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Reid, Colleen J.
No full textcurrentPhD (University of British Columbia) Interdisciplinary Studies in Health Sciences
MA (University of British Columbia) Human Kinetics in Socio-cultural Studies
B.PHE (Queen's University) Physical and Health Education
BA (Queen's University) Psychology
Douglas College Faculty member since 2009.
Colleen is Faculty in the Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Coordinator of the Research Innovation Office at Douglas College. She also holds Adjunct Professor positions in the Public Policy program at Simon Fraser University, in Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of British Columbia, and in the Faculty of Health Professions at Dalhousie University. As an interdisciplinary graduate student at UBC, a health sciences postdoctoral researcher at SFU, and faculty at Douglas she has been involved in community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects for over 25 years. Colleen uses CBPR approaches, including community-based research, action research, participatory action research, practitioner research, applied research, and feminist participatory action research, to study and promote health in the contexts of oppression, suffering, and stigma for marginalized groups. She has conducted research with women on low-income, women living in diverse contexts struggling with employability, practitioners striving for recognition in their workplace and the health care system, individuals with lived experience of mental illness and individuals with dementia. Currently, she is co-lead on the Vancouver Foundation-funded CBPR project “Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experience of Dementia.” Her recent publications were in the Therapeutic Recreation Journal, Leisure / Loisir, Leisure Sciences, Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, AFFILIA: Journal of Women and Social Work, and Nursing Inquiry, and she recently co-authored the third edition of Research, Experience, Social Change: Critical Methods (University of Toronto Press). In Colleen's research and teaching, she focuses on critical social research methods, community development, the determinants of health, and leisure and recreation. She brings a strong commitment to social justice and participatory and inclusive approaches to her work
Imagining inclusion: Uncovering the upstream determinants of mental health through photovoice
No full textThe purpose of this study was to better understand the lived experience of mental illness and factors that contribute to community inclusion, health, and wellbeing. Through the use of Photovoice, a community based participatory research (CBPR) methodology, participants visually represented factors that fostered inclusion. More significantly, however, participants used photography to capture major systemic and structural, or upstream, barriers to their active and meaningful participation in society, such as stigma and social exclusion. The participatory aspect of CBPR was itself empowering while it enabled participants to visually identify and explore upstream factors that profoundly shaped their lived experiences of mental illness. These findings point to the need for recreation therapists and other mental health professionals to expand from biomedical and behavioural interventions for individuals living with mental illness towards looking upstream to address the systemic and structural factors that impede individuals' full participation in their communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedFinal article publishedCommunity-based participatory researchtherapeutic recreationPhotovoicemental healthdeterminants of healt
The lived experience of recovery: The role of health work in addressing the social determinants of mental health
No full textRecovery is a policy framework for mental health in Canada. Key challenges to the integration of recovery include a gap in knowledge about the work that people do to promote their health and well-being in the context of living with mental ill health. This study used Photovoice to explore the lived realities of people living with mental ill health and the impact of the social determinants on their recovery process. Findings from this study inform policy and practice on promoting health work as an important dimension of recovery and community inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedFinal article publishedPhotovoicecommunity inclusionMental Healthsocial determinants of healthrecoveryhealth wor
Collaborating with peers in mental health research: Promoting equity or reinforcing marginalization
Full text linkPresentation at the 15th Qualitative Methods Conference, Glasgow United Kingdom. Hosted by the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM). The theme of the conference, Collaboration Considered: Complexities and Possibilities Across Communities and Cultures. Colleen and Marina Morrow presented the paper "Collaborating with Peers in Mental Health Research: Promoting equity or reinforcing marginalization?"
