Gerald V Mohatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald V Mohatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald V |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohatt |
| SIGNATURE | MOHATT G V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A Protective Factors Model for Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Prevention Among Alaska Native Youth
This study provides an empirical test of a culturally grounded theoretical model for prevention of alcohol abuse and suicide risk with Alaska Native youth, using a promising set of culturally appropriate measures for the study of the process of change and outcome. This model is derived from qualitative work that generated an heuristic model of protective factors from alcohol (Allen et al. in J Prev Interv Commun 32:41–59, 2006 ; Mohatt et al. in …
Creating Qungasvik (A Yup'ik Intervention “Toolbox”): Case Examples from a Community‐Developed and Culturally‐Driven Intervention
This paper describes the development of a Yup'ik Alaska Native approach to suicide and alcohol abuse prevention that resulted in the creation of the Qungasvik , a toolbox promoting reasons for life and sobriety among youth. The Qungasvik is made up of thirty‐six modules that function as cultural scripts for creating experiences in Yup'ik communities that build strengths and protection against suicide and alcohol abuse. The Qungasvik manual repres…
Feasibility of a Community Intervention for the Prevention of Suicide and Alcohol Abuse with Yup'ik Alaska Native Youth: The Elluam Tungiinun and Yupiucimta Asvairtuumallerkaa Studies
The Elluam Tungiinun and Yupiucimta Asvairtuumallerkaa studies evaluated the feasibility of a community intervention to prevent suicide and alcohol abuse among rural Yup'ik Alaska Native youth in two remote communities. The intervention originated in an Indigenous model of protection, and its development used a community based participatory research process. Feasibility assessment aimed to assess the extent to which (1) the intervention could be …
People Awakening: Collaborative Research to Develop Cultural Strategies for Prevention in Community Intervention
The consequences of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and suicide create immense health disparities among Alaska Native people. The People Awakening project is a long‐term collaboration between Alaska Native (AN) communities and university researchers seeking to foster health equity through development of positive solutions to these disparities. These efforts initiated a research relationship that identified individual, family, and community protective …
Introduction to Ecological Description of a Community Intervention: Building Prevention Through Collaborative Field Based Research
This special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology is the result of a 18‐year partnership with Alaska Native communities using collaborative field based research methods. Its goal is to provide a case study fulfilling the spirit of ecological inquiry, offering a detailed and nuanced description of a community intervention. The articles describe the nature of our work, including some of our successes, as well as challenges, dilemma…
Found in translation: Decoding local understandings of genetics and heredity in a Yup’ik Eskimo community
The Center for Alaska Native Health Research is a community-based participatory research center that conducts studies involving genetic research with Yup’ik Eskimo community members in Southwest Alaska, where Yup’ik remains the first language for most residents. Cultural equivalents are needed to communicate results of these studies among all partners and members of the participating communities, since many scientific terms have no direct transla…
Moving Toward an Indigenous Psychotherapy
Reflections on a proposed theory of reservation-dwelling American Indian alcohol use: Comment on Spillane and Smith (2007)
In their recent article, N. Spillane and G. Smith suggested that reservation-dwelling American Indians have higher rates of problem drinking than do either non-American Indians or those American Indians living in nonreservation settings. These authors further argued that problematic alcohol use patterns in reservation communities are due to the lack of contingencies between drinking and "standard life reinforcers" (SLRs), such as employment, hous…
Smoking, chewing, and cultural identity: Prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among the Yup’ik—The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) study
Survey data were obtained from a large sample of Yup'ik participants residing in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska. Tobacco use, age, sex, and a variety of psychosocial variables were assessed. Over 75% of participants use tobacco; one half (57.4%) reported using smokeless tobacco (SLT) regularly; 28.2% reported smoking cigarettes regularly. Relative to women, men reported using SLT less, smoking cigarettes more, and using the combinatio…
Coda: The Virtuous and Responsible Researcher in Another Culture
Unheard Alaska: Culturally Anchored Participatory Action Research on Sobriety with Alaska Natives
Alcohol research in Alaska Native communities has a contentious history. This project has attempted to address a critical need for research to guide alcohol abuse prevention and treatment with Alaska Natives using culturally anchored participatory action research. The process of grounding the research methodology in the culture and community is described, along with its contribution to community psychology's understanding of the importance of cul…
Cultural and spiritual coping in sobriety: Informing substance abuse prevention for Alaska Native communities
Culture and spirituality have been conceptualized as both protecting people from addiction and assisting in the recovery process. A collaborative study, utilizing focus group and survey methods, defined and examined cultural and spiritual coping in sobriety among a select sample of Alaska Natives. Results suggest that the Alaska Native worldview incorporates a circular synthesis and balance of physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual process…
Cultural negotiation and schooling: New idea or new clothing for an old idea
Cultural negotiation as a model for understanding how to change schooling within indigenous communities is critiqued and its implications discussed with regard to four issues. This article discusses the implications of the work in this issue for improving schooling for indigenous children, focusing on ways in which cultural negotiation must integrate and differentiate issues of both power and culture. First, the article focuses on the issue of ba…
