“Feeling Safe, Feeling Seen, Feeling Free”: Combating stigma and creating culturally safe care for sex workers in Chicago

Feeling Safe in School

1. Director, Erik Erikson Institute for Research & Education, The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Co-director of the Peaceful Schools Project, Child & Family Center, The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Kansas and faculty Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Consultant to the FBI Critical Inciden...

Girls in the ‘Hood: The Importance of Feeling Safe

They’ll call them Bs [bitches], hos, tramps, sluts, stuff like that. They don’t care. They don’t have no respect for females at all. They beat up females over here and all that, throw them out of windows. Oh, my God. These projects is crazy. They throw their girlfriends out of windows and everything else, pull out guns on them and stuff. They don’t really too much care for females over here. —T...

FEELING SAFE IN THE DARK 1 Running head: Feeling safe in the dark Word Count: 5,958 Feeling Safe in the Dark Examining the Effect of Entrapment, Lighting Levels, and Gender on Feelings of Safety and Lighting Policy Acceptability

Feeling safe: the psychosocial needs of ICU patients.

PURPOSE To describe the psychosocial needs of critically ill patients, including descriptions of patients' experiences when these needs are not met, and behaviors of families, friends, and ICU staff that help or impede meeting these needs. DESIGN A qualitative research design was used. Participants were 45 adult critically ill patients in the medical or surgical ICU for a minimum of 3 days in...

Older adults' perceptions of feeling safe in urban and rural acute care.

OBJECTIVE The purposes of this study were to identify factors that influenced hospitalized older adults' perceptions of feeling safe and to identify differences in perceptions between rural and urban contexts. BACKGROUND Efforts are underway to ensure patient physical safety and improve care quality in acute-care environments. Perception of care is a unique and independent dimension of qualit...