Emotional Safety Research Articles

Research Priorities to Support Women Veterans' Reproductive Health and Health Care Within a Learning Health Care System.

Research Priorities to Support Women Veterans' Reproductive Health and Health Care Within a Learning Health Care System.

A qualitative study on community-based doulas’ roles in providing culturally-responsive care to migrant women in Australia

BackgroundThere is limited exploration into how culturally-responsive care may be provided to migrant women through community-based doulas. AimWe aim to explore the roles of community-based doulas in providing culturally-responsive care to migrant women in Australian maternity settings, from the perspectives of maternity care providers and doulas. MethodsWe used an interpretive phenomenological qualitative approach with in-depth interviews with 30 maternity care providers and Birth for Humankind doulas, in Victoria, Australia. All interviews were conducted over video-call and inductive thematic analysis was performed using NVivo software. FindingsDoulas were seen to support and enhance migrant women’s maternity care experiences through numerous ways, strengthening cultural-responsive care provision. There were three domains which described the role of doulas in providing migrant women with culturally-responsive care: 1) enhanced care; 2) respectful care; and 3) supportive relationships with providers. The three domains included seven themes: 1) continuous individualised support; 2) social connectedness; 3) creating safe spaces; 4) cultural facilitator; 5) non-judgemental support; 6) enhancing communication and rapport with providers; and 7) making connections. DiscussionDoulas appeared to counter negative factors that impact migrant women’s maternity care experiences. Doulas with previous professional birth support qualifications and trauma-informed care training were equipped to create safe spaces and increase emotional safety for migrant women. Doulas may also have more responsibilities expected of them by providers when connecting migrant women with additional services in situations that may be missed through hospital care. ConclusionBirth for Humankind doulas in Victoria play an important role in providing culturally-responsive care to migrant women. Employment models may be the next steps in acknowledging their valuable contribution as a complementary service to maternity settings.

Social media and psychology of language learning: The role of telegram-based instruction on academic buoyancy, academic emotion regulation, foreign language anxiety, and English achievement

The great need and tendency to apply online classes ask for using new technologies in language teaching. Social Networking (SN) tools, in particular, Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), open new perspectives in language learning and teaching. The employment of SN in language learning may affect the learners’ mental health and emotional safety. Despite the attributions of the Telegram application in learning and the contributions of academic buoyancy (AB), academic emotion regulation (AER), and management of foreign language anxiety (FLA) to English achievement (EA), this field was left unexplored. To this end, the current study attempted to gauge the impact of the Telegram-based instruction on AB, AER, FLA, as well as EA. 79 EFL learners took part in the research and were randomly divided in to control group (CG) and experimental group (EG). The instruction for the CG was through regular online instruction (webinar platforms). The EG received Telegram-based instruction. The results of MANOVA displayed significant differences between the post-tests of CG and EG. The findings illustrated that the Telegram instruction improved the levels of AB, AER, and FLA management, which accelerated EA. The pedagogical implications of the study were discussed and may assist learners, teachers, teacher educators, policymakers, materials developers, as well as curriculum designers.

Touch and consent: towards an ethics of care in intimate performance

Our personal experiences as women working in the performing arts and entertainment sector indicate to us that there is a need for actron-training that includes articulated pedagogical framework and methodological approaches that engage with the performance of intimate content and professional touch. Women’s behaviour and communicative acts are often gendered through socialisation and gender hegemony that at times, are covertly upheld by the culture of a work context. Gender hegemony and perceptions about gender uphold and legitimize practices that do harm, impacting women’s physical, mental and emotional safety. For women actrons, this is exacerbated by expectations of what they should consent to in service of their work, including touch and intimacy. We argue that using a feminist ethic of care as pedagogical framework together with intimacy coordination as resonant methodological approach might offer an approach to actron-training that might further women actrons’ agency in giving meaningful consent with regards to professional touch, whist cultivating a broader imperative of care.

Impacts of Culture on Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence Among Fijian Indian Women in the United States.

