Sarah Maiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 148107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Maiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Maiter |
| SIGNATURE | MAITER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1468-0281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Navigating “Safety” in a Pandemic: A Critical Examination of Ontario Child Welfare Safety Interventions for Newcomer Parents and Other Families During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigated circumstances surrounding the impact of COVID-19 on child protection investigations, particularly those affecting newcomer parents in Ontario, Canada. Recognizing that the pandemic inflicted substantial socioeconomic disadvantage on some people, the purpose of the study was to use an intersectional lens to examine challenges and solutions found by child welfare agencies when working with families. Insights for policy and p…
Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Technology: Experiences of Child Welfare Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This qualitative study explores the experiences of child welfare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic through virtual interviews, focusing on the challenges and adaptations in their work and support systems. Participants reported significant difficulties in maintaining a healthy work–life balance, heightened stress, anxiety, and increased workloads due to sick leaves and burnout. This study highlights the dual role of technology as both a stresso…
Newcomer Families with Child Welfare Involvements Facing Racism During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Insights from Child Welfare Workers and Managers
Connecting children and youth with their families during Covid-19: Perspectives of Child Welfare Workers and Foster Parents
We explore approaches, challenges, solutions, and recommendations offered by child welfare workers in Canada on remote communication with children/youth regarding safety and on managing parent–child access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirty-seven child welfare workers and foster care providers participated in this survey. About 94% of the workers used virtual video communication alongside other modalities. Privacy concerns were common in childr…
Child Welfare Service Adaptations during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Balancing Worker Safety and Doing Essential Work
Broadening the ‘Survivor Capsule’ of Intimate Partner Violence Services
This study responds to a need to expand current understandings of the ways in which counselling services for intimate partner violence (IPV) address trauma. From the perspectives of fifteen women who accessed IPV counselling services in Ontario, Canada, this feminist intersectional study used constructivist grounded theory methods to explore how services help women heal from trauma. Specifically, the study aimed to understand how counselling serv…
Burdens felt by Child Protection Workers Serving Immigrant Families with Limited English Proficiency: The Need for Sustained Support
Researching Racism: The Colour of Face Value, Challenges and Opportunities
Researchers and practitioners in social work value qualitative research for the opportunity to engage with issues of social justice including relations of power, and attention to the political, historical and social relations of difference. Interview narratives are all too often accepted at face value as authentic, true voice, representing experience without analysis of what is being represented politically. An analysis of the relations and opera…
In whose words? Struggles and strategies of service providers working with immigrant clients with limited language abilities in the violence against women sector and child protection services
Newcomer and immigrant clients with limited language abilities face communication barriers that can compromise their capacity to make informed decisions about themselves and their children with serious implications for their families. These clients most likely had high proficiency of language in their country of origin but are learning the language of the new host country. Using a phenomenological design to elicit descriptions from and interpret …
Trial and error: Attending to language barriers in child welfare service provision from the perspective of frontline workers
This paper reports on a qualitative study that used focus groups to gather data from the perspective of child protection workers on their experiences in providing services to clients with limited English proficiency ( LEP ). The goals of the study were to understand processes of relationship building and service provision that could contribute to improved practice. Focus groups are ideal in obtaining data on how a group deals with particular situ…
Catching the shimmers of the social: From the Limits of Reflexivity to Methodological Creativity
With the questioning of the neutral objective researcher, reflexivity has jumped to the forefront of qualitative research, thus positioning the embodied researcher within the research process. In its power to reveal tacit embodied social structures, reflexivity is touted as the hallmark of methodological validation while also being described as a messy process, particularly in participatory research. In this article, we use illustrative examples …
Coping Strategies of Older Rural Bangladeshi Women With Health Problems
