Contemporary American Indian communities experience a disproportionately high rate of specific mental health concerns, including psychiatric disorders as defined by professional psychology. Although integrating mainstream mental health services and Indigenous traditional healing (ITH) has been presented as a promising approach to addressing these inequities, such integration necessitates in-depth exploration and consideration of ITH. To that effect, this article provides a thematic analysis of an interview with an urban American Indian traditional healer who reflected on more than 4 decades of therapeutic experience. Based on this analysis, we identified two major themes. The first theme, Expansive View of ITH, reflects this healer's conceptualization and understanding of the therapeutic process while the second theme, Guiding Principles of ITH, explicates the foundational commitments that shape and guide this healer's application and practice of ITH. These insights reinforce previous observations made by scholars of Indigenous health and well-being that challenge dominant Euro-American perspectives and call for transformative change in psychology research and practice, advocating for professional consideration of a broader range of therapeutic rationales, traditions, and practices than what is common within the field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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作为心理健康干预的传统疗法：来自美国印第安治疗师的当代见解。


当代美国印第安人社区的特定心理健康问题发生率高得不成比例，包括专业心理学定义的精神疾病。尽管整合主流心理健康服务和土著传统疗法 （ITH） 已被提出为解决这些不平等的一种有前途的方法，但这种整合需要对 ITH 进行深入探索和考虑。为此，本文对一位城市美洲印第安传统治疗师的采访进行了主题分析，他回顾了 4 多年的治疗经验。基于此分析，我们确定了两个主要主题。第一个主题，ITH 的广阔视角，反映了这位治疗师对治疗过程的概念化和理解，而第二个主题，ITH 的指导原则，阐述了塑造和指导这位治疗师应用和实践 ITH 的基本承诺。这些见解加强了土著健康和福祉学者先前的观察，这些观察挑战了占主导地位的欧美观点，并呼吁在心理学研究和实践中进行变革性变革，倡导对更广泛的治疗原理、传统和实践进行专业考虑，而不是该领域内的常见情况。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。