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Overview—Implications of the Symposium for Children and Youth

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
January 1983

Abstract

Commenting on the relevance of the Symposium to the needs of children and youth, several key issues were identified. Among them were: the challenges faced by native children in circumstances of rapid change, particularly their educational experiences in schools caught between conflicting philosophies of life; the impacts on family life of prolonged absences of fathers during extended work cycles; the difficulty in bonding for small children whose fathers come and go; the need for child care services and the stresses on mothers in resource development towns. In summary, research and intervention with children and families in rapidly changing resource areas must be tailored to the specific situations, appropriate to the communities' own perceived needs and strengths, and modelled on preventive values as much as possible.

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Dans son analyse des rapports du Symposium avec les besoins des enfants et des jeunes, l'auteur cerne plusieurs questions cles, notamment: les défis auxquels font face les enfants autochtones dans le contexte d'un changement rapide, en particulier leurs expériences scolaires dans des établissements ou l'on retrouve des philosophies de vie conflictuelles; les répercussions sur la vie familiale des absences prolongées du pére durant de longs cycles de travail; la difficulté qu'ont les jeunes enfants d'établir des liens avec un père qui va et vient; le besoin de garderies et les facteurs de stress chez les mères des localités vivant de la mise en valeur des richesses naturelles présentés dans le film No Life for a Woman. En résumé, les recherches et les efforts orientés vers les enfants et les familles dans des régions en rapide expansion ou l'on exploite des richesses naturelles doivent etre adaptés aux situations particulières, convenir aux ressources et aux besoins perçus des communautés et se modeler autant que possible sur les valeurs en matière de prévention.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 2Number S1January 1983
Pages: 163 - 166

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Version of record online: 28 April 2009

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Brian McConville
Beechgrove Regional Children's Centre, Kingston, Ontario

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