Lois Pierce
Biographic Data
| ID | 228536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lois Pierce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lois |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierce |
| SIGNATURE | PIERCE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0452-1391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Supporting Mental Health at Work (Comment on “The Epidemic of Mental Disorders in Business”)
Kensbock, Alkærsig, and Lomberg (KAL) (2022) address the important topic of employee mental health in organizations. For three reasons, we caution readers against embracing KAL’s proposition that employee mobility spreads mental disorders across organizations through a contagion process. First, we view harmful contagion as the least plausible of three theoretical mechanisms that imply similar empirical results. Second, despite detailed employment…
Losing Hurts: The Happiness Impact of Partisan Electoral Loss
Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity by examining the immediate impact of electoral loss and victory on happiness and sadness. Employing a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity model we present two primary findings. First, elections strongly affect the immediate happiness/sadness of partisan losers, but minimally impact partisan winners. T…
Community Violence and Psychological Distress in South African and U.S. Children
This study compared the relation between exposure to community violence and psychological distress in children in the United States and the R.S.A. (South Africa). Interviews were conducted with 247 children (49% male) between the ages of 8 to 13 years from five Cape Town township schools, and 162 children (49% male) ages 7 to 13 in a summer day program in St. Louis, MO. The Nadel, Spellman, and Alvarez-Canino Victimization Scale ( H. Nadel, M. Sp…
The abundance effect: Unethical behavior in the presence of wealth
Does family-centered out-of-home care work? Comparison of a family-centered approach and traditional care
This research assessed the effectiveness of a family-centered approach to out-of home core in reunifying children with their families by comparing differential exit rates of children whose families received family-centered services with children whose families received routine child welfare services. The sample included 472 children who were in foster care from 1994 to 1996 in Missouri. Survival analysis was used to calculate the probability that…
Use of Title IV-E Funding in BSW Programs
Title IV-E provides resources that allow social work education and state child welfare agencies to collaborate to provide an educational experience that prepares students to move quickly into a complex practice experience. In 1998-1999 all BSW programs that were accredited and in candidacy were surveyed to see if they were using Title IV-E funds to provide support for students who would agree to work in public child welfare programs after graduat…
Assessing the Effect of Family-Centered Out-of-Home Care on Reunification Outcomes
Objective: To assess the effect of Missouri’s Family-Centered Out-of-Home Care model on reunification, placement recidivism, and time in out-of-home care. Method: This study used a nonequivalent control group design. The sample included 374 families whose children were in foster care from 1994 to 1996 in the 11 pilot and 6 comparison counties. Results: Evaluative findings were mixed. Pilot county children spent somewhat fewer days in out-of-home …
Factors Related to Aggressive and Violent Behavior among Preadolescent African-American Boys
This study investigates factors that are related to aggressive behavior, violent behavior, and aggressive and violent attitudes among African-American preadolescent boys. These factors include exposure to verbal aggression in the home, exposure to community violence, family structure, and peer behavior. Two analyses are performed. The first is based on the behavior ratings of group leaders who were conducting after-school groups with the boys. Th…
The Be A Star community-based after-school program: Developing resiliency factors in high-risk preadolescent youth
A number of factors have been suggested as contributing to the resiliency of youth at risk for substance abuse. The Be A Star program builds on existing community-based after school programs, focusing on those domains that have shown promise in building resiliency to withstand pressure from peers and the community to abuse substances. Approximately 700 children from the city of St. Louis participated in an after-school group program that met once…
Moving toward cultural competence in the child welfare system
Child sexual abuse: A follow-up study of reports to a protective service hotline
Incestuous victimization by Juvenile Sex offenders
Selecting children for residential treatment
Losing Hurts: The Happiness Impact of Partisan Electoral Loss
Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity by examining the immediate impact of electoral loss and victory on happiness and sadness. Employing a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity model we present two primary findings. First, elections strongly affect the immediate happiness/sadness of partisan losers, but minimally impact partisan winners. T…
Does family-centered out-of-home care work? Comparison of a family-centered approach and traditional care
This research assessed the effectiveness of a family-centered approach to out-of home core in reunifying children with their families by comparing differential exit rates of children whose families received family-centered services with children whose families received routine child welfare services. The sample included 472 children who were in foster care from 1994 to 1996 in Missouri. Survival analysis was used to calculate the probability that…
