Nadine J Kaslow
Biographic Data
| ID | 119216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadine J Kaslow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadine J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaslow |
| SIGNATURE | KASLOW N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0775-8597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Self-efficacy as a Mediator of the Relation Between Psychotic Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation in Black American Women with a Recent History of Intimate Partner Violence
Psychosis, intimate partner violence, and self-esteem among a clinical sample of African American women with suicidal ideation
Both psychotic symptoms (i.e., delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech/behavior, reduced emotional expression, social withdrawal, lack of motivation) and intimate partner violence (IPV; i.e., abuse by a current or former partner or spouse) disproportionately affect African American women who face increased mortality and morbidity associated with IPV due to delayed help-seeking. However, little research has focused on the association betwee…
Drug misuse, self-esteem, and intimate partner violence among low-income African American women
Interventions that enhance African American women's perceptions of how they believe others view them may protect them against nonphysical IPV, but they also may require interventions to address drug misuse if present. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Managing Mental Health Crisis Calls Received by a US Poison Center
The Georgia Poison Center developed a protocol for managing mental health crisis cases via iterative feedback with Georgia 911–related emergency medical services and Georgia 988–related mental health services. The Georgia Poison Center managed 533 such cases in 2024 (the year of protocol implementation), of which 45 (8.4%) were transferred to 911. Our study demonstrates that emergency services can effectively develop statewide collaborations to i…
Therapeutic Alliance and Ruptures in Three Psychoanalytic Dyads
The therapeutic alliance is frequently cited as one of the most critically important common factors associated with therapeutic outcomes. While ruptures to the therapeutic alliance are inevitable in all treatments, more research is needed to investigate the contributions of both the psychotherapist and the patient in effectively repairing these ruptures in a manner that facilitates therapeutic progress. In appreciation of Sidney Blatt’s research …
Femicide in the United States
Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans
Anti‐Black racism including structural racism and racism‐related disparities have come to the foreground in recent years with the increasingly frequent and brutal police killings of innocent African Americans, the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic on the Black community, and the effectiveness of the Black Lives Matter movement. There have been calls to action to ensure cultural effectiveness of couples and family therapy for African Americ…
Validity of a common measure of intimate partner violence perpetration
Common measures of physical and sexual IPV perpetration cannot be used for valid effect estimation without further refinement. The study highlights the need for an expanded item set, content validity assessments, further measurement invariance testing, and then consistent use of the item sets in future intervention trials to support accurate inference on the effectiveness of IPV perpetration prevention interventions
Risk for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms by trauma type
Implementing brief, mindfulness-based psychotherapies that enhance self-compassion in the primary care setting may help mitigate PTSD risk among Black Americans with lower levels of physical violence and noninterpersonal trauma exposure and those with higher levels of sexual violence exposure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Collateral effects of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders on violence against women in the United States, January 2019 to December 2020
The benefits of risk-mitigation strategies to reduce the health impacts directly associated with a pandemic should be weighed against their costs with respect to women's heightened exposure to certain forms of violence and the potentially cascading impacts of such exposure on health. The effects of COVID-19 NPRM strategies on IPV risk nationally and its immediate and long-term health sequelae should be studied, with stressors like ongoing pandemi…
Reasons for Living Mediate Between Africultural Coping and Suicide Resilience
Intimate Partner Violence and Barriers to Leaving Among Low-Income African American Women
Community-led identification of mental health support, challenges, and needs among Ethiopian immigrants to the U.S
The mental health challenges and service needs of immigrant populations within the US remain under-addressed. This study presents landscape analysis results from a community-led mental health project with the Atlanta-area Ethiopian immigrant community. The landscape analysis included focus group discussions with community stakeholders and surveys. Key themes that emerged included: (1) indicators of mental health challenges; (2) perceptions of cau…
Life Stress, Depression, and Religious Coping Among Low-Income African American Women
Racial Identity Profiles and Indicators of Well-Being in Suicidal African American Women
Primary care-based mindfulness intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms among Black adults
