Linda Lewandowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 132450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Lewandowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewandowski |
| SIGNATURE | LEWANDOWSKI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The central role of social identity in oppression, discrimination and social-structural violence
Trauma Proliferation and Stress Generation (TPSG) dynamics and their implications for clinical science
The current research and clinical focus on single traumas fails to assess numerous important trauma dynamics including trauma proliferation. In this study, 2 trauma proliferation pathways were identified that utilize a developmentally based trauma framework (DBTF). Data previously collected from 6 different cultural groups (N = 2279; 2 mental health clinics in Egypt and the United States, Native Americans, Palestinian adults in Gaza, and college …
Psychometric assessment of the Arabic version of the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (Ismi) measure in a refugee population
The study explored the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the ISMI measure on an Arab sub-sample ( N = 330) in a health clinic that served mostly refugees in Michigan, USA. Study measures included the ISMI, PTSD, depression, anxiety, CTD (Cumulative Trauma Disorders), and traumatic stress measures. Data analysis included factor analysis, correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The Arabic form of the measure was found to have …
Dynamics of oppression and coping from traumatology perspective
Iraqi American Refugee Youths’ Exposure to Violence
This exploratory study examines the relationships between exposure to violence in the community, school, home and dating relationships among Iraqi American youth. As Iraqi American youth are traditionally not allowed to date, dating violence measures focused on attitudes about and perceptions of abuse occurring in the relationships of friends. The number of friends known who were secretly dating was the most significant predictor of acceptability…
The Linear and Nonlinear Associations between Multiple Types of Trauma and IQ Discrepancy Indexes in African American and Iraqi Refugee Adolescents
The effects of trauma types, cumulative trauma, and PTSD on IQ in two highly traumatized adolescent groups
We investigated the relationship between trauma type, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and intelligence quotient (IQ) utilizing a development-based taxonomy of trauma in a sample of 390 African-American adolescents and Iraqi refugee adolescents. Utilizing structural equation modeling, we compared different “good-fitting” models that describe the specific relationships between different trauma types, PTSD cluster symptoms (i.e., re-experienci…
The Effects of Perceived Discrimination and Backlash on Iraqi Refugees’ Mental and Physical Health
The effects of discrimination and the post-9/11 backlash on Iraqi refugees have not yet been fully examined. The present study aimed to adapt a scale of the perceived backlash (BTS; a modified version of the Race Related Stressors Scale), and measure its relationships with Cumulative Trauma Dose (CTD), Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and health. The BTS was found to have high reliability; and construct, convergent, divergent, and predictiv…
Definitions of Violence
This article explores the perceptions of urban African-American and Iraqi refugee adolescents regarding community violence, school violence, family violence and dating/intimate partner violence. A subset of participants from a larger study on violence and trauma was selected to participate in the current study. Using a card-sort exercise, participants identified situations as violent or not violent. Iraqi youth identified noticeably more behavior…
The effects of post-retribution inter-group forgiveness
Research on forgiveness on the interpersonal level has found evidence of its positive health and mental health effects. However, there is no research on the health and mental health benefits of forgiveness in political conflicts. The removal of the dictator and the war in Iraq has provided researchers with opportunities to answer some questions about the effects of forgiveness in political conflicts. This study used a modified measure of forgiven…
The Physical and Mental Health Effects of Iraq War Media Exposure on Iraqi Refugees
The focus of this study was to explore the effects of watching or listening to news about the war in Iraq on the physical and mental health in a sample of 501 Iraqi refugees. We used measures of media exposure, families and friends killed in the war, cumulative trauma, torture, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cumulative trauma disorders, and health. Data indicates media exposure to war news was highly predictive of PTSD and poor health aft…
How Children and Their Caregivers Adjust After Intimate Partner Femicide
Approximately 3,300 children are affected by intimate partner femicide each year. Despite the multitude of stressors and the potential for negative outcomes, little is known about these children or their caregivers. This in-depth interview study used family stress theory to explore caregivers' and children's adjustment after intimate partner femicide in 10 families. Data were analyzed qualitatively using framework analysis. Results suggest that c…
