C E Mckinley
Biographic Data
| ID | 39617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C E Mckinley |
| GIVEN NAMES | C E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckinley |
| SIGNATURE | MCKINLEY C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1770-5088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Weaving Healthy Families Program Preventing Alcohol Misuse Among U.S. Indigenous Adults and Youth
Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of the Weaving Healthy Families (WHF) program in reducing alcohol and substance use among U.S. Indigenous adults and youth, addressing health disparities and premature mortality driven by alcohol misuse. Design setting A longitudinal dynamic, open cohort stepped-wedge trial conducted in U.S. Indigenous communities, grounded in over a decade of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and Indigenous kn…
Support, reciprocity, and kinship as seeds of Indigenous family resilience during Covid ‐19
Weaving Webs of Resilience
Purpose This research tests the efficacy of the Weaving Healthy Families intervention on postintervention improvements for mental health among U.S. Indigenous adults. Method Community-based participatory research, the rigorous stepped-wedge trial design, along with multilevel longitudinal modeling through 12-month postintervention (i.e., pretest, posttest, and 6-, 9-, and 12-month follow up) were used to test our working hypotheses that the adapt…
Risk Factors Disrupting Wholistic Wellness Among Indigenous Families During Covid ‐19
The impact of the COVID-19 virus disproportionately affected U.S. Indigenous peoples, who experienced the highest infection and death rates in comparison with non-Indigenous peoples. In this article, we use the framework of historical oppression, resilience, and transcendence (FHORT) to understand how Southeastern Indigenous peoples in the United States navigated hardships associated with the COVID-19 global pandemic. This culturally congruent fr…
Alignment with agility (AWA)
Extending the empirically informed the critical, feminist, and Indigenist Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience and Transcendence (FHORT), the purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of living AWAke. An extension of FHORT, living AWAke is distinct from other frameworks because it centers an intersectional, Indigenist approach to gender and its effect on daily life. Systematic and structural oppression insidiously effect every…
Covid-19-related effects on alcohol and other Drug use among indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples in the United States have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Using the framework for historical oppression, resilience, and transcendence (FHORT), the present research study recounted the lived experiences of a group of 31 Indigenous women from a tribe located in the southeastern region of the United States regarding alcohol and other drug (AOD) use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three major themes…
Cultural approaches to promote Indigenous mental health
Pilot results from the culturally relevant Weaving Healthy Families (WHF) prevention program were examined to see how U.S. Indigenous adolescents and adult' program participation was associated with changes in mental health outcomes, namely dysfunctional attitudes among adolescent (aged 12-17) and adults, and adult symptoms of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A nonexperimental one-group longitudinal design and genera…
Indigenous Motherwork in Crisis
This study describes the lived experiences of Indigenous mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on caregiving strategies, resilience, and leadership within their families and communities while navigating systemic gendered and racial inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified long-standing structural inequities, disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities. As primary caregivers and cultural stewards, Indigenous mothers faced int…
The Weaving Healthy Families program
Parenting quality, family resilience, and community resilience and support have been found to be primary protective factors for the disproportionate burden of anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use disorder (SUD), depression, and suicide that US Indigenous youth and adults tend to experience. The purpose of this research study was to examine pilot results for outcomes related to relational factors for Indigenous family membe…
“Prayer is universal”
Objective: Indigenous faith practices have enabled persistence, resistance, and transcendence despite centuries of settler colonial historical oppression. Spirituality, ceremony, and religious practices are fundamental aspects of Indigenous wellness, resilience, and liberation from a colonial mindset. The purpose of this research was understand U.S. Indigenous peoples' perspectives of spirituality and religion from the settler colonial framework …
“Nobody Knew . . . What Was Gonna Happen”
Indigenous peoples have experienced higher rates of loss and death compared to the general population, partly due to historical loss. This qualitative inquiry focused on understanding Indigenous women’s experiences of loss, grief, and death during the COVID-19 pandemic, involving 31 head-of-household Native American women from a southeastern US tribe. Reconstructive analysis of data from a community-based critical ethnography identified the follo…
“We have to … work for wholeness no matter what”
