Bertranna A Muruthi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4227328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bertranna A Muruthi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bertranna A |
| FAMILY NAME | Muruthi |
| SIGNATURE | MURUTHI B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0337-5233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
UndocuBlack
UndocuBlack individuals hold intersecting identities as migrants, undocumented, and Black people. These overlapping experiences deepen marginalization and oppression, increase mental health difficulties, and decrease access to mental health care, leading to worsened outcomes. Using the framework of Critical Race Theory, this article illustrates the importance of clinicians assessing the role of racism in the mental health care landscape and under…
At the crossroads of race and migration
African and Caribbean Black (ACB) immigrant adolescents experience unique constellations of risk factors that increase their vulnerability of both experiencing and initiating violence. Traditional disciplinary and punitive approaches are ineffective at addressing these root causes. Mental health interventions have the potential to reduce and prevent ACB adolescent violence; however, clinicians need culturally-responsive and community-informed str…
“Ustedes Tienen El Uno Al Otro” [You Guys Have Each Other]
Siblings are the longest-lasting relationships most individuals experience. While there is limited research on sibling relationships in general, research on Latino/a/x sibling relationships is even more limited. This study explored Latino/a/x siblings’ cultural adaptation processes in the United States and how this adaptation impacted their sibling relationships. Researchers conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with Latino/a/x sibling…
The impact of Maternal Mentalizing on Racial Trauma and Substance Use Risk for Black Mothers in the United States
Maternal substance use disorder (SUD) is a significant and growing public health problem in the US. Maternal substance use destabilizes families, places children at higher risk for poor developmental outcomes, and contributes to more than $700 billion in national healthcare costs annually. Despite these realities, mothers with substance use difficulties remain an understudied and underserved population. For Black mothers in the US, the lack of re…
Decolonizing Approaches to Family Science as Intersectional Latinx and Caribbean Scholars
The field of human development and family science is broadening the scope for what is deemed legitimate science; however, the voices of Latinx and Caribbean scholars have been largely absent. We contend that it is not sufficient to merely disrupt hegemonic worldviews and practices in the production of knowledge, but it is also necessary to center our ways of knowing as Latinx and Caribbean scholars and practitioners. In this paper, we utilize our…
It’s Just Not the Same as Being There”
Things That Could Have Helped Me Cope
Experiencing parental deportation during childhood is associated with higher rates of mental health and behavioral health challenges. This adversity may be exacerbated by the uncertainty of what is happening to their deported parent and to their family system following a deportation experience. Effective clinical intervention can reduce the likelihood and/or severity of physical health, mental health and behavioral health difficulty caused by the…
Millennials and Generation Z
In contemporary politics, feminist activism is largely conducted through social media and hashtag activism and is often called “hashtag feminism.” The feminist hashtags #MeToo, #HeForShe, and #HowIWillChange are well-known symbols of the modern feminist movement. This interpretive phenomenological study explored how Millennial and Generation Z men perceive the hashtag feminist movement. It also aimed to capture how these men experienced and perce…
The Grieving Process of Opioid Overdose Bereaved Parents in Maryland
In recent years, the opioid epidemic in the United States has garnered attention due to the increasing number of fatal overdoses. Research on overdose death has increasingly focused on the psychological impacts of drug-related bereavement and disenfranchised bereavement. This study aims to contribute to the growing body of emergent literature on drug death bereavement, by exploring the experiences of parents whose children passed away due to opio…
The Effect of Out-of-Home Placement on the School Engagement of Child-Welfare-Involved Children
Sentí que Alguien Murió’ (‘I felt someone died’)
Over 16 million people in the United States belong to a mixed‐status family in which at least one member of their household is undocumented. The current study will explore adult reflections on childhood experiences of parental deportation in order to elucidate their meaning of the loss and if their experiences resemble an ambiguous loss. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was utilized to analyse in‐depth retrospective meaning‐making narrati…
Daily discrimination, church support, personal mastery, and psychological distress in black people in the United States
