Lorraine Gutierrez
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine Gutierrez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine |
| FAMILY NAME | Gutierrez |
| SIGNATURE | GUTIERREZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2714-7005 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 285 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Multiracial Adults’ Coping Strategies for Racial Microaggressions
The Role of Parent–Adolescent Communication Among Youth Exposed to Neighborhood Violence in Rural Mexico
This study examines the potential moderating effects of mother– and father–adolescent communication on the relations between community violence exposure (i.e., witnessing violence and personal victimization), neighborhood-based sexual harassment, and adolescents’ depressive and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. The sample included 200 poor, rural adolescents ( M age = 14.93, SD = 1.40), the majority of whom were girls (58%) from two public …
How Early Social Work Faculty Experienced Support in Their Doctoral Programs
To promote social justice, doctoral programs can implement policies that support underrepresented students’ success. Drawing on critical multicultural theory, we surveyed early-career social work faculty (N = 127) about experiences within their doctoral programs, and analyzed how perceptions differ based on their social identities, part-time student status, or outside work responsibilities. Descriptive results, independent samples t-tests, Mann-W…
Social work faculty attitudes towards diversity and oppression content in MSW curricula
The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has mandated teaching both multicultural diversity and oppression content since the first decade of the 21st century. Yet, little research examines social work faculty’s attitudes toward the content they teach. A national online survey of faculty teaching in accredited MSW programs across the United States was conducted to investigate faculty’s attitudes toward content related to diversity, oppression, …
Bridging the Gap
Systematic inquiry is an inherent part of social work practice. Despite this fact, social work students and practitioners continue to view research as difficult, intimidating and irrelevant. This disconnect is compounded by a lack of rigorous study on how best to teach research concepts to social work students. One way to bridge this gap is to provide a more robust integration of research principles and practices into the MSW curriculum through p…
Community Practice in Social Work
Community practice, which considers the community as a means and focus of practice, has been a significant aspect of the field of social work throughout its first century (1917–2017). In this article, we focus on the development of community practice in social work over time, identify enduring themes in the trends and issues faced by this method, and discuss what directions it may take in the future. As social workers working across methods, we v…
Celebrating Some Milestones
It seems only appropriate to take a moment to pause and reflect when reaching important milestones, and with this new year, the Journal of Community Practice (JCP) and its sponsor, the Association
Improving the Effectiveness of Community-Based Interventions
At first glance, this issue might appear to be an eclectic bricolage of articles ranging from housing to food insecurity to community design centers. Although the topics covered in this issue are f
Editors’ Epilogue
Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Community Practice
Community Practice in Our Global Village
Remembering the Other 46
Community, Organization, and Social Action
As editors, we have the privilege of reviewing and considering an array of manuscripts that study, assess, and comment on the state of community practice and its place in macro practice social work
Graduate Social Work Faculty’s Support for Educational Content on Women and on Sexism
Social work faculty play an important role in preparing students to address sexism and engage in culturally competent practice with women. This study examines the nature of U.S. and Anglo-Canadian graduate social work faculty's support for content on women and on sexism. Although support appears high for both content areas, results suggest that faculty endorsement for content on women is significantly greater than that for sexism. Further, bivari…
Revisiting the Past to Reinvent the Future
Building Knowledge and Theory for Community Practice
The Journal of Community Practice (JCP) began publication in 1994, as a project of the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA), an organization of scholars, educato
Teamwork, Teamwork… Team, Team, Team
Community Organization in the Twenty-First Century
The context for community practice in social work is continually changing. As we entered the 21st century, we would not have envisioned the challenges and opportunities that exist today in our nati
Responding to Community Crises
As I was finalizing the editorial for this issue, I thought about the myriad of crises, conflicts, and public tragedies that have affected communities across the globe during the first six months o
U.S. Graduate Social Work Faculty's Attitudes Toward Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People
