Bree Akesson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 349662 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bree Akesson |
| PRENOMES | Bree |
| SOBRENOME | Akesson |
| ASSINATURA | AKESSON B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6760-7198 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Delivery of health and social programs for temporary and precarious status (Taps) migrants in Ontario, Canada
Background In recent years, Canada has accepted more temporary migrants to fulfill labour shortages and support economic productivity. These temporary and precarious status (TAPS) migrants, including temporary foreign workers, international students, refugee claimants, and non-status individuals, work in various sectors to fill gaps in the labour force. However, the precarity and uncertainty experienced by TAPS migrants create challenges around t…
Building Capacity in Crisis
This research underscores the program's impact on improving healthcare access, enhancing women's empowerment, and promoting community resilience. By situating this initiative within the broader context of refugee health, education, and capacity-building, this research highlights the HAT program's potential as a replicable model in Bangladesh and in other humanitarian settings
To be who I want to be
This paper explores how refugee families resettled in Canada conceptualize and value education, highlighting the central role it plays in their migration decisions, wellbeing, and future aspirations. Drawing on qualitative data from 18 refugee families collected through an innovative, family-centered Researcher-in-Family (RIF) model, which engaged youth as research interns within their own families, this study finds that education emerged as a do…
“So as Not to Feel Alone”
More than 15% of refugee families will experience pregnancy loss. Feelings of stigma, shame, and guilt may be common after experiencing such a loss. The presence or absence of supports may help to exacerbate or ameliorate these feelings. The research used a qualitative approach to explore experiences of pregnancy loss among Syrian refugee families who were displaced in Lebanon. The foundation of the research was 15 collaborative family interviews…
Parental Resilience in Contexts of Political Violence
Families suffer in particular ways during the violence and targeted deprivation of freedom and resources within political violence (PV), which includes wars, armed conflicts, and military occupations. While evidence is accumulating about the disproportionate impacts of PV on parents and children, we lack a clear, globally integrated understanding of how families suffer—and survive—PV. There is an urgent need to synthesize existing work to refine …
A socio-spatial perspective on fostering a sense of belonging among refugee families resettled in Canadian small cities
Resettlement has a destabilizing effect on refugee families’ wellbeing • A sense of belonging nurtures psychosocial wellbeing • Place plays a critical role in fostering belonging in resettlement contexts • Refugees’ feelings of safety and security are intertwined with belonging and wellbeing • Belonging is developed through place attachment • Socio-spatial informed initiatives hold promise for fostering refugee belonging Fostering a sense of belo…
Where There is Hope and Family, There is Home
Exploring stressors impacting the mental health of refugee mothers in Lebanon during Covid-19 pandemic
This study analyzes stressors experienced by Syrian mothers in Lebanon in 2020 and emphasizes the necessity of addressing their distinct needs. Through in-depth interviews, it identifies stressors linked to living conditions in Lebanon, the economic crisis, health care access, and the impact of the pandemic. The study recommends that social workers should utilize and enhance existing support systems. It also recommends social policies facilitatin…
Mental health services among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Purpose This paper aims to understand the mental health experiences and needs of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from the perspective of mental health-care providers and hospital administrators. Design/methodology/approach This paper conducted a mixed methods study. Clinical data about refugee mental health care of 722 adult and pediatric patients were analyzed, and four focus groups with mental health providers ( n = 4), primary health-care prov…
We're Looking for Support from Allah
In August 2021, the United States withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years. The fall of the Afghan government to the Taliban resulted in the displacement of some Afghans. Canada committed to welcoming thousands of refugees. Research suggests that refugees tend to have higher rates of post-traumatic stress, and Afghan refugees, in particular, have among the highest rates. Another body of literature suggests that religious coping has positive effec…
Reconsidering the role of place in health and welfare services
Places—the meaningful locations of daily life—have been central to the wellbeing of humans since they first formed social groups, providing a stable base for individuals, families, and communities. In the United States and Canada, as elsewhere, place also plays a foundational role in the provision of critical social and health services and resources. Yet the globally destabilizing events of the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically challenged the c…
To Live in Peace
Contemporary studies show that women play multiple roles in armed conflict. Only rarely are they passive bystanders or victims. Women are often part of the events that lead to armed conflict, and they may engage in combat. They have also led peace movements that have ended conflict. Nevertheless, the multiple roles that women play in war and peace are oftentimes not recognized, and their experiences, beyond victimhood, have been disregarded in po…
