Ricky Muñoz
Biographic Data
| ID | 181871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ricky Muñoz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ricky |
| FAMILY NAME | Muñoz |
| SIGNATURE | MUÑOZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7241-0696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The mediating role of hope in linking perceived organization support to lower job burnout among child welfare professionals
Religious Doubts and the Problem with Religious Pressures for Christian Students
Educational literature has underscored the importance of higher education attending to students’ religious development. For Christian students, environment plays a role. Recent Christian religious development literature focusing on environmental predictors of growth found that higher religious pressures, assumed to be a controller according to Self-Determination Theory, predicted religious growth for students. The current study examines this find…
Hope As a Buffer to Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents with Depression
BACKGROUND: Suicide among adolescents has long been linked to symptoms of depression. However, limited research has examined the potential buffering effect of hope on the relationship between depression and suicide attempts. METHODS: To test the effect of hope on the positive relationship between depression and suicide attempts, we used data (N = 502 adolescents) from youth ages 12-18 collected as part of the 2018 Healthy Youth Survey in the Stat…
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth
Research among adolescent samples has consistently demonstrated that a hopeful mindset is associated with resilience and global well‐being. Further, research suggests that hope is influenced from an early age from connections with supportive caregivers. However, because older youth in the child welfare system may lack supportive caregivers, alternative sources of hope may be needed. To test a theory that supportive child welfare caseworkers can s…
Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences
Research has long supported that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are linked with reductions in well-being across the lifespan. However, less is known about the best practices for intervening with ACE to buffer the long-term negative effects beyond clinical settings. The current paper proposes that the positive psychology construct of hope offers guidance for understanding and responding to ACEs. We propose a theoretical model for developing …
Educational assessment of a social simulation for MSW students using the Cams framework
Approximately 45,000 people die by suicide annually in the United States with over 60% seeking help in the year leading up to their death. Of students receiving suicide-specific training in their degree programs, nearly two-thirds feel inadequately prepared for practice with suicidal clients. This study explores the outcomes of an educational pilot study (N = 29) integrating didactic instruction, readings, role-plays, and simulation for teaching …
Hope and resilience as protective factors linked to lower burnout among child welfare workers
A structural model of high crime neighborhoods as a driver of toxic stress leading to asthma diagnoses among children of a large medical practice
A Linear Model of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as Drivers of Lower Hope Mediated by Lower Attachment Security in an Adult Sample
Increasing Diversity and Oppression Scale Scores through Relational Cultural Theory
Despite the centrality of diversity and oppression to the standards of social work, more research is needed to determine the most effective teaching method. The Diversity and Oppression Scale allows researchers to assess students’ awareness, responsibility, self-confidence, practitioner and client congruence, and social work responsibilities, allowing various teaching methods to be tested. A significant difference following two graduate human div…
Bridging the Gap
The integration of evidence-informed practices in social work education can be difficult given the crowded curricula of most Master of Social Work programs, particularly for advanced standing MSW students who launch directly into advanced concentration year coursework after obtaining their Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). Several factors impact decisions about the integration of evidence-informed curricula, including the time, location, and order o…
Dare to Care
Human service professionals working in an interpersonal violence social service agency are at increased risk of experiencing emotional burnout, compassion fatigue, and high levels of stress, which may reduce work engagement, increase turnover, and ultimately negatively affect client outcomes. However, a positive organizational climate has the potential to buffer the negative effects of perceived stress on work engagement. Socio-moral climate is a…
The Learning Process of Social Work Students After Exposure to an SBIRT Training
To better understand how to train social work students on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) we tested a path model of students’ learning processes for SBIRT principles. We proposed the following model for the development of students’ SBIRT aptitude: (a) reductions in negative stereotypes about substance usage would lead to (b) increases in the identification of appropriate SBIRT practices, producing (c) gains in com…
Implementing a graduate social work course concerning practice with sexual and gender minority populations
The course Social Work With Sexual and Gender Minorities was offered as a summer social work elective in the Master of Social Work (MSW) program at a Midwestern university over two consecutive years. The purpose of the course was to provide students with a broad overview of the needs facing sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations and to prepare them for social work roles ranging from research, practice, and advocacy. One-way repeated measure…
