Communal Healing: Addressing Mental Health Stigma through African American Culturally Responsive Services

This thesis investigates different factors of culturally focused mental health services that serve Black African Americans in San Francisco which address stigma and lower barriers for accessing ongoing treatment. In the city of San Francisco, Black African Americans are some of the highest users of emergency and social services disproportionate to the general population (34% of total service usage vs. 5.6% African American population of SF) while also receiving low levels of case management services. This produces a vicious cycle which must be urgently addressed (Cawley et al., 2021). This thesis analyzes culturally relevant themes such as psychoeducation, faith-based interventions, culturally concordant care, and community mental health practices to address stigma around seeking mental health, while providing culturally responsive care to Black African American clients. Through qualitative thematic analysis this study aims to discover how the interconnection of these aspects of culturally focused African American mental health services help to empower clientele in seeking and prioritizing their treatment.https://doi.org/10.46569/kp78gq33

Human hips, breasts and buttocks: Is fat deceptive?

In humans, reproductive-age females, unlike other ages and classes of individuals, deposit fat preferentially on the breasts, hips, and buttocks. This suggests that such fat deposition is a deceptive sexual signal, mimicking other signals of high reproductive value and potential.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/26924/1/0000490.pd

Much less religious, a little more spiritual: The religious and spiritual views of third-wave feminists in the UK

How religious or spiritual are feminists today? Filling a gap in the literature on feminism and religion, this article outlines findings from the first survey-based study of feminists’ spiritual attitudes in recent years. Drawing on survey data, this article explores the religious and spiritual views of 1,265 third-wave feminists, most of whom are female and in their twenties and thirties. Comparison with surveys of religious adherence in the UK reveals that these feminists are significantly less religious and somewhat more spiritual than the general population. The article goes on to ask why this might be, and suggests three explanations: feminism’s alignment with secularism, secularization and feminism’s role within it, and feminism’s association with alternative spiritualities