Karla T Washington
Biographic Data
| ID | 4176174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karla T Washington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karla T |
| FAMILY NAME | Washington |
| SIGNATURE | WASHINGTON K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1100-9524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding the “circle of support” for caregivers of adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias following a hospice live discharge
Hospice patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are more likely to experience a live discharge. This places increased burden on primary caregivers who may be unprepared for this transition and are more likely to be socially isolated. This study explored primary caregivers' "Circle of Support" (CoS) and how social context influences service utilization patterns, perceived support, and experiences of care transitions followin…
Rural Missourians’ perspectives on pain: I like to be in control of my life
This study examined rural Missourians' conceptualization of pain and their attitudes toward pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management strategies. The study sample consisted of twenty-five (N = 25) community-dwelling adults residing in rural Missouri counties. Researchers conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews and applied thematic analysis techniques to interpret the data. Results indicated that participants often viewed pa…
Close but Not Close Enough: How Distance Caregiving is Associated with Hospice Family Caregiver Hospice Communication Experiences
Half of hospice family caregivers report having unmet information needs, which can contribute to poor pain and symptom management, emergency department use, and hospice disenrollment for care-recipients and to caregiver strain and stress. Effective communication between hospice teams and family caregivers is critical yet communication inadequacies persist. Despite the growing prevalence of distance caregiving, including in hospice care, and the r…
From Pain To Purpose: Do Former Cancer Family Caregivers Benefit From Providing Online Peer Support
A qualitative exploration of factors influencing healthcare utilization among rural Missourians: “We have to be bleeding, broken”
Researchers performed a hybrid inductive-deductive thematic analysis of 25 individual interviews to explore factors influencing healthcare utilization in rural Missouri. Data indicated that a desire for self-sufficiency, preference for natural interventions, and poor perception of rural healthcare quality may deter healthcare utilization. Influential subjective norms included respect for toughness and resilience, conservative approach to healthca…
Everybody Needs to Talk About Their Child”: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study of Bereaved Parents’ Experiences in Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling (DS) is a narrative intervention that supports participants' ability to find meaning in their life experiences - in this case, bereavement after child death. Thirteen ( N = 13) bereaved parents engaged in a DS workshop in which they created a story about the death of their child. Using a descriptive phenomenological approach, researchers explored participants' experience with child death via their completed digital stories. R…
Sense making in the wake of familial death: “I continue to work through those feelings”
Sense making is especially common in bereavement when a death challenges an individual's existing worldview. Thus, it is often discussed in the context of statistically atypical deaths, such as the death of a child or death by suicide, that are apt to create a crisis of meaning. Less understood is the process of sense making following more statistically normative deaths, such as those that occur in old age following prolonged illness. In this des…
Opportunities and Challenges for Visual Qualitative Intervention Research on Facebook
Digital Storytelling for Bereaved Individuals in a Virtual Setting
An emerging body literature exists highlighting the use of Digital Storytelling as an educational, and/or therapeutic intervention. Authors of this manuscript have studied Digital Storytelling as a narrative bereavement intervention designed to help individuals make meaning of adverse life events, like the death of a family member. Until recently, Digital Storytelling is typically delivered in person. The purpose of this article is to describe th…
Digital storytelling: Narrating meaning in bereavement
Individuals who cannot make sense of a significant death are more likely to experience bereavement complications than those who are able to reconcile their loss with existing or newly-developed ways of understanding the world. Digital Storytelling, a multi-media narrative technique, has been identified as a potential facilitator of meaning-making processes. In this secondary qualitative analysis, researchers described the meaning-making processes…
Digital Storytelling as an Intervention for Bereaved Family Members
Fourteen ( N = 14) bereaved family members participated in an exploratory study of Digital Storytelling as a bereavement intervention. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of this approach and to qualitatively assess potential impacts. Qualitative data revealed that for some, participation in Digital Storytelling facilitated growth and meaning-making. Themes from the data also revealed that participation in Digital Sto…
I Have to Age in This Body”: Lesbian and Bisexual Older Women's Perspectives on a Health Behavior Intervention
Ways of Grieving Among Ojibwe Elders: “They’re All Around Us. They’re Always.”