Changing Public Perceptions and Supporting Improved Working Conditions for the Social Service Workforce
The scholarship has yet to investigate the multifaceted ways that working conditions and public perception both play a fundamental role in fostering a healthy and effective social service workforce. This paper describes a global study to develop consensus on ideal practices and approaches to strengthen the social service workforce. Using a mixed methods Delphi technique, 43 experts across a range of social service practice and geographical settin…
Peace, love, and justice
While there have been many studies that elucidate the extent of human suffering in Afghanistan, there has been no formal study of what it means to be psychologically and socially well. This article reports on a participatory phenomenological study conducted in Afghanistan designed to better understand psychosocial well-being. Collecting data from 440 Afghan participants in 56 focus group discussions, the research specifically elaborated and opera…
Most importantly, I hope God keeps illness away from us’
The influx of 1.5 million Syrians into Lebanon has created an increased demand for health services, which is largely unmet, due to cost, a highly fragmented and privatised system, and crises around legal documentation and refugee status. The aim of this study was to use a constant comparison analysis of qualitative data to explore how Syrian refugees living in Lebanon describe their experiences accessing healthcare ( N = 351 individuals within 46…
Cumulative domicide
This article introduces a new concept to help explain domicide perpetrated against one group of people over space and time: 'cumulative domicide'. The authors challenge the notion of domicide as an event and instead conceptualize the rights violation as a process. The cumulative domicide against the Sayisi Dene in Manitoba from the 1950s to the 1970s is a perfect illustration of the compounding, intergenerational effects that cumulative domicide …
Visual methods with children and young people
Visual methods with children and young people: academics and visual industries in dialogue." Visual Studies, 34(3), pp. 303–304
Mapping social work education in the West Africa region
This article presents the results of a systematic mapping of social work training programs in countries throughout West Africa, a region historically under‐represented in global discussions of the social welfare workforce. The research illuminates how social workers and related professionals are trained to engage in social work practice in a number of West African countries. The research was conducted in two phases. In the initial phase, the rese…
Social work education in Albania
The social work profession in Albania is relatively young and social services in the country continue to develop. But over the past three decades, Albania has experienced significant growth and transformation in its social work education programmes. Nevertheless, there is very little published work on the Albanian social work education system and its implementation on the ground. Currently, the main sources of social work graduates are three Scho…
Supervision during social work education and training in Francophone West Africa
This article presents research exploring the conceptualization and practice of supervision during social worker training in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Francophone West African countries whose social work education frameworks and processes are nearly absent in the academic literature. Drawing upon discursive analyses of training curricula as well as interviews and group discussions undertaken in 2014 with professors, administrators, and stude…
A model of paternal protection in the context of political violence
There is little research that explores how fathers protect their children in the context of political violence. Drawing upon exploratory qualitative research with 18 Palestinian families, this article proposes a model of paternal protection composed of three dimensions: (1) method of protection (how fathers protect their children), (2) focus of protection (what fathers protect their children from), and (3) locus of protection (where fathers locat…
An Empirical Appraisal of Canadian Doctoral Dissertations Using Grounded Theory
Grounded theory is a popular methodological approach in social work research, especially by doctoral students conducting qualitative research. The approach, however, is not always used consistently or as originally designed, compromising the quality of the research. The aim of the current study is to assess the quality of recent Canadian social work doctoral dissertations implementing a grounded theory approach. Our analysis is based on the premi…
Expert understandings of supervision as a means to strengthen the social service workforce
Learning on how effective social work supervision can strengthen the social service workforce is especially limited in low- and middle-income countries. To address this gap, this paper draws from a global study examining practices and approaches to effectively strengthen the social service workforce. Using a Delphi consensus methodology, the study provided a highly structured means to distil key lessons learned by experts across a range of practi…
Research as intervention? Exploring the health and well-being of children and youth facing global adversity through participatory visual methods
