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| Rob WhitleySummaryAffiliation: McGill University Country: Canada Publications
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Trends in newspaper coverage of mental illness in Canada: 2005-2010Rob Whitley
Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Verdun, Quebec, Canada
Can J Psychiatry 58:107-12. 2013..We assessed the broad content of articles relating to mental illness in major Canadian newspapers over a 6-year period. We also sought to assess if such content has changed over time...
The antipsychiatry movement: dead, diminishing, or developing?Rob Whitley
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, 6875 LaSalle Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychiatr Serv 63:1039-41. 2012..This critique may intensify, given the likely media and public interest surrounding the upcoming release of DSM-5...- Recovery centers for people with severe mental illness: a survey of programsRob Whitley
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, 6875 LaSalle Blvd, Montreal, QC, H4H 1R3, Canada
Community Ment Health J 48:547-56. 2012..We discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of recovery centers, especially important given wider policy commitment to recovery, detailing the importance of future research and evaluation... - Religious competence as cultural competenceRob Whitley
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Transcult Psychiatry 49:245-60. 2012..I suggest ways in which this can be achieved. Attention to religion can aid in the development of culturally competent and accessible services, which in turn, may increase engagement and service satisfaction among religious populations... - "Thank you God": religion and recovery from dual diagnosis among low-income African AmericansRob Whitley
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Transcult Psychiatry 49:87-104. 2012..Psychiatric services serving an African American clientele with lived experience of dual diagnosis may increase effectiveness by better harnessing client religiosity to assist recovery... - Best practices: recovery centers for people with a mental illness: an emerging best practice?Rob Whitley
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Perry Pavilion E 3108, 6875 LaSalle Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychiatr Serv 63:10-2. 2012..Because they offer a feasible and popular means to help individuals with mental illness acquire skills, recovery centers may be an emerging best practice. Further research is necessary to test their efficacy... - Evidence-based medicine: opportunities and challenges in a diverse societyRob Whitley
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Can J Psychiatry 56:514-22. 2011..These include a need for more effectiveness research, more openness to diverse sources of knowledge, better integration of idiographic and nomothetic knowledge, and a critical approach to extrapolation and transfer of knowledge... - Social defeat or social resistance? Reaction to fear of crime and violence among people with severe mental illness living in urban 'recovery communities'Rob Whitley
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Perry Pavilion E 3108, 6875 LaSalle Blvd, Montreal, QC H4H 1R3, Canada
Cult Med Psychiatry 35:519-35. 2011..quot; An influential factor fostering such resistance is the "recovery community' itself, which creates secure and reliable housing within a micro-community in which participants could thrive... - Recovery: a dimensional approachRob Whitley
Douglas University Mental Health Institute, McGill University, 6875 LaSalle Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychiatr Serv 61:1248-50. 2010..The model also identifies lay, professional, and systemic resources that promote each recovery dimension... - Is there a link between rates of common mental disorder and deficits in social capital in Gospel Oak, London? Results from a qualitative studyRob Whitley
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, 1033 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1A1
Health Place 11:237-48. 2005..The results do not support the hypothesis that rates of common mental disorder in Gospel Oak are linked to deficits in social capital. Compositional factors may be more important in accounting for these rates... 
Thinking inside the bubble: evidence for a new contextual unit in urban mental healthRob Whitley
Division of Social and Trans cultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, 1033 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A1
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:893-7. 2005....- Fear of crime, mobility and mental health in inner-city London, UKRob Whitley
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, 1033 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 1A1
Soc Sci Med 61:1678-88. 2005..We suggest that experience of time-space inequalities may be damaging to mental health and that interventions which lessen them may help prevent, ameliorate or shorten episodes of mental illness... - Social capital and psychiatry: review of the literatureRob Whitley
Division of Social and Trans cultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 1A1
Harv Rev Psychiatry 13:71-84. 2005..Despite all this promise, however, there is a lack of strong evidence supporting the hypothesis that social capital protects mental health... - Qualitative research in psychiatryRob Whitley
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Can J Psychiatry 50:108-14. 2005..The paper concludes by arguing that qualitative methods may be an increasingly appropriate methodology to answer some of the demanding research questions being posed in 21st century psychiatry... - Spiritual reconfigurations of self after a myocardial infarction: Influence of culture and placeDanielle Groleau
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Que, Canada
Health Place 16:853-60. 2010..Results illustrate how place and culture interact to shape illness experience and recovery trajectories after a life-threatening health event... - The role of Afro-Canadian status in police or ambulance referral to emergency psychiatric servicesG Eric Jarvis
Jewish General Hospital, 4333 Cote Street, Catherine Road, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E4
Psychiatr Serv 56:705-10. 2005.... - Are inner-cities bad for your health? Comparisons of residents' and third parties' perceptions of the urban neighbourhood of Gospel Oak, LondonRob Whitley
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Sociol Health Illn 27:44-67. 2005..Finally, we warn against making assumptions of collective social and physical pathology in urban neighbourhoods, urging a more critical approach to the study of the inner-city in the health sciences...