Fostering Resilience in Children at Risk through a Cultural Therapy Intervention in Kingston, Jamaica

Robertson-Hickling, Hilary; Paisley, Vanessa; Guzder, Jaswant; Hickling, Frederick W.

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“…For a number of the studies summarized in Table 4, for example, the specified ‘policy intervention’ is very much at the level of discrete programmatic intervention rather than broad policy initiative. For example, the studies of Roberston‐Hickling, Paisley, Guzder, and Hickling (2009) and Vetter et al. (2010) each describe specific programmatic interventions which, while potentially scalable to a range of environments, are evaluated with respect to very specific conditions.…”

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Annual Research Review: Resilience and child well‐being – public policy implications

Ager

2012

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Annual Research Review: Resilience and child well‐being – public policy implications

Ager

2012

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…Hickling (1989Hickling ( , 2007 described "Psychohistoriographic cultural therapy" (PCT), a technique developed in Jamaica that combines aspects of Jamaican historical experiences, oral tradition, anecdotes, group psychotherapy techniques, and creative arts therapies in a workshop format. More recently, Robertson-Hickling, Paisley, Guzder, and Hickling (2009) began a "Cultural Therapy" initiative to address the needs of Jamaican children perceived to be at risk for behavior problems. Firmly rooted in Jamaican culture and experience, cultural therapy fuses group psychotherapy and arts "to address conflict and risk reduction, and mental health-strengthening of community groups" (p. 33).…”

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“Head take you”: Causal attributions of mental illness in Jamaica

Arthur

2014

Transcult Psychiatry

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Causal attributions are a key factor in explanatory models of illness; however, little research on causal attributions of mental illness has been conducted in developing nations in the Caribbean, including Jamaica. Explanatory models of mental illness may be important in understanding illness experience and be a crucial factor in mental health service seeking and utilization. We explored causal attributions of mental illness in Jamaica by conducting 20 focus groups, including 16 community samples, 2 patient samples, and 2 samples of caregivers of patients, with a total of 159 participants. The 5 most commonly endorsed causal attributions of mental illness are discussed: (a) drug-related causes, including ganja (marijuana); (b) biological causes, such as chemical imbalance, familial transmission, and "blood"; (c) psychological causes, including stress and thinking too much; (d) social causes, such as relationship problems and job loss; and (e) spiritual or religious causes, including Obeah.

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“…During this time, the cultural and art therapy team worked with the children to construct songs, poems, music, and dances about their worlds with the aim of putting together a dramatic performance that was presented to parents, teachers, and the community on the final day of the program. Social skills, self-control, and agency were said to be instilled through this creative process, promoting resilience, interpersonal communication, and the development of self-esteem [ 23 ]. The students participating in the DAW study also received a meal during each program session.…”

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The ethics of relationality in implementation and evaluation research in global health: reflections from the Dream-A-World program in Kingston, Jamaica

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BackgroundDespite recent developments aimed at creating international guidelines for ethical global health research, critical disconnections remain between how global health research is conducted in the field and the institutional ethics frameworks intended to guide research practice.DiscussionIn this paper we attempt to map out the ethical tensions likely to arise in global health fieldwork as researchers negotiate the challenges of balancing ethics committees’ rules and bureaucracies with actual fieldwork processes in local contexts. Drawing from our research experiences with an implementation and evaluation project in Jamaica, we argue that ethical research is produced through negotiated spaces and reflexivity practices that are centred on relationships between researchers and study participants and which critically examine issues of positionality and power that emerge at multiple levels. In doing so, we position ethical research practice in global health as a dialectical movement between the spoken and unspoken, or, more generally, between operationalized rules and the embodied relational understanding of persons.SummaryGlobal health research ethics should be premised not upon passive accordance with existing guidelines on ethical conduct, but on tactile modes of knowing that rely upon being engaged with, and responsive to, research participants. Rather than focusing on the operationalization of ethical practice through forms and procedures, it is crucial that researchers recognize that each ethical dilemma encountered during fieldwork is unique and rooted in social contexts, interpersonal relationships, and personal narratives.

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Fostering Resilience in Children at Risk through a Cultural Therapy Intervention in Kingston, Jamaica

Abstract: This report explores an initiative in Kingston, Jamaica to foster resilience in children in an inner-city community plagued by violence and other social problems. This initiative was undertaken by CARIMENSA, the Caribbean Institute for Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

Cited by 8 publications

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Annual Research Review: Resilience and child well‐being – public policy implications

Annual Research Review: Resilience and child well‐being – public policy implications

“Head take you”: Causal attributions of mental illness in Jamaica

The ethics of relationality in implementation and evaluation research in global health: reflections from the Dream-A-World program in Kingston, Jamaica

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