Global health research typically relies on the translation of knowledge (from health professionals to the community) and the dissemination of knowledge (from research results to the wider public). However, Greenhalgh and Wieringa [2011. Is it time to drop the 'knowledge translation' metaphor? A critical literature review. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 104(12), 501-509. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2011.110285 ] suggest 'that while "translation" …
The Right to Home
There is limited international recognition that domicide—or intentional destruction of home—is a violation of children's rights. While human rights documents allude to the crime of domicide, it is, however, never explicitly referred to as a human rights violation. Through an analysis of human rights documents and with a focus on the experiences of children, families and communities, we argue that domicide should be explicitly acknowledged as a vi…
School as a place of violence and hope
Mapping social work education in the West Africa region
This article presents the results of a systematic mapping of social work training programs in countries throughout West Africa, a region historically under‐represented in global discussions of the social welfare workforce. The research illuminates how social workers and related professionals are trained to engage in social work practice in a number of West African countries. The research was conducted in two phases. In the initial phase, the rese…
Patterns and Trends of Canadian Social Work Doctoral Dissertations
The first social work doctoral program in Canada began in 1952. Relatively recently, the number of programs has grown rapidly, doubling in the past 10 years to 14 programs. Despite the expansion there is no systematic understanding of the patterns and trends in doctoral research. In this study we review 248 publicly available dissertations from 2001 to 2011. We find that most dissertations are qualitative and descriptive in nature with a relative…
We're Looking for Support from Allah
In August 2021, the United States withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years. The fall of the Afghan government to the Taliban resulted in the displacement of some Afghans. Canada committed to welcoming thousands of refugees. Research suggests that refugees tend to have higher rates of post-traumatic stress, and Afghan refugees, in particular, have among the highest rates. Another body of literature suggests that religious coping has positive effec…
Expert understandings of supervision as a means to strengthen the social service workforce
Learning on how effective social work supervision can strengthen the social service workforce is especially limited in low- and middle-income countries. To address this gap, this paper draws from a global study examining practices and approaches to effectively strengthen the social service workforce. Using a Delphi consensus methodology, the study provided a highly structured means to distil key lessons learned by experts across a range of practi…
Changing Public Perceptions and Supporting Improved Working Conditions for the Social Service Workforce
The scholarship has yet to investigate the multifaceted ways that working conditions and public perception both play a fundamental role in fostering a healthy and effective social service workforce. This paper describes a global study to develop consensus on ideal practices and approaches to strengthen the social service workforce. Using a mixed methods Delphi technique, 43 experts across a range of social service practice and geographical settin…
Supervision during social work education and training in Francophone West Africa
This article presents research exploring the conceptualization and practice of supervision during social worker training in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Francophone West African countries whose social work education frameworks and processes are nearly absent in the academic literature. Drawing upon discursive analyses of training curricula as well as interviews and group discussions undertaken in 2014 with professors, administrators, and stude…
A model of paternal protection in the context of political violence
There is little research that explores how fathers protect their children in the context of political violence. Drawing upon exploratory qualitative research with 18 Palestinian families, this article proposes a model of paternal protection composed of three dimensions: (1) method of protection (how fathers protect their children), (2) focus of protection (what fathers protect their children from), and (3) locus of protection (where fathers locat…
Trees, flowers, prisons, flags
The Israeli occupation has shaped the lives of Palestinian families for generations. Under occupation, Palestinian children continue to craft identities connected to place, specifically in their relationship with Palestine as a nation-state. Drawing from a qualitative research project using the concept of place as a lens through which to view children’s negotiations with their environments, this article examines how Palestinian identity is relate…
Responding to Child Maltreatment
Peace, love, and justice
While there have been many studies that elucidate the extent of human suffering in Afghanistan, there has been no formal study of what it means to be psychologically and socially well. This article reports on a participatory phenomenological study conducted in Afghanistan designed to better understand psychosocial well-being. Collecting data from 440 Afghan participants in 56 focus group discussions, the research specifically elaborated and opera…
Social work education in Albania
The social work profession in Albania is relatively young and social services in the country continue to develop. But over the past three decades, Albania has experienced significant growth and transformation in its social work education programmes. Nevertheless, there is very little published work on the Albanian social work education system and its implementation on the ground. Currently, the main sources of social work graduates are three Scho…
