Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic, Volume 3: The Covid-19 Pandemic, Mental Health, and Colonialism

Author:   Dionisio Nyaga ,  Rose Ann Torres
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
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Pages:   51
Publication Date:   05 July 2024
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Author:   Dionisio Nyaga ,  Rose Ann Torres
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031583698


ISBN 10:   3031583698
Pages:   51
Publication Date:   05 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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1. The Impact of Covid-19 On African Students Mental Health and Educational Performance In Canada- A Case Study Of Algoma University Ontario Canada.- 2. COVID-19 & Filipinos in Canada: Mental Health Care Praxis.- 3. Narrative Resistance: Peer Supporters Experiences of Co-optation, Isolation, and Exploitation in Addiction Services and its Impact on Their Wholistic Health.- 4. Disrupting Truth in Theory Production in the Shadow of COVID 19.- 5. Psychiatric Consumers and Survivors’ (Lackluster) Engagement with Indigeneity, Diversity, and Anti-Racist Thought.- 6. Kalusugan at Mamayan: Exploring Filipino Mental Health Challenges.- 7. Decolonizing Notions of Empathy: Building Communities of Care.

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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.  

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