The Mental Health Effects of Retributive Justice
The goal of this study was to examine whether the retributive justice enacted by the elimination of the oppressive regime in Iraq has positive mental health effects on Iraqi refugees. The study was conducted on a sample of 501 Iraqi refugees. Data was collected with measures for retributive justice, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cumulative trauma disorder (CTD), cumulative trauma, futuristic orientation, sociocultural adjustment, post-tr…
The Effects of Torture
The goal of the 2 studies discussed in this article was to explore how persons who have undergone torture and other general trauma differ from persons who have undergone only general trauma and to compare the effects of torture to other kinds of traumas. The studies were conducted in 2001 and 2003. Contrary to our hypotheses, we found that although tortured individuals have a significantly higher trauma dose, they are more resilient, are more soc…
He Killed My Mommy!” Murder or Attempted Murder of a Child's Mother
Mental and Physical Health Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Women and Children
It is well recognized that the battering of female partners is a significant health problem that affects at least 4.4 million women in this country each year according to a recent national random survey. 109 That survey, however, does not include women battered but not actually living with the abusive intimate partner, those either in a “dating” relationship or having separated from him (or her) and still being abused. Both of those categories al…
The effects of post-retribution inter-group forgiveness
Research on forgiveness on the interpersonal level has found evidence of its positive health and mental health effects. However, there is no research on the health and mental health benefits of forgiveness in political conflicts. The removal of the dictator and the war in Iraq has provided researchers with opportunities to answer some questions about the effects of forgiveness in political conflicts. This study used a modified measure of forgiven…
The central role of social identity in oppression, discrimination and social-structural violence
Dynamics of oppression and coping from traumatology perspective
The Effects of Torture
The goal of the 2 studies discussed in this article was to explore how persons who have undergone torture and other general trauma differ from persons who have undergone only general trauma and to compare the effects of torture to other kinds of traumas. The studies were conducted in 2001 and 2003. Contrary to our hypotheses, we found that although tortured individuals have a significantly higher trauma dose, they are more resilient, are more soc…
He Killed My Mommy!” Murder or Attempted Murder of a Child's Mother
Psychometric assessment of the Arabic version of the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (Ismi) measure in a refugee population
The study explored the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the ISMI measure on an Arab sub-sample ( N = 330) in a health clinic that served mostly refugees in Michigan, USA. Study measures included the ISMI, PTSD, depression, anxiety, CTD (Cumulative Trauma Disorders), and traumatic stress measures. Data analysis included factor analysis, correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The Arabic form of the measure was found to have …
How Children and Their Caregivers Adjust After Intimate Partner Femicide
Approximately 3,300 children are affected by intimate partner femicide each year. Despite the multitude of stressors and the potential for negative outcomes, little is known about these children or their caregivers. This in-depth interview study used family stress theory to explore caregivers' and children's adjustment after intimate partner femicide in 10 families. Data were analyzed qualitatively using framework analysis. Results suggest that c…
Mental and Physical Health Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Women and Children
It is well recognized that the battering of female partners is a significant health problem that affects at least 4.4 million women in this country each year according to a recent national random survey. 109 That survey, however, does not include women battered but not actually living with the abusive intimate partner, those either in a “dating” relationship or having separated from him (or her) and still being abused. Both of those categories al…
He Killed My Mommy!” Murder or Attempted Murder of a Child's Mother
The Mental Health Effects of Retributive Justice
The goal of this study was to examine whether the retributive justice enacted by the elimination of the oppressive regime in Iraq has positive mental health effects on Iraqi refugees. The study was conducted on a sample of 501 Iraqi refugees. Data was collected with measures for retributive justice, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cumulative trauma disorder (CTD), cumulative trauma, futuristic orientation, sociocultural adjustment, post-tr…
The Effects of Torture
The goal of the 2 studies discussed in this article was to explore how persons who have undergone torture and other general trauma differ from persons who have undergone only general trauma and to compare the effects of torture to other kinds of traumas. The studies were conducted in 2001 and 2003. Contrary to our hypotheses, we found that although tortured individuals have a significantly higher trauma dose, they are more resilient, are more soc…
