Charmaine C Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 214810 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Charmaine C Williams |
| NOMBRES | Charmaine C |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS C C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0094-6325 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
“It can go either way”
Background Access to healthcare is essential for individuals who have been sex trafficked, as they often face a range of physical, mental, and sexual health challenges. However, providers frequently lack awareness of trafficking indicators, skills in trauma- and violence-informed care, and knowledge of how to create culturally sensitive, stigma-free environments. Additionally, providers' identities, such as gender, race, culture, and profession, …
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Under-Vaccination among Marginalized Populations in the United States and Canada
Doing the Messy Work
Indigenous trauma and resilience
The traumatic effects of colonization on generations of Indigenous peoples and communities are referred to as intergenerational trauma. Alongside intergenerational effects of trauma experienced by Indigenous peoples and cultures across the globe is the capacity for individual and collective resilience, whereby an individual has good life outcomes despite having been subjected to situations with a high risk of emotional and/or physical distress. I…
I will play this tokenistic game, I just want something useful for my community’
Hiring peer researchers – individuals with lived experience of the phenomenon under study – is an increasingly popular practice. However, little research has examined experiences of peer research from the perspectives of peer researchers themselves. In this paper, we report on data from a participatory, qualitative research project focused on four intersecting communities often engaged in peer research: mental health service user/consumer/survivo…
A Structural Analysis of Gender-Based Violence and Depression in the Lives of Sexual Minority Women and Trans People
This article explores structural mechanisms that are the context for violence and depression in the lives of sexual minority women and trans people in Ontario, Canada. The article draws on interviews with 14 people who reported experiences of depression in the previous year, foregrounding three representative narratives. Narrative and case study analysis reveal that violence is a repeated and cumulative experience over lifetimes, occurring across…
Navigating inequities in the delivery of youth mental health care during the Covid-19 pandemic
At a time when mental health needs were higher, the mental health care system offered less support to youth and their families. For a more equitable response to the pandemic, we need an accessible and integrated mental health care system that shows a commitment to addressing social determinants and reducing health disparities and inequities in access to mental health services
The Political Economy of Peer Research
Participatory research, or the practice of involving ‘peers’ with lived experience, has become popular in social work. Peer engagement is lauded for: ‘democratising’ the research process; providing ‘capacity building’ and facilitating opportunities to co-produce knowledge. Yet, these claims are rarely evaluated by empirical investigations into the socio-material work conditions of peer researchers. Here we present findings of a study that examine…
Religion, Hate, Love, and Advocacy for LGBT Human Rights in Saint Lucia
Adapting stigma mechanism frameworks to explore complex pathways between intersectional stigma and HIV-related health outcomes among women living with HIV in Canada
Intersectional stigma research examining pathways to HIV outcomes is limited. • Adapted conceptual frameworks to examine intersectional stigma and health outcomes. • Stigma interacted with social/institutional support to increase depression. • Depression led to maladaptive coping, lowering adherence and CD4 count. • Argues for multi-level strategies, including women-centred HIV care
Sexuality and Sexual Agency Among Heterosexual Black Men in Toronto
This article critically examines common understandings of sexuality and sexual agency among heterosexual Black men in Toronto. The findings are based on focus groups and in-depth interviews conducted for the qualitative arm of the broader weSpeak project, a mixed-methods study designed to engage and support heterosexual Black men in Ontario, Canada, in living more holistically healthy lives. Focus groups and in-depth interviews with 69 self-ident…
Depression and discrimination in the lives of women, transgender and gender liminal people in Ontario, Canada
This article uses an intersectionality lens to explore how experiences of race, gender, sexuality, class and their intersections are associated with depression and unmet need for mental healthcare in a population of 704 women and transgender/gender liminal people from Ontario, Canada. A survey collecting demographic information, information about mental health and use of mental healthcare services, and data for the Everyday Discrimination Scale a…
Towards a Biopsychosociopolitical Frame for Recovery in the Context of Mental Illness
Journal Article Towards a Biopsychosociopolitical Frame for Recovery in the Context of Mental Illness Get access Charmaine C. Williams, Charmaine C. Williams * Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada *Correspondence to Charmaine C. Williams, PhD. Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1. E-mail: [email protected] Search for o…
Sisters, Mothers, Daughters and Aunties”
HIV prevention risks for Black women in Canada
Training for Cultural Competence
This paper reviews the experience of evaluating a cultural competence workshop series for social workers practicing in a mental health care setting. The study used a pretest-posttest nonequivalent comparison group design, and evaluation was based on both quantitative and qualitative data collections. Between subjects analyses suggested that there were no differences between the intervention and comparison group after the intervention was complete…
Ethical Considerations in Mental Health Research with Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities
Race (and Gender and Class) and Child Custody
In the summer of 2001, the Canadian media devoted attention to two court cases that resulted in mothers losing custody of their children. Kimberly Van de Perre and Nadia Hama might have been overlooked if the presentation of their cases had not evoked discussion regarding the relevance of claims of racism in custody decisions. Analysis of the media narrative reveals that the narrow focus on race distorted perceptions of these family situations, a…
