Shawn Renee Hordyk

Shawn Renee Hordyk
University of Quebec in Montreal | UQAM · School of Social Work

Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work

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Au Nunavik, au Québec, un nombre démesuré de personnes sont confrontées à la perte de membres de la famille et de proches qui sont décédés dans des circonstances traumatisantes. Bien que ce phénomène soit documenté dans les publications scientifiques, on sait peu de choses sur le deuil qui s’ensuit, sur les services nécessaires pour soutenir les en...
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This article presents an overview of past and current grief rituals and practices and existing grassroots and institutional initiatives seeking to address the complex, prolonged, and traumatic grief experienced by many Inuit living in Quebec. While conducting a study seeking to identify the strengths, resources, and challenges for Nunavik's Inuit c...
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Nunavimmiut (people of the land) are the Indigenous peoples of the northern peninsula of the province of Quebec. Communities of Nunavik and its regional organizations have been making concerted efforts in implementing community‐based strategies to support family wellbeing. These community strategies are grounded in many of the values underpinning c...
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Purpose This paper presents an analysis of how health intersects with the experience of housing insecurity and homelessness, specifically for migrant women. The authors argue that it is important to understand the specificities of the interplay of these different factors to continue the advancement of our understanding and practice as advocates fo...
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Ethical research practice with children necessitates that the researcher engage children as voluntary and informed participants, seeking their assent alongside parental consent. In practice however, the physical and relational contexts in which research occurs and a researcher’s choice concerning data collection strategies may lead to children’s fl...
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Description of one of the first community-based Family Houses in the region of Nunavik, its development.
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Social work’s traditional emphasis on the individual in the context of social environments has resulted in a neglect of the person in the context of physical environments. This conceptual article addresses this oversight by presenting three subconcepts of place—place attachment, place identity, and territoriality—and draws on research examples with...
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Background: Inuit interpreters are key players in end-of-life (EOL) care for Nunavik patients and families. This emotionally intensive work requires expertise in French, English and Inuit dialects to negotiate linguistic and cultural challenges. Cultural differences among medical institutions and Inuit communities can lead to value conflicts and mo...
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Background: Increasing longevity for Inuit living in Nunavik, northern Quebec, has resulted in heightened rates of cancers and chronic diseases necessitating complex treatments. Consequently, end-of-life (EOL) care, once the domain of Inuit families and communities, has come to include professionalized healthcare providers with varying degrees of...
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The aim of our study was to better understand the end of life (EOL) services offered in Nunavik and to identify whether there were ways to improve the quality of EOL care for patients and families. We interviewed patients and family members, healthcare providers, community members, and others who were involved in EOL care. Areas of inquiry included...
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The objective of this study was to explore housing insecurity among women newcomers to Montreal, Canada. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 26 newcomer women who had experienced housing insecurity and five women’s shelter service providers. The primary cause of housing insecurity for newcomer women was inadequate income in the face of r...
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Methodological debates concerning feminist research design tend to focus more on the process of data collection than on the process of data representation. Nevertheless, data representation is fraught with difficulties, especially in communicating research findings concerning vulnerable populations to diverse individuals and groups. How do feminist...
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Contemporary theories of childhood recognize children as experts in their own lives, individuals whose perspectives are worthy of study. Immigrant and refugee children riding waves of historical, geographical, political, cultural and familial changes are likewise recognized as ‘socially competent actors’, anchored in part by their capacity to expre...
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Despite continual advancement of social work theory over the past few decades, neglecting to consider the geographical concept of place represents a scholarly gap. This is a significant oversight considering the field of social work distinguishes itself from other human service disciplines by focusing on the person-in-environment model. Place inter...
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The focus of this article is on the use of found poetry as a tool in qualitative research to examine the experience of precarious housing and homelessness among immigrant women in Montreal. Immigrant and refugee women exhibit greater risk for homelessness than women in general or male newcomers due to higher rates of poverty. Yet little is known ab...

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