Geoffrey Nelson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3800377 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Geoffrey Nelson |
| PRENOMES | Geoffrey |
| SOBRENOME | Nelson |
| ASSINATURA | NELSON G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 377 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Court-mandates and parent training
Predictors of housing instability and stability among Housing First participants
This study examined the characteristics of people who experienced housing instability and stability after 24 months of being enrolled in Housing First (HF). A companion study addresses the same objective using qualitative methods. A sequential logistic regression was conducted to determine predictors of unstable and stable housing at 24 months of enrollment in HF in a randomized trial. We applied the Gelberg-Andersen. Behavioral Model for Vulnera…
Narratives of people with serious mental illness in Housing First
There has been little previous research that has examined factors related to housing stability and instability among Housing First (HF) tenants. Qualitative research was used to determine themes related to housing stability and instability for people with mental illness participating in a HF program implemented in five Canadian cities. Data were gathered for all participants who completed qualitative interviews at baseline and an 18-month follow-…
Females and Housing First
The main objective of this research was to qualitatively examine the impacts of Housing First (HF) specifically on those participants who identified themselves as female in response to question asking what their gender was. The data analyzed are from a larger, muti‐site, randomized controlled trial. χ 2 analysis was used to compare the life changes (coded as positive, neutral, or negative) experienced by 64 females (42 HF and 22 TAU). An in‐depth…
Understanding Systems Change in Early Implementation of Housing First in Canadian Communities
We present interim findings of a cross‐site case study of an initiative to expand Housing First ( HF ) in Canada through training and technical assistance ( TTA ). HF is an evidence‐based practice designed to end chronic homelessness for consumers of mental health services. We draw upon concepts from implementation science and systems change theory to examine how early implementation occurs within a system. Case studies examining HF early impleme…
Navigating Complex Implementation Contexts
Highlights Housing First can be implemented beyond demonstration sites without new resources. Using an intentional implementation strategy communities implemented high‐fidelity programs. One key implementation challenge was accessing affordable housing and housing subsidies. By helping develop housing specialists and reflective practice, the TTA facilitated effective implementation
What Happens After the Demonstration Phase? The Sustainability of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First Programs for Homeless Persons with Mental Illness
This research examined the sustainability of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First ( HF ) programs for homeless persons with mental illness 2 years after the end of the demonstration phase of a large (more than 2000 participants enrolled), five‐site, randomized controlled trial. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 142 participants (key informants, HF staff, and persons with lived experience) to understand sustainability outcomes and fact…
Youth Narratives on Community Experiences and Sense of Community and Their Relation to Participation in an Early Childhood Development Program
This comparative study examined how participation in an early childhood development (ECD) program, Better Beginnings, Better Futures, for children (ages 4-8) relates to sense of community (SOC) in later adolescence (ages 18-19). Youths' stories ( N = 96) about community experiences, collected by semistructured, open-ended interviews, were quantitatively coded for several narrative dimensions (specificity, positivity, prosocial content, and meanin…
Housing First for People with Severe Mental Illness Who are Homeless
OBJECTIVE: To provide a review of the extant research literature on Housing First (HF) for people with severe mental illness (SMI) who are homeless and to describe the findings of the recently completed At Home (AH)-Chez soi (CS) demonstration project. HF represents a paradigm shift in the delivery of community mental health services, whereby people with SMI who are homeless are supported through assertive community treatment or intensive case ma…
Implementing Housing First Across Sites and Over Time
This article examines later fidelity and implementation of a five‐site pan‐Canadian Housing First research demonstration project. The average fidelity score across five Housing First domains and 10 programs was high in the first year of operation (3.47/4) and higher in the third year of operation (3.62/4). Qualitative interviews (36 key informant interviews and 17 focus groups) revealed that staff expertise, partnerships with other services, and …
Pathways into homelessness
This qualitative study examined how homeless individuals with mental illness experience pathways into homelessness. Study participants were enrolled in the At Home/Chez Soi project, a Pan-Canadian Randomized Controlled Trial comparing the Housing First approach with Treatment as Usual for homeless individuals. This inquiry is grounded in social ecological perspective, which considers interactions between individual and structural factors. Finding…
Critical Community Psychology and Qualitative Research
This article is a conversation between two critical community psychologists about the compatibility and theoretical connections between their field and qualitative research. Critical community psychology is driven by values of power-sharing and social justice, and is praxis-oriented, emphasizing solidarity with oppressed people to create transformative social change. The authors argue that qualitative research, by itself or mixed with quantitativ…
Planning a Multi‐site, Complex Intervention for Homeless People with Mental Illness
