Carla Lewis

Biographic Data

ID3887434
NAMECarla Lewis
GIVEN NAMESCarla
FAMILY NAMELewis
SIGNATURELEWIS C
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
ORCID0000-0003-1951-8531
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • A Pianist's Technique Rehabilitation After Post-Traumatic Stress

    Open AccessCarla Lewis, Liesl Van Der MerweARTICLEQualitative Health Research2024References: 26

    Individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have access to a number of sources detailing the neuropsychological effects and influence of PTSD on their day-to-day lives. While the information on the effects and influence of PTSD may be helpful in understanding the scope of the disorder, there is a lack of knowledge on how to rehabilitate musicians, specifically pianists, who experience these effects. PTSD is especially detrime…

  • Coping and Violence Exposure as Predictors of Psychological Functioning in Domestic Violence Survivors

    Open AccessCarla Lewis, Carla S Lewis et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2006Cited by: 8References: 13

    This study examines the differential effects of adult and childhood physical and psychological abuse, abuse-specific coping, and psychological adjustment in battered women seeking emergency shelter. Multivariate regression analyses confirmed the devastating impact of psychological abuse (childhood and concurrent) on battered women's adjustment. The results corroborated prior research suggesting a cumulative vulnerability to psychological victimiz…

  • Studying Crack Abusers

    Carla Lewis, Bruce D Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1992

    This study attempts to better understand a limited segment of the drug-abusing population, especially individuals who repeatedly use crack and other drugs. This article addresses the methodological strategies and underlying paradigms informing the recruitment of hard-to-reach and ill-defined subpopulations of crack abusers and noncrack drug abusers. Subjects were recruited from diverse social contexts: streets or communities where most drug users…

  • Drug use and stress

    Open AccessAnn F Brunswick, Carla Lewis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology1992References: 20

    Opposing functions have been attributed to substance use — as causal of distress and as buffering agent to reduce distress. These opposing roles were modeled with longitudinal data from an urban community sample of African Americans. With enduring unemployment formulated as the predictor stressor, three levels of drug use were tested for direct versus multiplicative effects on strain. Findings did not support the buffering or stress-relief hypoth…

  • A life span perspective on drug use and affective distress in an african-american sample

    Open AccessAnn F Brunswick, Carla Lewis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology1991References: 8

    Data from the second and third waves of an ongoing study of inner-city African Americans (N = 411) were used to assess the relationship between substance use and affective distress. Involvement with eight substances was examined individually and collectively over a 7-year interval, during which time the study cohort moved from ages 18 to 23 years to 26 to 31 years. Regression analysis indicated that substance use was associated directly with dele…