Sarah Wakefield
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Wakefield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Wakefield |
| SIGNATURE | WAKEFIELD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6246-5749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
“Just Listen … Really Listen”: Expectations of Youth When Disclosing Mental Health Concerns with Parents
Adolescence and emerging adulthood are developmental periods characterized by increased prevalence of mental health (MH) issues. Disclosure of MH issues to parents or other adults is important for youth to gain support and access professional MH care, but many youth do not disclose MH issues due to a myriad of reasons. In this study, we conducted five focus groups (N = 33) with adolescents and emerging adults to better understand their perception…
Characterizing Measurement-Based Care in the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN)
Integration of measurement-based care (MBC) into clinical practice has shown promise in improving treatment outcomes for depression. Yet, without a gold standard measure of MBC, assessing fidelity to the MBC model across various clinical settings is difficult. A central goal of the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN) was to characterize MBC across the state of Texas through the development of a standardized tool to asse…
Shifting From Best Practice to Standard Practice: Implementing Measurement-Based Care in Health Systems
Integration of Measurement-Based Care for Youth Depression and Suicidality Using VitalSign6
Depression and suicidality are prevalent in youth and are associated with a range of negative outcomes. The current study aimed to evaluate a measurement-based care (MBC) software (VitalSign 6 ) tool to improve the screening and treatment of depression and suicidality in youth aged 8-17 years within a rural, underserved population. To assess for depression and suicidality, the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 was administered as an initial screen, …
Effectiveness of an 8-week Curriculum in Changing Medical Student Self-assessment of Knowledge and Confidence toward Sex Trafficking
Although trafficked persons frequently present to healthcare systems, physicians and physician trainees often lack training on identification and care of this patient population. Currently, there is no mandatory or standard training on human trafficking during one’s medical education. A pilot 8-week curriculum focusing on sex trafficking, designed and implemented at a regional medical school, aims to provide medical students with the appropriate …
Is “including them” enough? How narratives of race and class shape participation in a resident-led neighbourhood revitalization initiative
Food security and health in Canada: Imaginaries, exclusions and possibilities
In recent years, food crises have heightened awareness of food security vulnerabilities even in rich nations. However, the extent to which various issues related to food security (such as consistent access to nutritious food in conditions which maintain human dignity) have been incorporated into Canadian policy and practice is not well documented. This article draws on a number of sources—including policy documents and media reports—to explore ho…
Social change or business as usual at city hall? Examining an urban municipal government's response to neighbourhood-level health inequities
Understanding contemporary networks of environmental and social change: Complex assemblages within Canada's 'food movement
Emerging forms of social mobilisation are explored, using food initiatives in Canada as an example. Food networks are particularly interesting as a case study: they have holistic goals that include both environmental and social concerns, the number and scope of food initiatives have rapidly increased, and there has recently been a high level of public engagement around food issues. Networks among alternative food initiatives (AFIs) are investigat…
Sweet Charity , revisited: Organizational responses to food insecurity in Hamilton and Toronto, Canada
In the last two decades, emergency food provision (e.g., food banks, meal programmes) has become an increasingly institutionalized form of hunger relief. Critiques of the emergency food system, as articulated by Poppendieck’s 1998 book Sweet Charity?, suggest that such programmes are unable to cope with growing hunger in a meaningful, stable, efficient, or culturally appropriate way, and that they may facilitate government retrenchment. Meanwhile…
Participation”, White Privilege and Environmental Justice: Understanding Environmentalism Among Hispanics in Toronto
The environmental justice movement has highlighted not only the unequal distribution of environmental hazards across lines of race and class, but also the white, middle‐class nature of some environmentalisms, and broader patterns of marginalization underlying people's opportunities to participate or not. There is a significant body of work discussing Hispanic environmental justice activism in the US, but not in Canada. This paper draws on intervi…
A drop of water in the pool’: Information and engagement of linguistic communities around a municipal pesticide bylaw to protect the public's health
The Multicultural Yard Health and Environment Project (MYHEP) used Toronto's Pesticide Bylaw roll-out process to examine how culturally specific perceptions and practices might influence the relevance of municipal public health information and community engagement strategies and the effectiveness of health protection initiatives. In Canada, and particularly in Toronto, such information is needed for governments to effectively engage with increasi…
Linking Health Inequality and Environmental Justice: Articulating a Precautionary Framework for Research and Action
