Christopher R Larrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 179029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher R Larrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher R |
| FAMILY NAME | Larrison |
| SIGNATURE | LARRISON C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2380-0882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medicaid, Race, Utilization of Crisis Services at Community Mental Health Agencies
We compare African-American and White clients receiving services at 13 rural and semi-rural community mental health agencies (CMHAs) and the impact of Medicaid on the use of crisis and outpatient services. SEM was utilized to model the indirect effect of crisis services between the association of Medicaid and total hours of outpatient services. We modeled the moderating effects of race using mixture modeling and latent class. The base model showe…
Social work and technology
While the scholarly literature is abound with discussions of technology and its proliferation in different social work domains, evidence about what types of technologies are being used in various social work practice domains remains limited. The present study aimed to identify the larger trends in how technology has permeated the profession. The study sample comprised of 892 articles from a journal known for its contribution in publishing researc…
Experiences of African-American men with serious mental illness and their kinship networks within the mental health care system
Informed by the Network-Episode Model, 26 African-American men with serious mental illness and 26 members of their kinship networks completed in-depth qualitative interviews about their experiences with the mental health care system to better understand racial differences in mental health care. The aim was to better understand communication among kin networks, clients, and treatment agencies with a focus on the opportunities for kinship involveme…
Disparities in Health Services Use Among Multiracial American Young Adults
American Indian identity in mental health services utilization data from a rural Midwestern sample
The governing bodies for psychiatry, psychology, and social work all publicly support culturally competent mental health care and have called for increased awareness of the importance of racial, ethnic, and cultural identity in mental health treatment and outcomes. However, since 1960 the population of people identifying as American Indian in the United States has grown faster than can be explained by birth rates, raising questions about the pers…
Therapist Effects on Disparities Experienced by Minorities Receiving Services for Mental Illness
OBJECTIVES: The authors examine if some of the reason clients from racial and ethnic minority groups experience outcome disparities is explained by their therapists. METHOD: Data from 98 clients (19% minority) and 14 therapists at two community mental health agencies where clients from racial and ethnic minority groups were experiencing outcome disparities were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling with treatment outcomes at Level 1, client…
The Relationship Between the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and Innovative Welfare Practices on a Local Level
Part of the intention of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) was to encourage the development of innovative welfare programs on a state and local level. The Act removed stringent federal regulations regarding the design and implementation of cash welfare programs. The freer programmatic environment was to assist local offices in addressing the unique needs of their particular clients as they moved …
Evaluating Treatment Outcomes for African American and White Clients Receiving Treatment at a Community Mental Health Agency in the Rural South
The present study examines the relationship between race and treatment outcomes among clients receiving services at a community mental health agency in the rural southeastern United States. A nonprobabilistic sample of clients completed the BASIS-32, a self-report summated rating scale, at an initial assessment and a series of three follow-up assessments conducted at 3-month intervals. The data were analyzed using a hierarchical linear model (HLM…
Examining the Relationship between Community Residents' Economic Status and the Outcomes of Community Development Programs
In designing and implementing community development interventions the economic status of targeted participants is a demographic characteristic worth considering. The findings from this research indicate that even within the limited economies of rural Mexican villages there are variations in economic status that affect the ways in which the outcomes of community development programs are perceived. The poorest of the poor are likely to be less sati…
Refugees' Responses to Mental Health Screening
For a variety of reasons related to pre- and post-migration factors, refugees experience a high rate of mental health problems. The early detection of these problems among refugees arriving in the United States benefits those individuals, the agencies that sponsor them and the communities that absorb them. The development of culturally-sensitive mental health screening instruments to identify pathology among refugees has been the focus of some re…
A New Perspective on Families that Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Tanf)
A review of the scholarly literature shows that a number of analyses of welfare are mistakenly based upon the premise that the overwhelming majority of welfare recipients receive benefits because they are young single women who are undereducated and caring for a child either born out of wedlock or abandoned by divorce/separation. The term welfare can encompasses a number of social programs (e.g. Food Stamps, state general assistance programs, Med…
Development and Preliminary Validation of the Mosley Forensic Competency Scale
The Mosley Forensic Competency Scale (MFCS) is a 21-item true-false questionnaire intended for use as an assessment tool in forensic evaluations of competency to stand trial. Using a cutting scoreof 17 or higher asreflective ofcompetence, acomparison ofMFCS scoreswithforensicexaminer determinationsand court decisionspertain-ing to the competence of 75 prisoners found the new scale to possess excellent predictive validity. Suggestionsfor further v…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
