James Topitzes
Biographic Data
| ID | 327492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Topitzes |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Topitzes |
| SIGNATURE | TOPITZES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2306-650X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Associations between childhood socioeconomic characteristics, race, and risk of adverse childhood experiences in a population-based sample of US-born non-Hispanic Black and White women
US-born NHB and NHW girls residing in poorer neighborhoods or households had a similarly substantially elevated burden of ACEs, indicating childhood poverty is a crucial determinant of ACE risk, independent of race
Home Sweet Home: Does Family Physical Environment Impact Couple Relationship Quality
This study aimed to explore the relationship between family physical environment and couple relationship quality. The study analyzed data from 698 families who participated in both year 3 and year 5 surveys of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS). Multivariate regression model was run to test if family physical environment at year 3 was related to couple relationship quality at year 5, while controlling for a series of confoun…
Examining the Strengths and Challenges of a Smart Reentry Program: Lessons Learned
Although reentry programming has grown, little is known about the process of developing reentry programming that utilizes peer support. Peer support is commonly utilized along side evidence-based practices in other service delivery areas (e.g., mental health), and is increasingly used during reentry, yet little is known about whether this practice is effective at reducing recidivism. This study examines a Smart Reentry program in an urban, Midwes…
Mental health among university employees during the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of previous life trauma and current posttraumatic stress symptoms
Results suggest that PTSD symptoms play a crucial role in the experience of MHH and stress during the pandemic for those who endured previous trauma. Implications for employer policies, public health messaging, and mental health services are explored. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
The association between family physical environment and child maltreatment
Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (T-SBIRT) Implemented within Tanf Employment Services: An Outcome Study
The current study tested a trauma screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (T-SBIRT) interview protocol as implemented within Temporary Assistance to Needy Families programming. Using a non-experimental process evaluation and quasi-experimental outcome evaluation (N = 88), the study assessed four research questions. First, do T-SBIRT providers reach model adherence rates above 90%? Second, do over 90% of T-SBIRT completers experie…
Parent–Child Interaction Therapy: Findings from an exploratory qualitative study with practitioners and foster parents
This exploratory study examines practitioners’ and foster parents’ perceptions on use of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy in child welfare. Focus groups were completed with Parent–Child Interaction Therapy practitioners and foster parents. Thematic analysis was employed, and four main themes were analyzed. First, practitioners and foster parents identified implementation barriers. Second, practitioners and foster parents identified factors that f…
A mutual process of healing self and healing the community: A qualitative study of coping with and healing from stress, adversity, and trauma among diverse residents of a midwestern city
Residents of urban American neighborhoods facing economic hardship often experience individual and collective adversities at high levels. This study explores how racially diverse adults experience stress, adversity, and trauma, and how they cope and heal in the context of their environment. Following a critical realist grounded theory methodology, four focus groups were conducted with African American, White and Latinx participants (N = 21) withi…
Increasing mental health treatment access and equity through trauma-responsive care
Adverse childhood experiences and other potentially traumatic events have lasting implications for mental health. Evidence-based treatments are available to address trauma-related symptoms, but their impact is hindered because access is limited and unequal. In the U.S., adverse experiences and mental disorders disproportionately affect socioeconomically disadvantaged groups that face treatment access barriers-disparities that are compounded by pa…
Mediational pathways of meditation and exercise on mental health and perceived stress: A randomized controlled trial
This study investigated the effects of mindfulness and exercise training on indicators of mental health and stress by examining shared mediators of program effects. Community-recruited adults ( N = 413) were randomized into one of three conditions: (a) mindfulness-based stress reduction, (b) moderate intensity exercise, or (c) wait-list control. Composite indicator structural equation models estimated direct, indirect, and total effects. Results …
Brief, group-based parent-child interaction therapy: Examination of treatment attrition, non-adherence, and non-response
Applied and Translational Research on Trauma‐Responsive Programs and Policy: Introduction to a Special Issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology
Highlights Trauma in children and adults is prevalent. Advances in trauma‐informed programs, practices, and systems are necessary. Articles appearing in the special issue cover a range of topics and areas in trauma approaches
Implementing Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (T‐ SBIRT ) within Employment Services: A Feasibility Trial
Highlights Presentation of a trauma‐responsive screening and referral protocol. Feasibility study of a trauma‐responsive screening and referral protocol within employment services. Discussion of the relevance of trauma‐responsive screening and referral for community psychology. Discussion of the relevance of trauma‐responsive screening and referral for public health. Transitioning from trauma‐informed to trauma‐responsive practice frameworks
