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Structural Approaches to Self-Care, Collective Equity & Wellness

Wellness is "living well" across our mental, physical, spiritual, relational, and environmental domains.  Check out what we have found in our research as it relates to wellness below!

Self-Care Interventions

Kaapu, K., McKinley, C. E., & Barks, L. (2023). Is Self-Care Sustainable Without Structural Support? A Systematic Review of Self-Care Interventions. Research on Social Work Practice, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10497315231208701

Self Care and Privilege

Barks, L., McKinley, C. E., Ka’apu, K., & Figley, C. R. (2023). Is self-care a stand in for feminized social privilege? A systematic review of facilitators and barriers to self-care practices in social work. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 20(6), 914-933. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2023.2231446

Alcohol and Sex-Specific Wellness

McKinley, C. E., Roh, S., & Lee, Y. S. (2021). American Indian Alcohol Use from a Sex-Specific Wellness Approach: Exploring Its Associated Physical, Behavioral, and Mental Risk and Protective Factors. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 18(1), 32–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1799648.  PMC7790549

Mental Health Disparities

Ka’apu, K. & Burnette, C. E. (2019). A culturally informed systematic review of mental health disparities among adult Indigenous men and women of the USA: What is known? The British Journal of Social Work, 49(4), 880-898. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz009. PMC6615176

Indigenous Australian Health Gap

Miller, S. & Burnette, C. E. (2016). Closing the Indigenous Australian health gap: Clarifying causes, identifying solutions. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 19(4), 26-41.  https://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=198571593325089;res=IELIND

Youth and Wellness

Burnette, C. E. & Figley, C. R. (2016). Risk and protective factors related to the wellness of American Indian and Alaska Native youth: A systematic review. International Public Health Journal, 8(2), 137-154. http://www.novapublishers.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=58073

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