A Circle of Women: Creating Community for Healing at Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Wesley ◽  
Erin Heslop
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
Aboriginal Student

Within the Queen’s University community there are limited culturally appropriate activities for Aboriginal students. Traditionally and currently it is not common practice for an Aboriginal person to go to a stranger for guidance for personal issues. It is more common to seek guidance from a family member, community member or an elder. Aboriginal women in communities across Canada were historically valued as leaders and respected in their various roles within those societies. After colonization Aboriginal peoples were forced to adopt European patriarchal values. Consequently women were no longer allowed to hold leadership positions within their communities and the roles that they did play were perceived as less valuable. In addition to this ideological shift, the spiritual connection that women previously held with each other was disconnected through various processes. The sixties scoop and residential schools were processes that had negatively affected these relationships within Aboriginal societies. The Women’s Circle strives to bridge the disconnect that occurred and utilize time spent together during traditional activities to provide a safe place for this healing to begin. The Women’s Circle will also support Queen’s University’s mandate of engaging diversity and encouraging the Non-Aboriginal community to learn more regarding Aboriginal cultures, as well as the mandate of Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, specifically to foster the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being of the Aboriginal Students at Queen’s University.

Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) Therapy

2021 ◽  
pp. 502-508
Author(s):  
Sarah Hales ◽  
Gary Rodin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Symptom Management ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Relational Attachment

Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) is a brief, semistructured individual intervention designed to alleviate distress and to promote psychological growth in individuals with advanced disease. This intervention emerged from a longitudinal program of research and from the theoretical traditions of relational, attachment, and existential theory. Through a process that supports affect regulation, attachment security, and reflective functioning, CALM focuses on four content domains: (1) symptom management and communication with health care providers; (2) changes in self and relations with close others; (3) spiritual well-being, sense of meaning, and purpose; and (4) preparing for the future, sustaining hope, and facing mortality. Caregivers are invited to one or more CALM sessions, during which communication, relational strengths and disruptions, and hopes and fears related to the present and to the future are addressed. Qualitative research has shown that the structure of CALM provides a safe place for cancer patients to explore their fears, to be seen in human terms, and to face the challenges and threats of advancing disease. Quantitative research has shown that compared to usual care, it leads to significantly greater reduction in and prevention of depressive symptoms and improvement in death preparation. Therapist skill in the delivery of CALM is developed through didactic and experiential workshops and by ongoing supervision.

Relationship Between Spiritual Well-Being and the Perception of Life Events in First Nations

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob A. Burack ◽  
Gillian H. Klassen ◽  
Adrienne Blacklock ◽  
Johanna Querengesser ◽  
Alexandra D'Arrisso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Well Being

Cortisol stress reactivity and spiritual well-being after traumatic brain injury

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Hubbarth ◽  
Lisa J. Rapport ◽  
Brigid Waldron-Perrine ◽  
Sarah-Jane Meachen
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Well Being

Faktor yang Memengaruhi Kualitas Hidup Pasien dengan Penyakit Jantung Koroner

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aan Nuraeni ◽  
Ristina Mirwanti ◽  
Anastasia Anna ◽  
Ayu Prawesti ◽  
Etika Emaliyawati
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Cardiac Rehabilitation ◽  
Beck Depression Inventory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Seattle Angina Questionnaire ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Anxiety Depression

Prevalensi Penyakit Jantung Koroner (PJK) terus mengalami peningkatan setiap tahunnya dan menjadi masalah kesehatan utama di masyarakat saat ini. PJK berdampak terhadap berbagai aspek kehidupan penderitanya baik fisik, psikososial maupun spiritual yang berpengaruh terhadap kualitas hidup pasien. Isu kualitas hidup dan faktor-faktor yang berhubungan didalamnya belum tergambar jelas di Indonesia. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengidentifikasi faktor yang memengaruhi kualitas hidup pada pasien PJK yang sedang menjalani rawat jalan. Faktor-faktor yang diteliti dalam penelitian ini meliputi jenis kelamin, tingkat penghasilan, revaskularisasi jantung, rehabilitasi jantung, kecemasan, depresi dan kesejahteraan spiritual. Kecemasan diukur dengan Zung Self-rating Anxiety Scale, depresi diukur dengan Beck Depression Inventory II, kesejahteraan spiritual diukur dengan kuesioner Spirituality Index of Well-Beingdan kualitas hidup diukur menggunakan Seattle Angina Questionnaire. Penelitian ini menggunakan rancangan kuantitatif deskriptif dan analitik multivariatedengan regresi logistic. Diteliti pada 100 responden yang diambil secara randomdalam kurun waktu 1 bulan di Poli Jantung. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan faktor yang memengaruhi kualitas hidup pada pasien PJK adalah cemas (p) 0,002; Odd Ratio(OR) 4,736 (95% confidence interval(CI), 1,749 – 12,827); depresi (p) 0,003; OR 5,450 ( 95% CI, 1,794 – 16,562); dan revaskularisasi (p) 0,033; OR 3,232 (95% CI, 1,096 – 9,528). Depresi menjadi faktor yang paling berpengaruh terhadap kualitas hidup pasien PJK. Faktor yang memengaruhi kualitas hidup pada pasien PJK meliputi depresi, cemas dan revaskularisasi. Dari ketiga variabel tersebut depresi merupakan variabel yang paling signifikan berpengaruh, sehingga manajemen untuk mencegah depresi perlu mendapatkan perhatian lebih baik lagi dalam discharge planningataupun rehabilitasi jantung.Kata kunci: Cemas, depresi, faktor yang memengaruhi, kualitas hidup, spiritual.Factors Influenced the Quality of Life among Patients Diagnosed with Coronary Heart Disease AbstractCoronary Heart Disease (CHD) has affected multidimensional aspects of human live nowadays. Yet, quality of life and factors associated with quality of life among people who live with heart disease has not been explored in Indonesia. This study aimed to identify factors influenced the quality of life among people with CHD received outpatient services. Those factors are gender, income, revascularization, cardiac rehabilitation, anxiety, depression and spiritual well-being. Zung Self-rating Anxiety Scale was used to measure anxiety where depression level measured using Beck Depression Inventory II. Spirituality index was used to measure spiritual well-being. The quality of life level was measured using the Seattle Angina Questionnaire. This study used quantitative descriptive with multivariate analysis using logistic regression. 100 respondents were randomly selected from the Cardiac Outpatient Unit. Findings indicated factors influenced the quality of life of CHD patients using a significance of ƿ-value < 0.005 were: anxiety (ƿ=0,002, OR = 4,736, 95% CI, 1,749 – 12,827); depression (ƿ=0,003; OR=5,450, 95% CI, 1,794 – 16,562); and revascularizations (ƿ=0,033; OR=3,232, 95% CI, 1,096 – 9,528). Depression was considered as the most significant factor; therefore, managing depression is a priority in the discharge planning or cardiac rehabilitation programme. Keywords: Anxiety, depression, quality of life, spiritual, well-being.

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