Thomas Elliott
Biographic Data
| ID | 315889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Elliott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Elliott |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIOTT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6608-7714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The relationship of early therapeutic alliance, baseline client symptom severity, and client race to duration in therapy and post client symptom severity
Extending the study of Shaw et al., this study aimed to determine whether early therapeutic alliance, baseline client symptom severity, and client race predicted treatment duration and post client symptom severity. Participants (N = 75) were clients at a community mental health clinic. Baseline client symptom severity, but not early therapeutic alliance, predicted post client symptom severity; client race predicted treatment duration. Collectivel…
Advances in Corpus-Based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of Discipline, Register, and Writer Expertise
Advances in Corpus-Based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of Discipline, Register, and Writer Expertise highlights 15 recent studies from both well-established names and relative newcomers in the field of corpus linguistics, all of whom were invited to contribute to the volume after presenting at a conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL). Edited by Ute Römer, Viviana Cortes, and Eric Friginal of Georgia State Uni…
In Memoriam: John F. McGowan: Professional Pioneer and War Hero
Assessing depression outcomes in teletherapy for underserved residents in Central Texas: Telehealth’s move to treatment-as-usual
The Covid‐19 Pandemic’s Influence on Family Systems Therapists’ Provision of Teletherapy
The COVID‐19 pandemic has altered life globally like no other event in modern history, and psychological service changes to meet the resultant impacts on families have not been assessed in the empirical literature. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether family systems therapists increased their teletherapy use during the pandemic relative to prepandemic usage, and whether projected postpandemic rates would remain at the same leve…
Restor: Transparency and connectivity for the global environmental movement
Personality metatraits predict resilience among family caregivers responsible for a dependent youth’s chronic respiratory management
Consistent with DeYoung's conceptualization, higher Alpha and Beta predicted caregiver resilience, albeit through different pathways. The emotional stability, perseverance and emotional regulation associated with Alpha likely accounted for its positive association with caregiver mental health. Beta, in contrast, may operate through their adaptive flexibility, personal resourcefulness and social engagement to augment coping efforts that involve ot…
Predictors of Vaccine Hesitancy among Health Care Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Most studies of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health care workers (HCWs) have been descriptive, few have tested models to predict hesitancy, and none have examined the possible relationship between HCWs' distress and vaccine hesitancy. This study examined predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, including HCWs' distress after taking into account HCW sex, doctoral-level status, race, age, and exposure to COVID-19. Further, it examined specific…
Softer Policing or the Institutionalization of Protest? Decomposing Changes in Observed Protest Policing over Time
Protest policing is central to research on social movement repression and of great practical importance. Here, we examine competing explanations for observed changes in the likelihood that police will attend any given protest event and make arrests, use violence, or both in New York State from 1960 to 1995. While many researchers point to changes within law enforcement as the primary cause for “softer policing” over this period, we show, using a …
The Mediation Model: How Non-Moderate Nonhuman Animal Advocacy Organizations Get the Media Coverage They Want
In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a marked increase in non-moderate, or “radical,” non-human animal advocacy organizations. Social movement scholars argued that these organizations have greater difficulty than “moderate” ones in receiving substantial news coverage. But forms of substantive news coverage have increased for both moderate and non-moderate animal advocacy organizations. To address this, media analyses were conducted using content cod…
Spillover as Movement Agenda Setting: Using Computational and Network Techniques for Improved Rare Event Identification
The increasing availability of data, along with sophisticated computational methods for analyzing them, presents researchers with new opportunities and challenges. In this article, we address both by describing computational and network methods that can be used to identify cases of rare phenomena. We evaluate each method’s relative utility in the identification of a specific rare phenomenon of interest to social movement researchers: the spillove…
What Drives Progressive Policy? Institutional Politics, Political Mediation, Policy Feedbacks, and Early U.S. Old‐Age Policy
What drives progressive public policy? Because progressive policy challenges the interests of powerful people and interests that dominate policy making, it is puzzling that progressive policy ever happens. This article addresses this question by modeling and appraising institutional political, political mediation, and policy feedback theories and models of progressive policy making. Institutional political theory focuses on political institutiona…
Setting Our Sails: Counseling Psychology in the Age of Integrated Health Care
Counseling psychology has a documented ability to adapt to the winds of societal, market, and professional change. Adjusting our sails to the winds of integrated care will require realizing that (a) the value systems and approaches that define our field compel us to become more involved in the movement and (b) we have the requisite expertise to do so. This article echoes the others in this Major Contribution highlighting the importance of interpr…
