R Whitley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 13075 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Whitley |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Whitley |
| FIRMA | WHITLEY R |
| AFILIACIONES | Douglas Mental Health University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5376-9241 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 264 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1930 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Barriers and facilitators towards recovery among Afro-Caribbean mental health service users in Canada
We examined experiences among Afro-Caribbean mental health service users in Canada, exploring (i) barriers and facilitators towards recovery; (ii) experiences within the official health care system; and (iii) utilisation of alternative treatments and remedies. We conducted 18 in-depth interviews with Afro-Caribbean service users, and subsequent thematic analysis revealed three overlapping themes. First, participants pointed to their Christian fai…
The lived experience of self-injury stigma and its psychosocial impact
The current findings highlight several psychosocial consequences of NSSI stigma for individuals with lived experience. In this way, this study adds to a growing body of work illustrating the value of lived experience perspectives in NSSI research and has important implications for research, anti-stigma work, and clinical practice
Mental disorders in the media
BACKGROUND: The mass media are relevant in shaping the population's attitudes towards mental disorders. In low- and middle-income countries there is little information about the portrayal of people with mental disorders in the mass media. AIM: The general objective of the study was to assess the tone and content of Chilean newspaper articles about mental disorder from 2000 to 2019. METHOD: The digital editions of four national circulation Chilean…
Utility of a multidimensional recovery framework in understanding lived experiences of Chilean and Brazilian mental health service users
La comprensión y aplicación del concepto de recuperación, a pesar de sus posibles beneficios para los servicios de salud mental, aún se encuentra en incipiente desarrollo en América Latina. Si bien la reforma psiquiátrica en la región ha tenido algunos avances, el marco de la recuperación no ha sido suficientemente explorado. Whitley y Drake (2010) sugirieron un marco conceptual integral para la recuperación que incluye cinco dimensiones: clínica…
Musical ethnocultural identity, happiness, and internalizing symptoms in youth
Recovery from severe mental illness in Québec
Men’s Mental Health
Numerous scholars have stated that there is a silent crisis in men’s mental health. In this article, we aim to provide an overview of core issues in the field of men’s mental health, including a discussion of key social determinants as well as implications for mental health services. Firstly, we review the basic epidemiology of mental disorders with a high incidence and prevalence in men, including suicide and substance use disorder. Secondly, we…
“If One Does Not Fulfil His Duties, He Must Not Be a Man”
Suicide portrayal in the Canadian media
Newspaper coverage of '13 Reasons Why' generally adhered to core best practice media recommendations, and sensitively discussed suicide from various angles, prompting productive discussion and dialogue about youth suicide. These findings suggest that the media can be an ally in promoting dialogue and raising awareness of important public health issues such as suicide
Uses of strength-based interventions for people with serious mental illness
BACKGROUND: For the past 3 decades, mental health practitioners have increasingly adopted aspects and tools of strength-based approaches. Providing strength-based intervention and amplifying strengths relies heavily on effective interpersonal processes. AIM: This article is a critical review of research regarding the use of strength-based approaches in mental health service settings. The aim is to discuss strength-based interventions within broad…
Transatlantic variation in the attributed etiology of psychosis
BACKGROUND: Differences in transatlantic perception of psychosis have been reported in the historical psychiatric literature. AIMS: This study aims to determine if articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) are more likely to attribute biological factors to the etiology of psychosis than those of the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP). METHODS: A systematic MEDLINE search for articles in the AJP and BJP from 2005 to 2007 identified 360…
Head take you
Causal attributions are a key factor in explanatory models of illness; however, little research on causal attributions of mental illness has been conducted in developing nations in the Caribbean, including Jamaica. Explanatory models of mental illness may be important in understanding illness experience and be a crucial factor in mental health service seeking and utilization. We explored causal attributions of mental illness in Jamaica by conduct…
Uses and abuses of recovery
An understanding of recovery as a personal and subjective experience has emerged within mental health systems. This meaning of recovery now underpins mental health policy in many countries. Developing a focus on this type of recovery will involve transformation within mental health systems. Human systems do not easily transform. In this paper, we identify seven mis-uses ("abuses") of the concept of recovery: recovery is the latest model; recovery…
