2010
de Leeuw, S., Greenwood, M., & Cameron, E.
In this article, the authors discuss how the historic and contemporary discourses about Indigenous Peoples as deviant have led to the development of a series of colonial policies, practices and institutional structures to address this deviance, including elevated rates of mental health issues and addictions, and family violence, with direct impacts on healthy child development and overall Indigenous health.
Deviant constructions: How governments preserve colonial narratives of addictions and poor mental health to intervene into the lives of Indigenous children and families in Canada.
de Leeuw, S., Greenwood, M., & Cameron, E. (2010). Deviant constructions: How governments preserve colonial narratives of addictions and poor mental health to intervene into the lives of Indigenous children and families in Canada. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 8, 282-95.
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