Sara Rodrigues

Atlas Institute for Veterans and Families · Research

Introduction Les thérapeutes respiratoires ont été confrontés à des situations moralement difficiles tout au long de la pandémie de COVID-19, en particulier le fait d’avoir peu de ressources pour effectuer leur travail ou encore la participation à des appels vidéo avec les familles de patients mourants. La détresse morale est associée à une foule d...

Introduction Respiratory therapists (RTs) faced morally distressing situations throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including working with limited resources and facilitating video calls for families of dying patients. Moral distress is associated with a host of adverse psychological and functional outcomes (e.g. depression, anxiety, symptoms of posttr...

Background: Moral injury (MI) has become a research and organizational priority as frontline personnel have, both during and in the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, raised concerns about repeated expectations to make choices that transgress their deeply held morals, values, and beliefs. As awareness of MI grows, so, too, does attention on its...

Background: Given the highly stressful environment surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) and public safety personnel (PSP) are at an elevated risk for adverse psychological outcomes, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol/substance use problems. As such, the study aimed to identify associations between P...

Background: Healthcare providers (HCPs) may be at elevated risk for moral injury due to increased exposure to potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Identifying PMIEs experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic is a critical first step for understanding moral injury in HCPs. Accordingly, the purpose of the pres...

Introduction: Healthcare professionals (HCPs) appear to be at increased risk for negative psychological outcomes [e.g. depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), moral distress] and associated impacts on functioning throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. HCPs working on designated COVID-19 units may be further impacted than their collea...

For many, including military veterans and their families, support between individuals with shared lived experiences, or peer support, has long been utilized as a way to support each other through many different challenges. Building on other reviews and guided by the seven domains of well-being in the Canadian veteran well-being framework, the objec...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) have been exposed to highly stressful situations, including increased workloads and exposure to mortality, thus posing a risk for adverse psychological outcomes, including acute stress, moral injury, and depression or anxiety symptoms. Although several reports have sought to identify the t...

LAY SUMMARY When Veterans seek and receive mental health care, their family members are often involved, directly or indirectly, in the process. Within Canada, recognition of the need for family-centred policies and practices is growing; however, family involvement in care is generally the exception rather than the rule. A recently developed Concept...

Article Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01534-4 The aim of this research was to describe the evidence examining the approaches taken by mental health providers (MHPs) and chaplains to address symptoms related to moral injury (MI) or exposure to potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs). This research also considers the implicatio...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a still-unfolding series of novel, potentially traumatic moral and ethical challenges that place many healthcare workers at risk of developing moral injury. Moral injury is a type of psychological response that may arise when one transgresses or witnesses another transgress deeply held moral values, or when one...

This community-based project solicited the first-hand experiences of Muslim women and front-line mental health workers to understand what service gaps are present in the functioning of mental health services located in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). The primary goal of this project was to enhance inclusivity in the mental health serv...

This report reviews recent literature on the mental health needs of justice-involved people in Canada. It is a rapid, conceptual scoping review of both academic and policy sources on the topic, intended to identify priority areas for current and forthcoming discussions. For many critical observers today, jails and prisons have become places of conf...

It is often said that small business is the backbone of the Canadian economy and that when entrepreneurs succeed, so does Canada. Considering the importance of small and medium-sized businesses to the Canadian economy, the health and well-being of entrepreneurs is a critical public health issue. The study, “Going it Alone: The mental health and wel...

In this issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, we invited contributors to engage with how protest is visualized, that is, rendered visual in the form of iconography and through social media, and imagined as a utopian project of feminist, queer, and anti-racist worldmaking. Inviting scholarship and creative engagements from th...

In this chapter, we open up this study of ugliness by exploring what it means and what is at stake when someone or something is marked with and by “ugliness.” We do this by considering contemporary deployments of ugliness, with a focus on Western socio-cultural contexts, as well as by providing a review of theoretical engagements with ugliness. We...

This paper comprises a feminist phenomenological exploration of women’s experiences with breast augmentation and breast reduction. Situating the results of semi-structured interviews in the context of body schema, this study discloses how women perceive, think, feel and respond to bodily change created by elective breast surgery. Women’s narratives...

Ugliness or unsightliness is much more than a quality or property of an individual’s appearance—it has long functioned as a social category that demarcates access to social, cultural, and political spaces and capital. The editors of and authors in this collection harness intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches in order to examine ugliness a...

In the past few decades, research on minority and disadvantaged groups in the workplace has focused on the discourse of diversity management; however, most of this research has emphasized individual and organizational discourse rather than broader, societal contexts. Our critical analysis of societal/macro level discourse explores the discursive co...

In the past decade, there has been a proliferation of discourse advocating for greater legal protection for the Earth in the form of ‘the rights of nature’. This article critically examines local movements to recognise the ‘the rights of nature’ through critical discourse analysis, focussing on local Community Bills of Rights and localised Rights o...

Female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) refers to a group of procedures designed to alter the aesthetics or ‘function’ of women’s genital anatomy. This article analyzes the biopolitics of FGCS, opening up for discussion the relationship between biopolitics and vaginas. I theorize the biopolitics of FGCS in terms of how these procedures discipline in...

This article deconstructs the “diversity paradox” in the series How to Look Good Naked. Although it promotes body acceptance for all women, the series relies on ideologically constructed conventions of beauty that confound its agenda. Ultimately, the series attempts to rearticulate the trope of transformation by inciting candidates to self-govern.

This paper draws on several data sources to interrogate some of the assumptions about the “shortage” as well as the “ICT profession” and the role of diversity. Specifically it will draw on three sets of data—the discourses concerning the ICT labour shortage, data on the Canadian ICT labour market and results of focus groups and interviews with ICT...

In spite of the economic downturn, demographic factors are expected to continue to produce a labour shortage particularly in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. In Canada, the sector has signaled that critical skills shortages exist in certain areas although the extent of these shortages is the subject of much debate. While...