Ippolytos Kalofonos
Biographic Data
| ID | 645945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ippolytos Kalofonos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ippolytos |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalofonos |
| SIGNATURE | KALOFONOS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4365-8473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Enhancing Vocational Rehabilitation Services for Homeless‐Experienced Veterans in Permanent Supportive Housing
Few homeless‐experienced individuals use vocational rehabilitation services. Using qualitative methods, as part of a pilot study at VA Greater Los Angeles (GLA), we characterized the perspectives of homeless‐experienced persons and homeless program staff on vocational services. We also explored relationships among employment, housing, and well‐being in this group. We interviewed homeless‐experienced persons enrolled in vocational rehabilitation s…
A pilot trial examining the effects of veteran voices and visions, an adaptation of hearing voices groups for a large public health system in the United States
BACKGROUND: The Hearing Voices Approach, a community-based peer-led support group model, is generating interest as a novel way to engage with psychosis. Hearing Voices (HV) groups are run by peers, 'experts-by-experience', and emphasize group ownership and community-building rather than adherence to a therapist-led, predetermined structure. Diverse beliefs about experiences are respected and viewed as potentially meaningful. Groups work within ea…
Meaning in Psychosis
This clinical case study presents the case of a Latina Veteran experiencing psychosis and draws on eclectic theoretical sources, including user/survivor scholarship, phenomenology, meaning-oriented cultural psychiatry & critical medical anthropology, and Frantz Fanon's insight on 'sociogeny,' to emphasize the importance of attending to the meaning within psychosis and to ground that meaning in a person's subjective-lived experience and social wor…
Long-Acting Injectable Therapy for People with HIV
Long-acting injectable antiretroviral medications are new to HIV treatment. People with HIV may benefit from a treatment option that better aligns with their preferences, but could also face new challenges and barriers. Authors from the fields of HIV, substance use treatment, and mental health collaborated on this commentary on the issues surrounding equitable implementation and uptake of LAI ART by drawing lessons from all three fields. We emplo…
Adaptation of a Hearing Voices Group Facilitation Training for VA Stakeholders
The Hearing Voices (HV) Movement promotes diverse understandings of voice-hearing and seeing visions, which mental health professionals commonly refer to as 'auditory hallucinations,' 'schizophrenia,' or 'psychosis.' Central to this movement are peer support groups through which attendees connect with others who have similar experiences. This paper describes an adaptation of a Hearing Voices group facilitation training at VA Greater Los Angeles (…
Veteran Perspectives on Adaptations to a VA Residential Rehabilitation Program for Substance Use Disorders During the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic
Community Interventions to Promote Mental Health and Social Equity
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: We review recent community interventions to promote mental health and social equity. We define community interventions as those that involve multi-sector partnerships, emphasize community members as integral to the intervention, and/or deliver services in community settings. We examine literature in seven topic areas: collaborative care, early psychosis, school-based interventions, homelessness, criminal justice, global mental …
Recovery's Edge
Reviewed by: Recovery's Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency by Neely Laurenzo Myers Ippolytos Kalofonos Neely Laurenzo Myers, Recovery's Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. 208 pp. "Recovery" has been a dominant paradigm shaping mental health policy in the United States since the turn of the millennium. A treatment philosophy that emerged from the disas…
Temporality and Positive Living in the Age of HIV/Aids
Drawing on comparative ethnographic fieldwork conducted in urban Mozambique, United States, and Sierra Leone, the article is broadly concerned with the globalization of temporal logics and how specific ideologies of time and temporality accompany health interventions like those for HIV/AIDS. More specifically, we explore how HIV-positive individuals have been increasingly encouraged to pursue healthier and more fulfilling lives through a set of m…
All they do is pray’
This paper tracks the intertwined biographies of a community home-based care (CHBC) volunteer, Arminda, the community-based organisation she worked for, Mufudzi, and the HIV scale-up in Mozambique. The focus is on Arminda--the experiences, aspirations, skills, and values she brought to her work as a volunteer, and the ways her own life converged with the rise and fall of the organisation that pioneered CHBC in this region. CHBC began in Mozambiqu…
Listening to Community Health Workers
Many actors in global health are concerned with improving community health worker (CHW) policy and practice to achieve universal health care. Ethnographic research can play an important role in providing information critical to the formation of effective CHW programs, by elucidating the life histories that shape CHWs’ desires for alleviation of their own and others’ economic and health challenges, and by addressing the working relationships that …
Becoming and remaining community health workers
The republic of therapy
All I Eat Is ARVs
The number of people on antiretroviral treatment in Mozambique has increased by over 1,500 percent since it first became free and publicly available in 2004. The rising count of "lives saved" seems to portray a success story of high-tech treatment being provided in one of the poorest contexts in the world, as people with AIDS experience dramatic recoveries and live longer. The "scale-up" has had significant social effects, however, as it unfolds …
All I Eat Is ARVs
The number of people on antiretroviral treatment in Mozambique has increased by over 1,500 percent since it first became free and publicly available in 2004. The rising count of "lives saved" seems to portray a success story of high-tech treatment being provided in one of the poorest contexts in the world, as people with AIDS experience dramatic recoveries and live longer. The "scale-up" has had significant social effects, however, as it unfolds …
Temporality and Positive Living in the Age of HIV/Aids