The nearly automatic acceptance of Cubans into the United States as political refugees for 35 years represents a contradiction which lingered in U.S. refugee policy. This article provides a description and analysis of the 1994 Cuban Balsero (rafter) Crisis that prompted a decision by the Clinton administration on May 2, 1995, to officially end the open door era for Cuban acceptance into the United States. The resulting policy change 1) terminated…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
Larry Nackerud, Alyson Springer, Christopher Larrison, Alicia Issac, The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy, The International Migration Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 176-192
Refugees' Responses to Mental Health Screening
For a variety of reasons related to pre- and post-migration factors, refugees experience a high rate of mental health problems. The early detection of these problems among refugees arriving in the United States benefits those individuals, the agencies that sponsor them and the communities that absorb them. The development of culturally-sensitive mental health screening instruments to identify pathology among refugees has been the focus of some re…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
The nearly automatic acceptance of Cubans into the United States as political refugees for 35 years represents a contradiction which lingered in U.S. refugee policy. This article provides a description and analysis of the 1994 Cuban Balsero (rafter) Crisis that prompted a decision by the Clinton administration on May 2, 1995, to officially end the open door era for Cuban acceptance into the United States. The resulting policy change 1) terminated…
American Indian identity in mental health services utilization data from a rural Midwestern sample
The governing bodies for psychiatry, psychology, and social work all publicly support culturally competent mental health care and have called for increased awareness of the importance of racial, ethnic, and cultural identity in mental health treatment and outcomes. However, since 1960 the population of people identifying as American Indian in the United States has grown faster than can be explained by birth rates, raising questions about the pers…
A New Perspective on Families that Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Tanf)
A review of the scholarly literature shows that a number of analyses of welfare are mistakenly based upon the premise that the overwhelming majority of welfare recipients receive benefits because they are young single women who are undereducated and caring for a child either born out of wedlock or abandoned by divorce/separation. The term welfare can encompasses a number of social programs (e.g. Food Stamps, state general assistance programs, Med…
Medicaid, Race, Utilization of Crisis Services at Community Mental Health Agencies
We compare African-American and White clients receiving services at 13 rural and semi-rural community mental health agencies (CMHAs) and the impact of Medicaid on the use of crisis and outpatient services. SEM was utilized to model the indirect effect of crisis services between the association of Medicaid and total hours of outpatient services. We modeled the moderating effects of race using mixture modeling and latent class. The base model showe…
Therapist Effects on Disparities Experienced by Minorities Receiving Services for Mental Illness
OBJECTIVES: The authors examine if some of the reason clients from racial and ethnic minority groups experience outcome disparities is explained by their therapists. METHOD: Data from 98 clients (19% minority) and 14 therapists at two community mental health agencies where clients from racial and ethnic minority groups were experiencing outcome disparities were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling with treatment outcomes at Level 1, client…
The Relationship Between the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and Innovative Welfare Practices on a Local Level
Part of the intention of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) was to encourage the development of innovative welfare programs on a state and local level. The Act removed stringent federal regulations regarding the design and implementation of cash welfare programs. The freer programmatic environment was to assist local offices in addressing the unique needs of their particular clients as they moved …
Evaluating Treatment Outcomes for African American and White Clients Receiving Treatment at a Community Mental Health Agency in the Rural South
The present study examines the relationship between race and treatment outcomes among clients receiving services at a community mental health agency in the rural southeastern United States. A nonprobabilistic sample of clients completed the BASIS-32, a self-report summated rating scale, at an initial assessment and a series of three follow-up assessments conducted at 3-month intervals. The data were analyzed using a hierarchical linear model (HLM…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
Larry Nackerud, Alyson Springer, Christopher Larrison, Alicia Issac, The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy, The International Migration Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 176-192
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
The nearly automatic acceptance of Cubans into the United States as political refugees for 35 years represents a contradiction which lingered in U.S. refugee policy. This article provides a description and analysis of the 1994 Cuban Balsero (rafter) Crisis that prompted a decision by the Clinton administration on May 2, 1995, to officially end the open door era for Cuban acceptance into the United States. The resulting policy change 1) terminated…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
Larry Nackerud, Alyson Springer, Christopher Larrison, Alicia Issac, The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy, The International Migration Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 176-192
