Audra K Langley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1463473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audra K Langley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audra K |
| FAMILY NAME | Langley |
| SIGNATURE | LANGLEY A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9469-0924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mental health providers working with foster/adoptive families: Examining the impact of Covid-19, telehealth/hybrid services, and professional quality of life
Belonging and Reclaiming Identity: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Youth Adopted From Foster Care in Transracial Families
Understanding Teachers’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices with Students in Schools: A Qualitative Inquiry
Ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) is essential for youth of color to navigate the racialized world. There is a need to understand teachers’ practices as an extension of family-based ERS. This study explores teachers’ ERS engagement with African American and Latine adolescents attending two large, diverse high schools. Two 90-minute focus groups were conducted ( n = 15), utilizing thematic analysis and inter-coder agreement. Teachers reported nuan…
Resource parents during two pandemics: Navigating racism and Covid-19
The emergence of COVID-19 created a global health crisis and impacted children and families, disproportionately affecting minoritized communities. Simultaneously, protests and anti-racist uprisings against police violence occurred worldwide. This mixed method study examined how a group of racially diverse resource parents navigated these two pandemics. Resource parents (N = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about concerns related to COVID-…
Covid-19 and resource families: An examination of ongoing impact and disparities
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of "Safer-at-Home" to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents r…
Concurrent Planning: Understanding the Placement Experiences of Resource Families
Concurrent planning is a process by which all options for permanency are considered simultaneously for children in foster care. Children are placed with caregivers (resource parents) who are open to adoption if reunification with birth parents does not occur. This quantitative study explored resource parents’ perceptions of the concurrent planning process via surveys at two time points. Participants included resource parents of 77 infants assesse…
Cumulative Risk and Substance Use in Adoptees: Moderation by Adoptive Parent Stress
Objective To test whether low adoptive parent stress buffers the effect of preadoptive risk on substance use among adoptees. Background Adoptees are especially susceptible to substance use in adolescence, potentially because they often experience multiple early risk factors. Because caregiver stress and child behavior problems are linked, degree of parenting stress may serve as a buffer in reducing adoptee substance use. Method In a longitudinal …
Understanding and addressing racial stress and trauma in schools: A pathway toward resistance and healing
Youth of color are disproportionately impacted by stressful and traumatic life events, including race‐based experiences, which are linked to negative consequences. School is a salient context where youth encounter, witness, and process racial stress and trauma (RST). However, RST is often overlooked within general school‐based trauma models. Thus, we propose the School Trauma and Racial Stress (STARS) blueprint, focused on RST across three levels…
Leveraging a public–public partnership in Los Angeles County to address Covid-19 for children, youth, and families in underresourced communities
There is growing concern about the mental health and social impact of COVID-19 on underresourced children, youth, and families given widespread social disruption, school closures, economic impact, and loss of lives. In this commentary we describe how an existing public-public partnership between a large county mental health department and a state university responded to COVID-19. This partnership, originally designed to address workforce needs, r…
Developmental outcomes of infants adopted from foster care: Predictive associations from perinatal and preplacement risk factors
Infants adopted domestically from foster care often present with prenatal substance exposure and risky birth outcomes such as prematurity and low birthweight. Because few longitudinal studies of foster‐adoptive infants exist, it is unclear how these preplacement risk factors influence development over time. The present study examined associations between perinatal risk factors and developmental outcomes among an ethnically/racially diverse sample…
Applying a Trauma Informed School Systems Approach: Examples from School Community-Academic Partnerships
This article concludes with recommendations for dissemination of trauma-informed practices across schools at all stages of readiness. We identify three main areas for facilitating the use of this framework: 1) assessment of school staff knowledge and awareness of trauma; 2) assessment of school and/or district's current implementation of trauma-informed principles and practices; 3) development and use of technology-assisted tools for broad dissem…
A Cross-Site Partnership to Examine Implementation and Sustainability of a School-Based Trauma Program
