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Understanding the Correct Answer
Published in Nicole M. Augustine, Prevention Specialist Exam Study Guide, 2023
Developing a sense of cultural intelligence requires us to start with a personal evaluation of our own cultural identity. We also should reflect on how the media has played a role in our perception of other cultures. This will help in identifying any biases. Without the knowledge of our own biases, how can we truly operate in a culturally intelligent way? Lastly, we should also reflect on historical relationships between various cultures. We are an accumulation of the past, which means we as a society carry the trauma of the past. Knowledge of this trauma helps us work alongside communities to advocate for equity and improve community resilience.
Adverse Childhood Events and Trauma-Informed Care
Published in Michelle Tollefson, Nancy Eriksen, Neha Pathak, Improving Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 2021
The key to allowing any solutions to be readily available equitably to all individuals and groups is to create resilient communities, which must be done together through policy, practice, and procedures.55,56 Examples of improving women’s health include home visiting to pregnant women and families with newborns, parenting training programs in mindfulness and positive parenting, IPV prevention, teen pregnancy prevention programs, mental illness and substance abuse treatment, high-quality childcare programs, and sufficient income support for lower income families.55 Community resilience is the key to build up resilience, foster healthy lifestyles, and combat the epidemic of mortality in the United States. Perhaps with understanding adversity and resilience clinicians will be better able to help patients change and maintain lifestyle change.
Sensing Community Resilience Using Social Media
Published in Abbas Rajabifard, Greg Foliente, Daniel Paez, COVID-19 Pandemic, Geospatial Information, and Community Resilience, 2021
Felicia N. Huang, Kelly Lim, Evan Sidhi, Belinda Yuen
Much has been written about the definition of community resilience [4]. Suffice to summarise that community resilience is the ability of a society to cope with and rebound in the face of adverse events or crisis [5, 6]. Understandably, communities with high resilience are usually able to bounce back quickly from adversity and building resilience is often connected with building strong communities [7]. Even though state institutions are important, a community's citizens and public awareness of and responsibility for managing local disaster are critical to sustaining and increasing national resilience in disasters.
Mental health inequities and the pandemic: a communication emergency
Published in Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2021
Therefore, it’s equally important that we analyze the kinds of barriers each and every one in our communities may face to building resilience against the mental health impact of the pandemic. Analyzing and addressing barriers to improved health and social outcomes is also a key mantra of a health equity-driven approach to intervention and research design. For example, do people have access to quality childcare or mental health services that may help them balance life and work, or social programmes that aim to decrease discrimination? Do they have someone to talk to? What are some of the other impacts of COVID-19 that may prevent people from taking care of their mental wellbeing and building resilience? How do we measure ‘resilience’ in specific groups and populations? What are some of the policies, and related communication or advocacy strategies, we need to implement in order to increase resilience? What is the role of communication in increasing social support? How can we encourage community resilience on mental health issues and help create strong resources and support systems? How do we give voice to the unheard, and engage local communities? What are some promising practices? These (and many others) are key questions for our communication and global health community to address the mental health impact of COVID-19 and minimize its long-term consequences.
Adverse childhood experiences and mental and physical health disparities: the moderating effect of race and implications for social work
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2020
Catherine A. LaBrenz, Jaimie L. O’Gara, Lisa S. Panisch, Philip Baiden, Heather Larkin
These findings can also help guide future research to better understand and begin to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in mental and physical health. Specifically, future research could replicate this study with data from all 50 states to compare prevalence rates and associations between ACEs and mental and physical health outcomes among diverse racial/ethnic groups across the U.S. Future research could also include immigration status or country of origin to compare racial/ethnic disparities among first-, second- or third-generation and beyond. Finally, future research could examine the impact of community- and population-level ACE responses such as culturally adopted approaches and trauma-informed care. This could include research on indicators of increased community resilience (e.g., engagement of community resources to prevent and address crises; Magis, 2010) and population health (e.g., health outcomes and distribution of outcomes among groups; Kindig & Stoddart, 2003) connected to grassroots ACE resilience education and supports, social justice activities, equitable policies, and increased interagency collaboration. As the impact of ACEs, especially on traditionally marginalized communities or groups, is better understood, social workers and other health-care providers can adopt a community-engaged and multidimensional approach to reduce ACE exposure and mitigate its impacts over time.
Rebooting resilience: shifts toward dynamic, multi-level, and technology-based approaches for people living with HIV
Published in AIDS Care, 2018
Another paper in this special issue moves beyond merely defining community resilience to addressing the mechanisms through which communities enhance the resilience of their members. Barry et al. (2019) present innovative findings from the evaluation of HealthMpowerment, an online, mobile phone optimized intervention with the dual aims of reducing HIV risk and strengthening community ties among young Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). There is increasing interest in developing mobile Health (mHealth) interventions that are tailored to the needs of HIV populations. Such interventions offer promise for improving behaviors related to the HIV care continuum, and may also be effective tools for building social support and enhancing psychosocial wellbeing (Muessig, LeGrand, Horvath, Bauermeister, & Hightow-Weidman, 2017; Muessig, Nekkanti, Bauermeister, Bull, & Hightow-Weidman, 2015; Schnall, Bakken, Rojas, Travers, & Carballo-Dieguez, 2015). The healthMpowerment intervention was created in partnership with young Black GBMSM and provides them with an anonymous online space where they—regardless of HIV status—can build supportive relationships (Hightow-Weidman et al., 2015; Muessig, Baltierra, Pike, LeGrand, & Hightow-Weidman, 2014).