Barbara Pierce

Biographic Data

ID4176629
NAMEBarbara Pierce
GIVEN NAMESBarbara
FAMILY NAMEPierce
SIGNATUREPIERCE B
AFFILIATIONSIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
ORCID0000-0002-7266-811X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS23
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • A Systematic Review of Secondary Traumatic Stress in School Personnel

    Open AccessPaige M Klemme, Barbara Pierce et al.ARTICLEJournal of School Health2026

  • Transformational Leadership, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout of Child Welfare Workers

    Open AccessTae Kyung Park, Jangmin Kim et al.ARTICLESocial Work2024Cited by: 4References: 1

    This study examines the moderating effects of distant leader's practice of transformational leadership on the relationship between secondary traumatic stress (STS) and burnout among child welfare workers. Caseworkers and supervisors in a Midwest U.S. state (N = 210) rated their regional director's use of transformational leadership skills using a survey. Given the nature of the clustered data, multilevel modeling was employed to examine the main …

  • Organizational justice and secondary traumatic stress among child welfare workers

    Jangmin Kim, Mi Jin Choi et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2023

    Findings suggest that the different types of organizational justice have different functions in reducing child welfare workers' STS. This study can contribute to developing justice-oriented and trauma-informed organizations that prevent child welfare workers' STS and reduce its negative effects on themselves, organizations, and children in the child welfare system. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)

  • The Relationship Of County-Level Characteristics On Length Of Time Clients Are In Child Protective Services

    David C Kondrat, Jeremiah W Jaggers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Service Research2023References: 32

    Time spent in the child welfare system changes the life trajectory of those in care. Children who spend longer in care are at greater risk for mental illness. Adoption and Safe Families Act put a limit on how long children could be in out-of-home care; 15 months out of the last 22. Researchers have studied both individual and environmental correlates of time in care. No study has explored individual and environmental predictors of time to case cl…

  • A Multiple-Path Model of Workforce Development for Improving the Fidelity of Family Team Conference in the Child Welfare System

    Jangmin Kim, Barbara PierceARTICLEJournal of Public Child Welfare2022References: 4

    Family Team Conference (FTC) has been suggested as a promising practice model to improve child welfare outcomes. However, there is little understanding of developing an effective workforce to ensure FTC fidelity. Using data involving 891 caseworkers who implemented FTC in a Midwestern state, path analysis showed that both effective training and supervision that parallels the same principles of FTC are necessary conditions to enhance FTC fidelity …

  • Saudi Women's Attitudes Toward Advocacy for Women's Rights

    Open AccessWafa Alhajri, Barbara Pierce et al.ARTICLEAffilia2022Cited by: 1References: 7

    There is a growing women's rights advocacy movement in Saudi Arabia—much of which explicitly targets the male guardianship system. In this system, Saudi women are restricted by the male-dominated culture and face obstacles that hold them accountable to their male guardians. Recent changes in this system have become crucially important to women's lives, but still, leave women lacking full freedom. This exploratory study provides a thematic analysi…

  • Effectiveness of Family Centered Treatment on reunification and days in care

    Open AccessBarbara Pierce, Barbara J Pierce et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2022Cited by: 1References: 23

  • Model Fidelity and Child Well-Being in Family Team Conference

    Open AccessJangmin Kim, Mijin Choi et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2022References: 29

    Family Team Conference (FTC) has been suggested as a promising practice model to effectively reduce racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare. However, previous studies have noted ongoing challenges to promoting cultural responsiveness in FTC. This study analysed caseworkers’ survey data (n = 736) to explore the role of racial matching between caseworkers and children as an effective practice to strengthen the high fidelity of FT…

  • Cognitive and Affective Empathy as Indirect Paths Between Heterogeneous Depression Symptoms on Default Mode and Salience Network Connectivity in Adolescents

    Open AccessDrew E Winters, Patrick Pruitt et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2021

  • Impacts of transformational leadership on turnover intention of child welfare workers

    Open AccessTaekyung Park, Tae Kyung Park et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2020Cited by: 10References: 64

  • Concrete services usage on child placement stability

    Open AccessDrew E Winters, Barbara Pierce et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2020References: 13

  • Does parent engagement enhance children’s emotional well-being in family team conference? Not a panacea for families with intimate partner violence

    Open AccessJangmin Kim, Mi Jin Choi et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2020Cited by: 1References: 27

  • Effective workload management in child welfare

    Open AccessJangmin Kim, Eun‐hye Yi et al.ARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2019Cited by: 1References: 13

    A common assumption in public social service organizations is that workload may be positively associated with caseload. However, few empirical studies have examined what specific characteristics of caseload affect caseworkers' workloads in the child welfare system. This study attempts to address this gap by identifying specific individual and regional factors that influence both subjective and objective dimensions of workloads. Survey data were c…

  • Studying process in a Title IV-E waiver evaluation project

    Kori R Bloomquist, Teresa M Imburgia et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Child Welfare2018References: 3

    A Midwestern state’s child welfare agency contracted with a university to evaluate a 5-year Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project. As part of the process study, evaluators employed case study analysis to investigate Waiver knowledge and effects as reported by Regional and Executive Managers across 4 years of the demonstration period. Data from 78 interviews reveal enhanced levels of manager–evaluator rapport and integrated Waiver knowledge acro…

  • Utilization of Concrete Services in Child Welfare

    Barbara Pierce, Jeremiah W Jaggers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Child Welfare2017Cited by: 1References: 2

    Concrete services are goods and services, such as rent, utilities, healthcare, or other tangible services, that are purchased directly by child welfare agencies to help support the short-term needs of a family. Practice wisdom in social work details the importance of meeting basic needs in order for clients to be able to concentrate on completing the case plan. Some literature has mentioned the importance of concrete services for child welfare pr…

  • Competency Curriculum Intervention

    Open AccessBarbara Pierce, Taekyung Park et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2017

    Three cohorts of BSW and MSW Title IV-E and NCWWI student scholars (n= 125) were educated using a university-agency developed competency-based curriculum and field placement. In order to determine if this curriculum and field placement would improve perceived competence and attitudes toward child welfare work, pre and post-field placement surveys were used. Statistically significant change was demonstrated for most competencies. Attitudes toward …

  • Improving child welfare services with family team meetings

    Open AccessJangmin Kim, Barbara Pierce et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2016Cited by: 4References: 27

  • Development of Faith and Religious Understanding in Children

    Open AccessBarbara Pierce, Barbara J Pierce et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1995

    Developmental progression in 30 children's Biblical understandings but uniformly high faith scores across these same ages (3–5 yr., 6–8 yr., and 9–12 yr.) suggest that the promotion of faith in children is not necessarily constrained by cognitive development