A New Perspective on Families that Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Tanf)
A review of the scholarly literature shows that a number of analyses of welfare are mistakenly based upon the premise that the overwhelming majority of welfare recipients receive benefits because they are young single women who are undereducated and caring for a child either born out of wedlock or abandoned by divorce/separation. The term welfare can encompasses a number of social programs (e.g. Food Stamps, state general assistance programs, Med…
Development and Preliminary Validation of the Mosley Forensic Competency Scale
The Mosley Forensic Competency Scale (MFCS) is a 21-item true-false questionnaire intended for use as an assessment tool in forensic evaluations of competency to stand trial. Using a cutting scoreof 17 or higher asreflective ofcompetence, acomparison ofMFCS scoreswithforensicexaminer determinationsand court decisionspertain-ing to the competence of 75 prisoners found the new scale to possess excellent predictive validity. Suggestionsfor further v…
Refugees' Responses to Mental Health Screening
For a variety of reasons related to pre- and post-migration factors, refugees experience a high rate of mental health problems. The early detection of these problems among refugees arriving in the United States benefits those individuals, the agencies that sponsor them and the communities that absorb them. The development of culturally-sensitive mental health screening instruments to identify pathology among refugees has been the focus of some re…
Evaluating Treatment Outcomes for African American and White Clients Receiving Treatment at a Community Mental Health Agency in the Rural South
The present study examines the relationship between race and treatment outcomes among clients receiving services at a community mental health agency in the rural southeastern United States. A nonprobabilistic sample of clients completed the BASIS-32, a self-report summated rating scale, at an initial assessment and a series of three follow-up assessments conducted at 3-month intervals. The data were analyzed using a hierarchical linear model (HLM…
Examining the Relationship between Community Residents' Economic Status and the Outcomes of Community Development Programs
In designing and implementing community development interventions the economic status of targeted participants is a demographic characteristic worth considering. The findings from this research indicate that even within the limited economies of rural Mexican villages there are variations in economic status that affect the ways in which the outcomes of community development programs are perceived. The poorest of the poor are likely to be less sati…
The Relationship Between the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and Innovative Welfare Practices on a Local Level
Part of the intention of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) was to encourage the development of innovative welfare programs on a state and local level. The Act removed stringent federal regulations regarding the design and implementation of cash welfare programs. The freer programmatic environment was to assist local offices in addressing the unique needs of their particular clients as they moved …
Therapist Effects on Disparities Experienced by Minorities Receiving Services for Mental Illness
OBJECTIVES: The authors examine if some of the reason clients from racial and ethnic minority groups experience outcome disparities is explained by their therapists. METHOD: Data from 98 clients (19% minority) and 14 therapists at two community mental health agencies where clients from racial and ethnic minority groups were experiencing outcome disparities were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling with treatment outcomes at Level 1, client…
American Indian identity in mental health services utilization data from a rural Midwestern sample
The governing bodies for psychiatry, psychology, and social work all publicly support culturally competent mental health care and have called for increased awareness of the importance of racial, ethnic, and cultural identity in mental health treatment and outcomes. However, since 1960 the population of people identifying as American Indian in the United States has grown faster than can be explained by birth rates, raising questions about the pers…
Disparities in Health Services Use Among Multiracial American Young Adults
Experiences of African-American men with serious mental illness and their kinship networks within the mental health care system
Informed by the Network-Episode Model, 26 African-American men with serious mental illness and 26 members of their kinship networks completed in-depth qualitative interviews about their experiences with the mental health care system to better understand racial differences in mental health care. The aim was to better understand communication among kin networks, clients, and treatment agencies with a focus on the opportunities for kinship involveme…
Social work and technology
While the scholarly literature is abound with discussions of technology and its proliferation in different social work domains, evidence about what types of technologies are being used in various social work practice domains remains limited. The present study aimed to identify the larger trends in how technology has permeated the profession. The study sample comprised of 892 articles from a journal known for its contribution in publishing researc…
Medicaid, Race, Utilization of Crisis Services at Community Mental Health Agencies
We compare African-American and White clients receiving services at 13 rural and semi-rural community mental health agencies (CMHAs) and the impact of Medicaid on the use of crisis and outpatient services. SEM was utilized to model the indirect effect of crisis services between the association of Medicaid and total hours of outpatient services. We modeled the moderating effects of race using mixture modeling and latent class. The base model showe…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Nursing (4 works)