Social workers are expected to promote social justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and social work programs and their faculty are expected to prepare students for competent and ethical practice with LGBT people and communities. Faculty's LGBT social attitudes can play a central role in developing students’ competencies. Minimal attention has been given to the nature of faculty's LGBT social attitudes. This article pr…
Getting the Work Done - Even in Challenging Times
Riding Down the Up Escalator
Writing this editorial approximately six months into the Obama Administration's second term, I cannot help but think about how the new “normal” in our everyday lives as individuals, families and co
Social Work Faculty's Attitudes Toward Marginalized Groups
Social work faculty's attitudes contribute to creating inclusive and productive classroom climates when discussing racism, sexism, and heterosexism. Little is known about faculty's attitudes toward marginalized groups and the intersection of these attitudes with religion. This study describes social work faculty's attitudes about people of Color, women, and lesbian and gay people, and the relationship among these attitudes, religious affiliation,…
Social Work Faculty Support for Same-Sex Marriage
Attention to same-sex marriage has increased in the past decade. This study examines the perceptions of same-sex marriage among social work faculty. Faculty play a critical role in preparing future social workers for competent, ethical practice—including advocacy for social policies inclusive of sexual minorities. The present study investigates endorsement of same-sex marriage among teaching faculty in U.S. and English-speaking Canadian MSW progr…
Forging New Frontiers and Building Better Mousetraps
Youth Participation and Community Change
Youth participation is a process of involving young people in the in-stitutions and decisions that affect their lives. It includes initiatives that
Community Organizing with Women of Color
The problems of women of color are related to gender, ethnic, and class inequality, yet little attention has been paid to methods for changing these structural conditions; most social work literature on gender and ethnicity has focused on individual models for change. Recent research on feminist organizing has identified ways in which community organization methods can be made more effective for use with groups of women. The implementation of the…
Toward a Hybrid Model for Effective Organizing in Communities of Color
This paper examines the feminist and Alinsky approaches to community organizing, both of which have had great impact on the field of organizing. Viewing the two models as flexible and interflowing, the authors then propose a hybrid organizing model that draws from the strengths of both approaches. The model also calls for continual assessment of the changing organizing context and flexibility to change the blend of strategies according to the nee…
Toward an Understanding of (Em)Power(Ment) for HIV/Aids Prevention with Adolescent Women
Choosing to Do Participatory Research
Participatory research is an increasingly popular approach, and considered by some to be synonymous with progressive social work research practice. It is important, however, to assess its suitability for both a given project and the people involved with it. Points to consider include fit of the approach with researcher(s), community, topic, organizational context and constraints. This article describes a participatory research process through whi…
Community Practice in Social Work
Community practice, which considers the community as a means and focus of practice, has been a significant aspect of the field of social work throughout its first century (1917–2017). In this article, we focus on the development of community practice in social work over time, identify enduring themes in the trends and issues faced by this method, and discuss what directions it may take in the future. As social workers working across methods, we v…
Community-Based Interdisciplinary Research
This special issue on community-based interdisciplinary research grew out of the work of the SCRA Interdisciplinary Task Force and an Interdisciplinary Working Conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 2004. In this introduction to the special issue, the historical context for interdisciplinary underpinnings for community psychology theory, research, action and training is first depicted. This is followed by a brief description of the miss…
Empowering African American Women Informal Caregivers
Through a synthesis of literature on caregiving, empowerment, social inequalities, and racial disparities in health and income, the authors built an argument for African American women caregivers' vulnerability to powerlessness and the applicability of an empowerment approach to social work practice with these caregivers. The article discusses two realities of African American women caregivers' experiences (strong coping and vulnerability) and tw…
Educating Students for Multicultural Community Practice
This article explores the concept of multicultural community organizing and some of the issues and dilemmas involved in educating for this form of practice. It then outlines the development of a course on multicultural community organizing and describes experiences in teaching it; specific teaching strategies and methodologies, including exercises and assignments; and outcomes for students, educators, and communities. Social work educators are en…