Drawing on comparative ethnographic fieldwork conducted in urban Mozambique, United States, and Sierra Leone, the article is broadly concerned with the globalization of temporal logics and how specific ideologies of time and temporality accompany health interventions like those for HIV/AIDS. More specifically, we explore how HIV-positive individuals have been increasingly encouraged to pursue healthier and more fulfilling lives through a set of m…
Becoming and remaining community health workers
Listening to Community Health Workers
Many actors in global health are concerned with improving community health worker (CHW) policy and practice to achieve universal health care. Ethnographic research can play an important role in providing information critical to the formation of effective CHW programs, by elucidating the life histories that shape CHWs’ desires for alleviation of their own and others’ economic and health challenges, and by addressing the working relationships that …
Veteran Perspectives on Adaptations to a VA Residential Rehabilitation Program for Substance Use Disorders During the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic
All I Eat Is ARVs
The number of people on antiretroviral treatment in Mozambique has increased by over 1,500 percent since it first became free and publicly available in 2004. The rising count of "lives saved" seems to portray a success story of high-tech treatment being provided in one of the poorest contexts in the world, as people with AIDS experience dramatic recoveries and live longer. The "scale-up" has had significant social effects, however, as it unfolds …
The republic of therapy
Becoming and remaining community health workers
All they do is pray’
This paper tracks the intertwined biographies of a community home-based care (CHBC) volunteer, Arminda, the community-based organisation she worked for, Mufudzi, and the HIV scale-up in Mozambique. The focus is on Arminda--the experiences, aspirations, skills, and values she brought to her work as a volunteer, and the ways her own life converged with the rise and fall of the organisation that pioneered CHBC in this region. CHBC began in Mozambiqu…
Listening to Community Health Workers
Many actors in global health are concerned with improving community health worker (CHW) policy and practice to achieve universal health care. Ethnographic research can play an important role in providing information critical to the formation of effective CHW programs, by elucidating the life histories that shape CHWs’ desires for alleviation of their own and others’ economic and health challenges, and by addressing the working relationships that …
Recovery's Edge
Reviewed by: Recovery's Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency by Neely Laurenzo Myers Ippolytos Kalofonos Neely Laurenzo Myers, Recovery's Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. 208 pp. "Recovery" has been a dominant paradigm shaping mental health policy in the United States since the turn of the millennium. A treatment philosophy that emerged from the disas…
Temporality and Positive Living in the Age of HIV/Aids
Drawing on comparative ethnographic fieldwork conducted in urban Mozambique, United States, and Sierra Leone, the article is broadly concerned with the globalization of temporal logics and how specific ideologies of time and temporality accompany health interventions like those for HIV/AIDS. More specifically, we explore how HIV-positive individuals have been increasingly encouraged to pursue healthier and more fulfilling lives through a set of m…
Community Interventions to Promote Mental Health and Social Equity
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: We review recent community interventions to promote mental health and social equity. We define community interventions as those that involve multi-sector partnerships, emphasize community members as integral to the intervention, and/or deliver services in community settings. We examine literature in seven topic areas: collaborative care, early psychosis, school-based interventions, homelessness, criminal justice, global mental …
Veteran Perspectives on Adaptations to a VA Residential Rehabilitation Program for Substance Use Disorders During the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic
Long-Acting Injectable Therapy for People with HIV
Long-acting injectable antiretroviral medications are new to HIV treatment. People with HIV may benefit from a treatment option that better aligns with their preferences, but could also face new challenges and barriers. Authors from the fields of HIV, substance use treatment, and mental health collaborated on this commentary on the issues surrounding equitable implementation and uptake of LAI ART by drawing lessons from all three fields. We emplo…
Adaptation of a Hearing Voices Group Facilitation Training for VA Stakeholders
The Hearing Voices (HV) Movement promotes diverse understandings of voice-hearing and seeing visions, which mental health professionals commonly refer to as 'auditory hallucinations,' 'schizophrenia,' or 'psychosis.' Central to this movement are peer support groups through which attendees connect with others who have similar experiences. This paper describes an adaptation of a Hearing Voices group facilitation training at VA Greater Los Angeles (…
Meaning in Psychosis
This clinical case study presents the case of a Latina Veteran experiencing psychosis and draws on eclectic theoretical sources, including user/survivor scholarship, phenomenology, meaning-oriented cultural psychiatry & critical medical anthropology, and Frantz Fanon's insight on 'sociogeny,' to emphasize the importance of attending to the meaning within psychosis and to ground that meaning in a person's subjective-lived experience and social wor…
A pilot trial examining the effects of veteran voices and visions, an adaptation of hearing voices groups for a large public health system in the United States
BACKGROUND: The Hearing Voices Approach, a community-based peer-led support group model, is generating interest as a novel way to engage with psychosis. Hearing Voices (HV) groups are run by peers, 'experts-by-experience', and emphasize group ownership and community-building rather than adherence to a therapist-led, predetermined structure. Diverse beliefs about experiences are respected and viewed as potentially meaningful. Groups work within ea…
Enhancing Vocational Rehabilitation Services for Homeless‐Experienced Veterans in Permanent Supportive Housing
Few homeless‐experienced individuals use vocational rehabilitation services. Using qualitative methods, as part of a pilot study at VA Greater Los Angeles (GLA), we characterized the perspectives of homeless‐experienced persons and homeless program staff on vocational services. We also explored relationships among employment, housing, and well‐being in this group. We interviewed homeless‐experienced persons enrolled in vocational rehabilitation s…
Medicine (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (4 works)