Stephanie Knaak
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 277243 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephanie Knaak |
| PRENOMES | Stephanie |
| SOBRENOME | Knaak |
| ASSINATURA | KNAAK S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7663-3451 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Based Intervention to Manage Stigma toward Substance use Disorders
Objective Stigma of health service professionals toward people with substance use disorders seriously compromises quality of care. A worldwide agenda points out how crucial it is to invest in evidence-based interventions to address stigma. This study aimed to describe the development process of an innovative intervention protocol to manage stigma based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Method This is an empirical qualitative study. Phase 1: G…
An Exploration of Mental Health-Related Stigma in an Emergency Setting
An initiative to improve mental health practice in primary care in Caribbean countries
Objectives. The aim of this initiative was to assess whether a novel training program – Understanding Stigma and Strengthening Cognitive Behavioral Interpersonal Skills – could improve primary health care providers’ confidence in the quality of mental health care they provide in the Caribbean setting by using the Plan-Do-Study-Act rapid cycle for learning improvement. Methods. We conducted a prospective observational study of the impact of this t…
Dismantling Structural Stigma Related to Mental Health and Substance Use
Stigma related to mental health and substance use (MHSU) is a well-established construct that describes how inequitable health outcomes can result from prejudice, discrimination, and marginalization. Although there is a body of literature on educational approaches to reduce stigma, antistigma education for MHSU has primarily focused on stigma at the social, interpersonal/public, and personal (self-stigma) levels, with little attention to the prob…
Measuring the Influence of Curricular Content and Personal Stories on Substance Use Stigma
Background: Understanding of the lived experience is an important educational strategy for improving attitudes toward stigmatized patient groups. This study evaluated the influence of a personal story intervention on nursing students' attitudes toward people who use opioids and measured attitudinal change from students' regular mental health and addictions curriculum. Method: This study used a single-group longitudinal design. Stigma outcomes wer…
Measuring Stigma Towards People with Opioid Use Problems
Many countries are experiencing an ongoing opioid crisis characterized by high rates of opioid use problems, overdose, poisoning, and death. Stigma has been identified as a central problem for seeking and receiving quality services from health providers and first respondents. The Mental Health Commission of Canada developed a scale that could be used to measure stigma in this population, as no such scale currently exists. This paper provides the …
Opioid Use Stigma
Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives on Mental Illness and Substance Use Stigma
Attitudes of health professionals towards people with substance use disorders in Brazil, controlling for the effects of social desirability
Health professionals are in a strategic position to help people with substance use disorders (SUDs) who seek health services for support or treatment. However, it is known that professionals' attitudes towards people who use alcohol and other drugs are marked by stigmatizing attitudes that create barriers to access quality treatment and make it difficult for the user to adhere to it. From this, the present study aimed to investigate the attitudes…
Mental illness-related stigma in healthcare
Mental illness-related stigma, including that which exists in the healthcare system and among healthcare providers, creates serious barriers to access and quality care. It is also a major concern for healthcare practitioners themselves, both as a workplace culture issue and as a barrier for help seeking. This article provides an overview of the main barriers to access and quality care created by stigmatization in healthcare, a consideration of co…
Theoretical and Practical Considerations for Combating Mental Illness Stigma in Health Care
Reducing the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness is becoming an increasingly important focus for research, policy, programming and intervention work. While it has been well established that the healthcare system is one of the key environments in which persons with mental illnesses experience stigma and discrimination there is little published literature on how to build and deliver successful anti-stigma programs in healthcare…
Medicalized Mothering
This paper explores infant feeding practices and experiences of mothers in Canada and Norway, two countries where breastfeeding rates are relatively high. Based on interviews with 33 Canadian mothers and 27 Norwegian mothers, we also examine how mothers feel, think and talk about their infant feeding decisions and experiences, and examine similarities and divergences across their stories. Our findings reveal that infant feeding is very much organ…
