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How to balance traditional healing with modern mental health approaches

My teenage nephew is struggling with depression and my sister wants to try traditional healing but he just wants therapy and medication and we do not know which path to choose.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between ancestral healing practices and contemporary treatment creates impossible choices when young lives hang in the balance.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous coming-of-age traditions?”

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