@article{ref1,
title="Healing the warrior: admission of two American Indian war-veteran cohort groups to a specialized inpatient PTSD unit",
journal="American Indian and Alaska Native mental health research",
year="1995",
author="Scurfield, Raymond M.",
volume="6",
number="3",
pages="1-22",
abstract="The American Lake VA Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Treatment Program provides intensive inpatient treatment for war-related PTSD and associated conditions. As part of a substantial outreach effort to American Indians (AI) in the Northwest U.S., the program significantly modified its admission criteria and treatment to be more clinically and culturally relevant. An all-AI cohort, and then a group that was 50% AI, were admitted. Highlighted are lessons learned regarding: treating &quot;traditional&quot; versus more &quot;assimilated&quot; AI veterans; culture-specific additions of building and utilizing a sweatlodge on the hospital grounds, hiring an AI spiritual leader as a clinical advisor, and promoting attendance at weekend Pow-Wows; the relevance of the &quot;regular&quot; treatment components; and the need for regular debriefings about counter-transference dynamics among staff.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0893-5394",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}