Kim S Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim S Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim S |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3920-1438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Supporting parents of adolescents: A powerful and under-utilised opportunity to influence adolescent development
Throughout the rapid and intense changes that adolescents experience, their parents retain important influence over how they interact with the complex factors that shape their development. How parents care for their adolescent children has a deep and lasting impact on their well-being and development. Yet, parents often require support to meet their own and their adolescent children’s needs, which can be achieved through parenting support program…
Arts of Global Africa
Upon entering the Newark Museum's reinstallation of its Arts of Global Africa collection, visitors are immediately greeted with Yinka Shonibare's spectacular Lady Walking a Tightrope (2006; Fig. 1). The life-size, headless female figure balances precariously on a rope stretching diagonally across a corner space. Lady Walking a Tightrope is positioned high—above eye-level, as any tightrope walker would be—and captures the immediate attention and t…
Troubling Histories: Public Art and Prejudice, Vol 2—An Introduction
The Kids Say Project: Supporting Children to Talk about their Experiences and to Engage in Decision-making
Research and policy calls for hearing the voices of children and youth in out-of-home care and involving them in decisions about their own lives. The “Kids Say” cards were designed to facilitate this engagement, particularly with Indigenous children and youth. A feasibility study explored the extent to which the Kids Say cards were acceptable to young people, and prompted discussion about their lives and what is important to them. The study invol…
The Walls Are So Silent”: Spaces of Confinement and Gendered Meanings of Incarceration in South African Commemorative Art
This paper explores artistic and activist work that has arisen in response to episodes of violence committed by the apartheid state against anti-apartheid activists. More specifically, it considers representations of suffering in South Africa’s public sphere through a comparison of two post-apartheid commemorative spaces: the Johannesburg Central Police Station (formerly John Vorster Square) and a memorial by artist Kagiso Pat Mautloa that is pos…
Troubling Histories: Public Art and Prejudice – An Introduction
Involving parents from the start: Formative evaluation for a large randomised controlled trial with Botswana Junior Secondary School students
While HIV prevention research conducted among adolescent populations may encounter parental resistance, the active engagement of parents from inception to trial completion may alleviate opposition. In preparation for implementing a large randomised controlled trial (RCT) examining the efficacy of a behavioural intervention targeting adolescent sexual risk behaviours, a formative evaluation was undertaken to assess parental reactions to the propos…
Guiding and supporting adolescents living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: The development of a curriculum for family and community members
Formative Work and Community Engagement Approaches for Implementing an HIV Intervention in Botswana Schools
Providing adolescents with evidence-based sexual risk reduction interventions is critical to addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Project AIM (Adult Identity Mentoring) is an innovative, evidence-based, youth development intervention that is being evaluated for the first time in Botswana through a 3-year (2015–2017), 50-school cluster randomized controlled trial, including testing for herpes simplex virus type…
Exhibition Reviews
“Contemporary Art/South Africa,” Yale's first of contemporary African art, showcased over thirty works produced in South Africa or by South Africans, including objects owned by Yale plus a range of artworks borrowed from museum and gallery collections nearby. Many of the works, predictably, addressed political issues as they overtly deal with the struggle against apartheid. But “Contemporary Art/South Africa” was much more than that. And the exhi…
Families Matter! Presexual Risk Prevention Intervention
Parent-based HIV prevention programming may play an important role in reaching youths early to help establish lifelong patterns of safe and healthy sexual behaviors. Families Matter! is a 5-session, evidence-based behavioral intervention designed for primary caregivers of children aged 9 to 12 years to promote positive parenting and effective parent–child communication about sexuality and sexual risk reduction. The program’s 5-step capacity-build…
Strengthening the Network of Mentored, Underrepresented Minority Scientists and Leaders to Reduce HIV-Related Health Disparities
