Gerald Nelson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 144447 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gerald Nelson |
| PRENOMES | Gerald |
| SOBRENOME | Nelson |
| ASSINATURA | NELSON G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6626-2172 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 104 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 555 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Bundling measures for food systems transformation
Court-mandates and parent training
Predictors of housing instability and stability among Housing First participants
This study examined the characteristics of people who experienced housing instability and stability after 24 months of being enrolled in Housing First (HF). A companion study addresses the same objective using qualitative methods. A sequential logistic regression was conducted to determine predictors of unstable and stable housing at 24 months of enrollment in HF in a randomized trial. We applied the Gelberg-Andersen. Behavioral Model for Vulnera…
Narratives of people with serious mental illness in Housing First
There has been little previous research that has examined factors related to housing stability and instability among Housing First (HF) tenants. Qualitative research was used to determine themes related to housing stability and instability for people with mental illness participating in a HF program implemented in five Canadian cities. Data were gathered for all participants who completed qualitative interviews at baseline and an 18-month follow-…
Females and Housing First
The main objective of this research was to qualitatively examine the impacts of Housing First (HF) specifically on those participants who identified themselves as female in response to question asking what their gender was. The data analyzed are from a larger, muti‐site, randomized controlled trial. χ 2 analysis was used to compare the life changes (coded as positive, neutral, or negative) experienced by 64 females (42 HF and 22 TAU). An in‐depth…
Waterloo Better Beginnings as a Transformative Prevention Project
Better Beginnings Waterloo (BBW) is an ecological, community-driven, prevention program for children aged 4-8 and their families. BBW was implemented in two low-income communities with high percentages of visible minorities. Data on Grade 1-2 children and their parents (the baseline comparison group) were gathered through parent interviews ( n = 34) and teacher reports ( n = 68) in 2015, prior to BBW programs, and in the period 2018-2019, the sam…
Indigenous and non‐Indigenous parents separated from their children and experiencing homelessness and mental illness in Canada
The purpose of this study is to examine the parent-child experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers and fathers experiencing homelessness, mental illness, and separation from their children. A qualitative thematic analysis of baseline and 18-month follow-up narrative interviews was used to compare 12 mothers (n = 8 Indigenous and n = 4 nonindigenous) with 24 fathers (n = 13 Indigenous and n = 11 non-Indigenous). First, it was found that…
Systems change in the context of an initiative to scale up Housing First in Canada
In this study, we examine changes in the homeless‐serving system in the context of a training and technical assistance initiative to scale up Housing First (HF) in 6 Canadian communities. Based on qualitative data from focus groups and individual interviews with key stakeholders (k = 7, n = 35) and field notes gathered over a 3‐year period (n = 146), we found 2 main system changes: (a) changes in the capacity of the service delivery system at mul…
An Introduction to English Grammar
An Introduction to English Grammar provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of English grammar. The first part of the book (‘The Grammar’) provides a step-by-step introduction to the key topics in English grammar. The second part (‘The Applications’) shows how a grasp of these topics can be helpful in resolving usage problems, in developing a clear writing style, and in mastering punctuation and spelling. A whole chapter, ‘English in Use’…
Introduction to English Grammar
Introduction to English Grammar
Introduction to English Grammar
Understanding Systems Change in Early Implementation of Housing First in Canadian Communities
We present interim findings of a cross‐site case study of an initiative to expand Housing First ( HF ) in Canada through training and technical assistance ( TTA ). HF is an evidence‐based practice designed to end chronic homelessness for consumers of mental health services. We draw upon concepts from implementation science and systems change theory to examine how early implementation occurs within a system. Case studies examining HF early impleme…
Navigating Complex Implementation Contexts
Highlights Housing First can be implemented beyond demonstration sites without new resources. Using an intentional implementation strategy communities implemented high‐fidelity programs. One key implementation challenge was accessing affordable housing and housing subsidies. By helping develop housing specialists and reflective practice, the TTA facilitated effective implementation
The International Corpus of English project
This article begins by introducing the International Corpus of English project and proceeds to summarize the findings and outcomes of an extensive review by written questionnaire conducted by the present authors (Kirk & Nelson, 2017). Although critically concerned with practice hitherto, the review also discusses possible second generation components, and the issues in need of addressing before they should begin. The report contains many comments…
Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use
