Alisha Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alisha Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7667-4293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health
Hospitality that cares: A qualitative investigation into small foodservice businesses’ social responsibility
This study adopted Spence’s (2016) theorization of small business social responsibility (SBSR) to investigate how small hospitality foodservice businesses express and implement their social responsibility through prioritization of their key stakeholders. Using an abductive research methodology, 38 semi-structured interviews were conducted with small foodservice businesses located in Sheffield, UK. The findings revealed that these businesses exhib…
Treating the Effects of Military Sexual Trauma through a Theater-Based Program for U.S. Veterans
The goal of this article is to examine the experience and aftermath of military sexual trauma (MST) among U.S. women Veterans with a particular emphasis on the therapeutic benefits of giving voice to their experience in an all-Veteran trauma treatment called the DE-CRUIT program. The DE-CRUIT program uses a feminist framework of human connection in combination with narrative elements from drama and theater. The therapeutic process of this treatme…
Antecedents of emotional labour for holiday representatives: A framework for tourism workers
In the Service of Science: Veteran-Led Research in the Investigation of a Theatre-Based Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
Research data have consistently shown that military veterans are more likely than the general U.S. population to experience mental health problems, as well as homelessness and unemployment. Additionally, data show exceptionally high attrition rates from mainstream mental health treatments for veterans. While several emerging, alternative programs have great potential to support veterans in dealing with trauma and with the transition to civilian l…
Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives of the Tourism Experience: Responses from the International Competence Network of Tourism Research and Education
Mobilizing knowledge: Determining key elements for success and pitfalls in developing community-based tourism
Community-based tourism (CBT) has often been cited as an alternative to mass tourism and an approach for tourism to become more sustainable. If developed well, CBT can become a poverty alleviation mechanism and a way to access improvements in quality of life, providing empowerment and greater economic benefit to individuals in local communities. Despite the plethora of literature on CBT and evaluation of models, there is little analysis of the fa…
Psychotherapeutic processes in recovery from military and pre-military trauma in veterans: The effects of theatre as a mental health treatment
Despite advances in the treatment of PTSD and related problems in military veterans, these problems persist and often become debilitating for veterans and devastating for their families. It is thus necessary for health researchers to examine alternatives to mainstream psychiatric approaches for veterans, including arts-based approaches that can demonstrate psychological healing. In this article, we outline some of the psychotherapeutic benefits o…
A trauma-informed analysis of monologues constructed by military veterans in a theater-based treatment program
In this paper, we propose a treatment-derived qualitative strategy for examining written narratives created through therapeutic encounters in trauma-informed care. This investigation involves the analysis of ten trauma monologues written by military veterans participating in a treatment program that uses dramatic verse as its therapeutic foundation. Our analysis revealed that the veterans’ monologues presented primary traumas that were related to…
Structural Competency as a Framework for Training in Counseling Psychology
The purpose of this article is to explore structural competency as a framework for training in counseling psychology. Structural competency as a guiding paradigm can be an important component of counseling practice that is informed by an understanding of the effects of oppression and structural-level disparities on the psychological well-being of marginalized groups and individuals. We outline a set of training principles that can inform the deve…
Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World
This international volume offers new perspectives on social and psychological aspects of the complex dynamic of depression. The 21 contributors from 13 countries—Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Haiti, India, Israel, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland, and the United States—represent contexts with very different histories, political and economic structures, and gender role disparities. Authors use Silencing the Self theory, which …
Recovery from depression among clients transitioning out of poverty
The objective of this study was to investigate whether a program designed to change the economic conditions of clients' lives could also have an impact on reducing their level of depression. The study focused on a sample of men and women attending a program designed to transition clients out of poverty through microlending and peer support. Results revealed that 40.5% of participants who met diagnostic criteria for major depression before beginni…
Sadness Revealed: Insights on Women's Depression
A Secret Sadness: The Hidden Relationship Patterns That Make Women Depressed. VALERIE E. WHIFFEN. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2006. 196 pp., $24.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 1–57224–469–0
