T T Bartholomew
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 38108 |
|---|---|
| NOME | T T Bartholomew |
| PRENOMES | T T |
| SOBRENOME | Bartholomew |
| ASSINATURA | BARTHOLOMEW T T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Scripps College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1979-5689 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Adult Psychological Distress and Child Fosterage in a Rural and an Urban Region of Namibia
Amongst Aawambo families in Namibia, the practice of fosterage (i.e., a system whereby a child is raised by family or non-biological relations rather than their biological parents) remains a culturally consistent practice. Scholars have endeavored to understand the implications of this and similar parenting practices in and outside of Namibia, with evidence showing both potential positive and negative outcomes of fosterage for the children who ex…
Perceptions of Suicide and Mental Illness Causes/Treatments Among Aawambo Namibians
In the last decade, suicide and mental illness have received more social, empirical, and institutional attention in Namibia. Despite systemic attention, culturally-specific scholarship about explanatory models for suicide and mental illness in Namibia lags behind. Thus, our purpose was to examine perceptions of mental illness and suicide causes as well as treatments among Aawambo respondents ( N = 201) in urban ( n = 100) and rural ( n = 101) reg…
The Relationship Between Clients’ Perceptions of Therapists’ Cultural Comfort and Clients’ Hope
Cultural comfort, a component of multicultural orientation (MCO), remains underexplored in relation to client variables such as hope. A culturally comfortable therapist could help clients feel hopeful about reaching therapeutic goals. Being comfortable when discussing culture in treatment could help a client feel more agency and see paths to change with regard to all aspects of their identity. Therefore, we examined the relationship between cultu…
Introduction to the Special Issue “Embracing Diversity & Flourishing
This serves as an introduction to the special issue Embracing Diversity & Flourishing: The Intersection of Multiculturalism and Positive Psychology in Counseling Psychology . Five articles are included in the special issue, with each including unique attention to how these subfields of counseling psychology, and other fields, are meaningfully integrated to better understand human experiences. The articles include theoretical work, quantitative st…
The Brain Is Not Working (Thluak Rian a Ttuan Lo)
For decades, violent conflict has caused forced displacement throughout Myanmar. Chin people, largely from the northwestern Chin state in Myanmar, have been subjected to this violence resulting in displacement and resettlement with refugee status for thousands of Chin people. Scholars have often endeavored to understand the psychological outcomes of displacement and resettlement, with empirical work often dedicated to the onset of posttraumatic s…
Integrating Cultural Beliefs About Illness in Counseling With Refugees
Researchers have suggested that people with refugee status have heightened rates of western-defined psychiatric symptoms. Following this evidence, treatments have been adapted with the intent to foster culturally competent service provision for members of refugee communities. Absent in this research is attention to how clinicians address diverse beliefs about illness constructed within the cultures of refugee individuals. As such, even adapted tr…
Suicidal Ideation Among International Students
We examined two structural equation models of international students’ suicidal ideation using data from 595 international students in two public universities in the United States. The models represented competing hypotheses about the relationships among discrimination, cross-cultural loss, academic distress, thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and suicidal ideation. The findings indicated there were direct, positive links between di…
Clients’ Hope for Counseling as a Predictor of Outcome in Psychotherapy
Researchers have demonstrated links between general hope and symptoms of distress. Findings like these are important given the conceptual role of hope in psychotherapy theories like Frank and Frank’s contextual model. Existing literature, however, has involved researchers employing general hope measures despite hope being variable across domains rather than a general trait. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between hope f…
A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants' voices in phenomenological research
Misunderstandings about qualitative methods, whether phenomenological or otherwise, are prevalent in social science research. Such misunderstandings leave researchers, reviewers, and editors less equipped to conduct or evaluate this method. Evaluation of phenomenology is especially complicated given the different variants that exist and the need for flexibility within these studies. Methodologists have created guides for conducting specific varia…
Omunanamwengu (The Mad One)
To understand mental illness in cultural contexts, research should focus on locally informed concepts of illness and the lived experiences of such conditions. Understanding mental illness, its prevalence, and its influence on people’s lives in Namibia represents one such context where attention to the lived experience of mental illness remains understudied. The purpose of the current study was to build upon ethnographic findings about mental illn…
“How Can We Help You”
Entering the ethnographic mind
Ethnography has flourished in small pockets of psychological researchers but is not widely embraced in psychology. Increased calls for qualitative methods have taken place recently in psychology, and at times ethnography is grouped into this without proper attention to the epistemological stance and approach of ethnographic research. Our purpose was to illuminate the use of ethnography in psychological research. We used a grounded theory approach…
