Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic, Volume 1

Dr. Dionisio Nyaga has a Ph.D from Social Justice Education/SESE/University of Toronto. He is an Assistant Professor at Algoma University-School of Social Work-Timmins campus. His research practice and teaching interests are in the areas of ethical and moral philosophy in research, critical reflexive methodologies, Afro-pessimism, gender studies, anti-oppressive practice and teaching, psychic methodologies of care, textual analysis, African studies, Black and Blackness, Black masculinities, spiritualities, transnational and transcultural studies. He has co-edited a book on ethical responsibilities and duties of researcher dubbed Critical research methodologies: Ethics and responsibilities.

Dr. Rose Ann Torres is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the School of Social Work at Algoma University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education from OISE/University of Toronto. Prior to joining Algoma University, she was an Assistant Professor at University of New Brunswick. She is the principal investigator of the SSHRC Insight Development Grants research project entitled "Examining Access to Mental Health Care Service: The Impact of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers in Northern Ontario" and co-principal investigator of the SSHRC Institutional Grants project titled "Effects of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning: Stories of Indigenous and Black and Asian Faculty Members and Students at Algoma University." She co-edited books on "Outside and In-Between: Theorizing Asian Canadian Exclusion and the Challenges of Identity Formation" and "Critical Research Methodologies: Ethics and Responsibilities." She currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Sault College and First Nations Technical Institute. She has been instrumental in establishing pathways and partnerships with local and international universities and colleges in the School of Social Work at Algoma University, including with Oshki-Wanjack Institute. Dr. Torres's work as an educator includes community engagement and organizing, as well as consultancy services in interdisciplinary research that crosses geographic borders with Asia, Canada, Africa, and other countries. Dr. Torres's commitment to the community seeks to bring about transformative change and critical development in terms of health and social well-being, civic engagement, and ecological sustainability. At Algoma University, she teaches critical policy in the north, social work research, social work philosophy and ethics, critical social work practice: Anishinaabe, structural and feminist perspectives.

1. Understanding the mental health experiences of unpaid caregivers: The role and limitations of caregiver identity theory.- 2. No See, No Touch: Coping Strategies Focused on Bereaved Family Members' Lived Experiences During COVID-19 Pandemic.- 3. Cabinet of Curiosities: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Selected Filipino Queer Students In-The-Closet.- 4. Breathe Out: Ecopsychology and Eco-anxiety Relating to Age, Sex, and Climate Crisis Knowledge.- 5. Mental Health and Field Education Praxis During COVID-19 Pandemic.- 6. Supporting Ontario's Consumer/Survivor Initiatives and their Importance to the Ontario Community Mental Health and Addictions System during the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 7. Setting Them Up for Success: The School System and Children's Mental Health.- 8. AwakenU: Exploring the transformative power of Meditative Inquiry in Higher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic..- 9. "Normal" response to "abnormal" circumstances: Helping students thrive post pandemic.- 10. Diasporic Queer and Trans Filipinos in Canada: Some Considerations For Anti-oppressive Mental Healthcare Practice.- 11. Mental Health and Social Support among Immigrant Women in Canada: An Arts-Based Study.