Shirley Chau
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 830548 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Shirley Chau |
| NOMBRES | Shirley |
| APELLIDO | Chau |
| FIRMA | CHAU S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9499-3888 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
I was acting out of desperation
Services for Homeless Youth during Covid-19
This exploratory study aimed to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected a medium-sized community's frontline workers in the Canadian youth homelessness services sector. This study phenomenological case study elicited practitioner knowledge and experience in servicing homeless youth in a medium-sized community – Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Two in-depth focus groups were conducted with a convenience sample of participants (N = 9). …
Mixed-race people and social work
The social work profession has regulated ethical guidelines that require social workers to understand the impacts of service users’ racial and cultural affiliations and identities. However, social work practitioners have been under-informed regarding how mixed-race identity in a monoracial society affects mixed-race service users and the related impacts in social work practice with this population. This literature review evaluates the peer-review…
Pain and Functional Limitations Among Midlife and Older Canadians
Future research needs to further examine the impact of discrimination on Indigenous peoples' aging process. High rates of discrimination coupled with a greater burden of pain means that Indigenous midlife and older adults may require additional and targeted health and social service resources to age successfully
How racialized students navigate campus life in a mid-sized Canadian city
We studied how racialized students navigate and cope with campus life amidst a context of discrimination in a midsize Canadian city. Using a situational analysis approach informed by participatory action research principles, our analysis revealed two overarching themes: (1) Thrown Against a White Background, representing frequent encounters of White normativity and supremacy often experienced through racially-based social stigma, marginalization …
Mothers’ Narratives of Their Involvement With Child Welfare Services
Centering on practice within child welfare systems, this article focuses on four representative narratives derived from 32 in-depth qualitative interviews with women who experienced intimate partner violence and involvement with the child welfare system in Manitoba and British Columbia, Canada. Narrative analysis was used to explore the content of mothers’ stories to understand how they position themselves against their child welfare workers’ und…
Making complex decisions
Children’s best interests and intimate partner violence in the Canadian family law and child protection systems
This article summarizes the findings of a project investigating women’s experiences with the Canadian child protection (CPS) and family law (FLS) systems. We examine both service systems together here because although both privilege children’s best interests as their primary consideration and define the concept similarly, the two systems diverge in their expectations of women relative to child custody. While FLS requires women to accept custody a…
Urban-Rural Migration and Health and Quality of Life in Homeless People
Homelessness can impact one's use of health and social services. Our paper provides a descriptive analysis of the nature, prevalence and impacts of migration amongst homeless people in two cities. We examine experiences of 120 homeless men in Vancouver and Kelowna in relation to their mobility and its impact(s) on housing stability, health status and behaviours, health and social services. Data were collected for a three year period in which home…
They're not my favourite people”
The Size of an Ethno-Cultural Community as a Social Determinant of Health for Chinese Seniors
An Exploratory Study of How Multiculturalism Policies are Implemented at the Grassroots Level
The concept of multiculturalism has become a fixture in Canadian society as part of a nation-building mechanism. In many ways, this suggests a perception that public policies promoting multiculturalism are working. However, this perception is based on assumptions that there is a coherent and shared definition and understanding of the implementation of multiculturalism policies. This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study that examined…
Effects of Service Barriers on Health Status of Older Chinese Immigrants in Canada
The authors examine the effects of service barriers on the health status of older Chinese immigrants in Canada. A survey was completed in seven Canadian cities by a random sample of 2,214 older Chinese immigrants age 55 years or older. Service barriers related to administrative problems, personal attitudes, and circumstantial difficulties were significant predictors of physical and mental health when controlling for the demographic factors. Empir…
Predictors of post-traumatic distress in child welfare workers
Negotiating Ethnic Identity In Canada
Satellite children are children of ethnically Chinese immigrants to North America who have returned to their country of origin after immigration. Based on interview transcripts of 68 adolescent satellite children, an analysis on the negotiation of ethnic identity was performed using the NUD*IST software. The analysis showed multiple ways of ethnic identity negotiation, ranging from an essentialist approach to differentiation and to confusion. Exi…
Inquiries into Deaths of Children in Care
Predictors of post-traumatic distress in child welfare workers
Negotiating Ethnic Identity In Canada
Satellite children are children of ethnically Chinese immigrants to North America who have returned to their country of origin after immigration. Based on interview transcripts of 68 adolescent satellite children, an analysis on the negotiation of ethnic identity was performed using the NUD*IST software. The analysis showed multiple ways of ethnic identity negotiation, ranging from an essentialist approach to differentiation and to confusion. Exi…
Mothers’ Narratives of Their Involvement With Child Welfare Services
Centering on practice within child welfare systems, this article focuses on four representative narratives derived from 32 in-depth qualitative interviews with women who experienced intimate partner violence and involvement with the child welfare system in Manitoba and British Columbia, Canada. Narrative analysis was used to explore the content of mothers’ stories to understand how they position themselves against their child welfare workers’ und…
They're not my favourite people”
Effects of Service Barriers on Health Status of Older Chinese Immigrants in Canada
The authors examine the effects of service barriers on the health status of older Chinese immigrants in Canada. A survey was completed in seven Canadian cities by a random sample of 2,214 older Chinese immigrants age 55 years or older. Service barriers related to administrative problems, personal attitudes, and circumstantial difficulties were significant predictors of physical and mental health when controlling for the demographic factors. Empir…
