Jennifer L Bellamy
Biographic Data
| ID | 154069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer L Bellamy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bellamy |
| SIGNATURE | BELLAMY J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8912-5704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond Hardship: Protective Roles of Financial Security and Social Networks in Latino Father–Child Outcomes in U.S. Cities (2007–2010)
Economic hardship and social context are known to shape family processes, yet their influence may differ across cultural groups. We conducted a comparative, exploratory analysis of Latino and non-Latino white fathers to examine how financial insecurity and neighborhood-based social support are associated with paternal well-being and youth behavioral outcomes. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study ( N = 124 fathers in U.S.…
Actor and Partner Effects of Interparental Relationship and Co-Parenting on Parenting Stress Among Fathers and Mothers
Despite increasing father involvement in rearing their children, research on the determinants of parenting stress has focused on mothers, ignoring the mutual influence between the two parents—fathers and mothers. Using the actor–partner interdependence model, we examined fathers’ and mothers’ reciprocal influences on parenting stress, with a focus on interparental relationship and co-parenting. Data from 174 couple dyads from the Dads Matter-HV© …
Suicidal Ideation and Its Correlates Among Adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago
The relationship between familial factors and youth mental health outcomes in Korean American families: The mediation effects of youth's negative emotionality
Depressive symptoms are one of the mental health problems among Korean American (KA) youth. Although several studies examined mental distress among KA youth, few have examined the associations between different familial factors, negative emotionality, and depressive symptoms among them, especially using longitudinal data. Drawing on the Triadic Model of Family Process (TMFP), this study examined the longitudinal associations between Korean‐specif…
If you Build it (with them in Mind), They’re more likely to Come: A qualitative study informing Black father engagement in early childhood home visiting programs
Considerations for Marginalized Fathers in Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) Courses: Insights for Social Work Educators and Students
Despite the important role fathers play in the lives of their children, social workers report that they do not feel prepared to work with fathers. It is ethically imperative that social workers are equipped to effectively serve diverse groups of fathers in practice, especially those who are marginalized within society. Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) courses provide an optimal opportunity for the incorporation of fatherhood conte…
Increased domestic violence during the Covid ‐19 pandemic: India's response
Examining External and Internal Acculturative Factors: Cuban-Born Women’s Experience of Well-Being in the U.S
Objective: This study investigates the influence of acculturative stress on the mental well-being of Cuban-born women and Latina immigrants, emphasizing their distinctive experiences. Methods: Utilizing data from the National Latino Asian American Study (NLAAS), a comprehensive nationwide mental health investigation among Latino and Asian Americans, this study examined 264 Cuban women (average age: 58) who migrated to the United States and live i…
Engaging Immigrants in Social Service Settings: Importance of Cultural Humility
Adapting for Well-Being: Examining Acculturation Strategies and Mental Health among Latina Immigrants
This study investigates how assimilation and integration, two commonly studied acculturation forms, help immigrant Latinas cope with acculturative stress and related psychological distress. It employs the Ecological Framework for Understanding Immigration (EFUI), merging Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory and the Socioecological Model as a comprehensive approach. Through multigroup analysis, various factors significantly affect the psycho…
Social Work Practice with Fathers: Engagement, Assessment, and Intervention
Parent–Worker Relationships in Home Visiting: Intersections of Parental Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Status
Despite home visiting’s established legacy, the potential influence of intersecting parental characteristics on parent–worker relationships is less understood. This study examines the main and interaction effects of parents’ demographic characteristics on positive relationships with workers in home visiting and compares whether and how these effects differ between fathers and mothers. This study analyzed 130 mothers and 180 fathers who participat…
Just Research: Advancing Antiracist and Antioppressive Social Work Research
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) created its Research Capacity and Development Committee in 2017 to build research capacity across the careers of social work scholars. The committee has initiated multiple conferences and webinar sessions that have increasingly focused on antiracist and antioppressive (ARAO) research, including "Mentorship for Antiracist and Inclusive Research" and "Strategies for Supporting Antiracist Pedagogy & Sc…
The Effect of Out-of-Home Placement on the School Engagement of Child-Welfare-Involved Children
Strategies to Enhance Father Engagement in Home Visiting: Results From a Qualitative Study of Dads Matter-HV
Social Work Practice with Fathers: Engagement, Assessment, and Intervention
A Breakthrough Series on Engaging Fathers and Paternal Relatives in Child Welfare: A System Response to Covid-19 and Racial Unrest
