Leslie Hollingsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 180742 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Hollingsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hollingsworth |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLINGSWORTH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Racial microaggressions in social work education: Black students’ encounters in a predominantly White institution
Research findings have substantiated encounters with racial microaggressions by Black students in predominantly White institutions. Yet no studies focus on students in social work programs. This is important since racial microaggressions can affect students’ academic, social, and emotional experiences, as well as career preparation of counseling students. In this study we examined encounters reported by 10 Black Master of Social Work students. We…
A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change
Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. Detroit, with its vast majority Black population and struggling auto industry, encountered such decline. The Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort to bring Detroit back to its position of strength. With its mission of enhancing the development and well-being of children, Skillman entered partnerships with six Detroit ne…
Introducing the Six Good Neighborhoods Communities: Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for Youth and Families in under-Served Neighborhoods
Each Good Neighborhoods community is unique. This chapter introduces each of the six neighborhoods in the order in which Skillman launched the community planning process: Southwest Detroit, Chadsey Condon, Brightmoor, Osborn, Cody Rouge, and Northend Central. After a short description of each neighborhood and its early history, basic facts that describe population demographics, economic indicators, housing and crime are presented. A summary of co…
Afrocentricity and social work education
Twenty-two African American, biracial, Caucasian, and Latino students enrolled in an advanced graduate social work course aimed at approaching interpersonal practice from an Afrocentric perspective. Curricular content included historical contributions of African-descent people, components of Afrocentricity and African-centered social work, and principles and methods associated with NTU psychotherapy. Students demonstrated a slight but statistical…
The Developmental Progression of Transracial Experiences among South Korean Adoptees: A Review of the Literature
Thorough examination of the literature revealed no comprehensive reviews detailing the experiences of South Korean–U.S. adoptees as transnationally adopted persons. To address this need, multiple databases, keywords/keyword combinations, and fugitive literature were used. Data from the review were coded, categorized, and analyzed, with five themes emerging: (1) intrusive interactions, (2) boundary management, (3) discrimination and exclusion, (4)…
Is the Life History Calendar a Valid Measure of Child Custody Loss among Birth Mothers with Serious Mental Illness
As of October 9, 2009, 463,000 children were receiving care in the public foster care system (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009). Parental rights to 75,000 (16%) had been terminated. Parents with serious mental illness (SMI) are confronted with increased risk of involvement with the child welfare system and of having their children placed in out-of-home care (Park, Solomon, & Mandell, 2006; Sands, Koppelman, & Solomon, 2004). In …
Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment
The work of select foundations is gradually expanding beyond conventional program funding to an "embedded funding" approach, in which funders dig in and dig deeper to foster community. In this article, we describe general characteristics of the embedded funding approach, how it differs from conventional efforts, delineate several key methods involved, and explain the relevance of the approach within the context of the challenges facing some neigh…
A comparison of caseworker characteristics in public and private foster care agencies
Does the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption Address the Protection of Adoptees' Cultural Identity? And Should It
Journal Article Does the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption Address the Protection of Adoptees' Cultural Identity? And Should It? Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD, ACSW, LMSW Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD, ACSW, LMSW associate professor School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google S…
Living Arrangements and Social Support: Effects on the Well-Being of Mothers with Mental Illness
This article examines the effects of living arrangements on the well-being of mothers with a serious mental illness. Analyses of data from a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study of an urban, primarily African American sample of 379 mothers with mental illness revealed few differences in parenting or social functioning between mothers living with their children and a spouse or partner and those living with their children only. However,…
Child custody loss among women with persistent severe mental illness
The author analyzed quantitative data from an NIMH-funded longitudinal study of 322 women with persistent severe mental illness (SMI) and qualitative data from semistructured interviews with 82 of the women who ever lost custody of a child. The purpose was to test the hypothesis, derived from human ecology theory, that individual and environmental factors combine with mental illness to predict a history of child custody loss. The final model supp…
A family of trust: African American parents' stories of adoption disclosure
