A5020798322- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
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- Child Abuse and Trauma
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War Child
2016-2025
University of British Columbia
2022-2025
Eagle Harbor Technologies (United States)
2013-2025
Kema International (Netherlands)
2021
National Institute of Standards
2021
National Institute of Standards and Technology
2021
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
2021
Sandia National Laboratories
2021
Harvard University
2009-2020
University of South Carolina
2020
Abstract Storytelling is pervasive through life. Much information stored, indexed, and retrieved in the form of stories. Although lectures tend to put people sleep, stories move them action. People relate each other terms stories—and products brands often play both central peripheral roles their To aid storytelling research consumer psychology, this article develops a narrative theory that describes how consumers use as props or anthropomorphic actors they report about themselves others....
Early research on the mental health of civilians displaced by armed conflict focused primarily direct effects exposure to war-related violence and loss. Largely overlooked in this war model were powerful ongoing stressors related experience displacement itself. An ecological refugee distress is proposed, drawing demonstrating that among refugees asylum seekers stems not only from prior exposure, but also a host their social ecology, or displacement-related stressors. Implications for...
Findings are presented from a narrative study that examined the use of interpreters in psychotherapy with refugees. Fifteen therapists and 15 were interviewed at 14 refugee mental health treatment centers United States. Core findings concerned impact on therapeutic alliance, complex emotional reactions may arise within therapy triad, effects interpreting interpreters' own well-being, multiple roles play addition to translating language, training supervision needs who work them. Implications...
This article describes a methodology for developing culturally grounded assessment measures in conflict and postconflict situations. A mixed-method design was used Kabul, Afghanistan, to identify local indicators of distress develop the 22-item Afghan Symptom Checklist (ASCL). The ASCL contains several indigenous items familiar Western mental health professionals. pilot tested subsequently administered 324 adults 8 districts Kabul. It demonstrated excellent reliability (alpha=.93) good...
Abstract This study examined the relative contribution of 2 exile‐related variables—social isolation and daily activity level—and war experiences violence loss, to levels PTSD depressive symptomatology in groups Bosnian refugees, 1 clinical group ( N = 59) other a nonclinical community 40) group. As hypothesized, exposure war‐related was highly predictive symptoms both groups: addition, social significantly related In contrast, accounted tor primarily by stressors. For group, were also for...
Working in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, the authors assessed relative contribution daily stressors and war-related experiences violence loss to levels depression, PTSD, impaired functioning, a culturally specific measure general psychological distress. For women, were better predictor than war all mental health outcomes except for PTSD; men, depression functional impairment, while similarly predictive moderated relationship between which was significant only under conditions low...
This article examines the centrality of trauma-focused psychiatric epidemiology (TFPE) in research with war-affected populations. The authors question utility dominant focus on posttraumatic stress disorder and other disorders Western psychiatry, they identify a set critical foci related to mental health work communities affected by political violence. Core assumptions TFPE its roots logical positivism biomedical model contemporary psychiatry are explored. suggest that an alternative...
Daily stressors may mediate the relation between exposure to disaster‐related and psychological psychosocial distress among youth in disaster‐affected countries. A sample of 427 Sri Lankan Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim (mean age = 14.5) completed a survey with measures daily stressors, (posttraumatic stress, depression, anxiety), distress. The results indicated that significantly mediated relations war‐ tsunami‐related Some not directly related disaster also predicted functioning. These point...
Darfur refugees face hardships associated with chronic displacement, including lack of basic needs and safety concerns. Psychiatric research on has focused trauma, but daily stressors may contribute more to variance in distress. This article reports rates past trauma current among gauges the contribution each psychological distress functional impairment. A representative sample 848 Darfuris 2 refugee camps were interviewed about traumatic events, faced camps, distress, Basic concerns...
Empirical evidence is presented which supports the explicit consideration of situational factors in study consumer behavior. Situational variation brand choice behavior and attitude identified. The use situation-specific measures an attribute-based model found to increase ability predict subsequent as reported a multiple wave survey.
Purpose This paper seeks to compare some key antecedents of brand loyalty between two emerging markets: Thailand and Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample 603 female consumers international shampoo brands, including 304 in Bangkok, 299 users Hanoi, Vietnam, model was tested that incorporates determinants – perceived quality, awareness, advertising attitudes, distribution intensity by means structural equation modeling. Findings The found there are positive relationships quality...
Abstract Mental disorders are one of the largest contributors to burden disease globally, this holds also for children and adolescents, especially in low- middle-income countries. The prevalence severity these influenced by social determinants, including exposure adversity. When occurring early life, latter events referred as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). In editorial, we provide an overview literature on role ACEs determinants mental health through lenses global health. While...
The authors used semistructured interviews to examine exile-related stressors affecting a sample of 28 adult Bosnian refugees in Chicago. covered 3 areas: life prewar Bosnia, the journey exile, and, most centrally, Primary sources distress included social isolation and loss community, separation from family members, important projects, lack environmental mastery, poverty related such as inadequate housing, valued roles. implications these findings for mental health interventions with are...
This study examined the mental health and psychosocial development of 58 Guatemalan Mayan Indian children living in 2 refugee camps Mexican state Chiapas. Conventional assessment instruments were adapted for use this unique context, semistructured interviews utilized to gather phenomenological data from regarding various developmental, sociocultural, political topics. Data are presented that show minimal evidence psychological trauma sample, factors suggested account finding. In addition,...
Purpose A significant way of achieving high profitability is to retain existing customers who contribute the service provider's revenue by continuously purchasing and paying more for products services building brand equity provider. The main objective this study empirically examine extend knowledge underlying linkage between loyalty performance outcomes in context business‐to‐business markets. It aims develop test a theoretical model examining antecedents context. also relationship customer...
In this paper, the authors elaborate on a model proposed in 2010 that identifies major sources of stress affecting mental health among war affected populations. That emphasised importance what was termed ‘daily stressors’, as well direct exposure to related violence predictors
The impact of armed conflict and displacement on children's mental health is strongly mediated by compromised parenting stemming from persistently high caregiver stress. Parenting interventions for refugees emphasize the acquisition knowledge skills, while overlooking deleterious effects chronic stress parenting. War Child Holland's Caregiver Support Intervention (CSI) aims to strengthen lowering improving psychosocial wellbeing among refugee parents, also increasing skill related positive...