Locus of Hope
Absent in theory, invisible in practice
A sound theoretical foundation is a necessary element of social work education that prepares students to confront the challenges of practice with critical knowledge of the human experience. Queer theory is a strength-based framework for understanding sexual and gender identities that fall outside of the current social norms, and offers a highly relevant and useful pathway for the education of social work practitioners. Despite its utility for enh…
A Reliability Generalization on the Children’s Hope Scale
American Indian Grand-Families
Since the United States Census Bureau began collecting data regarding grandparents raising their grandchildren, the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population has had the highest proportion of families led by grandparents as the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. Despite this, research into AI/AN grand-families is limited. To begin to fill this gap, this qualitative study of 49 AI/AN grandparents raising grand-families (GFs) was…
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Hope and Stress
Purpose: To evaluate mindfulness meditation as an antecedent of reductions in stress and increases in hope. Method: A quasi-experimental design ( N = 46; meditation group, n = 23; comparison group, n = 23) using a community sample was used to evaluate the impact of mindfulness meditation on stress and hope. A path analysis was also used to model a directional relationship between meditation participation and increases in hope mediated by reductio…
Absent in theory, invisible in practice
A sound theoretical foundation is a necessary element of social work education that prepares students to confront the challenges of practice with critical knowledge of the human experience. Queer theory is a strength-based framework for understanding sexual and gender identities that fall outside of the current social norms, and offers a highly relevant and useful pathway for the education of social work practitioners. Despite its utility for enh…
A Reliability Generalization on the Children’s Hope Scale
Hope and resilience as protective factors linked to lower burnout among child welfare workers
Locus of Hope
Bridging the Gap
The integration of evidence-informed practices in social work education can be difficult given the crowded curricula of most Master of Social Work programs, particularly for advanced standing MSW students who launch directly into advanced concentration year coursework after obtaining their Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). Several factors impact decisions about the integration of evidence-informed curricula, including the time, location, and order o…
Implementing a graduate social work course concerning practice with sexual and gender minority populations
The course Social Work With Sexual and Gender Minorities was offered as a summer social work elective in the Master of Social Work (MSW) program at a Midwestern university over two consecutive years. The purpose of the course was to provide students with a broad overview of the needs facing sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations and to prepare them for social work roles ranging from research, practice, and advocacy. One-way repeated measure…
A Linear Model of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as Drivers of Lower Hope Mediated by Lower Attachment Security in an Adult Sample
Dare to Care
Human service professionals working in an interpersonal violence social service agency are at increased risk of experiencing emotional burnout, compassion fatigue, and high levels of stress, which may reduce work engagement, increase turnover, and ultimately negatively affect client outcomes. However, a positive organizational climate has the potential to buffer the negative effects of perceived stress on work engagement. Socio-moral climate is a…
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Hope and Stress
Purpose: To evaluate mindfulness meditation as an antecedent of reductions in stress and increases in hope. Method: A quasi-experimental design ( N = 46; meditation group, n = 23; comparison group, n = 23) using a community sample was used to evaluate the impact of mindfulness meditation on stress and hope. A path analysis was also used to model a directional relationship between meditation participation and increases in hope mediated by reductio…
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Hope and Stress
Purpose: To evaluate mindfulness meditation as an antecedent of reductions in stress and increases in hope. Method: A quasi-experimental design ( N = 46; meditation group, n = 23; comparison group, n = 23) using a community sample was used to evaluate the impact of mindfulness meditation on stress and hope. A path analysis was also used to model a directional relationship between meditation participation and increases in hope mediated by reductio…
A Reliability Generalization on the Children’s Hope Scale
American Indian Grand-Families
Since the United States Census Bureau began collecting data regarding grandparents raising their grandchildren, the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population has had the highest proportion of families led by grandparents as the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. Despite this, research into AI/AN grand-families is limited. To begin to fill this gap, this qualitative study of 49 AI/AN grandparents raising grand-families (GFs) was…
Locus of Hope
Absent in theory, invisible in practice
A sound theoretical foundation is a necessary element of social work education that prepares students to confront the challenges of practice with critical knowledge of the human experience. Queer theory is a strength-based framework for understanding sexual and gender identities that fall outside of the current social norms, and offers a highly relevant and useful pathway for the education of social work practitioners. Despite its utility for enh…
