Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic, Volume 1: The Covid-19 Pandemic, Mental Health, and Ethnicity

Nyaga, Dionisio, Torres, Rose Ann

Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic, Volume 1: The Covid-19 Pandemic, Mental Health, and Ethnicity
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-15
  • 售價: $2,250
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 92
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031583663
  • ISBN-13: 9783031583667

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商品描述

This edited collection is a follow-up to Algoma University's inaugural conference on mental health and addiction held at the Brampton campus in Ontario, Canada. We live in a society where many marginalized communities continue to bear a historically disproportionate burden on their psychological, mental, and economic well-being, especially under the Covid-19 pandemic. Covid-19 has had a continuing impact on marginalized and racialized communities at all levels. We are now witnessing the compounded effects in the form of a worsening mental health and addiction crisis and its subsequent impact on children's education, service delivery, and overall psychosocial well-being.


Covid-19 has widened the gap and increased poverty disparities between high-income and low-income individuals. Furthermore, it has affected the psychosocial resilience of people. As communities of scholars, practitioners, and researchers, we have a responsibility to address these existential issues in ways that are ethical and transformative. This type of engagement should help mitigate the consequences of the pandemic in an intersectional manner. These conversations should assist us in understanding and addressing the trauma and suffering that marginalized communities and individuals continue to endure. Together, we can work to find answers to mental health and addiction challenges, while valuing people's histories and realities within this intersectional engagement.


This book aims to redefine psychiatric discourse in the age of the pandemic and encourage us to imagine how the world can be reformed in ways that are both ethical and political. It has the potential to shed light on the values and realities of communities in discussions of medical sociology, particularly concerning the impact of Covid-19 on marginalized communities.


This book is structured into three volumes. Volume one delves into the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of various ethnic groups. Volume two specifically addresses the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of Afro-Black individuals. Volume three explores the connections between the COVID-19 pandemic, psychological well-being, and colonialism.


商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本編輯過的專著是Algoma大學在加拿大安大略省布拉姆普頓校區舉辦的首屆心理健康和成癮研討會的續集。我們生活在一個許多邊緣化社群在心理、精神和經濟福祉上承受著歷史上不成比例的負擔的社會中，尤其是在Covid-19大流行下。Covid-19對邊緣化和種族化社群在各個層面上產生持續的影響。我們現在正在目睹這些影響的累積效應，表現為心理健康和成癮危機的惡化，以及對兒童教育、服務提供和整體心理社會福祉的後果。

Covid-19擴大了高收入和低收入個體之間的貧富差距。此外，它也影響了人們的心理社會韌性。作為學者、從業人員和研究人員的社群，我們有責任以道德和轉型的方式解決這些存在性問題。這種參與應該有助於以交叉方式減輕疫情的後果。這些對話應該幫助我們理解和應對邊緣化社群和個體繼續承受的創傷和苦難。我們可以共同努力找到解決心理健康和成癮挑戰的答案，同時重視人們在這種交叉參與中的歷史和現實。

這本書旨在重新定義疫情時代的精神病學論述，並鼓勵我們想像世界如何在道德和政治上進行改革。它有潛力在醫學社會學的討論中闡明社群的價值和現實，特別是關於Covid-19對邊緣化社群的影響。

這本書分為三卷。第一卷深入探討了COVID-19大流行對各種族群的心理健康所產生的影響。第二卷特別討論了大流行對非裔黑人個體的心理健康的影響。第三卷探討了COVID-19大流行、心理福祉和殖民主義之間的聯繫。

作者簡介

Dr. Dionisio Nyaga has a Ph.D from Social Justice Education/SESE/University of Toronto. He is an Assistant Professor at Algoma University-School of Social Work-Timmins campus. His research practice and teaching interests are in the areas of ethical and moral philosophy in research, critical reflexive methodologies, Afro-pessimism, gender studies, anti-oppressive practice and teaching, psychic methodologies of care, textual analysis, African studies, Black and Blackness, Black masculinities, spiritualities, transnational and transcultural studies. He has co-edited a book on ethical responsibilities and duties of researcher dubbed Critical research methodologies: Ethics and responsibilities.

Dr. Rose Ann Torres is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the School of Social Work at Algoma University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education from OISE/University of Toronto. Prior to joining Algoma University, she was an Assistant Professor at University of New Brunswick. She is the principal investigator of the SSHRC Insight Development Grants research project entitled "Examining Access to Mental Health Care Service: The Impact of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers in Northern Ontario" and co-principal investigator of the SSHRC Institutional Grants project titled "Effects of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning: Stories of Indigenous and Black and Asian Faculty Members and Students at Algoma University." She co-edited books on "Outside and In-Between: Theorizing Asian Canadian Exclusion and the Challenges of Identity Formation" and "Critical Research Methodologies: Ethics and Responsibilities." She currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Sault College and First Nations Technical Institute. She has been instrumental in establishing pathways and partnerships with local and international universities and colleges in the School of Social Work at Algoma University, including with Oshki-Wanjack Institute. Dr. Torres's work as an educator includes community engagement and organizing, as well as consultancy services in interdisciplinary research that crosses geographic borders with Asia, Canada, Africa, and other countries. Dr. Torres's commitment to the community seeks to bring about transformative change and critical development in terms of health and social well-being, civic engagement, and ecological sustainability. At Algoma University, she teaches critical policy in the north, social work research, social work philosophy and ethics, critical social work practice: Anishinaabe, structural and feminist perspectives.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Dr. Dionisio Nyaga擁有多倫多大學社會正義教育/SESE的博士學位。他是Algoma大學社會工作學院Timmins校區的助理教授。他的研究實踐和教學興趣涉及研究中的倫理和道德哲學、批判性反思方法論、非洲悲觀主義、性別研究、反壓迫實踐和教學、心靈照顧方法論、文本分析、非洲研究、黑人和黑人身份、黑人男性主義、靈性、跨國和跨文化研究。他曾共同編輯一本名為《批判研究方法論：倫理與責任》的關於研究者倫理責任的書籍。

Dr. Rose Ann Torres是Algoma大學社會工作學院的助理教授兼院長。她在多倫多大學OISE的社會學和平等教育研究領域獲得博士學位。在加入Algoma大學之前，她曾是新不倫瑞克大學的助理教授。她是SSHRC Insight Development Grants研究項目《研究菲律賓健康護理工作者在安大略北部對心理健康護理服務的接觸：COVID-19的影響》的主要調查員，也是SSHRC Institutional Grants項目《COVID-19對Algoma大學的印第安和黑人亞洲教職員和學生的教學和學習影響的研究》的共同主要調查員。她曾共同編輯過關於《外部和中間：亞裔加拿大人排斥和身份形成的理論化》和《批判研究方法論：倫理與責任》的書籍。她目前擔任Sault College和First Nations Technical Institute的顧問委員會成員。她在Algoma大學社會工作學院的建立途徑和合作夥伴關係方面發揮了重要作用，包括與Oshki-Wanjack Institute的合作。Torres博士作為教育工作者的工作包括社區參與和組織，以及在跨越亞洲、加拿大、非洲和其他國家的地理邊界的跨學科研究中提供諮詢服務。Torres博士致力於為社區帶來轉型性變革和關鍵性發展，包括健康和社會福祉、公民參與和生態可持續性。在Algoma大學，她教授北方的批判政策、社會工作研究、社會工作哲學和倫理、批判性社會工作實踐：Anishinaabe、結構和女性主義觀點。

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