J Crutchfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 41910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Crutchfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Crutchfield |
| SIGNATURE | CRUTCHFIELD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3319-2726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Built Environment and Anxiety Among Adolescents: To What Extent Can Resilient Family Protect Youth
One third of U.S. adolescents experience anxiety. As adolescents spend more time outside the family, built environmental risk factors become salient. Although resilient family protects youth from various adversities, it is unclear how effective family resilience can buffer extrafamilial risks. This study examined the moderating role of family resilience in the association between neighborhood, school, and racial discrimination risk factors on ado…
School social work with mixed-status families: Navigating effective strategies to support student well-being
Children in mixed-status immigrant families, where members hold different immigration statuses and often include U.S. citizen children living with undocumented parents, face heightened educational and emotional risks due to intensified immigration enforcement in the US. This practice note draws on emerging research and field insights to illustrate how related stressors shape student well-being and school engagement. It highlights the cascading ef…
Colorism and Historical Trauma: Barriers and Stepping Stones for Healing within Clinical Social Work Education
Colorism and historical trauma are part of the lived experiences of many racialized and marginalized groups. However, few studies have examined the meaning and function of colorism and historical trauma among clinical social workers and how prepared they feel to support healing from these experiences in their practice and lives. To address this gap, 42 clinicians of diverse racial, ethnic, gender, and regional identities from the United States we…
Enhancing awareness of colorism among pre-service teachers: A field placement approach
Racial Matching in Foster Care Placements and Subsequent Placement Stability: A National Study
A Scoping Review of Colorism in Schools: Academic, Social, and Emotional Experiences of Students of Color
Students of color experience academic, social, and emotional challenges due to colorism in schools. The purpose of this scoping review is to compare the experiences with colorism of students from varying racial backgrounds (African Americans, Native Americans, Asians, and Latin) in U.S. public schools. It is predicted that the understudied group of Latinx and indigenous students of color will uniquely experience colorism in academic settings when…
Looking within: Implicit skin tone bias among teachers of color
Colorism is a salient aspect of race in the knowledge construction and preparation of teachers across the globe. This paper reports the findings of a study that investigated attitudes and experiences of colorism among preservice teachers of color, including their own levels of implicit skin tone bias, and implications for their teaching practice. The results revealed that family background greatly influenced participant understanding and attitude…
Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation
Families involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) face daunting steps to meet their service plan goals in the effort to achieve reunification with their children. Families who lack transportation access face additional barriers. This study explored Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA, volunteers' perspectives of the impact of transportation access on child welfare‐involved families' service participation. Semi‐structured interviews we…
The moderating effect of Covid-19 stress on school racial climate and parent and child mental well-being
Transportation Infrastructure as a Social Justice Issue: Mixed Methods Analysis of a Suburban Boomtown
This sequential, mixed methods study assessed economic growth and transportation infrastructure development in a suburban Texas boomtown, where population growth exceeded 100% over a 20-year-period. Researchers applied empowerment theory to investigate and compare how environmental justice (EJ) and non-EJ residents perceive the growth. Results from 200 surveys and four focus groups were analyzed and paired with GIS mapping. Findings confirmed inc…
Best Practices for Antiracist Education in Virtual Settings
In 2020, resources proliferated for 1) teaching in virtual settings in response to educational disruptions; and 2) antiracist education practices. Resources that combined these subjects to suggest antiracist education practices for the virtual setting were comparatively few. In this article, the authors propose ways to connect antiracist practices to virtual education. We begin with an exploration of racism and antiracism. Next, we explore existi…
Changes to MSW Faculty Workload Resulting From Covid-19: An Issue of Equity
As a result of the health and safety concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, in Spring 2020 social work programs nationwide were required to make significant shifts in their instructional methods and field placements. These changes often resulted in faculty members taking on new or additional responsibilities related to teaching and field. This work explores the experiences of full time faculty members from the 18 accredited Masters of So…
Effects of Church Attendance Vs. Private Religious Activities on Suicidal Ideation: A Study of Rural US College Students
An Examination of Peer Victimization and Internalizing Problems through a Racial Equity Lens: Does School Connectedness Matter