The purpose of this presentation was to draw on our experiences in Imagining Inclusion - a 2-year community-based participatory research (CBPR) project in community mental health- to examine the promises, challenges and pitfalls of integrating peer researchers into all phases of the research process. With reflections from peer research participants and a research team member we examined how our conscious CBPR efforts to dismantle `self-other' constructions resulted in productive and mutually beneficial relationships built on transparency, respect, and trust, built capacity and personal growth among participants, and at times perpetuated role distinctions and power inequalities between participants and research team members.Submitted for publication to Leisure Sciences (under review)
Confronting condescending ethics: How community-based research challenges traditional approaches to consent, confidentiality, and capacity
No full textCommunity based research is conducted by, for, and with the participation of community members, and aims to ensure that knowledge contributes to making a concrete and constructive difference in the world (The Loka Institute 2002). Yet decisions about research ethics are often controlled outside the research community itself. In this analysis we grapple with the imposition of a community confidentiality clause and the implications it had for consent, confidentiality, and capacity in a province-wide community based research project. Through untangling these implications we provide recommendations for reframing how to think about research ethics and strategies for enabling research ethics’ processes to be more responsive to and respectful of community-based research.Peer reviewedFinal article publishedCommunity confidentialityWomen’s healthResearch ethicsCommunity based researc
Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research
Full text linkAbstract Women's health research strives to make change. It seeks to produce knowledge that promotes action on the variety of factors that affect women's lives and their health. As part of this general movement, important strides have been made to raise awareness of the health effects of sex and gender. The resultant base of knowledge has been used to inform health research, policy, and practice. Increasingly, however, the need to pay better attention to the inequities among women that are caused by racism, colonialism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, and able-bodism, is confronting feminist health researchers and activists. Researchers are seeking new conceptual frameworks that can transform the design of research to produce knowledge that captures how systems of discrimination or subordination overlap and "articulate" with one another. An emerging paradigm for women's health research is intersectionality. Intersectionality places an explicit focus on differences among groups and seeks to illuminate various interacting social factors that affect human lives, including social locations, health status, and quality of life. This paper will draw on recently emerging intersectionality research in the Canadian women's health context in order to explore the promises and practical challenges of the processes involved in applying an intersectionality paradigm. We begin with a brief overview of why the need for an intersectionality approach has emerged within the context of women's health research and introduce current thinking about how intersectionality can inform and transform health research more broadly. We then highlight novel Canadian research that is grappling with the challenges in addressing issues of difference and diversity. In the analysis of these examples, we focus on a largely uninvestigated aspect of intersectionality research - the challenges involved in the process of initiating and developing such projects and, in particular, the meaning and significance of social locations for researchers and participants who utilize an intersectionality approach. The examples highlighted in the paper represent important shifts in the health field, demonstrating the potential of intersectionality for examining the social context of women's lives, as well as developing methods which elucidate power, create new knowledge, and have the potential to inform appropriate action to bring about positive social change.</p
Finding the ‘action’ in feminist participatory action research
No full textAlthough feminist researchers have increasingly called for participatory and action-oriented research, there have been few analyses of the diverse actions that can occur. We theorized the actions considered and implemented in a feminist participatory action research project (FPAR). For three years we collaborated intensively with a group of diverse women on low income who were involved in a FPAR project designed to reduce social isolation and other self-identified health problems. Our data set included tape recordings of 32 one-on-one interviews, 15 research meetings, and extensive fieldnotes. Our findings indicated that actions occurred on both individual and collective levels; some had been enacted prior to the project and were shared to promote ongoing or new actions, while others arose as a consequence of the women's involvement in the project. Additionally, some actions were implemented and actualized while others, though discussed at length, remained hopes for the future. While the research participants reported the benefits of being involved in such projects, they also spoke of the potential risks. Our findings revealed the complexities of taking action in FPAR and highlight important considerations for others wishing to engage in this type of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedFinal article published.women's healthindividual and collective actionfeminismfeminist participatory action researc
Therapeutic recreation's contributions to Canada's National Recreation framework
No full textIn 2015 a national framework for recreation in Canada was ratified. It outlines five priority goal areas to enhance individual and community well-being. Although the Framework is based on the idea of partnerships, there are limited examples of the contributions the field of therapeutic recreation (TR) can make to achieve these aims. The purpose of this paper is to explore how TR programs and services in Canada address the goals of the Framework for Recreation in Canada. Eighteen practitioners participated in the study from British Columbia (n = 9), Alberta (n = 7) and Nova Scotia (n = 2). A diversity of participants and settings were represented and a wide variety of TR practices, ranging from specific programs to entire service delivery contexts, were described. The results are framed in relation to the strong, moderate and weak alignments demonstrated in the descriptions provided, along with identifying the unique contributions of the TR profession to the Framework's goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedFinal article publishedActive livingcommunity recreationtherapeutic recreationpartnershipsinclusion and acces
A full measure: Towards a comprehensive model for the measurement of women’s health
No full textCurrently, the determinants of health perspective conceptualizes women’s health as a complex mix of social, political, economic and biological factors. Measurements of women’s health have typically relied on a biomedical model, viewing health as independent from the social environment. This gap between health determinants conceptualizations and the measurements of health affects research, policy and practice in the early 21st century. When applied to women’s health, standard mea- surements often result in oversights, errors, inconsistencies and simpli- fications. Critical social justice agendas, compatible with determinants discourse, are consequently unable to meet the increasing demand for accountability and evidence-based research, policy and practice. The purpose of this paper is to examine this gap between conceptualizations and measurements of women’s health and suggest ways to advance measurements.
Four questions frame this discussion: (1) How have health researchers conceptualized women’s health? (2) How have health researchers measured women’s health? (3) How can the social determinants of health perspective, specifically focusing on gender, advance both conceptualizations and measurements? (4) What are the implications for research in women’s health? -- From publisher description.bookPublishe
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