R E Gearing
Biographic Data
| ID | 41676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R E Gearing |
| GIVEN NAMES | R E |
| FAMILY NAME | Gearing |
| SIGNATURE | GEARING R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6916-9996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Suicide in Central Asia
Mental health stigma and professional help-seeking in Ghana
In Ghana, many individuals experiencing mental health concerns prefer to seek help from informal sources, including faith-based healers. This study examines whether informal help-seeking mediates the association between stigma and professional help-seeking. A convenience sample of 462 Ghanaian adults aged (M = 31.78, SD = 10.59) was recruited from Accra and Tamale. The results of the mediation analysis indicated that informal help-seeking partial…
Medical Social Workers in Hospitals
COVID-19 presented numerous challenges to medical professional's mental, emotional, and physical health, including burnout and secondary trauma. As social workers served as essential and frontline workers during COVID-19, it is important to investigate the effects of the pandemic on professional burnout and secondary trauma responses. A multiracial sample of 163 medical social workers working across four hospital settings responded to a survey ad…
Designing and Interpreting Pilot Studies
Despite the research benefits and cost savings pilot studies offer, such studies have been the exception rather than the rule in social science research. This article provides a primer and guide to pilot studies and posits the case that their systematic use is critical to rigorous social science research. Pilot study benefits include refinement of research questions, establishing goals, and providing a rehearsal study to (a) identify problems, (b…
Stigma Toward Families With Mental Health Problems in Latino Communities
Stigma toward families with members managing mental health problems remains underresearched in Latino communities. Using community-based surveys on mental health stigma and help-seeking attitudes, this study examined the associations between family-level stigma and participant sociodemographic characteristics. Only education level and spirituality significantly predicted family-level stigma. Individuals with higher education levels exhibited lowe…
Mood Disorder Public Stigma in Jewish Communities in the United States
Suicide stigma in a cross-cultural context
Suicide and suicide-related stigma are serious public health issues affecting Latine communities and often serve as a barrier to help-seeking Mexicans and Mexican Americans experiencing mental health concerns. Despite this, there are still gaps in our understanding of how suicide stigma specifically impacts Latines of Mexican heritage. While Mexicans and Mexican Americans share many familial, cultural, and religious values, their exposure to diff…
Factors influencing diabetes and depression related stigma in Mexico
The stigma paradox
Enhancing Implementation of a Multisystem Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program to Support Positive Mental Health Outcomes in High-Need Populations
Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) is a civil commitment program incorporating intensive case management and other services to support adults with a serious mental illness (SMI) and treatment adherence and ongoing engagement needs. The overarching goal of AOT programs is to minimize participants’ use of emergency psychiatric care, increase their consistent use of community-based care, and reduce their potential for involvement with the legal sys…
Strengthening Social Work Skills and Competency Through Exposure to Diversity
One hundred and fourteen (N=114) Master of Social Work students completed an online survey to explore whether demographic characteristics, prior international travel, and learning abroad program experience were associated with levels of CSWE competencies, racial attitudes, and attitudes toward mental health. Results indicate that multilingual students and students with prior international travel experience self-reported lower levels of policy ski…
It’s Not That We Care Less”
Despite robust knowledge regarding the socio-economic and cultural factors affecting Latino* access to healthcare, limited research has explored service utilization in the context of comorbid conditions like diabetes and depression. This qualitative study, embedded in a larger mixed-methods project, aimed to investigate perceptions held by Latinos and their social support systems (i.e., family members) regarding comorbid diabetes and depression a…
Predictors of Stigma toward Alcohol Misuse in Mexico
Objective: This study explored factors associated with public stigma toward individuals misusing alcohol in Mexico. Methods: A randomized experimental vignette methodology was used to assess multiple domains of substance use-related stigma and their relationship to the gender of the vignette subject and the sociodemographic characteristics of respondents. Results: Although levels of stigma toward women who were misusing alcohol did not differ sig…
Ethical Considerations in Global Mental Health Research
Binational research is critical to better understand the health, mental health, and health outcomes of immigrant communities. Binational studies are often difficult to conduct, however, due to cost, challenges with participant recruitment and data collection, lack of appropriate cross-cultural instruments, and challenges ensuring ethical reviews and approval in both counties. This research note discusses ethical issues navigating institutional re…
Mental Health Across the Globe
Predictors of Help-Seeking for Mental Health Treatment Among Latinos
Why Culture and Context Matters
Stigma toward cocaine use in Mexico City
Stigma toward those using cocaine and other substances remains a barrier to treatment and social inclusion. As part of a larger study exploring stigma toward those experiencing symptoms of various DSM5 diagnoses an experimental vignette methodology was used to examine factors associated with stigma toward individuals using cocaine in Mexico. Results from the subset of 66 individuals who were randomly assigned a vignette featuring cocaine use indi…
