Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Subject "mental health"
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ABOVE WATER: An Educational Game for Anxiety
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-10-16)We present Above Water - a digital/physical hybrid game to inform people about the available strategies to cope with two types of Anxiety Disorders - Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. The game teaches players ... -
At the Intersection of Sexual Minority and Transgender or Gender Diverse (SM-TGD) Identity and Mental Illness
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-22)Sexual minority and transgender or gender diverse (SM-TGD) persons experience disproportionately high rates of mental illness, substance misuse, and suicide, which are often exacerbated by experiences of social exclusion ... -
Family Health Service Utilization Patterns: Analysis of Predictors, Economic Costs, and Preventative Factors
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)This study examined the family and individual-level predictors of caregiver/child health and social service utilization expenditures during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of UK caregivers (n = 418) provided reports on ... -
For the Long Haul: Challenging Ideologies of Social Movement Participation through Counter-stories of Activist Burnout
(University of Waterloo, 2015)It is a widely accepted truth, in the academic and activist literature alike, that burnout jeopardizes the sustainability of social movements and their actors. More disputable is whether its cause, or blame, lies in ... -
How Does Economic Pressure Relate to Family Processes? A Systemic Test of the Family Stress Model
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-24)Background: When evaluating family well-being, it is important to disentangle dyadic, individual, and family-wide variability. Presently, few studies have considered the role of social disadvantage and mental health across ... -
The mad manifesto
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-15)The “mad manifesto” project is a multidisciplinary mediated investigation into the circumstances by which mad (mentally ill, neurodivergent) or disabled (disclosed, undisclosed) students faced far more precarious circumstances ... -
The Persistence of Involuntary Memory: Analyzing Phenomenology, Links to Mental Health, and Content
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)In daily life, memories of one’s personal past are often retrieved involuntarily (i.e., unintentionally and effortlessly). Termed involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs), recent evidence suggests that these are often ...