Katherine M Boydell
Biographic Data
| ID | 200267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine M Boydell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine M |
| FAMILY NAME | Boydell |
| SIGNATURE | BOYDELL K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Coalescing, Cross-Pollinating, Crystalising
The HIVE is an arts-based knowledge translation (ABKT) project that showcases work undertaken across Maridulu Budyari Gumal: the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). Here, we present two distinct forms of data (reflective and evaluative) to tell the story of The HIVE and outline the project's achievements and shortcomings. Reflective data are used to describe the process of establishing a creative, cross-dis…
Photovoice as a platform for empowerment of women with disability
Photovoice is documented as an inclusive and empowering research method that amplifies the voice of marginalised groups. However, in feminist photovoice projects with women, many studies make claims about empowerment, but the claims are seldom evaluated or evidenced. Our photovoice research focused on identity and inclusion of women with physical disability. In this paper, we pose the question: how do the women describe or illustrate personal mea…
The Disjuncture between Medication Adherence and Recovery-centered Principles in Early Psychosis Intervention
To examine how recovery principles are enacted in an early psychosis intervention (EPI) clinic, we used an institutional ethnographic approach focused on how the ideology of medication adherence organizes young people’s experiences of EPI services. Methods included ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews with 27 participants (18 clinic staff, four young people, and five family members), and textual analysis of clinic documents (e.g., case f…
A New Normal
sponsorship: AW-S was supported by a NSW Health Fellowship. The funders had no role in the conceptualization of the perspective piece, writing the manuscript, or decision to decision to submit the paper for publication. (NSW Health Fellowship)
Body Mapping in a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program
Arts-based approaches have not been widely used in the drug and alcohol treatment sector. In this study, we examined the utility of the arts-based method of Body Mapping in an Australian residential treatment centre. Two workshops were held to explore young people's strengths and support networks in order to improve understandings of young people's lives, identities and experiences of treatment. Semi-structured follow-up interviews were conducted…
Making Lived-Experience Research Accessible
Mental health lived-experience research illuminates the perspectives and experiences of people who live with mental illness. However, little is known about how useful people with lived experience of mental illness/distress might find lived-experience research, nor what the best formats are to bring it to their attention. This paper describes the STELLER study (Supporting the Translation into Everyday Life of Lived-Experience Research), which expl…
Women and Stigma
This paper outlines a research and dissemination protocol to be undertaken with specific groups of marginalised women in Australia. Women impacted by significant mental distress, disability, or refugee status are among society's most vulnerable and disenfranchised groups. They can experience significant social exclusion, marginalisation and stigma, associated with reduced help seeking, deprivation of dignity and human rights, and threats to healt…
Edge of the Present
Depression and suicidality are characterized by negative imagery as well as impoverished positive imagery. Although some evidence exists supporting the link between positive imagery and enhanced mood, much work needs to be done. This study explored the impact of an immersive virtual reality experience (Edge of the Present-EOTP) on an individual's mood, state of well-being, and future thinking. Using a 10-min mixed reality experience, 79 individua…
Resisting governance and the production of trust in early psychosis intervention
Ahead of the game protocol
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12617000709347 . Date registered 17 May 2017. Retrospectively registered
Ineffable knowledge
This article draws upon an art-based health research (ABHR) study that examines the work of health/social science researchers and artists who use a wide variety of art genres to create and disseminate scientific health-based research. The intent of their work is to reduce the knowledge to action gap as well as to enable engagement with the research findings on the part of the target audience. With respect to the use of art genres to disseminate r…
Situated methodologies
Deliberative Dialogues Between Policy Makers and Researchers in Canada and Australia
Knowledge translation (KT) and implementation science are growing fields in Canada, Australia, and worldwide. Many audiences are targeted as KT knowledge users—policy makers represent one key knowledge user in the health care field. The need for policy makers to understand research and for researchers to understand policy processes is commonly recognized. There is also increasing interest in health policy that focuses on KT as a framework for und…
Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy
Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy …
Analysis of a Support Group for Children of Parents With Mental Illnesses