An Empirical Appraisal of Canadian Doctoral Dissertations Using Grounded Theory
Grounded theory is a popular methodological approach in social work research, especially by doctoral students conducting qualitative research. The approach, however, is not always used consistently or as originally designed, compromising the quality of the research. The aim of the current study is to assess the quality of recent Canadian social work doctoral dissertations implementing a grounded theory approach. Our analysis is based on the premi…
Occupying masculinities
Under occupation, Palestinians face a range of challenges such as poverty, lack of mobility, decreased access to social and health services, and violence. Fathers in Palestine have had to raise children in such a context, yet little is understood about their experiences. We conducted research with 18 families in the occupied West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem in order to understand the experiences of fathers in the face of occupation and violen…
Addressing the Psychosocial Needs of Pregnant Women Affected by War
Today’s female refugee and internally displaced population faces the increasing risk of adverse birth outcomes associated with stress related to conflict, flight, and displacement. Programs addressing the specific psychosocial needs of pregnant women in situations of war are scarce, and there is little consensus regarding best practices. Initiatives have recently emerged, including psychosocial groups, safe motherhood training, and social support…
A different light
by Parvati Nair Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011, 365 pages, 21 photographs ISBN: 978-0-8223-5048-4 (paperback) Price $29.95 Reviewed by Bree Akesson, McGill University One need not b
School as a place of violence and hope
Ameer got his gun
Most treatments of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict are framed by a dichotomy: which side is one on? Knowing this makes it so much easier to make sense of war, violence, and oppression. Maybe too e
Trees, flowers, prisons, flags
The Israeli occupation has shaped the lives of Palestinian families for generations. Under occupation, Palestinian children continue to craft identities connected to place, specifically in their relationship with Palestine as a nation-state. Drawing from a qualitative research project using the concept of place as a lens through which to view children’s negotiations with their environments, this article examines how Palestinian identity is relate…
Responding to Child Maltreatment
Patterns and Trends of Canadian Social Work Doctoral Dissertations
The first social work doctoral program in Canada began in 1952. Relatively recently, the number of programs has grown rapidly, doubling in the past 10 years to 14 programs. Despite the expansion there is no systematic understanding of the patterns and trends in doctoral research. In this study we review 248 publicly available dissertations from 2001 to 2011. We find that most dissertations are qualitative and descriptive in nature with a relative…
Occupying masculinities
Under occupation, Palestinians face a range of challenges such as poverty, lack of mobility, decreased access to social and health services, and violence. Fathers in Palestine have had to raise children in such a context, yet little is understood about their experiences. We conducted research with 18 families in the occupied West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem in order to understand the experiences of fathers in the face of occupation and violen…
Research as intervention? Exploring the health and well-being of children and youth facing global adversity through participatory visual methods
Global health research typically relies on the translation of knowledge (from health professionals to the community) and the dissemination of knowledge (from research results to the wider public). However, Greenhalgh and Wieringa [2011. Is it time to drop the 'knowledge translation' metaphor? A critical literature review. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 104(12), 501-509. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2011.110285 ] suggest 'that while "translation" …
The Right to Home
There is limited international recognition that domicide—or intentional destruction of home—is a violation of children's rights. While human rights documents allude to the crime of domicide, it is, however, never explicitly referred to as a human rights violation. Through an analysis of human rights documents and with a focus on the experiences of children, families and communities, we argue that domicide should be explicitly acknowledged as a vi…
Children and Political Violence
The violence of the image
The violence of the image: Photography and international conflict edited by Liam Kennedy and Caitlin Patrick." Visual Studies, 31(2), pp. 179–180
An Empirical Appraisal of Canadian Doctoral Dissertations Using Grounded Theory
Grounded theory is a popular methodological approach in social work research, especially by doctoral students conducting qualitative research. The approach, however, is not always used consistently or as originally designed, compromising the quality of the research. The aim of the current study is to assess the quality of recent Canadian social work doctoral dissertations implementing a grounded theory approach. Our analysis is based on the premi…
Expert understandings of supervision as a means to strengthen the social service workforce
