Learning Resources

 

Amerindian Psychiatry

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HANDBOOKS

"How to Read a Paper" by Trisha Greenhalgh. Highly recommended for all students.

A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Styles Recommended by The American Psychological Association. Web site maintained by Professor Charles Darling.

JOURNALS

American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: A Journal of the National Center. Excellent source of research papers.

LINKS

National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research NCAIANMHR. The NCAIANMHR is sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health and is the only program of this type in the country focusing specifically on American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

Medicinal Plants of Native America Data Base (MPNADB) by Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg. The database -- which contains 17,634 items representing the medicinal uses of 2,147 species from 760 genera and 142 families by 123 different native American groups -- was built over a period of about 10 years with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Native American Ethnobotany Database, University of Michigan-Dearborn

PubMed, National Library of Medicine.

Index Medicus List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus.

The Southwest Museum.  The Southwest Museum holds one of the nation's most important museum, library, and archive collections related to the Native Cultures of the Americas.

REFERENCES

Amerindians Mental Health
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