Counseling Intervention and American Indian Tradition: An Integrative Approach
The training of American Indian counseling and community psychologists should move away from conventional counseling tenets toward the use of culturally sensitive mental health approaches that maintain American Indian values. In this article, unique American Indian social and psychological perspectives concerning the process and theory of counseling are contrasted with the individualistic focus, style, and outcomes of therapy as practiced in Amer…
Counseling Intervention and American Indian Tradition: An Integrative Approach
The training of American Indian counseling and community psychologists should move away from conventional counseling tenets toward the use of culturally sensitive mental health approaches that maintain American Indian values. In this article, unique American Indian social and psychological perspectives concerning the process and theory of counseling are contrasted with the individualistic focus, style, and outcomes of therapy as practiced in Amer…
Unheard Alaska: Culturally Anchored Participatory Action Research on Sobriety with Alaska Natives
Alcohol research in Alaska Native communities has a contentious history. This project has attempted to address a critical need for research to guide alcohol abuse prevention and treatment with Alaska Natives using culturally anchored participatory action research. The process of grounding the research methodology in the culture and community is described, along with its contribution to community psychology's understanding of the importance of cul…
Creating Qungasvik (A Yup'ik Intervention “Toolbox”): Case Examples from a Community‐Developed and Culturally‐Driven Intervention
This paper describes the development of a Yup'ik Alaska Native approach to suicide and alcohol abuse prevention that resulted in the creation of the Qungasvik , a toolbox promoting reasons for life and sobriety among youth. The Qungasvik is made up of thirty‐six modules that function as cultural scripts for creating experiences in Yup'ik communities that build strengths and protection against suicide and alcohol abuse. The Qungasvik manual repres…
People Awakening: Collaborative Research to Develop Cultural Strategies for Prevention in Community Intervention
The consequences of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and suicide create immense health disparities among Alaska Native people. The People Awakening project is a long‐term collaboration between Alaska Native (AN) communities and university researchers seeking to foster health equity through development of positive solutions to these disparities. These efforts initiated a research relationship that identified individual, family, and community protective …
Cultural and spiritual coping in sobriety: Informing substance abuse prevention for Alaska Native communities
Culture and spirituality have been conceptualized as both protecting people from addiction and assisting in the recovery process. A collaborative study, utilizing focus group and survey methods, defined and examined cultural and spiritual coping in sobriety among a select sample of Alaska Natives. Results suggest that the Alaska Native worldview incorporates a circular synthesis and balance of physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual process…
A Protective Factors Model for Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Prevention Among Alaska Native Youth
This study provides an empirical test of a culturally grounded theoretical model for prevention of alcohol abuse and suicide risk with Alaska Native youth, using a promising set of culturally appropriate measures for the study of the process of change and outcome. This model is derived from qualitative work that generated an heuristic model of protective factors from alcohol (Allen et al. in J Prev Interv Commun 32:41–59, 2006 ; Mohatt et al. in …
Feasibility of a Community Intervention for the Prevention of Suicide and Alcohol Abuse with Yup'ik Alaska Native Youth: The Elluam Tungiinun and Yupiucimta Asvairtuumallerkaa Studies
The Elluam Tungiinun and Yupiucimta Asvairtuumallerkaa studies evaluated the feasibility of a community intervention to prevent suicide and alcohol abuse among rural Yup'ik Alaska Native youth in two remote communities. The intervention originated in an Indigenous model of protection, and its development used a community based participatory research process. Feasibility assessment aimed to assess the extent to which (1) the intervention could be …
Introduction to Ecological Description of a Community Intervention: Building Prevention Through Collaborative Field Based Research
This special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology is the result of a 18‐year partnership with Alaska Native communities using collaborative field based research methods. Its goal is to provide a case study fulfilling the spirit of ecological inquiry, offering a detailed and nuanced description of a community intervention. The articles describe the nature of our work, including some of our successes, as well as challenges, dilemma…
Cultural negotiation and schooling: New idea or new clothing for an old idea
Cultural negotiation as a model for understanding how to change schooling within indigenous communities is critiqued and its implications discussed with regard to four issues. This article discusses the implications of the work in this issue for improving schooling for indigenous children, focusing on ways in which cultural negotiation must integrate and differentiate issues of both power and culture. First, the article focuses on the issue of ba…
Smoking, chewing, and cultural identity: Prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among the Yup’ik—The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) study
Survey data were obtained from a large sample of Yup'ik participants residing in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska. Tobacco use, age, sex, and a variety of psychosocial variables were assessed. Over 75% of participants use tobacco; one half (57.4%) reported using smokeless tobacco (SLT) regularly; 28.2% reported smoking cigarettes regularly. Relative to women, men reported using SLT less, smoking cigarettes more, and using the combinatio…
Moving Toward an Indigenous Psychotherapy
Counseling Intervention and American Indian Tradition: An Integrative Approach
The training of American Indian counseling and community psychologists should move away from conventional counseling tenets toward the use of culturally sensitive mental health approaches that maintain American Indian values. In this article, unique American Indian social and psychological perspectives concerning the process and theory of counseling are contrasted with the individualistic focus, style, and outcomes of therapy as practiced in Amer…
