Marsha Carolan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3820182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marsha Carolan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marsha |
| FAMILY NAME | Carolan |
| SIGNATURE | CAROLAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9055-0377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Perceived barriers and facilitators to diet and physical activity among adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in Malawi
Diet and physical activity are crucial to Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) self-management. However, socio-environmental, and cultural factors can impede lifestyle behaviours, and hence T2DM management. This study aimed to identify barriers, facilitators and support for diet and physical activity among adults with T2DM in Malawi selected from a larger clinical assessment study, conducted in urban and semi-urban public hospitals. Four focus group d…
Promoting Healthy Eating and Regular Physical Activity in Low-Income Families Through Family-Centered Programs: Implications for Practice
The Ecology of Experiences for African American Women in Clinical Doctoral Programs
African American women must navigate higher education, in particular, clinical doctoral programs, as a gendered racial minority. These women often endure multiple levels of discrimination to obtain their degree. Findings of this study highlight these experiences and suggest the importance of increasing supports for African American women in clinical doctoral programs. Practices and supports should be put in place so that students of color are not…
Resilience in low-income African American women living and aging with HIV
Women are living with HIV into middle and older age and are likely to face multiple comorbidities and stressors as they age. This study focused on understanding how women who experience multiple forms of oppression and ongoing adversity are still able to adapt and stand strong. Using a theoretical framework of resilience and a feminist research ideology, interviews of eight middle-aged and older African American women living with HIV were analyze…
Acculturation and Self-Management Perceptions Among Mexican American Adults With Type 2 Diabetes
Because type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is disproportionately high among Mexican Americans in the United States, this study examined how acculturation influences T2DM self-management, a critical component for disease outcome. Qualitative interviews of 24 low-income Mexican American patients with T2DM were matched to their biomedical and dietary data and degree of acculturation. Greater acculturation to the United States was associated with less favorable …
Miscarriage at advanced maternal age and the search for meaning
Although it has been documented that miscarriage is a common pregnancy outcome and more likely to happen among women aged 35 years and older, there is very little research on the quality of such a lived experience. This study features phenomenological interviews of 10 women aged 35 years and older. Theoretical frameworks of ambiguous loss and feminism guide the design and analysis. The salient themes suggest that women experience miscarriage from…
Connecting Trauma and Health for Mothers in the Child Welfare System
This qualitative study focused on disadvantaged women in the child welfare system who have lost their parental rights. Utilizing a critical feminist and eco-developmental approach, the study was aimed at understanding how experiences of complex trauma influences parenting, health, and well-being. This sample consisted of 31 primarily ethnic minority, low income women. Findings identified how early and ongoing traumatic experiences (complex trauma…
Relationships of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their Fathers
This phenomenological study investigated the relationships between 7 fathers and their sons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Seven major themes emerged: Shared Activities, Developmental Sensitivity, Emotional Understanding, Fighting the Label, Fatherhood Expectations, Parent Responsibility, and Fatherhood Isolation. Fathers were sensitive to their sons’ emotional needs and developmental milestones. Clinicians can help fathers to develop appro…
The Intersection of Gender and Culture in Chinese International Student Couples
A grounded-theory qualitative study based on feminist theory was conducted to investigate three areas of inquiry regarding the marital relationships of Chinese international graduate students. The three areas of inquiry were gender socialization, cultural influence, and structural aspects of the relationship. Ten Chinese couples, of which at least one spouse was a graduate student, participated in the research. Thirty open-ended qualitative inter…
Women Who Have Their Parental Rights Removed by the State: The Interplay of Trauma and Oppression
Although there is extensive literature related to assessment, intervention, and outcomes for families in the child welfare system, less is written about the experience of mothers in these families when the legal system moves towards terminating parental rights. The experiences of three women in this situation of removal and termination are presented through clinical case studies by the four family therapists whose lives intersected with theirs. A…
An Integrated Feminist Approach to Disordered Eating Intervention in a University Campus Outpatient Setting
The incidence of clinically diagnosable eating disorders continues to rise amongst adolescent and college age adults. Contemporary research suggests that a complexity of factors contribute to eating disorders in women ranging from physiological and biogenetic to socio-cultural and family-based factors. This paper focuses on an intervention program that was developed for women, by feminist family therapists, in an outpatient campus setting. Client…
The Phenomenon of Comparative Development Between Female Survivors and Their Partners: Implications for Couples Therapy