South Asian women are at a higher risk for experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in the United States. Fijian Indian (FI) women are part of the diverse South Asian diaspora; however, there are no published data on their experience with IPV. This phenomenological study (a) examined if FI culture influences how women define, experience, and seek help for IPV and (b) identified impacts these themes have on FI women's IPV-related help-seeking, behaviors in regard to U.S. health systems and law enforcement. Ten FI women in California, 18 years and older, who either were born in Fiji or had parents born in Fiji, were recruited through convenience and snowball sampling. Semistructured interviews took place either face-to-face or via Zoom. Transcribed interview data underwent reflective thematic analysis by two members of the research team. Normalizing and silencing of IPV events are bolstered by cultural practices of (a) familism/collectivism that ask women to prioritize family intactness over their own emotional and physical safety, (b) traditional patriarchal gender roles, (c) threats of shame and judgment within the community, and (d) the gendered hierarchy tenets of some forms of Hinduism. FI women are more inclined to seek help for IPV from within versus outside the family, with healthcare providers and law enforcement described as women's last choices for assistance. Although a small and regionalized immigrant community, this study of FI women reflects the importance of health and human service providers' understanding of the histories and cultural nuances of the local immigrant populations they serve.

Influence of a Partner’s Pornography Consumption on a Christian Woman’s Sexuality: A Qualitative Exploration

The present study examines how a partner’s Problematic Pornography Use impacts the overall sexual experience of the Christian woman. Using a qualitative phenomenological approach, we explored the intersection of gender, religion, and sexuality with 21 women of faith (the majority of whom had sought out mental health treatment) to better understand how the Christian woman’s sexuality shifts in response to her husband’s consumption of pornography. Three major themes emerged from the data: Discovery Impacts Desire, I Am Not Enough, and Sexually Disenfranchized. We discuss important implications for clinicians and clergy that promote the emotional, physical, and sexual safety of women.

An exploration of comfort brands and the theory of brand comfort

This paper advances a new theory of brand comfort that arises from physical comfort, combined with cognitive components (driven by rational trust judgements of quality and reliability) and emotional components (driven by perceptions of affective trust, authenticity, nostalgia and brand love). Two exploratory studies reveal that consumers frequently crave, seek out and attain comfort through branded comfort foods as well as non-food comfort brands. Further, the studies each uncover that attaining comfort through brand consumption yields feelings of emotional support, safety, nostalgia and social connectedness. Findings suggest that consuming comfort brands is an extremely widespread practice, especially in the current era of fear, isolation and social distancing.

At-risk Youth Peer Researchers Highlight Safety and “The Bonds You Make With Staff and Peers”

ABSTRACT The over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the juvenile justice system is an ongoing social justice issue. Here we report on our latest research project within an ongoing industry partnership between staff at The Lighthouse and social work researchers from a regional Queensland University. The Lighthouse is a diversionary service provided by the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service (TAIHS) that supports young people who are at risk or high risk of offending. The primary aims of this study were to explore the experiences of young people using The Lighthouse diversionary service; and to recruit young people as peer researchers in discussions about the services provided to them. Key results revealed high priorities for participants were physical, emotional, and cultural safety, feeling supported and not judged, and having strong connections at the service so they felt they were among mates, friends, and family. We note lessons learned about undertaking peer research with young people, and highlight the distinctive role undertaken by Indigenous workers. Findings can contribute to informed social work practice and to available literature on engaging young people as peer researchers. IMPLICATIONS Young people at risk of offending want services where they feel safe and not judged. Participatory peer research with at-risk young people can contribute to informed, evidence-based social work. Greater recognition is needed that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers play a distinctive role in maintaining cultural safety in practice and research.

A framework for selecting data generation strategies in qualitative health research studies.

Qualitative health research has the potential to answer important applied health research questions to inform nutrition and dietetics practice, education and policy. Qualitative health research is a distinct subdiscipline of qualitative inquiry that purposefully draws upon the context of healthcare and emphasises health and wellness. Qualitative health research is defined by two parameters: (1) the focus of the study and (2) the methods used. When considering the methods to be used, decisions are required about the type of data to be generated (e.g., transcripts, images and notes) and the process involved in data generation (e.g., interviews, elicitation strategies and observations) to answer the research question(s). Drawing upon examples from nutrition and dietetics literature, this paper provides a framework to support decision-making for nutrition and dietetics researchers and clinician researchers designing conducting qualitative health research. The guiding questions of the framework include: What types of data will be generated? Who is involved in data generation? Where will data generation occur? When will data generation occur? How will data be recorded and managed? and How will participants' and researchers' emotional safety be promoted? Questions about the types of data, those involved, where and when, as well as how safety can be maintained in data generation, not only support a more robust design and description of data generation methods but also keep the person at the centre of the research.

