Raphael Travis
Biographic Data
| ID | 137410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raphael Travis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raphael |
| FAMILY NAME | Travis |
| SIGNATURE | TRAVIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-8557-3312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“Now We’re All Family”: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in a Summer Hip Hop Mixtape Camp
A Systematic Review of Music-Based Interventions to Improve Treatment Engagement and Mental Health Outcomes for Adolescents and Young Adults
Migration and urban development in São Paulo
Waves of migration, both forced and voluntary, and how a city’s urban environment develops are inextricably linked. São Paulo with its long history provides an excellent example. From the use of slavery to fuel the region’s plantations, to the arrival of immigrants to work in its burgeoning industries, different groups altered the city through where they lived, worked, and travelled. The end of this process today is a city of contrasts. This arti…
Effects of school environment on depression among Black and White adolescents
While the school environment is critical for adolescents' psychological development, how the school environment influences depression among different racial groups has not been fully explored. This study aims to identify the effects of the school environment (school connectedness, school climates, trouble with peers and teachers) on depressive symptoms among Black and White adolescents. It also compares how the effects of school environments diff…
Using Therapeutic Beat Making and lyrics for empowerment
Mental health remains a significant issue among young people in the US and elsewhere. Evidence of the beneficial role Hip Hop-based approaches can play in this space is growing. The value of such approaches centers on links to community, culture, and the therapeutic potential of practicing certain Hip Hop elements. Yet, while there has been a steady growth in Hip Hop-based approaches, little work has explored how they can overlap, complement, or …
Hip Hop, empowerment, and therapeutic beat-making: Potential solutions for summer learning loss, depression, and anxiety in youth
A challenge faced by many students is the loss of academic skills during the summer months. However, less attention is given to social and emotional needs during the summer. Thirty-five middle school students from low-SES homes participated in a summer program designed to improve verbal, academic, and youth development competencies. Three students in the program also participated in an intervention that used Hip Hop and Empowerment (HHE) and Ther…
All Awareness and No Action: Can Social Work Leverage Creative Arts’ Potential
Social work is grounded with an emphasis on promoting the well-being being of individuals and families with an explicit recognition of how the environment plays a significant role in the unfolding of well-being. Unfortunately, the profession’s commitment to maintaining the infrastructure for social work research, education, and practice that helps students and professionals focus on the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address…
Validation of the Individual and Community Empowerment Inventory: A Measure of Rap Music Engagement among First-Year College Students
Amid robust debates about the impact of music on the lives of young people, empirically validated measures of music engagement are absent. The present study builds on the construction of the Individual and Community Empowerment (ICE) inventory, a measure to capture different types of empowerment and different types of risk potential from rap music engagement. The scientific intent of the scale development and the present validation study was to t…
Empowerment‐Based Positive Youth Development: A New Understanding of Healthy Development for African American Youth
A shift occurred in research about adolescents in the general population. Research is moving away from deficits toward a resilience paradigm and understanding trajectories of positive youth development. This shift has been less consistent in research and practice with African American youth. A gap also exists in understanding whether individual youth development dimensions generate potential in other dimensions. This study presents an empowerment…
Ethnic identity, self-esteem and variability in perceptions of rap music's empowering and risky influences
Violence, risky sexual behaviors, and substance use are critical targets for improved health behavior. Prior research has linked levels of exposure to rap music with a range of undesirable health behaviors. Contemporary research has also found health-enhancing and other ‘positive’ correlations with rap music exposure. The present study examined unique and shared effects among ethnic identity, self-esteem, music exposure, age, and gender on depres…
Empowerment in Context: Lessons from Hip-Hop Culture for Social Work Practice
Hip-hop culture can be used as a conduit to enhanced cultural competence and practice skills through the individual and community empowerment framework. This framework is introduced as a tool for direct practice that allows social workers to understand the competing messages within hip-hop culture and how they may impact youths by promoting or inhibiting positive youth development. The individual and community empowerment framework can inform dir…
The Community Action Framework in Practice: An Illustration Based on the Ready by 21 Coalition of Austin/Travis County
The field of positive youth development has expanded focus from articulating and measuring desired manifestations of positive well-being to assembling the environmental conditions known to promote these desired outcomes. Evidence of the effectiveness of community-level efforts promoting positive youth development is still emerging, in particular theory-driven examples of community-driven youth development. This study examined the Community Action…
Negotiating Risk and Promoting Empowerment through Rap Music: Development of a Measure to Capture Risk and Empowerment Pathways to Change
The purpose of this study was to report on the development and construction of the Individual and Community Empowerment (ICE) inventory, a measure seeking to capture the specific pathways by which either risk-enhancing impacts or empowering impacts of rap music manifest. Data were analyzed via structural equation modeling from a convenience sample of 128 high school and college students. Results found that respondents elicited (1) empowering them…