The findings indicate feasibility and acceptability of MBCT group interventions in urban primary care settings with trauma-exposed patients with significant psychopathology. However, substantial barriers to treatment engagement were endorsed and to improve numbers for successful engagement in the intervention, continued efforts to reduce treatment barriers and increase access to mindfulness-based interventions in underresourced communities are ne…
Making Family-Centered Care for Adults in the ICU a Reality
Despite the value of family-centered care (FCC) in intensive care units (ICUs), this approach is rarely a reality in this context. This article aims to increase the likelihood that ICU-based care incorporates best practices for FCC. Consistent with this goal, this article begins by overviewing FCC and its merits and challenges in ICUs. It then offers a systemic framework for conceptualizing FCC in this challenging environment, as such a model can…
Global measurement of intimate partner violence to monitor Sustainable Development Goal 5
Seven DHS lifetime physical-IPV items and five DHS controlling-behaviour items were approximately invariant across 36 LMICs spanning five world regions, such that cross-national comparisons of factor means are reasonable. Measurement-invariance testing over time will inform their utility to monitor SDG5.2.1; cross-national, cross-time measurement-invariance testing of improved sexual and psychological IPV item-sets is needed
Childhood maltreatment and resource acquisition in African American women
This research highlights the importance of screening for CM, its subtypes, and resource attainment in this population and bolstering self-esteem through psychological interventions to increase women's capacity to effectively secure necessary community resources. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Childhood Physical Abuse and Antisocial Traits
Adverse childhood experiences in African Americans
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) disproportionately impact African Americans because of profound subjection to historical-systemic oppression in addition to personal and intergenerational trauma exposure. This article utilizes a biopsychosocial-cultural framework to understand the correlates of ACE exposure in African Americans and attends to the cultural factors that contribute to resilience. We review the evidence base for culturally inform…
Does social support moderate between depression and suicidal ideation in low-income African Americans
152) in the sample. The results highlight the value of social support from friends in fostering resilience against suicidal ideation in high-risk low-income African American women. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Racial Identity Profiles Among Suicidal Black Women
Despite increasing rates of suicidality among African American women, relatively little is known about culturally-specific factors relevant to their suicidality. Thus, our objectives were to: (1) determine whether previously-identified racial identity profiles replicated in a clinical sample of African American women and (2) examine whether profiles differed on suicidal ideation, hopelessness, and depressive symptoms. In a sample of 198 low-incom…
Intergenerational effects of maternal PTSD
Maternal PTSD may be associated with negative child behavior outcomes, and this relation appears to be mediated by increased parenting stress. Stress-reducing interventions for parents with PTSD could improve child outcomes, especially for girls. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Intergenerational transmission of risk for PTSD symptoms in African American children
These results suggest that maternal emotion dysregulation may be an important factor in influencing their child's PTSD symptoms above and beyond child-specific variables. Both maternal and child emotion dysregulation could be valuable treatment targets for improving maternal mental health and parenting behaviors and bolstering child health outcomes, thus reducing intergenerational transmission of risk associated with trauma. (PsycInfo Database Re…
Competencies in Professional Psychology
There has been a burgeoning interest in competency-based education and credentialing in professional psychology. This movement gained momentum at the Competencies Conference: Future Directions in Education and Credentialing in Professional Psychology. After defining professional competence, the auth
Partner Violence, Social Support, and Distress Among Inner‐City African American Women
This study examined the role of social support in the partner violence–psychological distress relation in a sample of African American women seeking medical care at a large, urban hospital ( n = 138). Results from bivariate correlational analyses revealed that partner violence was related to lower perceived social support and greater psychological distress, and lower social support was related to more distress. Furthermore, findings based on path…
Person Factors Associated With Suicidal Behavior Among African American Women and Men
This study compared person risk factors among the following groups of low-income, African American adults in an urban, public hospital: (a) suicide attempters and nonattempters, (b) male and female attempters, and (c) all 4 groups (50 female attempters, 50 female nonattempters, 50 male attempters, and 50 male nonattempters). Participants completed psychological distress, aggression, substance use, cognitive processes, religiosity/spirituality, an…
Understanding the Link Between Multiple Oppressions and Depression Among African American Women
