Cristina Redko
Biographic Data
| ID | 76587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Redko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Redko |
| SIGNATURE | REDKO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wright State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A antropologia que estava lá não cabia para a gente
Development and validation of the Somali WHOQOL-BREF among refugees living in the USA
A Folk Model of Treatment Readiness Among Drug Users in Ohio
Despite the benefits of substance abuse treatment, only a small proportion of drug users enter treatment. Understanding "readiness" is critical for engaging drug users in treatment and for involving them in the recovery process. This paper reports on ethnographic interviews conducted with 35 active drug users as they were entering treatment services, to describe how they perceive readiness for treatment. Drug users expressed readiness for treatme…
Understanding the Working Alliance Between Persons with Substance Abuse Problems and Strengths-Based Case Managers
A substantial body of literature has examined the importance of the working alliance in psychotherapy; few works have examined it in the context of case management Qualitative methods were used to examine how 26 persons with substance abuse problems perceived the working alliance with case managers who practice from the strengths perspective. Clients' narratives emphasized the personal qualities of the case manager and the nature of the client-ca…
Religious Construction of a First Episode of Psychosis in Urban Brazil
Religion plays an important role in the lives of people with psychosis. Based on fieldwork with 21 families living in poor neighborhoods of São Paulo, Brazil, this article examines how youth suffering a first episode of psychosis resort to religion for help (including, Catholicism, Pentecostalism, Candomblé, and Umbanda) and how this frames their experience of psychosis and that of their family members. For young people, the personal articulation…
Doing Nothing is No Choice: Lay Constructions of Treatment Decision-making Among Women with Early-stage Breast Cancer
Open-ended personal interviews were conducted with 20 women with early stage breast cancer attending a regional cancer centre in Southwestern Ontario. We explored three related issues: (1) the extent to which these women perceived that they had treatment options; (2) their understanding of treatment benefits and risks; and (3) the role they wanted for themselves and their oncologists in treatment decision-making.We found, first, that many women w…
Doing Nothing is No Choice: Lay Constructions of Treatment Decision-making Among Women with Early-stage Breast Cancer
Open-ended personal interviews were conducted with 20 women with early stage breast cancer attending a regional cancer centre in Southwestern Ontario. We explored three related issues: (1) the extent to which these women perceived that they had treatment options; (2) their understanding of treatment benefits and risks; and (3) the role they wanted for themselves and their oncologists in treatment decision-making.We found, first, that many women w…
Religious Construction of a First Episode of Psychosis in Urban Brazil
Religion plays an important role in the lives of people with psychosis. Based on fieldwork with 21 families living in poor neighborhoods of São Paulo, Brazil, this article examines how youth suffering a first episode of psychosis resort to religion for help (including, Catholicism, Pentecostalism, Candomblé, and Umbanda) and how this frames their experience of psychosis and that of their family members. For young people, the personal articulation…
Doing Nothing is No Choice: Lay Constructions of Treatment Decision-making Among Women with Early-stage Breast Cancer
Open-ended personal interviews were conducted with 20 women with early stage breast cancer attending a regional cancer centre in Southwestern Ontario. We explored three related issues: (1) the extent to which these women perceived that they had treatment options; (2) their understanding of treatment benefits and risks; and (3) the role they wanted for themselves and their oncologists in treatment decision-making.We found, first, that many women w…
Religious Construction of a First Episode of Psychosis in Urban Brazil
Religion plays an important role in the lives of people with psychosis. Based on fieldwork with 21 families living in poor neighborhoods of São Paulo, Brazil, this article examines how youth suffering a first episode of psychosis resort to religion for help (including, Catholicism, Pentecostalism, Candomblé, and Umbanda) and how this frames their experience of psychosis and that of their family members. For young people, the personal articulation…
A Folk Model of Treatment Readiness Among Drug Users in Ohio
Despite the benefits of substance abuse treatment, only a small proportion of drug users enter treatment. Understanding "readiness" is critical for engaging drug users in treatment and for involving them in the recovery process. This paper reports on ethnographic interviews conducted with 35 active drug users as they were entering treatment services, to describe how they perceive readiness for treatment. Drug users expressed readiness for treatme…
Understanding the Working Alliance Between Persons with Substance Abuse Problems and Strengths-Based Case Managers
A substantial body of literature has examined the importance of the working alliance in psychotherapy; few works have examined it in the context of case management Qualitative methods were used to examine how 26 persons with substance abuse problems perceived the working alliance with case managers who practice from the strengths perspective. Clients' narratives emphasized the personal qualities of the case manager and the nature of the client-ca…
Development and validation of the Somali WHOQOL-BREF among refugees living in the USA
A antropologia que estava lá não cabia para a gente
Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Alliance (1 works) · Applied Psychology (1 works) · Applied Psychology (1 works)