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Activism and immigrant women's mental health and wellbeing: Building Canadian service provider capacity in the settlement and mental health sectors.
- Source :
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Health Care for Women International . 2024, Vol. 45 Issue 5, p579-599. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In this qualitative community-based research, we explore service providers' use of activism-based resources and the supports they need to use activism as a tool to promote the mental health and wellbeing of racialized immigrant women. 19 service providers working in settlement and mental health services in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, participated in one of three focus groups. We analyzed the data using a postcolonial feminist lens. Service providers' understandings of activism, strategies for promoting client mental health and wellbeing, and organizational barriers shaping their practice emerged as relevant. We offer recommendations for building activism-based resources, programs and services that include collaborations with racialized immigrant women communities and action at the organizational level to support service provider practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HEALTH services accessibility
*IMMIGRANTS
*CORPORATE culture
*MENTAL health
*SELF-efficacy
*MENTAL health services
*QUALITATIVE research
*FOCUS groups
*RESEARCH funding
*STATISTICAL sampling
*INTERVIEWING
*CITIZENSHIP
*EVALUATION of medical care
*COMMUNITIES
*THEMATIC analysis
*RESEARCH methodology
*WOMEN'S health
*HEALTH promotion
*POLITICAL participation
*WELL-being
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07399332
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health Care for Women International
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176450084
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2023.2190981