Brenda B Toner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5418419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda B Toner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda B |
| FAMILY NAME | Toner |
| SIGNATURE | TONER B B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis of Women’s Experience of Infertility and Fertility Treatment From an Existential Perspective
While infertility and fertility treatment cause significant psychological distress for many women, the effectiveness of existing psychological interventions is unproven. This paper explores the potential applicability of an existential psychotherapeutic framework in this context by reviewing the lived experience of women with infertility and women in fertility treatment from an existential perspective. We conducted a qualitative evidence synthesi…
A mental health framework from the voices of refugees
BACKGROUND: Refugee groups fleeing war and violence and resettling in the West are one of the population groups that are poorly understood. Understanding their mental health challenges and providing effective and evidence-based interventions continue to be formidable challenges. AIM: This study presents a refugee mental health framework [RMHF] that was developed to address the gaps in understanding and responding to the needs of refugee populatio…
Intimate Partner Violence and Depression Among Latin American Women in Toronto
Burden of Womanhood
Something in our hearts”
Purpose This paper aims to examine the long‐term mental health consequences of war from the perspectives of urban Mayan women in post‐war Guatemala. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographic methodologies, namely participant observation and in‐depth qualitative interviews were carried out during 12 months of fieldwork in Guatemala City. Findings The findings indicate that urban indigenous women confront a range of unresolved war‐related traumas an…
Impact of Life Events and Difficulties on the Mental Health of Chinese Immigrant Women
Feminist Issues in Research Methodology
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
Psychosocial Factors Determine Symptom Severity in Functional Bowel Disorders
s of Papers for 1999 Annual Meeting: Paper Session: Psychosocial Determinants of Healthcare Utilization and Outcomes
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 …
A Home-Based Program for the Treatment of Acute Psychosis
Gender differences in depressive response
Self-schema in irritable bowel syndrome and depression
Some investigators have suggested that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) represents a physiologic expression of an affective disorder. This study investigated whether IBS patients differed in their self-schema from depressed patients. Self-schema refers to a cognitive framework of the individual's beliefs, attitudes, and self-perceptions which is stored in memory and which influences incoming information. The sample consisted of 21 IBS patients, 21 …
The influence of gender role typing on the expression of depressive symptoms
Test anxiety and the contents of consciousness
Influence of Social-Desirability Responding on the Sarason Test Anxiety Scale
The relationship between the concepts of social desirability and test anxiety as assessed by Sarason's Test Anxiety Scale was examined. Sarason's scale and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale were administered to 137 women and 62 men under nonanonymous evaluative conditions. Although high social-desirability respondents reported lower levels of test anxiety, the correlation was significant for women only. It was concluded that the Test A…
Long-term follow-up of anorexia nervosa
This study compared the long-term outcome of restricting and bulimic anorexic women using standardized psychometric instruments in addition to global clinical ratings. Results indicated that, in general, restricting and bulimic anorexic subtypes did not differ in their long-term outcome according to clinical ratings and standardized assessments of anorexic symptoms, psychiatric diagnoses, and psychosocial functioning. The only exception to this p…
Burden of Womanhood
The influence of gender role typing on the expression of depressive symptoms
Test anxiety and the contents of consciousness
A Home-Based Program for the Treatment of Acute Psychosis
Gender differences in depressive response
Feminist Issues in Research Methodology
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…
Long-term follow-up of anorexia nervosa
This study compared the long-term outcome of restricting and bulimic anorexic women using standardized psychometric instruments in addition to global clinical ratings. Results indicated that, in general, restricting and bulimic anorexic subtypes did not differ in their long-term outcome according to clinical ratings and standardized assessments of anorexic symptoms, psychiatric diagnoses, and psychosocial functioning. The only exception to this p…
Influence of Social-Desirability Responding on the Sarason Test Anxiety Scale
The relationship between the concepts of social desirability and test anxiety as assessed by Sarason's Test Anxiety Scale was examined. Sarason's scale and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale were administered to 137 women and 62 men under nonanonymous evaluative conditions. Although high social-desirability respondents reported lower levels of test anxiety, the correlation was significant for women only. It was concluded that the Test A…
Test anxiety and the contents of consciousness
Self-schema in irritable bowel syndrome and depression
Some investigators have suggested that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) represents a physiologic expression of an affective disorder. This study investigated whether IBS patients differed in their self-schema from depressed patients. Self-schema refers to a cognitive framework of the individual's beliefs, attitudes, and self-perceptions which is stored in memory and which influences incoming information. The sample consisted of 21 IBS patients, 21 …
The influence of gender role typing on the expression of depressive symptoms
Gender differences in depressive response
A Home-Based Program for the Treatment of Acute Psychosis
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 …
Psychosocial Factors Determine Symptom Severity in Functional Bowel Disorders
s of Papers for 1999 Annual Meeting: Paper Session: Psychosocial Determinants of Healthcare Utilization and Outcomes
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
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…
Impact of Life Events and Difficulties on the Mental Health of Chinese Immigrant Women
Something in our hearts”
Purpose This paper aims to examine the long‐term mental health consequences of war from the perspectives of urban Mayan women in post‐war Guatemala. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographic methodologies, namely participant observation and in‐depth qualitative interviews were carried out during 12 months of fieldwork in Guatemala City. Findings The findings indicate that urban indigenous women confront a range of unresolved war‐related traumas an…
Burden of Womanhood
Intimate Partner Violence and Depression Among Latin American Women in Toronto
A mental health framework from the voices of refugees
BACKGROUND: Refugee groups fleeing war and violence and resettling in the West are one of the population groups that are poorly understood. Understanding their mental health challenges and providing effective and evidence-based interventions continue to be formidable challenges. AIM: This study presents a refugee mental health framework [RMHF] that was developed to address the gaps in understanding and responding to the needs of refugee populatio…
A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis of Women’s Experience of Infertility and Fertility Treatment From an Existential Perspective
While infertility and fertility treatment cause significant psychological distress for many women, the effectiveness of existing psychological interventions is unproven. This paper explores the potential applicability of an existential psychotherapeutic framework in this context by reviewing the lived experience of women with infertility and women in fertility treatment from an existential perspective. We conducted a qualitative evidence synthesi…
Psychology (16 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Anxiety (4 works)