scholarly journals Associations between News Media Coverage of the 11 September Attacks and Depression in Employees of New York City Area Businesses

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Betty Pfefferbaum ◽  
Jayme M. Palka ◽  
Carol S. North
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
News Media ◽  
York City ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mass Trauma ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
General Populations ◽  
Disaster Trauma

Research has examined the association between contact with media coverage of mass trauma events and various psychological outcomes, including depression. Disaster-related depression research is complicated by the relatively high prevalence of the major depressive disorder in general populations even without trauma exposure. The extant research is inconclusive regarding associations between disaster media contact and depression outcomes, in part, because most studies have not distinguished diagnostic and symptomatic outcomes, differentiated postdisaster incidence from prevalence, or considered disaster trauma exposures. This study examined these associations in a volunteer sample of 254 employees of New York City businesses after the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks. Structured interviews and questionnaires were administered 35 months after the attacks. Poisson and logistic regression analyses revealed that post-9/11 news contact significantly predicted the number of postdisaster persistent/recurrent and incident depressive symptoms in the full sample and in the indirect and unexposed groups. The findings suggest that clinical and public health approaches should be particularly alert to potential adverse postdisaster depression outcomes related to media consumption in disaster trauma-unexposed or indirectly-exposed groups.

Media Contact and Posttraumatic Stress in Employees of New York City Area Businesses after the September 11 Attacks

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Betty Pfefferbaum ◽  
Jayme Palka ◽  
Carol S. North
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
York City ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mass Trauma ◽  
September 11 Attacks ◽  
Disaster Trauma

ABSTRACT Objective: The objective of this study was to examine associations between media contact and posttraumatic stress in a sample with a large number of individuals who were directly exposed to the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks and to compare outcomes in exposed and unexposed participants. Methods: Structured interviews and questionnaires were administered to a volunteer sample of 254 employees of New York City businesses 35 months after the attacks to document disaster trauma exposures, posttraumatic stress outcomes, and media contact and reactions. Results: Media variables were not associated with psychopathological outcomes in exposed participants, but media contact in the first week after the attacks and feeling moderately/extremely bothered by graphic 9/11 media images were associated with re-experiencing symptoms in both the exposed and unexposed participants. Feeling moderately/extremely bothered by graphic media images was associated with hyperarousal symptoms in exposed participants. Conclusions: The findings suggest that media contact did not lead to psychopathology in exposed individuals, although it was associated with normative distress in both exposure groups. Because of the potential for adverse effects associated with media contact, clinicians and public health professionals are encouraged to discuss concerns about mass trauma media contact with their patients and the public at large.

Teaching Physical Education in an Urban Intensive Environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 004208592092301
Author(s):  
K. Andrew R. Richards ◽  
Michael A. Hemphill ◽  
Victoria N. Shiver ◽  
Karen Lux Gaudreault ◽  
Victor Ramsey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Student Diversity ◽  
Physical Educators ◽  
Occupational Socialization ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Socialization Theory ◽  
Teaching Context

The purpose of this study was to understand the unique stressors faced by physical educators working in New York City schools. Participants included 34 New York City physical educators who participated in semi-structured interviews about their experiences teaching in an urban context. Qualitative data analysis resulted in the construction of four themes: (a) working with limited and inconsistent infrastructure, (b) navigating student diversity, (c) coping with marginalization and advocating for quality practices, and (d) managing the sociopolitics of teaching. These themes highlight the intersection between discipline and teaching context and are discussed through the lens of occupational socialization theory.

Strength, Stamina, and Sexism in the 2016 Presidential Race

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 116-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Conroy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
News Media ◽  
York City ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
Hillary Clinton

On September 11, 2016, less than two months before Election Day, Hillary Clinton attended the 9/11 memorial service in New York City. Reportedly, Clinton left the event early, and as she was getting into her SUV, she fainted. A bystander caught on camera a wobbly Clinton needing assistance getting into her vehicle, which he posted to Twitter, where it immediately circulated (Kafka 2016). News media outlets soon picked it up and were quick to air the footage. Initially, the Clinton campaign explained that Clinton had been “overheated.” Later that afternoon, however, the campaign announced that two days prior, Clinton had been diagnosed with walking pneumonia, and despite being advised to rest, she had attended the memorial event.

