Beyond deficit: ‘strengths‐based approaches’ in Indigenous health research
| Autor: | Carla Treloar, Joanne Bryant, Simon Graham, Christy E. Newman, Kacey Martin, Stephen Bell, Reuben Bolt, Michael Doyle, Jessica R. Botfield, Annette J. Browne, Peter Aggleton, Dean Murphy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Biomedical Research
030505 public health Health (social science) Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject Perspective (graphical) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Rationality Social Environment Social relation Indigenous Epistemology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Collective identity Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Psychological resilience Indigenous Peoples 0305 other medical science Sociocultural evolution Set (psychology) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sociology of Health & Illness. 43:1405-1421 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9566 0141-9889 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.13311 |
| Popis: | Health research concerning Indigenous peoples has been strongly characterised by deficit discourse-a 'mode of thinking' that is overly focused on risk behaviours and problems. Strengths-based approaches offer a different perspective by promoting a set of values that recognise the capacities and capabilities of Indigenous peoples. In this article, we seek to understand the conceptual basis of strengths-based approaches as currently presented in health research. We propose that three main approaches exist: 'resilience' approaches concerned with the personal skills of individuals; 'social-ecological' approaches, which focus on the individual, community and structural aspects of a person's environment; and 'sociocultural' approaches, which view 'strengths' as social relations, collective identities and practices. We suggest that neither 'resilience' nor 'social-ecological' approaches sufficiently problematise deficit discourse because they remain largely informed by Western concepts of individualised rationality and, as a result, rest on logics that support notions of absence and deficit. In contrast, sociocultural approaches tend to view 'strengths' not as qualities possessed by individuals, but as the structure and character of social relations, collective practices and identities. As such, they are better able to capture Indigenous ways of knowing and being and provide a stronger basis on which to build meaningful interventions. |
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