Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Session 006: The Impact of Trauma on Mental Health Mental Illness and Disability
Room: Grant Park Parlor

Sponsors: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare

Organizers: Erica FS Jablonski, University of New Hampshire
Rebecca Siqi Qin, University of British Columbia

Presider: Rebecca Siqi Qin, University of British Columbia

Description: 

This session explores the wide-ranging effects of trauma and stress experiences on mental health and disability, as well as the strategies individuals and communities use to foster resilience.

Papers:

“Insecure: An Autoethnographic Study of Financial Insecurity and Mental Health Issues in Graduate Students,” Erika Houston Brown, Texas Woman's University

“Is Climate Change Anxiety or Experience of Climate Change a Better Predictor of the Climate Change Behavioral Engagement of Emerging Adults?” M. E. Betsy Garrison, University of Arkansas, Charleen McNeill, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Elisabeth Ponce-Garcis, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center and Robert Rohli, Louisiana State University

“Sexual Violence: Effects on Victim Emotional Wellbeing and Sense of Self,” Jacob V. Silva, University of Miami

“Suicidal Ideation in Prison: An Examination of Risks Factors among Male Inmates,” Gift Onwuadiamu, University of Delaware

“The Association between Perceptions of Policing and African American Mental Health and Well-being,” Robert L. Peralta, Auriel Jasper-Morris, Juan Xi, Daniela Jauk-Ajamie, Sanaullah Khan and Xiaoshuang Iris Luo, The University of Akron

“Understanding the Role of Cultural Stress in the Lives of Latino Immigrant Parents in the USA: A Qualitative Study,” Esme Ramirez, Pablo Montero-Zamora and Andrea Lopez-Soto, The University of Texas

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