Nancy Jo Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 248725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Jo Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2741-9293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unpacking the Roles of Psychological Distress and Social Well-Being in Minority Stress
While many sexual- and gender-minority adults experience significant rates of everyday discrimination, less is known about how it shapes life satisfaction and the psychosocial mechanisms involved. Using three waves of nationwide data on 612 sexual- and gender-minority adults in the United States from the Generations study, we analyzed the relationships between everyday discrimination, psychological distress, social well-being, and life satisfacti…
An Anti-Racist Practice in Social Work Research Teams
Social work researchers must intentionally and explicitly be anti-racist in commitments and actions if we are to disrupt, rather than simply acknowledge, racist systems and practices. This article, written by members of several research teams (including research staff, graduate research assistants, and principal investigators), describes an anti-racist team practice, which germinated in one research team and pollinated to others within a school o…
Examining religious orientation of facilities within the substance use system of care
Religiously oriented organizations have helped address critical needs in the lives of individuals, families, and communities throughout the history of the United States. However, there are few studies that have explored variation in religious orientation across the substance use system of care. This study examined the level of religious orientation within services serving populations affected by substance use and misuse in a Midwest metropolitan …
Maintaining the Magic
Social work programs are facing the need to gain further clarity about how to leverage instructional strategies specific to the course modality (i.e., traditional, hybrid, online hybrid, and fully online). At its heart, this challenge is an analogical transfer problem: practice instructors must adapt what they do in one modality to new modalities through modifying how they guide students to master learning objectives. In doing so, instructors can…
Black Women's Physical, Mental, and Sexual Health in the Criminal Legal System
This study examines pathways from gender-based, racialized violence to health outcomes among formerly incarcerated Black women. We frame violence as gender-based and racialized, with a theoretical stance that we live in a male-dominated society characterized by historic and contemporary race-based oppression. This secondary analysis focused on a subsample of Black women ( N = 288) from three U.S. cities (Oakland, CA; Kansas City, KS, MO; and Birm…
Scripting Sex in Courtship
Examining unique substance-related risk profiles for neglectful behaviors among parents with and without clinical depression
Types of Substance Use and Punitive Parenting
Very little is known about how type of substance use is comparatively related to a range of parenting behaviors. We conduct a preliminary examination to ascertain effects of substance type on physical abuse compared with other child discipline tactics with data from a telephone survey in 2009 of 3,023 parents in 50 cities in California. Kruskal-Wallis tests and hierarchical generalized linear models are conducted to determine the relationship bet…
Understanding the Role of Parental Opiate or Marijuana Use in Child Welfare Substantiation Decisions
Parental drug misuse is a risk factor that child welfare workers must consider during investigations of alleged maltreatment. Little is known, however about how workers view substance use, particularly for substances like marijuana and prescription opioids which are used legally in some circumstances but not in others. Qualitative data from a mixed-methods web-based survey of 562 workers in child welfare-related fields were used to examine the wa…
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Who’s Buying What and How Much? Correlates of Purchase Behaviors From Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Los Angeles, California
Substance use behaviors by parents and the decision to substantiate child physical abuse and neglect by caseworkers
Correlates of Amount Spent on Marijuana Buds During a Discrete Purchase at Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Marijuana purchasing behaviors vary by the purchaser's individual characteristics; however, little is known about patients' purchasing behaviors when buying from medical marijuana dispensaries (MMDs). Our objective was to explore whether patient characteristics were associated with amount spent during one financial transaction at medical marijuana dispensaries. We conducted a pilot study of four purposively sampled MMD locations in Long Beach, Ca…
The places parents go
Inadequate child supervision
Evaluating Medical Marijuana Dispensary Policies
In 1996, California was the first state to pass a Compassionate Use Act allowing for the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes. Here we review several current policy and land use environmental interventions designed to limit problems related to the influx of medical marijuana dispensaries across California cities. Then we discuss the special challenges, solutions, and techniques used for studying the effects of these place‐based policies. F…
Substance use behaviors by parents and the decision to substantiate child physical abuse and neglect by caseworkers
Inadequate child supervision
The places parents go
Evaluating Medical Marijuana Dispensary Policies
In 1996, California was the first state to pass a Compassionate Use Act allowing for the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes. Here we review several current policy and land use environmental interventions designed to limit problems related to the influx of medical marijuana dispensaries across California cities. Then we discuss the special challenges, solutions, and techniques used for studying the effects of these place‐based policies. F…
Maintaining the Magic