The Learning Process of Social Work Students After Exposure to an SBIRT Training
To better understand how to train social work students on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) we tested a path model of students’ learning processes for SBIRT principles. We proposed the following model for the development of students’ SBIRT aptitude: (a) reductions in negative stereotypes about substance usage would lead to (b) increases in the identification of appropriate SBIRT practices, producing (c) gains in com…
Implementing a graduate social work course concerning practice with sexual and gender minority populations
The course Social Work With Sexual and Gender Minorities was offered as a summer social work elective in the Master of Social Work (MSW) program at a Midwestern university over two consecutive years. The purpose of the course was to provide students with a broad overview of the needs facing sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations and to prepare them for social work roles ranging from research, practice, and advocacy. One-way repeated measure…
Increasing Diversity and Oppression Scale Scores through Relational Cultural Theory
Despite the centrality of diversity and oppression to the standards of social work, more research is needed to determine the most effective teaching method. The Diversity and Oppression Scale allows researchers to assess students’ awareness, responsibility, self-confidence, practitioner and client congruence, and social work responsibilities, allowing various teaching methods to be tested. A significant difference following two graduate human div…
Bridging the Gap
The integration of evidence-informed practices in social work education can be difficult given the crowded curricula of most Master of Social Work programs, particularly for advanced standing MSW students who launch directly into advanced concentration year coursework after obtaining their Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). Several factors impact decisions about the integration of evidence-informed curricula, including the time, location, and order o…
Dare to Care
Human service professionals working in an interpersonal violence social service agency are at increased risk of experiencing emotional burnout, compassion fatigue, and high levels of stress, which may reduce work engagement, increase turnover, and ultimately negatively affect client outcomes. However, a positive organizational climate has the potential to buffer the negative effects of perceived stress on work engagement. Socio-moral climate is a…
A structural model of high crime neighborhoods as a driver of toxic stress leading to asthma diagnoses among children of a large medical practice
A Linear Model of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as Drivers of Lower Hope Mediated by Lower Attachment Security in an Adult Sample
Educational assessment of a social simulation for MSW students using the Cams framework
Approximately 45,000 people die by suicide annually in the United States with over 60% seeking help in the year leading up to their death. Of students receiving suicide-specific training in their degree programs, nearly two-thirds feel inadequately prepared for practice with suicidal clients. This study explores the outcomes of an educational pilot study (N = 29) integrating didactic instruction, readings, role-plays, and simulation for teaching …
Hope and resilience as protective factors linked to lower burnout among child welfare workers
Religious Doubts and the Problem with Religious Pressures for Christian Students
Educational literature has underscored the importance of higher education attending to students’ religious development. For Christian students, environment plays a role. Recent Christian religious development literature focusing on environmental predictors of growth found that higher religious pressures, assumed to be a controller according to Self-Determination Theory, predicted religious growth for students. The current study examines this find…
Hope As a Buffer to Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents with Depression
BACKGROUND: Suicide among adolescents has long been linked to symptoms of depression. However, limited research has examined the potential buffering effect of hope on the relationship between depression and suicide attempts. METHODS: To test the effect of hope on the positive relationship between depression and suicide attempts, we used data (N = 502 adolescents) from youth ages 12-18 collected as part of the 2018 Healthy Youth Survey in the Stat…
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth
Research among adolescent samples has consistently demonstrated that a hopeful mindset is associated with resilience and global well‐being. Further, research suggests that hope is influenced from an early age from connections with supportive caregivers. However, because older youth in the child welfare system may lack supportive caregivers, alternative sources of hope may be needed. To test a theory that supportive child welfare caseworkers can s…
Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences
Research has long supported that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are linked with reductions in well-being across the lifespan. However, less is known about the best practices for intervening with ACE to buffer the long-term negative effects beyond clinical settings. The current paper proposes that the positive psychology construct of hope offers guidance for understanding and responding to ACEs. We propose a theoretical model for developing …
The mediating role of hope in linking perceived organization support to lower job burnout among child welfare professionals
Psychology (19 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (7 works) · Social Work (7 works)