Sociocultural, mental, behavioral, and physical factors are interrelated associates of chronic health conditions—such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease—all of which are disproportionally high and drive much of the mortality and morbidity for Indigenous peoples. Indigenous worldviews conceptualize health holistically, with inseparability across social, spiritual, cultural, familial, mental, behavioral, physical, and social dimension…
Is Self-Care Sustainable Without Structural Support? A Systematic Review of Self-Care Interventions
Purpose: Social workers navigate systemic stressors while managing self-care amid scant institutional support. The purpose of this systematic review is to critically examine the state of social work intervention research for self-care practices. Methods: This review includes empirical research articles focusing on self-care interventions in social work between 2011 and 2022 ( N = 22). Results: All self-care interventions focused on modifying indi…
"Dismantling the colonial mindset and becoming "Gender AWAke
The purpose of this article is to delineate the nature of the colonial mindset, which perpetuates gendered settler colonial structures of historical oppression in research and practice. By connecting a critical consciousness and living in alignment with agility (AWA), this work explicates pathways from gendered complicity to embodying praxis-or becoming gender AWAke. This article begins by describing the nature of the colonial mindset. Second, I …
Developing the Weaving Healthy Families Program to Promote Wellness and Prevent Substance Abuse and Violence
Family prevention programs that enhance mental health, wellness, and resilience—while simultaneously addressing violence and alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse—among Indigenous families are scarce. This gap in culturally grounded and community-based programs creates a critical need to develop and evaluate the efficacy of such prevention programs. This article fills this gap, with the purpose of describing the structure and content of the Weaving …
“Take care of your families, take care of one another”
“I don’t remember any of us … having diabetes or cancer”
Past and present structures of settler colonial historical oppression aimed to erase and replace Indigenous peoples have profoundly disrupted U.S. Indigenous foodways. The purpose of this article is to use the Indigenous Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence (FHORT) to understand U.S. Indigenous peoples' experiences and perceptions of how (a) foodways have changed within the context of settler colonial historical oppre…
Centering Historical Oppression in Prevention Research with Indigenous Peoples
The purpose of this pilot study was to understand how historical oppression relates to changes in outcomes for people who participate in the culturally grounded Weaving Healthy Families (WHF) program (i.e., alcohol and drug use, symptoms of anxiety, parenting practices, and communal mastery [CM]). This nonexperimental and longitudinal design used repeated measures regression analysis and generalized estimating equations (GEE) to examine postinter…
“You got to drive 30 miles to get an apple”
“It's in the family circle”
“We were always doing something outside. … I had a wonderful, wonderful life”
Results highlighted how participants preferred and participated in subsistence and PA growing up, how this had evolved over time, and how being outside in nature contributed to a sense of wellness and overall health
We Live in a Very Toxic World”
The purpose of this article is to understand how historical oppression has undermined health through environmental injustices that have given rise to food insecurity. Specifically, the article examines ways in which settler colonialism has transformed and contaminated the land itself, impacting the availability and quality of food and the overall health of Indigenous peoples. Food security and environmental justice for Gulf Coast, state-recognize…
The Development of the Framework of Integrated Reproductive and Sexual Health Theories (FIRSHT) to Contextualize Indigenous Women’s Health Experiences
Why I Stayed in That Relationship”
Indigenous women in the United States are among the most vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV), which has reached endemic levels. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to understand contextual factors and barriers to becoming liberated from violence. Reconstructive analysis of data from a critical ethnography with a sample of 231 women across two tribes who described IPV relationships identified the following themes: controlling rel…
Marriage is Going to Fix It’
Intimate partner violence (IPV), early childbearing (ECB) and early marriage (EM) are interconnected to the historical oppression of patriarchal colonialism imposed upon Indigenous peoples throughout the world by colonising nations, such as the UK. The artefacts of colonial oppression persist in both colonising nations and those that have been colonised through social norms of patriarchal oppression perpetuated upon women with far-reaching conseq…
Community-Engaged and Culturally Relevant Research to Develop Behavioral Health Interventions with American Indians and Alaska Natives
American Indians and Alaska Natives experience pervasive mental, behavioral, and physical health disparities, yet access to culturally relevant and evidenced-based programs (EBPs) are severely limited. The purpose of this research is to describe the process of conducting a rigorous and culturally sensitive research approach, which was used to inform the development of a family-based substance abuse and violence prevention program that promotes re…