This study contributes to the paucity of empirical information on the organizational factors that influence the implementation of evidence-based mental health interventions in schools. Our findings reveal that different implementation strategies across policies, structures, and resources can result in implementation of a school-based intervention. Frameworks such as Mendel's can be helpful in identifying areas of strength and improvement of imple…
Substance use in youth adopted from foster care: Developmental mechanisms of risk
Preparing and Partnering with Families to Support the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
This investigation evaluated the effectiveness of a pre-placement education and preparation curriculum (PREP) for prospective foster/adoptive parents in improving attitudes toward children with prenatal substance exposure and their substance-using birth parent and increasing willingness to adopt these children. Participants included 1,836 prospective parents seeking adoption through foster care who received three 3-hour sessions of PREP. Prospect…
Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Problems among School Children 15 Months Post-Hurricane Katrina
Evidence-Based Mental Health Programs in Schools: Barriers and Facilitators of Successful Implementation
Although schools can improve children's access to mental health services, not all school-based providers are able to successfully deliver evidence-based practices. Indeed, even when school clinicians are trained in evidence-based practices (EBP), the training does not necessarily result in the implementation of those practices. This study explores factors that influence implementation of a particular EBP, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Tra…
Understanding and addressing racial stress and trauma in schools: A pathway toward resistance and healing
Youth of color are disproportionately impacted by stressful and traumatic life events, including race‐based experiences, which are linked to negative consequences. School is a salient context where youth encounter, witness, and process racial stress and trauma (RST). However, RST is often overlooked within general school‐based trauma models. Thus, we propose the School Trauma and Racial Stress (STARS) blueprint, focused on RST across three levels…
Concurrent Planning: Understanding the Placement Experiences of Resource Families
Concurrent planning is a process by which all options for permanency are considered simultaneously for children in foster care. Children are placed with caregivers (resource parents) who are open to adoption if reunification with birth parents does not occur. This quantitative study explored resource parents’ perceptions of the concurrent planning process via surveys at two time points. Participants included resource parents of 77 infants assesse…
Preparing and Partnering with Families to Support the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
This investigation evaluated the effectiveness of a pre-placement education and preparation curriculum (PREP) for prospective foster/adoptive parents in improving attitudes toward children with prenatal substance exposure and their substance-using birth parent and increasing willingness to adopt these children. Participants included 1,836 prospective parents seeking adoption through foster care who received three 3-hour sessions of PREP. Prospect…
Understanding Teachers’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices with Students in Schools: A Qualitative Inquiry
Ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) is essential for youth of color to navigate the racialized world. There is a need to understand teachers’ practices as an extension of family-based ERS. This study explores teachers’ ERS engagement with African American and Latine adolescents attending two large, diverse high schools. Two 90-minute focus groups were conducted ( n = 15), utilizing thematic analysis and inter-coder agreement. Teachers reported nuan…
Covid-19 and resource families: An examination of ongoing impact and disparities
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of "Safer-at-Home" to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents r…
Evidence-Based Mental Health Programs in Schools: Barriers and Facilitators of Successful Implementation
Although schools can improve children's access to mental health services, not all school-based providers are able to successfully deliver evidence-based practices. Indeed, even when school clinicians are trained in evidence-based practices (EBP), the training does not necessarily result in the implementation of those practices. This study explores factors that influence implementation of a particular EBP, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Tra…
Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Problems among School Children 15 Months Post-Hurricane Katrina
Preparing and Partnering with Families to Support the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
This investigation evaluated the effectiveness of a pre-placement education and preparation curriculum (PREP) for prospective foster/adoptive parents in improving attitudes toward children with prenatal substance exposure and their substance-using birth parent and increasing willingness to adopt these children. Participants included 1,836 prospective parents seeking adoption through foster care who received three 3-hour sessions of PREP. Prospect…
Applying a Trauma Informed School Systems Approach: Examples from School Community-Academic Partnerships
