Micki Washburn

Biographic Data

ID903799
NAMEMicki Washburn
GIVEN NAMESMicki
FAMILY NAMEWashburn
SIGNATUREWASHBURN M
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Arlington
ORCID0000-0003-1486-2501
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT42
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Mental health stigma and professional help-seeking in Ghana

    Joshua Awua, Micki Washburn et al.ARTICLESocial Work in Mental Health2026

    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…

  • Perceived Norms and Alcohol-Related Consequences among College Students

    Joshua Awua, Antover P Tuliao et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2025

    Background: Alcohol-related Protective Behavioral Strategies (PBS), including manner of drinking, limiting or stopping drinking, and serious harm reduction strategies significantly moderate the relationship between several factors (e.g., drinking motives, alcohol expectancies) associated with alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. However, it is currently unknown whether PBS can also moderate the relationship between perceived norms (i.e., des…

  • Stigma Toward Families With Mental Health Problems in Latino Communities

    Open AccessKathryne B Brewer, Micki Washburn et al.ARTICLEFamilies in Society The Journal…2025

    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…

  • Suicide stigma in a cross-cultural context

    Open AccessR E Gearing, Micki Washburn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latinx Psychology2025

    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

    Micki Washburn, Kathryne B Brewer et al.ARTICLEStigma and Health2025

  • Associations between interpersonal communication, perceived norms, and e-cigarette use

    Joshua Awua, Antover P Tuliao et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2025

    The results highlight that young adults who are in smaller social networks and frequently discuss e-cigarettes may be susceptible to vaping multiple times per day and days per week. Therefore, interventions to reduce e-cigarette use among young adults may be particularly effective when implemented within smaller social networks

  • Enhancing Implementation of a Multisystem Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program to Support Positive Mental Health Outcomes in High-Need Populations

    Open AccessMicki Washburn, R E Gearing et al.ARTICLESocial Work2025References: 1

    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…

  • Online Interprofessional Education to Identify and Respond to Child Maltreatment

    Lacey Jenkins, Catherine A Labrenz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Teaching in Social Work2025References: 1

  • Strengthening Social Work Skills and Competency Through Exposure to Diversity

    R E Gearing, Micki Washburn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Education2024

    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…

  • The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover

    Micki Washburn, L Christian Carr et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Child Welfare2024Cited by: 3References: 1

    Title-IV E training is thought to minimize PCW employee turnover. A total of 969 PCW workers in a southern state completed an anonymous survey about their intentions to remain employed in PCW. A multigroup path analysis compared intention to leave for IV-E and non-IV-E participants. BIPOC respondents reported lower intention to stay employed relative to their peers, regardless of Title IV-E training. Title IV-E did not serve as a protective facto…

  • Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the Revised Attitudes Toward Research Scale for Use with MSW Students

    L Christian Carr, Micki Washburn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Evidence-Based Social…2024References: 2

    The authors offer suggestions for integrating this validated tool into social work research methods classes to assist in developing students' ability to engage in all steps of the evidence-based practice process once in the field

  • The Relationship Between State Level Policy, Insurance and Health Care Engagement for LGBTQ+ Foster Alumni

    Micki Washburn, Catherine A Labrenz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Homosexuality2024References: 46

    Minority stress theory posits that external environmental factors such as state level policies around equity and inclusion of LGBTQ+ people can have a significant impact on the health and wellness of those identifying as part of the larger LGBTQ+ community, as well as on their decisions to seek needed physical or mental health care. This secondary data analysis explored the relationship between state level policies related to LGBTQ+ equity and in…

  • Predictors of Stigma toward Alcohol Misuse in Mexico

    Micki Washburn, R E Gearing et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2023

    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…

  • Predictors of Help-Seeking for Mental Health Treatment Among Latinos

    Open AccessR E Gearing, Micki Washburn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2023

  • Why Culture and Context Matters

    Open AccessKathryne B Brewer, Ryan Gibson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2023

  • Sleep and substance use

    Christine E Spadola, Christine Spadola et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Practice…2023

    Poor sleep health is consistently associated with the initiation of substance use, development of substance use disorders (SUDs), dropout from treatment, and return to use. Quality sleep health holds promise as a modifiable factor that can reduce the occurrence and severity of SUDs. Unfortunately, social workers typically receive little to no training in the assessment and evidence-based treatment of sleep disorders. This article, authored by an …

  • Stigma toward cocaine use in Mexico City

    Micki Washburn, R E Gearing et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Practice…2023

    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…

  • Evolution of the Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Program Through the Application of a Social Work Lens

    Open AccessR E Gearing, Micki Washburn et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2023References: 2

    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

    Open AccessJamison V Kovach, R E Gearing et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2023References: 13

  • Public Stigma Toward Schizophrenia Within Latino Communities in the United States

    Open AccessR E Gearing, Kathryne B Brewer et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2023References: 64

  • Pathways to mental health care

    R E Gearing, Micki Washburn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latinx Psychology2023Cited by: 2

  • Barriers and Facilitators to Data Waivered Providers Prescribing Buprenorphine

    Shweta Bapat, Micki Washburn et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2022

    Background: Provider beliefs about the treatment of people with addiction may influence their prescribing behavior. Objective: This study applied the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), to identify the salient beliefs of Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000) waivered providers, concerning prescribing buprenorphine to patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Methods: Texas buprenorphine providers participated in one of four online focus g…

  • Behavioral Health Training to Address the Needs of Adolescents

    Margaret Sampson, Mcclain Sampson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Education2022

    This article outlines the outcomes of a specialized master’s of social work (MSW) training program on students’ (N=96) ability to work effectively in behavioral health care settings with adolescents and transitional age youth from diverse racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. Program design, curriculum development, and associated activities for the 3-year MSW training program at a large southern urban university are described. The results o…

  • Latinos’ Conceptualization of Depression, Diabetes, and Mental Health–Related Stigma

    Open AccessMicki Washburn, Kathryne B Brewer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2022

  • Predictors of stigma toward alcohol misuse in Latino communities

    Micki Washburn, Kathryne B Brewer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Substance…2022

    This study explores stigma-related beliefs within the Latino community concerning alcohol misuse. A community-based convenience sample of 251 self-identified Latino adults were recruited to participate in a research study using an experimental vignette methodology. Participants were randomly assigned one of four vignettes about alcohol misuse and asked to share their attitudes and stigma-related beliefs about the problem and the person in the vig…