The purpose of our study was to examine the multiple oppression experiences of sexual objectification, racism, and gendered racism as predictors of depressive symptoms among a clinical sample of low-income African American women. In addition, we examined coping with oppression via internalization (i.e., the tendency to attribute responsibility or the cause of an oppressive event to oneself) as a mediator between these three intersecting forms of …
Protective Factors Against Suicide Attempt Risk Among African American Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Protective factors (hope, spirituality, self-efficacy, coping, social support-family, social support-friends, and effectiveness of obtaining resources) against suicide attempts were examined in economically, educationally, and socially disadvantaged African American women (100 suicide attempters, 100 nonattempters) who had experienced recent intimate partner violence. Significant positive associations were found between all possible pairs of prot…
The competent community
Psychologists are ethically obligated to ensure their own competence. When problems of professional competence occur, psychologists must take appropriate steps to regain competence while protecting those they serve. Yet conceptualizations of the competence obligation are thoroughly intertwined with Western ideals of individualism and a model of the person as self-contained, self-controlled, and perpetually rational. Research in health care, educa…
The mediating role of social support in the community environment—psychological distress link among low‐income African American women
Living in a disordered community is negatively associated with psychological well‐being. We investigated the role of social support in the link between community environment and psychological distress in a sample of 152 African American women from low socioeconomic backgrounds in a large metropolitan southeastern city. Structural equation modeling revealed that the association between low quality of community environment and increased psychologic…
Intimate Partner Violence, Psychological Distress, and Suicidality
Family Variables that Mediate the Relation Between Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Child Adjustment
Mediating Effects of Existential and Religious Well-Being Among Abused, Suicidal African American Women
An Ecological Approach to Understanding Incarcerated Women's Responses to Abuse
Although women are often criticized for not leaving abusive relationships, most abused women actively attempt to protect themselves. This study proposed an ecological model to explain strategic responses to abuse, evaluating factors at four levels: Childhood, Relationship, Individual Impact of Abuse, and Community. Data was retrospectively collected from 85 incarcerated women, a population that is disproportionately affected by trauma and has uni…
Race of Interviewer Effect on Disclosures of Suicidal Low-Income African American Women
Few studies have investigated the impact of interviewer race on the results gleaned through psychological assessment. African American and European American clinical evaluators conducted face-to-face interviews with 161 low-income African American women seeking services at an inner-city hospital following a suicide attempt. Participants were administered measures related to various current life stressors, including the Survey for Recent Life Even…
Racial identity and reasons for living in African American female suicide attempters
The current study investigated the association between racial identity and reasons for living in African American women who have attempted suicide. Particular attention was paid to the relation between two elements of racial identity (private regard, racial centrality) and reasons for living, an alternative assessment of suicidal risk. While private regard refers to an individual's beliefs about the African American race, racial centrality descri…
Intimate Partner Violence and Suicidality in Low-Income African American Women
This study used quantitative and qualitative methods to examine psychological factors that influence links between intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicidality in a sample of low-income African American women. Quantitative results demonstrated greater general coping, more efficacious behavioral strategies in response to IPV, more effective use of resources, greater use of social support, and less substance use among women who did not attempt s…
Perceived Social Support as a Mediator of the Link Between Intimate Partner Conflict and Child Adjustment
African American Women’s Readiness to Change Abusive Relationships
Racist Events and Ethnic Identity in Low Income, African Americans
This study was designed to determine the relation between racist events and ethnic identity in a group of 100 low‐income African Americans. Findings indicated that the more racist events one experienced, the more ethnic behaviors they endorsed and the more they had explored the meaning of their ethnic background. In addition, racist events were also indicative of feeling less close to individuals of other ethnic groups. Results suggest that exper…
Psychology in patient-centered medical homes
With persisting health disparities contributing to a disproportionate impact on the health and well-being of socially disenfranchised and medically underserved populations, the emerging patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model offers promise in bridging the health disparities divide. Because behavioral health care is an important component of the PCMH, psychologists have significant opportunity to contribute to the development and implementatio…