Contextualising risk, constructing choice
The ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ of feeding babies is a key interest in the arena of public health. In recent years, this has translated into an ever-increasing emphasis on breastfeeding; namely, on trying to get more mothers to breastfeed, to breastfeed exclusively, and to breastfeed for longer. It is argued, however, that this discourse is not a benign communiqué about the relative benefits of breastfeeding, but an ideologically infused, moral discourse …
The Problem with Breastfeeding Discourse
Breast-feeding, Bottle-feeding and Dr. Spock
In today's environment, breast-feeding represents both a medical gold standard for infant feeding and a moral gold standard for mothering. The morally charged character of this discourse makes the notion of choice in infant feeding particularly problematic and fraught with difficulty. From an historical content analysis of selected editions from 1946 to 1998 of Dr. Spock's famous child-care manual, this paper explicates the process through which …
On the Reconceptualizing of Gender
This article takes up the concept of gender as a specific case in point of spontaneous sociology. The contributory aim is to set forth a multidimensional framework for addressing gender in research. I summarize key developments in gender theory, tease out their implications for research design, and outline four interlocking strategies for how the conventional 'gender=male/female' variable might be reconfigured. The first strategy involves shiftin…
The Problem with Breastfeeding Discourse
Breast-feeding, Bottle-feeding and Dr. Spock
In today's environment, breast-feeding represents both a medical gold standard for infant feeding and a moral gold standard for mothering. The morally charged character of this discourse makes the notion of choice in infant feeding particularly problematic and fraught with difficulty. From an historical content analysis of selected editions from 1946 to 1998 of Dr. Spock's famous child-care manual, this paper explicates the process through which …
Theoretical and Practical Considerations for Combating Mental Illness Stigma in Health Care
Reducing the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness is becoming an increasingly important focus for research, policy, programming and intervention work. While it has been well established that the healthcare system is one of the key environments in which persons with mental illnesses experience stigma and discrimination there is little published literature on how to build and deliver successful anti-stigma programs in healthcare…
Medicalized Mothering
This paper explores infant feeding practices and experiences of mothers in Canada and Norway, two countries where breastfeeding rates are relatively high. Based on interviews with 33 Canadian mothers and 27 Norwegian mothers, we also examine how mothers feel, think and talk about their infant feeding decisions and experiences, and examine similarities and divergences across their stories. Our findings reveal that infant feeding is very much organ…
On the Reconceptualizing of Gender
This article takes up the concept of gender as a specific case in point of spontaneous sociology. The contributory aim is to set forth a multidimensional framework for addressing gender in research. I summarize key developments in gender theory, tease out their implications for research design, and outline four interlocking strategies for how the conventional 'gender=male/female' variable might be reconfigured. The first strategy involves shiftin…
On the Reconceptualizing of Gender
This article takes up the concept of gender as a specific case in point of spontaneous sociology. The contributory aim is to set forth a multidimensional framework for addressing gender in research. I summarize key developments in gender theory, tease out their implications for research design, and outline four interlocking strategies for how the conventional 'gender=male/female' variable might be reconfigured. The first strategy involves shiftin…
Breast-feeding, Bottle-feeding and Dr. Spock
In today's environment, breast-feeding represents both a medical gold standard for infant feeding and a moral gold standard for mothering. The morally charged character of this discourse makes the notion of choice in infant feeding particularly problematic and fraught with difficulty. From an historical content analysis of selected editions from 1946 to 1998 of Dr. Spock's famous child-care manual, this paper explicates the process through which …
The Problem with Breastfeeding Discourse
Contextualising risk, constructing choice
The ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ of feeding babies is a key interest in the arena of public health. In recent years, this has translated into an ever-increasing emphasis on breastfeeding; namely, on trying to get more mothers to breastfeed, to breastfeed exclusively, and to breastfeed for longer. It is argued, however, that this discourse is not a benign communiqué about the relative benefits of breastfeeding, but an ideologically infused, moral discourse …
Medicalized Mothering