Rethinking the Measurement of Adversity: Moving Toward Second-Generation Research on Adverse Childhood Experiences
Research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has unified the study of interrelated risks and generated insights into the origins of disorder and disease. Ten indicators of child maltreatment and household dysfunction are widely accepted as ACEs, but further progress requires a more systematic approach to conceptualizing and measuring ACEs. Using data from a diverse, low-income sample of women who received home visiting services in Wisconsin (…
Complementing SBIRT for Alcohol Misuse with SBIRT for Trauma: A Feasibility Study
Reducing alcohol misuse is a priority for U.S. health officials considering that misuse of alcohol is a leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. Consequently, health centers are integrating Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol misuse within usual care. Although SBIRT is well validated among general patient samples, results have not generalized to drinkers with probable alcohol use disorder; mor…
Translating evidence-based treatments into child welfare services through community-university partnerships: A case example of parent-child interaction therapy
Enhancing Foster Parent Training with Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
The findings suggest that usual training and support services can be improved upon by introducing foster parents to experiential, interactive PCIT training
Implementation of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy Within Foster Care: An Attempt to Translate an Evidence-Based Program Within a Local Child Welfare Agency
This paper describes an innovative adaptation of an evidence-based intervention - Parent Child Interaction Therapy or PCIT - to foster parent training services. The authors faced multiple problems that commonly plague translational child welfare research as they developed, implemented and tested their model. The paper discusses how the authors addressed these problems when: 1) specifying the child welfare context in which the intervention model w…
Adapting Parent–Child Interaction Therapy to Foster Care: Outcomes From a Randomized Trial
Objective: This study presents outcomes from a randomized trial of a novel Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) model for foster families. Differential effects of two intervention doses on child externalizing and internalizing symptoms are examined. Method: A sample of 102 foster children was assigned to one of three conditions—brief PCIT, extended PCIT, or wait-list control. The brief and extended groups received 2 days of PCIT training and 8…
Impacts of adverse childhood experiences on health, mental health, and substance use in early adulthood: A cohort study of an urban, minority sample in the U.S.
Adult resilience among maltreated children: A prospective investigation of main effect and mediating models
Maltreatment prevention through early childhood intervention: A confirmatory evaluation of the Chicago Child–Parent Center preschool program
Comparing early adult outcomes of maltreated and non-maltreated children: A prospective longitudinal investigation
Effects of a School-Based, Early Childhood Intervention on Adult Health and Well-being: A 19-Year Follow-up of Low-Income Families
OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of an established preventive intervention on the health and well-being of an urban cohort in young adulthood. DESIGN: Follow-up of a nonrandomized alternative-intervention matched-group cohort at age 24 years. SETTING: Chicago, Illinois. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1539 low-income participants who enrolled in the Child-Parent Center program in 20 sites or in an alternative kindergarten intervention. INTERVENTIONS:…
Adapting Parent–Child Interaction Therapy to Foster Care: Outcomes From a Randomized Trial
Objective: This study presents outcomes from a randomized trial of a novel Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) model for foster families. Differential effects of two intervention doses on child externalizing and internalizing symptoms are examined. Method: A sample of 102 foster children was assigned to one of three conditions—brief PCIT, extended PCIT, or wait-list control. The brief and extended groups received 2 days of PCIT training and 8…
Comparing early adult outcomes of maltreated and non-maltreated children: A prospective longitudinal investigation
Maltreatment prevention through early childhood intervention: A confirmatory evaluation of the Chicago Child–Parent Center preschool program
A mutual process of healing self and healing the community: A qualitative study of coping with and healing from stress, adversity, and trauma among diverse residents of a midwestern city
Residents of urban American neighborhoods facing economic hardship often experience individual and collective adversities at high levels. This study explores how racially diverse adults experience stress, adversity, and trauma, and how they cope and heal in the context of their environment. Following a critical realist grounded theory methodology, four focus groups were conducted with African American, White and Latinx participants (N = 21) withi…
Adult resilience among maltreated children: A prospective investigation of main effect and mediating models
Implementing Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (T‐ SBIRT ) within Employment Services: A Feasibility Trial
Highlights Presentation of a trauma‐responsive screening and referral protocol. Feasibility study of a trauma‐responsive screening and referral protocol within employment services. Discussion of the relevance of trauma‐responsive screening and referral for community psychology. Discussion of the relevance of trauma‐responsive screening and referral for public health. Transitioning from trauma‐informed to trauma‐responsive practice frameworks
