Cultural and spiritual coping in sobriety: Informing substance abuse prevention for Alaska Native communities
✍ Scribed by Kelly L. Hazel; Gerald V. Mohatt
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 234 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Culture and spirituality have been conceptualized as both protecting people from addiction and assisting in the recovery process. A collaborative study, utilizing focus group and survey methods, defined and examined cultural and spiritual coping in sobriety among a select sample of Alaska Natives. Results suggest that the Alaska Native worldview incorporates a circular synthesis and balance of physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual processes within a protective layer of family and communal/cultural beliefs and practices embedded within the larger environment. Cultural‐spiritual coping in sobriety is a process of appraisal, change, and connection that leads the person toward achieving an overarching construct: a sense of coherence. Cultural and spiritual processes provide important areas for understanding the sobriety process as well as keys to the prevention of alcohol abuse and addiction. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.