Working with Immigrant Women: About the Editors

From: Working with Immigrant Women: Issues and Strategies for Mental Health Professionals

Sepali Guruge
RN, BScN, M.Sc., PhD. Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Sepali’s nursing experience includes practice, teaching, research and consultation at several major hospitals in Toronto. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of women’s health, immigrants’ health, mental health and violence against women throughout the migration process. She obtained her education in Sri Lanka, in the former Soviet Union and in Canada. Sepali’s doctoral dissertation in nursing from the University of Toronto explored the influence of gender, racial, social and economic inequalities on the production of and responses to intimate partner violence in the post-migration context. Her post-doctoral work in nursing at the University of Western Ontario focused on the health effects of partner violence. Sepali has published and presented papers both nationally and internationally, and is presently engaged in international research on women’s health with colleagues in Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, “mainland” United States and Hawaii.

 

Enid Collins
RN, MS, M.Ed., EdD. Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Enid brings to this project a range of perspectives as an immigrant woman, a nurse and an educator. Before coming to Canada, she completed a diploma as a registered nurse at the Kingston Public Hospital School of Nursing in Jamaica. She later did undergraduate and graduate work in Canada and the United States. Enid’s work in nursing leadership, practice and education spans many areas, including maternal child health nursing, community health nursing, women’s health and transcultural health. She has long been an advocate, mentor and role model for women in nursing and health care. Enid completed her doctoral work in sociology and equity studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her doctoral dissertation examined career mobility among Caribbean women who were registered nurses in Canada.

In Working with Immigrant Women: Issues and Strategies for Mental Health Professionals:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface  / PDF
• Introduction  / PDF
• Part 1: Understanding the Context of Immigrant Women’s Lives
• Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives
• Part 3: Current Realities for Immigrant Women and New Paradigms for Mental Health Practice  
• Part 4: Working with Specific Groups
• Part 5: Highlighting Critical Mental Health Concerns
• Part 6: Conclusion
• About the Editors  / PDF
• About the Authors  / PDF
• Testimonials

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