In March 2020, COVID-19 rapidly spread in the United States, forcing child welfare agencies to manage new and complex logistical, safety, and basic health concerns. In May 2020, nationwide protests followed the killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and other Black Americans, and this unrest spotlighted the racial inequities and disparities in child welfare and other systems. In reaction to the dual impact of racial unrest and t…
Parenting Engagement in Foster Care Placement Stability and Permanency
Objective: Child welfare services predominately engage mothers, who typically are the primary caregivers of the children. Research on engaging fathers—or fathers and mothers together—in child welfare is limited. This study evaluates engagement of both mothers and fathers in case management services for out-of-home child welfare cases to better understand patterns and quality of parental engagement and the effect of engagement on permanency and st…
Does parent engagement enhance children’s emotional well-being in family team conference? Not a panacea for families with intimate partner violence
The Reunification of American Indian Children in Long-Term Foster Care
Objective: The literature examining reunification for American Indian children reveals mixed findings regarding racial differences. Studies that isolate the impact of race on reunification while controlling for other covariates are needed, and this study fills that gap. Method: Data are from the long-term foster care sample of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW I). We examined a sample (N = 456) of American Indian, Afri…
Predictors of Father–Child Relationship Quality Among Adolescents at Risk of Maltreatment
Objective: At-risk youth benefit from supportive, high-quality relationships with fathers and father figures, but relatively little is known about the factors that influence the quality of these relationships. Accordingly, this study aims to identify predictors and examine moderating effects of father type, father involvement, and exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) on the quality of father–child relationships. Method: We conducted genera…
Advancing the innovation of family meeting models: The role of teamwork and parent engagement in improving permanency
Crises and Institutional Change: Emergence of Cross-Border Water Governance in Lake Eyre Basin, Australia
Managing large river basins for sustainability is a contentious social–ecological arena challenging traditional scientific and rational planning approaches to water and related natural resources governance. “Crises” are inevitable but double-edged: creating threats and uncertainties, but also new opportunities to shape trajectories of change and avoid adverse consequences. A case study of the large remote cross-border Lake Eyre Basin (LEB), in ar…
Internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems of American Indian children in the child welfare system
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Clinical Trends of a Mindfulness-Informed Child Welfare Intervention: Implications for Trauma-Focused Practice
Exposure to stress and early life trauma have been linked to child maltreatment and parental substance misuse. These issues often co-occur, yet few child welfare services target their shared underlying causes in a single intervention. Teaching mindfulness-informed strategies to substance-misusing families in the child welfare system may be one promising trauma-informed approach. As part of a larger pilot study testing the initial efficacy of a mi…
Implementing Evidence-Based Social Work Practice
Recently, social work has been influenced by new forms of practice that hold promise for bringing practice and research together to strengthen the scientific knowledge base supporting social work intervention. The most recent new practice framework is evidence-based practice. However, although evidence-based practice has many qualities that might attract social workers to adopt it, use in practice is limited. Accordingly, attention is being given…
The influence of stress and social support on depressive symptoms in mothers with young children
Preparing Social Work Practitioners to Use Evidence-Based Practice: A Comparison of Experiences From an Implementation Project
The implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) as a professional model of practice for social work has been suggested as one approach to support informed clinical decision making. However, different barriers and processes have been identified that impact the use of EBP at individual, organizational, and systemic levels. This article describes results from a project that sought to enhance practitioner use of EBP by using a supportive strategy…
The other kin: Setting the course for research, policy, and practice with siblings in foster care
Behavioral problems following reunification of children in long-term foster care
Teaching Evidence-Based Practice
A complete and mindfully developed blueprint for implementing evidence-based practice (EBP) in social work should include a full complement of coordinated goals and strategies for all stakeholders, including future social workers. To this end, schools of social work should teach students to be lifelong learners; teach students what is currently known and not known about the efficacy and effectiveness of social work practices and programs; teach s…
The Current State of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: A Review of the Literature and Qualitative Analysis of Expert Interviews
While there is recent movement toward Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in social work, criticisms subsist regarding the profession's translation of research into viable practices. Evidence describing effective interventions exists, but research that addresses dissemination and implementation is generally lacking. This paper highlights existing literature on dissemination and explores the barriers, themes, and trends in EBP through eight expert inter…
