Angela Pharris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3559972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Pharris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Pharris |
| SIGNATURE | PHARRIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4961-8234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Enhancing Adoption Competency for the Social Work Classroom
Adoption competency ensures that professionals providing support understand adoption as a lifelong process and can effectively support the family system in multiple ways. Developing professional competency is critical in providing children and families with the most effective and best practices for adoption and critical for families who adopt children who have been in the foster care system. The social work classroom provides an opportunity to be…
The mediating role of hope in linking perceived organization support to lower job burnout among child welfare professionals
Playing to Succeed
Foster caregivers in crisis
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of child welfare workers and foster caregivers regarding stress and crises in foster homes. Interviews of foster caregivers (n = 14) and child welfare staff (n = 11) compare the two perspectives to determine similarities and differences. Findings explored stress and various factors contributing to crises. The ability to compare data between groups allowed important distinctions to emerge. Implicatio…
Hope As a Buffer to Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents with Depression
BACKGROUND: Suicide among adolescents has long been linked to symptoms of depression. However, limited research has examined the potential buffering effect of hope on the relationship between depression and suicide attempts. METHODS: To test the effect of hope on the positive relationship between depression and suicide attempts, we used data (N = 502 adolescents) from youth ages 12-18 collected as part of the 2018 Healthy Youth Survey in the Stat…
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care
Research with youth has demonstrated that a hopeful mind-set is associated with resilience and well-being and is influenced by our supportive caregivers and adults. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth experience a very high frequency of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and may lack supportive caregivers throughout their foster care experience. This study tests the theory that child welfare caseworkers are a source of hope among LGB youth in…
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth
Research among adolescent samples has consistently demonstrated that a hopeful mindset is associated with resilience and global well‐being. Further, research suggests that hope is influenced from an early age from connections with supportive caregivers. However, because older youth in the child welfare system may lack supportive caregivers, alternative sources of hope may be needed. To test a theory that supportive child welfare caseworkers can s…
Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences
Research has long supported that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are linked with reductions in well-being across the lifespan. However, less is known about the best practices for intervening with ACE to buffer the long-term negative effects beyond clinical settings. The current paper proposes that the positive psychology construct of hope offers guidance for understanding and responding to ACEs. We propose a theoretical model for developing …
Hope and resilience as protective factors linked to lower burnout among child welfare workers
Reducing Trauma from Behind Bars
Incarceration impacts families by disrupting routine attachment, creating negative consequences for both the parent and child. This article examines the use of an intervention videoing incarcerated parents reading to their children and then delivering those videos to improve child outcomes. Using a mixed-methods approach, a total of 587 surveys were completed by program participants and analyzed for parental perceptions of the program effectivene…
A Linear Model of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as Drivers of Lower Hope Mediated by Lower Attachment Security in an Adult Sample
Assessing new child welfare worker competency through social simulation with standardized clients
Child welfare training programs for new employees strive to develop and implement competency-based training approaches. The authors of this article describe the development and validation of a rubric to measure the readiness of new child welfare workers for client engagement and interviewing. The rubric was designed to measure key competencies, based on a review of the literature, including rapport-building, communication and information gatherin…
Building community-engaged practicum units through anchor institutions
This article provides the assessment results from a community-engaged field education unit for social work students situated within a neighborhood setting in the South-Central region of the United States. A community-university partnership between several community institutions and a school of social work created the Southside Initiative (SSI) as a means to build capacity within the Oaks neighborhood. This neighborhood lacked professional social …
Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) and intergenerational transmission of IPV in families are destructive social issues in need of considerable attention. Knowledge of the multi-level, complex causes, and consequences of IPV in the United States has increased significantly over the last two decades. Given these gains in learning, the authors' aim here is to highlight recent critical and emerging theoretical perspectives on IPV. Frameworks included fo…
Risk of serious criminal involvement among former foster youth aging out of care
Risk of serious criminal involvement among former foster youth aging out of care
Hope and resilience as protective factors linked to lower burnout among child welfare workers
Assessing new child welfare worker competency through social simulation with standardized clients
Child welfare training programs for new employees strive to develop and implement competency-based training approaches. The authors of this article describe the development and validation of a rubric to measure the readiness of new child welfare workers for client engagement and interviewing. The rubric was designed to measure key competencies, based on a review of the literature, including rapport-building, communication and information gatherin…
Foster caregivers in crisis