All Work and No Play
The invisible labor of household management, including child care, housework, and financial responsibilities, is a contemporary form of historical oppression adding strain and contributing to mothers' role overload, depression, distress, and health impairments. The purpose of this article is to use the Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence to understand the experiences of gender dynamics in home life responsibilities a…
Weaving Healthy Families Program
Results reveal promising preliminary results for the WHF program to promote resilience and thriving while reducing risk for substance abuse and violence in NA families
The Development of the Framework of Integrated Reproductive and Sexual Health Theories (FIRSHT) to Contextualize Indigenous Women’s Health Experiences
A Dad Can Get the Money and the Mom Stays at Home”
The Historical Oppression Scale
Indigenous peoples of the United States are distinct from other ethnic minorities because they have experienced colonization as the original inhabitants. Social and health disparities are connected to a context of historical oppression-the chronic, pervasive, and intergenerational experiences of oppression that, over time, may be normalized, imposed, and internalized into the daily lives of many Indigenous peoples (including individuals, families…
"Dismantling the colonial mindset and becoming "Gender AWAke
The purpose of this article is to delineate the nature of the colonial mindset, which perpetuates gendered settler colonial structures of historical oppression in research and practice. By connecting a critical consciousness and living in alignment with agility (AWA), this work explicates pathways from gendered complicity to embodying praxis-or becoming gender AWAke. This article begins by describing the nature of the colonial mindset. Second, I …
We Live in a Very Toxic World”
The purpose of this article is to understand how historical oppression has undermined health through environmental injustices that have given rise to food insecurity. Specifically, the article examines ways in which settler colonialism has transformed and contaminated the land itself, impacting the availability and quality of food and the overall health of Indigenous peoples. Food security and environmental justice for Gulf Coast, state-recognize…
Historic and Contemporary Environmental Justice Issues among Native Americans in the Gulf Coast Region of the United States
Settler-colonialism is founded in environmental racism, and environmental justice is foundational to all forms of decolonialization. Native American groups located in the Gulf Coast Region of the United States are particularly vulnerable to environmental justice issues such as climate change and oil spills due to their geographic location and reliance on the coastal region for economic and social resources. This study used the framework of histor…
American Indian women cancer survivors’ perceptions and experiences with conventional and non-conventional mental health care for depressive symptoms
Background: Despite cancer and depression being disproportionately high for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women, such cancer survivors' help-seeking practices and perceptions related to depression are absent in extant research. A broader context of historical oppression has set the stage for unequal health outcomes and access to quality services. The purpose of this article was to explore AI women cancer survivors' experiences with co…
From the Ground Up
Journal Article From the Ground Up: Indigenous Women's after Violence Experiences with the Formal Service System in the United States Get access Catherine E. Burnette Catherine E. Burnette * School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA *Correspondence to Catherine E. Burnette, Ph.D., LMSW, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., Bldg 9, Rm 208, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA. E-mail: cbu…
Why I Stayed in That Relationship”
Indigenous women in the United States are among the most vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV), which has reached endemic levels. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to understand contextual factors and barriers to becoming liberated from violence. Reconstructive analysis of data from a critical ethnography with a sample of 231 women across two tribes who described IPV relationships identified the following themes: controlling rel…
She’s the Center of My Life, the One That Keeps My Heart Open”
Historically, Native American (NA) mothers have proven essential to the survival of their families and communities, yet scant research has examined their roles today. Current gender roles in NA communities are influenced by historical oppression (both historic and contemporary forms) that acted to reverse matrilineal gender norms in favor of patriarchy. The present study sought to explore norms and expectations for women among two NA tribes locat…
When You Come Together and Do Everything, It'll be Better for Everybody
Prior to the imposition of patriarchal colonial norms, Native American (NA) gender relations were characterized as complementary and egalitarian; however, little research has explored gender relations within NA communities today. This study used a community-based critical ethnography to explore contemporary NA gender relations with a purposive sample of 208 individuals from the 'Coastal Tribe' and 228 participants from the 'Inland Tribe.' After p…
The Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience and Transcendence to Understand Disparities in Depression Amongst Indigenous Peoples