Enhancing Foster Parent Training with Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
The findings suggest that usual training and support services can be improved upon by introducing foster parents to experiential, interactive PCIT training
The association between family physical environment and child maltreatment
Mediational pathways of meditation and exercise on mental health and perceived stress: A randomized controlled trial
This study investigated the effects of mindfulness and exercise training on indicators of mental health and stress by examining shared mediators of program effects. Community-recruited adults ( N = 413) were randomized into one of three conditions: (a) mindfulness-based stress reduction, (b) moderate intensity exercise, or (c) wait-list control. Composite indicator structural equation models estimated direct, indirect, and total effects. Results …
Implementation of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy Within Foster Care: An Attempt to Translate an Evidence-Based Program Within a Local Child Welfare Agency
This paper describes an innovative adaptation of an evidence-based intervention - Parent Child Interaction Therapy or PCIT - to foster parent training services. The authors faced multiple problems that commonly plague translational child welfare research as they developed, implemented and tested their model. The paper discusses how the authors addressed these problems when: 1) specifying the child welfare context in which the intervention model w…
Brief, group-based parent-child interaction therapy: Examination of treatment attrition, non-adherence, and non-response
Applied and Translational Research on Trauma‐Responsive Programs and Policy: Introduction to a Special Issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology
Highlights Trauma in children and adults is prevalent. Advances in trauma‐informed programs, practices, and systems are necessary. Articles appearing in the special issue cover a range of topics and areas in trauma approaches
Translating evidence-based treatments into child welfare services through community-university partnerships: A case example of parent-child interaction therapy
Effects of a School-Based, Early Childhood Intervention on Adult Health and Well-being: A 19-Year Follow-up of Low-Income Families
OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of an established preventive intervention on the health and well-being of an urban cohort in young adulthood. DESIGN: Follow-up of a nonrandomized alternative-intervention matched-group cohort at age 24 years. SETTING: Chicago, Illinois. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1539 low-income participants who enrolled in the Child-Parent Center program in 20 sites or in an alternative kindergarten intervention. INTERVENTIONS:…
Comparing early adult outcomes of maltreated and non-maltreated children: A prospective longitudinal investigation
Maltreatment prevention through early childhood intervention: A confirmatory evaluation of the Chicago Child–Parent Center preschool program
Impacts of adverse childhood experiences on health, mental health, and substance use in early adulthood: A cohort study of an urban, minority sample in the U.S.
Adult resilience among maltreated children: A prospective investigation of main effect and mediating models
Implementation of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy Within Foster Care: An Attempt to Translate an Evidence-Based Program Within a Local Child Welfare Agency
This paper describes an innovative adaptation of an evidence-based intervention - Parent Child Interaction Therapy or PCIT - to foster parent training services. The authors faced multiple problems that commonly plague translational child welfare research as they developed, implemented and tested their model. The paper discusses how the authors addressed these problems when: 1) specifying the child welfare context in which the intervention model w…
Adapting Parent–Child Interaction Therapy to Foster Care: Outcomes From a Randomized Trial
Objective: This study presents outcomes from a randomized trial of a novel Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) model for foster families. Differential effects of two intervention doses on child externalizing and internalizing symptoms are examined. Method: A sample of 102 foster children was assigned to one of three conditions—brief PCIT, extended PCIT, or wait-list control. The brief and extended groups received 2 days of PCIT training and 8…
Enhancing Foster Parent Training with Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
The findings suggest that usual training and support services can be improved upon by introducing foster parents to experiential, interactive PCIT training
Rethinking the Measurement of Adversity: Moving Toward Second-Generation Research on Adverse Childhood Experiences
Research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has unified the study of interrelated risks and generated insights into the origins of disorder and disease. Ten indicators of child maltreatment and household dysfunction are widely accepted as ACEs, but further progress requires a more systematic approach to conceptualizing and measuring ACEs. Using data from a diverse, low-income sample of women who received home visiting services in Wisconsin (…
Complementing SBIRT for Alcohol Misuse with SBIRT for Trauma: A Feasibility Study
Reducing alcohol misuse is a priority for U.S. health officials considering that misuse of alcohol is a leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. Consequently, health centers are integrating Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol misuse within usual care. Although SBIRT is well validated among general patient samples, results have not generalized to drinkers with probable alcohol use disorder; mor…
Translating evidence-based treatments into child welfare services through community-university partnerships: A case example of parent-child interaction therapy
Brief, group-based parent-child interaction therapy: Examination of treatment attrition, non-adherence, and non-response
