Marian S Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 222133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marian S Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marian S |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington Tacoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Upstream Legal Advocacy During Pregnancy to Prevent Traumatic Child Welfare Separations
Legal advocacy for parents involved in the public child welfare system in the United States is typically initiated only after a child has been removed and a dependency petition has been filed. For infants, removal at or shortly after birth constitutes a profound disruption of the parent–child attachment relationship and is increasingly recognized as an adverse childhood experience. This paper focuses on a summative program evaluation of the Famil…
Racial Matching in Foster Care Placements and Subsequent Placement Stability
Model Fidelity and Child Well-Being in Family Team Conference
Family Team Conference (FTC) has been suggested as a promising practice model to effectively reduce racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare. However, previous studies have noted ongoing challenges to promoting cultural responsiveness in FTC. This study analysed caseworkers’ survey data (n = 736) to explore the role of racial matching between caseworkers and children as an effective practice to strengthen the high fidelity of FT…
Child and state factors in positive permanency
Positive permanency, or leaving foster care to a permanent family setting, is a priority for children in care. Yet, there are barriers to achieving permanency, particularly among children of color. This study examined child and state factors that impacted permanency outcomes, with a particular focus on racial disparities. The researchers utilized a sample of n = 208,742 children who entered care in 2016 from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis …
Incarcerated Mothers
Although men comprise the largest portion of the prison population in the United States, the number of women in prison has increased more than 800% during the past three decades. More than 60% of these women are mothers of children under 18 years of age. There continues to be a gap in our knowledge base regarding mothers who are incarcerated. In this study, unresolved issues of trauma and attachment are explored for 28 incarcerated mothers involv…
Group Therapy at a Prison for Women
A wide range of issues are explored that are identified by incarcerated mothers during their participation in a Family Reunification Group at a prison for women. They include concerns regarding parent–child visits; lack of communication by child welfare social workers, attorneys, foster parents, and other caregivers; the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA); lack of finances; past and present unresolved trauma issues; and the absence of notifica…
An Indian Child Welfare perspective on disproportionality in child welfare
Adult Attachment Typology in a Sample of High-Risk Mothers
This study examined differences in attachment typology, early histories of unresolved trauma and loss, and intergenerational patterns of substance abuse in a high-risk sample of African American, White, Mexican American, and Native American mothers involved with the child welfare system. The Adult Attachment Interview and Chemical Dependency Assessment Profile were used to collect data from 24 mothers who were in-patients at a substance abuse tre…
Ethnic group comparisons in mental health outcomes of adult alumni of foster care
Disproportionality in education and employment outcomes of adult foster care alumni
Decision points in child welfare
Kinship Care for African American Children
To highlight the individual and systemic practices that perpetuate the overuse of and reliance on kinship care and instead emphasize family reunification as the permanency plan for African American children in the child welfare system, the authors first discuss how kinship care is affected by federal child welfare policy and provide a historical perspective on how that policy has evolved. They then discuss the number and proportion of African Ame…
Alcohol, Child Maltreatment, and Parenting Stress in the Lives of Birth Mothers
This exploratory study examines the potential relationship between parenting stress, child maltreatment, and alcoholism in a pilot data set. Twenty-four participants (six African-American, six European-American, six Mexican-American, and six Native-American) completed four questionnaires (Parenting Stress Index, Conflict Tactics Scale Parent-Child, Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, Chemical Dependency Assessment Profile [PSI, CTSPC, MAST, and C…
African American Mothers and Their Mothers
Based on spontaneous descriptions of their primary objects, ten African American mothers whose children had been returned to their care from kinship care, and ten African American mothers whose children remained in kinship care, were rated using the Concept of the Object Scale. That instrument identifies 14 personal variables that are rated on a seven-point scale. Although the findings revealed no significant statistical differences between the t…
The interaction of race, ethnicity, and family structure with respect to the timing of family reunification
Developing self‐awareness/racial identity with graduate social work students
This article discusses the significance of self‐awareness in clinical practice with diverse clients. The extent and ramifications of a journal assignment as a way for students to increase self‐awareness are explored as students poignantly describe their responses when they interacted with individuals from ethnic, racial, and cultural groups different from their own. In essence, students moved from a state of unawareness to varying degrees of self…
Decision points in child welfare
The interaction of race, ethnicity, and family structure with respect to the timing of family reunification
Disproportionality in education and employment outcomes of adult foster care alumni
Kinship Care for African American Children
To highlight the individual and systemic practices that perpetuate the overuse of and reliance on kinship care and instead emphasize family reunification as the permanency plan for African American children in the child welfare system, the authors first discuss how kinship care is affected by federal child welfare policy and provide a historical perspective on how that policy has evolved. They then discuss the number and proportion of African Ame…
An Indian Child Welfare perspective on disproportionality in child welfare
Ethnic group comparisons in mental health outcomes of adult alumni of foster care
Developing self‐awareness/racial identity with graduate social work students
This article discusses the significance of self‐awareness in clinical practice with diverse clients. The extent and ramifications of a journal assignment as a way for students to increase self‐awareness are explored as students poignantly describe their responses when they interacted with individuals from ethnic, racial, and cultural groups different from their own. In essence, students moved from a state of unawareness to varying degrees of self…
