Rachelle Ashcroft
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 364516 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rachelle Ashcroft |
| NOMBRES | Rachelle |
| APELLIDO | Ashcroft |
| FIRMA | ASHCROFT R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6065-4717 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 130 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
A qualitative examination of social work students’ participation in an interprofessional pain curriculum symposium
There have been calls for more mobilization of social workers within chronic pain services because social workers are uniquely positioned to address stress, depression, and anxiety related to pain. This qualitative study aimed to understand social work students’ perceptions of the benefits and challenges of participating in an interprofessional pain curriculum. Four focus groups were conducted with 14 participants who were graduate-level social w…
Co-developing an inclusive interprofessional health workforce minimum data standard for enhanced planning and decision-making
BACKGROUND: Comprehensive and standardized health workforce data are the foundation of more robust planning and evidence-informed decision-making in the face of multiple crises. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the process, results, and lessons learned in co-developing an inclusive, interprofessional health workforce minimum data standard (MDS) for planning. METHODS: A four-phase development process was undertaken: 1) we gathered existing data sta…
Assessing the Needs of Community Mental Health Service Users with Chronic Physical Health Conditions
Young people’s experiences and strategies for improving their awareness and access to mental health and substance use health services
This study revealed key insights about post-pandemic MHSU service awareness and access for young people. Participants demonstrated desires for both autonomy in service selection and guidance from trusted sources, suggesting a supported decision-making model. Recommended service improvements include centralized information resources, stronger informal referral networks, culturally responsive services and flexible delivery options. Partnership with…
Social Prescribing for Children and Youth
Social prescribing is gaining traction globally, with over 30 countries involved in the social prescribing movement. This holistic approach to health and well‐being is relevant to all ages, but it is especially important for children and youth. While this population has largely been neglected in social prescribing efforts, several evaluations of social prescribing programs specifically targeting this population have emerged in recent years, which…
From private to public
Previous research has found that gender is central to both consensually sending and receiving sexts and nonconsensual sharing. This research often spotlights girls as being responsible and explains that boys’ roles as perpetrators in these interactions are made invisible. We aimed to investigate the feelings, harms, responses, and dynamics of nonconsensual sexting in a sample of Canadian adolescents. Exploratory surveys were administered to adole…
Analysis of hospital-based healthcare provision for people living with HIV who use drugs in Ontario, Canada
People living with HIV (PLWH) who use drugs are hospitalized at higher rates than the general population and report receiving poor care during hospitalization. The patient experience of PLWH during hospitalization is influenced by the clinical practice of healthcare providers (HPs). However, there is a gap in the literature that articulates the perspectives of HPs who deliver care to this population. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with…
A Scoping Review to Guide Social Work Policy-Practice for Pandemic Recovery
Purpose: The aim of this scoping review is to systematically scope the literature on social work, the COVID-19 pandemic, and health policy. The research question guiding the scoping review is: What are the policy issues emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic that are of importance for social workers working in health and mental health? Method: Scoping review methodology following Arksey and O’Malley's five-stage framework. Results: A final sample …
Epistemic justice and injustice among youth with mental health concerns
This paper applied a critical narrative analysis to narratives of youth self‐identifying as having mental health concerns. Instances of epistemic justice and injustice were identified related to youth's interactions with clinical and educational institutions as well as with parents and peers. Youth experienced instances of institutional ignorance related to their experiences, as well as implicit and explicit silencing of their experiences. Youth …
Looking Through the Eyes of General Practitioners
In Flanders, Belgium, a primary healthcare reform is ongoing to strengthen the health system and work towards improving integrated care. At the core of this transformation stands a person-centred perspective that considers social factors, which increases the tendency for collaboration between health and welfare systems. Primary care physicians and social workers are urged to collaborate; however, the way general practitioners (GPs) define and uti…
Establishing internationally accepted conceptual and operational definitions of social prescribing through expert consensus
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to establish internationally accepted conceptual and operational definitions of social prescribing. DESIGN: A three-round Delphi study was conducted. SETTING: This study was conducted virtually using an online survey platform. PARTICIPANTS: This study involved an international, multidisciplinary panel of experts. The expert panel (n=48) represented 26 countries across five continents, numerous expert groups an…
‘Better off, as judged by themselves’
In this study, we investigated how people evaluate behavioral interventions (BIs) that are targeted at themselves, aiming to promote their own health and wellbeing. We compared the impact on people's assessments of the acceptability of using BIs to change their own behavior of: the transparency of the BI (transparent or opaque); the designer of the BI (researchers, government policy-makers, advertisers); and three types of arguments regarding the…
Canadian social work education in mental health and addictions
Social workers play an important role in the field of mental health and addictions, but there are concerns about the level of training and education offered by social work programs. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of Canadian social work faculty members on social work education in mental health and addictions. We conducted focus groups and individual interviews with faculty (N = 14) from English and French so…