Dramatic increases in same-race adoptions of African American children have stimulated interest in the experiences of these families, including those related to disclosure. Data from interviews with 27 African American adoptive parents (7 mothers and fathers interviewed conjointly, 13 mothers interviewed alone) from 20 different families revealed the following themes: (a) efforts to prevent trauma to the child; (b) respect for the child's differe…
International Adoption among Families in the United States: Considerations of Social Justice
The practice of international adoption of children is critiqued, using Rawls' egalitarian concept of a distributive method of social justice. From this perspective, international adoption may be perceived as contradictory to principles of social justice by ignoring the social context within which it occurs. Social contexts that frequently surround international adoption are severe poverty and the disenfranchisement of the adopted child's biologic…
Transracial adoptees in the media: 1986-1996
Media reports of interviews with 93 adults transracially adopted as children were content analyzed (percentage agreement = 80%-100%, Cohen's kappas = .61-1.00). Most interviews (63%-88%) involved adoptees who were African American or biracial; in college, graduate school, or employed in professional or managerial occupations; 20-29 years old; and raised in the East or Midwest, with siblings who were the adoptive parents' biological children, othe…
Why Are So Many U.S. Families Adopting Internationally: A Social Exchange Perspective
This paper uses social exchange theory to explain the increase by which U.S. families are adopting internationally, compared to domestically. Benefits of adopting internationally appear associated with a preference for infants, confidential adoptions, race/ethnic similarity and shorter waits. Costs are related to generally higher expenses and a greater likelihood of developmental and other health risks among the children. While international adop…
Africentric Theory as a Predictor of Adoption Among African Americans: An Exploratory Study
A multiple logistic regression analysis examined Afri-centricity as a predictor of adoption among 92 respondents who labeled their racial or ethnic identity as Black or as African American. Forty-eight had adopted at least one child and 44 had inquired but did not adopt. Persons with high scores on the Self-Reinforcement Against Racism sub-scale of Baldwin and Bell's (1985) African Self-Consciousness Scale (as factor analyzed by Stokes, Murray, P…
Who Seeks to Adopt a Child: Findings from the National Survey of Family Growth (1995)
Data from Cycle 5 of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) (1995) were analyzed to identify factors that could predict whether a woman 18-44 years of age would ever have sought to adopt a child. Of the 10,019 women in the specified age group overall, 508 (5.1 percent) had ever sought to adopt, including 5.4 percent of white women and 5.2 percent of black women. Multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted for all women and for white…
Hollingsworth's Reply
Journal Article Hollingsworth's Reply Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth Leslie Doty Hollingsworth Ann Arbor, MI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 5, October 2000, Pages 470–471, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/45.5.470 Published: 01 October 2000
Adoption Policy in the United States: A Word of Caution
Journal Article Adoption Policy in the United States: A Word of Caution Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD assistant professor School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2000, Pages 183–186, https://doi.org/10.109…
Author's Response
Journal Article Author's Response Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth Leslie Doty Hollingsworth Ann Arbor, MI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 84–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/44.1.84 Published: 01 January 1999
Symbolic Interactionism, African American Families, and the Transracial Adoption Controversy
This article applies a cultural perspective in considering the opposition of some African Americans to transracial adoption. The article presents a historical review of the transracial adoption controversy, detailing the arguments that have been presented in opposition and the legislation that has evolved. Symbolic interactionism is used to frame African Americans as a unique and distinct cultural group, in which the socialization of African Amer…
Promoting Same-Race Adoption for Children of Color
Opponents of policies that protect same-race adoption assert that children of color are languishing in out-of-home care because they are being restricted from entering transracial adoption arrangements. This article argues that transracial adoption is not necessary to ensure that children of color are adopted in a timely manner and sets forth alternative arguments around six issues: (1) policies favoring adoption by foster parents, (2) the availa…
Effect of Transracial/Transethnic Adoption on Children's Racial and Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analytic Review
This paper reports the results of a meta-analytic review of comparative studies of racial identity and self-esteem in transra-cially/transethnically-adopted, inracially-adopted/same ethnic group, and biologic African-American and Mexican-American children. Six studies, including one longitudinal study with four phases, met the established criteria. Study level effect sizes were calculated. Twenty-nine dependent measure effect sizes were also calc…
International Adoption among Families in the United States: Considerations of Social Justice
The practice of international adoption of children is critiqued, using Rawls' egalitarian concept of a distributive method of social justice. From this perspective, international adoption may be perceived as contradictory to principles of social justice by ignoring the social context within which it occurs. Social contexts that frequently surround international adoption are severe poverty and the disenfranchisement of the adopted child's biologic…