The Journal of Community Practice
Understanding the empowerment process
Empowerment theory suggests that changes in beliefs and attitudes contribute to the participation of individuals in social change and assumes that individuals will work for the collective good if they develop a sense of critical consciousness. This article tests the application of this theory with a sample of 73 Latino undergraduate university students. Results from an experiment focusing on ethnic identity and consciousness suggest a direct effe…
Beyond Coping
Research on stressful life events has demonstrated their negative effects on health and mental health. The possibility of empowerment, how individuals can take action to change their situations, has been largely overlooked by this research. Empowerment theory and research suggest that the outcome of stressful life events can be less debilitating when individuals are encouraged to identify with similar others, to develop specific skills, to percei…
Responding to Community Crises
As I was finalizing the editorial for this issue, I thought about the myriad of crises, conflicts, and public tragedies that have affected communities across the globe during the first six months o
A praxis and Research Agenda for Multicultural Human Services Organizations
Human services organizations in the United States are currently faced with the problems of a diminishing and shifting resource base coupled with increasing demands for services. In addition, national demographic changes with increasing social diversity, and a rise in racial, ethnic, gender and other group‐based tensions have posed special challenges for human service organizations. By tracing the history of social work approaches to working with …
The Quickening of Community Practice
Women's Achievement of Empowerment through Activism in the Workplace
In social work, workplace activism has been overlooked as a source of empowerment for women clients. This article reports on the results of a case study of a predominantly female union engaged in grass-roots organizing and legislative activity to promote comparable worth. An unanticipated finding of the study was the high degree to which personal, interpersonal, and political empowerment took place among the women who were deeply involved in the …
Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Community Practice
Community Organization in the Twenty-First Century
The context for community practice in social work is continually changing. As we entered the 21st century, we would not have envisioned the challenges and opportunities that exist today in our nati
Appreciating the Glocal in Community Practice
Introduction to the Issue, the Journal, and the Editors
Improving the Effectiveness of Community-Based Interventions
At first glance, this issue might appear to be an eclectic bricolage of articles ranging from housing to food insecurity to community design centers. Although the topics covered in this issue are f
Graduate Social Work Faculty’s Support for Educational Content on Women and on Sexism
Social work faculty play an important role in preparing students to address sexism and engage in culturally competent practice with women. This study examines the nature of U.S. and Anglo-Canadian graduate social work faculty's support for content on women and on sexism. Although support appears high for both content areas, results suggest that faculty endorsement for content on women is significantly greater than that for sexism. Further, bivari…
U.S. Graduate Social Work Faculty's Attitudes Toward Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People
Social workers are expected to promote social justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and social work programs and their faculty are expected to prepare students for competent and ethical practice with LGBT people and communities. Faculty's LGBT social attitudes can play a central role in developing students’ competencies. Minimal attention has been given to the nature of faculty's LGBT social attitudes. This article pr…
Getting the Work Done - Even in Challenging Times
Teaching Community Practice, Educating Community Practitioners
Social Work Theories and Practice with Battered Women
In the 1970s, wife abuse became a concern of sociologists, feminists, and family theorists. The new perspectives they brought to the problem, which focused more on social factors than on individual pathology, challenged social workers to examine how their practice and assumptions perpetuated the problem. This article investigates how the social work literature has been affected by new theories of domestic violence and analyzes the impact that the…
Women's Achievement of Empowerment through Activism in the Workplace
In social work, workplace activism has been overlooked as a source of empowerment for women clients. This article reports on the results of a case study of a predominantly female union engaged in grass-roots organizing and legislative activity to promote comparable worth. An unanticipated finding of the study was the high degree to which personal, interpersonal, and political empowerment took place among the women who were deeply involved in the …
Culture and the Restructuring of Community Mental Health . William Vega , John Murphy
Beyond Coping
