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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Community Psychol. 2019 Jul 10;64(1-2):72–82. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12354

Table 1.

Summary of key themes and supporting axial codes

Key themes Supporting codes
Defining health at the individual, familial, and community levels
  • Linking individual health with family health

  • Linking family health with community health

  • Balancing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health

Substance abuse as a symptom of community trauma
  • Defining poor community health

  • Linking history of colonialism and assimilation with poor community health

  • Linking loss of identity to substance abuse

  • Linking everyday racism to substance abuse

A community orientation toward healing
  • Grounding support programs in Native spirituality and culture

  • Developing communitywide education programs on substance abuse causes and prevention

  • Reducing community stigma

  • Placing family at center of recovery