Description
Book SynopsisThis Monograph demonstrates that disruptions to young people's developing conceptions of personal or cultural persistence begin to explain the suicide rates among Aboriginal Canadian and non-Aboriginal Canadian youth.
Table of ContentsPart I: Contents:.
Abstract.
1. Introduction.
2. The Antimony of Sameness and Change.
3. On Self-Continuity and its Developmental Vicissitudes-What Young People Have to Say about the Paradox of Sameness and Change.
4. Self-Continuity and Youth Suicide.
5. From Self-Continuity to Cultural Continuity-Aboriginal Youth Suicide.
6. Culture as a Set Point in the Choice between Narrativist and Essentialist Self-Continuity Warranting Practices.
7. Conclusions.
8. Appendix: Sample Questions from the Personal Persistence Interview.
Part II: Commentary:.
9. Treading Fearlessly: A Commentary on Personal Persistence, Identity Development, and Suicide: James E. Marcia (Simon Fraser University).
Contributors.
Statement of Editorial Policy
