Asking for Change: Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a manualized photovoice intervention with youth experiencing homelessness

Bender, Kimberly; Barman‐Adhikari, Anamika; DeChants, Jonah P.; Haffejee, Badiah; Anyon, Yolanda; Begun, Stephanie; Portillo, Andrea; Dunn, Kaite

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.08.028

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“…Peer support interventions offered social, emotional, and material support on a mutual basis between people with histories of homelessness to bring about desired social or personal change (Gartner & Riessman, as cited in Solomon, 2004). In Photovoice, participants photograph their everyday life to identify important topics in their communities and use their photos to create awareness via critical group dialogue to advocate for social change (Bender et al, 2017;Wang & Burris, 1997).…”

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Empowering Features and Outcomes of Homeless Interventions: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

O'Shaughnessy

Greenwood

2020

American J of Comm Psychol

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The purpose of this systematic review and narrative synthesis was to identify homeless interventions with empowering features and evaluate their effectiveness for developing the psychological empowerment of services users. To identify and evaluate intervention studies, we combined the theoretical frameworks of empowering settings and psychological empowerment (PE). Our conceptualization of PE included outcomes aligned with the intrapersonal, interactional, and behavioral components. Relational outcomes were also included and conceptualized as antecedents for PE development. After systematic searching and screening, 37 studies were included for review. Interventions with empowering features included supported housing, case management, skills and knowledge acquisition, and mutual support. Interventions that were competency‐building effectively improved outcomes aligned with the intrapersonal PE component. Interventions that were collaborative and competency‐building effectively improved outcomes aligned with the behavioral PE component. Weak evidence suggested that interventions with empowering features may effectively improve outcomes aligned with the interactional PE component. Interventions that promoted and developed support effectively improved relational antecedents. Findings align the empirical evidence for homeless interventions with theoretical conceptions of empowering features and processes. Findings may be applied to the design and implementation of homeless interventions to incorporate empowering features and to facilitate the development of homeless services users’ PE. Empowerment theory was applied to review homeless interventions literature. Empowering homeless interventions included supported housing and mutual support, for example. Empowering interventions contributed to indicators of emotional and behavioral empowerment. Fewer empowering interventions contributed to indicators of cognitive empowerment. Service user involvement may facilitate improvements in indicators of psychological empowerment.

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Empowering Features and Outcomes of Homeless Interventions: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

O'Shaughnessy

Greenwood

2020

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…However, the literature reveals that photovoice projects often fail to include participants beyond data collection-with researchers conducting subsequent coding, analysis, and publication either alone or with fellow academics (Evans-Agnew & Rosemberg, 2016). More problematically, many academic publications have focused less on community-centered outcomes than on what a given photovoice project reveals about the method's effectiveness for that population (Delgado, 2015;Desyllas, 2014;Bender et al, 2017;Teti et al, 2016;Strack, Magill, & McDonagh, 2004). Such information is relevant almost exclusively to fellow researchers.…”

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“…A third limitation of photovoice is found in the frequent use of empowerment rhetoric in the photovoice literature. Although empowerment is not one of Wang and Burris's (1997) original goals, photovoice study authors routinely note that participants experience "empowerment" as a result of exploring their lives and stories via photovoice (Delgado, 2015;Bender et al, 2017;Desyllas, 2014, etc.). While the term is consistent with the method's Freirian roots, when used uncritically or without an explicit definition, it risks misrepresenting or obscuring participants' actual experiences by presuming to name or categorize them.…”

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“…56 Arts-based methods also aid framing and storytelling by creating intuitive occasions for press coverage-which can help disseminate public health messages, shift public opinion, and potentially generate political will. Photovoice exhibits offer press outlets local human interest events that involve and appeal to the public, and positive 54 Notably, published photovoice studies do frequently mention positive participant responses (Desyllus, 2014;Bender et al, 2017;Mayfield-Johnson, 2017;Catalani & Minkler, 2010); however, as argued earlier, these are often labeled as participant "empowerment" rather than intentionally discussed or measured as outcomes. 55 This process would also increase research reciprocity.…”

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“…Researcher approaches have varied widely as they have tested the effectiveness of photovoice among such populations as rural village women in China (Wang, 1999), urban youth in the U.S. (Delgado, 2015); sex workers (Desyllus, 2014); homeless youth (Bender et al, 2017); men and women with HIV (Teti et al, 2016); citizens of KwaZulu-Natal (a small rural town in South Africa) (Harley, 2012); and many others. Yet at its most basic, photovoice is a process in which participants are asked to take pictures that depict their lived experience.…”

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Innovation and equity in public health research : testing arts-based methods for trauma-informed, culturally-responsive inquiry.

