A Williams-Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 49961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Williams-Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams-Butler |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS-BUTLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3594-5501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Operationalizing Current Conceptualizations of Child Well-Being Through a Scoping Review of Child Well-Being Measures
Theoretical Considerations for Engaging Black Youth and Families in Child-Serving Systems
This theoretical reflections paper emphasizes the importance of strengths-based approaches, intersectionality, and culturally responsive trauma-informed care to promote positive developmental outcomes for Black youth and their families in child-protective services and the juvenile justice system. We emphasize the importance of promoting psychological well-being, facilitated by prosocial relationships, to mitigate the impact of trauma and adverse …
Understanding the oppression of Black girls and women within the global context
Throughout sub‐Saharan Africa and the African diaspora, there is documented oppression of girls and women. While many policies and laws have been created to improve the well‐being of this population, many of them are ineffective, oftentimes due to harmful cultural practices enshrined by systems of oppression. This paper conducts a cross‐cultural comparative analysis using the framework of intersectionality to explore the unique oppression that gi…
Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities of Childhood Trauma, Grief, and Loss
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state
It is widely known that those in the helping professions are mandated to report suspected incidences of child maltreatment. However, few are aware of the historical resistance to mandated reporting that helping professionals demonstrated before the passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974 and the associated federal mandates that compelled helping professionals to engage in mandated reporting, oftentimes against thei…
Intersectionality and the Overrepresentation of Black Women, children, and families in the child welfare system
This paper conducts a scoping review to identify studies which use the framework of intersectionality to understand the overrepresentation of Black women, children, and families within the child welfare system. A comprehensive review of electronic databases was conducted as of June 2021. Of the 4,663 records identified, ten peer-reviewed journal articles met criteria for inclusion within the study across the disciplines of social work, law, publi…
Black Girl Well-Being
Purpose: Few interventions focus on the unique developmental contexts specific to Black adolescent girls living in the United States. This article conducts a scoping review to identify interventions targeted at the well-being of Black adolescent girls. Method: The authors conducted a comprehensive search using electronic databases to identify peer-reviewed journal articles that center interventions to address the well-being of Black adolescent gi…
Does gender moderate the relationship between protective factors and rule violating behavior
This is the first study to utilize the Resilience Portfolio Model to examine delinquency outcomes. • Young people were found to utilize their strengths to have an adaptive outcome related to reduced rule violating behavior. • Gender was significant in moderating the relationship between strengths and rule violating behavior for some protective factors. • Gender did not moderate the relationship between all protective factors and rule violating be…
Racialized Gender Differences in Mental Health Service Use, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Recidivism Among Justice-Involved African American Youth
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism
This critical review uses the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism to understand the racialized, gendered, and class-based oppression regarding the overrepresentation of poor Black women, children, and families within child protective services (CPS) in the United States. The review begins with a discussion of intersectionality and examines the origins of CPS, along with the potential causes for overrepresentation within …
Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System
This study explores whether positive and negative aspects of social networks influence parenting strengths and distress. Our sample is drawn from the Getting Access to Income Now (GAIN) study, a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate a child maltreatment prevention program in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Using prerandomization baseline survey data on the subgroup of respondents who identify as Black or African American mothers (N=402), …
Multidimensional Aspects of Social Networks
This study examines the social network characteristics of 670 mothers reported to and investigated by the child protection system (CPS) in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in 2016. Specifically, having a recurrent CPS investigation within one year of an index investigation that did not result in an ongoing CPS case is assessed as a function of positive social network ties, negative social network ties, and perceived neighborhood support. Few studies h…
Theoretical considerations for the development of urban black adolescent females
We explore the theoretical frameworks of ecological systems theory, intersectionality, and multi-dimensionality to examine the dynamics of the environment as it relates to the development of Black adolescent females who grow up in urban settings. Frameworks such as intersectionality and multi-dimensionality specifically urge attention to multiple identities and social categories related to race, sex, and class that impact the everyday life for pe…
The Influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on the Functional Impairment of Justice-Involved Adolescents
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have long been recognized for negatively influencing individual outcomes such that each additional ACE exposure increases the risk for negative health and behavioral outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the more recent accumulation of ACEs occurring in follow-up periods influence global functioning considering the past accumulation of ACEs reported at baseline by justice-involved adolescents. Particip…
Exploring the Impact of Skin Tone Perception on Race-Related Outcomes and Familial Functioning Among African American Youth