In this study we explore the strategies used by older women to cope with their ill health, in order to provide insight into how they might be drawn to use modern health services. We used qualitative methods to collect data from 17 older women living in Bibirchar Union, Sherpur District, Bangladesh. Participants reported that they utilized both emotion-focused and problem-focused strategies, and that many of these were faith-based. Health policyma…
Rethinking youth violence and healing
In a world where violence and healing are posited as oppositional, critical youth studies, youth work practitioners, and human rights and social justice activists often locate themselves on the healing side of the divide, shedding light on the suffering and alleviating the pain of the violence. However, current theoretical developments prompt us to critically engage this oppositional binary constructed between violence and healing. We have come t…
Doing participatory qualitative research: Development of a Shared Critical Consciousness With Racial Minority Research Advisory Group Members
Partnership and principles of self-determination, equity, and social justice are keys to community-based participatory research that aims to break down barriers between the researchers and researched. Because community partners are valued as equal contributors to the research project, research advisory groups consisted of members of the community researched are essential to this approach. We discuss the challenges that arose in our first meeting …
South Asian immigrants' experience of child protection services: Are we recognizing strengths and resilience
Ethno‐racial minority families who come in contact with child protection services face unique challenges that include different ideas about appropriate child rearing practices, possibly different definitions of child maltreatment, the possibility of racial biases and service provision that does not address their particular needs. Ethno‐racial minority immigrants encounter additional barriers to services associated with the challenges of settlemen…
From social liminality to cultural negotiation: Transformative processes in immigrant mental wellbeing
The underlying psychosocial processes that produce immigrant mental wellbeing are understudied in anthropology and medicine. This paper provides insights into these processes by describing culturally diverse immigrants' perceptions of mental health and adaptation strategies. Qualitative data were collected from 21 focus groups as part of a large, multidisciplinary, participatory action research project about mental health with five ethnolinguisti…
Developing Theory From Complexity: Reflections on a Collaborative Mixed Method Participatory Action Research Study
Research studies are increasingly complex: They draw on multiple methods to gather data, generate both qualitative and quantitative data, and frequently represent the perspectives of more than one stakeholder. The teams that generate them are increasingly multidisciplinary. A commitment to engaging community members in the research process often adds a further layer of complexity. How to approach a synthesizing analysis of these multiple and vari…
Fatherhood and Culture: Moving Beyond Stereotypical Understandings
Given the increasing diversity of Western nations, as social workers engage with increasingly diverse families, they need to expand on their contextual understanding of the culturally diverse individuals and families they encounter. This article explores previous understandings of fatherhood in diverse cultural groups and examines recent studies that challenge popular stereotypes of fathers from a variety of ethnicities. Although cross-cultural c…
Reciprocity: An ethic for community-based participatory action research
Ethical issues have been of ongoing interest in discussions of community-based participatory action research (CBPAR). In this article we suggest that the notion of reciprocity — defined as an ongoing process of exchange with the aim of establishing and maintaining equality between parties — can provide a guide to the ethical practice of CBPAR. Through sharing our experiences with a CBPAR project focused on mental health services and supports in s…
Effective intervention in child protective services: Learning from parents
Achieving High Touch in High Tech: A Constructivist, Emotionally-Oriented Model of Web-Based Instruction
This paper explores how human service learners subjectively experience a web-based approach to learning. The course was a new iteration of an earlier course on enhancing cultural competency and involved a sample size of 72 participants. A course on cultural competency can be a difficult one to deliver via a web-based medium given the potentially powerful emotions and personal issues that it might elicit. Developing a climate of safety to encourag…
Community and informal social support for recipients of child protective services
Understanding Context and Culture in the Parenting Approaches of Immigrant South Asian Mothers
This qualitative study of the parenting approaches of immigrant South Asian Canadian mothers found that character formation and identity formation were the mothers' key goals of parenting. Internalized cultural values, beliefs, and norms and external factors related to their social context and environment, such as collectivism, dual socialization, and environmental stress, guided the mothers' approaches to parenting. Social service providers need…
Reciprocity: An ethic for community-based participatory action research
Ethical issues have been of ongoing interest in discussions of community-based participatory action research (CBPAR). In this article we suggest that the notion of reciprocity — defined as an ongoing process of exchange with the aim of establishing and maintaining equality between parties — can provide a guide to the ethical practice of CBPAR. Through sharing our experiences with a CBPAR project focused on mental health services and supports in s…
