Teresa Abrahamson-Richards

Biographic Data

ID125426
NAMETeresa Abrahamson-Richards
GIVEN NAMESTeresa
FAMILY NAMEAbrahamson-Richards
SIGNATUREABRAHAMSON-RICHARDS T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
ORCID0000-0003-3788-8261
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Pursuing Equitable Implementation of State Paid Family Leave Policies

    Open AccessTeresa Abrahamson-RichardsARTICLEFamilies in Society The Journal…2026

    This Policy Brief describes implementation of a state-level paid family and medical leave policy in the context of Tribal government engagement and participation and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) paid leave access. The author presents a case study analysis from Washington state using an emerging Washington State Tribal PFML Policy Implementation Framework . Current gaps in State-Tribal engagement have significant implications for equit…

  • Reclaiming Auntie Wisdom

    Open AccessTeresa Abrahamson-Richards, MichaeLynn Kanichy et al.ARTICLEFourth World Journal2026

    Indigenous doulas protect and pass on ancestral birth and reproductive knowledge and nurture safe birthing spaces for Indigenous people and communities. This paper shares findings from a community-embedded mixed-methods study of the Indigenous Responsive Mentorship Doula Initiative in the northwestern United States. The authors introduce the Auntie Wisdom Indigenous Doula Training Framework highlighting the growth and traditional healing doulas e…

  • Critical and underrecognized home visitor competencies

    Open AccessTeresa Abrahamson-Richards, Koa L Beck et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2026

    Home visiting programs target maternal and infant mental health, family wellbeing, and child development. Culture is an essential ingredient in advancing these goals in Indigenous home visiting contexts. This study examines how Indigenous knowledge systems can inform home visitor professional competencies that nurture positive maternal and child mental health outcomes and community self-determination. We reviewed existing home visitor competency …

  • Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems

    Angelique Day, Teresa Abrahamson-Richards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Child Welfare2026References: 20

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    Open AccessTeresa Abrahamson-Richards, Koa Beck et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2025

    Purpose Indigenous self-determination remains underexplored in early childhood mental health and intervention research despite widespread barriers that existing Western-driven evidence paradigms present for Indigenous communities. This study examines how Indigenous knowledge systems can inform home visitor professional competencies through the development of an Indigenous-centered practice framework. Methods We employed a multi-stage approach inc…

  • Perinatal Wage Equity, Parental Leave Access, and Reproductive Justice Among American Indian and Alaska Native Working Mothers in Washington State

    Teresa Abrahamson-Richards, Kilohana Haitsuka et al.ARTICLESocial Service Review2025References: 6

    Researchers and policy makers who focus on paid family leave have devoted little attention to American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people. To address this gap, the authors investigate earnings stability, parental leave access, and associated outcomes among AIAN mothers in Washington state. Using mixed methods and grounded in an Indigenous theoretical framework, we explore factors that alternately facilitate and impede these mothers’ leave acc…

  • The development of the Promoting First Relationships home visiting program and caregivers’ comments about their experiences across four RCT studies

    Open AccessMonica L Oxford, Teresa Abrahamson-Richards et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal2025Cited by: 1References: 41

    Promoting First Relationships (PFR) is an evidence‐based home‐visiting program for caregivers and their children from birth to age 5 years. It focuses on caregiver–child interaction, attachment, and relationship quality using video feedback of unedited recordings to elicit reflection and provide positive feedback linked to knowledge development. This paper provides a brief history of PFR and reports on a qualitative study of 222 caregivers’ comme…

  • Advancing Administrative Data Justice Through Indigenous Representation and Co-Governance Methodologies

    Open AccessTeresa Abrahamson-Richards, Santino Giovanni Camacho et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Society for Social…2025References: 2

  • Engaging Indigenous communities in research to inform practice

    Open AccessMelina Salvador, Teresa Abrahamson-Richards et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal2024Cited by: 1References: 21

    Community engagement (CE) is widely acknowledged as a way to enhance the ethics, rigor, and impact of research. Additionally, CE is a demonstrated way to integrate Indigenous and colonial (western) research systems. For these reasons and others, designers of the Multi‐site Implementation Evaluation of Tribal Home Visiting (MUSE) used a community‐engaged approach to study the implementation of federally funded home‐visiting programs across 17 Indi…

  • Stressful Life Events and Self-Reported Postpartum Depressive Symptoms 13-24 Months After Live Birth Among Non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native Mothers in Oregon

    Open AccessMaria N Ne, Maria N Ness et al.ARTICLEAmerican Indian and Alaska Native…2017

    OBJECTIVES: We explored the association between stressful life events and postpartum depressive symptoms among non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) mothers. METHODS: We analyzed self-reports of stressful life events and depressive symptoms from 298 AI/AN respondents and conducted logistic regression to examine their association. RESULTS: Of the AI/AN mothers who responded, 29.7% reported depressive symptoms during their second p…