This research focused on the relationships between a national team and five project sites across Canada in planning a complex, community intervention for homeless people with mental illness called At Home/Chez Soi, which is based on the Housing First model. The research addressed two questions: (a) what are the challenges in planning? and (b) what factors that helped or hindered moving project planning forward? Using qualitative methods, 149 nati…
Community Psychology and Transformative Policy Change in the Neo‐liberal Era
I present ideas about how community psychologists, as researcher‐activists, can influence public policy. I begin by describing the current neo‐liberal era, noting the immense obstacles it poses to progressive policy change. Next I contrast two approaches to understanding policy formation, evidence‐based policy and discursive policy analysis, and argue that transformative policy change can benefit from both approaches. I then propose three types o…
Bringing politics and evidence together
Exploring Outcomes through Narrative
This study examined the long‐term effects of the Better Beginnings, Better Futures project, a community‐based early childhood development program, on 18–19 year‐old youths’ narratives about turning points in their lives. The sample consisted of youth who participated in Better Beginnings from ages 4–8 ( n = 62) and youth from a comparison community who did not participate in Better Beginnings ( n = 34). Controlling for covariates, significant dif…
Cults, New Religions and Religious Creativity
The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale, and in particular by a mushrooming of numerous religious movements. This work, first published in 1987, takes a fresh approach to the understanding of this phenomenon, an approach which takes into account new concepts of human nature and of religion
Community and Power
Community Psychology
Housing for People with Serious Mental Illness
The evolution of housing approaches for people with serious mental illness is described and analyzed. A distinction is made between three different approaches to housing: (a) custodial, (b) supportive, and (c) supported. Research evidence is reviewed that suggests the promise of supported housing, but more research is needed that compares supported housing with different supportive housing approaches. It is argued that the current move to a suppo…
Partnering with Children Diagnosed with Mental Health Issues
This paper explores the use of participatory action research (PAR) with children diagnosed with mental health issues. We argue that critiques from the sociology of childhood are useful for guiding PAR with children. First, we describe and critique values and assumptions that underlie research and practice with children who experience mental health issues. Second, we outline key qualities of the sociology of childhood, discuss their implications f…
Putting Values into Practice
The purpose of the paper is to reflect on value dilemmas in mental health consumer‐run organizations and to discuss implications for research, policy, and practice. We review the roots of consumer‐run organizations in the self‐help movement and the psychiatric survivor liberation movement, focusing on the distinctive values espoused by consumer‐run organizations. We also discuss evidence‐based and value‐based approaches to mental health policy fo…
A review of the literature on the effectiveness of housing and support, assertive community treatment, and intensive case management interventions for persons with mental illness who have been homeles…
A review of 16 controlled outcome evaluations of housing and support interventions for people with mental illness who have been homeless revealed significant reductions in homelessness and hospitalization and improvements in other outcomes (e.g., well-being) resulting from programs that provided permanent housing and support, assertive community treatment (ACT), and intensive case management (ICM). The best outcomes for housing stability were fou…
Capturing system level activities and impacts of mental health consumer‐run organizations
Since the 1970s mental health consumer‐run organizations have come to offer not only mutual support, but they have also adopted agendas for broader social change. Despite an awareness of the need for system level efforts that create supportive environments for their members, there has been limited research demonstrating how their system level activities can be documented or their impacts evaluated. The purpose of this paper is to feature a method…
Housing for People with Serious Mental Illness
This article contrasts values associated with the delivery of housing programs for people with serious mental illness with the typical topics pertaining to housing that are studied by researchers. Six values were identified through a search and content analysis of the literature on housing for people with serious mental illness. A second review of the literature was conducted to identify research on housing for this population. A comparison of fi…
Nothing About Me, Without Me”
Participatory action research with self‐help/mutual aid organizations for psychiatric consumer/survivors is reviewed. We begin by tracing the origins of and defining both participatory action research and self‐help/mutual aid. In so doing, the degree of correspondence between the assumptions/values of participatory action research and those of self‐help/mutual aid for psychiatric consumer/survivors is examined. We argue that participatory action …
Building Value‐Based Partnerships
We propose a value‐based conceptualization of partnership, defining partnership as relationships between community psychologists, oppressed groups, and other stakeholders, which strive to achieve key community psychology values (caring, compassion, community, health, self‐determination, participation, power‐sharing, human diversity, and social justice). These values guide partnership work related to the development of services or supports, coalit…
Poetry and Prose