Incarcerated Mothers
Although men comprise the largest portion of the prison population in the United States, the number of women in prison has increased more than 800% during the past three decades. More than 60% of these women are mothers of children under 18 years of age. There continues to be a gap in our knowledge base regarding mothers who are incarcerated. In this study, unresolved issues of trauma and attachment are explored for 28 incarcerated mothers involv…
Group Therapy at a Prison for Women
A wide range of issues are explored that are identified by incarcerated mothers during their participation in a Family Reunification Group at a prison for women. They include concerns regarding parent–child visits; lack of communication by child welfare social workers, attorneys, foster parents, and other caregivers; the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA); lack of finances; past and present unresolved trauma issues; and the absence of notifica…
Alcohol, Child Maltreatment, and Parenting Stress in the Lives of Birth Mothers
This exploratory study examines the potential relationship between parenting stress, child maltreatment, and alcoholism in a pilot data set. Twenty-four participants (six African-American, six European-American, six Mexican-American, and six Native-American) completed four questionnaires (Parenting Stress Index, Conflict Tactics Scale Parent-Child, Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, Chemical Dependency Assessment Profile [PSI, CTSPC, MAST, and C…
Developing self‐awareness/racial identity with graduate social work students
This article discusses the significance of self‐awareness in clinical practice with diverse clients. The extent and ramifications of a journal assignment as a way for students to increase self‐awareness are explored as students poignantly describe their responses when they interacted with individuals from ethnic, racial, and cultural groups different from their own. In essence, students moved from a state of unawareness to varying degrees of self…
The interaction of race, ethnicity, and family structure with respect to the timing of family reunification
African American Mothers and Their Mothers
Based on spontaneous descriptions of their primary objects, ten African American mothers whose children had been returned to their care from kinship care, and ten African American mothers whose children remained in kinship care, were rated using the Concept of the Object Scale. That instrument identifies 14 personal variables that are rated on a seven-point scale. Although the findings revealed no significant statistical differences between the t…
Decision points in child welfare
Kinship Care for African American Children
To highlight the individual and systemic practices that perpetuate the overuse of and reliance on kinship care and instead emphasize family reunification as the permanency plan for African American children in the child welfare system, the authors first discuss how kinship care is affected by federal child welfare policy and provide a historical perspective on how that policy has evolved. They then discuss the number and proportion of African Ame…
Alcohol, Child Maltreatment, and Parenting Stress in the Lives of Birth Mothers
This exploratory study examines the potential relationship between parenting stress, child maltreatment, and alcoholism in a pilot data set. Twenty-four participants (six African-American, six European-American, six Mexican-American, and six Native-American) completed four questionnaires (Parenting Stress Index, Conflict Tactics Scale Parent-Child, Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, Chemical Dependency Assessment Profile [PSI, CTSPC, MAST, and C…
Disproportionality in education and employment outcomes of adult foster care alumni
Ethnic group comparisons in mental health outcomes of adult alumni of foster care
Adult Attachment Typology in a Sample of High-Risk Mothers
This study examined differences in attachment typology, early histories of unresolved trauma and loss, and intergenerational patterns of substance abuse in a high-risk sample of African American, White, Mexican American, and Native American mothers involved with the child welfare system. The Adult Attachment Interview and Chemical Dependency Assessment Profile were used to collect data from 24 mothers who were in-patients at a substance abuse tre…
An Indian Child Welfare perspective on disproportionality in child welfare
Group Therapy at a Prison for Women
A wide range of issues are explored that are identified by incarcerated mothers during their participation in a Family Reunification Group at a prison for women. They include concerns regarding parent–child visits; lack of communication by child welfare social workers, attorneys, foster parents, and other caregivers; the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA); lack of finances; past and present unresolved trauma issues; and the absence of notifica…
Incarcerated Mothers
Although men comprise the largest portion of the prison population in the United States, the number of women in prison has increased more than 800% during the past three decades. More than 60% of these women are mothers of children under 18 years of age. There continues to be a gap in our knowledge base regarding mothers who are incarcerated. In this study, unresolved issues of trauma and attachment are explored for 28 incarcerated mothers involv…
Child and state factors in positive permanency
Positive permanency, or leaving foster care to a permanent family setting, is a priority for children in care. Yet, there are barriers to achieving permanency, particularly among children of color. This study examined child and state factors that impacted permanency outcomes, with a particular focus on racial disparities. The researchers utilized a sample of n = 208,742 children who entered care in 2016 from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis …
Racial Matching in Foster Care Placements and Subsequent Placement Stability
Model Fidelity and Child Well-Being in Family Team Conference
Family Team Conference (FTC) has been suggested as a promising practice model to effectively reduce racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare. However, previous studies have noted ongoing challenges to promoting cultural responsiveness in FTC. This study analysed caseworkers’ survey data (n = 736) to explore the role of racial matching between caseworkers and children as an effective practice to strengthen the high fidelity of FT…
Upstream Legal Advocacy During Pregnancy to Prevent Traumatic Child Welfare Separations
Legal advocacy for parents involved in the public child welfare system in the United States is typically initiated only after a child has been removed and a dependency petition has been filed. For infants, removal at or shortly after birth constitutes a profound disruption of the parent–child attachment relationship and is increasingly recognized as an adverse childhood experience. This paper focuses on a summative program evaluation of the Famil…
Psychology (13 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (7 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Welfare (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)