This article draws together three issues—the environment, health, and (in)justice—with the overall purpose of articulating an agenda for policy and research that works towards improved justice and sustainability in the environmental health arena. Considerable research in the United States and elsewhere has shown that both environmental exposures and poor health are more prevalent in populations that are marginalized by race and social class (typi…
Edible backyards: A qualitative study of household food growing and its contributions to food security
‘Tales of mind over cancer’: Cancer risk and prevention in the Canadian print media
This paper investigates coverage of cancer in three Canadian newspapers in order to explore how the print media presents issues related to cancer risk and prevention. Six months of newspaper coverage was coded and analysed quantitatively to identify trends in coverage. A small subset of these articles was then analysed qualitatively to identify latent and underlying messages. Results from the analysis suggest that coverage emphasised risk managem…
Growing urban health: Community gardening in South-East Toronto
This article describes results from an investigation of the health impacts of community gardening, using Toronto, Ontario as a case study. According to community members and local service organizations, these gardens have a number of positive health benefits. However, few studies have explicitly focused on the health impacts of community gardens, and many of those did not ask community gardeners directly about their experiences in community garde…
Great expectations: Waterfront redevelopment and the Hamilton Harbour Waterfront Trail
Reflective Action in the Academy: Exploring Praxis in Critical Geography using a “Food Movement” Case Study
One of the key components of critical geography is praxis—defined here as the melding of theory/reflection and practice/action as part of a conscious struggle to transform the world. Put simply, praxis is giving life to ideas about the way the world is—and could be—by acting on one's convictions in daily (work and home) life. Praxis can thus take many forms, and can occur both within and outside the academy. This paper examines how research and p…
Social capital, environmental health and collective action: A Hamilton, Ontario case study
This article explores the relationships among environmental health, social capital and collective action in the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Survey results from 512 households are used to document intra‐urban variation in levels of social capital (defined as norms, networks and trust) and collective action in the context of environmental health issues, and specifically air quality. Despite real differences between areas in terms …
Healing in places of decline: (Re)imagining everyday landscapes in Hamilton, Ontario
Section II: Poster Sessions
African Americans experience the greatest amount of tobacco related health disparities. Recent tobacco control programs have not closed the gap in disparities for African Americans. This poster see~s to pr~vide a theoretical framework for addressing the health inequities in tobacco among African Americans usmg the work of critical race theorists Richard Delgado and Kimberlie Crenshaw. Critical race theory has been used predominately in the legal …
Who you know, where you live: Social Capital, Neighbourhood and Health
Family, friend or foe? Critical reflections on the relevance and role of social capital in health promotion and community development
Environmental risk and (re)action: Air quality, health, and civic involvement in an urban industrial neighbourhood
Environmental risk perception and well-being: Effects of the landfill siting process in two southern Ontario communities
Family, friend or foe? Critical reflections on the relevance and role of social capital in health promotion and community development
Who you know, where you live: Social Capital, Neighbourhood and Health
Edible backyards: A qualitative study of household food growing and its contributions to food security
Environmental risk perception and well-being: Effects of the landfill siting process in two southern Ontario communities
Healing in places of decline: (Re)imagining everyday landscapes in Hamilton, Ontario
Understanding contemporary networks of environmental and social change: Complex assemblages within Canada's 'food movement
Emerging forms of social mobilisation are explored, using food initiatives in Canada as an example. Food networks are particularly interesting as a case study: they have holistic goals that include both environmental and social concerns, the number and scope of food initiatives have rapidly increased, and there has recently been a high level of public engagement around food issues. Networks among alternative food initiatives (AFIs) are investigat…
Sweet Charity , revisited: Organizational responses to food insecurity in Hamilton and Toronto, Canada
In the last two decades, emergency food provision (e.g., food banks, meal programmes) has become an increasingly institutionalized form of hunger relief. Critiques of the emergency food system, as articulated by Poppendieck’s 1998 book Sweet Charity?, suggest that such programmes are unable to cope with growing hunger in a meaningful, stable, efficient, or culturally appropriate way, and that they may facilitate government retrenchment. Meanwhile…
Participation”, White Privilege and Environmental Justice: Understanding Environmentalism Among Hispanics in Toronto
The environmental justice movement has highlighted not only the unequal distribution of environmental hazards across lines of race and class, but also the white, middle‐class nature of some environmentalisms, and broader patterns of marginalization underlying people's opportunities to participate or not. There is a significant body of work discussing Hispanic environmental justice activism in the US, but not in Canada. This paper draws on intervi…