Living with Stigma and Oppression: Understanding Sexual Minority Mental Health
Where is the Voice of Feminism in Research on Emotional Abuse: Forum
Research on women's experience of emotional abuse has grown considerably in recent years. However, the research thus far suffers from a number of blind-spots and biases. These include a disregard for social and cultural influences, a narrow perspective on the effects of intimate violence, and a lack of integration of theoretical and practical considerations. I contend that such biases can be remedied in part by looking to feminist scholars in an …
Identity as Contested Space: A Canadian Vantage on an Epistemological Challenge
The Convergence of Foucault and Feminist Psychiatry: Exploring emancipatory knowledge-building
This paper considers the possibility of an emancipatory stance toward knowledge-building which can emerge from the convergence of Foucault's theories concerning power/knowledge and resistance, and feminist theories concerning the discipline of psychiatry. Three components of this stance are outlined (integrating the localized and the collective; redefining expertise; and subverting power differentials). These components are illustrated through th…
Feminist Issues in Research Methodology: The Development of a Cognitive Scale
Feminist research methodology is a subject that is often under wide debate, with both theorists and researchers offering various guidelines for conducting feminist research. Current writings in the field suggest that feminist research is moving towards pluralistic models that acknowledge and take into account the fact that feminism is not monolithic in its politics or philosophy. However, a review of the literature suggests that, within this plur…
Symptoms of Depression Among Caribbean Women and Caribbean-Canadian Women; An Investigation of Self-Silencing and Domains of Meaning
This study compared an immigrant sample of Caribbean-Canadian women ( n = 20) and a sample of women living in the Caribbean ( n = 20) on the following variables: dominant domain of meaning (defined as that aspect of the participant's life from which she derives primary meaning for her sense of self); self-silencing (defined as the tendency to silence one's thoughts and feelings; Jack, 1991); and symptoms of depression. Results revealed that the C…
Emotional Abuse, Self-Blame, and Self-Silencing in Women With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
These findings empirically demonstrate an association between IBS and emotional abuse, as well as a possible connection with psychosocial variables, that may mediate the connection between emotional abuse and functional bowel symptoms. We suggest that these variables be further evaluated in the context of clinically relevant research on IBS
The Development of a Cognitive Scale for Functional Bowel Disorders
OBJECTIVE: The importance of psychosocial factors in patients with Functional Bowel Disorders (FBD) has been well-established. However, most psychosocial measures used in research with FBD patients were not designed or validated on this population. A recent international team report recommended that psychosocial measures be developed to increase our understanding and treatment of FBD. The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable and valid …
Gender differences in depressive response: The role of social support
Silencing the self: Depression and Gender in the Social World
This international volume offers new perspectives on social and psychological aspects of the complex dynamic of depression. The twenty-one contributors from thirteen countries - Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Haiti, India, Israel, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland, and the United States - represent contexts with very different histories, political and economic structures, and gender role disparities. Authors rely on Silencing t…
Structural Competency as a Framework for Training in Counseling Psychology
The purpose of this article is to explore structural competency as a framework for training in counseling psychology. Structural competency as a guiding paradigm can be an important component of counseling practice that is informed by an understanding of the effects of oppression and structural-level disparities on the psychological well-being of marginalized groups and individuals. We outline a set of training principles that can inform the deve…
Antecedents of emotional labour for holiday representatives: A framework for tourism workers
A trauma-informed analysis of monologues constructed by military veterans in a theater-based treatment program
In this paper, we propose a treatment-derived qualitative strategy for examining written narratives created through therapeutic encounters in trauma-informed care. This investigation involves the analysis of ten trauma monologues written by military veterans participating in a treatment program that uses dramatic verse as its therapeutic foundation. Our analysis revealed that the veterans’ monologues presented primary traumas that were related to…
Gender differences in depressive response: The role of social support
In the Service of Science: Veteran-Led Research in the Investigation of a Theatre-Based Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
Research data have consistently shown that military veterans are more likely than the general U.S. population to experience mental health problems, as well as homelessness and unemployment. Additionally, data show exceptionally high attrition rates from mainstream mental health treatments for veterans. While several emerging, alternative programs have great potential to support veterans in dealing with trauma and with the transition to civilian l…
