Karen Swartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4185940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Swartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Swartz |
| SIGNATURE | SWARTZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Åbo Akademi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0420-5823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Universal, School‐Based Mental Health Literacy Programs for Middle School Students: A Scoping Review
BACKGROUND: Universal, classroom-based mental health literacy (MHL) curricula are associated with improved mental health knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behaviors. Young adolescents are an ideal target given their need for and receptivity toward MHL education. METHODS: We conducted a scoping review to identify universal, school-based MHL programs primarily for students aged 10-14 years, with adequate descriptions of curriculum implementati…
New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion
This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular views of history, and craft Endtime scenarios. Their members carry out a vast and diverse array of ritual activities. They produce large corpuses of written texts and designate a subset of these as a sacrosanct canon. They focus their attention on materi…
Soft charisma as an impediment to fundamentalist discourse: The case of the Anthroposophical Society in Sweden
The Anthroposophical Society in Sweden is, in the view of many of its members, going through tough times. Times of crisis and the search for a collective identity often inspire the formation of ideological rifts within a larger religious community. One way of responding to challenges is by turning to doctrines and texts stemming from a purportedly pristine past for guidance - in other words, by developing a fundamentalist discourse. A striking fa…
Show Must Go On: Corporate Narratives in the Anthroposophical Society
When new religions reach a mature and settled phase, they resemble in many respects secular organizations and are therefore amenable to being studied with methods inspired by organization studies. One group of such methods deals with corporate narratives and corporate communication. This article takes a structuralist approach and applies a version of the actant model originally developed by the Lithuanian literary theorist Algirdas Greimas to a s…
Psychological First Aid Well-Being Support Rounds for Frontline Healthcare Workers During Covid-19
Background and Objective: Frontline healthcare workers face unprecedented stress from the current SARS COV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. Hospital systems need to develop support programs to help frontline staff deal with this stress. The purpose of this article is to describe a support program for front line healthcare workers. Methods: In this community case report, we describe a well-being support rounding program that was developed to deliver Psychol…
Thirteen Reasons Why Revisited: A Monograph for Teens, Parents, and Mental Health Professionals
Religious responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
Editorial of Approaching Religion, Vol. 11 Issue 2
The Bosnian Pyramid Phenomenon
The Bosnian town of Visoko has in recent years become a New Age pilgrimage site. Several formations in the landscape have been branded as ancient pyramids and tunnels. These purported monuments from bygone times are administrated by a private foundation led by the Bosnian American entrepreneur Semir Osmanagić. His claim is that the structures at Visoko were built tens of thousands of years ago by an advanced civilization that mastered a technolog…
Altered States of Consciousness and Charismatic Authority: The Case of Judith von Halle
Charisma is an unstable basis upon which to build authority. Charismatic leaders need their followers to perceive them as being endowed with extraordinary, even supernatural, gifts. Detractors can in turn question whether the leader actually possesses these unique qualities. Using Judith von Halle and her conflicts with the Anthroposophical Society as a case study, we address the question of how charismatic authority can be constructed and decons…
School-Based Curriculum to Improve Depression Literacy Among US Secondary School Students: A Randomized Effectiveness Trial
Objectives. To determine the effectiveness of a universal school-based depression education program. Methods. In 2012–2015, we matched 6679 students from 66 secondary schools into pairs by state (Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Oklahoma) and randomized to the Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP; n = 3681) or to a waitlist control condition (n = 2998). Trained teachers delivered ADAP as part of the health education curric…
Contemporary Esotericism
Book Review| May 01 2014 Contemporary Esotericism Contemporary Esotericism. Edited by Egil Asprem and Kennet Granholm. Equinox Publishing, 2013. 470 pages. $120.00 cloth. Karen Swartz Karen Swartz Abo Akademi University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2014) 17 (4): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2014.17.4.125 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Children's Receipt of Health Care in the First 3 Years of Life
Background. Maternal depression is widely recognized to negatively influence mother-child interactions and children's behavior and development, but little is known about its relation to children's receipt of health care. Objective. To determine if maternal depressive symptoms reported at 2 to 4 and 30 to 33 months postpartum are associated with children's receipt of acute and preventive health care services in the first 30 months. Design. Cohort …
Insurance or a regular physician: Which is the most powerful predictor of health care
OBJECTIVES: This study compared the relative effects on access to health care of relationship with a regular physician and insurance status. METHODS: The subjects were 1952 nonretired, non-Medicare patients aged 18 to 64 years who presented with 1 of 6 chief complaints to 5 academic hospital emergency departments in Boston and Cambridge, Mass, during a 1-month study period in 1995. Access to care was evaluated by 3 measures: delay in seeking care…
The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale: Initial Testing of a Clinician-Rated Scale of Tic Severity
Insurance or a regular physician: Which is the most powerful predictor of health care