Understanding Context and Culture in the Parenting Approaches of Immigrant South Asian Mothers
This qualitative study of the parenting approaches of immigrant South Asian Canadian mothers found that character formation and identity formation were the mothers' key goals of parenting. Internalized cultural values, beliefs, and norms and external factors related to their social context and environment, such as collectivism, dual socialization, and environmental stress, guided the mothers' approaches to parenting. Social service providers need…
Catching the shimmers of the social: From the Limits of Reflexivity to Methodological Creativity
With the questioning of the neutral objective researcher, reflexivity has jumped to the forefront of qualitative research, thus positioning the embodied researcher within the research process. In its power to reveal tacit embodied social structures, reflexivity is touted as the hallmark of methodological validation while also being described as a messy process, particularly in participatory research. In this article, we use illustrative examples …
Doing participatory qualitative research: Development of a Shared Critical Consciousness With Racial Minority Research Advisory Group Members
Partnership and principles of self-determination, equity, and social justice are keys to community-based participatory research that aims to break down barriers between the researchers and researched. Because community partners are valued as equal contributors to the research project, research advisory groups consisted of members of the community researched are essential to this approach. We discuss the challenges that arose in our first meeting …
South Asian immigrants' experience of child protection services: Are we recognizing strengths and resilience
Ethno‐racial minority families who come in contact with child protection services face unique challenges that include different ideas about appropriate child rearing practices, possibly different definitions of child maltreatment, the possibility of racial biases and service provision that does not address their particular needs. Ethno‐racial minority immigrants encounter additional barriers to services associated with the challenges of settlemen…
Effective intervention in child protective services: Learning from parents
Trial and error: Attending to language barriers in child welfare service provision from the perspective of frontline workers
This paper reports on a qualitative study that used focus groups to gather data from the perspective of child protection workers on their experiences in providing services to clients with limited English proficiency ( LEP ). The goals of the study were to understand processes of relationship building and service provision that could contribute to improved practice. Focus groups are ideal in obtaining data on how a group deals with particular situ…
From social liminality to cultural negotiation: Transformative processes in immigrant mental wellbeing
The underlying psychosocial processes that produce immigrant mental wellbeing are understudied in anthropology and medicine. This paper provides insights into these processes by describing culturally diverse immigrants' perceptions of mental health and adaptation strategies. Qualitative data were collected from 21 focus groups as part of a large, multidisciplinary, participatory action research project about mental health with five ethnolinguisti…
Community and informal social support for recipients of child protective services
Fatherhood and Culture: Moving Beyond Stereotypical Understandings
Given the increasing diversity of Western nations, as social workers engage with increasingly diverse families, they need to expand on their contextual understanding of the culturally diverse individuals and families they encounter. This article explores previous understandings of fatherhood in diverse cultural groups and examines recent studies that challenge popular stereotypes of fathers from a variety of ethnicities. Although cross-cultural c…
In whose words? Struggles and strategies of service providers working with immigrant clients with limited language abilities in the violence against women sector and child protection services
Newcomer and immigrant clients with limited language abilities face communication barriers that can compromise their capacity to make informed decisions about themselves and their children with serious implications for their families. These clients most likely had high proficiency of language in their country of origin but are learning the language of the new host country. Using a phenomenological design to elicit descriptions from and interpret …
Rethinking youth violence and healing
In a world where violence and healing are posited as oppositional, critical youth studies, youth work practitioners, and human rights and social justice activists often locate themselves on the healing side of the divide, shedding light on the suffering and alleviating the pain of the violence. However, current theoretical developments prompt us to critically engage this oppositional binary constructed between violence and healing. We have come t…
Connecting children and youth with their families during Covid-19: Perspectives of Child Welfare Workers and Foster Parents
We explore approaches, challenges, solutions, and recommendations offered by child welfare workers in Canada on remote communication with children/youth regarding safety and on managing parent–child access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirty-seven child welfare workers and foster care providers participated in this survey. About 94% of the workers used virtual video communication alongside other modalities. Privacy concerns were common in childr…