Research on stressful life events has demonstrated their negative effects on health and mental health. The possibility of empowerment, how individuals can take action to change their situations, has been largely overlooked by this research. Empowerment theory and research suggest that the outcome of stressful life events can be less debilitating when individuals are encouraged to identify with similar others, to develop specific skills, to percei…
Community Organizing with Women of Color
The problems of women of color are related to gender, ethnic, and class inequality, yet little attention has been paid to methods for changing these structural conditions; most social work literature on gender and ethnicity has focused on individual models for change. Recent research on feminist organizing has identified ways in which community organization methods can be made more effective for use with groups of women. The implementation of the…
Toward a Hybrid Model for Effective Organizing in Communities of Color
This paper examines the feminist and Alinsky approaches to community organizing, both of which have had great impact on the field of organizing. Viewing the two models as flexible and interflowing, the authors then propose a hybrid organizing model that draws from the strengths of both approaches. The model also calls for continual assessment of the changing organizing context and flexibility to change the blend of strategies according to the nee…
Understanding the empowerment process
Empowerment theory suggests that changes in beliefs and attitudes contribute to the participation of individuals in social change and assumes that individuals will work for the collective good if they develop a sense of critical consciousness. This article tests the application of this theory with a sample of 73 Latino undergraduate university students. Results from an experiment focusing on ethnic identity and consciousness suggest a direct effe…
Multicultural Community Organizing
A praxis and Research Agenda for Multicultural Human Services Organizations
Human services organizations in the United States are currently faced with the problems of a diminishing and shifting resource base coupled with increasing demands for services. In addition, national demographic changes with increasing social diversity, and a rise in racial, ethnic, gender and other group‐based tensions have posed special challenges for human service organizations. By tracing the history of social work approaches to working with …
Toward an Understanding of (Em)Power(Ment) for HIV/Aids Prevention with Adolescent Women
Educating Students for Multicultural Community Practice
This article explores the concept of multicultural community organizing and some of the issues and dilemmas involved in educating for this form of practice. It then outlines the development of a course on multicultural community organizing and describes experiences in teaching it; specific teaching strategies and methodologies, including exercises and assignments; and outcomes for students, educators, and communities. Social work educators are en…
Choosing to Do Participatory Research
Participatory research is an increasingly popular approach, and considered by some to be synonymous with progressive social work research practice. It is important, however, to assess its suitability for both a given project and the people involved with it. Points to consider include fit of the approach with researcher(s), community, topic, organizational context and constraints. This article describes a participatory research process through whi…
Replication of a psychosocial rehabilitation program
This article describes a strategy of organizing community stakeholder groups for the purpose of planning and implementing an innovative mental health program—supported education services for adults with mental illnesses who were interested in pursuing postsecondary education. A common planning framework was used in several different communities within the same state. The framework is described, as well as each community's characteristics and thei…
Reflecting Community Practice in Action
Introduction to the Issue, the Journal, and the Editors
The Journal of Community Practice
Empowering African American Women Informal Caregivers
Through a synthesis of literature on caregiving, empowerment, social inequalities, and racial disparities in health and income, the authors built an argument for African American women caregivers' vulnerability to powerlessness and the applicability of an empowerment approach to social work practice with these caregivers. The article discusses two realities of African American women caregivers' experiences (strong coping and vulnerability) and tw…
The Quickening of Community Practice
Teaching Community Practice, Educating Community Practitioners
Taking Stock
The Complexity of Community Empowerment
Appreciating the Glocal in Community Practice
Community-Based Interdisciplinary Research
This special issue on community-based interdisciplinary research grew out of the work of the SCRA Interdisciplinary Task Force and an Interdisciplinary Working Conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 2004. In this introduction to the special issue, the historical context for interdisciplinary underpinnings for community psychology theory, research, action and training is first depicted. This is followed by a brief description of the miss…
Women, Organizing, and Empowerment
Research for Community Practice
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