Development and Initial Validation of the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale
Hope is a critical component of therapeutic change. However, hope does not singularly emanate from clients. Therapists’ hope for their clients represents a specific therapeutic factor that may impact clinical outcomes. Currently no measure exists to assess the uniqueness of therapist’s hope in therapy with specific clients. Our purpose in this study was to develop and initially validate the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale (THCS). Participants ( …
Beliefs About the Treatment of Mental Illness Among the Namibian Aawambo
The ways mental illnesses are treated has the propensity to vary across cultures. Although psychotherapy and the alliance between clients and therapists is efficacious for treating mental illness in some contexts, cultures have developed equally as valid mechanisms for treating such conditions elsewhere. The purpose of this study was to explore beliefs about treatment for mental illness among a small Namibian Aawambo sample. Participants ( N = 14…
Madness (Eemwengu) and Its Sources
Integrating indigenous cultural knowledge into conceptualizing mental illness offers fruitful avenues to better contextualize mental health. What is abnormal and indicative of psychological distress varies in the meaning given to symptoms and the actual identification of disorders. This is no less true in Ovambo culture in Namibia, Southern Africa. The Namibian government, however, has noted that little is known about the mental health needs thro…
Mental Health in Namibia
Psychological distress is inherently constructed within contexts and the unique, cultural meaning systems that have developed to understand mental illness. Moreover, cultures naturally develop their own systems of healing, grounded in traditional practices. Western psychology and psychiatry have, through globalisation and colonial histories, imposed systems of mental health care and definitions of mental illness. In doing so, local understandings…
Development and Validation of the Hope for Change Through Counseling Scale
Frank and Frank suggested that the primary goal of contextually oriented therapy is remoralization through the promotion of hope. According to Snyder’s hope theory, hope is a psychological characteristic consisting of pathways thinking, agency, and goals. Although these concepts are relevant to understanding how hope develops through therapy, no instrument exists to measure hope within counseling. The present research was undertaken to develop an…
A Dream Best Forgotten
Refugees are often forced into states of imposed vulnerability in which loss is common and migration is normative. Karen refugees from Myanmar have endured a long civil war with the Burmese government, followed by their forced relocation to refugee camps and subsequent global resettlement. This phenomenological study aimed to understand the meanings ascribed to pre-resettlement stress among resettled Karen refugees. We interviewed six participant…
A Human Being Is Free
Many oppressed groups throughout Africa have successfully engaged in struggles for liberation to oust colonial rule. To study the psychological experiences of liberation in a specific context, the U.S. researcher traveled to Namibia and, using a phenomenological approach, explored the meanings people ascribed to their independence from South Africa. Six individual interviews were conducted with Ovambo Namibians. Seven themes emerged from 280 inva…
A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants' voices in phenomenological research
Misunderstandings about qualitative methods, whether phenomenological or otherwise, are prevalent in social science research. Such misunderstandings leave researchers, reviewers, and editors less equipped to conduct or evaluate this method. Evaluation of phenomenology is especially complicated given the different variants that exist and the need for flexibility within these studies. Methodologists have created guides for conducting specific varia…
A Dream Best Forgotten
Refugees are often forced into states of imposed vulnerability in which loss is common and migration is normative. Karen refugees from Myanmar have endured a long civil war with the Burmese government, followed by their forced relocation to refugee camps and subsequent global resettlement. This phenomenological study aimed to understand the meanings ascribed to pre-resettlement stress among resettled Karen refugees. We interviewed six participant…
Development and Validation of the Hope for Change Through Counseling Scale
Frank and Frank suggested that the primary goal of contextually oriented therapy is remoralization through the promotion of hope. According to Snyder’s hope theory, hope is a psychological characteristic consisting of pathways thinking, agency, and goals. Although these concepts are relevant to understanding how hope develops through therapy, no instrument exists to measure hope within counseling. The present research was undertaken to develop an…
Madness (Eemwengu) and Its Sources
Integrating indigenous cultural knowledge into conceptualizing mental illness offers fruitful avenues to better contextualize mental health. What is abnormal and indicative of psychological distress varies in the meaning given to symptoms and the actual identification of disorders. This is no less true in Ovambo culture in Namibia, Southern Africa. The Namibian government, however, has noted that little is known about the mental health needs thro…
Clients’ Hope for Counseling as a Predictor of Outcome in Psychotherapy