Together, our study findings provide useful first steps towards developing interventions to reduce the adverse psychological impacts of daily discrimination on African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans. Intervention efforts such as individual psychotherapy aimed to improve Afro-Caribbean individuals' sense of mastery would be a partial solution to alleviating the adverse effects of discrimination on their psychological health
African Immigrant Women’s Perspectives on Network Support and Intimate Partner Violence
How Financial Socialization Messages Relate to Financial Management, Optimism and Stress
Sex is Bad, Sex is Bad, Sex is Bad”
Mother–Adult Daughter Questionnaire
This study was conducted to determine the generalizability of the Mother–Adult Daughter Questionnaire (MAD) for first- and second-generation Afro-Caribbean women. The measure was created specifically to explore adult daughters’ reports of their relationship with their mothers in order to capture the values of connectedness, trust in hierarchy, and interdependence in the mother–daughter relationship. We test this cross-generational applicability t…
A Process Evaluation of a Substance Use Program for Pregnant Women
Liminal Legality Among Mixed-Status Latinx Families
We Pray as a Family
The role of religion for resettled refugees is particularly complex and illuminating. In the context of migration, the opportunity for increased positive outcomes has the potential to play a vital role in coping with the often tumultuous migration and resettlement experiences of refugees. We share qualitative findings from 14 Karen refugees for whom religious practices are inextricably tied to resilience through family closeness and community-bui…
Family is Family Forever”
Marital Enqing and Depression in Taiwanese Couples
Using social exchange and identity theory, the authors examined the association between marital enqing and depression in 372 Taiwanese couples, and the mediating effects of active and passive sacrifice on that association. Marital enqing is a unique form of affection toward the partner in Taiwanese couples. Data was analyzed by using the actor-partner interdependence model to test for actor and partner effects among study variables. Results indic…
Feminist Borderland Theory and Karen Refugees
Refugee related issues have become more prominent in Western policy-makers’ discussions as families fleeing oppression and unimaginable violence cross borders seeking safety and are sometimes resettled in host nations. In this paper we ask, how do resettled refugees negotiate their cultural identity in terms of physical and psychological ‘borders’ and subsequent power structures dictated by those borders? We apply a feminist borderlands theoretic…
Decolonizing Research Methods for Family Science
North America has a strong legacy of colonization, and a decolonizing agenda has important implications for the field of family science. Decolonizing epistemologies and research methods have gained momentum in the biological and social sciences. These research methods challenge the status quo and the superiority of Western ideologies and focus on agendas meant to honor marginalized people and their local knowledge and experiences. Decolonizing id…
Afro-Caribbean Mothers in the U.S
Afro-Caribbean immigrants are a growing and marginalized population in the U.S. Although they have much in common with African Americans and Latino immigrants, they are a unique and diverse group that is often misunderstood and understudied. This exploratory study highlights the struggles of these mothers as they navigate contrasting parenting values and practices as transnational families. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted, and…
Decolonizing Research Methods for Family Science
North America has a strong legacy of colonization, and a decolonizing agenda has important implications for the field of family science. Decolonizing epistemologies and research methods have gained momentum in the biological and social sciences. These research methods challenge the status quo and the superiority of Western ideologies and focus on agendas meant to honor marginalized people and their local knowledge and experiences. Decolonizing id…
Afro-Caribbean Mothers in the U.S
Afro-Caribbean immigrants are a growing and marginalized population in the U.S. Although they have much in common with African Americans and Latino immigrants, they are a unique and diverse group that is often misunderstood and understudied. This exploratory study highlights the struggles of these mothers as they navigate contrasting parenting values and practices as transnational families. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted, and…
We Pray as a Family
The role of religion for resettled refugees is particularly complex and illuminating. In the context of migration, the opportunity for increased positive outcomes has the potential to play a vital role in coping with the often tumultuous migration and resettlement experiences of refugees. We share qualitative findings from 14 Karen refugees for whom religious practices are inextricably tied to resilience through family closeness and community-bui…
Liminal Legality Among Mixed-Status Latinx Families
Daily discrimination, church support, personal mastery, and psychological distress in black people in the United States