The Convergence of Foucault and Feminist Psychiatry: Exploring emancipatory knowledge-building
This paper considers the possibility of an emancipatory stance toward knowledge-building which can emerge from the convergence of Foucault's theories concerning power/knowledge and resistance, and feminist theories concerning the discipline of psychiatry. Three components of this stance are outlined (integrating the localized and the collective; redefining expertise; and subverting power differentials). These components are illustrated through th…
Feminist Issues in Research Methodology: The Development of a Cognitive Scale
Feminist research methodology is a subject that is often under wide debate, with both theorists and researchers offering various guidelines for conducting feminist research. Current writings in the field suggest that feminist research is moving towards pluralistic models that acknowledge and take into account the fact that feminism is not monolithic in its politics or philosophy. However, a review of the literature suggests that, within this plur…
Symptoms of Depression Among Caribbean Women and Caribbean-Canadian Women; An Investigation of Self-Silencing and Domains of Meaning
This study compared an immigrant sample of Caribbean-Canadian women ( n = 20) and a sample of women living in the Caribbean ( n = 20) on the following variables: dominant domain of meaning (defined as that aspect of the participant's life from which she derives primary meaning for her sense of self); self-silencing (defined as the tendency to silence one's thoughts and feelings; Jack, 1991); and symptoms of depression. Results revealed that the C…
Silencing the self: Depression and Gender in the Social World
This international volume offers new perspectives on social and psychological aspects of the complex dynamic of depression. The twenty-one contributors from thirteen countries - Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Haiti, India, Israel, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland, and the United States - represent contexts with very different histories, political and economic structures, and gender role disparities. Authors rely on Silencing t…
Gender differences in depressive response: The role of social support
The Development of a Cognitive Scale for Functional Bowel Disorders
OBJECTIVE: The importance of psychosocial factors in patients with Functional Bowel Disorders (FBD) has been well-established. However, most psychosocial measures used in research with FBD patients were not designed or validated on this population. A recent international team report recommended that psychosocial measures be developed to increase our understanding and treatment of FBD. The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable and valid …
Emotional Abuse, Self-Blame, and Self-Silencing in Women With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
These findings empirically demonstrate an association between IBS and emotional abuse, as well as a possible connection with psychosocial variables, that may mediate the connection between emotional abuse and functional bowel symptoms. We suggest that these variables be further evaluated in the context of clinically relevant research on IBS
Feminist Issues in Research Methodology: The Development of a Cognitive Scale
Feminist research methodology is a subject that is often under wide debate, with both theorists and researchers offering various guidelines for conducting feminist research. Current writings in the field suggest that feminist research is moving towards pluralistic models that acknowledge and take into account the fact that feminism is not monolithic in its politics or philosophy. However, a review of the literature suggests that, within this plur…
Symptoms of Depression Among Caribbean Women and Caribbean-Canadian Women; An Investigation of Self-Silencing and Domains of Meaning
This study compared an immigrant sample of Caribbean-Canadian women ( n = 20) and a sample of women living in the Caribbean ( n = 20) on the following variables: dominant domain of meaning (defined as that aspect of the participant's life from which she derives primary meaning for her sense of self); self-silencing (defined as the tendency to silence one's thoughts and feelings; Jack, 1991); and symptoms of depression. Results revealed that the C…
The Convergence of Foucault and Feminist Psychiatry: Exploring emancipatory knowledge-building
This paper considers the possibility of an emancipatory stance toward knowledge-building which can emerge from the convergence of Foucault's theories concerning power/knowledge and resistance, and feminist theories concerning the discipline of psychiatry. Three components of this stance are outlined (integrating the localized and the collective; redefining expertise; and subverting power differentials). These components are illustrated through th…
Identity as Contested Space: A Canadian Vantage on an Epistemological Challenge
Living with Stigma and Oppression: Understanding Sexual Minority Mental Health
Where is the Voice of Feminism in Research on Emotional Abuse: Forum
Research on women's experience of emotional abuse has grown considerably in recent years. However, the research thus far suffers from a number of blind-spots and biases. These include a disregard for social and cultural influences, a narrow perspective on the effects of intimate violence, and a lack of integration of theoretical and practical considerations. I contend that such biases can be remedied in part by looking to feminist scholars in an …