Researchers have demonstrated links between general hope and symptoms of distress. Findings like these are important given the conceptual role of hope in psychotherapy theories like Frank and Frank’s contextual model. Existing literature, however, has involved researchers employing general hope measures despite hope being variable across domains rather than a general trait. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between hope f…
Suicidal Ideation Among International Students
We examined two structural equation models of international students’ suicidal ideation using data from 595 international students in two public universities in the United States. The models represented competing hypotheses about the relationships among discrimination, cross-cultural loss, academic distress, thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and suicidal ideation. The findings indicated there were direct, positive links between di…
Omunanamwengu (The Mad One)
To understand mental illness in cultural contexts, research should focus on locally informed concepts of illness and the lived experiences of such conditions. Understanding mental illness, its prevalence, and its influence on people’s lives in Namibia represents one such context where attention to the lived experience of mental illness remains understudied. The purpose of the current study was to build upon ethnographic findings about mental illn…
Entering the ethnographic mind
Ethnography has flourished in small pockets of psychological researchers but is not widely embraced in psychology. Increased calls for qualitative methods have taken place recently in psychology, and at times ethnography is grouped into this without proper attention to the epistemological stance and approach of ethnographic research. Our purpose was to illuminate the use of ethnography in psychological research. We used a grounded theory approach…
Development and Initial Validation of the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale
Hope is a critical component of therapeutic change. However, hope does not singularly emanate from clients. Therapists’ hope for their clients represents a specific therapeutic factor that may impact clinical outcomes. Currently no measure exists to assess the uniqueness of therapist’s hope in therapy with specific clients. Our purpose in this study was to develop and initially validate the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale (THCS). Participants ( …
A Human Being Is Free
Many oppressed groups throughout Africa have successfully engaged in struggles for liberation to oust colonial rule. To study the psychological experiences of liberation in a specific context, the U.S. researcher traveled to Namibia and, using a phenomenological approach, explored the meanings people ascribed to their independence from South Africa. Six individual interviews were conducted with Ovambo Namibians. Seven themes emerged from 280 inva…
Development and Validation of the Hope for Change Through Counseling Scale
Frank and Frank suggested that the primary goal of contextually oriented therapy is remoralization through the promotion of hope. According to Snyder’s hope theory, hope is a psychological characteristic consisting of pathways thinking, agency, and goals. Although these concepts are relevant to understanding how hope develops through therapy, no instrument exists to measure hope within counseling. The present research was undertaken to develop an…
A Dream Best Forgotten
Refugees are often forced into states of imposed vulnerability in which loss is common and migration is normative. Karen refugees from Myanmar have endured a long civil war with the Burmese government, followed by their forced relocation to refugee camps and subsequent global resettlement. This phenomenological study aimed to understand the meanings ascribed to pre-resettlement stress among resettled Karen refugees. We interviewed six participant…
Mental Health in Namibia
Psychological distress is inherently constructed within contexts and the unique, cultural meaning systems that have developed to understand mental illness. Moreover, cultures naturally develop their own systems of healing, grounded in traditional practices. Western psychology and psychiatry have, through globalisation and colonial histories, imposed systems of mental health care and definitions of mental illness. In doing so, local understandings…
Madness (Eemwengu) and Its Sources
Integrating indigenous cultural knowledge into conceptualizing mental illness offers fruitful avenues to better contextualize mental health. What is abnormal and indicative of psychological distress varies in the meaning given to symptoms and the actual identification of disorders. This is no less true in Ovambo culture in Namibia, Southern Africa. The Namibian government, however, has noted that little is known about the mental health needs thro…
Beliefs About the Treatment of Mental Illness Among the Namibian Aawambo
The ways mental illnesses are treated has the propensity to vary across cultures. Although psychotherapy and the alliance between clients and therapists is efficacious for treating mental illness in some contexts, cultures have developed equally as valid mechanisms for treating such conditions elsewhere. The purpose of this study was to explore beliefs about treatment for mental illness among a small Namibian Aawambo sample. Participants ( N = 14…
“How Can We Help You”
Entering the ethnographic mind
Ethnography has flourished in small pockets of psychological researchers but is not widely embraced in psychology. Increased calls for qualitative methods have taken place recently in psychology, and at times ethnography is grouped into this without proper attention to the epistemological stance and approach of ethnographic research. Our purpose was to illuminate the use of ethnography in psychological research. We used a grounded theory approach…