Given chronic experiences of historical oppression, Indigenous peoples tend to experience much higher rates of depression than the general US population, which then, drives disproportionately high rates of suicide and other health disparities. The purpose of this research was to examine the core components of the culturally grounded Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence as they relate to depressive symptoms experienced…
From Turbulent Indigo
From Turbulent Indigo Catherine McKinley (bio) Abstract Turbulent Indigo, a work of history/memoir/mystery, chronicles the lives of the women who work and trade indigo in Africa, and what cloth reveals about colonialism, the cult of African femininity and the "hidden half" (i.e. commodities such as indigo, whose value rivaled cotton, gold, and rice) of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The term obruni is used frequently in this text. It means "stra…
From the Ground Up
Journal Article From the Ground Up: Indigenous Women's after Violence Experiences with the Formal Service System in the United States Get access Catherine E. Burnette Catherine E. Burnette * School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA *Correspondence to Catherine E. Burnette, Ph.D., LMSW, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., Bldg 9, Rm 208, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA. E-mail: cbu…
American Indian women cancer survivors’ perceptions and experiences with conventional and non-conventional mental health care for depressive symptoms
Background: Despite cancer and depression being disproportionately high for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women, such cancer survivors' help-seeking practices and perceptions related to depression are absent in extant research. A broader context of historical oppression has set the stage for unequal health outcomes and access to quality services. The purpose of this article was to explore AI women cancer survivors' experiences with co…
A Culturally Informed Systematic Review of Mental Health Disparities Among Adult Indigenous Men and Women of the USA
Related to a broader context of historical oppression, Indigenous peoples of the USA are overburdened with the mental health challenges that social workers tend to treat, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, suicide and substance use disorders (SUD). The purpose of this systematic review is to use the Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience and Transcendence (FHORT) to identify empirical research on risk and protect…
The Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience and Transcendence to Understand Disparities in Depression Amongst Indigenous Peoples
Given chronic experiences of historical oppression, Indigenous peoples tend to experience much higher rates of depression than the general US population, which then, drives disproportionately high rates of suicide and other health disparities. The purpose of this research was to examine the core components of the culturally grounded Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence as they relate to depressive symptoms experienced…
Community-Engaged and Culturally Relevant Research to Develop Behavioral Health Interventions with American Indians and Alaska Natives
American Indians and Alaska Natives experience pervasive mental, behavioral, and physical health disparities, yet access to culturally relevant and evidenced-based programs (EBPs) are severely limited. The purpose of this research is to describe the process of conducting a rigorous and culturally sensitive research approach, which was used to inform the development of a family-based substance abuse and violence prevention program that promotes re…
American Indian Women Cancer Survivors’ Spiritual and Religious Coping Practices
Risk and protective factors for symptoms of depression and anxiety among American Indians
The findings provide strong preliminary support for the role of family protective and promotive factors in offsetting symptoms of anxiety and depression. This is contrary to most models of interventions for anxiety and depression focusing on individual psychotherapy rather than promoting family resilience or involvement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Family
Cancer disparities among American Indian (AI) women are alarming, yet a dearth of research focuses on the role of family support for such women. The purpose of this research was to examine the composition of AI women cancer survivors' family support networks and the types of support that they provided. We used a qualitative descriptive methodology with 43 AI women cancer survivors and qualitative content analysis, which indicated that 38 particip…
Why Are So Many Indigenous Peoples Dying and No One Is Paying Attention? Depressive Symptoms and “Loss of Loved Ones” as a Result and Driver of Health Disparities
Indigenous peoples have not only experienced a devastating rate of historical loss of lives, they are more likely to experience mortality disparities. The purpose of this article is to examine Indigenous women's lived experiences of grief and loss in two Southeastern tribes and the relationship between depressive symptoms and recent loss of a loved one. Our exploratory sequential mixed-methods research was informed by the Indigenous based Framewo…
Cervical cancer screening behaviors among American Indian women
American Indian women experience disproportionately high rates of cervical cancer morbidity and mortality, yet cancer screening services tend to be underutilized. Using the Health Belief Model (HBM) with a survey of American Indian women (N = 286) in South Dakota, findings indicate that only 59% received Pap test within the past 2 years. Significant predictors of Pap test included advanced age, higher BMI, greater awareness of Pap test, greater m…