Recovery and Severe Mental Illness
The notion of recovery has been embraced by key stakeholders across Canada and elsewhere. This has led to a proliferation of definitions, models, and research on recovery, making it vitally important to examine the data to disentangle the evidence from the rhetoric. In this paper, first we ask, what do people living with severe mental illness (SMI) say about recovery in autobiographical accounts? Second, what do they say about recovery in qualita…
A Comparison of Immigrant and Canadian-Born Patients Seeking Fertility Treatment
Exaltation in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Family Influence in Recovery from Severe Mental Illness
Stigma, agency and recovery amongst people with severe mental illness
Beyond Critique
Behind the Scenes of a Research and Training Collaboration
Changing macro-structural varieties of East Asian capitalism
The dominant institutions of economic governance vary considerably between countries in both Northeast and Southeast Asia, generating four nationally distinct varieties of political–economic organization in terms of varying state direction of the economy and degree of business co-ordination of economic activities: co-governed, state-led, networked and personalized. In the 1980s, Malaysia and Taiwan represented more the state-led variety of capita…
Fear and loathing in New England
Little anthropological research has been conducted on the health care perspectives of homeless people in rural areas. The aim of the present study is to elicit health-care beliefs, and examine overall health experience among a sample of current or recently homeless people in rural New Hampshire. Thirteen qualitative interviews were conducted, 11 with single men. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis.…
A Critical Examination of “Morality” in an Age of Evidence-Based Psychiatry
Thank you God”
People with lived experience of dual diagnosis face specific challenges in that they have struggled with both severe mental illness and substance use disorder simultaneously. I conducted a 6-year ethnographic study with poor African Americans with lived experience of dual diagnosis in Washington, DC, to assess barriers and facilitators to recovery. In this paper, I analyze the relationship between religion and recovery. I set out to answer two re…
Religious competence as cultural competence
Definitions of cultural competence often refer to the need to be aware and attentive to the religious and spiritual needs and orientations of patients. However, the institution of psychiatry maintains an ambivalent attitude to the incorporation of religion and spirituality into psychiatric practice. This is despite the fact that many patients, especially those from underserved and underprivileged minority backgrounds, are devotedly religious and …
Fear of crime, mobility and mental health in inner-city London, UK
Methods in Social Science
Perceived stigmatisation of young mothers
Strategies for Improving Fidelity in the National Evidence-Based Practices Project
Background: The National Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) Project developed and tested a model for facilitating the implementation of five psychosocial EBPs for adults with severe mental illness in the United States. Methods: The implementation model was tested in 53 sites in 8 states. In each site, one of the five EBPs was adopted for implementation and then studied for a 2-year period using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. …
Family Influence in Recovery from Severe Mental Illness
Changing macro-structural varieties of East Asian capitalism
The dominant institutions of economic governance vary considerably between countries in both Northeast and Southeast Asia, generating four nationally distinct varieties of political–economic organization in terms of varying state direction of the economy and degree of business co-ordination of economic activities: co-governed, state-led, networked and personalized. In the 1980s, Malaysia and Taiwan represented more the state-led variety of capita…
Stigma, agency and recovery amongst people with severe mental illness
The Sustainability of Evidence-Based Practices in Routine Mental Health Agencies
Religious competence as cultural competence
Definitions of cultural competence often refer to the need to be aware and attentive to the religious and spiritual needs and orientations of patients. However, the institution of psychiatry maintains an ambivalent attitude to the incorporation of religion and spirituality into psychiatric practice. This is despite the fact that many patients, especially those from underserved and underprivileged minority backgrounds, are devotedly religious and …
Introduction to Sociology
Evidence-based Practice Implementation Strategies
Social Defeat or Social Resistance? Reaction to Fear of Crime and Violence Among People with Severe Mental Illness Living in Urban ‘Recovery Communities
Is there a link between rates of common mental disorder and deficits in social capital in Gospel Oak, London
Spiritual reconfigurations of self after a myocardial infarction
Mad, Sick, Head Nuh Good