Death, grief, and loss are common experiences for many individuals who identify as American Indian/Alaska Native, yet decidedly little is known about the lived experience of grieving in this population. To address this gap in the literature, researchers conducted a qualitative descriptive study exploring ways of grieving among 20 elders residing on a North American Ojibwe reservation. Findings derived via thematic analysis illustrate the variety …
Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minorities Caring for Adults with Non-Aids-Related Chronic Illnesses
A number of marginalized communities receive inadequate attention in the extensive body of existing research on informal caregivers; this is particularly true of the sexual and gender minority (SGM) community. This article features a review of the evidence regarding the experiences of SGMs involved in the informal care of chronically ill friends or family members and examines the specific research strategies that have been involved in developing …
Learning to Facilitate Advance Care Planning: The Novice Social Worker’s Experience
Professional leaders have identified clear roles for social workers involved in advance care planning (ACP), a facilitated process whereby individuals identify their preferences for future medical care; yet information about effective teaching practices in this area is scant. This study reports on the experiences of 14 social workers who participated in a nationally recognized, evidence-based ACP facilitator certification program. Researchers fir…
Stress Variances Among Informal Hospice Caregivers
Care interventions are not routinely provided for hospice caregivers, despite widespread documentation of the burden and toll of the caregiving experience. Assessing caregivers for team interventions (ACT) proposes that holistic patient and family care includes ongoing caregiver needs assessment of primary, secondary, and intrapsychic stressors. In this study, our goal was to describe the variance in stressors for caregivers to establish evidence…
Treating Perpetrators of Child Physical Abuse: A Review of Interventions
This systematic review analyzes eleven empirically based articles relevant to evaluating treatments and interventions for perpetrators of child physical abuse. The articles provide a clear picture of the limited research available in this area. The review describes current themes in research and interventions, common challenges in working with families in which child physical abuse has occurred, gaps in the current research, and suggestions for p…
Job Satisfaction Among Child Welfare Workers in Public and Performance-Based Contracting Environments
An increasing number of state governments offer performance-based contracts to private agencies for the delivery of child welfare services; however, little is known about how this system impacts child welfare workers. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to gain a better understanding of frontline workers' employment satisfaction in a state that utilized both public and performance-based systems of care. Qualitative findings revealed that …
Attachment and Alternatives: Theory in Child Welfare Research
In an effort to improve the effectiveness of their services with children and adolescents, many social workers consult research guided by attachment theory. This article provides a brief overview of attachment theory with specific attention given to its application to contemporary child welfare research. Criticisms of attachment theory are discussed in detail, along with possibilities for alternative research frameworks including crisis intervent…
Research Review: Sibling placement in foster care: a review of the evidence
This research review was undertaken to explore the current evidence pertaining to sibling placement in the foster care system. The review specifically addresses the following questions: (1) Which theories inform research on siblings in foster care? (2) Which designs and methodology are used to study brothers and sisters in out of home placement? (3) How do researchers define ‘siblings’ when investigating child placement? and (4) What are the find…
Opportunities and Challenges for Visual Qualitative Intervention Research on Facebook
Digital storytelling: Narrating meaning in bereavement
Individuals who cannot make sense of a significant death are more likely to experience bereavement complications than those who are able to reconcile their loss with existing or newly-developed ways of understanding the world. Digital Storytelling, a multi-media narrative technique, has been identified as a potential facilitator of meaning-making processes. In this secondary qualitative analysis, researchers described the meaning-making processes…
Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minorities Caring for Adults with Non-Aids-Related Chronic Illnesses
A number of marginalized communities receive inadequate attention in the extensive body of existing research on informal caregivers; this is particularly true of the sexual and gender minority (SGM) community. This article features a review of the evidence regarding the experiences of SGMs involved in the informal care of chronically ill friends or family members and examines the specific research strategies that have been involved in developing …
Job Satisfaction Among Child Welfare Workers in Public and Performance-Based Contracting Environments
An increasing number of state governments offer performance-based contracts to private agencies for the delivery of child welfare services; however, little is known about how this system impacts child welfare workers. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to gain a better understanding of frontline workers' employment satisfaction in a state that utilized both public and performance-based systems of care. Qualitative findings revealed that …
Research Review: Sibling placement in foster care: a review of the evidence
This research review was undertaken to explore the current evidence pertaining to sibling placement in the foster care system. The review specifically addresses the following questions: (1) Which theories inform research on siblings in foster care? (2) Which designs and methodology are used to study brothers and sisters in out of home placement? (3) How do researchers define ‘siblings’ when investigating child placement? and (4) What are the find…
Attachment and Alternatives: Theory in Child Welfare Research
In an effort to improve the effectiveness of their services with children and adolescents, many social workers consult research guided by attachment theory. This article provides a brief overview of attachment theory with specific attention given to its application to contemporary child welfare research. Criticisms of attachment theory are discussed in detail, along with possibilities for alternative research frameworks including crisis intervent…
Treating Perpetrators of Child Physical Abuse: A Review of Interventions
This systematic review analyzes eleven empirically based articles relevant to evaluating treatments and interventions for perpetrators of child physical abuse. The articles provide a clear picture of the limited research available in this area. The review describes current themes in research and interventions, common challenges in working with families in which child physical abuse has occurred, gaps in the current research, and suggestions for p…
Job Satisfaction Among Child Welfare Workers in Public and Performance-Based Contracting Environments
An increasing number of state governments offer performance-based contracts to private agencies for the delivery of child welfare services; however, little is known about how this system impacts child welfare workers. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to gain a better understanding of frontline workers' employment satisfaction in a state that utilized both public and performance-based systems of care. Qualitative findings revealed that …
Stress Variances Among Informal Hospice Caregivers
Care interventions are not routinely provided for hospice caregivers, despite widespread documentation of the burden and toll of the caregiving experience. Assessing caregivers for team interventions (ACT) proposes that holistic patient and family care includes ongoing caregiver needs assessment of primary, secondary, and intrapsychic stressors. In this study, our goal was to describe the variance in stressors for caregivers to establish evidence…
Learning to Facilitate Advance Care Planning: The Novice Social Worker’s Experience
Professional leaders have identified clear roles for social workers involved in advance care planning (ACP), a facilitated process whereby individuals identify their preferences for future medical care; yet information about effective teaching practices in this area is scant. This study reports on the experiences of 14 social workers who participated in a nationally recognized, evidence-based ACP facilitator certification program. Researchers fir…
Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minorities Caring for Adults with Non-Aids-Related Chronic Illnesses
A number of marginalized communities receive inadequate attention in the extensive body of existing research on informal caregivers; this is particularly true of the sexual and gender minority (SGM) community. This article features a review of the evidence regarding the experiences of SGMs involved in the informal care of chronically ill friends or family members and examines the specific research strategies that have been involved in developing …
I Have to Age in This Body”: Lesbian and Bisexual Older Women's Perspectives on a Health Behavior Intervention
Ways of Grieving Among Ojibwe Elders: “They’re All Around Us. They’re Always.”
