Kristen F Linton

Biographic Data

ID148518
NAMEKristen F Linton
GIVEN NAMESKristen F
FAMILY NAMELinton
SIGNATURELINTON K F
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University, Channel Islands
ORCID0000-0003-3688-8892
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Family Caregiver Support Interventions’ Effectiveness Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Kristen F Linton, Janice Aharon-Ezer et al.ARTICLESocial Work in Public Health2023

    The authors aimed to assess the impact of a family caregiver support intervention on caregiver burden and hospital readmission before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. By adopting a quasi-experimental design with no randomization, caregivers (n = 65) received a 90-day home visitation caregiver support intervention before the COVID-19 pandemic and caregivers (n = 41) received a 90-day phone-only visitation caregiver support intervention during the…

  • The Impact of a Care Transitions Intervention on People With Brain Injuries and Their Caregivers

    Open AccessKristen F Linton, Chrissy Stamegna et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2021

    As our population ages, the prevalence of brain injuries increases due to strokes and falls. Brain injuries are a leading cause of rehospitalization for patients, and most brain injury survivors experience depression soon after hospital discharge. This study assessed the difference between: 1) survivors of brain injury's baseline and 30-day depression, functional ability, and quality of life and caregivers' depression and caregiver burden among t…

  • Sustaining an intimate and sexually fulfilled marriage or partnership in older adulthood with a disability

    Kristen F Linton, Lela Rankin Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Behavior in the…2019References: 17

    The American portrayal of sex is often left for only the young, attractive, and able-bodied. In contrast many studies have found that older adults with disabilities in marriages and intimate partnerships have sexual desire and sexually active lives. Social workers are often burdened with balancing the sexual intimacy desires of their older adult clients with disabilities, alongside the need to protect them from sexual abuse and exploitation, part…

  • Healthy eating and physical activity among low-income Hispanic adolescents and a school-based intervention

    Open AccessWyatt Bishop, Claudia Chavarin et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2018Cited by: 2References: 13

  • Dating and Sexuality among Minority Adolescents with Disabilities

    Kristen F Linton, Heidi Adams RuedaARTICLEJournal of Human Behavior in the…2015Cited by: 2References: 28

    Adolescents with disabilities, American Indians, Hispanics, and African Americans are more likely to experience victimization and pregnancy as teens. This study explored ethnic and racial minority youth with disabilities’ dating and sexual experiences from the perspectives of social workers using Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory. Thirteen in-depth interviews were conducted with master’s degree–holding high school social work practitioners. Social …

  • Special Needs Adoption and Foster Exigencies (Safe)

    Open AccessKristen F Linton, Kristen Linton et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2014

    Children with special needs disproportionately receive child welfare services in out-of-home placements, such as foster and adoptive homes. This theoretical model has been developed to describe or explain exigencies of adoptive and foster families of children with special needs (n = 82). A web content analysis, including theme, feature, link, exchange, and language analyses, of online discussion forums of adoptive and foster parents of children w…

  • Opinions of People Who Self-Identify With Autism and Asperger’s on DSM-5 Criteria

    Open AccessKristen F Linton, Taylor E Krcek et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2013Cited by: 2References: 4

    Purpose: Autistic disorder (AD), Asperger’s syndrome (AS), and pervasive developmental disorder–not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) have been removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fifth Edition ( DSM-5). It now contains the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. This study assessed how people with AD and AS felt about the DSM-5 ASD criteria. Method: Phenomenological analysis of discussion forum dialogue among par…