We report an ethnographic analysis of a psycho-education and peer-support program for school-aged children of parents with mental illnesses. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of the program manual and observed group interactions to understand whether children shared program goals predetermined by adults, and how, or if, the intervention was responsive to their needs. Children were expected to learn mental illness information because "kno…
An Ecological Process Model of Systems Change
In June 2007 the American Journal of Community Psychology published a special issue focused on theories, methods and interventions for systems change which included calls from the editors and authors for theoretical advancement in this field. We propose a conceptual model of systems change that integrates familiar and fundamental community psychology principles (succession, interdependence, cycling of resources, adaptation) and accentuates a proc…
Challenges of Knowledge Translation in Rural Communities
Qualitative focus group methods were used to examine the readiness of children's mental health organizations in rural communities to make use of research knowledge. A social construction perspective underpins this study, highlighting the significance of subjective interpretation in the actions and reactions of individuals in their everyday world. Knowledge translation was conceptualized by participants on a continuum, ranging from the provision o…
Family Perspectives on Pathways to Mental Health Care for Children and Youth in Rural Communities
Context: There is insufficient literature documenting the mental health experiences and needs of rural communities, and a lack of focus on children in particular. This is of concern given that up to 20% of children and youth suffer from a diagnosable mental health problem. Purpose: This study examines issues of access to mental health care for children and youth in rural communities from the family perspective. Methods: In‐depth interviews were c…
A qualitative analysis of a dyad approach to health-related quality of life measurement in children with asthma
Recasting research into children's experiences of parental mental illness
A Benefit for Everyone
This article outlines the benefits of family member involvement at all stages of mental health research. As an integral aspect of a longitudinal study of family self-help/mutual aid organizations, family members participated as advisors, researchers, and knowledge translators. Their participation served to improve the research design, inform the research questions, enhance the quality of the data, and assist in knowledge translation. Reciprocal b…
A qualitative examination of the implementation of a community–academic coalition
Many recent grant initiatives have mandated coalition building as a key component of their health promotion efforts. Health service leaders are increasingly representing their organizations on coalitions and need to better understand the complexities involved in their creation and management. In this paper we focus on the implementation of a community–academic alliance using an ethnographic approach involving participant observation and in‐depth …
Considering a multisite study? How to take the leap and have a soft landing
Although most policymakers agree that a fundamental goal of the mental health system is to provide integrated community‐based services, there is little empirical evidence with which to plan such a system. Studies in the community mental health literature have not used a standard set of evaluation methods. One way of addressing this gap is through a multisite program evaluation in which multiple sites and programs evaluate the same outcomes using …
Narratives of Identity
The problem of homelessness is a pressing social and health concern ascribed to the interaction between personal, social, economic, and service system resources. This article is based on a qualitative study of the experiences of 29 homeless individuals. In-depth interviews were conducted with single adult shelter users. Analysis revealed the self to be a process that was continually developing. Participants tacitly locate their self-concepts in t…
Recasting research into children's experiences of parental mental illness
Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy
Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy …
An Ecological Process Model of Systems Change
In June 2007 the American Journal of Community Psychology published a special issue focused on theories, methods and interventions for systems change which included calls from the editors and authors for theoretical advancement in this field. We propose a conceptual model of systems change that integrates familiar and fundamental community psychology principles (succession, interdependence, cycling of resources, adaptation) and accentuates a proc…
Analysis of a Support Group for Children of Parents With Mental Illnesses
We report an ethnographic analysis of a psycho-education and peer-support program for school-aged children of parents with mental illnesses. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of the program manual and observed group interactions to understand whether children shared program goals predetermined by adults, and how, or if, the intervention was responsive to their needs. Children were expected to learn mental illness information because "kno…
Considering a multisite study? How to take the leap and have a soft landing
Although most policymakers agree that a fundamental goal of the mental health system is to provide integrated community‐based services, there is little empirical evidence with which to plan such a system. Studies in the community mental health literature have not used a standard set of evaluation methods. One way of addressing this gap is through a multisite program evaluation in which multiple sites and programs evaluate the same outcomes using …
