Pub Date : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.5348/100016p13ng2019ra
Nicholas Guenzel, Hongying Daisy Dai, L. Dean
Aims: Little research has examined historical trauma (HT), addiction, and mental health problems among general populations of urban American Indians (AIs). This study examined associations to help fill this gap. Methods:This is a secondary analysis of data from a Midwestern urban AI population. Based on a psychological inventory, participants (n=117) were separated into a substance group (n=19), a psychiatric group (n=43), and a control group (n=55). Results of the historical loss scale (HLS, 12 items) and the historical loss-associated symptoms scale (HLASS, 12 items) were examined between the groups. Results:The psychiatric group reported thinking about three specific losses more than the control group and six specific losses more than the substance group. No significant differences were found between the substance group and the control group. The psychiatric group reported nine historical loss-associated symptoms more frequently than the control group. The substance group reported experiencing five symptoms more frequently than the control group. The substance group reported one symptom more frequently than the psychiatric group. Conclusion:Historical trauma appears to affect individuals with psychiatric or substance problems differently from those with no problems. American Indians with psychiatric or substance problems report experiencing some HLAS more often than individuals without these problems. The direction of this relationship is unclear, but it is apparent that historical loss thoughts and symptoms likely affect individuals with psychiatric and substance problems differently than the general public. Providers need to be attuned to these results to understand the experiences of their AI patients.
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Pub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.5348/100013P13ZT2018ED
Zhuolin Tao
Linquan County is in northwestern Anhui province in central China. It borders nine counties and cities in Anhui Henan province. In 2016, Linquan County had a population of 2.37 million people [1]; it is considered to be the county with the highest population in China. Linquan is also known as one of eleven key remediation areas with drug problems in China. The growth rate of drug consumers was 33.2% from 1991-1995, and the proportion increased to 69.4% from 1996-1997. In the town of Miaocha, the population was 60,200 people, and the registered number of drug consumers in 2001 was 509, nearly 8.5%, with 389 drug dealers. From 1998-2001, 410 drug dealers from Linquan were arrested in Yunnan province, which is near the golden triangle area and 23 were sentenced to death. In 30 of 33 villages in Linquan county, some people grew poppies [2]. Linquan County has a long history of drug issues. Before 1949, there was not a unified government in China. China was separated by different warlords, at that time, China’s industry and commerce were underdeveloped. Taxes were limited and not enough to support the large warlords, most of whom openly or secretly supported the opium business; sometimes, they forced peasants to grow poppies. Wang has estimated that in 1906, Henan province grew 480,000 Mu (a unit of area=0.0667 hectare) of poppies [3]. At that time it was reported that in Linquan county, 80% of peasants and 20% cultivated land grew poppies [4]. During World War II, Japan
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Pub Date : 2017-06-29DOI: 10.5348/p13-2017-12-oa-3
N. A. Shenge, R. Adu
Psychology is defined as the scientific study of human and animal behavior including mental processes. Psychology as a discipline of study was first introduced to the Nigerian University fifty years ago. Although the discipline has grown and diversified in the relative terms, little is known among non-psychologists and even psychologists themselves about its relevance and prospects. This study set out to fill this knowledge gap. The study surveyed the views of 83 psychology and non-psychology undergraduate students of the Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan on the meaning, relevance and prospects of psychology. Participants were students of a second-year social psychology course. The class has 51 males and 32 females students. Participants’ written responses are being quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed. It is hoped that findings of this paper will add up to existing literature on the prospects and relevance of psychology in the national development. As well, findings of the study will serve as a useful guide for non-psychologists and intending psychology students that may be willing to learn about prospects and relevance of psychology in the national development. N. A. Shenge1, R. A. Adu1 Affiliation: 1Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Corresponding Author: Richard Akinjide Adu, Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Email: adurichard3@gmail.com Received: 15 March 2017 Accepted: 07 June 2017 Published: 30 June 2017
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