Background Information about the global structure of agriculture and nutrient production and its diversity is essential to improve present understanding of national food production patterns, agricultural livelihoods, and food chains, and their linkages to land use and their associated ecosystems services. Here we provide a plausible breakdown of global agricultural and nutrient production by farm size, and also study the associations between farm…
What Happens After the Demonstration Phase? The Sustainability of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First Programs for Homeless Persons with Mental Illness
This research examined the sustainability of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First ( HF ) programs for homeless persons with mental illness 2 years after the end of the demonstration phase of a large (more than 2000 participants enrolled), five‐site, randomized controlled trial. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 142 participants (key informants, HF staff, and persons with lived experience) to understand sustainability outcomes and fact…
A quasi‐experimental evaluation of rent assistance for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness
This study investigated the effectiveness of the addition of rent assistance to existing housing and support services in the Waterloo region of Ontario for people experiencing chronic homelessness. A nonequivalent comparison group design was used to compare the outcomes between (a) participants selected to receive rent assistance plus support services (n = 26) and (b) participants receiving support services only (n = 25). Participants were interv…
The ICE project and world Englishes
The articles in this symposium were first presented at a workshop in Trier, Germany, in 2015. The workshop title was 'The future of the International Corpus of English (ICE): New challenges, new developments'. This introductory article looks back over the last twenty-five years of the ICE project, and considers some of the issues that have emerged in that period in relation to corpus compilation and the analysis of world Englishes. Among those is…
Youth Narratives on Community Experiences and Sense of Community and Their Relation to Participation in an Early Childhood Development Program
This comparative study examined how participation in an early childhood development (ECD) program, Better Beginnings, Better Futures, for children (ages 4-8) relates to sense of community (SOC) in later adolescence (ages 18-19). Youths' stories ( N = 96) about community experiences, collected by semistructured, open-ended interviews, were quantitatively coded for several narrative dimensions (specificity, positivity, prosocial content, and meanin…
Housing First for People with Severe Mental Illness Who are Homeless
OBJECTIVE: To provide a review of the extant research literature on Housing First (HF) for people with severe mental illness (SMI) who are homeless and to describe the findings of the recently completed At Home (AH)-Chez soi (CS) demonstration project. HF represents a paradigm shift in the delivery of community mental health services, whereby people with SMI who are homeless are supported through assertive community treatment or intensive case ma…
An Introduction to English Grammar
Collaboration and involvement of persons with lived experience in planning Canada's At Home/Chez Soi project
Planning the implementation of evidence-based mental health services entails commitment to both rigour and community relevance, which entails navigating the challenges of collaboration between professionals and community members in a planning environment which is neither 'top-down' nor 'bottom-up'. This research focused on collaboration among different stakeholders (e.g. researchers, service-providers, persons with lived experience [PWLE]) at fiv…
Response to Davies and Fuchs
Commentary to: Davies, Mark, and Robert Fuchs. 2015. "Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)". English World-Wide 36:1–28 (This issue). DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.01dav
Implementing Housing First Across Sites and Over Time
This article examines later fidelity and implementation of a five‐site pan‐Canadian Housing First research demonstration project. The average fidelity score across five Housing First domains and 10 programs was high in the first year of operation (3.47/4) and higher in the third year of operation (3.62/4). Qualitative interviews (36 key informant interviews and 17 focus groups) revealed that staff expertise, partnerships with other services, and …
Nothing About Me, Without Me”
Participatory action research with self‐help/mutual aid organizations for psychiatric consumer/survivors is reviewed. We begin by tracing the origins of and defining both participatory action research and self‐help/mutual aid. In so doing, the degree of correspondence between the assumptions/values of participatory action research and those of self‐help/mutual aid for psychiatric consumer/survivors is examined. We argue that participatory action …
The role of power and control in children's lives
The literature on powerlessness, empowerment and control tends to be adult‐centric and psycho‐centric. It is adult‐centric in that most studies deal with the experience of powerlessness in adults or interpret children's realities from an adult point of view. At the same time, the literature is quite psycho‐centric in that it focuses on the emotional and cognitive dimensions of powerlessness, to the relative neglect of social and political power. …
Building Value‐Based Partnerships
We propose a value‐based conceptualization of partnership, defining partnership as relationships between community psychologists, oppressed groups, and other stakeholders, which strive to achieve key community psychology values (caring, compassion, community, health, self‐determination, participation, power‐sharing, human diversity, and social justice). These values guide partnership work related to the development of services or supports, coalit…
What is the irrigation potential for Africa? A combined biophysical and socioeconomic approach