Child life specialist practice and utilization across health care: a scoping review protocol.

The objective of this review is to map the available evidence regarding the scope of child life specialist practice and utilization. Child life specialists provide developmentally appropriate and emotion-focused supportive interventions that aim to build coping skills, enhance resilience, and mitigate traumatic experiences during health care encounters. Evidence of the care provided by a child life specialist is spread throughout health care literature. It is an emerging field that is aligned with a heightened focus on mental health and emotional safety. Evidence for the efficacy of child life specialists continues to grow. Mapping the current evidence will capture the breadth of services provided by child life specialists. This scoping review will consider all evidence that reports on services provided by child life specialists, including across all quantitative and qualitative study designs, systematic reviews, and scoping reviews. The review will also include child life specialist workforce studies, such as child life specialist utilization, geographic availability, multidisciplinary team integration, and clinician-focused research. Case studies or narrative experiences outside of a qualitative research methodology, descriptions of program implementation, educational surveys, and quality improvement projects will be excluded from the scoping review. JBI methodology for scoping reviews will guide the review process. Literature published from 1980 to the present will be included. Databases to be searched include PubMed, Scopus, PsycINFO, and CINAHL. The search for unpublished evidence will include Google Scholar and OpenGrey. Extracted data will be presented in tabular format with accompanying narrative summary.

Psychological security versus psychological safety

The concept of psychological security versus psychological insecurity derives from a complex system of interaction conditioned by several factors. On a situational level, we can approach psychological safety, which is a state that the subject is aware of, compared to psychological safety, which represents an unconscious complex construct, a feeling, which includes several structural elements that make it up, such as personal and emotional safety, which represents exactly as psychological security a deep feeling related to unsatisfied needs, but also their antipode the insecurity conditioned by the phenomenon of psychological insecurity as a current state. This article presents ideas about decision-making when safety versus psychological insecurity is activated, but which are deeply rooted in a deep sense of psychological security or insecurity.

The formation mechanism and generation conditions of urban residents' public safety behavior

AbstractThe formation mechanism and generation condition configuration of urban residents' public safety behavior crucial for reducing urban public safety accidents were identified using the structural equation model (SEM) and the fsQCA method to analyze 465 survey samples. The findings showed that organizational safety communication, community safety support, family safety climate, safety consciousness, and safety motivation are driving factors influencing individual safety behavior and that residents' safety behavior is positively influenced by emotional safety culture. Furthermore, nine generational configurations of these antecedent variables are sufficient to explain the emergence of high levels of safety behavior. Because most previous research has focused on the linear effects of single or multiple factors on outcome variables while ignoring “combined effects,” this study employed fsQCA to identify “combined effects” among antecedent factors of safety behavior from multiple perspectives. The results revealed that no single factor, but rather a combination of factors, led to high levels of safety behavior, shedding light on the importance of “combined effects” among variables and providing theoretical and practical insights into urban residents' public safety behavior.

The Case for Investing in Psychosocial Care and Rights of Children with Chronic Medical Conditions in India.

This narrative review paper aims to build a common understanding of the vulnerabilities of children with chronic medical conditions who face exceptional challenges due to nature of the illness, deformity, injury, and traumatic healthcare encounters which could potentially lead to long-term psychological effects. The presence of chronic medical diagnoses in children and the subsequent impacts including social stigma, as well as their age and developmental level, may amplify adjustment challenges in parenting considerations, school, peer relations, career, and future relationships. Children may be traumatized by unfamiliar and painful healthcare experiences. Hospitalization can lead to increased feelings of isolation, fear, and self-doubt when children do not receive emotionally safe psychological support necessary to minimize the accompanying stress and anxiety. School experiences and parenting children with chronic illnesses have additional intersecting socialization characteristics. This paper highlights a vision for furthering the groundwork within Indian pediatric settings to promote emotional safety and psychosocial care. Principles from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the World Health Organization's definition of health create an impetus for giving a voice to children with chronic medical conditions. While there are sporadic psychosocial services for children with chronic needs, they lack consistency, and this indicates a need and an opportunity for developing a unique career for human development and psychology professionals to address these concerns. As exemplars, two psychosocial care programs in India that help foster resilience in these children are highlighted. Although limited, extant research regarding the experiences of children with chronic medical conditions in India is discussed, and implications for future research and academic initiatives are interwoven within this paper.

