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Acknowledging Psychology's History, Call for Disciplinary and Institutional Change
In February 2023, APA Council of Representatives voted to extend a formal apology to First Peoples in the United States. In June 2023, APA leadership as well as the workgroup which drafted the Report on an Offer of Apology attended the annual convention of the Society of Indian Psychologists .
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This offer of apology as a document and delivered in person by the APA follows apologies offered by the Australian Psychological Association, as well as the response of the Canadian Psychological Association to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Report.
Other important documents that may be of interest with record to acknowledgement of psychology's history and calls for disciplinary change include:
- (Ward, Gaudet, McGuire-Adams, 2021)
- (Ansloos, Stewart, Fellner, Goodwill, Graham, McCormick, Harder, & Mushquash, 2019)
Indigenous Research and Indigenous Perspectives on Research and Ethics
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- (Hayward et al., 2021)
- (Windchief & Cummins, 2021)
- (Gone, 2021)
- (LaVallie, Sasakamoose, 2021)
- (Kennedy, Sehgal, Szabo, McGowan, Lindstron, Roach, Crowshoe, & Barnabe, 2022; with Elder Grandmother Doreen Spence, Elder Ray Bear Chief, Elder Noreen McAteer)
- (OKeefe, V.M.; Fish, J.; Maudrie, T.L.; Hunter, A.M.; Tai Rakena, H.G.; Ullrich, J.S.; Clifford, C.; Crawford, A.; Brockie, T.; Walls, M.; Haroz, E.E.; Cwik, M.; Whitesell, N.R.; Barlow, A, 2022)
- (Findlay, 2023)
- (Burrage, Momper, Gone, 2021)
- (Kincaid, Livingstone, Li, et al., 2022)
- Fish, J. (2021, October 14).
- (Ross, 2018)
- (Ermine et al, 2004)
- (TriCouncil)
- (Morse & Lomay, 2020)
- (NCCIH, 2013)
- (Blume, 2022)
- (Liu, Aho, Rata, 2014)
- Patricia D. McGuire. (2019). Indigenous Knowledges and Women Responsibilities as Invigorating Processes. Book Chapter. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Decolonizing the Academy. S. Cote-Meek and T. Moeke-Pickering. (Eds). Canadian Scholars Press.
- Patricia D. McGuire. (2010). Exploring Resilience and Indigenous Ways of Knowing. Pimatisiwin A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health. Volume 8, No 2 Fall 2010. Open source,
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