trauma
dc.subject.keywordsColonization
dc.subject.keywordsAnticolonial psychology
dc.subject.keywordsIntergenerational healing
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous medicines
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous intervention models
dc.subject.keywordsDilico Anishinabek Family Care
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous Child and Family Care Services
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous worldviews
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsPostmodern psychology
dc.titleListening to Indigenous Girls' Experiences of Warmth and Caring: A Qualitative Study
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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