Defining Social Prescribing
According to the World Health Organization, social prescribing is a holistic approach to health and wellbeing that promotes integrated care. There is growing interest in social prescribing around the world, with over 20 countries involved in the social prescribing movement. However, an agreed definition of social prescribing has yet to emerge. This is problematic for social prescribing research, policy, and practice. Since there are two types of …
Establishing Internationally Accepted Conceptual and Operational Definitions of Social Prescribing Through Expert Consensus
This important work will be foundational and timely, given the rapid spread of the social prescribing movement around the world
A structuration theory guided analysis of the hospitalization experience for people living with HIV who use drugs
Collaboration in Interprofessional Primary Care Teams during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Clinical Social Work Practice in Canada
Purpose: The most common form of social work (SW) practice in Canada is clinical which requires specialized knowledge and advanced clinical skills. The SW profession is more than 100 years old, but regulation is new to Canada and presently most jurisdictions have regulatory bodies to advance safe, competent, and ethical practices. Regulatory bodies establish admission requirements, standards of practice, ethical guidelines, supervision, continuin…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Social Workers at the Frontline
Social workers are facing increasingly complex client needs during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Because of the social distancing requirements of the pandemic, social workers have undergone transformative changes in practice with the rapid uptake of virtual technologies. The objective of our study was to understand the experiences of social workers during the first-wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a cross-section…
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
Patient perspectives on quality of care for depression and anxiety in primary health care teams
BACKGROUND: Widespread policy reforms in Canada, the United States and elsewhere over the last two decades strengthened team models of primary care by bringing together family physicians and nurse practitioners with a range of mental health and other interdisciplinary providers. Understanding how patients with depression and anxiety experience newer team-based models of care delivery is essential to explore whether the intended impact of these re…
Inequities in the delivery of mental health care
As the first point of contact for individuals experiencing mental health difficulties, primary care plays an important role in addressing population mental health care needs. In Ontario, the successful integration of mental health in primary care has been hindered by the lack of strategic direction, and inconsistent resourcing for mental health care. Achieving health equity may be stunted by the structural variations for mental health care across…
How Dementia Caregivers Make Health Service Decisions
The purpose of this study is to explore the grounded theory literature surrounding the health care decisions of dementia caregivers and to evaluate the rigor of these studies according to methodological guidelines. This scoping review was guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework. Articles were then evaluated against key principals of grounded theory. Results from five included articles show that while researchers label their study…
Lockdown texts
Integrating Social Work Into Interprofessional Education
The University of Toronto Interprofessional Education Curriculum (IPE) is an exemplar of advancing interprofessional education with a focus on preparing students for practice in healthcare settings. Our paper begins with a detailed overview of the University of Toronto's IPE program including the range of participating faculties, an overview of the curriculum including examples of learning activities, and the social work specific expectations tha…
"Beyond "misunderstanding
The Standardization of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Science Editorials and UK Biobanks
As the search for human genetic variation has become a priority for biomedical science, debates have resurfaced about the use of race and ethnicity as scientific classifications. In this paper we consider the relationship between race, ethnicity and genetics, using insights from science and technology studies (STS) about processes of classification and standardization. We examine how leading biomedical science journals attempted to standardize th…
Written work
Doing accountability
Research ethics committees (RECs) are charged with adjudicating the ethical status of research projects, and determining the conditions necessary for such projects to proceed. Both because of their position in the research process and because of the controversial nature of ethical judgements, RECs' views and decisions need to be accountable. In this paper we use techniques of discourse analysis to show how REC decision letters 'do' accountability…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Social Workers at the Frontline
Social workers are facing increasingly complex client needs during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Because of the social distancing requirements of the pandemic, social workers have undergone transformative changes in practice with the rapid uptake of virtual technologies. The objective of our study was to understand the experiences of social workers during the first-wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a cross-section…
Altruism and participation in longitudinal health research? Insights from the Whitehall II Study
What is clinical effectiveness
Experience of human rights violations and subsequent mental disorders - A study following the war in the Balkans
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
Clinical Social Work Practice in Canada
Purpose: The most common form of social work (SW) practice in Canada is clinical which requires specialized knowledge and advanced clinical skills. The SW profession is more than 100 years old, but regulation is new to Canada and presently most jurisdictions have regulatory bodies to advance safe, competent, and ethical practices. Regulatory bodies establish admission requirements, standards of practice, ethical guidelines, supervision, continuin…
