Papers by Komanduri Murty
Journal of Aging and Health, Mar 31, 2021
Journal of Public Health Issues and Practices
This chapter examines the complexities surrounding exacerbated health disparities and their impac... more This chapter examines the complexities surrounding exacerbated health disparities and their impact on rural youth mental health outcomes amid a global pandemic. Indisputably, a host of health, economic, and social challenges are associated with the unprecedented interruption caused by the global pandemic. In the same vein, several challenges and concerns about the overall academic and personal/ social experiences and outcomes of school-aged children have resulted in societal concerns about the overall preparation of this generation to meet the leadership and employment demands of a global society. While the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted chronic issues related to health disparities to include intergenerational health, environmental and socioeconomic disparities, and educational inequities, many of these issues have had a longstanding, disproportionate effect on African American (AA) youth and their families. This is particularly the case with AA youth who live in rural communities, t...
The Southern Subculture of Drinking and Driving, 2021
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jah-10.1177_08982643211000489 for Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smok... more Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jah-10.1177_08982643211000489 for Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Older Adults in India by Lazarous Mbulo, Komanduri S. Murty, Luhua Zhao, Tenecia Smith and Krishna Palipudi in Journal of Aging and Health
The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 2020
The Negro educational review, 2018
The significance of spirituality and religion in dealing with various stressors has been debated ... more The significance of spirituality and religion in dealing with various stressors has been debated among mental health practitioners, counselors, and researchers for quite some time. It was only in 1994 that the American Psychiatric Association included in its well known diagnostic statistical manual (DSM) a new category for religious or spiritual problems with diagnostic criteria of loss of faith, problems with religious conversion, or questioning of spiritual values. Researchers observed that questioning (or loss of) faith, for example, could cause distress and mimic the symptoms of psychiatric disorder, and noted similarities between the symptoms of spiritual distress and those of depression which necessitates addressing spirituality while treating depression or other mental and health conditions. This paper demonstrates how spirituality and religion are interrelated to cultural values and the belief systems of ethnic minorities, and their role in mental health treatment among Afri...
Residential treatment for Adolescent Sexual Offenders has often been regarded as a last resort du... more Residential treatment for Adolescent Sexual Offenders has often been regarded as a last resort due to popular belief that their treatment should be least restrictive like in an out-patient environment. For these believers Residential Treatment Programs (RTPs) are not true representation of deinstitutionalization because such programs do not provide a considerable degree of freedom as in a home environment, where the adolescent can do whatever he/she can whenever he/she wants with whoever he/she will associate. While such an ideology is an admirable to some extent, the real issue is whether the deinstitutionalized adolescent is properly equipped to exercise such freedom responsibly in a way that his/her risk to self and his/her community is minimized. In reality, it is more than just a physical placement or part-time supervision of children. Their treatment, especially in case of sexual offenders, requires resocialization and preparation for re-entry into mainstream community setting...
The Southern Subculture of Drinking and Driving, 2021
The Southern Subculture of Drinking and Driving, 2021
The Southern Subculture of Drinking and Driving, 2021
The Southern Subculture of Drinking and Driving, 2021
President Trump‘s rhetoric of patriotism did not start with the NFL kneeling controversy. In fact... more President Trump‘s rhetoric of patriotism did not start with the NFL kneeling controversy. In fact, it started soon after his inauguration, when he signed a proclamation for a National Day of Patriotism. Even during his inaugural address, he said, ―When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice‖ (Rothman 2017). If that is true, many wondered, why there is so much partisanship in U.S. Congress, so much turnover among the White House staff, so much GOP effort to cover up for Trump, so much skepticism about the 2016 election and Mueller‘s investigation into Russia‘s interference in it, and so much anti-media sentiment on the part of President Trump and his staff (see for example, Blake 2017; Dionne 2017; Nelson 2017).Much of America hasn‘t forgotten Trump‘s criticism of the Mexican-American judge, a Gold Star family, a former Miss Universe, and Pope Francis either (Kurtz 2017). In the midst of all this is the NFL kneeling controversy, where some echo on the presi...
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