Published Articles by Rebekah Perkins Crawford
Journal of Mental Health, 2020
Background:
Gender and sexual minorities are more likely to report unfavourable experiences with ... more Background:
Gender and sexual minorities are more likely to report unfavourable experiences with primary care. Aside from being refused care, additional challenges include stigma, discrimination, social and societal rejection, and violence.
Aims:
The purpose of this study was to determine which aspects of the client-provider relationship affected perceived satisfaction with the quality of mental healthcare received.
Methods:
Data was collected via electronic survey, which yielded 177 responses. Univariate and ordinal logistic regression were used to determine if a significant relationship existed between the variables of interest.
Results:
Results indicate that clients who felt less trust for their providers, reported inadequate time spent in therapeutic encounters, and felt their providers looked down on or judged them were less satisfied with the quality of mental healthcare they received. In addition, LGBTQ+ clients who were less satisfied with the quality of care they received were significantly less confident in their ability to receive adequate future mental healthcare.
Conclusions:
Results of this study highlight the importance of provider awareness, attitude, and access to information regarding the mental health needs of the LGBTQ+ population because these support culturally competent care, which potentially encourages future care-seeking behaviors.
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This article explores Infiltrative Rhetoric as a tactic for creating discursive space to address ... more This article explores Infiltrative Rhetoric as a tactic for creating discursive space to address polemic topics within highly restricted community conversations. Messages that exhibit a cluster of three criteria are considered “infiltrative:” 1) creating the persona of an insider, 2) redefining institutional rhetoric to serve alternate goals, and 3) reframing the debate to bypass philosophical barriers. Infiltrative rhetoric is called or when communicating with a closed group whose ideological boundaries limit the full participation of some of its members. The changes made to the Family Acceptance Project’s “Supportive Families, Healthy Children” pamphlet are illustrative of infiltrative rhetoric that argues for greater inclusion of LGB children and adolescents into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Infiltrative rhetoric is an important resource, along with confrontational and transcendent rhetorics, to argue for greater inclusion of marginalized members in closed communities.
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Health Communication, 2016
A parent hopes to understand developmental differences in her son
by recounting stories of his un... more A parent hopes to understand developmental differences in her son
by recounting stories of his uniqueness to medical practitioners
and asking them to use narrative reasoning to designate a diagnosis.
Medical caregivers follow a subjective process to create
meaning out of his experiences to varying degrees of usefulness.
The process of naming the son “autistic” highlights the powerful
effect diagnosis has on patient agency and uniqueness. This story
acknowledges both the restrictive and constitutive results of diagnostic
power while arguing explicitly for recognition of the restorative
power labeling may have when it promotes tolerance and
accommodation of medical diversity
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Published Book Chapters by Rebekah Perkins Crawford
Communicating Mental Health: History, Concepts, & Perspectives, 2019
This chapter describes how religious organizations are filling a gap in care by either providing ... more This chapter describes how religious organizations are filling a gap in care by either providing mental health services directly to their members or by referring them to professionals. It outlines the strengths religious organizations have in responding to the mental health needs of their members, which allow religious organizations to be flexible, inclusive, and responsive to member needs. However, unique challenges also exist when communicating about mental health in religious organizations, arising especially when the interests of the organization clash with the health needs of the individual. Future research opportunities that enable communication studies to make a meaningful contribution towards and understanding of the role of religion in mental wellness are described.
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The Handbook on Mormonism and Gender, 2020
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints plays a large role in providing formal and inform... more The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints plays a large role in providing formal and informal support for members who are experiencing psychological distress. An interview study of Latter-day Saint religious leaders revealed gendered barriers that female members must navigate in order to access support resources. Latter-day Saint women must communicate to persuade male leaders, who act as gatekeepers and coordinators for the local religious community’s support efforts, that their mental health needs are legitimate. Male leaders acknowledged varied awareness about how gender enables or constrains those interactions.
Organizational barriers block female Latter-day Saint religious leaders from acting as commensurate alternative sources of mental health support. Interview participants’ talk about and by Relief Society presidents pointed to disparities in disclosure expectations between male and female leaders as well as Relief Society presidents’ inability to dispense money and other forms of direct organizational support as inequities that disproportionately affected LDS women. In addition, the fact that female LDS leaders lack priesthood authority blocks them from pastoral and confessional contexts in which much of the support for mental health needs are negotiated. The chapter concludes with a discussion of systemic inequities surrounding gender and mental health in Mormon contexts.
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Storied Health and Illness, 2017
The possibilities surrounding reorientating to difference and healing that is based on aesthetic ... more The possibilities surrounding reorientating to difference and healing that is based on aesthetic rather than technical logics are explored in relation to sheltered workshops. Artists' creative use of various communicative modalities provides alternatives for managing emotions, uncertainties, and provider-patient interactions.