Making Good News: What Explains the Quality of Coverage of the Civil Rights Movement
When social movement organizations receive extensive newspaper coverage, why is it sometimes substantive and sometimes not? By “substantive,” we mean coverage that reflects serious treatment of the movement's issues, demands, or policy claims. Scholars agree that the news media are key to movement organizations' influence, helping them alter public discourse and effect political change, but often find that protests are covered nonsubstantively. E…
Organizing the Next Generation: Youth Engagement with Activism Inside and Outside of Organizations
Social movement scholars have long considered organizations (social movement organizations [SMOs]) vital to the success of a movement. SMOs organize events, mobilize participants, and recruit new activists into the movement. In the case of youth activism, SMOs can also play a vital role in the political socialization of youth. However, a substantial line of research finds that most SMOs do a poor job of encouraging and facilitating youth engageme…
From bias to coverage: What explains how news organizations treat social movements
Why do newspapers cover social movement actors, and why is this coverage sometimes favorable? Early scholarship saw the news media mainly as a source of data on collective action, and sought to ascertain its biases, but scholarship has increasingly focused directly on why movements gain coverage, especially coverage that can advance their goals. To understand why and how newspapers cover movement actors, we start with the insight that movements r…
Youth, activism, and social movements
There has been considerable debate over the extent and role of young people's political participation. Whether considering popular hand‐wringing over concerns about declines in young people's institutional political participation or dismissals of young people's use of online activism, many frame youth engagement through a “youth deficit” model that assumes that adults need to politically socialize young people. However, others argue that young pe…
All the Right Movements? Mediation, Rightist Movements, and Why US Movements Received Extensive Newspaper Coverage
Under which conditions do social movements receive coverage by the mainstream news media? News coverage matters for movements for political, cultural, and organizational reasons, but only rarely have scholars analyzed the coverage of movements comparatively and at the movement level. To address the question, we apply a political mediation model of the influence of movements to professional news media, using ideas from the social organization of t…
Online protest participation and the digital divide: Modeling the effect of the digital divide on online petition-signing
Scholars have long been concerned about the effect that digital inequalities might have on marginalized populations. Concern for the “digital divide” extends to social movement scholars, who worry that the digital divide will lead to social movements privileging the concerns of the middle class over those of disadvantaged groups. We argue for a novel way of testing for such effects—the use of a Heckman regression model to model participation in o…
Recipes for Attention: Policy Reforms, Crises, Organizational Characteristics, and the Newspaper Coverage of the LGBT Movement, 1969–2009
Why do some organizations in a movement seeking social change gain extensive national newspaper coverage? To address the question, we innovate in theoretical and empirical ways. First, we elaborate a theoretical argument that builds from the political mediation theory of movement consequences and incorporates the social organization of newspaper practices. This media and political mediation model integrates political and media contexts and organi…
External Funding and Competing Visions for Academic Counseling Psychology
The major contributions by Burrow-Sánchez, Martin, and Imel and Martens et al. are the first explicitly substantive, constructive statements about extramural funding and counseling psychology to appear in The Counseling Psychologist. For over 15 years, many have recognized the importance of extramural funding to the continued presence of counseling psychology training programs in research-intensive universities. In this reaction piece, I discuss …
Political Reform and Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Movements in Depression, Recession, and Historical Perspective
The Great Depression and the Great Recession in the United States both saw upsurges of social movement activity and newspaper coverage, but why did movements of both the right and left surge during the leftwing regimes of these periods? Why did the Barack Obama administration not produce the lasting leftwing mobilizations characteristic of the Franklin Roosevelt era? To address these questions and locate these episodes in historical perspective, …
Does participation mediate the prospective relationships of impairment, injury severity, and pain to quality of life following burn injury
We examined the prospective impact of injury severity, functional impairment, and pain on participation in the community and subsequently on life satisfaction and self-rated health of 260 burn survivors 5 years post-discharge. Predictor variables include injury severity and total body surface area burned (assessed during acute care), functional independence (assessed at 12 months post-discharge), pain (assessed at the 24th month), and participati…
Turning to the Courts: A Quantitative Analysis of the Gay and Lesbian Movement’s Use of Legal Mobilization
We quantitatively examine the factors influencing the lesbian and gay movement’s involvement in state-level appellate cases through an analysis of Lambda Legal’s judicial agenda from 1981 through 2000. We combine a list of state appellate cases involving gay and lesbian rights during this period with data from Lambda’s “Docket Update” to create a data set that identifies which cases Lambda was involved in. We theorize that Lambda’s involvement wi…
