Nikki R Wooten
Biographic Data
| ID | 101954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikki R Wooten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikki R |
| FAMILY NAME | Wooten |
| SIGNATURE | WOOTEN N R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6319-8224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An Empirical Test of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity: Examining Native Black American Residents’ Experiences
“Take a Mental Break”: Examining the Coping Efforts of Black College Students Exposed to Police Killings
Given the repeated police killings of unarmed Black people and their increasing visibility because of recent technological advances, Black people are especially vulnerable to adverse mental health effects. However, little is known about how they attempt to cope with these incidents or how their efforts may affect their mental health. Informed by trauma theory and stress, appraisal, and coping theory, this study used semi-structured in-depth inter…
Black and Blue: An integrated conceptual framework for understanding the trauma and mental impacts of police violence exposure in Black communities
Because repeated incidents of police violence against unarmed Black people are increasingly visible, as a result of technological advances, there is growing need to understand their potentially traumatic mental health effects for other Black people. This narrative review provides an overview of critical race theory, the stress, appraisal, and coping theory, trauma theory, racial trauma theory, and emotional contagion theory to develop an integrat…
Am I Next: A qualitative study of Black college students' experiences of stress, trauma, and grief from exposures to police killings
There is little research that explores the experiences of Black people exposed to police killings of other unarmed Blacks, despite the fact these incidents repeatedly and disproportionately affect this population. While some quantitative studies have examined the impacts of police violence exposure on mental health in recent years, there remains a dearth of in-depth qualitative research exploring the processes through which chronic exposures to p…
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents
Scholars have increasingly recognized the sociocultural impacts of gentrification on Black residents. However, the gentrification literature lacks a theoretical model on the nuanced ways gentrification socially and culturally displaces longstanding Black residents. Limited attention has been given to factors that moderate social and cultural displacement. This article introduces a Theoretical Model of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Di…
Introduction to the Special Section: Developing Antiracist Research From Research Questions to Dissemination
This article introduces a special section of the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research devoted to the development and dissemination of antiracist research. Antiracist research is defined as systematic theorizing, inquiry, intervention development, and program implementation that exposes, rejects, dismantles, and/or remedies racism, colonialism, antisemitism, and xenophobia with the goal of promoting racial justice. Although the soci…
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map
Gentrification has been identified as a phenomenon that involves impacts on space and place. Particularly, gentrification's social and cultural impacts involve disrupted meanings residents associate with spaces. Although space and place dynamics of gentrification have been well-documented, gentrification research has primarily involved traditional quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. These traditional approaches have not fully…
Teacher bias matters: An integrative review of correlates, mechanisms, and consequences
This integrative review examined correlates, mechanisms, and consequences of teacher bias experienced in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in primary and secondary schools in the United States. Education Resource and Information Center, Sociological Abstracts, and Applied Social Science Index & Abstracts were searched to identify peer-reviewed articles published in English from 2000–2020. Thirty-one articles were included. The majority (65%)…
Examining Historical and Contemporary Policing Disparities in the Black Community: Implications for Social Work
An alarming number of unarmed Black men and women have been killed by police in the United States. Though research suggests that police violence is not a new phenomenon in Black communities in the United States, several shocking high-profile incidents of unarmed Black people killed by police in recent years have catapulted this problem more sharply into our nation's consciousness. Despite recent efforts to engage in critical discourse about polic…
A gender-specific model of trauma and victimization in incarcerated women
Trauma, victimization and risk factors associated with women's pathways to crime have been widely discussed. The focus of this manuscript is on trauma and victimization's role in the development of negative trauma related cognitions in the lives of incarcerated women. To improve post release adjustment it is imperative to understand how trauma experienced prior to incarceration [PIT-pre-incarceration trauma] and trauma associated with the prison …
Adaptation and Initial Psychometric Evaluation of an Informed Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Self-Efficacy Scale for African-American Men