University Students' Engagement in Mobile Learning.

The implementation of mobile learning seems to be an emerging topic in many educational institutions. As recently noticed, mobile technology has employed wireless technologies to communicate, think, learn, and share in order to spread and exchange information. Therefore, using mobile technologies in learning and teaching can create a positive environment in higher education. Hence, the purpose of this study is to evaluate mobile learning engagement among educational technology students. Data from three focus group discussions and 15 semi-structured interviews with students who experienced mobile learning were gathered using a qualitative approach design. A total of seventeen basic themes and four organizing themes were extracted, where the researchers categories of engagement, i.e., social engagement, cognitive engagement, emotional engagement, and behavioral engagement. In the present research, the findings indicate that social engagement themes included social-mobile interaction, building community, developing relationships, and competition. The cognitive engagement themes included attention, cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies, immersion, and cognitive curiosity. Emotional engagement themes included excitement and enjoyment, instructor comforting students, motivation, and emotional safety. Behavioral engagement themes included effort and time on task, attendance, participation, and positive conduct.

The effectiveness of treatment based on acceptance and commitment on sexual performance and emotional safety in men with cardiovascular disease

Aim: The aim of the research was to determine the effectiveness of the treatment based on acceptance and commitment on sexual performance and emotional safety in people with cardiovascular disease. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up phase. The statistical population of the study was cardiovascular patients in Isfahan city in 2022, and 34 patients were selected using the purposive sampling method and randomly assigned to one experimental group and one control group (17 people in each group). The research tools were Rosen's Male Sexual Performance Questionnaire (2004) and Emotional Safety Questionnaire. Treatment based on acceptance and commitment was implemented in 9 sessions of 90 minutes once a week and the control group was waiting for treatment. The data were analyzed using the statistical method of mixed analysis of variance and Bonferroni post hoc test. Results: The results showed that the effectiveness of treatment based on acceptance and commitment and transdiagnostic treatment was on the components of sexual function and emotional safety in cardiovascular patients (P<0.001). Also, the results showed that these effects had maintained their stability in the follow-up phase (P<0.001). Conclusions: Therefore, both interventions can be used to improve the components of sexual function and emotional safety of cardiovascular patients and improve their quality of life.

Creativity and Connection: The Impact of inspirED with Secondary School Students.

The World Economic Forum predicts that the skills most highly valued by employers in 2025 will be problem-solving, self-management, working with people, and technology use and development. Educators are seeking ways in which to incorporate these skills into their daily instruction. Here, we offer one possible approach to bolster skills in each of these domains: the inspirED program. inspirED was designed for U.S. middle and high schools to support teams of students in completing projects or campaigns that they believe will make their school a better place for all. This study enrolled teams of students from 22 middle and high schools, and provided them with online training, coaching in the inspirED process, and resources to complete their project. Upon finishing their projects, students on the inspirED teams reported higher sense of purpose and self-awareness around the importance of emotions. The larger student bodies at schools in which inspirED projects took place also reported improvements in school climate including students' perceptions of teaching quality, sense of school pride, student relationships, and emotional safety. Implications and future directions for school-based social-emotional learning and student leadership opportunities are discussed.

‘Everybody is sick and there won t be a cure : The Power of Privileging U.S. Student Voices through COVID-19 Drawings

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown was particularly challenging for elementary students who experienced disruptions in almost all aspects of their daily activities. Our study addressed a dearth of U.S. studies documenting the adverse effects the pandemic created and continues to have for children by analyzing their drawings. This study was conducted post-lockdown after students resumed normal school operations. The Mosaic Approach framed this case study research that was conducted using drawings created by sixteen students in grades prekindergarten through fifth grade (ages 4 to 10 years old). Students drew what came to mind when thinking of COVID-19. We conducted a content analysis of the data and determined four dominant themes: (1) symptoms related to COVID-19, (2) evidence of psychological or emotional responses, (3) health and safety precautions, and (4) depictions of the virus cell. We assert children’s drawings as a useful tool for educators to create opportunities to connect with students and potentially reduce their anxieties about issues, including those beyond the pandemic. This will be of interest to educators who may not have considered the power of children’s drawings as a means to provide voice about current issues. It will also add to the global knowledge base about children’s perceptions of COVID-19 and the resulting lockdown.