Assessing the Effect of Family-Centered Out-of-Home Care on Reunification Outcomes
Objective: To assess the effect of Missouri’s Family-Centered Out-of-Home Care model on reunification, placement recidivism, and time in out-of-home care. Method: This study used a nonequivalent control group design. The sample included 374 families whose children were in foster care from 1994 to 1996 in the 11 pilot and 6 comparison counties. Results: Evaluative findings were mixed. Pilot county children spent somewhat fewer days in out-of-home …
Use of Title IV-E Funding in BSW Programs
Title IV-E provides resources that allow social work education and state child welfare agencies to collaborate to provide an educational experience that prepares students to move quickly into a complex practice experience. In 1998-1999 all BSW programs that were accredited and in candidacy were surveyed to see if they were using Title IV-E funds to provide support for students who would agree to work in public child welfare programs after graduat…
Moving toward cultural competence in the child welfare system
Selecting children for residential treatment
Selecting children for residential treatment
Incestuous victimization by Juvenile Sex offenders
Child sexual abuse: A follow-up study of reports to a protective service hotline
Moving toward cultural competence in the child welfare system
The Be A Star community-based after-school program: Developing resiliency factors in high-risk preadolescent youth
A number of factors have been suggested as contributing to the resiliency of youth at risk for substance abuse. The Be A Star program builds on existing community-based after school programs, focusing on those domains that have shown promise in building resiliency to withstand pressure from peers and the community to abuse substances. Approximately 700 children from the city of St. Louis participated in an after-school group program that met once…
Factors Related to Aggressive and Violent Behavior among Preadolescent African-American Boys
This study investigates factors that are related to aggressive behavior, violent behavior, and aggressive and violent attitudes among African-American preadolescent boys. These factors include exposure to verbal aggression in the home, exposure to community violence, family structure, and peer behavior. Two analyses are performed. The first is based on the behavior ratings of group leaders who were conducting after-school groups with the boys. Th…
Assessing the Effect of Family-Centered Out-of-Home Care on Reunification Outcomes
Objective: To assess the effect of Missouri’s Family-Centered Out-of-Home Care model on reunification, placement recidivism, and time in out-of-home care. Method: This study used a nonequivalent control group design. The sample included 374 families whose children were in foster care from 1994 to 1996 in the 11 pilot and 6 comparison counties. Results: Evaluative findings were mixed. Pilot county children spent somewhat fewer days in out-of-home …
Use of Title IV-E Funding in BSW Programs
Title IV-E provides resources that allow social work education and state child welfare agencies to collaborate to provide an educational experience that prepares students to move quickly into a complex practice experience. In 1998-1999 all BSW programs that were accredited and in candidacy were surveyed to see if they were using Title IV-E funds to provide support for students who would agree to work in public child welfare programs after graduat…
Does family-centered out-of-home care work? Comparison of a family-centered approach and traditional care
This research assessed the effectiveness of a family-centered approach to out-of home core in reunifying children with their families by comparing differential exit rates of children whose families received family-centered services with children whose families received routine child welfare services. The sample included 472 children who were in foster care from 1994 to 1996 in Missouri. Survival analysis was used to calculate the probability that…
The abundance effect: Unethical behavior in the presence of wealth
Community Violence and Psychological Distress in South African and U.S. Children
This study compared the relation between exposure to community violence and psychological distress in children in the United States and the R.S.A. (South Africa). Interviews were conducted with 247 children (49% male) between the ages of 8 to 13 years from five Cape Town township schools, and 162 children (49% male) ages 7 to 13 in a summer day program in St. Louis, MO. The Nadel, Spellman, and Alvarez-Canino Victimization Scale ( H. Nadel, M. Sp…
Losing Hurts: The Happiness Impact of Partisan Electoral Loss
Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity by examining the immediate impact of electoral loss and victory on happiness and sadness. Employing a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity model we present two primary findings. First, elections strongly affect the immediate happiness/sadness of partisan losers, but minimally impact partisan winners. T…
Supporting Mental Health at Work (Comment on “The Epidemic of Mental Disorders in Business”)
Kensbock, Alkærsig, and Lomberg (KAL) (2022) address the important topic of employee mental health in organizations. For three reasons, we caution readers against embracing KAL’s proposition that employee mobility spreads mental disorders across organizations through a contagion process. First, we view harmful contagion as the least plausible of three theoretical mechanisms that imply similar empirical results. Second, despite detailed employment…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (6 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)