Spinal Cord Injury
In this chapter, we review the major aspects of spinal cord injury (SCI) and recent research about the condition and its concomitants. SCI is a relatively low-incidence but high-cost injury, with lifetime costs estimated to be well above the $1 million mark, and costs increase dramatically as the severity of injury increases. In addition, the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC, 2010) reports life expectancies for individuals w…
Youth, activism, and social movements
There has been considerable debate over the extent and role of young people's political participation. Whether considering popular hand‐wringing over concerns about declines in young people's institutional political participation or dismissals of young people's use of online activism, many frame youth engagement through a “youth deficit” model that assumes that adults need to politically socialize young people. However, others argue that young pe…
Online protest participation and the digital divide: Modeling the effect of the digital divide on online petition-signing
Scholars have long been concerned about the effect that digital inequalities might have on marginalized populations. Concern for the “digital divide” extends to social movement scholars, who worry that the digital divide will lead to social movements privileging the concerns of the middle class over those of disadvantaged groups. We argue for a novel way of testing for such effects—the use of a Heckman regression model to model participation in o…
Making Good News: What Explains the Quality of Coverage of the Civil Rights Movement
When social movement organizations receive extensive newspaper coverage, why is it sometimes substantive and sometimes not? By “substantive,” we mean coverage that reflects serious treatment of the movement's issues, demands, or policy claims. Scholars agree that the news media are key to movement organizations' influence, helping them alter public discourse and effect political change, but often find that protests are covered nonsubstantively. E…
From bias to coverage: What explains how news organizations treat social movements
Why do newspapers cover social movement actors, and why is this coverage sometimes favorable? Early scholarship saw the news media mainly as a source of data on collective action, and sought to ascertain its biases, but scholarship has increasingly focused directly on why movements gain coverage, especially coverage that can advance their goals. To understand why and how newspapers cover movement actors, we start with the insight that movements r…
Organizing the Next Generation: Youth Engagement with Activism Inside and Outside of Organizations
Social movement scholars have long considered organizations (social movement organizations [SMOs]) vital to the success of a movement. SMOs organize events, mobilize participants, and recruit new activists into the movement. In the case of youth activism, SMOs can also play a vital role in the political socialization of youth. However, a substantial line of research finds that most SMOs do a poor job of encouraging and facilitating youth engageme…
All the Right Movements? Mediation, Rightist Movements, and Why US Movements Received Extensive Newspaper Coverage
Under which conditions do social movements receive coverage by the mainstream news media? News coverage matters for movements for political, cultural, and organizational reasons, but only rarely have scholars analyzed the coverage of movements comparatively and at the movement level. To address the question, we apply a political mediation model of the influence of movements to professional news media, using ideas from the social organization of t…
Recipes for Attention: Policy Reforms, Crises, Organizational Characteristics, and the Newspaper Coverage of the LGBT Movement, 1969–2009
Why do some organizations in a movement seeking social change gain extensive national newspaper coverage? To address the question, we innovate in theoretical and empirical ways. First, we elaborate a theoretical argument that builds from the political mediation theory of movement consequences and incorporates the social organization of newspaper practices. This media and political mediation model integrates political and media contexts and organi…
Negotiating reality after physical loss: Hope, depression, and disability
Social-Cognitive Processes in Behavioral Health: Implications for Counseling
Social cognitive variables are salient factors in the prevention, development, and maintenance of health-related problems. These variables are of particular interest to counseling psychologists, as they are amenable to a variety of psychological interventions. We review several social-cognitive processes that have been studied in relation to behavioral health and health-related problems. We then discuss implications for assessment and theory-base…
Self-perceived problem-solving ability, stress appraisal, and coping over time
Turning to the Courts: A Quantitative Analysis of the Gay and Lesbian Movement’s Use of Legal Mobilization
We quantitatively examine the factors influencing the lesbian and gay movement’s involvement in state-level appellate cases through an analysis of Lambda Legal’s judicial agenda from 1981 through 2000. We combine a list of state appellate cases involving gay and lesbian rights during this period with data from Lambda’s “Docket Update” to create a data set that identifies which cases Lambda was involved in. We theorize that Lambda’s involvement wi…
Selected Translations of Social Psychology to Counseling Psychology
This article briefly discusses some circumscribed important areas where social and counseling psychology interface. Some of the historical routes of the interface are noted and the effect of this work is addressed. It is concluded that considerable progress has been made in translating social psychology research into counseling research and practice but that much more remains to be investigated. We note that most of the research and practice adva…
Translating Social Psychology for the Scientist-Practitioner Counseling Psychologist
