title: Indian mental health: an orientation.
abstract: This paper provides a brief overview of Indian mental health needs, problems, and services among predominantly rural populations, and focuses on issues that arise when traditional Indian healing is made a part of a national health service system. Problems in developing a policy capable of integrating traditional healing with modern mental health techniques are considered.
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D007802:Language; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008605:Mental Health Services; D014481:United States