Social change or business as usual at city hall? Examining an urban municipal government's response to neighbourhood-level health inequities
Social capital, environmental health and collective action: A Hamilton, Ontario case study
This article explores the relationships among environmental health, social capital and collective action in the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Survey results from 512 households are used to document intra‐urban variation in levels of social capital (defined as norms, networks and trust) and collective action in the context of environmental health issues, and specifically air quality. Despite real differences between areas in terms …
Food security and health in Canada: Imaginaries, exclusions and possibilities
In recent years, food crises have heightened awareness of food security vulnerabilities even in rich nations. However, the extent to which various issues related to food security (such as consistent access to nutritious food in conditions which maintain human dignity) have been incorporated into Canadian policy and practice is not well documented. This article draws on a number of sources—including policy documents and media reports—to explore ho…
Is “including them” enough? How narratives of race and class shape participation in a resident-led neighbourhood revitalization initiative
Great expectations: Waterfront redevelopment and the Hamilton Harbour Waterfront Trail
Reflective Action in the Academy: Exploring Praxis in Critical Geography using a “Food Movement” Case Study
One of the key components of critical geography is praxis—defined here as the melding of theory/reflection and practice/action as part of a conscious struggle to transform the world. Put simply, praxis is giving life to ideas about the way the world is—and could be—by acting on one's convictions in daily (work and home) life. Praxis can thus take many forms, and can occur both within and outside the academy. This paper examines how research and p…
Environmental risk perception and well-being: Effects of the landfill siting process in two southern Ontario communities
Environmental risk and (re)action: Air quality, health, and civic involvement in an urban industrial neighbourhood
Healing in places of decline: (Re)imagining everyday landscapes in Hamilton, Ontario
Section II: Poster Sessions
African Americans experience the greatest amount of tobacco related health disparities. Recent tobacco control programs have not closed the gap in disparities for African Americans. This poster see~s to pr~vide a theoretical framework for addressing the health inequities in tobacco among African Americans usmg the work of critical race theorists Richard Delgado and Kimberlie Crenshaw. Critical race theory has been used predominately in the legal …
Who you know, where you live: Social Capital, Neighbourhood and Health
Family, friend or foe? Critical reflections on the relevance and role of social capital in health promotion and community development
Growing urban health: Community gardening in South-East Toronto
This article describes results from an investigation of the health impacts of community gardening, using Toronto, Ontario as a case study. According to community members and local service organizations, these gardens have a number of positive health benefits. However, few studies have explicitly focused on the health impacts of community gardens, and many of those did not ask community gardeners directly about their experiences in community garde…
Great expectations: Waterfront redevelopment and the Hamilton Harbour Waterfront Trail
Reflective Action in the Academy: Exploring Praxis in Critical Geography using a “Food Movement” Case Study
One of the key components of critical geography is praxis—defined here as the melding of theory/reflection and practice/action as part of a conscious struggle to transform the world. Put simply, praxis is giving life to ideas about the way the world is—and could be—by acting on one's convictions in daily (work and home) life. Praxis can thus take many forms, and can occur both within and outside the academy. This paper examines how research and p…
Social capital, environmental health and collective action: A Hamilton, Ontario case study
This article explores the relationships among environmental health, social capital and collective action in the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Survey results from 512 households are used to document intra‐urban variation in levels of social capital (defined as norms, networks and trust) and collective action in the context of environmental health issues, and specifically air quality. Despite real differences between areas in terms …
‘Tales of mind over cancer’: Cancer risk and prevention in the Canadian print media
This paper investigates coverage of cancer in three Canadian newspapers in order to explore how the print media presents issues related to cancer risk and prevention. Six months of newspaper coverage was coded and analysed quantitatively to identify trends in coverage. A small subset of these articles was then analysed qualitatively to identify latent and underlying messages. Results from the analysis suggest that coverage emphasised risk managem…
Linking Health Inequality and Environmental Justice: Articulating a Precautionary Framework for Research and Action
This article draws together three issues—the environment, health, and (in)justice—with the overall purpose of articulating an agenda for policy and research that works towards improved justice and sustainability in the environmental health arena. Considerable research in the United States and elsewhere has shown that both environmental exposures and poor health are more prevalent in populations that are marginalized by race and social class (typi…