The articles included in this special issue have presented a balance of reviewing and synthesizing the literatures, translating what has been learned into guidance relevant to practice, and addressing future directions. This summary article briefly highlights some of the new contributions of the four topical articles and concludes that considerable work remains, particularly for counseling psychology, to continue to enhance the integration of the…
Setting Our Sails: Counseling Psychology in the Age of Integrated Health Care
Counseling psychology has a documented ability to adapt to the winds of societal, market, and professional change. Adjusting our sails to the winds of integrated care will require realizing that (a) the value systems and approaches that define our field compel us to become more involved in the movement and (b) we have the requisite expertise to do so. This article echoes the others in this Major Contribution highlighting the importance of interpr…
External Funding and Competing Visions for Academic Counseling Psychology
The major contributions by Burrow-Sánchez, Martin, and Imel and Martens et al. are the first explicitly substantive, constructive statements about extramural funding and counseling psychology to appear in The Counseling Psychologist. For over 15 years, many have recognized the importance of extramural funding to the continued presence of counseling psychology training programs in research-intensive universities. In this reaction piece, I discuss …
What Are You Looking At? The Potential of Appreciative Inquiry as a Research Approach for Social Work
Counseling Psychology and Chronic Health Conditions: A Call for Action
The authors support the assertion that counseling psychology expertise should be present at all levels of therapeutic activity that may benefit persons who live with chronic health conditions. They consider the impact of the increasing rates of chronic health conditions on health care systems, society, and health service professions. In order for the field to have an influential role in service delivery and policy formation that benefit individua…
Defining Health and Well-Being for the Future of Counseling Psychology
Softer Policing or the Institutionalization of Protest? Decomposing Changes in Observed Protest Policing over Time
Protest policing is central to research on social movement repression and of great practical importance. Here, we examine competing explanations for observed changes in the likelihood that police will attend any given protest event and make arrests, use violence, or both in New York State from 1960 to 1995. While many researchers point to changes within law enforcement as the primary cause for “softer policing” over this period, we show, using a …
Ammianus on Warfare: An Investigation into Ammianus' Military Knowledge
MMPI Indicators of Long-Term Therapy in a College Counseling Center
Differences on four MMPI Scales were studied among 288 college students who were classified into one of three durations of therapy. Multivariate analyses showed Scales D and Si to be significantly higher for those remaining in therapy ≥ 13 sessions, and these scales predicted duration
The Crake Lectures of 1984
Psychologists and rehabilitation: New roles and old training models
Psychologists and rehabilitation: New roles and old training models
Attributional Processes in Response to Social Displays of Depressive Behavior
The present study examined spontaneous attributional processes in social responses to depression. Participants ( n = 143) were randomly assigned to view a videotape of a person who displayed either depressed or non-depressed behavior. Attributional sets regarding the target were manipulated. In one condition, the target appeared physically disabled; in another condition, the target was described as having alcoholism. In the neutral condition, no …
Negotiating reality after physical loss: Hope, depression, and disability
Self-perceived problem-solving ability, stress appraisal, and coping over time
Negative Affectivity, Social Support, and the Prediction of Depression and Distress
In the work we present in this article, we examined the contaminating effects of trait negative affectivity (TNA) on the relations between social support and psychological distress among college undergraduates. In the first study, it was suspected that controlling for TNA would substantially alter the associations between social support (as measured by the Social Provisions Scale) and depression at the initial assessment and later with negative m…
Selected Translations of Social Psychology to Counseling Psychology
This article briefly discusses some circumscribed important areas where social and counseling psychology interface. Some of the historical routes of the interface are noted and the effect of this work is addressed. It is concluded that considerable progress has been made in translating social psychology research into counseling research and practice but that much more remains to be investigated. We note that most of the research and practice adva…
Translating Social Psychology for the Scientist-Practitioner Counseling Psychologist
The articles included in this special issue have presented a balance of reviewing and synthesizing the literatures, translating what has been learned into guidance relevant to practice, and addressing future directions. This summary article briefly highlights some of the new contributions of the four topical articles and concludes that considerable work remains, particularly for counseling psychology, to continue to enhance the integration of the…
Social-Cognitive Processes in Behavioral Health: Implications for Counseling
Social cognitive variables are salient factors in the prevention, development, and maintenance of health-related problems. These variables are of particular interest to counseling psychologists, as they are amenable to a variety of psychological interventions. We review several social-cognitive processes that have been studied in relation to behavioral health and health-related problems. We then discuss implications for assessment and theory-base…
Defining Health and Well-Being for the Future of Counseling Psychology
Counseling Psychology and Chronic Health Conditions: A Call for Action