Locating Community in Women's Experiences of Trauma, Recovery, and Empowerment
Feminist interpretive methods informed our understanding of the role of the community and family-based services in women's trauma and recovery. Amy's story illustrates how trustworthy community relationships have a role in healing past experiences of isolation and points to the need for community supports to understand their power and responsibility to facilitate women's individual and family empowerment
Therapist Response to Clients’ Partner Abuse: Implications for Training and Development of Marriage and Family Therapists
Contemporary Muslim Families: Research and Practice
Commitments and Constraints to Intimacy for African American Couples at Midlife
This study focuses on the contributors and detractors to intimate relationships for African American couples at midlife. Qualitative analysis revealed that commitment to faith provided a foundation for familial and intimate relationships and mediated the constraints of aging and racism. African American couples were devoted to their families and to their spiritual beliefs. Midlife was a time of change and stability for couples with the competing …
Contemporary Muslim Families: Research and Practice
Women Who Have Their Parental Rights Removed by the State: The Interplay of Trauma and Oppression
Although there is extensive literature related to assessment, intervention, and outcomes for families in the child welfare system, less is written about the experience of mothers in these families when the legal system moves towards terminating parental rights. The experiences of three women in this situation of removal and termination are presented through clinical case studies by the four family therapists whose lives intersected with theirs. A…
Commitments and Constraints to Intimacy for African American Couples at Midlife
This study focuses on the contributors and detractors to intimate relationships for African American couples at midlife. Qualitative analysis revealed that commitment to faith provided a foundation for familial and intimate relationships and mediated the constraints of aging and racism. African American couples were devoted to their families and to their spiritual beliefs. Midlife was a time of change and stability for couples with the competing …
Miscarriage at advanced maternal age and the search for meaning
Although it has been documented that miscarriage is a common pregnancy outcome and more likely to happen among women aged 35 years and older, there is very little research on the quality of such a lived experience. This study features phenomenological interviews of 10 women aged 35 years and older. Theoretical frameworks of ambiguous loss and feminism guide the design and analysis. The salient themes suggest that women experience miscarriage from…
Locating Community in Women's Experiences of Trauma, Recovery, and Empowerment
Feminist interpretive methods informed our understanding of the role of the community and family-based services in women's trauma and recovery. Amy's story illustrates how trustworthy community relationships have a role in healing past experiences of isolation and points to the need for community supports to understand their power and responsibility to facilitate women's individual and family empowerment
Connecting Trauma and Health for Mothers in the Child Welfare System
This qualitative study focused on disadvantaged women in the child welfare system who have lost their parental rights. Utilizing a critical feminist and eco-developmental approach, the study was aimed at understanding how experiences of complex trauma influences parenting, health, and well-being. This sample consisted of 31 primarily ethnic minority, low income women. Findings identified how early and ongoing traumatic experiences (complex trauma…
Therapist Response to Clients’ Partner Abuse: Implications for Training and Development of Marriage and Family Therapists
The Ecology of Experiences for African American Women in Clinical Doctoral Programs
African American women must navigate higher education, in particular, clinical doctoral programs, as a gendered racial minority. These women often endure multiple levels of discrimination to obtain their degree. Findings of this study highlight these experiences and suggest the importance of increasing supports for African American women in clinical doctoral programs. Practices and supports should be put in place so that students of color are not…
The Intersection of Gender and Culture in Chinese International Student Couples
A grounded-theory qualitative study based on feminist theory was conducted to investigate three areas of inquiry regarding the marital relationships of Chinese international graduate students. The three areas of inquiry were gender socialization, cultural influence, and structural aspects of the relationship. Ten Chinese couples, of which at least one spouse was a graduate student, participated in the research. Thirty open-ended qualitative inter…
Commitments and Constraints to Intimacy for African American Couples at Midlife
This study focuses on the contributors and detractors to intimate relationships for African American couples at midlife. Qualitative analysis revealed that commitment to faith provided a foundation for familial and intimate relationships and mediated the constraints of aging and racism. African American couples were devoted to their families and to their spiritual beliefs. Midlife was a time of change and stability for couples with the competing …
Contemporary Muslim Families: Research and Practice
Therapist Response to Clients’ Partner Abuse: Implications for Training and Development of Marriage and Family Therapists
Locating Community in Women's Experiences of Trauma, Recovery, and Empowerment
Feminist interpretive methods informed our understanding of the role of the community and family-based services in women's trauma and recovery. Amy's story illustrates how trustworthy community relationships have a role in healing past experiences of isolation and points to the need for community supports to understand their power and responsibility to facilitate women's individual and family empowerment