Re-reading the IPSS research record
The Social Construction of Disability in Schizophrenia
Chronicity and disability can accompany a diagnosis of schizophrenia, but long-term follow-up studies are demonstrating that these outcomes are not inevitable. There is growing awareness that characteristics of long-term illness previously understood to be part of the disorder can be partially constructed through a convergence of physical, psychological, and social processes. In this study, the potential for social construction of disability was …
The Angry Black Woman Scholar
The “outsider-within” position (Collins 1986) that is currently the norm for scholars of color in social work presents both opportunities and bar-riers to being fully realized, fi rst, as academics, and then, as activists. Because social work scholarship has been dominated by white men and women, the presence of women of color in academia is itself a rupture of usual practice. At present, even in urban centers, there are few university professors…
Ethical Considerations in Mental Health Research with Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities
Adapting stigma mechanism frameworks to explore complex pathways between intersectional stigma and HIV-related health outcomes among women living with HIV in Canada
Intersectional stigma research examining pathways to HIV outcomes is limited. • Adapted conceptual frameworks to examine intersectional stigma and health outcomes. • Stigma interacted with social/institutional support to increase depression. • Depression led to maladaptive coping, lowering adherence and CD4 count. • Argues for multi-level strategies, including women-centred HIV care
The Political Economy of Peer Research
Participatory research, or the practice of involving ‘peers’ with lived experience, has become popular in social work. Peer engagement is lauded for: ‘democratising’ the research process; providing ‘capacity building’ and facilitating opportunities to co-produce knowledge. Yet, these claims are rarely evaluated by empirical investigations into the socio-material work conditions of peer researchers. Here we present findings of a study that examine…
HIV prevention risks for Black women in Canada
Sexuality and Sexual Agency Among Heterosexual Black Men in Toronto
This article critically examines common understandings of sexuality and sexual agency among heterosexual Black men in Toronto. The findings are based on focus groups and in-depth interviews conducted for the qualitative arm of the broader weSpeak project, a mixed-methods study designed to engage and support heterosexual Black men in Ontario, Canada, in living more holistically healthy lives. Focus groups and in-depth interviews with 69 self-ident…
Towards a Biopsychosociopolitical Frame for Recovery in the Context of Mental Illness
Journal Article Towards a Biopsychosociopolitical Frame for Recovery in the Context of Mental Illness Get access Charmaine C. Williams, Charmaine C. Williams * Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada *Correspondence to Charmaine C. Williams, PhD. Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1. E-mail: [email protected] Search for o…
Navigating inequities in the delivery of youth mental health care during the Covid-19 pandemic
At a time when mental health needs were higher, the mental health care system offered less support to youth and their families. For a more equitable response to the pandemic, we need an accessible and integrated mental health care system that shows a commitment to addressing social determinants and reducing health disparities and inequities in access to mental health services
Religion, Hate, Love, and Advocacy for LGBT Human Rights in Saint Lucia
Depression and discrimination in the lives of women, transgender and gender liminal people in Ontario, Canada
This article uses an intersectionality lens to explore how experiences of race, gender, sexuality, class and their intersections are associated with depression and unmet need for mental healthcare in a population of 704 women and transgender/gender liminal people from Ontario, Canada. A survey collecting demographic information, information about mental health and use of mental healthcare services, and data for the Everyday Discrimination Scale a…
The Social Construction of Disability in Schizophrenia
Chronicity and disability can accompany a diagnosis of schizophrenia, but long-term follow-up studies are demonstrating that these outcomes are not inevitable. There is growing awareness that characteristics of long-term illness previously understood to be part of the disorder can be partially constructed through a convergence of physical, psychological, and social processes. In this study, the potential for social construction of disability was …
Doing the Messy Work
Training for Cultural Competence
This paper reviews the experience of evaluating a cultural competence workshop series for social workers practicing in a mental health care setting. The study used a pretest-posttest nonequivalent comparison group design, and evaluation was based on both quantitative and qualitative data collections. Between subjects analyses suggested that there were no differences between the intervention and comparison group after the intervention was complete…
Re-reading the IPSS research record
Sisters, Mothers, Daughters and Aunties”
The Angry Black Woman Scholar
The “outsider-within” position (Collins 1986) that is currently the norm for scholars of color in social work presents both opportunities and bar-riers to being fully realized, fi rst, as academics, and then, as activists. Because social work scholarship has been dominated by white men and women, the presence of women of color in academia is itself a rupture of usual practice. At present, even in urban centers, there are few university professors…
The Social Construction of Disability in Schizophrenia
Chronicity and disability can accompany a diagnosis of schizophrenia, but long-term follow-up studies are demonstrating that these outcomes are not inevitable. There is growing awareness that characteristics of long-term illness previously understood to be part of the disorder can be partially constructed through a convergence of physical, psychological, and social processes. In this study, the potential for social construction of disability was …
Re-reading the IPSS research record
Race (and Gender and Class) and Child Custody