The authors support the assertion that counseling psychology expertise should be present at all levels of therapeutic activity that may benefit persons who live with chronic health conditions. They consider the impact of the increasing rates of chronic health conditions on health care systems, society, and health service professions. In order for the field to have an influential role in service delivery and policy formation that benefit individua…
Use of Technology to Increase Access to Mental Health Services in a Rural Texas Community
The Leon County Health Resource Commission sought to increase access to mental health services for their rural community. The commission formed a network of partners who collaborated to increase free transportation to mental health services outside the community and developed a telehealth-based counseling program through a counseling psychology training program. Learning opportunities emerged during the development and implementation of these act…
What Are You Looking At? The Potential of Appreciative Inquiry as a Research Approach for Social Work
Spinal Cord Injury
In this chapter, we review the major aspects of spinal cord injury (SCI) and recent research about the condition and its concomitants. SCI is a relatively low-incidence but high-cost injury, with lifetime costs estimated to be well above the $1 million mark, and costs increase dramatically as the severity of injury increases. In addition, the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC, 2010) reports life expectancies for individuals w…
Turning to the Courts: A Quantitative Analysis of the Gay and Lesbian Movement’s Use of Legal Mobilization
We quantitatively examine the factors influencing the lesbian and gay movement’s involvement in state-level appellate cases through an analysis of Lambda Legal’s judicial agenda from 1981 through 2000. We combine a list of state appellate cases involving gay and lesbian rights during this period with data from Lambda’s “Docket Update” to create a data set that identifies which cases Lambda was involved in. We theorize that Lambda’s involvement wi…
Online protest participation and the digital divide: Modeling the effect of the digital divide on online petition-signing
Scholars have long been concerned about the effect that digital inequalities might have on marginalized populations. Concern for the “digital divide” extends to social movement scholars, who worry that the digital divide will lead to social movements privileging the concerns of the middle class over those of disadvantaged groups. We argue for a novel way of testing for such effects—the use of a Heckman regression model to model participation in o…
Recipes for Attention: Policy Reforms, Crises, Organizational Characteristics, and the Newspaper Coverage of the LGBT Movement, 1969–2009
Why do some organizations in a movement seeking social change gain extensive national newspaper coverage? To address the question, we innovate in theoretical and empirical ways. First, we elaborate a theoretical argument that builds from the political mediation theory of movement consequences and incorporates the social organization of newspaper practices. This media and political mediation model integrates political and media contexts and organi…
External Funding and Competing Visions for Academic Counseling Psychology
The major contributions by Burrow-Sánchez, Martin, and Imel and Martens et al. are the first explicitly substantive, constructive statements about extramural funding and counseling psychology to appear in The Counseling Psychologist. For over 15 years, many have recognized the importance of extramural funding to the continued presence of counseling psychology training programs in research-intensive universities. In this reaction piece, I discuss …
Political Reform and Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Movements in Depression, Recession, and Historical Perspective
The Great Depression and the Great Recession in the United States both saw upsurges of social movement activity and newspaper coverage, but why did movements of both the right and left surge during the leftwing regimes of these periods? Why did the Barack Obama administration not produce the lasting leftwing mobilizations characteristic of the Franklin Roosevelt era? To address these questions and locate these episodes in historical perspective, …
Does participation mediate the prospective relationships of impairment, injury severity, and pain to quality of life following burn injury
We examined the prospective impact of injury severity, functional impairment, and pain on participation in the community and subsequently on life satisfaction and self-rated health of 260 burn survivors 5 years post-discharge. Predictor variables include injury severity and total body surface area burned (assessed during acute care), functional independence (assessed at 12 months post-discharge), pain (assessed at the 24th month), and participati…
From bias to coverage: What explains how news organizations treat social movements
Why do newspapers cover social movement actors, and why is this coverage sometimes favorable? Early scholarship saw the news media mainly as a source of data on collective action, and sought to ascertain its biases, but scholarship has increasingly focused directly on why movements gain coverage, especially coverage that can advance their goals. To understand why and how newspapers cover movement actors, we start with the insight that movements r…
Youth, activism, and social movements
There has been considerable debate over the extent and role of young people's political participation. Whether considering popular hand‐wringing over concerns about declines in young people's institutional political participation or dismissals of young people's use of online activism, many frame youth engagement through a “youth deficit” model that assumes that adults need to politically socialize young people. However, others argue that young pe…
Psychology (27 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Applied Psychology (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Public relations (10 works)