This paper explores infant feeding practices and experiences of mothers in Canada and Norway, two countries where breastfeeding rates are relatively high. Based on interviews with 33 Canadian mothers and 27 Norwegian mothers, we also examine how mothers feel, think and talk about their infant feeding decisions and experiences, and examine similarities and divergences across their stories. Our findings reveal that infant feeding is very much organ…
Theoretical and Practical Considerations for Combating Mental Illness Stigma in Health Care
Reducing the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness is becoming an increasingly important focus for research, policy, programming and intervention work. While it has been well established that the healthcare system is one of the key environments in which persons with mental illnesses experience stigma and discrimination there is little published literature on how to build and deliver successful anti-stigma programs in healthcare…
Mental illness-related stigma in healthcare
Mental illness-related stigma, including that which exists in the healthcare system and among healthcare providers, creates serious barriers to access and quality care. It is also a major concern for healthcare practitioners themselves, both as a workplace culture issue and as a barrier for help seeking. This article provides an overview of the main barriers to access and quality care created by stigmatization in healthcare, a consideration of co…
Dismantling Structural Stigma Related to Mental Health and Substance Use
Stigma related to mental health and substance use (MHSU) is a well-established construct that describes how inequitable health outcomes can result from prejudice, discrimination, and marginalization. Although there is a body of literature on educational approaches to reduce stigma, antistigma education for MHSU has primarily focused on stigma at the social, interpersonal/public, and personal (self-stigma) levels, with little attention to the prob…
Measuring the Influence of Curricular Content and Personal Stories on Substance Use Stigma
Background: Understanding of the lived experience is an important educational strategy for improving attitudes toward stigmatized patient groups. This study evaluated the influence of a personal story intervention on nursing students' attitudes toward people who use opioids and measured attitudinal change from students' regular mental health and addictions curriculum. Method: This study used a single-group longitudinal design. Stigma outcomes wer…
Measuring Stigma Towards People with Opioid Use Problems
Many countries are experiencing an ongoing opioid crisis characterized by high rates of opioid use problems, overdose, poisoning, and death. Stigma has been identified as a central problem for seeking and receiving quality services from health providers and first respondents. The Mental Health Commission of Canada developed a scale that could be used to measure stigma in this population, as no such scale currently exists. This paper provides the …
Opioid Use Stigma
Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives on Mental Illness and Substance Use Stigma
Attitudes of health professionals towards people with substance use disorders in Brazil, controlling for the effects of social desirability
Health professionals are in a strategic position to help people with substance use disorders (SUDs) who seek health services for support or treatment. However, it is known that professionals' attitudes towards people who use alcohol and other drugs are marked by stigmatizing attitudes that create barriers to access quality treatment and make it difficult for the user to adhere to it. From this, the present study aimed to investigate the attitudes…
An initiative to improve mental health practice in primary care in Caribbean countries
Objectives. The aim of this initiative was to assess whether a novel training program – Understanding Stigma and Strengthening Cognitive Behavioral Interpersonal Skills – could improve primary health care providers’ confidence in the quality of mental health care they provide in the Caribbean setting by using the Plan-Do-Study-Act rapid cycle for learning improvement. Methods. We conducted a prospective observational study of the impact of this t…
An Exploration of Mental Health-Related Stigma in an Emergency Setting
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Based Intervention to Manage Stigma toward Substance use Disorders
Objective Stigma of health service professionals toward people with substance use disorders seriously compromises quality of care. A worldwide agenda points out how crucial it is to invest in evidence-based interventions to address stigma. This study aimed to describe the development process of an innovative intervention protocol to manage stigma based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Method This is an empirical qualitative study. Phase 1: G…
Medicine (15 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (11 obras) · Nursing (11 obras) · Psychiatry (10 obras) · Mental health (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Public health (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Stigma (botany (6 obras)