This article discusses some of the possible advantages of a poetic representation of social experience through a selection of four poems based on the words and organized by the salience and time sequence "logic" of participants in a study of formerly homeless mentally ill men and women who are currently housed. The initial report was a qualitative evaluation of the perceptions of this sample of formerly homeless mentally ill people of the benefit…
Social network transactions of psychiatric patients
Stress and social support
The present research examined the burden experienced by the families of a mentally ill person and the relationship between this stress and social support. The participants were 56 parents of a schizophrenic person who were members of a self-help group for the families of psychiatric patients. Results indicated that low levels of burden were associated with small dense social networks, satisfaction with support received, satisfaction with the supp…
Pathways into homelessness
This qualitative study examined how homeless individuals with mental illness experience pathways into homelessness. Study participants were enrolled in the At Home/Chez Soi project, a Pan-Canadian Randomized Controlled Trial comparing the Housing First approach with Treatment as Usual for homeless individuals. This inquiry is grounded in social ecological perspective, which considers interactions between individual and structural factors. Finding…
Assumptions and Values of Community Health Psychology
There is a need to widen the practice of health psychologists to include the theories and methods of community psychology and an awareness of contemporary issues in community health. The aim of such a community health psychology would be both to deepen our understanding of the aetiology of health and illness in society and to develop strategies that will contribute to a reduction in human suffering and an improvement in quality of life. The aim o…
The relationship between long‐term psychiatric clients' psychological well‐being and their perceptions of housing and social support
This research tested hypotheses derived from motivation-hygiene theory that housing and social support would be differentially related to long-term psychiatric clients' Positive Affect and Negative Affect. The participants were 89 people between the ages of 18 and 65, who had been hospitalized for psychiatric problems at least twice and who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic, chronic depressive, or manic-depressive. Results indicated that the nu…
Implementing Housing First Across Sites and Over Time
This article examines later fidelity and implementation of a five‐site pan‐Canadian Housing First research demonstration project. The average fidelity score across five Housing First domains and 10 programs was high in the first year of operation (3.47/4) and higher in the third year of operation (3.62/4). Qualitative interviews (36 key informant interviews and 17 focus groups) revealed that staff expertise, partnerships with other services, and …
The Relationship Between Housing Characteristics, Emotional Well-Being and the Personal Empowerment of Psychiatric Consumer/Survivors
Bringing politics and evidence together
Social networks, social support, personal empowerment, and the adaptation of psychiatric consumers/survivors
Planning a Multi‐site, Complex Intervention for Homeless People with Mental Illness
This research focused on the relationships between a national team and five project sites across Canada in planning a complex, community intervention for homeless people with mental illness called At Home/Chez Soi, which is based on the Housing First model. The research addressed two questions: (a) what are the challenges in planning? and (b) what factors that helped or hindered moving project planning forward? Using qualitative methods, 149 nati…
Capturing system level activities and impacts of mental health consumer‐run organizations
Since the 1970s mental health consumer‐run organizations have come to offer not only mutual support, but they have also adopted agendas for broader social change. Despite an awareness of the need for system level efforts that create supportive environments for their members, there has been limited research demonstrating how their system level activities can be documented or their impacts evaluated. The purpose of this paper is to feature a method…
Understanding Systems Change in Early Implementation of Housing First in Canadian Communities
We present interim findings of a cross‐site case study of an initiative to expand Housing First ( HF ) in Canada through training and technical assistance ( TTA ). HF is an evidence‐based practice designed to end chronic homelessness for consumers of mental health services. We draw upon concepts from implementation science and systems change theory to examine how early implementation occurs within a system. Case studies examining HF early impleme…
Housing for People with Serious Mental Illness
This article contrasts values associated with the delivery of housing programs for people with serious mental illness with the typical topics pertaining to housing that are studied by researchers. Six values were identified through a search and content analysis of the literature on housing for people with serious mental illness. A second review of the literature was conducted to identify research on housing for this population. A comparison of fi…
A longitudinal study of mental health consumer/survivor initiatives
This article examines the outcomes of participation in mental health Consumer/Survivor Initiatives (CSIs) and identifies helpful qualities of CSIs through a longitudinal, qualitative study that involved in-depth interviews of people who experienced severe mental health challenges in Ontario, Canada. We used a nonequivalent control group design in which we compared active participants in CSIs ( n = 15) with nonactive participants ( n = 12) at base…
What Happens After the Demonstration Phase? The Sustainability of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First Programs for Homeless Persons with Mental Illness
