Participatory action research and evaluation methods (PAR) have been used to help individuals to address a variety of challenges and improve the responsiveness of service systems to these challenges. To the present, however, few studies have examined applications of PAR in systems change advocacy for youth with mental health needs in the transition to adulthood (transitionage youth [TAY]). PAR ...

Seeing is one of the main sensory experiences for knowing water and for generating meanings of it. To acknowledge this, visual research methods are increasingly popular in social sciences. In this paper, research using Photovoice or similar participatory visual methods is reviewed in order to assess their potential contribution to the study of water governance. A total of 23 articles related to...

Homelessness is a social, economic, and political crisis in the United States. In particular, the US-Mexico Border region has seen a surge of homelessness, specifically among veterans, women victims of intimate partner violence, and immigrants. In 2014, 12 persons in El Paso, TX, with experience of being homeless used the photovoice methodology to participate in a project titled, "The Voices an...

Abstract Framed in a project on conviviality and migration-led diversity Santiago, Chile, this article presents visual narratives of neighborhood participation. Accounts migrants’ public lives have turned to underlining mundane forms place-making. This essay shows how such dynamics can comprise fertile terrain for engagement contexts “crisis.” The account is based photovoice exercise developed ...

Addressing the complex challenges of today’s world requires our collective creative capacity. As such, arts-based methods which promote creativity are increasingly important means engaging people in issues that matter most to them. This article focuses on one method, Photovoice, is a “process by can identify, represent, and enhance their community through specific photographic technique” (Wang ...

Photovoice distinguishes itself from other qualitative research methods for its visual features and participant empowerment. As a powerful tool community-based participatory health promotion programs, researchers practitioners are paying more attention to this method in recent years. Accordingly, some photovoice systematic reviews have been published underway synthesize evidence various fields....

following: non-adherence to antihypertensive therapy; recent history of hospitalisation for HBP, and use of tobacco. Home visits identified potential PD individuals, for whom data characterising their family and social inter-relationships were obtained by interviews. Thus, criteria that characterised positive deviants were identified and all such individuals were invited to participate in the i...

Access to healthy food is a critical factor impacting childhood obesity. Brighter Bites is a schoolbased program that addresses the issue of fresh food access among low-income families living in food deserts using a food co-op model. The aim of this study is to evaluate initial parent participant reactions to the ongoing Brighter Bites program using Photovoice. A predominately Hispanic, economi...

In Canada, it is young, rural-based men who are at the greatest risk of suicide. While there is no consensus on the reasons for this, evidence points to contextual social factors including isolation, lack of confidential services, and pressure to uphold restrictive norms of rural masculinity. In this article, we share findings drawn from an instrumental photovoice case study to distil factors c...