Postincarceration policies and prisoner reentry: Implications for policies and programs aimed at reducing recidivism and poverty
The concept of postincarceration policy is used in this article to define policies focused on preventing populations often described as “criminals,” who have completed their incarceration time, to enter workplaces, use public housing, public assistance, and receive government student loans. The authors argue that aside from these postincarceration policies being punitive, they result in significant social, financial, educational, housing, and hea…
The Medicaid Expansion Gap and Racial and Ethnic Minorities With Substance Use Disorders
We compared the race and ethnicity of individuals residing in states that did and did not expand Medicaid in 2014. Findings indicated that African Americans and Native Americans with substance use disorders who met new federal eligibility criteria for Medicaid were less likely than those of other racial and ethnic groups to live in states that expanded Medicaid. These findings suggest that the uneven expansion of Medicaid may exacerbate racial an…
Missed Opportunity for Alcohol Problem Prevention Among Army Active Duty Service Members Postdeployment
Objectives. We identified to what extent the Department of Defense postdeployment health surveillance program identifies at-risk drinking, alone or in conjunction with psychological comorbidities, and refers service members who screen positive for additional assessment or care. Methods. We completed a cross-sectional analysis of 333 803 US Army active duty members returning from Iraq or Afghanistan deployments in fiscal years 2008 to 2011 with a …
Perception and determination of child maltreatment: Exploratory comparisons across three countries
A Bioecological Model of Deployment Risk and Resilience
A deployment risk and resilience model is proposed to describe military service and deployment-related factors influencing post-deployment reintegration and post-deployment behavioral health. Adapted from the resiliency model, it is a multiphasic framework consistent with biopsychosocial and strengths-based perspectives by focusing on vulnerability, risk, and resilience resulting from military service, deployment experiences, and feedback loops t…
Military Combat Deployments and Substance Use: Review and Future Directions
Iraq and Afghanistan veterans experience extreme stressors and injuries during deployments, witnessing and participating in traumatic events. The military has organized prevention and treatment programs as a result of increasing suicides and posttraumatic stress disorder among troops; however, there is limited research on how to intervene with alcohol misuse and drug use that accompany these problems. This review presents statistics about post-de…
Factor Structure of the Job-Related Tension Index Among Social Workers
Objectives: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to assess the factor structure of the 15-item Job-Related Tension Index (JRTI). Method: Data were derived from a larger cross-sectional study using a modified tailored design method to mail a self-administered survey to a random stratified sample of the National Association of Social Workers, Maryland Chapter. The 15-item four-factor structure described by Rogers, Li, and Ellis was tested. R…
Am I Next: A qualitative study of Black college students' experiences of stress, trauma, and grief from exposures to police killings
There is little research that explores the experiences of Black people exposed to police killings of other unarmed Blacks, despite the fact these incidents repeatedly and disproportionately affect this population. While some quantitative studies have examined the impacts of police violence exposure on mental health in recent years, there remains a dearth of in-depth qualitative research exploring the processes through which chronic exposures to p…
Examining Historical and Contemporary Policing Disparities in the Black Community: Implications for Social Work
An alarming number of unarmed Black men and women have been killed by police in the United States. Though research suggests that police violence is not a new phenomenon in Black communities in the United States, several shocking high-profile incidents of unarmed Black people killed by police in recent years have catapulted this problem more sharply into our nation's consciousness. Despite recent efforts to engage in critical discourse about polic…
Black and Blue: An integrated conceptual framework for understanding the trauma and mental impacts of police violence exposure in Black communities
Because repeated incidents of police violence against unarmed Black people are increasingly visible, as a result of technological advances, there is growing need to understand their potentially traumatic mental health effects for other Black people. This narrative review provides an overview of critical race theory, the stress, appraisal, and coping theory, trauma theory, racial trauma theory, and emotional contagion theory to develop an integrat…
Teacher bias matters: An integrative review of correlates, mechanisms, and consequences
This integrative review examined correlates, mechanisms, and consequences of teacher bias experienced in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in primary and secondary schools in the United States. Education Resource and Information Center, Sociological Abstracts, and Applied Social Science Index & Abstracts were searched to identify peer-reviewed articles published in English from 2000–2020. Thirty-one articles were included. The majority (65%)…