Death, grief, and loss are common experiences for many individuals who identify as American Indian/Alaska Native, yet decidedly little is known about the lived experience of grieving in this population. To address this gap in the literature, researchers conducted a qualitative descriptive study exploring ways of grieving among 20 elders residing on a North American Ojibwe reservation. Findings derived via thematic analysis illustrate the variety …
Digital Storytelling as an Intervention for Bereaved Family Members
Fourteen ( N = 14) bereaved family members participated in an exploratory study of Digital Storytelling as a bereavement intervention. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of this approach and to qualitatively assess potential impacts. Qualitative data revealed that for some, participation in Digital Storytelling facilitated growth and meaning-making. Themes from the data also revealed that participation in Digital Sto…
Digital Storytelling for Bereaved Individuals in a Virtual Setting
An emerging body literature exists highlighting the use of Digital Storytelling as an educational, and/or therapeutic intervention. Authors of this manuscript have studied Digital Storytelling as a narrative bereavement intervention designed to help individuals make meaning of adverse life events, like the death of a family member. Until recently, Digital Storytelling is typically delivered in person. The purpose of this article is to describe th…
Digital storytelling: Narrating meaning in bereavement
Individuals who cannot make sense of a significant death are more likely to experience bereavement complications than those who are able to reconcile their loss with existing or newly-developed ways of understanding the world. Digital Storytelling, a multi-media narrative technique, has been identified as a potential facilitator of meaning-making processes. In this secondary qualitative analysis, researchers described the meaning-making processes…
Opportunities and Challenges for Visual Qualitative Intervention Research on Facebook
Everybody Needs to Talk About Their Child”: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study of Bereaved Parents’ Experiences in Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling (DS) is a narrative intervention that supports participants' ability to find meaning in their life experiences - in this case, bereavement after child death. Thirteen ( N = 13) bereaved parents engaged in a DS workshop in which they created a story about the death of their child. Using a descriptive phenomenological approach, researchers explored participants' experience with child death via their completed digital stories. R…
Sense making in the wake of familial death: “I continue to work through those feelings”
Sense making is especially common in bereavement when a death challenges an individual's existing worldview. Thus, it is often discussed in the context of statistically atypical deaths, such as the death of a child or death by suicide, that are apt to create a crisis of meaning. Less understood is the process of sense making following more statistically normative deaths, such as those that occur in old age following prolonged illness. In this des…
Close but Not Close Enough: How Distance Caregiving is Associated with Hospice Family Caregiver Hospice Communication Experiences
Half of hospice family caregivers report having unmet information needs, which can contribute to poor pain and symptom management, emergency department use, and hospice disenrollment for care-recipients and to caregiver strain and stress. Effective communication between hospice teams and family caregivers is critical yet communication inadequacies persist. Despite the growing prevalence of distance caregiving, including in hospice care, and the r…
From Pain To Purpose: Do Former Cancer Family Caregivers Benefit From Providing Online Peer Support
A qualitative exploration of factors influencing healthcare utilization among rural Missourians: “We have to be bleeding, broken”
Researchers performed a hybrid inductive-deductive thematic analysis of 25 individual interviews to explore factors influencing healthcare utilization in rural Missouri. Data indicated that a desire for self-sufficiency, preference for natural interventions, and poor perception of rural healthcare quality may deter healthcare utilization. Influential subjective norms included respect for toughness and resilience, conservative approach to healthca…
Rural Missourians’ perspectives on pain: I like to be in control of my life
This study examined rural Missourians' conceptualization of pain and their attitudes toward pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management strategies. The study sample consisted of twenty-five (N = 25) community-dwelling adults residing in rural Missouri counties. Researchers conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews and applied thematic analysis techniques to interpret the data. Results indicated that participants often viewed pa…
Understanding the “circle of support” for caregivers of adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias following a hospice live discharge
Hospice patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are more likely to experience a live discharge. This places increased burden on primary caregivers who may be unprepared for this transition and are more likely to be socially isolated. This study explored primary caregivers' "Circle of Support" (CoS) and how social context influences service utilization patterns, perceived support, and experiences of care transitions followin…
Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (8 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (7 works) · Psychological intervention (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Intervention (counseling (5 works)