Social work programs are facing the need to gain further clarity about how to leverage instructional strategies specific to the course modality (i.e., traditional, hybrid, online hybrid, and fully online). At its heart, this challenge is an analogical transfer problem: practice instructors must adapt what they do in one modality to new modalities through modifying how they guide students to master learning objectives. In doing so, instructors can…
Black Women's Physical, Mental, and Sexual Health in the Criminal Legal System
This study examines pathways from gender-based, racialized violence to health outcomes among formerly incarcerated Black women. We frame violence as gender-based and racialized, with a theoretical stance that we live in a male-dominated society characterized by historic and contemporary race-based oppression. This secondary analysis focused on a subsample of Black women ( N = 288) from three U.S. cities (Oakland, CA; Kansas City, KS, MO; and Birm…
Scripting Sex in Courtship
Evaluating Medical Marijuana Dispensary Policies
In 1996, California was the first state to pass a Compassionate Use Act allowing for the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes. Here we review several current policy and land use environmental interventions designed to limit problems related to the influx of medical marijuana dispensaries across California cities. Then we discuss the special challenges, solutions, and techniques used for studying the effects of these place‐based policies. F…
Inadequate child supervision
The places parents go
Correlates of Amount Spent on Marijuana Buds During a Discrete Purchase at Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Marijuana purchasing behaviors vary by the purchaser's individual characteristics; however, little is known about patients' purchasing behaviors when buying from medical marijuana dispensaries (MMDs). Our objective was to explore whether patient characteristics were associated with amount spent during one financial transaction at medical marijuana dispensaries. We conducted a pilot study of four purposively sampled MMD locations in Long Beach, Ca…
Substance use behaviors by parents and the decision to substantiate child physical abuse and neglect by caseworkers
Who’s Buying What and How Much? Correlates of Purchase Behaviors From Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Los Angeles, California
Types of Substance Use and Punitive Parenting
Very little is known about how type of substance use is comparatively related to a range of parenting behaviors. We conduct a preliminary examination to ascertain effects of substance type on physical abuse compared with other child discipline tactics with data from a telephone survey in 2009 of 3,023 parents in 50 cities in California. Kruskal-Wallis tests and hierarchical generalized linear models are conducted to determine the relationship bet…
Understanding the Role of Parental Opiate or Marijuana Use in Child Welfare Substantiation Decisions
Parental drug misuse is a risk factor that child welfare workers must consider during investigations of alleged maltreatment. Little is known, however about how workers view substance use, particularly for substances like marijuana and prescription opioids which are used legally in some circumstances but not in others. Qualitative data from a mixed-methods web-based survey of 562 workers in child welfare-related fields were used to examine the wa…
Activity spaces
Examining unique substance-related risk profiles for neglectful behaviors among parents with and without clinical depression
Scripting Sex in Courtship
Examining religious orientation of facilities within the substance use system of care
Religiously oriented organizations have helped address critical needs in the lives of individuals, families, and communities throughout the history of the United States. However, there are few studies that have explored variation in religious orientation across the substance use system of care. This study examined the level of religious orientation within services serving populations affected by substance use and misuse in a Midwest metropolitan …
Maintaining the Magic
Social work programs are facing the need to gain further clarity about how to leverage instructional strategies specific to the course modality (i.e., traditional, hybrid, online hybrid, and fully online). At its heart, this challenge is an analogical transfer problem: practice instructors must adapt what they do in one modality to new modalities through modifying how they guide students to master learning objectives. In doing so, instructors can…
Black Women's Physical, Mental, and Sexual Health in the Criminal Legal System
This study examines pathways from gender-based, racialized violence to health outcomes among formerly incarcerated Black women. We frame violence as gender-based and racialized, with a theoretical stance that we live in a male-dominated society characterized by historic and contemporary race-based oppression. This secondary analysis focused on a subsample of Black women ( N = 288) from three U.S. cities (Oakland, CA; Kansas City, KS, MO; and Birm…
Unpacking the Roles of Psychological Distress and Social Well-Being in Minority Stress
While many sexual- and gender-minority adults experience significant rates of everyday discrimination, less is known about how it shapes life satisfaction and the psychosocial mechanisms involved. Using three waves of nationwide data on 612 sexual- and gender-minority adults in the United States from the Generations study, we analyzed the relationships between everyday discrimination, psychological distress, social well-being, and life satisfacti…
An Anti-Racist Practice in Social Work Research Teams
Social work researchers must intentionally and explicitly be anti-racist in commitments and actions if we are to disrupt, rather than simply acknowledge, racist systems and practices. This article, written by members of several research teams (including research staff, graduate research assistants, and principal investigators), describes an anti-racist team practice, which germinated in one research team and pollinated to others within a school o…
Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (5 works)