Integrating Social Work Into Interprofessional Education
The University of Toronto Interprofessional Education Curriculum (IPE) is an exemplar of advancing interprofessional education with a focus on preparing students for practice in healthcare settings. Our paper begins with a detailed overview of the University of Toronto's IPE program including the range of participating faculties, an overview of the curriculum including examples of learning activities, and the social work specific expectations tha…
Social Science Gets the Ethics Treatment
The paper examines the current provision for ethical review within the social sciences and considers how existent structures could be improved to protect human research subjects in accordance with international guidelines and regulation. This paper examines the current regulation of social science in the form of professional guidelines, peer review, funding application procedures and steering/advisory groups, and compares these processes with the…
Kant, Mill, Durkheim? Trust and autonomy in bioethics and politics
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Solidarity, Society and the Welfare State in the United Kingdom
False Hopes
What is clinical effectiveness
Social Science Gets the Ethics Treatment
The paper examines the current provision for ethical review within the social sciences and considers how existent structures could be improved to protect human research subjects in accordance with international guidelines and regulation. This paper examines the current regulation of social science in the form of professional guidelines, peer review, funding application procedures and steering/advisory groups, and compares these processes with the…
What did you think about that?’ Researching children's perceptions of participation in a longitudinal genetic epidemiological study
This paper examines how empirical study of children's involvement in non‐therapeutic health research can contribute to our understanding of the significance of the research to the children themselves. This raises issues that are pertinent to, and which will guide policy relating to ethical protection in research. The paper begins with a brief review of the literature considering how children perceive research in general, and non‐therapeutic healt…
Kant, Mill, Durkheim? Trust and autonomy in bioethics and politics
Counterpoint
In this article the author examines some of the political and philosophical strategies used in Gregor Wolbring's discussion (this issue) of disability rights approaches to bioethics, concentrating on his argument concerning the similarity of feminist and disability rights approaches to preimplantation and prenatal selection techniques. Altough supportive of Wolbring's general approach, the author suggests that there are some analytical problems i…
Bioethics and conflicts of interest
Access to Essential Medicines
Medicines that are vital for the saving and preserving of life in conditions of public health emergency or endemic serious disease are known as essential medicines. In many developing world settings such medicines may be unavailable, or unaffordably expensive for the majority of those in need of them. Furthermore, for many serious diseases (such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis) these essential medicines are protected by patents that permit the paten…
Quality of Life as the Basis of Health Care Resource Allocation
A medical ethicist outlines the merits and limitations of using quality-adjusted life years measurements in health care decision making. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Conducting research with children
This paper addresses the issue of child protection protocols within research conducted with children. Based partly on primary data this paper raises questions about the role of ethics committees in defining the limits of confidentiality in relation to child protection protocols within research, the perceptions of both children and parents about the meanings of confidentiality and notions of ‘harm’, and the role of the researcher in relation to le…
Can Science Alone Improve the Measurement and Communication of Race and Ethnicity in Genetic Research? Exploring the Strategies Proposed by Nature Genetics
Getting what you pay for
Genetic databases and pharmacogenetics
Hiv Vaccine Trials
Hiv Vaccine Trials
Doing the Best We Can
"Beyond "misunderstanding
Written work
Virtual community consultation? Using the literature and weblogs to link community perspectives and health technology assessment
Background Community views, expressed in social impact assessments and collected through community consultation, should play an important role in health technology assessment (HTA). Yet HTA methodologists have been slow to include outcomes of these forms of inquiry in analyses, in part because collecting community views is time‐consuming and resource intensive. Objective To explore how community views sourced from published studies, grey literatu…
Inclusion
Steven Epstein, Inclusion: The politics of difference in medical research, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, reviewed by Richard E. Ashcroft
The Standardization of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Science Editorials and UK Biobanks
As the search for human genetic variation has become a priority for biomedical science, debates have resurfaced about the use of race and ethnicity as scientific classifications. In this paper we consider the relationship between race, ethnicity and genetics, using insights from science and technology studies (STS) about processes of classification and standardization. We examine how leading biomedical science journals attempted to standardize th…
Doing accountability
Research ethics committees (RECs) are charged with adjudicating the ethical status of research projects, and determining the conditions necessary for such projects to proceed. Both because of their position in the research process and because of the controversial nature of ethical judgements, RECs' views and decisions need to be accountable. In this paper we use techniques of discourse analysis to show how REC decision letters 'do' accountability…
Health Inequities
Social work practice in health is shaped by underlying paradigms.To effectively target health inequities, practitioners need to consider appropriate paradigms. In this exploration of how six health paradigms shape theory and practice, the two health paradigms that most attended to health inequalities are social determinants of health and political economy. The article undertakes a critical review of the social determinants of health paradigm and …
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