Formal versus informal pathways to mental health care in China
The reported 20% prevalence rate of diagnosable mental illnesses in China might be underestimated due to individuals' hesitation to report mental health problems. This study tested whether a person's mental health diagnosis would lead to endorsement and preference for professional care. A community-based survey was conducted in Shanghai, China (n = 466). A structural model showed that 68.8% of the respondents endorsed professional help. Male resp…
Evolution of the Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Program Through the Application of a Social Work Lens
Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) is a court-mandated program intended to engage adults with serious mental illness who have challenges with voluntary treatment adherence. AOT programs are designed to promote outpatient treatment participation, reduce emergency care, and decrease justice involvement. Research has found AOT programs to be effective in reducing hospitalizations and justice involvement. Yet, concerns have been raised, including li…
Exception Reporting
Public Stigma Toward Schizophrenia Within Latino Communities in the United States
Pathways to mental health care
I didn't do it
Suicide is considered to be a conscious and intentional act that is carried out within a social and cultural context. This study examines the unique phenomenon of a cluster of suicide attempts conducted without perceived intent, ideation, plan, volition, or agency in a remote province in Central Asia. This study investigated the lived experiences of individuals who made such unintended suicide attempts and examined the differences between these e…
Latinos’ Conceptualization of Depression, Diabetes, and Mental Health–Related Stigma
Stigma and Mental Health Treatment of Adolescents with Depression in Jordan
When Family-Centered Care Is Challenged by Infectious Disease
In this ethnographic study, the authors examined the experiences and perspectives of children hospitalized because of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), their parents, and pediatric health care providers. The sample included 5 children, 10 parents, and 8 health care providers who were directly affected by SARS during the time of the outbreaks and extreme infection control procedures. The data analyses illuminated a range of perceived exper…
Social Support and Religion
Paediatric pandemic planning
Children, as major stakeholders in paediatric hospitals, have remained absent from discussions on important healthcare issues. One critical area where children's voices have been minimised is in the planning for future pandemics. This paper presents a subset of data from a programme of research which examined various stakeholder experiences of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreaks of 2003. These data also generated recommendation…
Pathways to mental health care
I didn't do it
Suicide is considered to be a conscious and intentional act that is carried out within a social and cultural context. This study examines the unique phenomenon of a cluster of suicide attempts conducted without perceived intent, ideation, plan, volition, or agency in a remote province in Central Asia. This study investigated the lived experiences of individuals who made such unintended suicide attempts and examined the differences between these e…
The Impact of Learning Abroad Programs on Graduate Social Work Students’ Competency Development
This research examines students’ perceptions of how learning abroad programs furthered the development of the nine core EPAS social work competencies. Ninety MSW graduates who participated in a learning abroad course during their graduate program completed an anonymous online survey assessing the association between study abroad participation, cultural engagement, attitudes toward diversity, and social work competency development. Results indicat…
Public perceptions of adolescent mothers in need of care and protection in Jordan
Adolescent girls who become pregnant outside of marriage in the Middle East experience increased stigma, risk of social exclusion, and family violence. This study examined whether community-based foster care has the potential to reduce the stigma attached to pregnant girls placed in protective institutional care within an Arab context. Using data from a public survey of adults in Jordan, this study found that stigma was significantly lower when t…
The Coconstruction of Couples' Roles in Parenting Children With a Chronic Health Condition
In this study we explored the ways that mothers and fathers of children who have a chronic health condition coconstructed their parenting roles. We wanted to move beyond the standard focus on individual parenting behaviors and use a grounded theory approach to better capture the dyadic and interpersonal gestalt of how parents worked out their roles. We explored multiple factors that influenced their decision making and the unique models that each…
Investigating Adherence Promoters in Evidence-Based Mental Health Interventions with Children and Adolescents
Bracketing in Research
The term bracketing has increasingly been employed in qualitative research. Although this term proliferates in scientific studies and professional journals, its application and operationalization remains vague and, often, superficial. The growing disconnection of the practice of bracketing in research from its origins in phenomenology has resulted in its frequent reduction to a formless technique, value stance, or black-box term. Mapping the subt…
When Family-Centered Care Is Challenged by Infectious Disease
In this ethnographic study, the authors examined the experiences and perspectives of children hospitalized because of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), their parents, and pediatric health care providers. The sample included 5 children, 10 parents, and 8 health care providers who were directly affected by SARS during the time of the outbreaks and extreme infection control procedures. The data analyses illuminated a range of perceived exper…