Applied and Translational Research on Trauma‐Responsive Programs and Policy: Introduction to a Special Issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology
Highlights Trauma in children and adults is prevalent. Advances in trauma‐informed programs, practices, and systems are necessary. Articles appearing in the special issue cover a range of topics and areas in trauma approaches
Implementing Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (T‐ SBIRT ) within Employment Services: A Feasibility Trial
Highlights Presentation of a trauma‐responsive screening and referral protocol. Feasibility study of a trauma‐responsive screening and referral protocol within employment services. Discussion of the relevance of trauma‐responsive screening and referral for community psychology. Discussion of the relevance of trauma‐responsive screening and referral for public health. Transitioning from trauma‐informed to trauma‐responsive practice frameworks
Mediational pathways of meditation and exercise on mental health and perceived stress: A randomized controlled trial
This study investigated the effects of mindfulness and exercise training on indicators of mental health and stress by examining shared mediators of program effects. Community-recruited adults ( N = 413) were randomized into one of three conditions: (a) mindfulness-based stress reduction, (b) moderate intensity exercise, or (c) wait-list control. Composite indicator structural equation models estimated direct, indirect, and total effects. Results …
Parent–Child Interaction Therapy: Findings from an exploratory qualitative study with practitioners and foster parents
This exploratory study examines practitioners’ and foster parents’ perceptions on use of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy in child welfare. Focus groups were completed with Parent–Child Interaction Therapy practitioners and foster parents. Thematic analysis was employed, and four main themes were analyzed. First, practitioners and foster parents identified implementation barriers. Second, practitioners and foster parents identified factors that f…
A mutual process of healing self and healing the community: A qualitative study of coping with and healing from stress, adversity, and trauma among diverse residents of a midwestern city
Residents of urban American neighborhoods facing economic hardship often experience individual and collective adversities at high levels. This study explores how racially diverse adults experience stress, adversity, and trauma, and how they cope and heal in the context of their environment. Following a critical realist grounded theory methodology, four focus groups were conducted with African American, White and Latinx participants (N = 21) withi…
Increasing mental health treatment access and equity through trauma-responsive care
Adverse childhood experiences and other potentially traumatic events have lasting implications for mental health. Evidence-based treatments are available to address trauma-related symptoms, but their impact is hindered because access is limited and unequal. In the U.S., adverse experiences and mental disorders disproportionately affect socioeconomically disadvantaged groups that face treatment access barriers-disparities that are compounded by pa…
Mental health among university employees during the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of previous life trauma and current posttraumatic stress symptoms
Results suggest that PTSD symptoms play a crucial role in the experience of MHH and stress during the pandemic for those who endured previous trauma. Implications for employer policies, public health messaging, and mental health services are explored. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
The association between family physical environment and child maltreatment
Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (T-SBIRT) Implemented within Tanf Employment Services: An Outcome Study
The current study tested a trauma screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (T-SBIRT) interview protocol as implemented within Temporary Assistance to Needy Families programming. Using a non-experimental process evaluation and quasi-experimental outcome evaluation (N = 88), the study assessed four research questions. First, do T-SBIRT providers reach model adherence rates above 90%? Second, do over 90% of T-SBIRT completers experie…
Examining the Strengths and Challenges of a Smart Reentry Program: Lessons Learned
Although reentry programming has grown, little is known about the process of developing reentry programming that utilizes peer support. Peer support is commonly utilized along side evidence-based practices in other service delivery areas (e.g., mental health), and is increasingly used during reentry, yet little is known about whether this practice is effective at reducing recidivism. This study examines a Smart Reentry program in an urban, Midwes…
Associations between childhood socioeconomic characteristics, race, and risk of adverse childhood experiences in a population-based sample of US-born non-Hispanic Black and White women
US-born NHB and NHW girls residing in poorer neighborhoods or households had a similarly substantially elevated burden of ACEs, indicating childhood poverty is a crucial determinant of ACE risk, independent of race
Home Sweet Home: Does Family Physical Environment Impact Couple Relationship Quality
This study aimed to explore the relationship between family physical environment and couple relationship quality. The study analyzed data from 698 families who participated in both year 3 and year 5 surveys of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS). Multivariate regression model was run to test if family physical environment at year 3 was related to couple relationship quality at year 5, while controlling for a series of confoun…
Medicine (21 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (12 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Intervention (counseling (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works)