Cultural negotiation and schooling: New idea or new clothing for an old idea
Cultural negotiation as a model for understanding how to change schooling within indigenous communities is critiqued and its implications discussed with regard to four issues. This article discusses the implications of the work in this issue for improving schooling for indigenous children, focusing on ways in which cultural negotiation must integrate and differentiate issues of both power and culture. First, the article focuses on the issue of ba…
Cultural and spiritual coping in sobriety: Informing substance abuse prevention for Alaska Native communities
Culture and spirituality have been conceptualized as both protecting people from addiction and assisting in the recovery process. A collaborative study, utilizing focus group and survey methods, defined and examined cultural and spiritual coping in sobriety among a select sample of Alaska Natives. Results suggest that the Alaska Native worldview incorporates a circular synthesis and balance of physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual process…
Unheard Alaska: Culturally Anchored Participatory Action Research on Sobriety with Alaska Natives
Alcohol research in Alaska Native communities has a contentious history. This project has attempted to address a critical need for research to guide alcohol abuse prevention and treatment with Alaska Natives using culturally anchored participatory action research. The process of grounding the research methodology in the culture and community is described, along with its contribution to community psychology's understanding of the importance of cul…
Coda: The Virtuous and Responsible Researcher in Another Culture
Reflections on a proposed theory of reservation-dwelling American Indian alcohol use: Comment on Spillane and Smith (2007)
In their recent article, N. Spillane and G. Smith suggested that reservation-dwelling American Indians have higher rates of problem drinking than do either non-American Indians or those American Indians living in nonreservation settings. These authors further argued that problematic alcohol use patterns in reservation communities are due to the lack of contingencies between drinking and "standard life reinforcers" (SLRs), such as employment, hous…
Smoking, chewing, and cultural identity: Prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among the Yup’ik—The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) study
Survey data were obtained from a large sample of Yup'ik participants residing in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska. Tobacco use, age, sex, and a variety of psychosocial variables were assessed. Over 75% of participants use tobacco; one half (57.4%) reported using smokeless tobacco (SLT) regularly; 28.2% reported smoking cigarettes regularly. Relative to women, men reported using SLT less, smoking cigarettes more, and using the combinatio…
Moving Toward an Indigenous Psychotherapy
Found in translation: Decoding local understandings of genetics and heredity in a Yup’ik Eskimo community
The Center for Alaska Native Health Research is a community-based participatory research center that conducts studies involving genetic research with Yup’ik Eskimo community members in Southwest Alaska, where Yup’ik remains the first language for most residents. Cultural equivalents are needed to communicate results of these studies among all partners and members of the participating communities, since many scientific terms have no direct transla…
A Protective Factors Model for Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Prevention Among Alaska Native Youth
This study provides an empirical test of a culturally grounded theoretical model for prevention of alcohol abuse and suicide risk with Alaska Native youth, using a promising set of culturally appropriate measures for the study of the process of change and outcome. This model is derived from qualitative work that generated an heuristic model of protective factors from alcohol (Allen et al. in J Prev Interv Commun 32:41–59, 2006 ; Mohatt et al. in …
Creating Qungasvik (A Yup'ik Intervention “Toolbox”): Case Examples from a Community‐Developed and Culturally‐Driven Intervention
This paper describes the development of a Yup'ik Alaska Native approach to suicide and alcohol abuse prevention that resulted in the creation of the Qungasvik , a toolbox promoting reasons for life and sobriety among youth. The Qungasvik is made up of thirty‐six modules that function as cultural scripts for creating experiences in Yup'ik communities that build strengths and protection against suicide and alcohol abuse. The Qungasvik manual repres…
Feasibility of a Community Intervention for the Prevention of Suicide and Alcohol Abuse with Yup'ik Alaska Native Youth: The Elluam Tungiinun and Yupiucimta Asvairtuumallerkaa Studies
The Elluam Tungiinun and Yupiucimta Asvairtuumallerkaa studies evaluated the feasibility of a community intervention to prevent suicide and alcohol abuse among rural Yup'ik Alaska Native youth in two remote communities. The intervention originated in an Indigenous model of protection, and its development used a community based participatory research process. Feasibility assessment aimed to assess the extent to which (1) the intervention could be …
People Awakening: Collaborative Research to Develop Cultural Strategies for Prevention in Community Intervention
The consequences of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and suicide create immense health disparities among Alaska Native people. The People Awakening project is a long‐term collaboration between Alaska Native (AN) communities and university researchers seeking to foster health equity through development of positive solutions to these disparities. These efforts initiated a research relationship that identified individual, family, and community protective …
Introduction to Ecological Description of a Community Intervention: Building Prevention Through Collaborative Field Based Research
This special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology is the result of a 18‐year partnership with Alaska Native communities using collaborative field based research methods. Its goal is to provide a case study fulfilling the spirit of ecological inquiry, offering a detailed and nuanced description of a community intervention. The articles describe the nature of our work, including some of our successes, as well as challenges, dilemma…
Psychology (9 works) · Community Health and Development (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Health psychology (4 works) · Intervention (counseling) (4 works) · Nursing (4 works)