Religion and Suicide
Religion and Suicide
Paediatric pandemic planning
Children, as major stakeholders in paediatric hospitals, have remained absent from discussions on important healthcare issues. One critical area where children's voices have been minimised is in the planning for future pandemics. This paper presents a subset of data from a programme of research which examined various stakeholder experiences of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreaks of 2003. These data also generated recommendation…
Investigating Adherence Promoters in Evidence-Based Mental Health Interventions with Children and Adolescents
The moderating effect of adherence‐promoting interventions with clients on evidence‐based practices for children and adolescents with mental health problems
Poor adherence of children and adolescents to evidence-based psychosocial interventions remains a fundamental impediment to treatment effectiveness. To maintain client adherence, researchers and clinicians have employed a number of adherence-promoting strategies, from telephone calls and letters to providing transportation costs and child care to motivational enhancement therapies. However, the influence of adherence promoters on intervention out…
Adaptation and translation of mental health interventions in Middle Eastern Arab countries
Is program structure related to stigma and community acceptance of justice-involved adolescents
Social Support and Religion
Stigma and Mental Health Treatment of Adolescents with Depression in Jordan
The Coconstruction of Couples' Roles in Parenting Children With a Chronic Health Condition
In this study we explored the ways that mothers and fathers of children who have a chronic health condition coconstructed their parenting roles. We wanted to move beyond the standard focus on individual parenting behaviors and use a grounded theory approach to better capture the dyadic and interpersonal gestalt of how parents worked out their roles. We explored multiple factors that influenced their decision making and the unique models that each…
Public perceptions of adolescent mothers in need of care and protection in Jordan
Adolescent girls who become pregnant outside of marriage in the Middle East experience increased stigma, risk of social exclusion, and family violence. This study examined whether community-based foster care has the potential to reduce the stigma attached to pregnant girls placed in protective institutional care within an Arab context. Using data from a public survey of adults in Jordan, this study found that stigma was significantly lower when t…
Dysregulated infant temperament and caregiver warmth in Jordanian orphanages
C-FIT adolescent diversion program
The Community-Family Integration Teams (C-FIT) diversion program was developed to address behavioral and mental health treatment for justice-involved adolescents. The C-FIT pilot study, implemented in Jordan, aimed to (1) evaluate intervention fidelity and (2) assess intervention effectiveness. Adolescent males ( n = 19) and their families participated in the C-FIT study. Pre and post data were collected through interviews and standardized instru…
Religion and Suicide
Guidelines for culturally adapting mental health interventions in China
Globally, mental illness ranks first among the causes of disability. In China, 17.5% of individuals have a mental illness, with only 150 people per 100,000 people receiving treatment for their diagnosis. To effectively address the growing unmet mental health needs in China, it is essential that China develops and adapts evidence-based and empirically supported treatment interventions. Although many researchers have begun to disseminate their inte…
The Impact of Learning Abroad Programs on Graduate Social Work Students’ Competency Development
This research examines students’ perceptions of how learning abroad programs furthered the development of the nine core EPAS social work competencies. Ninety MSW graduates who participated in a learning abroad course during their graduate program completed an anonymous online survey assessing the association between study abroad participation, cultural engagement, attitudes toward diversity, and social work competency development. Results indicat…
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Suicide in Mexican Prisons
In Mexico, suicide and suicidal behaviors (SB) have increased 275% since 1990. Prisoners constitute a growing population in Mexico and have been identified as high suicide risk. Using a sample of 194 male prisoners, we measure what demographics and mental health symptomology are associated with suicidal ideation (SI) and SB, and identify what demographics and mental health symptomology predict SI and SB. Global Severity and Adverse Childhood Expe…
Suicide Across Buddhism, American Indian–Alaskan Native, and African Traditional Religions, Atheism and Agnosticism
Immigration Policy Changes and the Mental Health of Mexican-American Immigrants
Suicide in China
China accounts for an estimated third of the world's suicides, yet individuals experiencing suicidality typically do not seek out or receive treatment. This study examines community perceptions and public stigma toward suicide. In Shanghai, China 186 adults were recruited to participate in a survey with an experimental vignette describing a suicidal individual, manipulated on gender and age, followed by questions eliciting attitudes toward suicid…
Latinos’ Conceptualization of Depression, Diabetes, and Mental Health–Related Stigma
Suicide stigma in Jewish communities in the United States
Psychology (45 works) · Psychiatry (40 works) · Medicine (36 works) · Mental health (29 works) · Clinical Psychology (25 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (24 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Nursing (14 works) · Political science (14 works)