Empowerment and mental health in community
This paper clarifies the concepts of empowerment and mental health and examines their inter‐ relationships in a qualitative study of psychiatric consumer/survivors participating in three innovative community mental health programmes. Focus group interviews with 59 stakeholders and in‐depth stories of six consumer/survivors served as the data base. We defined mental health as the development of choice, control, and community integration and the ac…
Poetry and Prose
This article discusses some of the possible advantages of a poetic representation of social experience through a selection of four poems based on the words and organized by the salience and time sequence "logic" of participants in a study of formerly homeless mentally ill men and women who are currently housed. The initial report was a qualitative evaluation of the perceptions of this sample of formerly homeless mentally ill people of the benefit…
Social network transactions of psychiatric patients
Stress and social support
The present research examined the burden experienced by the families of a mentally ill person and the relationship between this stress and social support. The participants were 56 parents of a schizophrenic person who were members of a self-help group for the families of psychiatric patients. Results indicated that low levels of burden were associated with small dense social networks, satisfaction with support received, satisfaction with the supp…
Pathways into homelessness
This qualitative study examined how homeless individuals with mental illness experience pathways into homelessness. Study participants were enrolled in the At Home/Chez Soi project, a Pan-Canadian Randomized Controlled Trial comparing the Housing First approach with Treatment as Usual for homeless individuals. This inquiry is grounded in social ecological perspective, which considers interactions between individual and structural factors. Finding…
Assumptions and Values of Community Health Psychology
There is a need to widen the practice of health psychologists to include the theories and methods of community psychology and an awareness of contemporary issues in community health. The aim of such a community health psychology would be both to deepen our understanding of the aetiology of health and illness in society and to develop strategies that will contribute to a reduction in human suffering and an improvement in quality of life. The aim o…
The relationship between long‐term psychiatric clients' psychological well‐being and their perceptions of housing and social support
This research tested hypotheses derived from motivation-hygiene theory that housing and social support would be differentially related to long-term psychiatric clients' Positive Affect and Negative Affect. The participants were 89 people between the ages of 18 and 65, who had been hospitalized for psychiatric problems at least twice and who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic, chronic depressive, or manic-depressive. Results indicated that the nu…
Implementing Housing First Across Sites and Over Time
This article examines later fidelity and implementation of a five‐site pan‐Canadian Housing First research demonstration project. The average fidelity score across five Housing First domains and 10 programs was high in the first year of operation (3.47/4) and higher in the third year of operation (3.62/4). Qualitative interviews (36 key informant interviews and 17 focus groups) revealed that staff expertise, partnerships with other services, and …
Building capacity in community health action research
Community-based action research has received increased attention in health research as an important vehicle for both knowledge creation and community capacity-building. This approach to research is value-driven, attuned to power issues, committed to stakeholder participation, and action-oriented. Efforts to build capacity within the health research community to engage collaboratively with communities in action research projects must be predicated…
The Relationship Between Housing Characteristics, Emotional Well-Being and the Personal Empowerment of Psychiatric Consumer/Survivors
Bringing politics and evidence together
Social networks, social support, personal empowerment, and the adaptation of psychiatric consumers/survivors
Response to Davies and Fuchs
Commentary to: Davies, Mark, and Robert Fuchs. 2015. "Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)". English World-Wide 36:1–28 (This issue). DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.01dav
Planning a Multi‐site, Complex Intervention for Homeless People with Mental Illness
This research focused on the relationships between a national team and five project sites across Canada in planning a complex, community intervention for homeless people with mental illness called At Home/Chez Soi, which is based on the Housing First model. The research addressed two questions: (a) what are the challenges in planning? and (b) what factors that helped or hindered moving project planning forward? Using qualitative methods, 149 nati…
Capturing system level activities and impacts of mental health consumer‐run organizations
Since the 1970s mental health consumer‐run organizations have come to offer not only mutual support, but they have also adopted agendas for broader social change. Despite an awareness of the need for system level efforts that create supportive environments for their members, there has been limited research demonstrating how their system level activities can be documented or their impacts evaluated. The purpose of this paper is to feature a method…
Understanding Systems Change in Early Implementation of Housing First in Canadian Communities