Postincarceration policies and prisoner reentry: Implications for policies and programs aimed at reducing recidivism and poverty
The concept of postincarceration policy is used in this article to define policies focused on preventing populations often described as “criminals,” who have completed their incarceration time, to enter workplaces, use public housing, public assistance, and receive government student loans. The authors argue that aside from these postincarceration policies being punitive, they result in significant social, financial, educational, housing, and hea…
A gender-specific model of trauma and victimization in incarcerated women
Trauma, victimization and risk factors associated with women's pathways to crime have been widely discussed. The focus of this manuscript is on trauma and victimization's role in the development of negative trauma related cognitions in the lives of incarcerated women. To improve post release adjustment it is imperative to understand how trauma experienced prior to incarceration [PIT-pre-incarceration trauma] and trauma associated with the prison …
Perception and determination of child maltreatment: Exploratory comparisons across three countries
Factor Structure of the Job-Related Tension Index Among Social Workers
Objectives: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to assess the factor structure of the 15-item Job-Related Tension Index (JRTI). Method: Data were derived from a larger cross-sectional study using a modified tailored design method to mail a self-administered survey to a random stratified sample of the National Association of Social Workers, Maryland Chapter. The 15-item four-factor structure described by Rogers, Li, and Ellis was tested. R…
An Empirical Test of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity: Examining Native Black American Residents’ Experiences
A Bioecological Model of Deployment Risk and Resilience
A deployment risk and resilience model is proposed to describe military service and deployment-related factors influencing post-deployment reintegration and post-deployment behavioral health. Adapted from the resiliency model, it is a multiphasic framework consistent with biopsychosocial and strengths-based perspectives by focusing on vulnerability, risk, and resilience resulting from military service, deployment experiences, and feedback loops t…
Factor Structure of the Job-Related Tension Index Among Social Workers
Objectives: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to assess the factor structure of the 15-item Job-Related Tension Index (JRTI). Method: Data were derived from a larger cross-sectional study using a modified tailored design method to mail a self-administered survey to a random stratified sample of the National Association of Social Workers, Maryland Chapter. The 15-item four-factor structure described by Rogers, Li, and Ellis was tested. R…
Military Combat Deployments and Substance Use: Review and Future Directions
Iraq and Afghanistan veterans experience extreme stressors and injuries during deployments, witnessing and participating in traumatic events. The military has organized prevention and treatment programs as a result of increasing suicides and posttraumatic stress disorder among troops; however, there is limited research on how to intervene with alcohol misuse and drug use that accompany these problems. This review presents statistics about post-de…
Perception and determination of child maltreatment: Exploratory comparisons across three countries
A Bioecological Model of Deployment Risk and Resilience
A deployment risk and resilience model is proposed to describe military service and deployment-related factors influencing post-deployment reintegration and post-deployment behavioral health. Adapted from the resiliency model, it is a multiphasic framework consistent with biopsychosocial and strengths-based perspectives by focusing on vulnerability, risk, and resilience resulting from military service, deployment experiences, and feedback loops t…
Missed Opportunity for Alcohol Problem Prevention Among Army Active Duty Service Members Postdeployment
Objectives. We identified to what extent the Department of Defense postdeployment health surveillance program identifies at-risk drinking, alone or in conjunction with psychological comorbidities, and refers service members who screen positive for additional assessment or care. Methods. We completed a cross-sectional analysis of 333 803 US Army active duty members returning from Iraq or Afghanistan deployments in fiscal years 2008 to 2011 with a …
Postincarceration policies and prisoner reentry: Implications for policies and programs aimed at reducing recidivism and poverty
The concept of postincarceration policy is used in this article to define policies focused on preventing populations often described as “criminals,” who have completed their incarceration time, to enter workplaces, use public housing, public assistance, and receive government student loans. The authors argue that aside from these postincarceration policies being punitive, they result in significant social, financial, educational, housing, and hea…
The Medicaid Expansion Gap and Racial and Ethnic Minorities With Substance Use Disorders