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Conceptualizing cognitive learning, traditional struggles with assessing learning, historical ove... more Conceptualizing cognitive learning, traditional struggles with assessing learning, historical overview and main tenets of Universal Design for Learning, how UDL contributes to brain-based learning, implications for instructional communication theory, knowledge claims and research practices.
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Conference Presentations by Rebekah Perkins Crawford
The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints has many revealed doctrines that teach its member... more The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints has many revealed doctrines that teach its members how to be excellent stewards over the Earth and its inhabitants. Yet oftentimes these doctrines and their implications for our daily lives are under-discussed. This workshop
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Published Articles by Rebekah Perkins Crawford
Gender and sexual minorities are more likely to report unfavourable experiences with primary care. Aside from being refused care, additional challenges include stigma, discrimination, social and societal rejection, and violence.
Aims:
The purpose of this study was to determine which aspects of the client-provider relationship affected perceived satisfaction with the quality of mental healthcare received.
Methods:
Data was collected via electronic survey, which yielded 177 responses. Univariate and ordinal logistic regression were used to determine if a significant relationship existed between the variables of interest.
Results:
Results indicate that clients who felt less trust for their providers, reported inadequate time spent in therapeutic encounters, and felt their providers looked down on or judged them were less satisfied with the quality of mental healthcare they received. In addition, LGBTQ+ clients who were less satisfied with the quality of care they received were significantly less confident in their ability to receive adequate future mental healthcare.
Conclusions:
Results of this study highlight the importance of provider awareness, attitude, and access to information regarding the mental health needs of the LGBTQ+ population because these support culturally competent care, which potentially encourages future care-seeking behaviors.
by recounting stories of his uniqueness to medical practitioners
and asking them to use narrative reasoning to designate a diagnosis.
Medical caregivers follow a subjective process to create
meaning out of his experiences to varying degrees of usefulness.
The process of naming the son “autistic” highlights the powerful
effect diagnosis has on patient agency and uniqueness. This story
acknowledges both the restrictive and constitutive results of diagnostic
power while arguing explicitly for recognition of the restorative
power labeling may have when it promotes tolerance and
accommodation of medical diversity
Published Book Chapters by Rebekah Perkins Crawford
Organizational barriers block female Latter-day Saint religious leaders from acting as commensurate alternative sources of mental health support. Interview participants’ talk about and by Relief Society presidents pointed to disparities in disclosure expectations between male and female leaders as well as Relief Society presidents’ inability to dispense money and other forms of direct organizational support as inequities that disproportionately affected LDS women. In addition, the fact that female LDS leaders lack priesthood authority blocks them from pastoral and confessional contexts in which much of the support for mental health needs are negotiated. The chapter concludes with a discussion of systemic inequities surrounding gender and mental health in Mormon contexts.
Conference Presentations by Rebekah Perkins Crawford
Gender and sexual minorities are more likely to report unfavourable experiences with primary care. Aside from being refused care, additional challenges include stigma, discrimination, social and societal rejection, and violence.
Aims:
The purpose of this study was to determine which aspects of the client-provider relationship affected perceived satisfaction with the quality of mental healthcare received.
Methods:
Data was collected via electronic survey, which yielded 177 responses. Univariate and ordinal logistic regression were used to determine if a significant relationship existed between the variables of interest.
Results:
Results indicate that clients who felt less trust for their providers, reported inadequate time spent in therapeutic encounters, and felt their providers looked down on or judged them were less satisfied with the quality of mental healthcare they received. In addition, LGBTQ+ clients who were less satisfied with the quality of care they received were significantly less confident in their ability to receive adequate future mental healthcare.
Conclusions:
Results of this study highlight the importance of provider awareness, attitude, and access to information regarding the mental health needs of the LGBTQ+ population because these support culturally competent care, which potentially encourages future care-seeking behaviors.
by recounting stories of his uniqueness to medical practitioners
and asking them to use narrative reasoning to designate a diagnosis.
Medical caregivers follow a subjective process to create
meaning out of his experiences to varying degrees of usefulness.
The process of naming the son “autistic” highlights the powerful
effect diagnosis has on patient agency and uniqueness. This story
acknowledges both the restrictive and constitutive results of diagnostic
power while arguing explicitly for recognition of the restorative
power labeling may have when it promotes tolerance and
accommodation of medical diversity
Organizational barriers block female Latter-day Saint religious leaders from acting as commensurate alternative sources of mental health support. Interview participants’ talk about and by Relief Society presidents pointed to disparities in disclosure expectations between male and female leaders as well as Relief Society presidents’ inability to dispense money and other forms of direct organizational support as inequities that disproportionately affected LDS women. In addition, the fact that female LDS leaders lack priesthood authority blocks them from pastoral and confessional contexts in which much of the support for mental health needs are negotiated. The chapter concludes with a discussion of systemic inequities surrounding gender and mental health in Mormon contexts.