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice Education in Social Work: A Transdisciplinary Approach
Evidence based practice (EBP) is reflected in social work publications, accreditation standards, research, and funding opportunities. However, implementing EBP in social work practice and education has proven challenging, highlighting the need for additional resources. This paper describes the Transdisciplinary Model of EBP, a model based on advances in EBP across health disciplines including social work and its application to the development of …
From concept to implementation: Challenges facing evidence-based social work
English Evidence-based practice and policy is an innovative concept born out of medicine and surrounded by a great deal of debate. Although researchers have begun to define and build frameworks for the process of evidence-based social work (EBSW), few practitioners appear to employ evidence-based approaches and relatively little is known about how to facilitate this form of knowledge transfer. Arguments in favour of evidence-based practice includ…
Effect of Low-Income Unmarried Fathers' Presence at Birth on Involvement
The birth of a child represents a unique window of opportunity to understand and support ongoing father involvement among low-income unmarried parents. Using data collected as part of a randomized controlled trial of a community-based home visiting intervention provided to 248 low-income African American women, a propensity score matching approach was used to estimate the effect of fathers' presence at birth on multiple measures of later father i…
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Practitioner Assessment of an Agency-Based Training Program
Responding to the call for evidence-based practice (EBP) in social work, the authors conducted a multiphase exploratory study to test the acceptability of a training-based collaborative agency-university partnership strategy supporting EBP. The Bringing Evidence for Social Work Training (BEST) study includes an agency training component consisting of 10 modules designed to support the implementation of EBP in social agencies. Qualitative data fro…
Father Participation in a Community‐doula Home‐visiting Intervention With Young, African American Mothers
This article examines the extent and nature of father participation in a perinatal, community‐based doula home‐visiting intervention that served young, African American mothers from low‐income backgrounds and their infants. Home‐visitor service records were used to assess the quantity, setting, and content of father‐attended visits. Correlates of fathers’ participation and thematic insights from mothers’ and home‐visitors’ perspectives on how fat…
Adapting for Well-Being: Examining Acculturation Strategies and Mental Health among Latina Immigrants
This study investigates how assimilation and integration, two commonly studied acculturation forms, help immigrant Latinas cope with acculturative stress and related psychological distress. It employs the Ecological Framework for Understanding Immigration (EFUI), merging Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory and the Socioecological Model as a comprehensive approach. Through multigroup analysis, various factors significantly affect the psycho…
Siblings in Foster Care
Just Research: Advancing Antiracist and Antioppressive Social Work Research
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) created its Research Capacity and Development Committee in 2017 to build research capacity across the careers of social work scholars. The committee has initiated multiple conferences and webinar sessions that have increasingly focused on antiracist and antioppressive (ARAO) research, including "Mentorship for Antiracist and Inclusive Research" and "Strategies for Supporting Antiracist Pedagogy & Sc…
Advancing the innovation of family meeting models: The role of teamwork and parent engagement in improving permanency
Internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems of American Indian children in the child welfare system
Crises and Institutional Change: Emergence of Cross-Border Water Governance in Lake Eyre Basin, Australia
Managing large river basins for sustainability is a contentious social–ecological arena challenging traditional scientific and rational planning approaches to water and related natural resources governance. “Crises” are inevitable but double-edged: creating threats and uncertainties, but also new opportunities to shape trajectories of change and avoid adverse consequences. A case study of the large remote cross-border Lake Eyre Basin (LEB), in ar…
Using child welfare assessments and latent class analysis to identify prevalence and comorbidity of parent service needs
Agency-University Partnerships for Evidence-Based Practice: A National Survey of Schools of Social Work
Efforts to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice (EBP) and empirically supported interventions (ESI) have been rapidly increasing in social work education, research, and practice. Nevertheless, the gap between research and practice remains substantial, reducing the opportunity for social work clients to benefit from the best available practices. Partnerships between schools of social work and community agencies to promote EBP, ESI, or…
Engaging Immigrants in Social Service Settings: Importance of Cultural Humility
A Breakthrough Series on Engaging Fathers and Paternal Relatives in Child Welfare: A System Response to Covid-19 and Racial Unrest
In March 2020, COVID-19 rapidly spread in the United States, forcing child welfare agencies to manage new and complex logistical, safety, and basic health concerns. In May 2020, nationwide protests followed the killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and other Black Americans, and this unrest spotlighted the racial inequities and disparities in child welfare and other systems. In reaction to the dual impact of racial unrest and t…