Inquiries into Deaths of Children in Care
Making complex decisions
How racialized students navigate campus life in a mid-sized Canadian city
We studied how racialized students navigate and cope with campus life amidst a context of discrimination in a midsize Canadian city. Using a situational analysis approach informed by participatory action research principles, our analysis revealed two overarching themes: (1) Thrown Against a White Background, representing frequent encounters of White normativity and supremacy often experienced through racially-based social stigma, marginalization …
Mixed-race people and social work
The social work profession has regulated ethical guidelines that require social workers to understand the impacts of service users’ racial and cultural affiliations and identities. However, social work practitioners have been under-informed regarding how mixed-race identity in a monoracial society affects mixed-race service users and the related impacts in social work practice with this population. This literature review evaluates the peer-review…
Pain and Functional Limitations Among Midlife and Older Canadians
Future research needs to further examine the impact of discrimination on Indigenous peoples' aging process. High rates of discrimination coupled with a greater burden of pain means that Indigenous midlife and older adults may require additional and targeted health and social service resources to age successfully
Inquiries into Deaths of Children in Care
Negotiating Ethnic Identity In Canada
Satellite children are children of ethnically Chinese immigrants to North America who have returned to their country of origin after immigration. Based on interview transcripts of 68 adolescent satellite children, an analysis on the negotiation of ethnic identity was performed using the NUD*IST software. The analysis showed multiple ways of ethnic identity negotiation, ranging from an essentialist approach to differentiation and to confusion. Exi…
Predictors of post-traumatic distress in child welfare workers
Effects of Service Barriers on Health Status of Older Chinese Immigrants in Canada
The authors examine the effects of service barriers on the health status of older Chinese immigrants in Canada. A survey was completed in seven Canadian cities by a random sample of 2,214 older Chinese immigrants age 55 years or older. Service barriers related to administrative problems, personal attitudes, and circumstantial difficulties were significant predictors of physical and mental health when controlling for the demographic factors. Empir…
The Size of an Ethno-Cultural Community as a Social Determinant of Health for Chinese Seniors
An Exploratory Study of How Multiculturalism Policies are Implemented at the Grassroots Level
The concept of multiculturalism has become a fixture in Canadian society as part of a nation-building mechanism. In many ways, this suggests a perception that public policies promoting multiculturalism are working. However, this perception is based on assumptions that there is a coherent and shared definition and understanding of the implementation of multiculturalism policies. This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study that examined…
Urban-Rural Migration and Health and Quality of Life in Homeless People
Homelessness can impact one's use of health and social services. Our paper provides a descriptive analysis of the nature, prevalence and impacts of migration amongst homeless people in two cities. We examine experiences of 120 homeless men in Vancouver and Kelowna in relation to their mobility and its impact(s) on housing stability, health status and behaviours, health and social services. Data were collected for a three year period in which home…
They're not my favourite people”
Children’s best interests and intimate partner violence in the Canadian family law and child protection systems
This article summarizes the findings of a project investigating women’s experiences with the Canadian child protection (CPS) and family law (FLS) systems. We examine both service systems together here because although both privilege children’s best interests as their primary consideration and define the concept similarly, the two systems diverge in their expectations of women relative to child custody. While FLS requires women to accept custody a…
Making complex decisions
Mothers’ Narratives of Their Involvement With Child Welfare Services
Centering on practice within child welfare systems, this article focuses on four representative narratives derived from 32 in-depth qualitative interviews with women who experienced intimate partner violence and involvement with the child welfare system in Manitoba and British Columbia, Canada. Narrative analysis was used to explore the content of mothers’ stories to understand how they position themselves against their child welfare workers’ und…
How racialized students navigate campus life in a mid-sized Canadian city
We studied how racialized students navigate and cope with campus life amidst a context of discrimination in a midsize Canadian city. Using a situational analysis approach informed by participatory action research principles, our analysis revealed two overarching themes: (1) Thrown Against a White Background, representing frequent encounters of White normativity and supremacy often experienced through racially-based social stigma, marginalization …
Mixed-race people and social work
The social work profession has regulated ethical guidelines that require social workers to understand the impacts of service users’ racial and cultural affiliations and identities. However, social work practitioners have been under-informed regarding how mixed-race identity in a monoracial society affects mixed-race service users and the related impacts in social work practice with this population. This literature review evaluates the peer-review…
Pain and Functional Limitations Among Midlife and Older Canadians
Future research needs to further examine the impact of discrimination on Indigenous peoples' aging process. High rates of discrimination coupled with a greater burden of pain means that Indigenous midlife and older adults may require additional and targeted health and social service resources to age successfully
I was acting out of desperation
Services for Homeless Youth during Covid-19
This exploratory study aimed to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected a medium-sized community's frontline workers in the Canadian youth homelessness services sector. This study phenomenological case study elicited practitioner knowledge and experience in servicing homeless youth in a medium-sized community – Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Two in-depth focus groups were conducted with a convenience sample of participants (N = 9). …
Psychology (14 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 obras) · Law (6 obras)