Symbolic Interactionism, African American Families, and the Transracial Adoption Controversy
This article applies a cultural perspective in considering the opposition of some African Americans to transracial adoption. The article presents a historical review of the transracial adoption controversy, detailing the arguments that have been presented in opposition and the legislation that has evolved. Symbolic interactionism is used to frame African Americans as a unique and distinct cultural group, in which the socialization of African Amer…
Effect of Transracial/Transethnic Adoption on Children's Racial and Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analytic Review
This paper reports the results of a meta-analytic review of comparative studies of racial identity and self-esteem in transra-cially/transethnically-adopted, inracially-adopted/same ethnic group, and biologic African-American and Mexican-American children. Six studies, including one longitudinal study with four phases, met the established criteria. Study level effect sizes were calculated. Twenty-nine dependent measure effect sizes were also calc…
Who Seeks to Adopt a Child: Findings from the National Survey of Family Growth (1995)
Data from Cycle 5 of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) (1995) were analyzed to identify factors that could predict whether a woman 18-44 years of age would ever have sought to adopt a child. Of the 10,019 women in the specified age group overall, 508 (5.1 percent) had ever sought to adopt, including 5.4 percent of white women and 5.2 percent of black women. Multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted for all women and for white…
Racial microaggressions in social work education: Black students’ encounters in a predominantly White institution
Research findings have substantiated encounters with racial microaggressions by Black students in predominantly White institutions. Yet no studies focus on students in social work programs. This is important since racial microaggressions can affect students’ academic, social, and emotional experiences, as well as career preparation of counseling students. In this study we examined encounters reported by 10 Black Master of Social Work students. We…
Why Are So Many U.S. Families Adopting Internationally: A Social Exchange Perspective
This paper uses social exchange theory to explain the increase by which U.S. families are adopting internationally, compared to domestically. Benefits of adopting internationally appear associated with a preference for infants, confidential adoptions, race/ethnic similarity and shorter waits. Costs are related to generally higher expenses and a greater likelihood of developmental and other health risks among the children. While international adop…
Promoting Same-Race Adoption for Children of Color
Opponents of policies that protect same-race adoption assert that children of color are languishing in out-of-home care because they are being restricted from entering transracial adoption arrangements. This article argues that transracial adoption is not necessary to ensure that children of color are adopted in a timely manner and sets forth alternative arguments around six issues: (1) policies favoring adoption by foster parents, (2) the availa…
A comparison of caseworker characteristics in public and private foster care agencies
Child custody loss among women with persistent severe mental illness
The author analyzed quantitative data from an NIMH-funded longitudinal study of 322 women with persistent severe mental illness (SMI) and qualitative data from semistructured interviews with 82 of the women who ever lost custody of a child. The purpose was to test the hypothesis, derived from human ecology theory, that individual and environmental factors combine with mental illness to predict a history of child custody loss. The final model supp…
Adoption Policy in the United States: A Word of Caution
Journal Article Adoption Policy in the United States: A Word of Caution Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD assistant professor School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2000, Pages 183–186, https://doi.org/10.109…
Afrocentricity and social work education
Twenty-two African American, biracial, Caucasian, and Latino students enrolled in an advanced graduate social work course aimed at approaching interpersonal practice from an Afrocentric perspective. Curricular content included historical contributions of African-descent people, components of Afrocentricity and African-centered social work, and principles and methods associated with NTU psychotherapy. Students demonstrated a slight but statistical…
Living Arrangements and Social Support: Effects on the Well-Being of Mothers with Mental Illness
This article examines the effects of living arrangements on the well-being of mothers with a serious mental illness. Analyses of data from a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study of an urban, primarily African American sample of 379 mothers with mental illness revealed few differences in parenting or social functioning between mothers living with their children and a spouse or partner and those living with their children only. However,…
Does the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption Address the Protection of Adoptees' Cultural Identity? And Should It
Journal Article Does the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption Address the Protection of Adoptees' Cultural Identity? And Should It? Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD, ACSW, LMSW Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD, ACSW, LMSW associate professor School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google S…
Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment
The work of select foundations is gradually expanding beyond conventional program funding to an "embedded funding" approach, in which funders dig in and dig deeper to foster community. In this article, we describe general characteristics of the embedded funding approach, how it differs from conventional efforts, delineate several key methods involved, and explain the relevance of the approach within the context of the challenges facing some neigh…
Effect of Transracial/Transethnic Adoption on Children's Racial and Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analytic Review
This paper reports the results of a meta-analytic review of comparative studies of racial identity and self-esteem in transra-cially/transethnically-adopted, inracially-adopted/same ethnic group, and biologic African-American and Mexican-American children. Six studies, including one longitudinal study with four phases, met the established criteria. Study level effect sizes were calculated. Twenty-nine dependent measure effect sizes were also calc…
Promoting Same-Race Adoption for Children of Color
Opponents of policies that protect same-race adoption assert that children of color are languishing in out-of-home care because they are being restricted from entering transracial adoption arrangements. This article argues that transracial adoption is not necessary to ensure that children of color are adopted in a timely manner and sets forth alternative arguments around six issues: (1) policies favoring adoption by foster parents, (2) the availa…
Author's Response
Journal Article Author's Response Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth Leslie Doty Hollingsworth Ann Arbor, MI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 84–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/44.1.84 Published: 01 January 1999
Symbolic Interactionism, African American Families, and the Transracial Adoption Controversy
This article applies a cultural perspective in considering the opposition of some African Americans to transracial adoption. The article presents a historical review of the transracial adoption controversy, detailing the arguments that have been presented in opposition and the legislation that has evolved. Symbolic interactionism is used to frame African Americans as a unique and distinct cultural group, in which the socialization of African Amer…
Africentric Theory as a Predictor of Adoption Among African Americans: An Exploratory Study
A multiple logistic regression analysis examined Afri-centricity as a predictor of adoption among 92 respondents who labeled their racial or ethnic identity as Black or as African American. Forty-eight had adopted at least one child and 44 had inquired but did not adopt. Persons with high scores on the Self-Reinforcement Against Racism sub-scale of Baldwin and Bell's (1985) African Self-Consciousness Scale (as factor analyzed by Stokes, Murray, P…
Who Seeks to Adopt a Child: Findings from the National Survey of Family Growth (1995)
Data from Cycle 5 of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) (1995) were analyzed to identify factors that could predict whether a woman 18-44 years of age would ever have sought to adopt a child. Of the 10,019 women in the specified age group overall, 508 (5.1 percent) had ever sought to adopt, including 5.4 percent of white women and 5.2 percent of black women. Multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted for all women and for white…
Hollingsworth's Reply
Journal Article Hollingsworth's Reply Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth Leslie Doty Hollingsworth Ann Arbor, MI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 5, October 2000, Pages 470–471, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/45.5.470 Published: 01 October 2000
Adoption Policy in the United States: A Word of Caution
Journal Article Adoption Policy in the United States: A Word of Caution Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD assistant professor School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2000, Pages 183–186, https://doi.org/10.109…
Transracial adoptees in the media: 1986-1996
Media reports of interviews with 93 adults transracially adopted as children were content analyzed (percentage agreement = 80%-100%, Cohen's kappas = .61-1.00). Most interviews (63%-88%) involved adoptees who were African American or biracial; in college, graduate school, or employed in professional or managerial occupations; 20-29 years old; and raised in the East or Midwest, with siblings who were the adoptive parents' biological children, othe…
Why Are So Many U.S. Families Adopting Internationally: A Social Exchange Perspective
This paper uses social exchange theory to explain the increase by which U.S. families are adopting internationally, compared to domestically. Benefits of adopting internationally appear associated with a preference for infants, confidential adoptions, race/ethnic similarity and shorter waits. Costs are related to generally higher expenses and a greater likelihood of developmental and other health risks among the children. While international adop…
International Adoption among Families in the United States: Considerations of Social Justice
The practice of international adoption of children is critiqued, using Rawls' egalitarian concept of a distributive method of social justice. From this perspective, international adoption may be perceived as contradictory to principles of social justice by ignoring the social context within which it occurs. Social contexts that frequently surround international adoption are severe poverty and the disenfranchisement of the adopted child's biologic…
Child custody loss among women with persistent severe mental illness