On the Front Lines: The Impact of Managerialism on the New York City Addiction Treatment Workforce

2021 ◽  
pp. 104829112110416
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Lewiskin ◽  
Mimi Abramovitz ◽  
Jennifer Zelnick
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Professional Discretion ◽  
The Impact

Since the mid-1970s, neoliberal policies have relied on privatization and other tactics to down-size the state, transforming human service organizations in the process. The impact of this approach, also known as managerialism, has not been examined in addiction treatment, where the opioid epidemic has intensified the need for services. Using qualitative semi-structured interviews, we explore how managerialism has affected the workforce, service delivery, and the quality of care in New York City addiction treatment programs. Front-line and managerial staff identified threats to working conditions, including high caseloads and productivity demands; threats to service quality including standardization of practice, loss of professional discretion and serving only those most likely to succeed; and threats to worker well-being marked by stress, burn-out, and low morale. The contradictions between the goals of managerialism and addiction treatment threaten the ability to meet the needs of people struggling with addiction.

Blind justice

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 781-782
Author(s):  
W. A. S.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
News Media ◽  
York City ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Retrolental Fibroplasia ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Accepted Standard ◽  
Blind Justice

On November 18, 1976, a jury in New York City decided in favor of the defense's argument that a retrolental fibroplasia (RLF)-blinded 22-year-old woman had been treated with oxygen according to the accepted standard of care at the time of her birth in the summer of 1954. This notable event was ignored by the news media. Several days earlier there had been prominent news coverage of a $400,000 out-of-court settlement in a similar (summer of 1954 birth) RLF-suit brought against another New York hospital. Apart from what this says about the fourth estate, these events point up some curious facets of the mindset in both the legal and the medical communities concerning the great epidemic of infantile blindness that began in 1942 and ended dramatically in 1954 to 1955.

Selling Pre-K: Media, Politics, and Policy in the Case of Universal Prekindergarten in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine K. Delaney ◽  
Susan B. Neuman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
York City ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
State Budget ◽  
The Media

Background/Context Educational policy is informed by multiple stakeholders and actors. Research has focused on understanding how policy decisions are informed and made, as well as how teachers and school leaders take up these policies in their practice. However, few researchers have examined how educational policy is framed for the larger public and voting electorate through media coverage and how the use of rhetorical devices can shape the public's understandings of policies, practices, and promised outcomes. Publicly funded prekindergarten is an emerging movement in many states. Purpose/Objective This research examined how local and national media framed the scale-up of publicly funded, Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) in the largest school district in the country: New York City. Across two years, including a mayoral primary, mayoral election, and high-profile state budget negotiations, we examine how six media outlets used rhetoric to create specific narratives about the goals, outcomes, and possibilities of UPK that resonated with voters. Research Design Qualitative methods were used to examine the content of six national and local media sources. Over 640 sources were analyzed to address the questions central to this study. Utilizing our theoretical framework of rhetorical policy analysis, as well as emergent coding, we cross-analyzed multiple themes, working to identify consistent and dominant narratives across the media coverage. Findings Findings reveal that four main narratives dominated the media coverage of the scale-up of pre-K in New York City. These narratives used emotional rhetoric to frame UPK in ways that detracted from meaningful, research-informed information about how to successfully support the care and learning of young children. Conclusions/Recommendations The role of media in framing educational policy and practice for the public is growing. Researchers and policy makers must be mindful of how the rhetorical approaches utilized by the media can and will inform the public's understanding of public education policy.

Prisons and Prisoners

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-125
Author(s):  
William vanden Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
The Press ◽  
Novel Approaches

This chapter tells the story of Bill vanden Heuvel's work with the New York City prison system. Following riots in the Tombs detention center and a rash of suicides in late 1970, Mayor John Lindsay asked vanden Heuvel to serve as Chair of the Board of Correction, a post he held for three years. During that time, he made numerous proposals to improve conditions in the New York City prison system, developing novel approaches to health care, education, training and living conditions. His legal training gave him an eye for spotting inequities in bail and sentencing procedures, and he worked closely with advocates both inside and outside the prisons to create a system that could be remedial as well as punitive. The chapter includes his speech at a service of concern after deadly riots broke out at Attica State Prison in September 1971. His ideas for improving media coverage of the prisons are presented in his article "The Press and the Prisons," first published in June 1972.

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