Stigma may be an important factor in mental health service seeking and utilization. However, little work on stigma has been conducted in developing nations in the Caribbean, including Jamaica. We explored mental illness stigma in Jamaica by conducting focus groups with 16 community samples. Four overarching conceptual themes are discussed: (1) community members' definitions of stigma; (2) emotional responses towards those with mental illness, suc…
Are inner-cities bad for your health? Comparisons of residents' and third parties' perceptions of the urban neighbourhood of Gospel Oak, London
This paper analyses representations of the neighbourhood of Gospel Oak (London, UK), by contrasting views of residents with views expressed by third parties. Data from residents were gathered through in-depth qualitative methods. Data from third parties were gathered through documentary analysis.Third parties' descriptions of Gospel Oak were significantly more negative than residents'. In contrast, residents were overwhelmingly positive about the…
Beyond Critique
Fear and loathing in New England
Little anthropological research has been conducted on the health care perspectives of homeless people in rural areas. The aim of the present study is to elicit health-care beliefs, and examine overall health experience among a sample of current or recently homeless people in rural New Hampshire. Thirteen qualitative interviews were conducted, 11 with single men. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis.…
Reducing Disparities in Mental Health Care
Public Pressure, Private Protest
Some evidence suggests that West Indian immigrants in Canada are a marginalized and over-burdened group. However, little attention has been given to examining health status and beliefs. We partly redress this gap by investigating health beliefs of West Indian immigrants in Montreal with somatic, emotional, or medically unexplained symptoms. The overall aim was to elicit and explore illness narratives, explanatory models, symptom-attribution and h…
Head take you
Causal attributions are a key factor in explanatory models of illness; however, little research on causal attributions of mental illness has been conducted in developing nations in the Caribbean, including Jamaica. Explanatory models of mental illness may be important in understanding illness experience and be a crucial factor in mental health service seeking and utilization. We explored causal attributions of mental illness in Jamaica by conduct…
Refuge or Rehabilitation? Assessing the Development of a Women’s Empowerment Center for People with Severe Mental Illness
Open Papers, Open Minds? Media Representations of Psychiatric De-institutionalization in Jamaica
Little research has been conducted on media representations of psychiatric de-institutionalization in low-income countries. We set out to examine whether the Jamaican media takes a positive or negative orientation to psychiatric de-institutionalization, and which arguments and rhetorical devices are employed to support the media's position. This was done by the collection, review, and analysis of all stories related to psychiatric de-institutiona…
Recovery from severe mental illness in Québec
Postnatal mental distress in relation to the sociocultural practices of childbirth
Sociocultural patterning of the postnatal period in non-Western settings has been hypothesised to protect against postnatal depression. In 2004, in a predominantly rural area of Ethiopia, we conducted 25 in-depth interviews and five focus group discussions with purposively selected participants including perinatal women, fathers, grandmothers, traditional and religious leaders, birth attendants and community leaders. Our main objectives were (1) …
Introduction to Sociology
Methods in Social Science
Social capital and mental health
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Is there a link between rates of common mental disorder and deficits in social capital in Gospel Oak, London
Thinking inside the bubble
Objective: Previous quantitative research has suggested that there is a link between housing, the urban environment, and mental health. However, methodological and design issues make it difficult to disentangle the relative influence of dwelling specific and wider urban environmental influences on individual mental health. The aim of this study was to explore the link between the dwelling, the immediate urban environment, and mental health to gen…
Fear of crime, mobility and mental health in inner-city London, UK
Are inner-cities bad for your health? Comparisons of residents' and third parties' perceptions of the urban neighbourhood of Gospel Oak, London
This paper analyses representations of the neighbourhood of Gospel Oak (London, UK), by contrasting views of residents with views expressed by third parties. Data from residents were gathered through in-depth qualitative methods. Data from third parties were gathered through documentary analysis.Third parties' descriptions of Gospel Oak were significantly more negative than residents'. In contrast, residents were overwhelmingly positive about the…
Can urban regeneration programmes assist coping and recovery for people with mental illness? Suggestions from a qualitative case study
Researchers and policy-makers are increasingly recognizing that urban socio-environmental conditions can affect the development and course of numerous health problems. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact an urban regeneration programme can have on everyday functioning, coping and recovery for people with a mental illness. We were also interested in discerning which component parts of the regeneration are the most important in posit…