Development and Initial Validation of the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale
Hope is a critical component of therapeutic change. However, hope does not singularly emanate from clients. Therapists’ hope for their clients represents a specific therapeutic factor that may impact clinical outcomes. Currently no measure exists to assess the uniqueness of therapist’s hope in therapy with specific clients. Our purpose in this study was to develop and initially validate the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale (THCS). Participants ( …
Omunanamwengu (The Mad One)
To understand mental illness in cultural contexts, research should focus on locally informed concepts of illness and the lived experiences of such conditions. Understanding mental illness, its prevalence, and its influence on people’s lives in Namibia represents one such context where attention to the lived experience of mental illness remains understudied. The purpose of the current study was to build upon ethnographic findings about mental illn…
Integrating Cultural Beliefs About Illness in Counseling With Refugees
Researchers have suggested that people with refugee status have heightened rates of western-defined psychiatric symptoms. Following this evidence, treatments have been adapted with the intent to foster culturally competent service provision for members of refugee communities. Absent in this research is attention to how clinicians address diverse beliefs about illness constructed within the cultures of refugee individuals. As such, even adapted tr…
Suicidal Ideation Among International Students
We examined two structural equation models of international students’ suicidal ideation using data from 595 international students in two public universities in the United States. The models represented competing hypotheses about the relationships among discrimination, cross-cultural loss, academic distress, thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and suicidal ideation. The findings indicated there were direct, positive links between di…
Clients’ Hope for Counseling as a Predictor of Outcome in Psychotherapy
Researchers have demonstrated links between general hope and symptoms of distress. Findings like these are important given the conceptual role of hope in psychotherapy theories like Frank and Frank’s contextual model. Existing literature, however, has involved researchers employing general hope measures despite hope being variable across domains rather than a general trait. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between hope f…
A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants' voices in phenomenological research
Misunderstandings about qualitative methods, whether phenomenological or otherwise, are prevalent in social science research. Such misunderstandings leave researchers, reviewers, and editors less equipped to conduct or evaluate this method. Evaluation of phenomenology is especially complicated given the different variants that exist and the need for flexibility within these studies. Methodologists have created guides for conducting specific varia…
The Brain Is Not Working (Thluak Rian a Ttuan Lo)
For decades, violent conflict has caused forced displacement throughout Myanmar. Chin people, largely from the northwestern Chin state in Myanmar, have been subjected to this violence resulting in displacement and resettlement with refugee status for thousands of Chin people. Scholars have often endeavored to understand the psychological outcomes of displacement and resettlement, with empirical work often dedicated to the onset of posttraumatic s…
Perceptions of Suicide and Mental Illness Causes/Treatments Among Aawambo Namibians
In the last decade, suicide and mental illness have received more social, empirical, and institutional attention in Namibia. Despite systemic attention, culturally-specific scholarship about explanatory models for suicide and mental illness in Namibia lags behind. Thus, our purpose was to examine perceptions of mental illness and suicide causes as well as treatments among Aawambo respondents ( N = 201) in urban ( n = 100) and rural ( n = 101) reg…
The Relationship Between Clients’ Perceptions of Therapists’ Cultural Comfort and Clients’ Hope
Cultural comfort, a component of multicultural orientation (MCO), remains underexplored in relation to client variables such as hope. A culturally comfortable therapist could help clients feel hopeful about reaching therapeutic goals. Being comfortable when discussing culture in treatment could help a client feel more agency and see paths to change with regard to all aspects of their identity. Therefore, we examined the relationship between cultu…
Introduction to the Special Issue “Embracing Diversity & Flourishing
This serves as an introduction to the special issue Embracing Diversity & Flourishing: The Intersection of Multiculturalism and Positive Psychology in Counseling Psychology . Five articles are included in the special issue, with each including unique attention to how these subfields of counseling psychology, and other fields, are meaningfully integrated to better understand human experiences. The articles include theoretical work, quantitative st…
Adult Psychological Distress and Child Fosterage in a Rural and an Urban Region of Namibia
Amongst Aawambo families in Namibia, the practice of fosterage (i.e., a system whereby a child is raised by family or non-biological relations rather than their biological parents) remains a culturally consistent practice. Scholars have endeavored to understand the implications of this and similar parenting practices in and outside of Namibia, with evidence showing both potential positive and negative outcomes of fosterage for the children who ex…
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