This research examined the sustainability of Canada's At Home/Chez Soi Housing First ( HF ) programs for homeless persons with mental illness 2 years after the end of the demonstration phase of a large (more than 2000 participants enrolled), five‐site, randomized controlled trial. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 142 participants (key informants, HF staff, and persons with lived experience) to understand sustainability outcomes and fact…
Community Psychology and Transformative Policy Change in the Neo‐liberal Era
I present ideas about how community psychologists, as researcher‐activists, can influence public policy. I begin by describing the current neo‐liberal era, noting the immense obstacles it poses to progressive policy change. Next I contrast two approaches to understanding policy formation, evidence‐based policy and discursive policy analysis, and argue that transformative policy change can benefit from both approaches. I then propose three types o…
Housing for People with Serious Mental Illness
The evolution of housing approaches for people with serious mental illness is described and analyzed. A distinction is made between three different approaches to housing: (a) custodial, (b) supportive, and (c) supported. Research evidence is reviewed that suggests the promise of supported housing, but more research is needed that compares supported housing with different supportive housing approaches. It is argued that the current move to a suppo…
Exploring Outcomes through Narrative
This study examined the long‐term effects of the Better Beginnings, Better Futures project, a community‐based early childhood development program, on 18–19 year‐old youths’ narratives about turning points in their lives. The sample consisted of youth who participated in Better Beginnings from ages 4–8 ( n = 62) and youth from a comparison community who did not participate in Better Beginnings ( n = 34). Controlling for covariates, significant dif…
Partnering with Children Diagnosed with Mental Health Issues
This paper explores the use of participatory action research (PAR) with children diagnosed with mental health issues. We argue that critiques from the sociology of childhood are useful for guiding PAR with children. First, we describe and critique values and assumptions that underlie research and practice with children who experience mental health issues. Second, we outline key qualities of the sociology of childhood, discuss their implications f…
A longitudinal study of mental health consumer/survivor initiatives
To evaluate the impacts of participation in mental health Consumer/Survivor Initiatives (CSIs), we used a nonequivalent control group design to compare new, active participants in CSIs ( n = 61) with nonactive participants ( n = 57) at baseline, 9-month, and 18-month follow-up intervals. The two groups were comparable at baseline on a wide range of demographic variables, self-reported psychiatric diagnosis, service use, and outcome measures. At 9…
Partnerships and Participation of Community Residents in Health Promotion and Prevention
We provide a description and analysis of the role of partnerships between community residents and service-providers in planning and implementing a health promotion/prevention programme for children and families. The context for this study is the Highfield Community Enrichment Project, a multi-component, community-based promotion/prevention project operating in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The nature and amount of resident participation in this proje…
The development of a mental health coalition
Described the development of a local‐level mental health coalition to advocate for housing and community support programs for psychiatric consumer/survivors. Resource mobilization theory was used as a framework from which to view and understand the origins, goals, tactics, and outcomes of the coalition. Data were presented indicating that the coalition played a role in obtaining increased funding for housing and community support programs. Also, …
Resource Exchange
This paper describes a resource exchange program between two human service organizations: a public school board and a university. This case study illustrates the utility of the concept of resource exchange as a response to pressures for the effective management of limited human resources. With an emphasis on mutual goals, needs, and strengths, the resource exchange program expanded resources available to both organizations. For the public school …
A Survey of Graduate Education in Community Psychology in Canada
A national survey was conducted to determine current opportunities for graduate education in community psychology in Canada. The results show expanded offerings for academic and field work education in community psychology in the past decade. Also, faculty perceptions of the goals, activities, and adequacy of training in community psychology were obtained. Finally, similarities and differences between graduate education in community psychology in…
Coping with the Loss of Father
This research compared the social and emotional adjustment of women and children from single-parent families due to death or divorce within the past two years with that of a matched group of two-parent families. While the widows and divorcees did not differ significantly from the married women on measures of social and emotional adjustment, they did report more positive and negative life changes and had higher rates of help-seeking in the past tw…
Evaluation of a social support program for young unwed mothers
Stress and social support
The present research examined the burden experienced by the families of a mentally ill person and the relationship between this stress and social support. The participants were 56 parents of a schizophrenic person who were members of a self-help group for the families of psychiatric patients. Results indicated that low levels of burden were associated with small dense social networks, satisfaction with support received, satisfaction with the supp…
The relationship between dimensions of classroom and family environments and the self-concept, satisfaction, and achievement of grade 7 and 8 students
