Rethinking Idioms of Distress and Resilience in Anthropology and Global Mental Health

Mendenhall, Emily; Kim, Andrew Wooyoung

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66296-7_10

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“…By emphasizing communal resilience, we seek to reorient the focus off the individual toward collective responses, deemphasizing the role of individualism re-placing the locus of change in response to social inequality ( Mendenhall and Kim, 2021 ; Park et al, 2018 ). We note how community organizations drew on the strengths and resources already present in the community while advocating for local and national level support from government officials.…”

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Confident futures: Community-based organizations as first responders and agents of change in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic

Roels

Estrella

Maldonado-Salcedo

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Social Science & Medicine

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This comparative study of community organizations serving marginalized youth in New York City and Amsterdam utilized a novel ethnographic approach called reverse engineering to identify techniques for social change that are active in each organization, adaptable and translatable to other contexts. It found that youth-serving organizations led flexible responses to the crisis of COVID-19 as it affected those marginalized by race, immigrant status, housing instability, religion and gender. The organizations employed techniques that they had previously developed to cultivate youth well-being – among them connectivity, safe space, and creativity – to mount tailored responses to COVID-19 related crises. In New York City, these groups addressed crises of material survival resources (personal protective equipment, food, housing) whereas in Amsterdam, youth-serving organizations focused on social connections and emotional well-being as the government met more of participants’ material needs.

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Confident futures: Community-based organizations as first responders and agents of change in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic

Roels

Estrella

Maldonado-Salcedo

et al. 2022

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Extrapolating without consideration of spatial and temporal difference may thus lead to an ‘emptiness’ of analysis (Hussain, 2018: 117). Moreover, conceptualisations and manifestations of distress also differ between cultural contexts (Kohrt et al, 2014; Mendenhall and Kim, 2021). For these reasons, with the UK as our starting point, our focus was restricted to Western economies sharing a degree of structural and cultural similarity, namely Europe, North America, Canada and Australasia (see O’Sullivan et al, 2019).…”

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How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies

Irvine

Rose

2022

Work, Employment and Society

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This article offers a scoping review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research on the relationship between precarious employment and mental health. Systematic searches of primary qualitative research in western economies, focused on insecure contracts and a broad conceptualisation of mental health, identified 32 studies. Thematic synthesis revealed four core experiences of precarious employment: financial instability, temporal uncertainty, marginal status and employment insecurity, each connected with multiple, interrelated experiences/responses at four thematic levels: economic, socio-relational, behavioural and physical, leading to negative mental health effects. Reported mental health outcomes could be predominantly understood as reductions in ‘positive mental health’. Findings are theoretically located in models of work-family conflict and latent deprivation; insecure work constrains access to benefits of time structure, social contacts, social purposes, status and identity, which correlate with psychological wellbeing. Frequently failing also to provide the manifest (financial) benefits of work, insecure employment poses mental health risks on both fronts.

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Understanding the Healthy Immigrant Effect in the Context of Mental Health Challenges: A Systematic Critical Review

Elshahat

Moffat

Newbold

2021

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Rethinking Idioms of Distress and Resilience in Anthropology and Global Mental Health

Cited by 5 publications

References 73 publications

Confident futures: Community-based organizations as first responders and agents of change in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic

Confident futures: Community-based organizations as first responders and agents of change in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic

How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies

Understanding the Healthy Immigrant Effect in the Context of Mental Health Challenges: A Systematic Critical Review

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