What’s love got to do with it? “Love” and alcohol use among U.S. Indigenous peoples
This research examines how Indigenous families report experiences of love (a component of family resilience) and its association with urgent health disparity of alcohol abuse. This exploratory mixed-methods first identified emergent results from qualitative data ( n =436), which was then explored with follow-up and quantitative data ( n =127) from a sample of Indigenous families in two Southeastern tribes. Love was a highly salient qualitative th…
She’s the Center of My Life, the One That Keeps My Heart Open”
Historically, Native American (NA) mothers have proven essential to the survival of their families and communities, yet scant research has examined their roles today. Current gender roles in NA communities are influenced by historical oppression (both historic and contemporary forms) that acted to reverse matrilineal gender norms in favor of patriarchy. The present study sought to explore norms and expectations for women among two NA tribes locat…
American Indian women cancer survivors’ experiences of community support in a context of historical oppression
This qualitative descriptive study examined the gap in knowledge on American Indian (AI) women cancer survivors’ perceptions of and experiences of AI community support. The sample included 43 AI women cancer survivors in the Northern Plains region. In total, 21% (n = 9) of participants perceived support from their AI community; 69% (n = 29) expressed some unmet needs; close to half of participants (43%, n = 18) indicated an absence of support. Hi…
The Historical Oppression Scale
Indigenous peoples of the United States are distinct from other ethnic minorities because they have experienced colonization as the original inhabitants. Social and health disparities are connected to a context of historical oppression-the chronic, pervasive, and intergenerational experiences of oppression that, over time, may be normalized, imposed, and internalized into the daily lives of many Indigenous peoples (including individuals, families…
Mental, physical and social dimensions of health equity and wellness among U.S. Indigenous peoples
This special issue and introduction focuses on promoting health equity and addressing health disparities among Indigenous peoples of the United States (U.S.) and associated Territories in the Pacific Islands and Caribbean. We provide an overview of the current state of health equity across social, physical, and mental health domains. In Part 1 of the special issue, we trace promotive, protective, and risk factors related to Indigenous health equi…
“It just took something from me”
Indigenous peoples in these samples experienced rampant IPV, which was exacerbated and triggered by alcohol, drug use, and infidelity. To prevent IPV for adults, it is germane to prevent exposure to violence and substance abuse across the life course. Family-focused and culturally grounded interventions that focus both on AOD abuse, emotional regulation, and violence prevention are recommended. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights r…
“You Can Get Away with Anything Here… No Justice at All”— Sexual Violence Against U.S. Indigenous Females and Its Consequences
Historic and Contemporary Environmental Justice Issues among Native Americans in the Gulf Coast Region of the United States
Settler-colonialism is founded in environmental racism, and environmental justice is foundational to all forms of decolonialization. Native American groups located in the Gulf Coast Region of the United States are particularly vulnerable to environmental justice issues such as climate change and oil spills due to their geographic location and reliance on the coastal region for economic and social resources. This study used the framework of histor…
A learning experience’
Research indicates that effective disciplinary practices, such as offering praise and teaching acceptable versus non-acceptable behaviour, can act as protective factors against the social and behavioural health disparities experienced by Native Americans (NA). The purpose of this critical ethnographic study ( n = 436 qualitative elder, adult, youth and professional participants) was to use the Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and T…
Weaving Healthy Families Program
Results reveal promising preliminary results for the WHF program to promote resilience and thriving while reducing risk for substance abuse and violence in NA families
A Dad Can Get the Money and the Mom Stays at Home”
All Work and No Play
The invisible labor of household management, including child care, housework, and financial responsibilities, is a contemporary form of historical oppression adding strain and contributing to mothers' role overload, depression, distress, and health impairments. The purpose of this article is to use the Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence to understand the experiences of gender dynamics in home life responsibilities a…
Indigenous Health Equity and Wellness
“You got to drive 30 miles to get an apple”
Sociology (35 works) · Indigenous (33 works) · Psychology (31 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (30 works) · Political science (26 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Gender Studies (20 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Oppression (17 works) · Psychological resilience (14 works)