Surviving and Thriving

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface by the Editors
• Bibliography
• 1. A Disaster Within a Disaster: Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Jeff Karabanow, Jean Hughes, Haorui Wu, and Catherine Leviten-Reid)
• Introduction
• Background
• Methods
• Study Settings
• Research Participants
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Results
• The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on PEHs
• The Impact of COVID-19 Public Health Measures
• Public Health Measures and Access to Information
• A Pandemic Response: The Story of Service Stakeholders
• Initial Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Involvement of Public Health
• Opportunity for Partnership
• Non-government Organizations as Change Makers
• An Exhausted Sector
• Housing Security as a Social Determinant of Health
• New Responses
• Discussion and Recommendations
• Conclusion
• Note
• Bibliography
• 2. A Reflexive Account of Facilitating an Online Study of the Pandemic Experiences of Canadian Youth Using Cellphilms (Grace Skahan, S. M. Hani Sadati, Shannon Roy, and Claudia Mitchell)
• Introduction
• Online Facilitation
• Canadian Youth’s Mental Health and Well-being
• Methods
• Findings
• Part One: Key Themes from the Workshops
• Youth Experiences with the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Youth Experiences of Participating in the Study
• Part Two: Reflections from Facilitators
• Shannon
• Claudia
• Hani
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 3. “They’re Kind of Losing It”: Young Perfectionists’ Mental Health Experiences During the First COVID-19 Lockdown (Dawn Zinga, Danielle S. Molnar, Melissa Blackburn, and Natalie Tacuri)
• Perfectionism, Mental Health, and COVID-19
• Perfectionism
• Perfectionism and the Pandemic
• Methods
• Recruitment
• Participants
• Procedure
• Data Analysis and Reflexivity
• Results
• Change in Pace
• Focus on the Self
• Isolation, Social Disconnection, and Negative Emotion
• Stress and Anxiety
• Lack of Motivation
• Awareness of Others Struggling
• Strategies
• Discussion
• Perfectionists’ Nuanced Accounts of Their Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• The Need to be Perfectly Productive During Lockdown
• “It’s Been the Hardest, Hardest Days of my Life”: Lockdown-Related Tolls on Perfectionists’ Mental Health
• Motivational Deficits Among Perfectionists During Lockdown
• Age-Related Differences in Mental Health Awareness and Coping
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• Bibliography
• 4. Disclosures of Child Maltreatment Through Computer-Mediated Communication: A Call to Action (Olivia Leslie Holden, Annie Yun An Shiau, Shayla Chilliak, Victoria Talwar, and Shanna DeWit Williams)
• Introduction
• Disclosures of Maltreatment via CMC: Evidence from Pre-Pandemic Literature
• Phone Line Disclosures Pre-Pandemic
• Social Media Disclosure Pre-pandemic
• Disclosures of Maltreatment via CMC During and Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Phone Line Disclosures After March 2020
• Social Media Disclosure After March 2020
• Call to Action: A Way Forward
• Research Recommendations
• Policy Recommendations
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• 5. Recommendations to Mitigate Future Pandemic Impacts on Health Professions Education: Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Kelly Lackie, Neda Alizadeh, Mark Embrett, Simon Field, Jennifer Lane, Marion Brown, Diane MacKenzie, Bright Huo, Kathleen MacMillan, and Ruth Martin-Misener)
• Introduction
• Methodology
• Theoretical Framework
• Methods
• Setting, Sample, and Recruitment
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Environmental Scan
• Survey
• Interviews and Focus Group
• Results
• Environmental Scan
• Mixing of Data: Survey, Interviews, and Focus Group
• Online Learning Pre and Post First Wave Pandemic
• Changes and Effectiveness of Learning Modality
• Experiences with SBL
• Confidence in Performance of Skills
• Extracurricular/Volunteer Pandemic Response Activity
• Environment and Resource Availability
• Discussion
• Shifts in Pedagogy
• Delivery of SBL
• Challenges and Solutions in Skills Performance
• Strengths and Limitations
• Recommendations
• Academic
• Practice
• Research
• Policy
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Appendix A
• Contributors

Surviving and Thriving

Promoting Health and Well-being
During and After COVID-19

Shaheen Shariff, Christopher Dietzel,
Safia Amiry, Safeera Jaffer

New York · Berlin · Bruxelles · Chennai · Lausanne · Oxford

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Print LCCN: 2025015786

Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.

The German National Library lists this publication in the German National Bibliography; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de.

This work was supported by iMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence on Campus; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Partnership Grant Number: 895-2016-1026, Project Director, Shaheen Shariff, Ph.D., James McGill Professor, McGill University.

Artwork by Shaheen Shariff, Cover Design by Alyssa Jetha

ISSN 2834-6939

ISBN 978-3-0343-5243-7 (print)

ISBN 978-3-0343-5422-6 (ePDF)

ISBN 978-3-0343-5423-3 (ePub)

DOI 10.3726/b22899

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This publication has been peer reviewed.

Dedication from Shaheen Shariff, Ph.D.

For my incredible team of graduate and post-graduate Research Associates and Research Assistants. I know that each of you will succeed in your careers because of your work ethic, insight, and dedication.

Dedication from Christopher Dietzel, Ph.D.

To the many individuals and communities who have felt the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated by systems of inequity.

Dedication from Safia Amiry

To my father, whose unwavering love and enduring confidence in me have shaped the person I am today.

Dedication from Safeera Jaffer

To all the people who experience the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as intricately tied to other systems of oppression. While these forces are connected, so too is liberation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface by the Editors

1. A Disaster Within a Disaster: Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jeff Karabanow, Jean Hughes, Haorui Wu, and Catherine Leviten-Reid

2. A Reflexive Account of Facilitating an Online Study of the Pandemic Experiences of Canadian Youth Using Cellphilms

Grace Skahan, S. M. Hani Sadati, Shannon Roy, and Claudia Mitchell

3. “They’re Kind of Losing It”: Young Perfectionists’ Mental Health Experiences During the First COVID-19 Lockdown

Dawn Zinga, Danielle S. Molnar, Melissa Blackburn, and Natalie Tacuri

4. Disclosures of Child Maltreatment Through Computer-Mediated Communication: A Call to Action

Olivia Leslie Holden, Annie Yun An Shiau, Shayla Chilliak, Victoria Talwar, and Shanna DeWit Williams

5. Recommendations to Mitigate Future Pandemic Impacts on Health Professions Education: Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kelly Lackie, Neda Alizadeh, Mark Embrett, Simon Field, Jennifer Lane, Marion Brown, Diane MacKenzie, Bright Huo, Kathleen MacMillan, and Ruth Martin-Misener

Contributors

PREFACE BY THE EDITORS

In the years since the emergence of COVID-19, the world has experienced unprecedented changes. Concerns about viral transmission during the pandemic forced people to work from home and students to attend virtual classes. Government-imposed lockdowns often prohibited people from meeting in person, or placed restrictions on how people could gather. During that unprecedented global crisis, societal systems were pushed to their limits and individuals confronted novel risks to their health—not only because of this new virus and its long-term health consequences, but also because of the impacts that pandemic-related conditions had on people’s well-being, social interactions, and quality of life.