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Accessing sexualized violence services and supports for women in rural Nova Scotia: A qualitative study
Get PDFIntroduction: Both rural and urban women who experience sexualized violence can face significant barriers to accessing services and supports, including fear of victim blaming, stigma, and re-traumatization. To date, there is a paucity of research that specifically examines the experiences of women accessing sexualized violence services and supports in rural places and the unique or additional barriers they may face. Objectives: The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the experiences of women living in rural Nova Scotia who accessed services or supports after experiencing sexualized violence. Methods: Participants were recruited through community organizations and social media. Interviews were conducted with nine women in Fall 2019. Data were analyzed using feminist-thematic analysis. Results: Findings indicate that the women shared experiences of navigating a fragmented system of services and supports, and many reported harmful experiences with the justice system and formal health care system. Some women also experienced positive experiences with community-based services. Enhancing community-based services is recommended as one key strategy for improving access to sexualized violence services and supports in rural communities
Clarifying the Concept of Mental Health Literacy: Protocol for a Scoping Review
Get PDFThis scoping review will chart the peer-reviewed literature to clarify the concept of mental health literacy (MHL) and how it can be measured. MHL is an emerging area of study within mental health promotion, as programming and policy efforts devoted to promoting mental health emerge. Enhancing MHL in the general population is a strategy for promoting mental health by reducing stigma and empowering individuals to recognize, interpret, and understand their mental health, and know when to seek help for themselves and others. Despite the positive outcomes associated with MHL, conceptualization varies in scope, purpose, process, and outcome; there is little consensus of what “counts” as MHL. A clearly defined conceptualization of MHL is needed to support research, programming, and policy in mental health promotion. Papers on the theoretical and conceptual principles underlying MHL and primary studies documenting MHL initiatives and methods will be included. A scoping literature search will be performed following the search protocol for scoping reviews by JBI to identify all relevant literature on MHL. Searches will be conducted in five scientific databases; there will be no time limit imposed, although all sources must be written in English or French. Identifying the conceptualization and measurement of MHL in research that is guiding mental health interventions will provide conceptual clarity, ultimately advancing knowledge of mental health literacy
Introduction
No full textThe first issue of Anti-Colonial Science: a course journal features work from students in the Winter Term of 2022
Auroy, Carole, Olivier Gallet, Denis Labouret et Aude Préta-de Beaufort (dir.). La Plume et le Goupillon. L‘écrivain catholique en question aux XXe et XXIe siècles
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Swimming Through Ambivalence: The Paradox of Vigilant Coping in Female College Athletes
Get PDFThree decades of research into disordered eating in sports have revealed contradictory results, with athletes considered both at risk but also protected from eating problems. To contribute insight into the complexities of existing literature, this study examines how female college swimmers in the US experience food and their bodies in athletic, non-athletic, and digital media contexts. Drawing on 16 in- depth interviews, this study finds that these athletes experience contradictory ideals, especially in the domains of health and online self- presentation. When faced with such tensions, they often seek resolution through heightened discipline and attention towards controlling the body, a phenomenon that I call vigilant coping. While vigilant coping can provide some satisfaction and respite, it often exacerbates confusion and reproduces anxieties. As a result, a predominant strategy for resolving ambivalence becomes a source of additional distress around food and body. The women in this study show how athletic contexts contribute to the paradox of vigilant coping but also reveal creative ways of coping that go beyond vigilance. These findings are particularly important given the low success of disordered eating treatments and urgency towards improving preventative efforts
Committed Commenting and the Virtual Visage: Contextualizing Sorority Social Media Encounters
Get PDFThis article addresses the ways in which collegiate sorority women deploy sorority-specific aesthetic cues to construct socially acceptable and recognizable presentations of themselves online. I suggest that sorority members initiate and invite social media interaction as a means of parlaying their own media posts into discursive sites, thereby participating in a complex and considerably stratified economy of display and recognition. Sorority members also exert social capital through public demonstrations of social network linkages— demonstrations which can only be performed successfully if one maintains legitimacy and good standing within the media economy. I probe the implications of theorizing social media posting (particularly to the digital media platform Instagram) as a communal art creation practice that strengthens group social linkages and reifies communally observed aesthetic guidelines. I also address the stylistic and discursive regimens that shape expectations of media presentation, contrasting these practices with the comparatively candid and informal presentation styles exemplified in Fake Instagram (“finsta”) posting behaviors
Seven Years with the JUE
Get PDFIn this editorial, Martha Radice, JUE\u27s Editor-in-Chief for seven years, discusses her work and contributions to the JUE
Girl Power Book List
No full textWhy do we need this particular type of topic to attract the public‘s attention about the power of girls? Because we all need more quality literature that breaks down gender stereotypes