Bridget E Weller
Biographic Data
| ID | 178243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bridget E Weller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bridget E |
| FAMILY NAME | Weller |
| SIGNATURE | WELLER B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2295-0707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 235 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Racism Counterfactuals in Health Research
There has been an increase in both research and funding aimed at exploring the connections between racism and racial health inequities. Despite these efforts, some quantitative analyses fall short when they rely heavily on counterfactual thinking (e.g., asking “what if” questions) on race and racism. Such methods are based on a theorization of race and racism that inadequately captures the White privilege inherent in the system of racism. Therefo…
Multiracial emerging adults’ experiences with mental health care
Drawing on critical multiracial theory, the objective of this study was to describe Multiracial emerging adults' experiences with mental health care. A total of 12 Multiracial emerging adults participated in this phenomenological study that used semi-structured interviews. Participants shared that Multiracial and Black providers were emphatic, but White providers engaged in covert and subtle racism. They further discussed the need for providers t…
Stop (e)Racing the Multiracial Experience From Social Work Research
Breaking Barriers
Despite the compounded effects of race, ethnicity, gender, and disability, Black women have continued to achieve significant progress in increasing labor market participation and creating economic opportunities, yet little is known about their self-employment outcomes. Guided by disability critical race theory (DisCrit), this report explored the prevalence of disability among Black women who were self-employed in the United States and explored th…
Latent Class Analysis
How to Use Discrete Choice Experiments to Capture Stakeholder Preferences in Social Work Research
Teaching about Black Adolescents’ Exposure to Trauma
Black adolescents are exposed to race-based forms of historical, structural, cultural, and interpersonal dimensions of trauma. However, social work educators have little evidence-based guidance on how to teach this content in a way that improves graduate students’ sense of self-efficacy (i.e., belief in their ability) to work with Black adolescents who experience trauma. The purpose of this sequential mixed methods study was to examine and unders…
Teaching Trauma Content in Higher Education
Higher education must prepare future mental health providers to work with individuals who have been exposed to trauma. This is vital to the success of students’ practice, many of whom would benefit from trauma reduction strategies in their own lives. The purpose of this systematic review is to summarize the knowledge base on teaching methods that may reduce the potential that trauma content in the classroom could cause: (a) re-traumatization; (b)…
Graduate Student Experience Learning About Racism
Although the social work profession has focused on becoming an anti-racist profession, social work students report being insufficiently prepared to challenge and dismantle racism. Current recommendations for educating social workers on racism use findings from White students and omit the voices of individuals who experience racism. However, this phenomenological qualitative study described graduate students from historically excluded racial and e…
Perceptions of Goal Attainment Scaling among Future Behavioral and Mental Health Providers
Goal Attainment Scaling is a method for measuring an individual’s progress toward a given goal. It was used as part of an interprofessional workforce development program that trained social work and occupational therapy graduate students and peer support workers on meeting the mental and behavioral health needs of underserved communities. The purpose of this research note is to describe participants’ experience with Goal Attainment Scaling using …
Teaching Note—Teaching Trauma Content Online During Covid-19
Teaching and learning during disasters presents challenges and opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic and concomitant social and economic devastation altered almost every aspect of daily life. Subsequent police brutality, racial injustice, and environmental disasters disproportionately affected historically marginalized communities. Within this context, we, as faculty teaching in a graduate clinical social work program with a specialization in trau…
Coping in the Aftermath of Youth's Suicidal Behaviors
Objective To better understand Black mothers' and White mothers' qualitative reactions to their adolescents' hospitalizations due to suicide attempts. Background Caregivers of youth with suicidal behaviors play a vital role in youth's subsequent treatment and recovery. Yet little attention has been paid to how they are affected by youth's psychiatric hospitalizations or how their reactions may be influenced by race. Method Twenty Black mothers ( …
Adverse childhood experiences and mental health conditions among multiracial adolescents
Household dysfunction may result in adolescents being separated (physically or emotionally) from their caregivers, which may hinder adolescents' ability to establish or maintain one of the most important relationships needed to promote racial/ethnic identity development and mental health. Implications for advancements in theory and NSCH are presented
Using a Contextual Effects Measurement Approach to Understand the Influence of Community on Individual Behavior
A social organization perspective identifies processes operating in the community that may influence an individual’s behavior. To understand such processes, researchers can apply a contextual effects measurement approach, which is used to assess the influence of group-level effects on lower level outcomes. However, few community studies employ this approach. The purpose of this article is to present and evaluate the merits of the contextual effec…
Health Insurance and Youths' Unmet Health Care Needs
This study examined the relationship between youth health insurance status, insurance type (public versus private), and youths' unmet health care needs. A secondary analysis was conducted using data from the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health, a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of U.S. youth. The sample included data from caregivers of 40,723 Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white youth (0-17 years old) and w…