Objectives. We reviewed data for the Minority HIV/AIDS Research Initiative (MARI), which was established in 2003 to support underrepresented minority scientists performing HIV prevention research in highly affected communities. Methods. MARI was established at the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control as a program of competitively awarded, mentored grants for early career researchers conducting HIV prevention research in highly affected raci…
A Multidimensional Framework for the Meanings of the Sexual Double Standard and its Application for the Sexual Health of Young Black Women in the U.S
There has been debate in the literature as to whether a sexual double standard (SDS) currently exists in the United States. Studies vary greatly in how the SDS is operationalized, making it difficult to interpret findings across studies and translate academic literature into applied fields such as public health. To advance academic and applied research, we propose a multidimensional framework for the SDS that can accommodate complex and nuanced m…
Selective Silence and the Shaping of Memory in Post-Apartheid Visual Culture: The Case of the Monument to the Women of South Africa
This paper focuses on a particular event in South African history and the ways in which the event is memorialised and remembered in post-apartheid South Africa. In her book History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa, Annie Coombes remarks, ‘Women's vital role in the overthrow of the apartheid state has been sorely neglected in favour of a more monolithic representation of the liberation movement’.1 1A. …
African American Women's Retrospective Perceptions of the Intergenerational Transfer of Gynecological Health Care Information Received From Mothers: Implications for Families and Providers
Seeking preventive care and communicating openly with providers during clinical encounters could reduce adolescent African American (AA) women's risk of acquiring STIs or HIV. This study examines how the intergenerational transfer of gynecological health care information between mothers and daughters may influence the health care-seeking behavior of AA adolescent women and their ability to speak openly with providers about sexual health concerns,…
Ready, Set, Go: African American Preadolescents’ Sexual Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors
Understanding of preadolescent sexuality is limited. To help fill this gap, we calculated frequencies, percentages, and confidence intervals for 1,096 preadolescents’ reports of sexual thoughts, intentions, and sexual behavior. Cochran-Armitage trend tests accounted for age effects. Findings show that 9-year-olds are readying for sexual activity, with sexual readiness increasing between ages of 9 and 12. Sexual thoughts increased with age ( p < .…
Factors Associated with Parent–Child Communication About HIV/Aids in the United States and Kenya: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Moms with Guns: Women's Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture
June 01 2009 Moms with Guns: Women's Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture Kim Miller Kim Miller Kim Miller is assistant professor of Women's Studies and art history, and the coordinator of the Women's Studies Program, at Wheaton College, Norton, MA. [email protected], http://wheatoncollege.edu/Faculty/KimMiller.html Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Kim Mille…
Pediatricians’ Role and Practices Regarding Provision of Guidance about Sexual Risk Reduction to Parents
Barriers and Facilitators to Maternal Communication with Preadolescents about Age-Relevant Sexual Topics
Iconographies of Gender, Poverty, and Power in Contemporary South African Visual Culture
This article examines the iconography of the feminization of poverty in women's printed textiles produced by artists at the Philani Project in Crossroads, Cape Town. The Philani Project was initially formed as part of an ambitious, nationwide, antipoverty initiative, with the long-term goal of battling child malnutrition and poverty by training unemployed mothers to be artists. An analysis of the Philani Project suggests the artists achieved empo…
Attitude Mismatching: Discrepancies in the Sexual Attitudes of African American Mothers and their Pre-adolescent Children
Stages of sexual readiness and six‐month stage progression among African American pre‐teens
We examined the range of sexual intentions and behaviors preceding sexual initiation among 211 African-American pre-teens assigned to the control arm of a longitudinal community-based intervention trial. Stage of sexual readiness was assessed using the stage of change construct from the Transtheoretical Model, and patterns of stage movement during a 6-month period were examined. Overall, 90% of participants were in precontemplation at baseline, w…
Sexual Intentions of Black Preadolescents: Associations with Risk and Adaptive Behaviors
Risk and adaptive behaviors are markers of sexual intentions among black preadolescents. Prevention programs can use these behaviors to identify black youth who may be at high risk for early sexual initiation