Although research has given ample consideration to the association between peer victimization and internalizing problems, little is known about the mediating and moderating influences on this relationship. This study investigated whether peer victimization at age 9 indirectly related to internalizing problems at age 15 via school connectedness and whether the direct and indirect associations between peer victimization and internalizing problems w…
Child and state factors in positive permanency: A multi-level survival analysis
Positive permanency, or leaving foster care to a permanent family setting, is a priority for children in care. Yet, there are barriers to achieving permanency, particularly among children of color. This study examined child and state factors that impacted permanency outcomes, with a particular focus on racial disparities. The researchers utilized a sample of n = 208,742 children who entered care in 2016 from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis …
Racial Injustice in Schools: Underscoring Social Work’s Obligation to Promote Antiracist Practice
Children of color (COC) continue to have a range of disparate educational experiences that implicate structural and institutional racism as powerful, detrimental forces in P-12 schools. As members of a profession dedicated to empowerment and the dismantling of oppression, social workers are called to respond. Social workers work in and with schools in diverse roles (for example, as practitioners, community partners, organizational leaders, and co…
The Obligation of White Women: Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in Social Work Education
On Memorial Day 2020, a white woman, Amy Cooper, was walking her unleashed dog in New York City. After being apprised of the leash law in that state by a man bird watching, Ms. Cooper proceeded to call the police stating an 'African American man' was 'threatening her life and that of her dog' (Ransom, 2020). While this event may seem unconnected to the field of social work, it is a modern example of the way white women, including those in social …
Colorism and the Poetics of Resistance Among Black Youth: An Application of the Colorist-Historical Trauma Framework
The colorist-historical trauma framework offers scholars, practitioners, and educators a new lens with which to more effectively combat racial disparities in society through the understanding of the intergenerational transmission of colorism in the historical trauma response of African Americans. This article applies the colorist-historical trauma framework to the colorism poems of young African Americans who demonstrate that poetry, as a device …
How colorist microaggressions have eluded social work: A literature review
The social work profession has thoroughly engaged the concepts of racism and discrimination throughout history and now explores the growing concept of racial microaggressions in understanding the life experiences of minority communities. Even the burgeoning study of microaggressions, however, overlooks the impact of colorism as a microaggression. Through a literature review, the authors evaluate current literature viewing colorism through the fra…
Unpacking the Mississippi blues: Relationship between internalizing problems and health behaviors
This study examined the relationship between internalizing behaviors (measured as anxious/depressed, withdrawn, and somatic problems) and lifestyle-related, modifiable factors as substance use, sleep, and healthy behaviors in a sample of 191 college students in training for social work and other helping professions. The results indicate that participants with lower scores on internalizing behaviors had fewer sleep disturbances, higher scores on h…
Using Qualitative Interpretive Meta-Synthesis to Explore Colorist Privilege
The colorist-historical trauma framework: Implications for culturally responsive practice with African Americans
An evolution of thought and practice regarding the relationship of racism to well-being, healing, and trauma continues within social work and the helping professions. Additionally, empirical research on colorism as a key dimension of racism suggests that colorism negatively impacts the psychological and physical well-being of African Americans. However, few studies have examined well-being among African Americans in the context of historical trau…
A Strengths-Based Multidisciplinary Leadership Team: A Case Study in an Urban Middle School
Black women’s experience of colorist microaggressions
This paper reports the findings of a study that investigated Black women’s experiences of colorism. The authors introduce a new framework, “colorist microaggressions”, which highlight the microaggressions experienced by Black women. The results indicate that colorist microaggressions impacted the social, relational, emotional, and relational aspects of Black women’s lives and their well-being. The results also showed that like racial microaggress…
School Choice and Afrocentric Charter Schools: A Review and Critique of Evaluation Outcomes
Black women’s experience of colorist microaggressions
This paper reports the findings of a study that investigated Black women’s experiences of colorism. The authors introduce a new framework, “colorist microaggressions”, which highlight the microaggressions experienced by Black women. The results indicate that colorist microaggressions impacted the social, relational, emotional, and relational aspects of Black women’s lives and their well-being. The results also showed that like racial microaggress…
The colorist-historical trauma framework: Implications for culturally responsive practice with African Americans