Edible backyards: A qualitative study of household food growing and its contributions to food security
A drop of water in the pool’: Information and engagement of linguistic communities around a municipal pesticide bylaw to protect the public's health
The Multicultural Yard Health and Environment Project (MYHEP) used Toronto's Pesticide Bylaw roll-out process to examine how culturally specific perceptions and practices might influence the relevance of municipal public health information and community engagement strategies and the effectiveness of health protection initiatives. In Canada, and particularly in Toronto, such information is needed for governments to effectively engage with increasi…
Sweet Charity , revisited: Organizational responses to food insecurity in Hamilton and Toronto, Canada
In the last two decades, emergency food provision (e.g., food banks, meal programmes) has become an increasingly institutionalized form of hunger relief. Critiques of the emergency food system, as articulated by Poppendieck’s 1998 book Sweet Charity?, suggest that such programmes are unable to cope with growing hunger in a meaningful, stable, efficient, or culturally appropriate way, and that they may facilitate government retrenchment. Meanwhile…
Participation”, White Privilege and Environmental Justice: Understanding Environmentalism Among Hispanics in Toronto
The environmental justice movement has highlighted not only the unequal distribution of environmental hazards across lines of race and class, but also the white, middle‐class nature of some environmentalisms, and broader patterns of marginalization underlying people's opportunities to participate or not. There is a significant body of work discussing Hispanic environmental justice activism in the US, but not in Canada. This paper draws on intervi…
Social change or business as usual at city hall? Examining an urban municipal government's response to neighbourhood-level health inequities
Understanding contemporary networks of environmental and social change: Complex assemblages within Canada's 'food movement
Emerging forms of social mobilisation are explored, using food initiatives in Canada as an example. Food networks are particularly interesting as a case study: they have holistic goals that include both environmental and social concerns, the number and scope of food initiatives have rapidly increased, and there has recently been a high level of public engagement around food issues. Networks among alternative food initiatives (AFIs) are investigat…
Food security and health in Canada: Imaginaries, exclusions and possibilities
In recent years, food crises have heightened awareness of food security vulnerabilities even in rich nations. However, the extent to which various issues related to food security (such as consistent access to nutritious food in conditions which maintain human dignity) have been incorporated into Canadian policy and practice is not well documented. This article draws on a number of sources—including policy documents and media reports—to explore ho…
Is “including them” enough? How narratives of race and class shape participation in a resident-led neighbourhood revitalization initiative
Effectiveness of an 8-week Curriculum in Changing Medical Student Self-assessment of Knowledge and Confidence toward Sex Trafficking
Although trafficked persons frequently present to healthcare systems, physicians and physician trainees often lack training on identification and care of this patient population. Currently, there is no mandatory or standard training on human trafficking during one’s medical education. A pilot 8-week curriculum focusing on sex trafficking, designed and implemented at a regional medical school, aims to provide medical students with the appropriate …
Characterizing Measurement-Based Care in the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN)
Integration of measurement-based care (MBC) into clinical practice has shown promise in improving treatment outcomes for depression. Yet, without a gold standard measure of MBC, assessing fidelity to the MBC model across various clinical settings is difficult. A central goal of the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN) was to characterize MBC across the state of Texas through the development of a standardized tool to asse…
Shifting From Best Practice to Standard Practice: Implementing Measurement-Based Care in Health Systems
Integration of Measurement-Based Care for Youth Depression and Suicidality Using VitalSign6
Depression and suicidality are prevalent in youth and are associated with a range of negative outcomes. The current study aimed to evaluate a measurement-based care (MBC) software (VitalSign 6 ) tool to improve the screening and treatment of depression and suicidality in youth aged 8-17 years within a rural, underserved population. To assess for depression and suicidality, the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 was administered as an initial screen, …
“Just Listen … Really Listen”: Expectations of Youth When Disclosing Mental Health Concerns with Parents
Adolescence and emerging adulthood are developmental periods characterized by increased prevalence of mental health (MH) issues. Disclosure of MH issues to parents or other adults is important for youth to gain support and access professional MH care, but many youth do not disclose MH issues due to a myriad of reasons. In this study, we conducted five focus groups (N = 33) with adolescents and emerging adults to better understand their perception…
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