OBJECTIVES: This study compared the relative effects on access to health care of relationship with a regular physician and insurance status. METHODS: The subjects were 1952 nonretired, non-Medicare patients aged 18 to 64 years who presented with 1 of 6 chief complaints to 5 academic hospital emergency departments in Boston and Cambridge, Mass, during a 1-month study period in 1995. Access to care was evaluated by 3 measures: delay in seeking care…
Religious responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
Editorial of Approaching Religion, Vol. 11 Issue 2
The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale: Initial Testing of a Clinician-Rated Scale of Tic Severity
Insurance or a regular physician: Which is the most powerful predictor of health care
OBJECTIVES: This study compared the relative effects on access to health care of relationship with a regular physician and insurance status. METHODS: The subjects were 1952 nonretired, non-Medicare patients aged 18 to 64 years who presented with 1 of 6 chief complaints to 5 academic hospital emergency departments in Boston and Cambridge, Mass, during a 1-month study period in 1995. Access to care was evaluated by 3 measures: delay in seeking care…
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Children's Receipt of Health Care in the First 3 Years of Life
Background. Maternal depression is widely recognized to negatively influence mother-child interactions and children's behavior and development, but little is known about its relation to children's receipt of health care. Objective. To determine if maternal depressive symptoms reported at 2 to 4 and 30 to 33 months postpartum are associated with children's receipt of acute and preventive health care services in the first 30 months. Design. Cohort …
Contemporary Esotericism
Book Review| May 01 2014 Contemporary Esotericism Contemporary Esotericism. Edited by Egil Asprem and Kennet Granholm. Equinox Publishing, 2013. 470 pages. $120.00 cloth. Karen Swartz Karen Swartz Abo Akademi University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2014) 17 (4): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2014.17.4.125 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
School-Based Curriculum to Improve Depression Literacy Among US Secondary School Students: A Randomized Effectiveness Trial
Objectives. To determine the effectiveness of a universal school-based depression education program. Methods. In 2012–2015, we matched 6679 students from 66 secondary schools into pairs by state (Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Oklahoma) and randomized to the Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP; n = 3681) or to a waitlist control condition (n = 2998). Trained teachers delivered ADAP as part of the health education curric…
The Bosnian Pyramid Phenomenon
The Bosnian town of Visoko has in recent years become a New Age pilgrimage site. Several formations in the landscape have been branded as ancient pyramids and tunnels. These purported monuments from bygone times are administrated by a private foundation led by the Bosnian American entrepreneur Semir Osmanagić. His claim is that the structures at Visoko were built tens of thousands of years ago by an advanced civilization that mastered a technolog…
Altered States of Consciousness and Charismatic Authority: The Case of Judith von Halle
Charisma is an unstable basis upon which to build authority. Charismatic leaders need their followers to perceive them as being endowed with extraordinary, even supernatural, gifts. Detractors can in turn question whether the leader actually possesses these unique qualities. Using Judith von Halle and her conflicts with the Anthroposophical Society as a case study, we address the question of how charismatic authority can be constructed and decons…
Show Must Go On: Corporate Narratives in the Anthroposophical Society
When new religions reach a mature and settled phase, they resemble in many respects secular organizations and are therefore amenable to being studied with methods inspired by organization studies. One group of such methods deals with corporate narratives and corporate communication. This article takes a structuralist approach and applies a version of the actant model originally developed by the Lithuanian literary theorist Algirdas Greimas to a s…
Psychological First Aid Well-Being Support Rounds for Frontline Healthcare Workers During Covid-19
Background and Objective: Frontline healthcare workers face unprecedented stress from the current SARS COV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. Hospital systems need to develop support programs to help frontline staff deal with this stress. The purpose of this article is to describe a support program for front line healthcare workers. Methods: In this community case report, we describe a well-being support rounding program that was developed to deliver Psychol…
Thirteen Reasons Why Revisited: A Monograph for Teens, Parents, and Mental Health Professionals
Religious responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
Editorial of Approaching Religion, Vol. 11 Issue 2
Soft charisma as an impediment to fundamentalist discourse: The case of the Anthroposophical Society in Sweden
The Anthroposophical Society in Sweden is, in the view of many of its members, going through tough times. Times of crisis and the search for a collective identity often inspire the formation of ideological rifts within a larger religious community. One way of responding to challenges is by turning to doctrines and texts stemming from a purportedly pristine past for guidance - in other words, by developing a fundamentalist discourse. A striking fa…
New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion
This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular views of history, and craft Endtime scenarios. Their members carry out a vast and diverse array of ritual activities. They produce large corpuses of written texts and designate a subset of these as a sacrosanct canon. They focus their attention on materi…
Universal, School‐Based Mental Health Literacy Programs for Middle School Students: A Scoping Review
BACKGROUND: Universal, classroom-based mental health literacy (MHL) curricula are associated with improved mental health knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behaviors. Young adolescents are an ideal target given their need for and receptivity toward MHL education. METHODS: We conducted a scoping review to identify universal, school-based MHL programs primarily for students aged 10-14 years, with adequate descriptions of curriculum implementati…
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