Researching Racism: The Colour of Face Value, Challenges and Opportunities
Researchers and practitioners in social work value qualitative research for the opportunity to engage with issues of social justice including relations of power, and attention to the political, historical and social relations of difference. Interview narratives are all too often accepted at face value as authentic, true voice, representing experience without analysis of what is being represented politically. An analysis of the relations and opera…
Understanding Context and Culture in the Parenting Approaches of Immigrant South Asian Mothers
This qualitative study of the parenting approaches of immigrant South Asian Canadian mothers found that character formation and identity formation were the mothers' key goals of parenting. Internalized cultural values, beliefs, and norms and external factors related to their social context and environment, such as collectivism, dual socialization, and environmental stress, guided the mothers' approaches to parenting. Social service providers need…
Achieving High Touch in High Tech: A Constructivist, Emotionally-Oriented Model of Web-Based Instruction
This paper explores how human service learners subjectively experience a web-based approach to learning. The course was a new iteration of an earlier course on enhancing cultural competency and involved a sample size of 72 participants. A course on cultural competency can be a difficult one to deliver via a web-based medium given the potentially powerful emotions and personal issues that it might elicit. Developing a climate of safety to encourag…
Community and informal social support for recipients of child protective services
Effective intervention in child protective services: Learning from parents
Developing Theory From Complexity: Reflections on a Collaborative Mixed Method Participatory Action Research Study
Research studies are increasingly complex: They draw on multiple methods to gather data, generate both qualitative and quantitative data, and frequently represent the perspectives of more than one stakeholder. The teams that generate them are increasingly multidisciplinary. A commitment to engaging community members in the research process often adds a further layer of complexity. How to approach a synthesizing analysis of these multiple and vari…
Fatherhood and Culture: Moving Beyond Stereotypical Understandings
Given the increasing diversity of Western nations, as social workers engage with increasingly diverse families, they need to expand on their contextual understanding of the culturally diverse individuals and families they encounter. This article explores previous understandings of fatherhood in diverse cultural groups and examines recent studies that challenge popular stereotypes of fathers from a variety of ethnicities. Although cross-cultural c…
Reciprocity: An ethic for community-based participatory action research
Ethical issues have been of ongoing interest in discussions of community-based participatory action research (CBPAR). In this article we suggest that the notion of reciprocity — defined as an ongoing process of exchange with the aim of establishing and maintaining equality between parties — can provide a guide to the ethical practice of CBPAR. Through sharing our experiences with a CBPAR project focused on mental health services and supports in s…
From social liminality to cultural negotiation: Transformative processes in immigrant mental wellbeing
The underlying psychosocial processes that produce immigrant mental wellbeing are understudied in anthropology and medicine. This paper provides insights into these processes by describing culturally diverse immigrants' perceptions of mental health and adaptation strategies. Qualitative data were collected from 21 focus groups as part of a large, multidisciplinary, participatory action research project about mental health with five ethnolinguisti…
South Asian immigrants' experience of child protection services: Are we recognizing strengths and resilience
Ethno‐racial minority families who come in contact with child protection services face unique challenges that include different ideas about appropriate child rearing practices, possibly different definitions of child maltreatment, the possibility of racial biases and service provision that does not address their particular needs. Ethno‐racial minority immigrants encounter additional barriers to services associated with the challenges of settlemen…
Coping Strategies of Older Rural Bangladeshi Women With Health Problems
In this study we explore the strategies used by older women to cope with their ill health, in order to provide insight into how they might be drawn to use modern health services. We used qualitative methods to collect data from 17 older women living in Bibirchar Union, Sherpur District, Bangladesh. Participants reported that they utilized both emotion-focused and problem-focused strategies, and that many of these were faith-based. Health policyma…
Rethinking youth violence and healing
In a world where violence and healing are posited as oppositional, critical youth studies, youth work practitioners, and human rights and social justice activists often locate themselves on the healing side of the divide, shedding light on the suffering and alleviating the pain of the violence. However, current theoretical developments prompt us to critically engage this oppositional binary constructed between violence and healing. We have come t…
