Deborah Mcleod
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3603539 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Deborah Mcleod |
| PRENOMES | Deborah |
| SOBRENOME | Mcleod |
| ASSINATURA | MCLEOD D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Qualitative analysis of negative and positive Covid-19 experiences of frontline client educators in a Canadian maritime province
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic dramatically shifted the ways that citizens lived, increasing rates of mental-health concerns. Frontline-worker stress escalated due to health risks while exposing workplaces ill-equipped to adapt to crises. Educators struggling with occupational stress pre-pandemic were particularly hard hit, as were healthcare and mental-health clinicians and systems. In a Canadian maritime province, we launched a longitudinal pr…
An Educational Program to Help Patients Manage Androgen Deprivation Therapy Side Effects
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a common treatment for prostate cancer, is associated with physical, psychological, and sexual side effects that reduce patients’ quality of life. The authors designed an educational program to prepare patients for managing these side effects. This paper describes an implementation model for national dissemination of the program, testing its feasibility and acceptability at the institutional and patient level. …
Metaphor and meaning in an online creative expression exercise to promote dyadic coping in young couples affected by breast cancer
Background: Establishing a sense of shared meaning is related to optimal adjustment for couples faced with cancer. The present study examined couple response to a creative expression exercise designed to facilitate shared meaning construction in young couples affected by breast cancer.Method: Thirteen women diagnosed with breast cancer and their male partners were guided through an original online exercise designed to help facilitate the creative…
Talking with text
It puts things out of your control
Research indicates that there is a high level of trust in health professionals but also a high level of non-disclosure of mental health issues to general practitioners (GPs). This paper explores the issue of patients' willingness to disclose mental health problems to GPs through interviews with 33 patients from the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand. Patients' willingness to disclose related to a range of factors but this paper focuses…
What sort of health promotion are you talking about
This glorious twilight zone of uncertainty
Language and Power
More than merely describing what constitutes a good or truthful interpretation, all judgments about the legitimacy of knowledge claims can be understood as enacting relations of power. That is, our understanding of what it means to make a reasonable claim to knowledge is already caught up in relations of power that privilege some perspectives and marginalize others. Language, understood as productive rather than reflective of meaning, both enable…
This glorious twilight zone of uncertainty
It puts things out of your control
Research indicates that there is a high level of trust in health professionals but also a high level of non-disclosure of mental health issues to general practitioners (GPs). This paper explores the issue of patients' willingness to disclose mental health problems to GPs through interviews with 33 patients from the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand. Patients' willingness to disclose related to a range of factors but this paper focuses…
What sort of health promotion are you talking about
Talking with text
Language and Power
More than merely describing what constitutes a good or truthful interpretation, all judgments about the legitimacy of knowledge claims can be understood as enacting relations of power. That is, our understanding of what it means to make a reasonable claim to knowledge is already caught up in relations of power that privilege some perspectives and marginalize others. Language, understood as productive rather than reflective of meaning, both enable…
Language and Power
More than merely describing what constitutes a good or truthful interpretation, all judgments about the legitimacy of knowledge claims can be understood as enacting relations of power. That is, our understanding of what it means to make a reasonable claim to knowledge is already caught up in relations of power that privilege some perspectives and marginalize others. Language, understood as productive rather than reflective of meaning, both enable…
What sort of health promotion are you talking about
This glorious twilight zone of uncertainty
It puts things out of your control
Research indicates that there is a high level of trust in health professionals but also a high level of non-disclosure of mental health issues to general practitioners (GPs). This paper explores the issue of patients' willingness to disclose mental health problems to GPs through interviews with 33 patients from the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand. Patients' willingness to disclose related to a range of factors but this paper focuses…
Talking with text
Metaphor and meaning in an online creative expression exercise to promote dyadic coping in young couples affected by breast cancer
Background: Establishing a sense of shared meaning is related to optimal adjustment for couples faced with cancer. The present study examined couple response to a creative expression exercise designed to facilitate shared meaning construction in young couples affected by breast cancer.Method: Thirteen women diagnosed with breast cancer and their male partners were guided through an original online exercise designed to help facilitate the creative…
An Educational Program to Help Patients Manage Androgen Deprivation Therapy Side Effects
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a common treatment for prostate cancer, is associated with physical, psychological, and sexual side effects that reduce patients’ quality of life. The authors designed an educational program to prepare patients for managing these side effects. This paper describes an implementation model for national dissemination of the program, testing its feasibility and acceptability at the institutional and patient level. …
Qualitative analysis of negative and positive Covid-19 experiences of frontline client educators in a Canadian maritime province
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic dramatically shifted the ways that citizens lived, increasing rates of mental-health concerns. Frontline-worker stress escalated due to health risks while exposing workplaces ill-equipped to adapt to crises. Educators struggling with occupational stress pre-pandemic were particularly hard hit, as were healthcare and mental-health clinicians and systems. In a Canadian maritime province, we launched a longitudinal pr…
Medicine (6 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Cancer survivorship and care (3 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Internal Medicine (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Nursing (3 obras) · Psychiatry (3 obras)