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Referrals to Mental Health Services in Ohio: An Exploration of Time to First Referral After Completion of Mental Health First Aid Gatekeeper Training
Get PDFBackground: The college population is particularly vulnerable to mental health challenges. In 2020 only 46.2% of people with a mental illness received mental health services. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a training course designed to teach people how to connect individuals in need of professional services to the appropriate resources.
Methods: Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) trainings were offered to students, faculty, and staff at Kent State University. Data from 343 individuals, who completed the MHFA gatekeeper training, were analyzed to explore the impact of time and participant characteristics on the likelihood of first referral to mental health services after completion of the MHFA. Participants completed a pretraining and posttraining paper questionnaire on the day of MHFA training and received a monthly online follow-up survey to assess self-reported referrals over time.
Results: After completing MHFA, the average time until first referral was approximately 3 months. Several participant characteristics were significantly associated with referral to mental health services. African American and Black participants who completed the training were more likely to make a referral as compared to White participants. Extraversion was associated with increased likelihood of making a referral, while emotional stability was associated with a decreased likelihood of making a referral.
Conclusion: Participants were 5.7% less likely to first report referring with each passing month following the MHFA training, suggesting that there may be cause for an MHFA or similar gatekeeper “booster” course to highlight the importance of making referrals
Ohio Journal of Public Health Vol. 4, Issue 2 (January 2022): Full Issue
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A review of Human Trafficking and the Feminization of Poverty: Structural Violence in Cambodia, by Yuko Shimazaki
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A review of Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques by Alistair Harkness (ed.)
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Police Ethics in Rural Contexts: A Left Realist Consequentialist View
Get PDFThis article presents crime survey data from the state of West Virginia in the United States showing that, controlling for structural conditions, community atmosphere is significantly related to crime, violence and many other social problems in rural places. These results help identify measurable and achievable progressive desired ends in rural policing, replacing law enforcement outputs (for example, arrests, gun and drug seizures) with safe, strong community outcomes as the summum bonum (i.e, ultimate outcome) of policing. Findings show that interdependent communities where police are partners with residents are the safest, while conflict communities where the police are viewed as adversaries are least safe. These results suggest a left realist consequentialist approach to police ethics to dismantle the hegemony of draconian policies and practices.
Prodigious polyphyly in Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea)
Get PDFPhylogenomic studies with hundreds or thousands of loci are rare for most invertebrate groups, including freshwater gastropods. This can prevent understanding of phylogeny, which hinders many areas of research. Pleuroceridae is a family of freshwater snails that is highly imperiled and plays an essential role in the ecology of many freshwater systems of the eastern United States. However, the evolutionary history of the family is not understood, and the systematics of the family has not been revised in a modern framework. Pleurocerids display a variety of egg-deposition behaviors and shell shapes, making the family an ideal system for studying evolution of invertebrate life history and morphology. However, past mitochondrial-based phylogenetic analyses have failed to produce meaningful phylogenetic hypotheses, preventing conclusions about pleurocerid systematics and evolution. Here, we generated a novel anchored hybrid enrichment probe set with phylogenetic utility for Pleuroceridae. We sampled pleurocerids from across their range to test the probe set and generated a backbone phylogeny. Our analyses uncovered striking levels of polyphyly among currently accepted genera. Numerous species were also polyphyletic, indicative of unrecognized diversity. Phylogenetic patterns also revealed considerable convergence of shell morphologies. In contrast, anatomical and life history features appeared to be much less homoplastic. Despite generic paraphyly, high support for most major clades and phylogenetic cohesiveness of non-shell characters indicate utility of the AHE probe set for studying pleurocerid evolution
Blind Cinema: Reframing Visual Impairment in Shadow Girl (Chile 2016)
No full textFrom an ableist perspective, few things may seem more unlikely than a blind filmmaker. Vision (a physical state) and the "gaze" (a theoretical construct) are central to and constitutive of film, so how could it be possible for a blind person to make a film? Yet, blind and visually impaired filmmakers such as Chilean director María Teresa Larraín, by virtue of their unique perspective, capture images in new ways, reframing blindness and altering society's expectations about the central role of the image and of how visuality operates in film. Recent films by visually impaired directors, as well as collaborations between blind and sighted filmmakers, show how the aesthetics and content of these works represent the experience of blindness. For example, Larraín's autobiographical documentary "Shadow Girl" (2016) mimics the filmmaker-protagonist's gradual vision loss by progressively darkening the screen, placing the spectator at the center of her traumatic experience. This self-reflexive documentary narrates the filmmakers' journey into blindness and, concurrently, her return to Chile after a lengthy exile. The loss of her vision is intricately linked to the loss of the Chile she recalls, binding the personal to the political. By asserting a new visual style that evokes vision loss even as she advocates for her rights as a blind artist, Larraín will reconstruct her status as a filmmaker and locate a renewed hope for Chile. Moreover, Shadow Girl disrupts our mistaken belief that vision is the primary way of processing the cinematic experience and the world at-large, making it a truly transgressive film in form and content alike
Book Review: Screendance from Film to Festival: Celebration and Curatorial Practice by Cara Hagan (2022)
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A Response to a Criticism of the Teaching Profession
Get PDFThe author, a preservice high school mathematics teacher, shares her response to individuals who question her chosen career path. Through her story, the author encourages each of us to (re)consider how we communicate the value of classroom teaching to others