Sadness Revealed: Insights on Women's Depression
A Secret Sadness: The Hidden Relationship Patterns That Make Women Depressed. VALERIE E. WHIFFEN. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2006. 196 pp., $24.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 1–57224–469–0
Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World
This international volume offers new perspectives on social and psychological aspects of the complex dynamic of depression. The 21 contributors from 13 countries—Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Haiti, India, Israel, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland, and the United States—represent contexts with very different histories, political and economic structures, and gender role disparities. Authors use Silencing the Self theory, which …
Recovery from depression among clients transitioning out of poverty
The objective of this study was to investigate whether a program designed to change the economic conditions of clients' lives could also have an impact on reducing their level of depression. The study focused on a sample of men and women attending a program designed to transition clients out of poverty through microlending and peer support. Results revealed that 40.5% of participants who met diagnostic criteria for major depression before beginni…
Structural Competency as a Framework for Training in Counseling Psychology
The purpose of this article is to explore structural competency as a framework for training in counseling psychology. Structural competency as a guiding paradigm can be an important component of counseling practice that is informed by an understanding of the effects of oppression and structural-level disparities on the psychological well-being of marginalized groups and individuals. We outline a set of training principles that can inform the deve…
Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives of the Tourism Experience: Responses from the International Competence Network of Tourism Research and Education
Mobilizing knowledge: Determining key elements for success and pitfalls in developing community-based tourism
Community-based tourism (CBT) has often been cited as an alternative to mass tourism and an approach for tourism to become more sustainable. If developed well, CBT can become a poverty alleviation mechanism and a way to access improvements in quality of life, providing empowerment and greater economic benefit to individuals in local communities. Despite the plethora of literature on CBT and evaluation of models, there is little analysis of the fa…
Psychotherapeutic processes in recovery from military and pre-military trauma in veterans: The effects of theatre as a mental health treatment
Despite advances in the treatment of PTSD and related problems in military veterans, these problems persist and often become debilitating for veterans and devastating for their families. It is thus necessary for health researchers to examine alternatives to mainstream psychiatric approaches for veterans, including arts-based approaches that can demonstrate psychological healing. In this article, we outline some of the psychotherapeutic benefits o…
A trauma-informed analysis of monologues constructed by military veterans in a theater-based treatment program
In this paper, we propose a treatment-derived qualitative strategy for examining written narratives created through therapeutic encounters in trauma-informed care. This investigation involves the analysis of ten trauma monologues written by military veterans participating in a treatment program that uses dramatic verse as its therapeutic foundation. Our analysis revealed that the veterans’ monologues presented primary traumas that were related to…
In the Service of Science: Veteran-Led Research in the Investigation of a Theatre-Based Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
Research data have consistently shown that military veterans are more likely than the general U.S. population to experience mental health problems, as well as homelessness and unemployment. Additionally, data show exceptionally high attrition rates from mainstream mental health treatments for veterans. While several emerging, alternative programs have great potential to support veterans in dealing with trauma and with the transition to civilian l…
Treating the Effects of Military Sexual Trauma through a Theater-Based Program for U.S. Veterans
The goal of this article is to examine the experience and aftermath of military sexual trauma (MST) among U.S. women Veterans with a particular emphasis on the therapeutic benefits of giving voice to their experience in an all-Veteran trauma treatment called the DE-CRUIT program. The DE-CRUIT program uses a feminist framework of human connection in combination with narrative elements from drama and theater. The therapeutic process of this treatme…
Antecedents of emotional labour for holiday representatives: A framework for tourism workers
Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health
Hospitality that cares: A qualitative investigation into small foodservice businesses’ social responsibility
This study adopted Spence’s (2016) theorization of small business social responsibility (SBSR) to investigate how small hospitality foodservice businesses express and implement their social responsibility through prioritization of their key stakeholders. Using an abductive research methodology, 38 semi-structured interviews were conducted with small foodservice businesses located in Sheffield, UK. The findings revealed that these businesses exhib…
Psychology (16 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)