Sexual Intentions of Black Preadolescents: Associations with Risk and Adaptive Behaviors
Parent-Adolescent Discussions about Sex and Condoms: Impact on Peer Influences of Sexual Risk Behavior
This research examined how parent-adolescent communication about initiating sex and condoms influenced the relationship between peer norms and behavior. African American and Hispanic adolescents reported on parent-adolescent discussions about initiating sex and condoms, perceived peer norms about sex and condom use, and their own behavior. Communication about sex and perceived peer norms about sex were each related to sexual behavior, and communi…
A Multidimensional Framework for the Meanings of the Sexual Double Standard and its Application for the Sexual Health of Young Black Women in the U.S
There has been debate in the literature as to whether a sexual double standard (SDS) currently exists in the United States. Studies vary greatly in how the SDS is operationalized, making it difficult to interpret findings across studies and translate academic literature into applied fields such as public health. To advance academic and applied research, we propose a multidimensional framework for the SDS that can accommodate complex and nuanced m…
Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Two Ethnic Minority Samples: The Role of Family Variables
Kim S. Miller, Rex Forehand, Beth A. Kotchick, Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Two Ethnic Minority Samples: The Role of Family Variables, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Feb., 1999), pp. 85-98
Believing another likes or dislikes you: Behaviors making the beliefs come true
African American Women's Retrospective Perceptions of the Intergenerational Transfer of Gynecological Health Care Information Received From Mothers: Implications for Families and Providers
Seeking preventive care and communicating openly with providers during clinical encounters could reduce adolescent African American (AA) women's risk of acquiring STIs or HIV. This study examines how the intergenerational transfer of gynecological health care information between mothers and daughters may influence the health care-seeking behavior of AA adolescent women and their ability to speak openly with providers about sexual health concerns,…
Moms with Guns: Women's Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture
June 01 2009 Moms with Guns: Women's Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture Kim Miller Kim Miller Kim Miller is assistant professor of Women's Studies and art history, and the coordinator of the Women's Studies Program, at Wheaton College, Norton, MA. [email protected], http://wheatoncollege.edu/Faculty/KimMiller.html Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Kim Mille…
The Kids Say Project: Supporting Children to Talk about their Experiences and to Engage in Decision-making
Research and policy calls for hearing the voices of children and youth in out-of-home care and involving them in decisions about their own lives. The “Kids Say” cards were designed to facilitate this engagement, particularly with Indigenous children and youth. A feasibility study explored the extent to which the Kids Say cards were acceptable to young people, and prompted discussion about their lives and what is important to them. The study invol…
Selective Silence and the Shaping of Memory in Post-Apartheid Visual Culture: The Case of the Monument to the Women of South Africa
This paper focuses on a particular event in South African history and the ways in which the event is memorialised and remembered in post-apartheid South Africa. In her book History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa, Annie Coombes remarks, ‘Women's vital role in the overthrow of the apartheid state has been sorely neglected in favour of a more monolithic representation of the liberation movement’.1 1A. …
Strengthening the Network of Mentored, Underrepresented Minority Scientists and Leaders to Reduce HIV-Related Health Disparities
Objectives. We reviewed data for the Minority HIV/AIDS Research Initiative (MARI), which was established in 2003 to support underrepresented minority scientists performing HIV prevention research in highly affected communities. Methods. MARI was established at the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control as a program of competitively awarded, mentored grants for early career researchers conducting HIV prevention research in highly affected raci…
Trauma, Testimony, and Truth: Contemporary South African Artists Speak
Sexual Intentions of Black Preadolescents: Associations with Risk and Adaptive Behaviors
The STD and HIV Epidemics in African American Youth: Reconceptualizing Approaches to Risk Reduction
Sexually transmitted infections, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), disproportionately affect African American adolescents and young adults. Many of our current strategies and approaches have been inadequate in the promotion of risk reduction among youth and need to be reconceptualized. This article identifies issues that may guide researchers to better address the risks faced by African American youth. Some of these issues include tai…