We present interim findings of a cross‐site case study of an initiative to expand Housing First ( HF ) in Canada through training and technical assistance ( TTA ). HF is an evidence‐based practice designed to end chronic homelessness for consumers of mental health services. We draw upon concepts from implementation science and systems change theory to examine how early implementation occurs within a system. Case studies examining HF early impleme…
Housing for People with Serious Mental Illness
This article contrasts values associated with the delivery of housing programs for people with serious mental illness with the typical topics pertaining to housing that are studied by researchers. Six values were identified through a search and content analysis of the literature on housing for people with serious mental illness. A second review of the literature was conducted to identify research on housing for this population. A comparison of fi…
A longitudinal study of mental health consumer/survivor initiatives
This article examines the outcomes of participation in mental health Consumer/Survivor Initiatives (CSIs) and identifies helpful qualities of CSIs through a longitudinal, qualitative study that involved in-depth interviews of people who experienced severe mental health challenges in Ontario, Canada. We used a nonequivalent control group design in which we compared active participants in CSIs ( n = 15) with nonactive participants ( n = 12) at base…
What Happens After the Demonstration Phase? The Sustainability of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First Programs for Homeless Persons with Mental Illness
This research examined the sustainability of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First ( HF ) programs for homeless persons with mental illness 2 years after the end of the demonstration phase of a large (more than 2000 participants enrolled), five‐site, randomized controlled trial. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 142 participants (key informants, HF staff, and persons with lived experience) to understand sustainability outcomes and fact…
Community Psychology and Transformative Policy Change in the Neo‐liberal Era
I present ideas about how community psychologists, as researcher‐activists, can influence public policy. I begin by describing the current neo‐liberal era, noting the immense obstacles it poses to progressive policy change. Next I contrast two approaches to understanding policy formation, evidence‐based policy and discursive policy analysis, and argue that transformative policy change can benefit from both approaches. I then propose three types o…
Housing for People with Serious Mental Illness
The evolution of housing approaches for people with serious mental illness is described and analyzed. A distinction is made between three different approaches to housing: (a) custodial, (b) supportive, and (c) supported. Research evidence is reviewed that suggests the promise of supported housing, but more research is needed that compares supported housing with different supportive housing approaches. It is argued that the current move to a suppo…
Changes of Heart
Resource Exchange
This paper describes a resource exchange program between two human service organizations: a public school board and a university. This case study illustrates the utility of the concept of resource exchange as a response to pressures for the effective management of limited human resources. With an emphasis on mutual goals, needs, and strengths, the resource exchange program expanded resources available to both organizations. For the public school …
A Survey of Graduate Education in Community Psychology in Canada
A national survey was conducted to determine current opportunities for graduate education in community psychology in Canada. The results show expanded offerings for academic and field work education in community psychology in the past decade. Also, faculty perceptions of the goals, activities, and adequacy of training in community psychology were obtained. Finally, similarities and differences between graduate education in community psychology in…
Coping with the Loss of Father
This research compared the social and emotional adjustment of women and children from single-parent families due to death or divorce within the past two years with that of a matched group of two-parent families. While the widows and divorcees did not differ significantly from the married women on measures of social and emotional adjustment, they did report more positive and negative life changes and had higher rates of help-seeking in the past tw…
Evaluation of a social support program for young unwed mothers
Stress and social support
The present research examined the burden experienced by the families of a mentally ill person and the relationship between this stress and social support. The participants were 56 parents of a schizophrenic person who were members of a self-help group for the families of psychiatric patients. Results indicated that low levels of burden were associated with small dense social networks, satisfaction with support received, satisfaction with the supp…
The relationship between dimensions of classroom and family environments and the self-concept, satisfaction, and achievement of grade 7 and 8 students
This study examined the relationships between dimensions of classroom and family environments and various aspects of the adaptation of grade 7 and 8 students. Classroom climates providing support and structure were consistently associated with high levels of student scholastic self-concept and satisfaction with teacher. Families with high degrees of parent-child interaction and climates providing support and structure were generally associated wi…
The relationship between long‐term psychiatric clients' psychological well‐being and their perceptions of housing and social support
This research tested hypotheses derived from motivation-hygiene theory that housing and social support would be differentially related to long-term psychiatric clients' Positive Affect and Negative Affect. The participants were 89 people between the ages of 18 and 65, who had been hospitalized for psychiatric problems at least twice and who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic, chronic depressive, or manic-depressive. Results indicated that the nu…
