Community violence is a type of trauma commonly experienced in inner cities. Qualitative methods and hermeneutic phenomenology were used to identify connections of low use of professional mental health services by African American men in inner-city settings to chronic exposure t…
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Although the government of the United States of America was established to protect the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness among all American citizens, this thesis argues intractable gang violence in inner-city Chicago has persistently denied these rights, in tu…
The broad aim of the thesis is to examine the impact of class, caste and religious identity in constructing notions of Muslim identity in a small town in central Gujarat, India and to challenge wider assumptions about the primacy of religious identity in ordering sociality in 'e…
This qualitative, multiple case study design consisting of interviews, in English and Hebrew with 12 adolescents from 4 distinct Israeli communities (secular Jewish Sabras, Russian speaking Jewish immigrants, Arab-Christians, and Arab-Muslims) examined the perceptions of older a…
Suffering in the context of poverty, community violence, and abuse contributes to deleterious outcomes. Communal experiences, such as community-based groups, provide an opportunity for deepened personal and communal transformation in the midst of these challenging societal conte…