This study examined the relationships between dimensions of classroom and family environments and various aspects of the adaptation of grade 7 and 8 students. Classroom climates providing support and structure were consistently associated with high levels of student scholastic self-concept and satisfaction with teacher. Families with high degrees of parent-child interaction and climates providing support and structure were generally associated wi…
The relationship between long‐term psychiatric clients' psychological well‐being and their perceptions of housing and social support
This research tested hypotheses derived from motivation-hygiene theory that housing and social support would be differentially related to long-term psychiatric clients' Positive Affect and Negative Affect. The participants were 89 people between the ages of 18 and 65, who had been hospitalized for psychiatric problems at least twice and who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic, chronic depressive, or manic-depressive. Results indicated that the nu…
Evaluation of a social problem‐solving skills program for third‐ and fourth‐grade students
The effects of a social problem-solving (SPS) training program for entire classrooms of third- and fourth-grade children were examined in two studies. In the first study, experimental children showed significantly greater improvement in knowledge and performance of SPS skills than control children. However, both positive and negative effects of the intervention (varying by classroom) were found on measures of behavioral adjustment, self-efficacy,…
Life strains, coping, and emotional well‐being
The stress and coping paradigm was used as the framework for a longitudinal study of recently separated and married women. Data were gathered at three different interviews over a period of 18 months. Comparing the two groups of women, it was found that life strains in the areas of financial concerns and spouse relations were related to both income level and marital status, with low-income and separated women experiencing the highest levels of the…
The Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
The Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
Social network transactions of psychiatric patients
Risk, Resistance, and Self-Esteem
Children aged eight to 13 from mother custody families (n = 22) and two-percent families (n = 44) were compared on measures of risk (mothers' life strains), resistance (enacted support, support satisfaction, and problem-focused coping), and self-esteem (family, peer, scholastic, and general). A longitudinal design was used to gather data at three different times over an 18-month period. In making between group comparisons, income was used as a co…
The development of a mental health coalition
Described the development of a local‐level mental health coalition to advocate for housing and community support programs for psychiatric consumer/survivors. Resource mobilization theory was used as a framework from which to view and understand the origins, goals, tactics, and outcomes of the coalition. Data were presented indicating that the coalition played a role in obtaining increased funding for housing and community support programs. Also, …
Emotional well-being of separated and married women
Separated and married women were studied longitudinally. Recently separated women reported more growth-oriented coping and positive life changes than did married women, but no significant differences were evident six years later. Life strains at early time intervals predicted emotional well-being at the last time interval, and coping served a stress-buffering function over time
Psychology and psychiatric survivors
Women's Social Networks and Social Support Following Marital Separation
This research compared changes in the social networks and social support of 30 low-income single mothers who had been separated from their husbands for less than eight monlhs with 20 low- income manied women and 40 high-income manied women. All par- ticipants were interviewed three times over an 18-month period. The separated women reported smaller family netwotks (due to the absence of their husbands and their husbands' families) and more fluctu…
Social networks, social support, personal empowerment, and the adaptation of psychiatric consumers/survivors
Nothing About Me, Without Me”
Participatory action research with self‐help/mutual aid organizations for psychiatric consumer/survivors is reviewed. We begin by tracing the origins of and defining both participatory action research and self‐help/mutual aid. In so doing, the degree of correspondence between the assumptions/values of participatory action research and those of self‐help/mutual aid for psychiatric consumer/survivors is examined. We argue that participatory action …
The Relationship Between Housing Characteristics, Emotional Well-Being and the Personal Empowerment of Psychiatric Consumer/Survivors
Programs for the promotion of family wellness and the prevention of child maltreatment
Context, agency and language in the promotion of child and family wellness
Promoting child and family wellness
In order to foster the well-being of children and families we propose a shift in the priorities of psychological and social interventions. Following a brief discussion of the concept of wellness, we present a framework for interventions to promote child and family wellness. Psychological and social intervention strategies to promote child and family wellness are then reviewed and interpreted in terms of the framework. Recommendations for changing…
Building Value‐Based Partnerships
We propose a value‐based conceptualization of partnership, defining partnership as relationships between community psychologists, oppressed groups, and other stakeholders, which strive to achieve key community psychology values (caring, compassion, community, health, self‐determination, participation, power‐sharing, human diversity, and social justice). These values guide partnership work related to the development of services or supports, coalit…
Doing Psychology Critically
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