An evolution of thought and practice regarding the relationship of racism to well-being, healing, and trauma continues within social work and the helping professions. Additionally, empirical research on colorism as a key dimension of racism suggests that colorism negatively impacts the psychological and physical well-being of African Americans. However, few studies have examined well-being among African Americans in the context of historical trau…
Racial Injustice in Schools: Underscoring Social Work’s Obligation to Promote Antiracist Practice
Children of color (COC) continue to have a range of disparate educational experiences that implicate structural and institutional racism as powerful, detrimental forces in P-12 schools. As members of a profession dedicated to empowerment and the dismantling of oppression, social workers are called to respond. Social workers work in and with schools in diverse roles (for example, as practitioners, community partners, organizational leaders, and co…
School Choice and Afrocentric Charter Schools: A Review and Critique of Evaluation Outcomes
A Strengths-Based Multidisciplinary Leadership Team: A Case Study in an Urban Middle School
Black women’s experience of colorist microaggressions
This paper reports the findings of a study that investigated Black women’s experiences of colorism. The authors introduce a new framework, “colorist microaggressions”, which highlight the microaggressions experienced by Black women. The results indicate that colorist microaggressions impacted the social, relational, emotional, and relational aspects of Black women’s lives and their well-being. The results also showed that like racial microaggress…
Using Qualitative Interpretive Meta-Synthesis to Explore Colorist Privilege
The colorist-historical trauma framework: Implications for culturally responsive practice with African Americans
An evolution of thought and practice regarding the relationship of racism to well-being, healing, and trauma continues within social work and the helping professions. Additionally, empirical research on colorism as a key dimension of racism suggests that colorism negatively impacts the psychological and physical well-being of African Americans. However, few studies have examined well-being among African Americans in the context of historical trau…
Colorism and the Poetics of Resistance Among Black Youth: An Application of the Colorist-Historical Trauma Framework
The colorist-historical trauma framework offers scholars, practitioners, and educators a new lens with which to more effectively combat racial disparities in society through the understanding of the intergenerational transmission of colorism in the historical trauma response of African Americans. This article applies the colorist-historical trauma framework to the colorism poems of young African Americans who demonstrate that poetry, as a device …
How colorist microaggressions have eluded social work: A literature review
The social work profession has thoroughly engaged the concepts of racism and discrimination throughout history and now explores the growing concept of racial microaggressions in understanding the life experiences of minority communities. Even the burgeoning study of microaggressions, however, overlooks the impact of colorism as a microaggression. Through a literature review, the authors evaluate current literature viewing colorism through the fra…
Unpacking the Mississippi blues: Relationship between internalizing problems and health behaviors
This study examined the relationship between internalizing behaviors (measured as anxious/depressed, withdrawn, and somatic problems) and lifestyle-related, modifiable factors as substance use, sleep, and healthy behaviors in a sample of 191 college students in training for social work and other helping professions. The results indicate that participants with lower scores on internalizing behaviors had fewer sleep disturbances, higher scores on h…
Changes to MSW Faculty Workload Resulting From Covid-19: An Issue of Equity
As a result of the health and safety concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, in Spring 2020 social work programs nationwide were required to make significant shifts in their instructional methods and field placements. These changes often resulted in faculty members taking on new or additional responsibilities related to teaching and field. This work explores the experiences of full time faculty members from the 18 accredited Masters of So…
Effects of Church Attendance Vs. Private Religious Activities on Suicidal Ideation: A Study of Rural US College Students
An Examination of Peer Victimization and Internalizing Problems through a Racial Equity Lens: Does School Connectedness Matter
Although research has given ample consideration to the association between peer victimization and internalizing problems, little is known about the mediating and moderating influences on this relationship. This study investigated whether peer victimization at age 9 indirectly related to internalizing problems at age 15 via school connectedness and whether the direct and indirect associations between peer victimization and internalizing problems w…
Child and state factors in positive permanency: A multi-level survival analysis
Positive permanency, or leaving foster care to a permanent family setting, is a priority for children in care. Yet, there are barriers to achieving permanency, particularly among children of color. This study examined child and state factors that impacted permanency outcomes, with a particular focus on racial disparities. The researchers utilized a sample of n = 208,742 children who entered care in 2016 from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis …
Racial Injustice in Schools: Underscoring Social Work’s Obligation to Promote Antiracist Practice
