Creative Strengths-Based Approaches to Health Promotion: Perspectives From Graduate Training Experiences

Abstract

The authors met during a career development experience where they discussed the commonalities of their successes and challenges conducting creative strengths-based health promotion research with underserved communities during their graduate and postgraduate training. They identified changes to health promotion pedagogy that they would like to see in the future. These include understanding both the strengths and the challenges of creative strengths-based health promotion research conducted with underserved communities, ensuring that reflexivity and flexibility is a component of the process, developing support networks for trainees, understanding personal limitations to effect change, and supporting self-care. They hope that trainees and health education programs will learn from their experiences.

Keywords

asset based community based pedagogy training Indigenous health immigrant health

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