Search Results - "McCrea, Katherine"
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“We got to stand up and speak”: Youth in high-poverty, high-crime urban communities of color reflect on their cross-age mentoring program
Published in Children and youth services review (01-08-2024)“…•African American and Latine youth living in low-income communities contribute meaningful, culturally relevant insights about intervention outcomes and…”
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The Role of Positive Youth Development on Mental Health for Youth of Color Living in High-Stress Communities: A Strengths-Based Approach
Published in Psychological services (01-01-2022)“…Adolescents of color experiencing chronic environmental stress are at an increased risk for adverse mental health concerns and problems behaviors. Concepts…”
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Towards improving engagement of youth of color in cross-age mentoring programs in high poverty, high crime neighborhoods
Published in Children and youth services review (01-09-2021)“…•For all participants, traveling to a higher-crime program area was negatively related to attendance.•Mentor variables related to attendance for mentors…”
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The promise of digital Out-of-School programs for supporting youth in Under-resourced communities: Participatory principles for human rights-based virtual youth groups
Published in Social work with groups (New York. 1978) (01-10-2024)“…The Promise of Digital Out-of-School Programs for Supporting Youth in Under-Resourced Communities: Participatory Principles for Human Rights-based Virtual…”
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Cocreating a Social Work Apprenticeship with Disadvantaged African American Youth: A Best-Practices After-School Curriculum
Published in Smith College studies in social work (03-07-2015)“…Cocreating an after-school program with disadvantaged African American youth (2006-2011) resulted in a social work apprenticeship. In a participatory action,…”
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"Love Your Love Life": Disadvantaged African American Adolescents Cocreate Psychoeducational Romantic and Sexual Health Resources
Published in Social work (New York) (01-04-2017)“…Sexually transmitted disease transmission, dating violence, trafficking, and unplanned pregnancy disproportionately afflict disadvantaged African American…”
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Insulin-like growth factor-I enhances the biological activity of brain-derived neurotrophic factor on cerebrocortical neurons
Published in Journal of neuroimmunology (01-10-2006)“…Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) act within the brain to enhance neuronal survival and plasticity. We extend…”
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I'm Glad you Asked : Homeless Clients with Severe Mental Illness Evaluate Their Residential Care
Published in Journal of sociology and social welfare (01-12-2008)“…Homeless clients with severe mental illness can offer considerable insight about their residential care, but there are significant methodological challenges in…”
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"Help Me to Decide": A Study of Human Rights-Based Supported Decision Making With Persons With Intellectual Disabilities
Published in American journal of orthopsychiatry (2024)“…Decision making is the basis for individual autonomy and societal participation. To support persons' human right to make life decisions, the model of supported…”
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Understanding violence and developing resilience with African American youth in high-poverty, high-crime communities
Published in Children and youth services review (01-04-2019)“…The scourge of community violence that besets young citizens in high-poverty U.S. communities of color is a compelling social problem to address. This article…”
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Street-Based Social Work Praxis: An “Un-Manual” for Advancing Human Rights and Identifying Social Safety Net Failures With Youth of Color Experiencing Poverty
Published in Families in society (30-01-2024)“…Street-based social work responds to the “social disaster” of U.S. youth of color experiencing poverty who fall through the cracks of existing social safety…”
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Even in Fateful Situations a Vital Optimism Remains: Social Work “Accompaniment” with Persons with Cancer
Published in Qualitative report (01-05-2021)“…To advance a social work model for working with patients with diagnoses of cancer in diverse global contexts, this paper draws from qualitative research with…”
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The Effects of Cross-Age Peer Mentoring on Adolescent Mentors of Color Residing in Low Income, Urban Communities
Published in Youth & society (01-07-2023)“…The current study seeks to understand the potential benefits of culturally matched cross-age peer mentoring for Black and Latinx adolescent mentors residing in…”
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“The Flow that Pushes you”: Christocentric Reflections on the Compassion Expressed by African American Youths in Chicago Suffering Profound Disadvantage
Published in Pastoral psychology (01-10-2021)“…Youth beset by community violence, racism, and deep poverty experience profound suffering, and it is important to learn about their strengths to support them…”
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"How Does that Itsy Bitsy Spider Do It?": Severely Traumatized Children's Development of Resilience in Psychotherapy
Published in Journal of infant, child, and adolescent psychotherapy (03-04-2014)“…This article explores the ways in which traumatized children make use of a treatment relationship to develop their resilience. First, the concept of resilience…”
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Indicated Truancy Interventions: Effects on School Attendance among Chronic Truant Students
Published in Campbell systematic review (2012)“…This Campbell systematic review examines the effect of interventions on school attendance to inform policy, practice and research. The review summarise…”
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The Promise of an Accumulation of Care: Disadvantaged African-American Youths’ Perspectives About What Makes an After School Program Meaningful
Published in Child & adolescent social work journal (01-04-2013)“…African-American youth growing up in dangerous, deprived homes and communities are at great risk of developing impaired relationship capabilities, which…”
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Indicated Truancy Interventions for Chronic Truant Students: A Campbell Systematic Review
Published in Research on social work practice (01-01-2013)“…Objective: Examine the effects of indicated interventions on attendance with chronic truant students. Method: Systematic review and meta-analytic methods,…”
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