Women Who Have Their Parental Rights Removed by the State: The Interplay of Trauma and Oppression
Although there is extensive literature related to assessment, intervention, and outcomes for families in the child welfare system, less is written about the experience of mothers in these families when the legal system moves towards terminating parental rights. The experiences of three women in this situation of removal and termination are presented through clinical case studies by the four family therapists whose lives intersected with theirs. A…
An Integrated Feminist Approach to Disordered Eating Intervention in a University Campus Outpatient Setting
The incidence of clinically diagnosable eating disorders continues to rise amongst adolescent and college age adults. Contemporary research suggests that a complexity of factors contribute to eating disorders in women ranging from physiological and biogenetic to socio-cultural and family-based factors. This paper focuses on an intervention program that was developed for women, by feminist family therapists, in an outpatient campus setting. Client…
The Phenomenon of Comparative Development Between Female Survivors and Their Partners: Implications for Couples Therapy
The Intersection of Gender and Culture in Chinese International Student Couples
A grounded-theory qualitative study based on feminist theory was conducted to investigate three areas of inquiry regarding the marital relationships of Chinese international graduate students. The three areas of inquiry were gender socialization, cultural influence, and structural aspects of the relationship. Ten Chinese couples, of which at least one spouse was a graduate student, participated in the research. Thirty open-ended qualitative inter…
Relationships of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their Fathers
This phenomenological study investigated the relationships between 7 fathers and their sons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Seven major themes emerged: Shared Activities, Developmental Sensitivity, Emotional Understanding, Fighting the Label, Fatherhood Expectations, Parent Responsibility, and Fatherhood Isolation. Fathers were sensitive to their sons’ emotional needs and developmental milestones. Clinicians can help fathers to develop appro…
Connecting Trauma and Health for Mothers in the Child Welfare System
This qualitative study focused on disadvantaged women in the child welfare system who have lost their parental rights. Utilizing a critical feminist and eco-developmental approach, the study was aimed at understanding how experiences of complex trauma influences parenting, health, and well-being. This sample consisted of 31 primarily ethnic minority, low income women. Findings identified how early and ongoing traumatic experiences (complex trauma…
Miscarriage at advanced maternal age and the search for meaning
Although it has been documented that miscarriage is a common pregnancy outcome and more likely to happen among women aged 35 years and older, there is very little research on the quality of such a lived experience. This study features phenomenological interviews of 10 women aged 35 years and older. Theoretical frameworks of ambiguous loss and feminism guide the design and analysis. The salient themes suggest that women experience miscarriage from…
Resilience in low-income African American women living and aging with HIV
Women are living with HIV into middle and older age and are likely to face multiple comorbidities and stressors as they age. This study focused on understanding how women who experience multiple forms of oppression and ongoing adversity are still able to adapt and stand strong. Using a theoretical framework of resilience and a feminist research ideology, interviews of eight middle-aged and older African American women living with HIV were analyze…
Acculturation and Self-Management Perceptions Among Mexican American Adults With Type 2 Diabetes
Because type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is disproportionately high among Mexican Americans in the United States, this study examined how acculturation influences T2DM self-management, a critical component for disease outcome. Qualitative interviews of 24 low-income Mexican American patients with T2DM were matched to their biomedical and dietary data and degree of acculturation. Greater acculturation to the United States was associated with less favorable …
The Ecology of Experiences for African American Women in Clinical Doctoral Programs
African American women must navigate higher education, in particular, clinical doctoral programs, as a gendered racial minority. These women often endure multiple levels of discrimination to obtain their degree. Findings of this study highlight these experiences and suggest the importance of increasing supports for African American women in clinical doctoral programs. Practices and supports should be put in place so that students of color are not…
Perceived barriers and facilitators to diet and physical activity among adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in Malawi
Diet and physical activity are crucial to Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) self-management. However, socio-environmental, and cultural factors can impede lifestyle behaviours, and hence T2DM management. This study aimed to identify barriers, facilitators and support for diet and physical activity among adults with T2DM in Malawi selected from a larger clinical assessment study, conducted in urban and semi-urban public hospitals. Four focus group d…
Promoting Healthy Eating and Regular Physical Activity in Low-Income Families Through Family-Centered Programs: Implications for Practice
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Qualitative research (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works)