All in the Family: Family Folklore, Objectivity and Self-Censorship
This past Thanksgiving, my mother died. I spent the holiday taking plastic garbage bags of her clothing to the Salvation Army. I also went through her jewel-boxes, her drawers, her cedar chest. In doing this, I uncovered remnants of my mother's life, pieces of her that brought back memories. My sister and I sat on her bed, pulling necklaces out of a box, asking each other questions like: Do you remember when she used to wear this with that long b…
Families Matter! Presexual Risk Prevention Intervention
Parent-based HIV prevention programming may play an important role in reaching youths early to help establish lifelong patterns of safe and healthy sexual behaviors. Families Matter! is a 5-session, evidence-based behavioral intervention designed for primary caregivers of children aged 9 to 12 years to promote positive parenting and effective parent–child communication about sexuality and sexual risk reduction. The program’s 5-step capacity-build…
Guiding and supporting adolescents living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: The development of a curriculum for family and community members
Ready, Set, Go: African American Preadolescents’ Sexual Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors
Understanding of preadolescent sexuality is limited. To help fill this gap, we calculated frequencies, percentages, and confidence intervals for 1,096 preadolescents’ reports of sexual thoughts, intentions, and sexual behavior. Cochran-Armitage trend tests accounted for age effects. Findings show that 9-year-olds are readying for sexual activity, with sexual readiness increasing between ages of 9 and 12. Sexual thoughts increased with age ( p < .…
Stages of sexual readiness and six‐month stage progression among African American pre‐teens
We examined the range of sexual intentions and behaviors preceding sexual initiation among 211 African-American pre-teens assigned to the control arm of a longitudinal community-based intervention trial. Stage of sexual readiness was assessed using the stage of change construct from the Transtheoretical Model, and patterns of stage movement during a 6-month period were examined. Overall, 90% of participants were in precontemplation at baseline, w…
Sexual Intentions of Black Preadolescents: Associations with Risk and Adaptive Behaviors
Risk and adaptive behaviors are markers of sexual intentions among black preadolescents. Prevention programs can use these behaviors to identify black youth who may be at high risk for early sexual initiation
Believing another likes or dislikes you: Behaviors making the beliefs come true
All in the Family: Family Folklore, Objectivity and Self-Censorship
This past Thanksgiving, my mother died. I spent the holiday taking plastic garbage bags of her clothing to the Salvation Army. I also went through her jewel-boxes, her drawers, her cedar chest. In doing this, I uncovered remnants of my mother's life, pieces of her that brought back memories. My sister and I sat on her bed, pulling necklaces out of a box, asking each other questions like: Do you remember when she used to wear this with that long b…
Family Communication About Sex: What are Parents Saying and Are Their Adolescents Listening?
CONTEXT: Communication between parents and adolescents about sex, particularly in minority families, has been understudied; more information is needed both on which sex-related topics are discussed and on how their content is transmitted. METHODS: Parent-adolescent communication about 10 sex-related topics was examined in a sample of 907 Hispanic and black 14-16-year-olds. Chi-square analyses were performed to test for significant differences acr…
Teenage Partners' Communication About Sexual Risk and Condom Use: The Importance of Parent-Teenager Discussions
CONTEXT: Teenagers' communication with their partners about sex and their use of condoms may be influenced by the discussions teenagers have with their parents about sex. However, little is known about the process of parent-teenager communication on this topic. Understanding both what parents discuss with their children and how they discuss it may lead to a greater understanding of teenagers' sexual behavior. METHODS: Interviews were conducted wi…
The Process and Content of Sexual Communication with Adolescents in Two-Parent Families: Associations with Sexual Risk-Taking Behavior
Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Two Ethnic Minority Samples: The Role of Family Variables
Kim S. Miller, Rex Forehand, Beth A. Kotchick, Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Two Ethnic Minority Samples: The Role of Family Variables, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Feb., 1999), pp. 85-98
Reconceptualizing Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Beyond Did They or Didn't They?