Exploring the Ethnic Density Effect
Background: The ethnic density effect describes a phenomenon whereby adverse mental health outcomes among individuals from ethnic minorities are greater in neighbourhoods where they comprise a smaller proportion of the population. Most previous studies of the ethnic density effect have been quantitative in design, and thus have only been able to speculate on some of the underlying mechanisms explaining this phenomenon. Aims: This paper attempts t…
Public Pressure, Private Protest
Some evidence suggests that West Indian immigrants in Canada are a marginalized and over-burdened group. However, little attention has been given to examining health status and beliefs. We partly redress this gap by investigating health beliefs of West Indian immigrants in Montreal with somatic, emotional, or medically unexplained symptoms. The overall aim was to elicit and explore illness narratives, explanatory models, symptom-attribution and h…
Evidence-based Practice Implementation Strategies
Open Papers, Open Minds? Media Representations of Psychiatric De-institutionalization in Jamaica
Little research has been conducted on media representations of psychiatric de-institutionalization in low-income countries. We set out to examine whether the Jamaican media takes a positive or negative orientation to psychiatric de-institutionalization, and which arguments and rhetorical devices are employed to support the media's position. This was done by the collection, review, and analysis of all stories related to psychiatric de-institutiona…
Learning what matters for patients
Sedentary lifestyle, poor dietary behaviors and metabolic alterations associated with psychiatric medications contribute to poor health and high rates of obesity among individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). Interventions that increase engagement in physical exercise, dietary modifications, lifestyle changes and preventive health care can provide health benefits across the lifespan. These interventions have led to substantial physical impr…
How Do Clients Obtain Mental Health Information? Commentary on “Consumer Perspectives on Information and Other Inputs to Decision-Making
Refuge or Rehabilitation? Assessing the Development of a Women’s Empowerment Center for People with Severe Mental Illness
Perceived stigmatisation of young mothers
Migration and Mental Health
Background: Few studies have explored influences on mental health of migrants moving between non-Western countries. Methods: Focus group discussions were used to explore the experiences of Ethiopian female domestic migrants to Middle Eastern countries, comparing those who developed severe mental illness with those remaining mentally well. Discussion: Prominent self-identified threats to mental health included exploitative treatment, enforced cult…
Mastery of Mothering Skills and Satisfaction with Associated Health Services
Strategies for Improving Fidelity in the National Evidence-Based Practices Project
Background: The National Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) Project developed and tested a model for facilitating the implementation of five psychosocial EBPs for adults with severe mental illness in the United States. Methods: The implementation model was tested in 53 sites in 8 states. In each site, one of the five EBPs was adopted for implementation and then studied for a 2-year period using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. …
The Sustainability of Evidence-Based Practices in Routine Mental Health Agencies
Reducing Disparities in Mental Health Care
Postnatal mental distress in relation to the sociocultural practices of childbirth
Sociocultural patterning of the postnatal period in non-Western settings has been hypothesised to protect against postnatal depression. In 2004, in a predominantly rural area of Ethiopia, we conducted 25 in-depth interviews and five focus group discussions with purposively selected participants including perinatal women, fathers, grandmothers, traditional and religious leaders, birth attendants and community leaders. Our main objectives were (1) …
Recovery
Various definitions, dimensions, and components of recovery have been posited. Building on existing work, the authors propose five superordinate dimensions of recovery: clinical recovery, experiencing improvements in symptoms; existential recovery, having a sense of hope, empowerment, agency, and spiritual well-being; functional recovery, obtaining and maintaining valued societal roles and responsibilities, including employment, education, and st…
Culture et santé mentale en Haïti
Cet article passe en revue et résume l’ensemble de la littérature sur la santé mentale et les services de santé mentale en Haïti. Ce compte rendu a été rédigé à la suite du tremblement de terre qui a frappé Haïti en janvier 2010. Nous avons effectué des recherches dans Medline, Google Scholar et d’autres bases de données disponibles en vue de recueillir la littérature scientifique pertinente sur la santé mentale en Haïti. La consultation d’ouvrag…
Spiritual reconfigurations of self after a myocardial infarction
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