Evaluation of a social problem‐solving skills program for third‐ and fourth‐grade students
The effects of a social problem-solving (SPS) training program for entire classrooms of third- and fourth-grade children were examined in two studies. In the first study, experimental children showed significantly greater improvement in knowledge and performance of SPS skills than control children. However, both positive and negative effects of the intervention (varying by classroom) were found on measures of behavioral adjustment, self-efficacy,…
Life strains, coping, and emotional well‐being
The stress and coping paradigm was used as the framework for a longitudinal study of recently separated and married women. Data were gathered at three different interviews over a period of 18 months. Comparing the two groups of women, it was found that life strains in the areas of financial concerns and spouse relations were related to both income level and marital status, with low-income and separated women experiencing the highest levels of the…
The Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
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Women's life strains, social support, coping, and positive and negative affect
This research examined the relationships between life strains, social support, coping, and positive and negative affect among 90 women at three different interviews over an 18-month period. Predictions were derived from previous research and the two-factor theory of emotional well-being. Two-factor theory asserts that positive affect and negative affect are relatively independent dimensions and that they have distinctly different correlates. It w…
Social network interactions among mentally ill persons in community housing
Social network transactions of psychiatric patients
Risk, Resistance, and Self-Esteem
Children aged eight to 13 from mother custody families (n = 22) and two-percent families (n = 44) were compared on measures of risk (mothers' life strains), resistance (enacted support, support satisfaction, and problem-focused coping), and self-esteem (family, peer, scholastic, and general). A longitudinal design was used to gather data at three different times over an 18-month period. In making between group comparisons, income was used as a co…
An Evaluation of Supportive Housing
This paper reports the findings of an evaluation of supportive housing for people who have been hospitalized in psychiatric facilities. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to inquire into two key processes, social support and control in the residence, and two key outcomes, quality of life and personal growth. Interviews were conducted with 34 residents of small supportive housing programs, and staff of these settings also provided…
The development of a mental health coalition
Described the development of a local‐level mental health coalition to advocate for housing and community support programs for psychiatric consumer/survivors. Resource mobilization theory was used as a framework from which to view and understand the origins, goals, tactics, and outcomes of the coalition. Data were presented indicating that the coalition played a role in obtaining increased funding for housing and community support programs. Also, …
Emotional well-being of separated and married women
Separated and married women were studied longitudinally. Recently separated women reported more growth-oriented coping and positive life changes than did married women, but no significant differences were evident six years later. Life strains at early time intervals predicted emotional well-being at the last time interval, and coping served a stress-buffering function over time
Psychology and psychiatric survivors
Clause relationships in spoken and written English
There are opposing views on whether speech or writing is more complex syntactically. We investigated the complexity of clause relationships in a range of spoken and written text categories: spontaneous conversations, broadcast discussions, unscripted monologues, personal handwritten letters, academic writing, and non-academic writing. Conversations proved to be the most distinctive category. It had the highest percentage of simple clauses and the…
Women's Social Networks and Social Support Following Marital Separation
This research compared changes in the social networks and social support of 30 low-income single mothers who had been separated from their husbands for less than eight monlhs with 20 low- income manied women and 40 high-income manied women. All par- ticipants were interviewed three times over an 18-month period. The separated women reported smaller family netwotks (due to the absence of their husbands and their husbands' families) and more fluctu…
Psychiatric consumer/survivors' quality of life
In this research, we examined psychiatric consumer/survivors' quality of life using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Based on previous research and ecological/empowerment theory, we expected objective indicators of personal empowerment, social support (including negative network transactions), housing, and community integration to be related to consumer/survivors' perceptions of their subjective qudity of life. The results provided part…
Sidney GREENBAUM and Gerald Nelson
Social networks, social support, personal empowerment, and the adaptation of psychiatric consumers/survivors
Psychology (79 obras) · Medicine (54 obras) · Sociology (43 obras) · Psychiatry (40 obras) · Community Health and Development (38 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (36 obras) · Political science (36 obras) · Mental health (34 obras) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (26 obras) · Social Psychology (25 obras)