Join us on Wednesday, July 23rd, as the AVA Webinar Series presents Respect for Self, Others, and Place: A Parsimonious Framework to Promote Health and Well-Being, with Dr. Christine Divin and Dr. Steven Crow from the University of Texas at Austin.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
12 – 1:30pm MST
The ongoing reports of emotional exhaustion in caring professionals provide compelling evidence that innovative preventive efforts to foster well-being are needed now more than ever. The “Tri-Respect Framework” that promotes respect for self, others, and place provides a simple and instrumental tool for health of individuals, relationships, and communities in general. In this webinar, we will review the origin of the “Tri-Respect Framework” and highlight the findings of a recent pilot study with nursing faculty that explored the practicality of this tool, in particular, the component of “respect for self” to increase commitment to self-care in nursing students and faculty. Findings illustrate enthusiasm for the utility of the “Tri-Respect Framework” not only on an individual level but as a framework for examining systems-level factors that impact the well-being of caring professionals.
About the Speakers
Dr. Christine Divin is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Texas at Austin. A nurse since 1976, her passion for teaching was shaped by 17 years working with health promoters in marginalized communities across Latin America and along the U.S./Mexico border. She earned her MSN in 1997 from the University of Texas at El Paso and later her PhD from UT Austin in 2015, focusing on intimate partner violence and factors that promote health in adversity.
From 2010 to 2024, Dr. Divin served as a Family Nurse Practitioner in a Central Texas clinic for uninsured patients, also caring for IPV survivors at a local shelter. She has taught FNP students at UT Austin since 2016 and currently serves on wellness committees at both the school and state level. Her current work centers on innovative approaches to well-being in nursing, including the “Tri-Respect Framework,” and she encourages students to prioritize self-care as essential to caregiving.
Dr. Steve Crow is a graduate of the Plan II Honors Program at The University of Texas at Austin and earned his M.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio in 1991. After completing his internship at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth and his Family Medicine residency (now Dell Medical School’s program), he has been a licensed physician in Texas since 1992. Since 1998, he has focused his practice exclusively on community health and HIV primary care in Austin.
Dr. Crow’s work is grounded in a lifelong commitment to respect, first explored during his undergraduate studies. He developed the “tri-respect” framework—respect for self, others, and place—and advocates for disempowering abuse, fostering honest and equal dialogue, and promoting compassionate care. He believes that a mutually respectful society is essential to addressing both social and environmental challenges.