Know History, Know Self, Know Mental Health: Using a Decolonization Framework to Educate Filipino-American High School Students About Mental Health
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- Abstract
- This study examines the use of a decolonization framework to educate Filipino-American high school students about mental health in an educational workshop. Mental health issues disproportionately affect Filipino-American youth. This health disparity may be linked to the centuries of colonialism in the Philippines, which is seen through the phenomenon of colonial mentality (CM). Scholars argue that Filipino-Americans may better understand their own mental health with knowledge of the history of colonialism in the Philippines. The current study employs a triangulation mixed methods research design to investigate how Filipino-American high school students talk about their identity, culture, and mental health and apply the decolonization framework after participation in the mental health educational workshop. Data were collected through the use of pre- and post-intervention surveys and a final sample population of 15 high school students, all of whom self-identified as Filipino-American, were analyzed. Thematic analysis revealed the emergence of three primary outcomes after participation in the intervention: increased awareness, evidence of decolonization, and connecting the history of colonization, ethnic identity, and mental health. I found that Filipino-American high school students are not only talking about their identity, culture, and mental health in isolation, but rather their influence on one another. In addition, although the intervention impacted the students to varying degrees, students were able to apply the decolonization framework to their own experiences and even beyond the workshop content. These findings are aimed towards educators and clinicians to consider the sociopolitical contexts for mental health interventions.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | 2018 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Mercado, Joriene Gabriel |
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| Primary advisor | LaFromboise, Teresa |
| Degree granting institution | Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Subject | Filipino-American adolescents |
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| Subject | mental health |
| Subject | ethnic identity development |
| Subject | colonial mentality |
| Subject | decolonization |
| Subject | Graduate School of Education |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Mercado, Joriene. (2018). Know History, Know Self, Know Mental Health: Using a Decolonization Framework to Educate Filipino-American High School Students About Mental Health. Unpublished Honors Thesis. Stanford University, Stanford CA.
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