CONTEXT: Adolescent sexual behavior is typically studied as a dichotomy: Adolescents have had sex or they have not. Broadening this view would lead to a greater understanding of teenagers' sexual behavior. METHODS: Interview data from 907 high school students in Alabama, New York and Puerto Rico were used to examine the relationships between sexual experience and a variety of social, psychological and behavioral variables. Four groups of teenager…
Parent-Adolescent Discussions about Sex and Condoms: Impact on Peer Influences of Sexual Risk Behavior
This research examined how parent-adolescent communication about initiating sex and condoms influenced the relationship between peer norms and behavior. African American and Hispanic adolescents reported on parent-adolescent discussions about initiating sex and condoms, perceived peer norms about sex and condom use, and their own behavior. Communication about sex and perceived peer norms about sex were each related to sexual behavior, and communi…
Adolescent sexual risk behavior: A multi-system perspective
The STD and HIV Epidemics in African American Youth: Reconceptualizing Approaches to Risk Reduction
Sexually transmitted infections, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), disproportionately affect African American adolescents and young adults. Many of our current strategies and approaches have been inadequate in the promotion of risk reduction among youth and need to be reconceptualized. This article identifies issues that may guide researchers to better address the risks faced by African American youth. Some of these issues include tai…
Sexual Intentions of Black Preadolescents: Associations with Risk and Adaptive Behaviors
Risk and adaptive behaviors are markers of sexual intentions among black preadolescents. Prevention programs can use these behaviors to identify black youth who may be at high risk for early sexual initiation
Sexual Intentions of Black Preadolescents: Associations with Risk and Adaptive Behaviors
Sexual Intentions of Black Preadolescents: Associations with Risk and Adaptive Behaviors
Trauma, Testimony, and Truth: Contemporary South African Artists Speak
Attitude Mismatching: Discrepancies in the Sexual Attitudes of African American Mothers and their Pre-adolescent Children
Stages of sexual readiness and six‐month stage progression among African American pre‐teens
We examined the range of sexual intentions and behaviors preceding sexual initiation among 211 African-American pre-teens assigned to the control arm of a longitudinal community-based intervention trial. Stage of sexual readiness was assessed using the stage of change construct from the Transtheoretical Model, and patterns of stage movement during a 6-month period were examined. Overall, 90% of participants were in precontemplation at baseline, w…
Barriers and Facilitators to Maternal Communication with Preadolescents about Age-Relevant Sexual Topics
Iconographies of Gender, Poverty, and Power in Contemporary South African Visual Culture
This article examines the iconography of the feminization of poverty in women's printed textiles produced by artists at the Philani Project in Crossroads, Cape Town. The Philani Project was initially formed as part of an ambitious, nationwide, antipoverty initiative, with the long-term goal of battling child malnutrition and poverty by training unemployed mothers to be artists. An analysis of the Philani Project suggests the artists achieved empo…
Pediatricians’ Role and Practices Regarding Provision of Guidance about Sexual Risk Reduction to Parents
Factors Associated with Parent–Child Communication About HIV/Aids in the United States and Kenya: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Moms with Guns: Women's Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture
June 01 2009 Moms with Guns: Women's Political Agency in Anti-Apartheid Visual Culture Kim Miller Kim Miller Kim Miller is assistant professor of Women's Studies and art history, and the coordinator of the Women's Studies Program, at Wheaton College, Norton, MA. [email protected], http://wheatoncollege.edu/Faculty/KimMiller.html Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Kim Mille…
African American Women's Retrospective Perceptions of the Intergenerational Transfer of Gynecological Health Care Information Received From Mothers: Implications for Families and Providers
Seeking preventive care and communicating openly with providers during clinical encounters could reduce adolescent African American (AA) women's risk of acquiring STIs or HIV. This study examines how the intergenerational transfer of gynecological health care information between mothers and daughters may influence the health care-seeking behavior of AA adolescent women and their ability to speak openly with providers about sexual health concerns,…
Ready, Set, Go: African American Preadolescents’ Sexual Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors
Understanding of preadolescent sexuality is limited. To help fill this gap, we calculated frequencies, percentages, and confidence intervals for 1,096 preadolescents’ reports of sexual thoughts, intentions, and sexual behavior. Cochran-Armitage trend tests accounted for age effects. Findings show that 9-year-olds are readying for sexual activity, with sexual readiness increasing between ages of 9 and 12. Sexual thoughts increased with age ( p < .…
Selective Silence and the Shaping of Memory in Post-Apartheid Visual Culture: The Case of the Monument to the Women of South Africa
This paper focuses on a particular event in South African history and the ways in which the event is memorialised and remembered in post-apartheid South Africa. In her book History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa, Annie Coombes remarks, ‘Women's vital role in the overthrow of the apartheid state has been sorely neglected in favour of a more monolithic representation of the liberation movement’.1 1A. …
A Multidimensional Framework for the Meanings of the Sexual Double Standard and its Application for the Sexual Health of Young Black Women in the U.S
There has been debate in the literature as to whether a sexual double standard (SDS) currently exists in the United States. Studies vary greatly in how the SDS is operationalized, making it difficult to interpret findings across studies and translate academic literature into applied fields such as public health. To advance academic and applied research, we propose a multidimensional framework for the SDS that can accommodate complex and nuanced m…
Psychology (28 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (23 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (12 works) · Sexual behavior (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works)