Translating psychological science to the public
Risk and Protective Factors for Psychological Adjustment Among Low-Income, African American Children
This investigation identifies unique risk and protective factors for internalizing and externalizing problems among 8- to 12-year-old, low-income, African American children and tests cumulative risk and protective models. A total of 152 mother-child dyads complete questionnaires. Receipt of food stamps, mother's distress, and child maltreatment increase children's risk for internalizing and externalizing problems and family functioning (adaptabil…
Suicidal Behavior Among Low-Income African American Women
This investigation ascertained dimensions of a suicide attempt and psychological and historical risk factors that differentiate low-income, female, African American suicide attempters as a function of having made a single, first-time attempt versus multiple attempts. Two groups were compared: first time attempters ( n= 135) and repeat attempters ( n= 139). Participants were recruited from a large, urban hospital following a suicide attempt (i.e.,…
Childhood Abuse, Intrapersonal Strength, and Suicide Resilience in African American Females who Attempted Suicide
Africultural Coping Systems Inventory
The Africultural Coping Systems Inventory (ACSI) assesses African Americans' culturally relevant stress coping strategies. Although its factor structure, reliability, and validity of the scores have been examined across ethnic groups of African descent, psychometric properties have not been investigated in an African American clinical sample. Thus, it is unclear if the ACSI is useful for research with African Americans with distress. To assess th…
Psychosocial Mediators Between Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol Abuse in Low-Income African American Women
Intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure can increase alcohol use. Although African Americans use less alcohol compared with European Americans, African American women experience disparate rates of IPV, potentially intensifying their alcohol abuse. We used data from 171 African American women to test if IPV was related to alcohol abuse and if psychosocial factors-loneliness, embarrassment, fear of harm, hope, social support, childcare needs, and …
Meeting evolving workforce needs
Behavioral health integration in the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) offers opportunities for psychologists to play leadership roles. Widespread practice transition to PCMH models of care are expected to substantially impact the psychology workforce. Conservative estimates suggest that approximately 90% of the 93,000 clinically trained psychologists would be required to meet projected need in these settings. This has implications for how hea…
A follow-up study of thirty hospitalized bulimics
Thirty normal-weight female bulimics were followed up 2-5 years following hospital admission using semistructured interviews and psychometric measures. Inasmuch as bulimia was only recently designated a distinct disorder, questions have emerged with regard to its clinical course and diagnostic validity. Results of this investigation suggest that bulimia displays a chronic but tractable course in that the majority of the patients continued to repo…
Changes in separationndividuation and intersubjectivity in long-term treatment.
Changes in separationndividuation and intersubjectivity in long-term treatment
Changes in separation-individuation and intersubjectivity in long-term treatment
An investigation of water repellency in a range of New Zealand soils
Spiritual well-being has been shown to reduce suicidal behavior, depressive symptoms, and hopelessness. Thwarted interpersonal needs have been shown to increase risk of suicidal behavior. This paper aims to explore the interrelationships among spiritual well-being, thwarted interpersonal needs, and negative outcomes including suicidal ideation, hopelessness, and depressive symptoms among African American women. Sixty-six African American women (M…
Suicidal behavior in African American individuals
Historically, the rates of completed suicide among African American individuals have been relatively low. However, the past 50 years have witnessed a significant rise in suicide rates among this population. In an effort to understand this trend, this article reviews relevant demographic data and empirical and clinical findings regarding the clinical presentations of suicidal behavior among African Americans across the life span. The major psychod…
An Empirical Study of the Psychodynamics of Suicide
This paper presents results from an empirical study of four key psychodynamic concepts (self-directed aggression, object loss, ego functioning disturbance, pathological object relations) of suicidal behavior. The sample consists of hospitalized psychiatric patients following a suicide attempt (attempters: n = 52) and demographically similar hospitalized psychiatric patients with no history of suicidal behavior (controls: n = 47). The study was de…
Psychosocial Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
Sickle cell disease (SCD), a chronic, hereditary, and congenital blood disorder, affects I in every 400 to 500 African American babies. In addition to experiencing myriad medical problems, children and adolescents in whom SCD has been diagnosed often manifest neurocognitive impairments and learning problems, internalizing and externalizing of behavior problems, problematic interpersonal relationships, low self-esteem, and maladaptive coping patte…
Childhood maltreatment, object relations, and suicidal behavior in women.