Latent Class Analysis
Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical procedure used to identify qualitatively different subgroups within populations who often share certain outward characteristics. The assumption underlying LCA is that membership in unobserved groups (or classes) can be explained by patterns of scores across survey questions, assessment indicators, or scales. The application of LCA is an active area of research and continues to evolve. As more researche…
Latent Profiles of Residential Stepfamily Relationship Quality and Family Stability
Stepfamilies are an increasingly common context in which adults and children reside. Past research has examined family processes that promote family resilience, such as dyadic relationships marked by warmth, positive communication, satisfaction, and closeness. What remains less clear is whether various profiles of dyadic relationship quality within stepfamilies exist and operate to influence stepfamily stability. Using data from the National Long…
Youth Access to Medical Homes and Medical Home Components by Race and Ethnicity
Uncovering Profiles of Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital to Explore Depression Across Racial Groups
Overcoming Barriers to Fathers’ Participation in Clinically Relevant Research
Researchers increasingly acknowledge the importance of including fathers in clinically relevant, family-based research studies. Although important gains have been made regarding the inclusion of fathers, they continue to be underrepresented in family-based research (Cassano, Adrian, Veits, & Zeman, 2006; Costigan & Cox, 2001; Mitchell et al., 2007). This is particularly true of certain subgroups such as working-class fathers, fathers with low edu…
Profiles of Risk for HIV/Aids Among Young Malawian Adults
Profiles of Malawian adolescents at risk for HIV infections
Young people are at the center of the HIV epidemic. In fact, HIV has been referred to as a "youth-driven disease" worldwide. This cross-sectional study identified a typology of risk for HIV among Malawian adolescents, examined the distribution of HIV status within each group in the typology, and tested the association between class membership and changes in sexual behaviors to avoid HIV. The sample was restricted to males and females between the …
Latent Class Analysis
Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical procedure used to identify qualitatively different subgroups within populations who often share certain outward characteristics. The assumption underlying LCA is that membership in unobserved groups (or classes) can be explained by patterns of scores across survey questions, assessment indicators, or scales. The application of LCA is an active area of research and continues to evolve. As more researche…
Adverse childhood experiences and mental health conditions among multiracial adolescents
Household dysfunction may result in adolescents being separated (physically or emotionally) from their caregivers, which may hinder adolescents' ability to establish or maintain one of the most important relationships needed to promote racial/ethnic identity development and mental health. Implications for advancements in theory and NSCH are presented
Stop (e)Racing the Multiracial Experience From Social Work Research
How to Use Discrete Choice Experiments to Capture Stakeholder Preferences in Social Work Research
Overcoming Barriers to Fathers’ Participation in Clinically Relevant Research
Researchers increasingly acknowledge the importance of including fathers in clinically relevant, family-based research studies. Although important gains have been made regarding the inclusion of fathers, they continue to be underrepresented in family-based research (Cassano, Adrian, Veits, & Zeman, 2006; Costigan & Cox, 2001; Mitchell et al., 2007). This is particularly true of certain subgroups such as working-class fathers, fathers with low edu…
Profiles of Malawian adolescents at risk for HIV infections
Young people are at the center of the HIV epidemic. In fact, HIV has been referred to as a "youth-driven disease" worldwide. This cross-sectional study identified a typology of risk for HIV among Malawian adolescents, examined the distribution of HIV status within each group in the typology, and tested the association between class membership and changes in sexual behaviors to avoid HIV. The sample was restricted to males and females between the …
Profiles of Risk for HIV/Aids Among Young Malawian Adults
Overcoming Barriers to Fathers’ Participation in Clinically Relevant Research
Researchers increasingly acknowledge the importance of including fathers in clinically relevant, family-based research studies. Although important gains have been made regarding the inclusion of fathers, they continue to be underrepresented in family-based research (Cassano, Adrian, Veits, & Zeman, 2006; Costigan & Cox, 2001; Mitchell et al., 2007). This is particularly true of certain subgroups such as working-class fathers, fathers with low edu…
Latent Profiles of Residential Stepfamily Relationship Quality and Family Stability
Stepfamilies are an increasingly common context in which adults and children reside. Past research has examined family processes that promote family resilience, such as dyadic relationships marked by warmth, positive communication, satisfaction, and closeness. What remains less clear is whether various profiles of dyadic relationship quality within stepfamilies exist and operate to influence stepfamily stability. Using data from the National Long…
Youth Access to Medical Homes and Medical Home Components by Race and Ethnicity
Uncovering Profiles of Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital to Explore Depression Across Racial Groups
Using a Contextual Effects Measurement Approach to Understand the Influence of Community on Individual Behavior
A social organization perspective identifies processes operating in the community that may influence an individual’s behavior. To understand such processes, researchers can apply a contextual effects measurement approach, which is used to assess the influence of group-level effects on lower level outcomes. However, few community studies employ this approach. The purpose of this article is to present and evaluate the merits of the contextual effec…