A qualitative examination of the implementation of a community–academic coalition
Many recent grant initiatives have mandated coalition building as a key component of their health promotion efforts. Health service leaders are increasingly representing their organizations on coalitions and need to better understand the complexities involved in their creation and management. In this paper we focus on the implementation of a community–academic alliance using an ethnographic approach involving participant observation and in‐depth …
Coalescing, Cross-Pollinating, Crystalising
The HIVE is an arts-based knowledge translation (ABKT) project that showcases work undertaken across Maridulu Budyari Gumal: the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). Here, we present two distinct forms of data (reflective and evaluative) to tell the story of The HIVE and outline the project's achievements and shortcomings. Reflective data are used to describe the process of establishing a creative, cross-dis…
A qualitative analysis of a dyad approach to health-related quality of life measurement in children with asthma
Resisting governance and the production of trust in early psychosis intervention
Deliberative Dialogues Between Policy Makers and Researchers in Canada and Australia
Knowledge translation (KT) and implementation science are growing fields in Canada, Australia, and worldwide. Many audiences are targeted as KT knowledge users—policy makers represent one key knowledge user in the health care field. The need for policy makers to understand research and for researchers to understand policy processes is commonly recognized. There is also increasing interest in health policy that focuses on KT as a framework for und…
Narratives of Identity
The problem of homelessness is a pressing social and health concern ascribed to the interaction between personal, social, economic, and service system resources. This article is based on a qualitative study of the experiences of 29 homeless individuals. In-depth interviews were conducted with single adult shelter users. Analysis revealed the self to be a process that was continually developing. Participants tacitly locate their self-concepts in t…
Considering a multisite study? How to take the leap and have a soft landing
Although most policymakers agree that a fundamental goal of the mental health system is to provide integrated community‐based services, there is little empirical evidence with which to plan such a system. Studies in the community mental health literature have not used a standard set of evaluation methods. One way of addressing this gap is through a multisite program evaluation in which multiple sites and programs evaluate the same outcomes using …
A qualitative examination of the implementation of a community–academic coalition
Many recent grant initiatives have mandated coalition building as a key component of their health promotion efforts. Health service leaders are increasingly representing their organizations on coalitions and need to better understand the complexities involved in their creation and management. In this paper we focus on the implementation of a community–academic alliance using an ethnographic approach involving participant observation and in‐depth …
A Benefit for Everyone
This article outlines the benefits of family member involvement at all stages of mental health research. As an integral aspect of a longitudinal study of family self-help/mutual aid organizations, family members participated as advisors, researchers, and knowledge translators. Their participation served to improve the research design, inform the research questions, enhance the quality of the data, and assist in knowledge translation. Reciprocal b…
Family Perspectives on Pathways to Mental Health Care for Children and Youth in Rural Communities
Context: There is insufficient literature documenting the mental health experiences and needs of rural communities, and a lack of focus on children in particular. This is of concern given that up to 20% of children and youth suffer from a diagnosable mental health problem. Purpose: This study examines issues of access to mental health care for children and youth in rural communities from the family perspective. Methods: In‐depth interviews were c…
A qualitative analysis of a dyad approach to health-related quality of life measurement in children with asthma
Recasting research into children's experiences of parental mental illness
Challenges of Knowledge Translation in Rural Communities
Qualitative focus group methods were used to examine the readiness of children's mental health organizations in rural communities to make use of research knowledge. A social construction perspective underpins this study, highlighting the significance of subjective interpretation in the actions and reactions of individuals in their everyday world. Knowledge translation was conceptualized by participants on a continuum, ranging from the provision o…
An Ecological Process Model of Systems Change
In June 2007 the American Journal of Community Psychology published a special issue focused on theories, methods and interventions for systems change which included calls from the editors and authors for theoretical advancement in this field. We propose a conceptual model of systems change that integrates familiar and fundamental community psychology principles (succession, interdependence, cycling of resources, adaptation) and accentuates a proc…
Analysis of a Support Group for Children of Parents With Mental Illnesses