The author analyzed quantitative data from an NIMH-funded longitudinal study of 322 women with persistent severe mental illness (SMI) and qualitative data from semistructured interviews with 82 of the women who ever lost custody of a child. The purpose was to test the hypothesis, derived from human ecology theory, that individual and environmental factors combine with mental illness to predict a history of child custody loss. The final model supp…
A family of trust: African American parents' stories of adoption disclosure
Dramatic increases in same-race adoptions of African American children have stimulated interest in the experiences of these families, including those related to disclosure. Data from interviews with 27 African American adoptive parents (7 mothers and fathers interviewed conjointly, 13 mothers interviewed alone) from 20 different families revealed the following themes: (a) efforts to prevent trauma to the child; (b) respect for the child's differe…
Living Arrangements and Social Support: Effects on the Well-Being of Mothers with Mental Illness
This article examines the effects of living arrangements on the well-being of mothers with a serious mental illness. Analyses of data from a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study of an urban, primarily African American sample of 379 mothers with mental illness revealed few differences in parenting or social functioning between mothers living with their children and a spouse or partner and those living with their children only. However,…
Does the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption Address the Protection of Adoptees' Cultural Identity? And Should It
Journal Article Does the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption Address the Protection of Adoptees' Cultural Identity? And Should It? Get access Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD, ACSW, LMSW Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, PhD, ACSW, LMSW associate professor School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google S…
A comparison of caseworker characteristics in public and private foster care agencies
Is the Life History Calendar a Valid Measure of Child Custody Loss among Birth Mothers with Serious Mental Illness
As of October 9, 2009, 463,000 children were receiving care in the public foster care system (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009). Parental rights to 75,000 (16%) had been terminated. Parents with serious mental illness (SMI) are confronted with increased risk of involvement with the child welfare system and of having their children placed in out-of-home care (Park, Solomon, & Mandell, 2006; Sands, Koppelman, & Solomon, 2004). In …
Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment
The work of select foundations is gradually expanding beyond conventional program funding to an "embedded funding" approach, in which funders dig in and dig deeper to foster community. In this article, we describe general characteristics of the embedded funding approach, how it differs from conventional efforts, delineate several key methods involved, and explain the relevance of the approach within the context of the challenges facing some neigh…
The Developmental Progression of Transracial Experiences among South Korean Adoptees: A Review of the Literature
Thorough examination of the literature revealed no comprehensive reviews detailing the experiences of South Korean–U.S. adoptees as transnationally adopted persons. To address this need, multiple databases, keywords/keyword combinations, and fugitive literature were used. Data from the review were coded, categorized, and analyzed, with five themes emerging: (1) intrusive interactions, (2) boundary management, (3) discrimination and exclusion, (4)…
A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change
Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. Detroit, with its vast majority Black population and struggling auto industry, encountered such decline. The Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort to bring Detroit back to its position of strength. With its mission of enhancing the development and well-being of children, Skillman entered partnerships with six Detroit ne…
Introducing the Six Good Neighborhoods Communities: Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for Youth and Families in under-Served Neighborhoods
Each Good Neighborhoods community is unique. This chapter introduces each of the six neighborhoods in the order in which Skillman launched the community planning process: Southwest Detroit, Chadsey Condon, Brightmoor, Osborn, Cody Rouge, and Northend Central. After a short description of each neighborhood and its early history, basic facts that describe population demographics, economic indicators, housing and crime are presented. A summary of co…
Afrocentricity and social work education
Twenty-two African American, biracial, Caucasian, and Latino students enrolled in an advanced graduate social work course aimed at approaching interpersonal practice from an Afrocentric perspective. Curricular content included historical contributions of African-descent people, components of Afrocentricity and African-centered social work, and principles and methods associated with NTU psychotherapy. Students demonstrated a slight but statistical…
Racial microaggressions in social work education: Black students’ encounters in a predominantly White institution
Research findings have substantiated encounters with racial microaggressions by Black students in predominantly White institutions. Yet no studies focus on students in social work programs. This is important since racial microaggressions can affect students’ academic, social, and emotional experiences, as well as career preparation of counseling students. In this study we examined encounters reported by 10 Black Master of Social Work students. We…
Sociology (17 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)