We compared the race and ethnicity of individuals residing in states that did and did not expand Medicaid in 2014. Findings indicated that African Americans and Native Americans with substance use disorders who met new federal eligibility criteria for Medicaid were less likely than those of other racial and ethnic groups to live in states that expanded Medicaid. These findings suggest that the uneven expansion of Medicaid may exacerbate racial an…
A gender-specific model of trauma and victimization in incarcerated women
Trauma, victimization and risk factors associated with women's pathways to crime have been widely discussed. The focus of this manuscript is on trauma and victimization's role in the development of negative trauma related cognitions in the lives of incarcerated women. To improve post release adjustment it is imperative to understand how trauma experienced prior to incarceration [PIT-pre-incarceration trauma] and trauma associated with the prison …
Adaptation and Initial Psychometric Evaluation of an Informed Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Self-Efficacy Scale for African-American Men
Teacher bias matters: An integrative review of correlates, mechanisms, and consequences
This integrative review examined correlates, mechanisms, and consequences of teacher bias experienced in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in primary and secondary schools in the United States. Education Resource and Information Center, Sociological Abstracts, and Applied Social Science Index & Abstracts were searched to identify peer-reviewed articles published in English from 2000–2020. Thirty-one articles were included. The majority (65%)…
Examining Historical and Contemporary Policing Disparities in the Black Community: Implications for Social Work
An alarming number of unarmed Black men and women have been killed by police in the United States. Though research suggests that police violence is not a new phenomenon in Black communities in the United States, several shocking high-profile incidents of unarmed Black people killed by police in recent years have catapulted this problem more sharply into our nation's consciousness. Despite recent efforts to engage in critical discourse about polic…
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents
Scholars have increasingly recognized the sociocultural impacts of gentrification on Black residents. However, the gentrification literature lacks a theoretical model on the nuanced ways gentrification socially and culturally displaces longstanding Black residents. Limited attention has been given to factors that moderate social and cultural displacement. This article introduces a Theoretical Model of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Di…
Introduction to the Special Section: Developing Antiracist Research From Research Questions to Dissemination
This article introduces a special section of the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research devoted to the development and dissemination of antiracist research. Antiracist research is defined as systematic theorizing, inquiry, intervention development, and program implementation that exposes, rejects, dismantles, and/or remedies racism, colonialism, antisemitism, and xenophobia with the goal of promoting racial justice. Although the soci…
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map
Gentrification has been identified as a phenomenon that involves impacts on space and place. Particularly, gentrification's social and cultural impacts involve disrupted meanings residents associate with spaces. Although space and place dynamics of gentrification have been well-documented, gentrification research has primarily involved traditional quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. These traditional approaches have not fully…
“Take a Mental Break”: Examining the Coping Efforts of Black College Students Exposed to Police Killings
Given the repeated police killings of unarmed Black people and their increasing visibility because of recent technological advances, Black people are especially vulnerable to adverse mental health effects. However, little is known about how they attempt to cope with these incidents or how their efforts may affect their mental health. Informed by trauma theory and stress, appraisal, and coping theory, this study used semi-structured in-depth inter…
Black and Blue: An integrated conceptual framework for understanding the trauma and mental impacts of police violence exposure in Black communities
Because repeated incidents of police violence against unarmed Black people are increasingly visible, as a result of technological advances, there is growing need to understand their potentially traumatic mental health effects for other Black people. This narrative review provides an overview of critical race theory, the stress, appraisal, and coping theory, trauma theory, racial trauma theory, and emotional contagion theory to develop an integrat…
Am I Next: A qualitative study of Black college students' experiences of stress, trauma, and grief from exposures to police killings
There is little research that explores the experiences of Black people exposed to police killings of other unarmed Blacks, despite the fact these incidents repeatedly and disproportionately affect this population. While some quantitative studies have examined the impacts of police violence exposure on mental health in recent years, there remains a dearth of in-depth qualitative research exploring the processes through which chronic exposures to p…
An Empirical Test of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity: Examining Native Black American Residents’ Experiences
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Political science (5 works)