This article concludes with recommendations for dissemination of trauma-informed practices across schools at all stages of readiness. We identify three main areas for facilitating the use of this framework: 1) assessment of school staff knowledge and awareness of trauma; 2) assessment of school and/or district's current implementation of trauma-informed principles and practices; 3) development and use of technology-assisted tools for broad dissem…
A Cross-Site Partnership to Examine Implementation and Sustainability of a School-Based Trauma Program
This study contributes to the paucity of empirical information on the organizational factors that influence the implementation of evidence-based mental health interventions in schools. Our findings reveal that different implementation strategies across policies, structures, and resources can result in implementation of a school-based intervention. Frameworks such as Mendel's can be helpful in identifying areas of strength and improvement of imple…
Substance use in youth adopted from foster care: Developmental mechanisms of risk
Leveraging a public–public partnership in Los Angeles County to address Covid-19 for children, youth, and families in underresourced communities
There is growing concern about the mental health and social impact of COVID-19 on underresourced children, youth, and families given widespread social disruption, school closures, economic impact, and loss of lives. In this commentary we describe how an existing public-public partnership between a large county mental health department and a state university responded to COVID-19. This partnership, originally designed to address workforce needs, r…
Developmental outcomes of infants adopted from foster care: Predictive associations from perinatal and preplacement risk factors
Infants adopted domestically from foster care often present with prenatal substance exposure and risky birth outcomes such as prematurity and low birthweight. Because few longitudinal studies of foster‐adoptive infants exist, it is unclear how these preplacement risk factors influence development over time. The present study examined associations between perinatal risk factors and developmental outcomes among an ethnically/racially diverse sample…
Cumulative Risk and Substance Use in Adoptees: Moderation by Adoptive Parent Stress
Objective To test whether low adoptive parent stress buffers the effect of preadoptive risk on substance use among adoptees. Background Adoptees are especially susceptible to substance use in adolescence, potentially because they often experience multiple early risk factors. Because caregiver stress and child behavior problems are linked, degree of parenting stress may serve as a buffer in reducing adoptee substance use. Method In a longitudinal …
Understanding and addressing racial stress and trauma in schools: A pathway toward resistance and healing
Youth of color are disproportionately impacted by stressful and traumatic life events, including race‐based experiences, which are linked to negative consequences. School is a salient context where youth encounter, witness, and process racial stress and trauma (RST). However, RST is often overlooked within general school‐based trauma models. Thus, we propose the School Trauma and Racial Stress (STARS) blueprint, focused on RST across three levels…
Concurrent Planning: Understanding the Placement Experiences of Resource Families
Concurrent planning is a process by which all options for permanency are considered simultaneously for children in foster care. Children are placed with caregivers (resource parents) who are open to adoption if reunification with birth parents does not occur. This quantitative study explored resource parents’ perceptions of the concurrent planning process via surveys at two time points. Participants included resource parents of 77 infants assesse…
Resource parents during two pandemics: Navigating racism and Covid-19
The emergence of COVID-19 created a global health crisis and impacted children and families, disproportionately affecting minoritized communities. Simultaneously, protests and anti-racist uprisings against police violence occurred worldwide. This mixed method study examined how a group of racially diverse resource parents navigated these two pandemics. Resource parents (N = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about concerns related to COVID-…
Covid-19 and resource families: An examination of ongoing impact and disparities
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of "Safer-at-Home" to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents r…
Mental health providers working with foster/adoptive families: Examining the impact of Covid-19, telehealth/hybrid services, and professional quality of life
Belonging and Reclaiming Identity: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Youth Adopted From Foster Care in Transracial Families
Understanding Teachers’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices with Students in Schools: A Qualitative Inquiry
Ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) is essential for youth of color to navigate the racialized world. There is a need to understand teachers’ practices as an extension of family-based ERS. This study explores teachers’ ERS engagement with African American and Latine adolescents attending two large, diverse high schools. Two 90-minute focus groups were conducted ( n = 15), utilizing thematic analysis and inter-coder agreement. Teachers reported nuan…
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)