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of child welfare workers and foster caregivers regarding stress and crises in foster homes. Interviews of foster caregivers (n = 14) and child welfare staff (n = 11) compare the two perspectives to determine similarities and differences. Findings explored stress and various factors contributing to crises. The ability to compare data between groups allowed important distinctions to emerge. Implicatio…
A Linear Model of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as Drivers of Lower Hope Mediated by Lower Attachment Security in an Adult Sample
Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) and intergenerational transmission of IPV in families are destructive social issues in need of considerable attention. Knowledge of the multi-level, complex causes, and consequences of IPV in the United States has increased significantly over the last two decades. Given these gains in learning, the authors' aim here is to highlight recent critical and emerging theoretical perspectives on IPV. Frameworks included fo…
Risk of serious criminal involvement among former foster youth aging out of care
Assessing new child welfare worker competency through social simulation with standardized clients
Child welfare training programs for new employees strive to develop and implement competency-based training approaches. The authors of this article describe the development and validation of a rubric to measure the readiness of new child welfare workers for client engagement and interviewing. The rubric was designed to measure key competencies, based on a review of the literature, including rapport-building, communication and information gatherin…
Building community-engaged practicum units through anchor institutions
This article provides the assessment results from a community-engaged field education unit for social work students situated within a neighborhood setting in the South-Central region of the United States. A community-university partnership between several community institutions and a school of social work created the Southside Initiative (SSI) as a means to build capacity within the Oaks neighborhood. This neighborhood lacked professional social …
Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) and intergenerational transmission of IPV in families are destructive social issues in need of considerable attention. Knowledge of the multi-level, complex causes, and consequences of IPV in the United States has increased significantly over the last two decades. Given these gains in learning, the authors' aim here is to highlight recent critical and emerging theoretical perspectives on IPV. Frameworks included fo…
Reducing Trauma from Behind Bars
Incarceration impacts families by disrupting routine attachment, creating negative consequences for both the parent and child. This article examines the use of an intervention videoing incarcerated parents reading to their children and then delivering those videos to improve child outcomes. Using a mixed-methods approach, a total of 587 surveys were completed by program participants and analyzed for parental perceptions of the program effectivene…
A Linear Model of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as Drivers of Lower Hope Mediated by Lower Attachment Security in an Adult Sample
Hope and resilience as protective factors linked to lower burnout among child welfare workers
Hope As a Buffer to Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents with Depression
BACKGROUND: Suicide among adolescents has long been linked to symptoms of depression. However, limited research has examined the potential buffering effect of hope on the relationship between depression and suicide attempts. METHODS: To test the effect of hope on the positive relationship between depression and suicide attempts, we used data (N = 502 adolescents) from youth ages 12-18 collected as part of the 2018 Healthy Youth Survey in the Stat…
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care
Research with youth has demonstrated that a hopeful mind-set is associated with resilience and well-being and is influenced by our supportive caregivers and adults. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth experience a very high frequency of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and may lack supportive caregivers throughout their foster care experience. This study tests the theory that child welfare caseworkers are a source of hope among LGB youth in…
Caseworkers as a source of hope leading to perceptions of academic success for transitional age foster youth
Research among adolescent samples has consistently demonstrated that a hopeful mindset is associated with resilience and global well‐being. Further, research suggests that hope is influenced from an early age from connections with supportive caregivers. However, because older youth in the child welfare system may lack supportive caregivers, alternative sources of hope may be needed. To test a theory that supportive child welfare caseworkers can s…
Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences
Research has long supported that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are linked with reductions in well-being across the lifespan. However, less is known about the best practices for intervening with ACE to buffer the long-term negative effects beyond clinical settings. The current paper proposes that the positive psychology construct of hope offers guidance for understanding and responding to ACEs. We propose a theoretical model for developing …
Playing to Succeed
Foster caregivers in crisis
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of child welfare workers and foster caregivers regarding stress and crises in foster homes. Interviews of foster caregivers (n = 14) and child welfare staff (n = 11) compare the two perspectives to determine similarities and differences. Findings explored stress and various factors contributing to crises. The ability to compare data between groups allowed important distinctions to emerge. Implicatio…
Enhancing Adoption Competency for the Social Work Classroom
Adoption competency ensures that professionals providing support understand adoption as a lifelong process and can effectively support the family system in multiple ways. Developing professional competency is critical in providing children and families with the most effective and best practices for adoption and critical for families who adopt children who have been in the foster care system. The social work classroom provides an opportunity to be…
The mediating role of hope in linking perceived organization support to lower job burnout among child welfare professionals
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (6 works) · Welfare (6 works)