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Exploring resettlement stressors and help-seeking for mental health support with women from refugee backgrounds
Get PDFDespite the well-documented mental health risk factors for people with refugee backgrounds, there remain gaps in understanding resettlement stressors and barriers to help-seeking, and access to and use of mental health services for specific refugee communities in Australia. The overarching aim of this thesis was to explore resettlement stressors and barriers to help-seeking with women from two different refugee communities and to provide clinical implications for services working with these populations. This project was guided by postcolonial feminist theory, used a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach, and was informed by Kleinman’s Explanatory Model (1978, 1980) and Andersen’s Model of Health Utilisation (Andersen & Newman, 1973). In exploring resettlement factors, the thesis also takes a Social Determinants of Health approach to understanding effects on health and wellbeing. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three groups of people, including women from the Afghan (Hazara) community with refugee backgrounds (study 1), women and men from the South Sudanese community with refugee backgrounds (study 2 & 3), and service providers working with women from refugee backgrounds in mental health services (study 4). Interview data was transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed. In study 1, findings suggested that older women from the Afghan community may face multiple social and cultural barriers to help-seeking, including stigma regarding mental health, differences in cultural conceptualisations of mental health, racism, domestic violence, husbands acting as gatekeepers to help-seeking, language and communication difficulties, and informal help-seeking preferences. Initially, study 2 also had a focus on barriers to help-seeking, but participants instead prioritised speaking about resettlement stressors and challenges during interviews. As such, drawing on a CBPR framework, the second study explored these issues, with results indicating that dealing with practical concerns and resettlement stressors took precedence over accessing mental health services. In particular, results identified that concerns about the younger generation, racism and discrimination, social isolation, changing gender roles, and domestic violence were key factors in womens’ experiences in Australia and had ongoing effects on mental health. Stemming from the analysis of the same data, study 3 specifically discussed the impact of negative media and political depictions of the South Sudanese community on their psychological health and well-being. Participants discussed enduring experiences of racism and discrimination that had damaging effects on their sense of identity, mental health, and hope for the future in their resettlement country. Moreover, given the specific focus of media attention on South Sudanese youth, participants expressed considerable concern about the mental health and wellbeing of their children and future generations. Finally, study 4 focused on service providers’ perceptions of the social determinants of women with refugee background’s mental health and barriers to help-seeking. Barriers were identified as existing at the individual (language, gender), interpersonal (stigma, conceptualisation of mental health, isolation, racism), organisational (child protection, missed opportunity for service provision, lack of accessibility, expectations, differences in perception of need), and policy levels of the Social-Ecological Model. Overall, thesis results indicated that women from different refugee communities face barriers to help-seeking and enduring resettlement stressors at times long after arrival in Australia. However, accessing mental health services may be a low priority for some women, who may instead prioritise practical concerns. Results highlighted the complex intersections between gender, race, and refugee status faced by women with refugee backgrounds. These intersections created multiple challenges to resettlement, empowerment, and belonging within the broader Australian community. Participants from both communities described the way in which racism, patriarchy, language and communication barriers, economic disadvantages, and refugee status created enduring layers of inequality that structured the relative positions of women and men in their community and the broader Australian society. Implications and recommendations include more inclusive public policy, the inclusion of consideration of social determinants of health in mental health care, culturally responsive programs for women and men regarding domestic violence, and the involvement of community partners in research teams.Thesis (Combined MPsych (Clin) & PhD) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 202
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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