
The University of New Mexico
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920
cgonzal@unm.edu
Nov. 14, 2007
Native Psychologist to Speak at UNM
Role of Culture in Therapy Addressed
Joseph Gone, American Indian psychologist, presents “Keeping Culture in Mind: Exploring Aboriginal and Western Therapeutic Integration in a First Nation Treatment Center,” at the University of New Mexico Psychology Colloquia, Friday, Nov. 16 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Bobo Room of Hodgin Hall. This event is free and open to the public.
Gone is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, clinical area, and the Program in American Culture, Native American Studies, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He earned his bachelor’s in psychology at Harvard University in 1992 and his doctorate in clinical and community psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001.
As a cultural psychologist, Gone addresses in his research the key dilemma confronting mental health professionals who serve Native American communities, namely how to provide culturally appropriate helping services that avoid the neo-colonial subversion of local thought and practice. He has published articles and chapters concerning the ethnopsychological investigation of self, identity, personhood and social relations in American Indian cultural contexts vis-a-vis the mental health professions.
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