Racism and its ramifications are salient societal-level factors that detrimentally affect African American youth and families. Few studies have investigated how African American youth experience discrimination within families and society and colorism’s impact on racial identity, despite extensive racial discrimination research. We assessed whether the perceptions of African American youth of their skin tone affected their racial identity, familia…
Relational permanence and the potential for delinquency among African American adolescents in foster care
Mentors' experiences of mentoring justice‐involved adolescents
Mentoring provides a relational intervention that can promote positive youth development among adolescents who are involved in the juvenile justice system. The perspectives of mentors engaging these youth, particularly insights considered through a cultural humility lens, have been largely absent from the literature to date. This study examined predominately White, middle‐ to upper‐class adult mentors' experiences mentoring racially diverse, work…
Gender differences among Black adolescents in foster care
Black adolescents in the foster care system are at risk for a wide variety of negative outcomes. However, little is known about the role of multilevel promotive factors, particularly relational permanence, in promoting resilience in regards to race and gender for Black adolescents in foster care. This longitudinal study examines whether gender impacts the association between multilevel promotive factors and psychological well-being among Black ad…
Reducing delinquency among African American youth in foster care
Theoretical considerations for the development of urban black adolescent females
We explore the theoretical frameworks of ecological systems theory, intersectionality, and multi-dimensionality to examine the dynamics of the environment as it relates to the development of Black adolescent females who grow up in urban settings. Frameworks such as intersectionality and multi-dimensionality specifically urge attention to multiple identities and social categories related to race, sex, and class that impact the everyday life for pe…
Mentors' experiences of mentoring justice‐involved adolescents
Mentoring provides a relational intervention that can promote positive youth development among adolescents who are involved in the juvenile justice system. The perspectives of mentors engaging these youth, particularly insights considered through a cultural humility lens, have been largely absent from the literature to date. This study examined predominately White, middle‐ to upper‐class adult mentors' experiences mentoring racially diverse, work…
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism
This critical review uses the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism to understand the racialized, gendered, and class-based oppression regarding the overrepresentation of poor Black women, children, and families within child protective services (CPS) in the United States. The review begins with a discussion of intersectionality and examines the origins of CPS, along with the potential causes for overrepresentation within …
Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System
This study explores whether positive and negative aspects of social networks influence parenting strengths and distress. Our sample is drawn from the Getting Access to Income Now (GAIN) study, a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate a child maltreatment prevention program in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Using prerandomization baseline survey data on the subgroup of respondents who identify as Black or African American mothers (N=402), …
Reducing delinquency among African American youth in foster care
Multidimensional Aspects of Social Networks
This study examines the social network characteristics of 670 mothers reported to and investigated by the child protection system (CPS) in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in 2016. Specifically, having a recurrent CPS investigation within one year of an index investigation that did not result in an ongoing CPS case is assessed as a function of positive social network ties, negative social network ties, and perceived neighborhood support. Few studies h…
Understanding the oppression of Black girls and women within the global context
Throughout sub‐Saharan Africa and the African diaspora, there is documented oppression of girls and women. While many policies and laws have been created to improve the well‐being of this population, many of them are ineffective, oftentimes due to harmful cultural practices enshrined by systems of oppression. This paper conducts a cross‐cultural comparative analysis using the framework of intersectionality to explore the unique oppression that gi…
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state
It is widely known that those in the helping professions are mandated to report suspected incidences of child maltreatment. However, few are aware of the historical resistance to mandated reporting that helping professionals demonstrated before the passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974 and the associated federal mandates that compelled helping professionals to engage in mandated reporting, oftentimes against thei…
Gender differences among Black adolescents in foster care
Black adolescents in the foster care system are at risk for a wide variety of negative outcomes. However, little is known about the role of multilevel promotive factors, particularly relational permanence, in promoting resilience in regards to race and gender for Black adolescents in foster care. This longitudinal study examines whether gender impacts the association between multilevel promotive factors and psychological well-being among Black ad…
Reducing delinquency among African American youth in foster care
Gender differences among Black adolescents in foster care
Black adolescents in the foster care system are at risk for a wide variety of negative outcomes. However, little is known about the role of multilevel promotive factors, particularly relational permanence, in promoting resilience in regards to race and gender for Black adolescents in foster care. This longitudinal study examines whether gender impacts the association between multilevel promotive factors and psychological well-being among Black ad…
Relational permanence and the potential for delinquency among African American adolescents in foster care
Mentors' experiences of mentoring justice‐involved adolescents
Mentoring provides a relational intervention that can promote positive youth development among adolescents who are involved in the juvenile justice system. The perspectives of mentors engaging these youth, particularly insights considered through a cultural humility lens, have been largely absent from the literature to date. This study examined predominately White, middle‐ to upper‐class adult mentors' experiences mentoring racially diverse, work…
The Influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on the Functional Impairment of Justice-Involved Adolescents
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have long been recognized for negatively influencing individual outcomes such that each additional ACE exposure increases the risk for negative health and behavioral outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the more recent accumulation of ACEs occurring in follow-up periods influence global functioning considering the past accumulation of ACEs reported at baseline by justice-involved adolescents. Particip…
Exploring the Impact of Skin Tone Perception on Race-Related Outcomes and Familial Functioning Among African American Youth
Racism and its ramifications are salient societal-level factors that detrimentally affect African American youth and families. Few studies have investigated how African American youth experience discrimination within families and society and colorism’s impact on racial identity, despite extensive racial discrimination research. We assessed whether the perceptions of African American youth of their skin tone affected their racial identity, familia…
Theoretical considerations for the development of urban black adolescent females
We explore the theoretical frameworks of ecological systems theory, intersectionality, and multi-dimensionality to examine the dynamics of the environment as it relates to the development of Black adolescent females who grow up in urban settings. Frameworks such as intersectionality and multi-dimensionality specifically urge attention to multiple identities and social categories related to race, sex, and class that impact the everyday life for pe…
Racialized Gender Differences in Mental Health Service Use, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Recidivism Among Justice-Involved African American Youth
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism
This critical review uses the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism to understand the racialized, gendered, and class-based oppression regarding the overrepresentation of poor Black women, children, and families within child protective services (CPS) in the United States. The review begins with a discussion of intersectionality and examines the origins of CPS, along with the potential causes for overrepresentation within …
Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System
This study explores whether positive and negative aspects of social networks influence parenting strengths and distress. Our sample is drawn from the Getting Access to Income Now (GAIN) study, a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate a child maltreatment prevention program in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Using prerandomization baseline survey data on the subgroup of respondents who identify as Black or African American mothers (N=402), …
Multidimensional Aspects of Social Networks
This study examines the social network characteristics of 670 mothers reported to and investigated by the child protection system (CPS) in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in 2016. Specifically, having a recurrent CPS investigation within one year of an index investigation that did not result in an ongoing CPS case is assessed as a function of positive social network ties, negative social network ties, and perceived neighborhood support. Few studies h…
Intersectionality and the Overrepresentation of Black Women, children, and families in the child welfare system
This paper conducts a scoping review to identify studies which use the framework of intersectionality to understand the overrepresentation of Black women, children, and families within the child welfare system. A comprehensive review of electronic databases was conducted as of June 2021. Of the 4,663 records identified, ten peer-reviewed journal articles met criteria for inclusion within the study across the disciplines of social work, law, publi…
Black Girl Well-Being
Purpose: Few interventions focus on the unique developmental contexts specific to Black adolescent girls living in the United States. This article conducts a scoping review to identify interventions targeted at the well-being of Black adolescent girls. Method: The authors conducted a comprehensive search using electronic databases to identify peer-reviewed journal articles that center interventions to address the well-being of Black adolescent gi…
Does gender moderate the relationship between protective factors and rule violating behavior
This is the first study to utilize the Resilience Portfolio Model to examine delinquency outcomes. • Young people were found to utilize their strengths to have an adaptive outcome related to reduced rule violating behavior. • Gender was significant in moderating the relationship between strengths and rule violating behavior for some protective factors. • Gender did not moderate the relationship between all protective factors and rule violating be…
Theoretical Considerations for Engaging Black Youth and Families in Child-Serving Systems
This theoretical reflections paper emphasizes the importance of strengths-based approaches, intersectionality, and culturally responsive trauma-informed care to promote positive developmental outcomes for Black youth and their families in child-protective services and the juvenile justice system. We emphasize the importance of promoting psychological well-being, facilitated by prosocial relationships, to mitigate the impact of trauma and adverse …
Understanding the oppression of Black girls and women within the global context
Throughout sub‐Saharan Africa and the African diaspora, there is documented oppression of girls and women. While many policies and laws have been created to improve the well‐being of this population, many of them are ineffective, oftentimes due to harmful cultural practices enshrined by systems of oppression. This paper conducts a cross‐cultural comparative analysis using the framework of intersectionality to explore the unique oppression that gi…
Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities of Childhood Trauma, Grief, and Loss
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state
It is widely known that those in the helping professions are mandated to report suspected incidences of child maltreatment. However, few are aware of the historical resistance to mandated reporting that helping professionals demonstrated before the passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974 and the associated federal mandates that compelled helping professionals to engage in mandated reporting, oftentimes against thei…
Operationalizing Current Conceptualizations of Child Well-Being Through a Scoping Review of Child Well-Being Measures
Psychology (16 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (11 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (6 works) · Nursing (6 works)