In the summer of 2001, the Canadian media devoted attention to two court cases that resulted in mothers losing custody of their children. Kimberly Van de Perre and Nadia Hama might have been overlooked if the presentation of their cases had not evoked discussion regarding the relevance of claims of racism in custody decisions. Analysis of the media narrative reveals that the narrow focus on race distorted perceptions of these family situations, a…
Training for Cultural Competence
This paper reviews the experience of evaluating a cultural competence workshop series for social workers practicing in a mental health care setting. The study used a pretest-posttest nonequivalent comparison group design, and evaluation was based on both quantitative and qualitative data collections. Between subjects analyses suggested that there were no differences between the intervention and comparison group after the intervention was complete…
Ethical Considerations in Mental Health Research with Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities
HIV prevention risks for Black women in Canada
Sisters, Mothers, Daughters and Aunties”
Towards a Biopsychosociopolitical Frame for Recovery in the Context of Mental Illness
Journal Article Towards a Biopsychosociopolitical Frame for Recovery in the Context of Mental Illness Get access Charmaine C. Williams, Charmaine C. Williams * Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada *Correspondence to Charmaine C. Williams, PhD. Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1. E-mail: [email protected] Search for o…
Depression and discrimination in the lives of women, transgender and gender liminal people in Ontario, Canada
This article uses an intersectionality lens to explore how experiences of race, gender, sexuality, class and their intersections are associated with depression and unmet need for mental healthcare in a population of 704 women and transgender/gender liminal people from Ontario, Canada. A survey collecting demographic information, information about mental health and use of mental healthcare services, and data for the Everyday Discrimination Scale a…
Adapting stigma mechanism frameworks to explore complex pathways between intersectional stigma and HIV-related health outcomes among women living with HIV in Canada
Intersectional stigma research examining pathways to HIV outcomes is limited. • Adapted conceptual frameworks to examine intersectional stigma and health outcomes. • Stigma interacted with social/institutional support to increase depression. • Depression led to maladaptive coping, lowering adherence and CD4 count. • Argues for multi-level strategies, including women-centred HIV care
Sexuality and Sexual Agency Among Heterosexual Black Men in Toronto
This article critically examines common understandings of sexuality and sexual agency among heterosexual Black men in Toronto. The findings are based on focus groups and in-depth interviews conducted for the qualitative arm of the broader weSpeak project, a mixed-methods study designed to engage and support heterosexual Black men in Ontario, Canada, in living more holistically healthy lives. Focus groups and in-depth interviews with 69 self-ident…
Religion, Hate, Love, and Advocacy for LGBT Human Rights in Saint Lucia
The Political Economy of Peer Research
Participatory research, or the practice of involving ‘peers’ with lived experience, has become popular in social work. Peer engagement is lauded for: ‘democratising’ the research process; providing ‘capacity building’ and facilitating opportunities to co-produce knowledge. Yet, these claims are rarely evaluated by empirical investigations into the socio-material work conditions of peer researchers. Here we present findings of a study that examine…
Navigating inequities in the delivery of youth mental health care during the Covid-19 pandemic
At a time when mental health needs were higher, the mental health care system offered less support to youth and their families. For a more equitable response to the pandemic, we need an accessible and integrated mental health care system that shows a commitment to addressing social determinants and reducing health disparities and inequities in access to mental health services
Indigenous trauma and resilience
The traumatic effects of colonization on generations of Indigenous peoples and communities are referred to as intergenerational trauma. Alongside intergenerational effects of trauma experienced by Indigenous peoples and cultures across the globe is the capacity for individual and collective resilience, whereby an individual has good life outcomes despite having been subjected to situations with a high risk of emotional and/or physical distress. I…
I will play this tokenistic game, I just want something useful for my community’
Hiring peer researchers – individuals with lived experience of the phenomenon under study – is an increasingly popular practice. However, little research has examined experiences of peer research from the perspectives of peer researchers themselves. In this paper, we report on data from a participatory, qualitative research project focused on four intersecting communities often engaged in peer research: mental health service user/consumer/survivo…
A Structural Analysis of Gender-Based Violence and Depression in the Lives of Sexual Minority Women and Trans People
This article explores structural mechanisms that are the context for violence and depression in the lives of sexual minority women and trans people in Ontario, Canada. The article draws on interviews with 14 people who reported experiences of depression in the previous year, foregrounding three representative narratives. Narrative and case study analysis reveal that violence is a repeated and cumulative experience over lifetimes, occurring across…
Doing the Messy Work
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Under-Vaccination among Marginalized Populations in the United States and Canada
“It can go either way”
Background Access to healthcare is essential for individuals who have been sex trafficked, as they often face a range of physical, mental, and sexual health challenges. However, providers frequently lack awareness of trafficking indicators, skills in trauma- and violence-informed care, and knowledge of how to create culturally sensitive, stigma-free environments. Additionally, providers' identities, such as gender, race, culture, and profession, …
Sociology (16 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Psychiatry (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Mental health (5 obras) · Qualitative research (5 obras)