Parenting Engagement in Foster Care Placement Stability and Permanency
Objective: Child welfare services predominately engage mothers, who typically are the primary caregivers of the children. Research on engaging fathers—or fathers and mothers together—in child welfare is limited. This study evaluates engagement of both mothers and fathers in case management services for out-of-home child welfare cases to better understand patterns and quality of parental engagement and the effect of engagement on permanency and st…
Does parent engagement enhance children’s emotional well-being in family team conference? Not a panacea for families with intimate partner violence
Focusing on Men and Fathers: A Challenge for Social Work Research and Practice
In introducing this special issue of Social Work Research, we feel it is important to discuss why social work practice and research with men and fathers is of critical importance and deserving of specific attention. Social work researchers and practitioners need to focus on men and fathers, both as a special population and as subpopulations of other groups. A focus on men and fathers is critical because (a) it is a social justice issue for men, w…
From concept to implementation: Challenges facing evidence-based social work
English Evidence-based practice and policy is an innovative concept born out of medicine and surrounded by a great deal of debate. Although researchers have begun to define and build frameworks for the process of evidence-based social work (EBSW), few practitioners appear to employ evidence-based approaches and relatively little is known about how to facilitate this form of knowledge transfer. Arguments in favour of evidence-based practice includ…
Siblings in Foster Care
The other kin: Setting the course for research, policy, and practice with siblings in foster care
The Current State of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: A Review of the Literature and Qualitative Analysis of Expert Interviews
While there is recent movement toward Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in social work, criticisms subsist regarding the profession's translation of research into viable practices. Evidence describing effective interventions exists, but research that addresses dissemination and implementation is generally lacking. This paper highlights existing literature on dissemination and explores the barriers, themes, and trends in EBP through eight expert inter…
Implementing Evidence-Based Social Work Practice
Recently, social work has been influenced by new forms of practice that hold promise for bringing practice and research together to strengthen the scientific knowledge base supporting social work intervention. The most recent new practice framework is evidence-based practice. However, although evidence-based practice has many qualities that might attract social workers to adopt it, use in practice is limited. Accordingly, attention is being given…
Teaching Evidence-Based Practice
A complete and mindfully developed blueprint for implementing evidence-based practice (EBP) in social work should include a full complement of coordinated goals and strategies for all stakeholders, including future social workers. To this end, schools of social work should teach students to be lifelong learners; teach students what is currently known and not known about the efficacy and effectiveness of social work practices and programs; teach s…
Accelerating Research Productivity in Social Work Programs: Perspectives on NIH's Postdoctoral T32 Research Training Mechanism
This article describes the experiences of four social work researchers who pursued an alternative career path immediately following their doctorate in social work by accepting a postdoctoral training fellowship funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As schools of social work look for creative ways to build research capacity, this article describes the authors' perspectives regarding the considerations to accept postdocs, key elements …
Behavioral problems following reunification of children in long-term foster care
Preparing Social Work Practitioners to Use Evidence-Based Practice: A Comparison of Experiences From an Implementation Project
The implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) as a professional model of practice for social work has been suggested as one approach to support informed clinical decision making. However, different barriers and processes have been identified that impact the use of EBP at individual, organizational, and systemic levels. This article describes results from a project that sought to enhance practitioner use of EBP by using a supportive strategy…
The influence of stress and social support on depressive symptoms in mothers with young children
Agency-University Partnerships for Evidence-Based Practice: A National Survey of Schools of Social Work
Efforts to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice (EBP) and empirically supported interventions (ESI) have been rapidly increasing in social work education, research, and practice. Nevertheless, the gap between research and practice remains substantial, reducing the opportunity for social work clients to benefit from the best available practices. Partnerships between schools of social work and community agencies to promote EBP, ESI, or…
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Practitioner Assessment of an Agency-Based Training Program
Responding to the call for evidence-based practice (EBP) in social work, the authors conducted a multiphase exploratory study to test the acceptability of a training-based collaborative agency-university partnership strategy supporting EBP. The Bringing Evidence for Social Work Training (BEST) study includes an agency training component consisting of 10 modules designed to support the implementation of EBP in social agencies. Qualitative data fro…