Learning on how effective social work supervision can strengthen the social service workforce is especially limited in low- and middle-income countries. To address this gap, this paper draws from a global study examining practices and approaches to effectively strengthen the social service workforce. Using a Delphi consensus methodology, the study provided a highly structured means to distil key lessons learned by experts across a range of practi…
Supervision during social work education and training in Francophone West Africa
This article presents research exploring the conceptualization and practice of supervision during social worker training in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Francophone West African countries whose social work education frameworks and processes are nearly absent in the academic literature. Drawing upon discursive analyses of training curricula as well as interviews and group discussions undertaken in 2014 with professors, administrators, and stude…
A model of paternal protection in the context of political violence
There is little research that explores how fathers protect their children in the context of political violence. Drawing upon exploratory qualitative research with 18 Palestinian families, this article proposes a model of paternal protection composed of three dimensions: (1) method of protection (how fathers protect their children), (2) focus of protection (what fathers protect their children from), and (3) locus of protection (where fathers locat…
Visual methods with children and young people
Visual methods with children and young people: academics and visual industries in dialogue." Visual Studies, 34(3), pp. 303–304
Mapping social work education in the West Africa region
This article presents the results of a systematic mapping of social work training programs in countries throughout West Africa, a region historically under‐represented in global discussions of the social welfare workforce. The research illuminates how social workers and related professionals are trained to engage in social work practice in a number of West African countries. The research was conducted in two phases. In the initial phase, the rese…
Social work education in Albania
The social work profession in Albania is relatively young and social services in the country continue to develop. But over the past three decades, Albania has experienced significant growth and transformation in its social work education programmes. Nevertheless, there is very little published work on the Albanian social work education system and its implementation on the ground. Currently, the main sources of social work graduates are three Scho…
Most importantly, I hope God keeps illness away from us’
The influx of 1.5 million Syrians into Lebanon has created an increased demand for health services, which is largely unmet, due to cost, a highly fragmented and privatised system, and crises around legal documentation and refugee status. The aim of this study was to use a constant comparison analysis of qualitative data to explore how Syrian refugees living in Lebanon describe their experiences accessing healthcare ( N = 351 individuals within 46…
Cumulative domicide
This article introduces a new concept to help explain domicide perpetrated against one group of people over space and time: 'cumulative domicide'. The authors challenge the notion of domicide as an event and instead conceptualize the rights violation as a process. The cumulative domicide against the Sayisi Dene in Manitoba from the 1950s to the 1970s is a perfect illustration of the compounding, intergenerational effects that cumulative domicide …
To Live in Peace
Contemporary studies show that women play multiple roles in armed conflict. Only rarely are they passive bystanders or victims. Women are often part of the events that lead to armed conflict, and they may engage in combat. They have also led peace movements that have ended conflict. Nevertheless, the multiple roles that women play in war and peace are oftentimes not recognized, and their experiences, beyond victimhood, have been disregarded in po…
Changing Public Perceptions and Supporting Improved Working Conditions for the Social Service Workforce
The scholarship has yet to investigate the multifaceted ways that working conditions and public perception both play a fundamental role in fostering a healthy and effective social service workforce. This paper describes a global study to develop consensus on ideal practices and approaches to strengthen the social service workforce. Using a mixed methods Delphi technique, 43 experts across a range of social service practice and geographical settin…
Peace, love, and justice
While there have been many studies that elucidate the extent of human suffering in Afghanistan, there has been no formal study of what it means to be psychologically and socially well. This article reports on a participatory phenomenological study conducted in Afghanistan designed to better understand psychosocial well-being. Collecting data from 440 Afghan participants in 56 focus group discussions, the research specifically elaborated and opera…
Reconsidering the role of place in health and welfare services
Places—the meaningful locations of daily life—have been central to the wellbeing of humans since they first formed social groups, providing a stable base for individuals, families, and communities. In the United States and Canada, as elsewhere, place also plays a foundational role in the provision of critical social and health services and resources. Yet the globally destabilizing events of the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically challenged the c…
Sociology (27 obras) · Political science (25 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Refugee (10 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Social Work (9 obras)