Health Insurance and Youths' Unmet Health Care Needs
This study examined the relationship between youth health insurance status, insurance type (public versus private), and youths' unmet health care needs. A secondary analysis was conducted using data from the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health, a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of U.S. youth. The sample included data from caregivers of 40,723 Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white youth (0-17 years old) and w…
Latent Class Analysis
Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical procedure used to identify qualitatively different subgroups within populations who often share certain outward characteristics. The assumption underlying LCA is that membership in unobserved groups (or classes) can be explained by patterns of scores across survey questions, assessment indicators, or scales. The application of LCA is an active area of research and continues to evolve. As more researche…
Teaching Note—Teaching Trauma Content Online During Covid-19
Teaching and learning during disasters presents challenges and opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic and concomitant social and economic devastation altered almost every aspect of daily life. Subsequent police brutality, racial injustice, and environmental disasters disproportionately affected historically marginalized communities. Within this context, we, as faculty teaching in a graduate clinical social work program with a specialization in trau…
Coping in the Aftermath of Youth's Suicidal Behaviors
Objective To better understand Black mothers' and White mothers' qualitative reactions to their adolescents' hospitalizations due to suicide attempts. Background Caregivers of youth with suicidal behaviors play a vital role in youth's subsequent treatment and recovery. Yet little attention has been paid to how they are affected by youth's psychiatric hospitalizations or how their reactions may be influenced by race. Method Twenty Black mothers ( …
Adverse childhood experiences and mental health conditions among multiracial adolescents
Household dysfunction may result in adolescents being separated (physically or emotionally) from their caregivers, which may hinder adolescents' ability to establish or maintain one of the most important relationships needed to promote racial/ethnic identity development and mental health. Implications for advancements in theory and NSCH are presented
Perceptions of Goal Attainment Scaling among Future Behavioral and Mental Health Providers
Goal Attainment Scaling is a method for measuring an individual’s progress toward a given goal. It was used as part of an interprofessional workforce development program that trained social work and occupational therapy graduate students and peer support workers on meeting the mental and behavioral health needs of underserved communities. The purpose of this research note is to describe participants’ experience with Goal Attainment Scaling using …
Teaching Trauma Content in Higher Education
Higher education must prepare future mental health providers to work with individuals who have been exposed to trauma. This is vital to the success of students’ practice, many of whom would benefit from trauma reduction strategies in their own lives. The purpose of this systematic review is to summarize the knowledge base on teaching methods that may reduce the potential that trauma content in the classroom could cause: (a) re-traumatization; (b)…
Graduate Student Experience Learning About Racism
Although the social work profession has focused on becoming an anti-racist profession, social work students report being insufficiently prepared to challenge and dismantle racism. Current recommendations for educating social workers on racism use findings from White students and omit the voices of individuals who experience racism. However, this phenomenological qualitative study described graduate students from historically excluded racial and e…
How to Use Discrete Choice Experiments to Capture Stakeholder Preferences in Social Work Research
Teaching about Black Adolescents’ Exposure to Trauma
Black adolescents are exposed to race-based forms of historical, structural, cultural, and interpersonal dimensions of trauma. However, social work educators have little evidence-based guidance on how to teach this content in a way that improves graduate students’ sense of self-efficacy (i.e., belief in their ability) to work with Black adolescents who experience trauma. The purpose of this sequential mixed methods study was to examine and unders…
Racism Counterfactuals in Health Research
There has been an increase in both research and funding aimed at exploring the connections between racism and racial health inequities. Despite these efforts, some quantitative analyses fall short when they rely heavily on counterfactual thinking (e.g., asking “what if” questions) on race and racism. Such methods are based on a theorization of race and racism that inadequately captures the White privilege inherent in the system of racism. Therefo…
Multiracial emerging adults’ experiences with mental health care
Drawing on critical multiracial theory, the objective of this study was to describe Multiracial emerging adults' experiences with mental health care. A total of 12 Multiracial emerging adults participated in this phenomenological study that used semi-structured interviews. Participants shared that Multiracial and Black providers were emphatic, but White providers engaged in covert and subtle racism. They further discussed the need for providers t…
Stop (e)Racing the Multiracial Experience From Social Work Research
Breaking Barriers
Despite the compounded effects of race, ethnicity, gender, and disability, Black women have continued to achieve significant progress in increasing labor market participation and creating economic opportunities, yet little is known about their self-employment outcomes. Guided by disability critical race theory (DisCrit), this report explored the prevalence of disability among Black women who were self-employed in the United States and explored th…
Latent Class Analysis
Psychology (19 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (6 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Latent class model (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)