HARNESSING CULTURAL DIPLOMACY THROUGH TEACHING/LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Today’s security environment is dramatically different from the one we’ve been engaged in for the last 30 years and it requires new ways of thinking and new ways of acting. By and large, it concerns a motley tapestry of immensely transformed world politics, economy and environment, communication, employment, psychological and emotional wellbeing, safety and security, societal structures, and social culture and values integrated into the global landscape. Importantly, education has always been a core pillar of strength, since EDUCATION involves every aspect of human life: culture, power, ideology and authorities’ impact. Respectively, education and culture are the powerful forces that drive youth as stakeholders in education to reveal their potential and change their future as well as the future of the globe. In this respect, my strong conviction is that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom (EFL) can considerably contribute to a culturally versatile development of global citizenship education. Recently foreign language professors/teachers have become a pull and push factor in the sustainable development of both a global society and its citizens. Delving into the problem of harnessing cultural diplomacy through teaching/learning English as EFL, the study presented an in-depth scientific analysis based on conceptual framework of cultural diplomacy as soft power and synthesis which aimed at actual and multifaceted practices and, accordingly, provided the students with opportunities to consider their own experiences and yield their own fruits of soft skills. The present study was designed to determine the effect of cultural diplomacy as soft power that considerably contributes to effective EFL teaching/learning. One of the most significant findings to emerge from this study is that EFL teachers are to provide learners with a rich socio-cultural awareness and living skills, rather than only linguistic training on the target language.

“Compete-Learn-Honor”: A Psychological and Sports Science Evidence-Based Approach to Coaching and Player Development

This article describes the research that supports “Compete-Learn-Honor,” a psychological and sport science evidence-based coaching philosophy and player development approach to promoting emotional and physical safety, fun, and growth as a person and player. Compete-Learn-Honor (CLH) focuses on the mental-emotional game but enables task- and mastery-oriented rather than ego-oriented integration of all six general tennis performance components for periodization identified by the U.S. Professional Tennis Association: Physical, technical, tactical, strategic, mental, and environmental. The article describes how CLH is implemented, and reviews how CLH is rooted in the science of positive psychology and of creating a task- and mastery-oriented player development climate in sport that focuses on support for basic ABC needs of human motivation— autonomy, belonging, and competence, all of which has been shown to promote better athlete well-being and performance.

Addressing inequalities in the identification and management of perinatal mental health difficulties: The perspectives of minoritised women, healthcare practitioners and the voluntary sector.

Perinatal mental health (PMH) difficulties affect approximately one in five birthing women. If not identified and managed appropriately, these PMH difficulties can carry impacts across generations, affecting mental health and relationship outcomes. There are known inequalities in identification and management across the healthcare pathway. Whilst barriers and facilitators have been identified there is a lack of clarity about how these relate to the avoidable and unfair inequalities experienced by various groups of women. Further research is required to understand how to address inequalities in PMH. To understand the key factors that enable and hinder access to PMH care for women from minoritised groups across the PMH care pathway, and how these have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. A sequential mixed-methods approach gathered views and experiences from stakeholders in one region in northern England. This included an online survey with 145 NHS healthcare practitioners and semi-structured interviews with 19 women from ethnic minority and/or socio-economically deprived backgrounds who had experienced PMH difficulties, and 12 key informants from the voluntary and community sector workforce. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics and framework analysis was applied to qualitative data. Barriers and facilitators were mapped using a socio-technical framework to understand the role of (i) processes, (ii) people (organised as women, practitioners and others), (iii) technology, and (iv) the system as a whole in deepening or alleviating inequalities. Influences that were identified as pertinent to inequalities in identification and management included provision of interpreters, digital exclusion, stigma, disempowerment, distrust of services, practitioner attitudes, data capture, representation in the workforce, narrow rules of engagement and partnership working. Stakeholder groups expressed that several barriers were further compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings highlight the need for change at the system level to tackle inequalities across the PMH care pathway. Four inter-connected recommendations were developed to enable this systems change: building emotional safety between professionals and women; making PMH a part of core healthcare business; increasing cultural competency specific to PMH; and enhanced partnership working.