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice Education in Social Work: A Transdisciplinary Approach
Evidence based practice (EBP) is reflected in social work publications, accreditation standards, research, and funding opportunities. However, implementing EBP in social work practice and education has proven challenging, highlighting the need for additional resources. This paper describes the Transdisciplinary Model of EBP, a model based on advances in EBP across health disciplines including social work and its application to the development of …
Advancing research on services for adolescent fathers: A commentary on Kiselica and Kiselica
Father Participation in a Community‐doula Home‐visiting Intervention With Young, African American Mothers
This article examines the extent and nature of father participation in a perinatal, community‐based doula home‐visiting intervention that served young, African American mothers from low‐income backgrounds and their infants. Home‐visitor service records were used to assess the quantity, setting, and content of father‐attended visits. Correlates of fathers’ participation and thematic insights from mothers’ and home‐visitors’ perspectives on how fat…
Using child welfare assessments and latent class analysis to identify prevalence and comorbidity of parent service needs
Effect of Low-Income Unmarried Fathers' Presence at Birth on Involvement
The birth of a child represents a unique window of opportunity to understand and support ongoing father involvement among low-income unmarried parents. Using data collected as part of a randomized controlled trial of a community-based home visiting intervention provided to 248 low-income African American women, a propensity score matching approach was used to estimate the effect of fathers' presence at birth on multiple measures of later father i…
Focusing on Men and Fathers: A Challenge for Social Work Research and Practice
In introducing this special issue of Social Work Research, we feel it is important to discuss why social work practice and research with men and fathers is of critical importance and deserving of specific attention. Social work researchers and practitioners need to focus on men and fathers, both as a special population and as subpopulations of other groups. A focus on men and fathers is critical because (a) it is a social justice issue for men, w…
Crises and Institutional Change: Emergence of Cross-Border Water Governance in Lake Eyre Basin, Australia
Managing large river basins for sustainability is a contentious social–ecological arena challenging traditional scientific and rational planning approaches to water and related natural resources governance. “Crises” are inevitable but double-edged: creating threats and uncertainties, but also new opportunities to shape trajectories of change and avoid adverse consequences. A case study of the large remote cross-border Lake Eyre Basin (LEB), in ar…
Internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems of American Indian children in the child welfare system
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Clinical Trends of a Mindfulness-Informed Child Welfare Intervention: Implications for Trauma-Focused Practice
Exposure to stress and early life trauma have been linked to child maltreatment and parental substance misuse. These issues often co-occur, yet few child welfare services target their shared underlying causes in a single intervention. Teaching mindfulness-informed strategies to substance-misusing families in the child welfare system may be one promising trauma-informed approach. As part of a larger pilot study testing the initial efficacy of a mi…
The Reunification of American Indian Children in Long-Term Foster Care
Objective: The literature examining reunification for American Indian children reveals mixed findings regarding racial differences. Studies that isolate the impact of race on reunification while controlling for other covariates are needed, and this study fills that gap. Method: Data are from the long-term foster care sample of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW I). We examined a sample (N = 456) of American Indian, Afri…
Predictors of Father–Child Relationship Quality Among Adolescents at Risk of Maltreatment
Objective: At-risk youth benefit from supportive, high-quality relationships with fathers and father figures, but relatively little is known about the factors that influence the quality of these relationships. Accordingly, this study aims to identify predictors and examine moderating effects of father type, father involvement, and exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) on the quality of father–child relationships. Method: We conducted genera…
Advancing the innovation of family meeting models: The role of teamwork and parent engagement in improving permanency
Parenting Engagement in Foster Care Placement Stability and Permanency
Objective: Child welfare services predominately engage mothers, who typically are the primary caregivers of the children. Research on engaging fathers—or fathers and mothers together—in child welfare is limited. This study evaluates engagement of both mothers and fathers in case management services for out-of-home child welfare cases to better understand patterns and quality of parental engagement and the effect of engagement on permanency and st…
Psychology (36 works) · Political science (25 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Social Work (12 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (11 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (10 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (10 works) · Engineering (10 works)