Community development in South Africa: Its use as an intervention strategy c Raphael Travis, Jr, Natalie McFarlin, Colin A.J. van Rooyen and Mel Gray
This paper describes a study which examined community development projects in three communities in the greater Durban area of South Africa. The research indicated a range of outlooks on the concept of community development across three major participant groups: social work academics, community development workers and members of community-based development committees
Empowerment‐Based Positive Youth Development: A New Understanding of Healthy Development for African American Youth
A shift occurred in research about adolescents in the general population. Research is moving away from deficits toward a resilience paradigm and understanding trajectories of positive youth development. This shift has been less consistent in research and practice with African American youth. A gap also exists in understanding whether individual youth development dimensions generate potential in other dimensions. This study presents an empowerment…
Ethnic identity, self-esteem and variability in perceptions of rap music's empowering and risky influences
Violence, risky sexual behaviors, and substance use are critical targets for improved health behavior. Prior research has linked levels of exposure to rap music with a range of undesirable health behaviors. Contemporary research has also found health-enhancing and other ‘positive’ correlations with rap music exposure. The present study examined unique and shared effects among ethnic identity, self-esteem, music exposure, age, and gender on depres…
Empowerment in Context: Lessons from Hip-Hop Culture for Social Work Practice
Hip-hop culture can be used as a conduit to enhanced cultural competence and practice skills through the individual and community empowerment framework. This framework is introduced as a tool for direct practice that allows social workers to understand the competing messages within hip-hop culture and how they may impact youths by promoting or inhibiting positive youth development. The individual and community empowerment framework can inform dir…
Hip Hop, empowerment, and therapeutic beat-making: Potential solutions for summer learning loss, depression, and anxiety in youth
A challenge faced by many students is the loss of academic skills during the summer months. However, less attention is given to social and emotional needs during the summer. Thirty-five middle school students from low-SES homes participated in a summer program designed to improve verbal, academic, and youth development competencies. Three students in the program also participated in an intervention that used Hip Hop and Empowerment (HHE) and Ther…
Negotiating Risk and Promoting Empowerment through Rap Music: Development of a Measure to Capture Risk and Empowerment Pathways to Change
The purpose of this study was to report on the development and construction of the Individual and Community Empowerment (ICE) inventory, a measure seeking to capture the specific pathways by which either risk-enhancing impacts or empowering impacts of rap music manifest. Data were analyzed via structural equation modeling from a convenience sample of 128 high school and college students. Results found that respondents elicited (1) empowering them…
All Awareness and No Action: Can Social Work Leverage Creative Arts’ Potential
Social work is grounded with an emphasis on promoting the well-being being of individuals and families with an explicit recognition of how the environment plays a significant role in the unfolding of well-being. Unfortunately, the profession’s commitment to maintaining the infrastructure for social work research, education, and practice that helps students and professionals focus on the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address…
Effects of school environment on depression among Black and White adolescents
While the school environment is critical for adolescents' psychological development, how the school environment influences depression among different racial groups has not been fully explored. This study aims to identify the effects of the school environment (school connectedness, school climates, trouble with peers and teachers) on depressive symptoms among Black and White adolescents. It also compares how the effects of school environments diff…
Validation of the Individual and Community Empowerment Inventory: A Measure of Rap Music Engagement among First-Year College Students
Amid robust debates about the impact of music on the lives of young people, empirically validated measures of music engagement are absent. The present study builds on the construction of the Individual and Community Empowerment (ICE) inventory, a measure to capture different types of empowerment and different types of risk potential from rap music engagement. The scientific intent of the scale development and the present validation study was to t…
Community development in South Africa: Its use as an intervention strategy c Raphael Travis, Jr, Natalie McFarlin, Colin A.J. van Rooyen and Mel Gray
This paper describes a study which examined community development projects in three communities in the greater Durban area of South Africa. The research indicated a range of outlooks on the concept of community development across three major participant groups: social work academics, community development workers and members of community-based development committees
The Community Action Framework in Practice: An Illustration Based on the Ready by 21 Coalition of Austin/Travis County
The field of positive youth development has expanded focus from articulating and measuring desired manifestations of positive well-being to assembling the environmental conditions known to promote these desired outcomes. Evidence of the effectiveness of community-level efforts promoting positive youth development is still emerging, in particular theory-driven examples of community-driven youth development. This study examined the Community Action…
Community development in South Africa: Its use as an intervention strategy c Raphael Travis, Jr, Natalie McFarlin, Colin A.J. van Rooyen and Mel Gray
This paper describes a study which examined community development projects in three communities in the greater Durban area of South Africa. The research indicated a range of outlooks on the concept of community development across three major participant groups: social work academics, community development workers and members of community-based development committees