Doing participatory qualitative research: Development of a Shared Critical Consciousness With Racial Minority Research Advisory Group Members
Partnership and principles of self-determination, equity, and social justice are keys to community-based participatory research that aims to break down barriers between the researchers and researched. Because community partners are valued as equal contributors to the research project, research advisory groups consisted of members of the community researched are essential to this approach. We discuss the challenges that arose in our first meeting …
Trial and error: Attending to language barriers in child welfare service provision from the perspective of frontline workers
This paper reports on a qualitative study that used focus groups to gather data from the perspective of child protection workers on their experiences in providing services to clients with limited English proficiency ( LEP ). The goals of the study were to understand processes of relationship building and service provision that could contribute to improved practice. Focus groups are ideal in obtaining data on how a group deals with particular situ…
Catching the shimmers of the social: From the Limits of Reflexivity to Methodological Creativity
With the questioning of the neutral objective researcher, reflexivity has jumped to the forefront of qualitative research, thus positioning the embodied researcher within the research process. In its power to reveal tacit embodied social structures, reflexivity is touted as the hallmark of methodological validation while also being described as a messy process, particularly in participatory research. In this article, we use illustrative examples …
In whose words? Struggles and strategies of service providers working with immigrant clients with limited language abilities in the violence against women sector and child protection services
Newcomer and immigrant clients with limited language abilities face communication barriers that can compromise their capacity to make informed decisions about themselves and their children with serious implications for their families. These clients most likely had high proficiency of language in their country of origin but are learning the language of the new host country. Using a phenomenological design to elicit descriptions from and interpret …
Researching Racism: The Colour of Face Value, Challenges and Opportunities
Researchers and practitioners in social work value qualitative research for the opportunity to engage with issues of social justice including relations of power, and attention to the political, historical and social relations of difference. Interview narratives are all too often accepted at face value as authentic, true voice, representing experience without analysis of what is being represented politically. An analysis of the relations and opera…
Burdens felt by Child Protection Workers Serving Immigrant Families with Limited English Proficiency: The Need for Sustained Support
Broadening the ‘Survivor Capsule’ of Intimate Partner Violence Services
This study responds to a need to expand current understandings of the ways in which counselling services for intimate partner violence (IPV) address trauma. From the perspectives of fifteen women who accessed IPV counselling services in Ontario, Canada, this feminist intersectional study used constructivist grounded theory methods to explore how services help women heal from trauma. Specifically, the study aimed to understand how counselling serv…
Child Welfare Service Adaptations during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Balancing Worker Safety and Doing Essential Work
Navigating “Safety” in a Pandemic: A Critical Examination of Ontario Child Welfare Safety Interventions for Newcomer Parents and Other Families During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigated circumstances surrounding the impact of COVID-19 on child protection investigations, particularly those affecting newcomer parents in Ontario, Canada. Recognizing that the pandemic inflicted substantial socioeconomic disadvantage on some people, the purpose of the study was to use an intersectional lens to examine challenges and solutions found by child welfare agencies when working with families. Insights for policy and p…
Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Technology: Experiences of Child Welfare Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This qualitative study explores the experiences of child welfare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic through virtual interviews, focusing on the challenges and adaptations in their work and support systems. Participants reported significant difficulties in maintaining a healthy work–life balance, heightened stress, anxiety, and increased workloads due to sick leaves and burnout. This study highlights the dual role of technology as both a stresso…
Newcomer Families with Child Welfare Involvements Facing Racism During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Insights from Child Welfare Workers and Managers
Connecting children and youth with their families during Covid-19: Perspectives of Child Welfare Workers and Foster Parents
We explore approaches, challenges, solutions, and recommendations offered by child welfare workers in Canada on remote communication with children/youth regarding safety and on managing parent–child access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirty-seven child welfare workers and foster care providers participated in this survey. About 94% of the workers used virtual video communication alongside other modalities. Privacy concerns were common in childr…
Psychology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (7 works) · Nursing (7 works)