How are coercive psychiatric practices experienced by First Nations communities?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 psychology and citizenship.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Emmanuelle Bernheim and Professor Eva Ottawa, social justice researchers at the University of Ottawa, Canada. They are working with the Manawan First Nations community to explore how community members experience psychiatric confinement and to develop mental health services aligned with community worldviews and values.

• This resource also contains interviews with Emmanuelle and Eva and offers an insight into careers in law and psychiatry. If your students have questions for Emmanuelle and Eva, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Emmanuelle and Eva will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Emmanuelle and Eva’s research and challenges them to consider what the future will look like when social injustices have been overcome.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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