We report an ethnographic analysis of a psycho-education and peer-support program for school-aged children of parents with mental illnesses. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of the program manual and observed group interactions to understand whether children shared program goals predetermined by adults, and how, or if, the intervention was responsive to their needs. Children were expected to learn mental illness information because "kno…
Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy
Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy …
Ineffable knowledge
This article draws upon an art-based health research (ABHR) study that examines the work of health/social science researchers and artists who use a wide variety of art genres to create and disseminate scientific health-based research. The intent of their work is to reduce the knowledge to action gap as well as to enable engagement with the research findings on the part of the target audience. With respect to the use of art genres to disseminate r…
Situated methodologies
Deliberative Dialogues Between Policy Makers and Researchers in Canada and Australia
Knowledge translation (KT) and implementation science are growing fields in Canada, Australia, and worldwide. Many audiences are targeted as KT knowledge users—policy makers represent one key knowledge user in the health care field. The need for policy makers to understand research and for researchers to understand policy processes is commonly recognized. There is also increasing interest in health policy that focuses on KT as a framework for und…
Ahead of the game protocol
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12617000709347 . Date registered 17 May 2017. Retrospectively registered
Women and Stigma
This paper outlines a research and dissemination protocol to be undertaken with specific groups of marginalised women in Australia. Women impacted by significant mental distress, disability, or refugee status are among society's most vulnerable and disenfranchised groups. They can experience significant social exclusion, marginalisation and stigma, associated with reduced help seeking, deprivation of dignity and human rights, and threats to healt…
Edge of the Present
Depression and suicidality are characterized by negative imagery as well as impoverished positive imagery. Although some evidence exists supporting the link between positive imagery and enhanced mood, much work needs to be done. This study explored the impact of an immersive virtual reality experience (Edge of the Present-EOTP) on an individual's mood, state of well-being, and future thinking. Using a 10-min mixed reality experience, 79 individua…
Resisting governance and the production of trust in early psychosis intervention
A New Normal
sponsorship: AW-S was supported by a NSW Health Fellowship. The funders had no role in the conceptualization of the perspective piece, writing the manuscript, or decision to decision to submit the paper for publication. (NSW Health Fellowship)
Body Mapping in a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program
Arts-based approaches have not been widely used in the drug and alcohol treatment sector. In this study, we examined the utility of the arts-based method of Body Mapping in an Australian residential treatment centre. Two workshops were held to explore young people's strengths and support networks in order to improve understandings of young people's lives, identities and experiences of treatment. Semi-structured follow-up interviews were conducted…
Making Lived-Experience Research Accessible
Mental health lived-experience research illuminates the perspectives and experiences of people who live with mental illness. However, little is known about how useful people with lived experience of mental illness/distress might find lived-experience research, nor what the best formats are to bring it to their attention. This paper describes the STELLER study (Supporting the Translation into Everyday Life of Lived-Experience Research), which expl…
Photovoice as a platform for empowerment of women with disability
Photovoice is documented as an inclusive and empowering research method that amplifies the voice of marginalised groups. However, in feminist photovoice projects with women, many studies make claims about empowerment, but the claims are seldom evaluated or evidenced. Our photovoice research focused on identity and inclusion of women with physical disability. In this paper, we pose the question: how do the women describe or illustrate personal mea…
The Disjuncture between Medication Adherence and Recovery-centered Principles in Early Psychosis Intervention
To examine how recovery principles are enacted in an early psychosis intervention (EPI) clinic, we used an institutional ethnographic approach focused on how the ideology of medication adherence organizes young people’s experiences of EPI services. Methods included ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews with 27 participants (18 clinic staff, four young people, and five family members), and textual analysis of clinic documents (e.g., case f…
Coalescing, Cross-Pollinating, Crystalising
The HIVE is an arts-based knowledge translation (ABKT) project that showcases work undertaken across Maridulu Budyari Gumal: the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). Here, we present two distinct forms of data (reflective and evaluative) to tell the story of The HIVE and outline the project's achievements and shortcomings. Reflective data are used to describe the process of establishing a creative, cross-dis…
Psychology (21 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Mental health (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (7 works)