Childhood maltreatment, object relations, and suicidal behavior in women
Partner Violence, Social Support, and Distress Among Inner‐City African American Women
This study examined the role of social support in the partner violence–psychological distress relation in a sample of African American women seeking medical care at a large, urban hospital ( n = 138). Results from bivariate correlational analyses revealed that partner violence was related to lower perceived social support and greater psychological distress, and lower social support was related to more distress. Furthermore, findings based on path…
A Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Adolescents Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease
Monica L. Baskin, Marietta H. Collins, Nadine J. Kaslow, Lewis Hsu, A Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Adolescents Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease, Phylon (1960-), Vol. 50, No. 1/2 (2002), pp. 71-86
Person Factors Associated With Suicidal Behavior Among African American Women and Men
This study compared person risk factors among the following groups of low-income, African American adults in an urban, public hospital: (a) suicide attempters and nonattempters, (b) male and female attempters, and (c) all 4 groups (50 female attempters, 50 female nonattempters, 50 male attempters, and 50 male nonattempters). Participants completed psychological distress, aggression, substance use, cognitive processes, religiosity/spirituality, an…
Competencies in Professional Psychology
There has been a burgeoning interest in competency-based education and credentialing in professional psychology. This movement gained momentum at the Competencies Conference: Future Directions in Education and Credentialing in Professional Psychology. After defining professional competence, the auth
Suicide Acceptability and Religious Well-Being
This study was designed to examine the relationship between suicide acceptability and religious well-being, and to investigate the differences that may exist between African American suicide attempters and non-attempters on these two concepts. Two hundred low-income, African Americans were administered self-report questionnaires measuring suicide acceptability and religious well-being. Findings indicated that suicide acceptability was negatively …
Protective Factors Against Suicide Attempt Risk Among African American Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Protective factors (hope, spirituality, self-efficacy, coping, social support-family, social support-friends, and effectiveness of obtaining resources) against suicide attempts were examined in economically, educationally, and socially disadvantaged African American women (100 suicide attempters, 100 nonattempters) who had experienced recent intimate partner violence. Significant positive associations were found between all possible pairs of prot…
Incorporating Community Mental Health into Local BioterrorismResponse Planning
Determinants of Health Plan Membership Among Patients in Routine U.S. Psychiatric Practice
Racist Events and Ethnic Identity in Low Income, African Americans
This study was designed to determine the relation between racist events and ethnic identity in a group of 100 low‐income African Americans. Findings indicated that the more racist events one experienced, the more ethnic behaviors they endorsed and the more they had explored the meaning of their ethnic background. In addition, racist events were also indicative of feeling less close to individuals of other ethnic groups. Results suggest that exper…
Suicidal Behavior Among Low-Income African American Women
This investigation ascertained dimensions of a suicide attempt and psychological and historical risk factors that differentiate low-income, female, African American suicide attempters as a function of having made a single, first-time attempt versus multiple attempts. Two groups were compared: first time attempters ( n= 135) and repeat attempters ( n= 139). Participants were recruited from a large, urban hospital following a suicide attempt (i.e.,…
Are alcohol problems linked with an increase in depressive symptoms in abused, inner-city African American women
Intimate Partner Violence and Suicidality in Low-Income African American Women
This study used quantitative and qualitative methods to examine psychological factors that influence links between intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicidality in a sample of low-income African American women. Quantitative results demonstrated greater general coping, more efficacious behavioral strategies in response to IPV, more effective use of resources, greater use of social support, and less substance use among women who did not attempt s…
Perceived Social Support as a Mediator of the Link Between Intimate Partner Conflict and Child Adjustment
African American Women’s Readiness to Change Abusive Relationships
An Ecological Approach to Understanding Incarcerated Women's Responses to Abuse
Although women are often criticized for not leaving abusive relationships, most abused women actively attempt to protect themselves. This study proposed an ecological model to explain strategic responses to abuse, evaluating factors at four levels: Childhood, Relationship, Individual Impact of Abuse, and Community. Data was retrospectively collected from 85 incarcerated women, a population that is disproportionately affected by trauma and has uni…
Psychology (78 works) · Medicine (67 works) · Clinical Psychology (55 works) · Psychiatry (52 works) · Poison control (43 works) · Clinical Psychology (40 works) · Suicide prevention (38 works) · Domestic violence (26 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (24 works) · Social Psychology (23 works)