Empowerment in Context: Lessons from Hip-Hop Culture for Social Work Practice
Hip-hop culture can be used as a conduit to enhanced cultural competence and practice skills through the individual and community empowerment framework. This framework is introduced as a tool for direct practice that allows social workers to understand the competing messages within hip-hop culture and how they may impact youths by promoting or inhibiting positive youth development. The individual and community empowerment framework can inform dir…
The Community Action Framework in Practice: An Illustration Based on the Ready by 21 Coalition of Austin/Travis County
The field of positive youth development has expanded focus from articulating and measuring desired manifestations of positive well-being to assembling the environmental conditions known to promote these desired outcomes. Evidence of the effectiveness of community-level efforts promoting positive youth development is still emerging, in particular theory-driven examples of community-driven youth development. This study examined the Community Action…
Negotiating Risk and Promoting Empowerment through Rap Music: Development of a Measure to Capture Risk and Empowerment Pathways to Change
The purpose of this study was to report on the development and construction of the Individual and Community Empowerment (ICE) inventory, a measure seeking to capture the specific pathways by which either risk-enhancing impacts or empowering impacts of rap music manifest. Data were analyzed via structural equation modeling from a convenience sample of 128 high school and college students. Results found that respondents elicited (1) empowering them…
Ethnic identity, self-esteem and variability in perceptions of rap music's empowering and risky influences
Violence, risky sexual behaviors, and substance use are critical targets for improved health behavior. Prior research has linked levels of exposure to rap music with a range of undesirable health behaviors. Contemporary research has also found health-enhancing and other ‘positive’ correlations with rap music exposure. The present study examined unique and shared effects among ethnic identity, self-esteem, music exposure, age, and gender on depres…
Empowerment‐Based Positive Youth Development: A New Understanding of Healthy Development for African American Youth
A shift occurred in research about adolescents in the general population. Research is moving away from deficits toward a resilience paradigm and understanding trajectories of positive youth development. This shift has been less consistent in research and practice with African American youth. A gap also exists in understanding whether individual youth development dimensions generate potential in other dimensions. This study presents an empowerment…
Validation of the Individual and Community Empowerment Inventory: A Measure of Rap Music Engagement among First-Year College Students
Amid robust debates about the impact of music on the lives of young people, empirically validated measures of music engagement are absent. The present study builds on the construction of the Individual and Community Empowerment (ICE) inventory, a measure to capture different types of empowerment and different types of risk potential from rap music engagement. The scientific intent of the scale development and the present validation study was to t…
All Awareness and No Action: Can Social Work Leverage Creative Arts’ Potential
Social work is grounded with an emphasis on promoting the well-being being of individuals and families with an explicit recognition of how the environment plays a significant role in the unfolding of well-being. Unfortunately, the profession’s commitment to maintaining the infrastructure for social work research, education, and practice that helps students and professionals focus on the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address…
Hip Hop, empowerment, and therapeutic beat-making: Potential solutions for summer learning loss, depression, and anxiety in youth
A challenge faced by many students is the loss of academic skills during the summer months. However, less attention is given to social and emotional needs during the summer. Thirty-five middle school students from low-SES homes participated in a summer program designed to improve verbal, academic, and youth development competencies. Three students in the program also participated in an intervention that used Hip Hop and Empowerment (HHE) and Ther…
Using Therapeutic Beat Making and lyrics for empowerment
Mental health remains a significant issue among young people in the US and elsewhere. Evidence of the beneficial role Hip Hop-based approaches can play in this space is growing. The value of such approaches centers on links to community, culture, and the therapeutic potential of practicing certain Hip Hop elements. Yet, while there has been a steady growth in Hip Hop-based approaches, little work has explored how they can overlap, complement, or …
A Systematic Review of Music-Based Interventions to Improve Treatment Engagement and Mental Health Outcomes for Adolescents and Young Adults
Migration and urban development in São Paulo
Waves of migration, both forced and voluntary, and how a city’s urban environment develops are inextricably linked. São Paulo with its long history provides an excellent example. From the use of slavery to fuel the region’s plantations, to the arrival of immigrants to work in its burgeoning industries, different groups altered the city through where they lived, worked, and travelled. The end of this process today is a city of contrasts. This arti…
Effects of school environment on depression among Black and White adolescents
While the school environment is critical for adolescents' psychological development, how the school environment influences depression among different racial groups has not been fully explored. This study aims to identify the effects of the school environment (school connectedness, school climates, trouble with peers and teachers) on depressive symptoms among Black and White adolescents. It also compares how the effects of school environments diff…
“Now We’re All Family”: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in a Summer Hip Hop Mixtape Camp
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Empowerment (6 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works)