The Physical and Mental Health Effects of Iraq War Media Exposure on Iraqi Refugees
The focus of this study was to explore the effects of watching or listening to news about the war in Iraq on the physical and mental health in a sample of 501 Iraqi refugees. We used measures of media exposure, families and friends killed in the war, cumulative trauma, torture, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cumulative trauma disorders, and health. Data indicates media exposure to war news was highly predictive of PTSD and poor health aft…
How Children and Their Caregivers Adjust After Intimate Partner Femicide
Approximately 3,300 children are affected by intimate partner femicide each year. Despite the multitude of stressors and the potential for negative outcomes, little is known about these children or their caregivers. This in-depth interview study used family stress theory to explore caregivers' and children's adjustment after intimate partner femicide in 10 families. Data were analyzed qualitatively using framework analysis. Results suggest that c…
Definitions of Violence
This article explores the perceptions of urban African-American and Iraqi refugee adolescents regarding community violence, school violence, family violence and dating/intimate partner violence. A subset of participants from a larger study on violence and trauma was selected to participate in the current study. Using a card-sort exercise, participants identified situations as violent or not violent. Iraqi youth identified noticeably more behavior…
The effects of post-retribution inter-group forgiveness
Research on forgiveness on the interpersonal level has found evidence of its positive health and mental health effects. However, there is no research on the health and mental health benefits of forgiveness in political conflicts. The removal of the dictator and the war in Iraq has provided researchers with opportunities to answer some questions about the effects of forgiveness in political conflicts. This study used a modified measure of forgiven…
The Effects of Perceived Discrimination and Backlash on Iraqi Refugees’ Mental and Physical Health
The effects of discrimination and the post-9/11 backlash on Iraqi refugees have not yet been fully examined. The present study aimed to adapt a scale of the perceived backlash (BTS; a modified version of the Race Related Stressors Scale), and measure its relationships with Cumulative Trauma Dose (CTD), Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and health. The BTS was found to have high reliability; and construct, convergent, divergent, and predictiv…
The effects of trauma types, cumulative trauma, and PTSD on IQ in two highly traumatized adolescent groups
We investigated the relationship between trauma type, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and intelligence quotient (IQ) utilizing a development-based taxonomy of trauma in a sample of 390 African-American adolescents and Iraqi refugee adolescents. Utilizing structural equation modeling, we compared different “good-fitting” models that describe the specific relationships between different trauma types, PTSD cluster symptoms (i.e., re-experienci…
The Linear and Nonlinear Associations between Multiple Types of Trauma and IQ Discrepancy Indexes in African American and Iraqi Refugee Adolescents
Iraqi American Refugee Youths’ Exposure to Violence
This exploratory study examines the relationships between exposure to violence in the community, school, home and dating relationships among Iraqi American youth. As Iraqi American youth are traditionally not allowed to date, dating violence measures focused on attitudes about and perceptions of abuse occurring in the relationships of friends. The number of friends known who were secretly dating was the most significant predictor of acceptability…
Dynamics of oppression and coping from traumatology perspective
Psychometric assessment of the Arabic version of the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (Ismi) measure in a refugee population
The study explored the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the ISMI measure on an Arab sub-sample ( N = 330) in a health clinic that served mostly refugees in Michigan, USA. Study measures included the ISMI, PTSD, depression, anxiety, CTD (Cumulative Trauma Disorders), and traumatic stress measures. Data analysis included factor analysis, correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The Arabic form of the measure was found to have …
The central role of social identity in oppression, discrimination and social-structural violence
Trauma Proliferation and Stress Generation (TPSG) dynamics and their implications for clinical science
The current research and clinical focus on single traumas fails to assess numerous important trauma dynamics including trauma proliferation. In this study, 2 trauma proliferation pathways were identified that utilize a developmentally based trauma framework (DBTF). Data previously collected from 6 different cultural groups (N = 2279; 2 mental health clinics in Egypt and the United States, Native Americans, Palestinian adults in Gaza, and college …
Psychology (16 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Refugee (8 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works)