The book, the first of its kind, embraces a broad overview of strategic and policy issues involving the relationship between social and economic change and dysfunction and enables the reader to better understand how to deal with potentially hurtful influences in proactive, equitable, and culturally sensitive ways.

Alf H. Walle is a former professor of Tribal Management, and also directed a residential facility serving Indigenous alcoholics. Focusing on change, disruption, dysfunction, and therapy, Walle combines academic and practitioner orientations.

Section 1: A social background

Prologue to Section

1 What is anomie?

2 Coping with anomie

3 Hurtful impacts of anomie

4 Positive responses to anomie

5 Effected communities

Epilogue to Section 1

Section 2: Psychological perspectives

Prologue to Section 2

6 The standard anomie model

7 Implications of cultural trauma

8 Terror Management Theory

Epilogue to Section 2

Section 3: Strategies of mitigation

Prologue to Section 3

9 Client-centered therapy

10 Representative tactics

Epilogue to Section 3

Final words

Index