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As the field of Public Health has shifted from a biomedical paradigm to a social ecological approach, focusing on health equity and social determinants of health, it has increasingly acknowledged the roles of culture and trauma in health outcomes. The field has responded by modifying some research practices, but continues to prioritize conventional methodologies-with few options designed to foreground trauma-and cultural-responsiveness. Unfortunately, to the extent that conventional approaches require health to be defined, communicated, or valued according to dominant norms, they risk perpetuating inequities. Health equity therefore requires the development of research methodologies that increase inclusivity and access, elicit and apply diverse knowledges, reduce intrusion, and incorporate sociocultural factors. Using design thinking, and drawing upon critical theory, hermeneutics, photovoice, and arts in health research, this study developed and tested three methodological prototypes for researching a potentially traumatizing topic (violence) among a vulnerable population (young women ages 11-21). The first prototype collected vi creative writing from an ongoing youth detention intervention; the second utilized a themed citywide writing contest; and the third obtained the script for a play about sexual and relational violence, written and performed by local survivors without researcher elicitation. Methods: All prototype-generated data (combined n = 126) were iteratively analyzed for documented experiences, needs, assets, and priorities related to violence. Four conventional violence-related surveys, administered among the three sample populations (combined n = 1862), were also analyzed. Extensive comparative evaluations were then conducted of all findings and methods, assessing quality/quantity of information, trauma responsiveness, and cultural responsiveness. Results: Findings from the arts-based methods addressed 64 to 89 percent of the same variables as the surveys, while the surveys addressed only 36 to 49 percent of the artsbased data variables. The three prototypes juxtaposed needs with assets, accommodated expressive choice, and involved minimal researcher intrusion-rendering them trauma and culturally responsive. They also generated impactful insights inaccessible via surveys, such as unconventional definitions of violence. The prototypes aided disclosure (thus improving data), were time-and cost-effective, and offered significant potential for research reciprocity. As such, they offer promising models for continued methodological innovation in advancement of health equity. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Third Places, Social Capital, and Sense of Community as Mechanisms of Adaptive Responding for Young People Who Experience Social Marginalization

Littman

2021

American J of Comm Psychol

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Many young people who experience social marginalization (such as young people of color, who identify as LGBTQ, and who have experienced housing instability, among others) have often faced significant trauma exposure and social oppression and may endure subsequent adverse impacts on their well‐being. Conversely, many such young people exhibit adaptive responding—the ability to maintain well‐being through and despite such contextual constraints. This theoretical paper illustrates a conceptual model for how third places—public settings which offer sociability and community connection—may foster adaptive responding through the mutually constitutive (i.e., mutually reinforcing and interrelated) mechanisms of psychological sense of community and social capital. As prior work on third places has not considered the social marginalization which many young people face, especially in public settings, this theoretical model also considers how social policing in third places potentially moderates the mutually constitutive relationships between participation in third places, social capital, and psychological sense of community. This paper ends with a proposed research agenda, which may empirically test this theoretical model and its assumptions through future model development. Lastly, key considerations for policy and practice are offered, with particular attention to how young people may be affirmed and welcomed in third places rather than socially policed.

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Asking for Change: Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a manualized photovoice intervention with youth experiencing homelessness

Cited by 34 publications

References 32 publications

Empowering Features and Outcomes of Homeless Interventions: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

Empowering Features and Outcomes of Homeless Interventions: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

Innovation and equity in public health research : testing arts-based methods for trauma-informed, culturally-responsive inquiry.

Third Places, Social Capital, and Sense of Community as Mechanisms of Adaptive Responding for Young People Who Experience Social Marginalization

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