Children of color (COC) continue to have a range of disparate educational experiences that implicate structural and institutional racism as powerful, detrimental forces in P-12 schools. As members of a profession dedicated to empowerment and the dismantling of oppression, social workers are called to respond. Social workers work in and with schools in diverse roles (for example, as practitioners, community partners, organizational leaders, and co…
The Obligation of White Women: Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in Social Work Education
On Memorial Day 2020, a white woman, Amy Cooper, was walking her unleashed dog in New York City. After being apprised of the leash law in that state by a man bird watching, Ms. Cooper proceeded to call the police stating an 'African American man' was 'threatening her life and that of her dog' (Ransom, 2020). While this event may seem unconnected to the field of social work, it is a modern example of the way white women, including those in social …
Enhancing awareness of colorism among pre-service teachers: A field placement approach
Racial Matching in Foster Care Placements and Subsequent Placement Stability: A National Study
A Scoping Review of Colorism in Schools: Academic, Social, and Emotional Experiences of Students of Color
Students of color experience academic, social, and emotional challenges due to colorism in schools. The purpose of this scoping review is to compare the experiences with colorism of students from varying racial backgrounds (African Americans, Native Americans, Asians, and Latin) in U.S. public schools. It is predicted that the understudied group of Latinx and indigenous students of color will uniquely experience colorism in academic settings when…
Looking within: Implicit skin tone bias among teachers of color
Colorism is a salient aspect of race in the knowledge construction and preparation of teachers across the globe. This paper reports the findings of a study that investigated attitudes and experiences of colorism among preservice teachers of color, including their own levels of implicit skin tone bias, and implications for their teaching practice. The results revealed that family background greatly influenced participant understanding and attitude…
Accessibility of transportation to child‐welfare involved parents and the related impact on court‐ordered service participation
Families involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) face daunting steps to meet their service plan goals in the effort to achieve reunification with their children. Families who lack transportation access face additional barriers. This study explored Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA, volunteers' perspectives of the impact of transportation access on child welfare‐involved families' service participation. Semi‐structured interviews we…
The moderating effect of Covid-19 stress on school racial climate and parent and child mental well-being
Transportation Infrastructure as a Social Justice Issue: Mixed Methods Analysis of a Suburban Boomtown
This sequential, mixed methods study assessed economic growth and transportation infrastructure development in a suburban Texas boomtown, where population growth exceeded 100% over a 20-year-period. Researchers applied empowerment theory to investigate and compare how environmental justice (EJ) and non-EJ residents perceive the growth. Results from 200 surveys and four focus groups were analyzed and paired with GIS mapping. Findings confirmed inc…
Best Practices for Antiracist Education in Virtual Settings
In 2020, resources proliferated for 1) teaching in virtual settings in response to educational disruptions; and 2) antiracist education practices. Resources that combined these subjects to suggest antiracist education practices for the virtual setting were comparatively few. In this article, the authors propose ways to connect antiracist practices to virtual education. We begin with an exploration of racism and antiracism. Next, we explore existi…
Colorism and Historical Trauma: Barriers and Stepping Stones for Healing within Clinical Social Work Education
Colorism and historical trauma are part of the lived experiences of many racialized and marginalized groups. However, few studies have examined the meaning and function of colorism and historical trauma among clinical social workers and how prepared they feel to support healing from these experiences in their practice and lives. To address this gap, 42 clinicians of diverse racial, ethnic, gender, and regional identities from the United States we…
Built Environment and Anxiety Among Adolescents: To What Extent Can Resilient Family Protect Youth
One third of U.S. adolescents experience anxiety. As adolescents spend more time outside the family, built environmental risk factors become salient. Although resilient family protects youth from various adversities, it is unclear how effective family resilience can buffer extrafamilial risks. This study examined the moderating role of family resilience in the association between neighborhood, school, and racial discrimination risk factors on ado…
School social work with mixed-status families: Navigating effective strategies to support student well-being
Children in mixed-status immigrant families, where members hold different immigration statuses and often include U.S. citizen children living with undocumented parents, face heightened educational and emotional risks due to intensified immigration enforcement in the US. This practice note draws on emerging research and field insights to illustrate how related stressors shape student well-being and school engagement. It highlights the cascading ef…
Psychology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Racism (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works)