Donna J Cherry

Biographic Data

ID4100118
NAMEDonna J Cherry
GIVEN NAMESDonna J
FAMILY NAMECherry
SIGNATURECHERRY D J
AFFILIATIONSEast Tennessee State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS61
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX5

  • Awareness, Attitudes, and Actions About Environmental Southern Appalachia

    Open AccessDeborah Thibeault, Clem Jamie et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2024

    The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) requires social work programs to integrate environmental justice into their programming. The purpose of this study is to determine if undergraduate and graduate social work students at a southern Appalachia university had an increase in awareness, a shift in attitudes, and a rise in action related to environmental justice since starting their program. This study also sought to identify where students fe…

  • Vital Few and Useful Many foster families from start to finish

    Open AccessDonna J Cherry, John G OrmeARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2019Cited by: 3References: 22

  • Against all odds: Vital Few foster families

    Open AccessJohn G Orme, Donna J Cherry et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2017Cited by: 3References: 36

  • Equine-Facilitated Therapy and Trauma: Current Knowledge, Future Needs

    Open AccessMarlys Staudt, Donna J Cherry et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2017

    Equine-facilitated therapy (EFT) is a relatively new treatment for trauma and PTSD. EFT as well as animal assisted interventions in general have been introduced and implemented in mental health treatment for children and adults, though the research in support of these interventions has not kept up with practice. The purpose of this review is to examine the use of EFT for clients suffering from trauma/PTSD. Studies were included if PTSD/trauma was…

  • The Vital Few foster parents: Replication and extension

    Open AccessJohn G Orme, Donna J CherryARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2015Cited by: 3References: 39

  • Self-Efficacy in Newly-Hired Child Welfare Workers

    Open AccessDonna J Cherry, Donna Cherry et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2014

    Child abuse and neglect in the United States resulted in 676,569 reports in 2011 (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2012). Workers in this field struggle with low pay, high caseloads, inadequate training and supervision, and risk of violence, all of which contribute to worker burnout and poor worker retention rates. Worker self-efficacy is predictive of worker retention, job performance, and persistence in this difficult field. This paper …

  • Psychometrics of Loca: Level of Conflict Assessment of Divorcing or Separating Couples

    Mary R Langenbrunner, Mary Ellen Cox et al.ARTICLEJournal of Divorce & Remarriage2013

    This study provides evidence for the psychometrics of a 25-item instrument that measures divorcing individuals' perceived level of interparental conflict. The Level of Conflict Assessment (LOCA) was administered to 484 individuals who were attending a state-mandated parent education seminar for divorcing or separating parents. The unique feature of this instrument is that it was designed to measure perceived levels of conflict at the time of divo…

  • Who Is Willing to Foster Children With Disabilities

    John G Orme, Donna J Cherry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Child Welfare2013Cited by: 5References: 5

    Children with disabilities represent a significant and increasing proportion of children in foster care. In a national sample of 304 foster mothers we identified two groups of mothers, one willing to foster children with any type of disability except HIV/AIDS (51%) (Unconditional mothers), and a second group who were more selective (49%) (Selective mothers). Unconditional mothers fostered longer, fostered more children, and had more foster childr…

  • Measuring Willingness to Foster Children with Disabilities and Special Medical Conditions

    John G Orme, J Orme et al.ARTICLESocial Work Research2013Cited by: 5References: 1

    In this article, the authors present the Willingness to Foster Scale-Disabilities and Medical Conditions (WFS-DMC) and report results concerning its psychometric properties. The WFS-DMC is a new measure designed to accurately and efficiently assess the willingness of parents to foster children with special needs, in particular, disabilities and special medical conditions. The authors tested the WFS-DMC with a national sample of 298 foster mothers…

  • The vital few foster mothers

    Open AccessDonna J Cherry, John G OrmeARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2013Cited by: 7References: 62

  • Validation Study of a Co-Parenting Scale for Foster Couples

    Donna J Cherry, John G OrmeARTICLEJournal of Public Child Welfare2011Cited by: 6References: 7

    This study examined the Casey Foster Applicant Inventory-Applicant–Co-Parenting Scale (CFAI-CP), a new scale developed to measure foster parent applicants' co-parenting potential. Also, this study illustrates statistical methods used to analyze the psychometric properties of dyadic data. Factor structure and measurement invariance were tested with 111 approved foster couples. Mplus was used to accommodate ordinal-level data. Exploratory factor an…

  • Measuring the willingness to foster children with emotional and behavioral problems

    Open AccessMary Ellen Cox, Donna J Cherry et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2011Cited by: 7References: 17

  • The Available Time Scale: Measuring Foster Parents' Available Time to Foster

    Donna J Cherry, John G Orme et al.ARTICLESocial Work Research2009Cited by: 7References: 5

    Journal Article The Available Time Scale: Measuring Foster Parents' Available Time to Foster Get access Donna J. Cherry, PhD, Donna J. Cherry, PhD postdoctoral associate College of Medicine, Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD professor College of Social Work, University of Tennessee Address correspondence to John G. Orme, College of Social Work, Un…

  • The Help with Fostering Inventory

    Open AccessJohn G Orme, Donna J Cherry et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2006Cited by: 2References: 51

  • Addressing Barriers to University-Community Collaboration: Organizing by Experts or Organizing the Experts

    Donna J Cherry, Jon ShefnerARTICLEJournal of Community Practice2004Cited by: 13References: 14

    University-community partnerships, and COPC programs in particular, offer important opportunities for traditionally segregated groups to work together in collaborative relationships. The challenge of bringing people who possess distinct differences in background and social power together is a long-standing issue. Class, status, and organizational differences may impede collaboration. This article discusses the history of COPC as social policy and…