Together, our study findings provide useful first steps towards developing interventions to reduce the adverse psychological impacts of daily discrimination on African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans. Intervention efforts such as individual psychotherapy aimed to improve Afro-Caribbean individuals' sense of mastery would be a partial solution to alleviating the adverse effects of discrimination on their psychological health
Decolonizing Approaches to Family Science as Intersectional Latinx and Caribbean Scholars
The field of human development and family science is broadening the scope for what is deemed legitimate science; however, the voices of Latinx and Caribbean scholars have been largely absent. We contend that it is not sufficient to merely disrupt hegemonic worldviews and practices in the production of knowledge, but it is also necessary to center our ways of knowing as Latinx and Caribbean scholars and practitioners. In this paper, we utilize our…
Millennials and Generation Z
In contemporary politics, feminist activism is largely conducted through social media and hashtag activism and is often called “hashtag feminism.” The feminist hashtags #MeToo, #HeForShe, and #HowIWillChange are well-known symbols of the modern feminist movement. This interpretive phenomenological study explored how Millennial and Generation Z men perceive the hashtag feminist movement. It also aimed to capture how these men experienced and perce…
Sentí que Alguien Murió’ (‘I felt someone died’)
Over 16 million people in the United States belong to a mixed‐status family in which at least one member of their household is undocumented. The current study will explore adult reflections on childhood experiences of parental deportation in order to elucidate their meaning of the loss and if their experiences resemble an ambiguous loss. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was utilized to analyse in‐depth retrospective meaning‐making narrati…
Feminist Borderland Theory and Karen Refugees
Refugee related issues have become more prominent in Western policy-makers’ discussions as families fleeing oppression and unimaginable violence cross borders seeking safety and are sometimes resettled in host nations. In this paper we ask, how do resettled refugees negotiate their cultural identity in terms of physical and psychological ‘borders’ and subsequent power structures dictated by those borders? We apply a feminist borderlands theoretic…
Decolonizing Research Methods for Family Science
North America has a strong legacy of colonization, and a decolonizing agenda has important implications for the field of family science. Decolonizing epistemologies and research methods have gained momentum in the biological and social sciences. These research methods challenge the status quo and the superiority of Western ideologies and focus on agendas meant to honor marginalized people and their local knowledge and experiences. Decolonizing id…
Afro-Caribbean Mothers in the U.S
Afro-Caribbean immigrants are a growing and marginalized population in the U.S. Although they have much in common with African Americans and Latino immigrants, they are a unique and diverse group that is often misunderstood and understudied. This exploratory study highlights the struggles of these mothers as they navigate contrasting parenting values and practices as transnational families. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted, and…
Feminist Borderland Theory and Karen Refugees
Refugee related issues have become more prominent in Western policy-makers’ discussions as families fleeing oppression and unimaginable violence cross borders seeking safety and are sometimes resettled in host nations. In this paper we ask, how do resettled refugees negotiate their cultural identity in terms of physical and psychological ‘borders’ and subsequent power structures dictated by those borders? We apply a feminist borderlands theoretic…
Family is Family Forever”
Marital Enqing and Depression in Taiwanese Couples
Using social exchange and identity theory, the authors examined the association between marital enqing and depression in 372 Taiwanese couples, and the mediating effects of active and passive sacrifice on that association. Marital enqing is a unique form of affection toward the partner in Taiwanese couples. Data was analyzed by using the actor-partner interdependence model to test for actor and partner effects among study variables. Results indic…
Mother–Adult Daughter Questionnaire
This study was conducted to determine the generalizability of the Mother–Adult Daughter Questionnaire (MAD) for first- and second-generation Afro-Caribbean women. The measure was created specifically to explore adult daughters’ reports of their relationship with their mothers in order to capture the values of connectedness, trust in hierarchy, and interdependence in the mother–daughter relationship. We test this cross-generational applicability t…
A Process Evaluation of a Substance Use Program for Pregnant Women
Liminal Legality Among Mixed-Status Latinx Families
We Pray as a Family
The role of religion for resettled refugees is particularly complex and illuminating. In the context of migration, the opportunity for increased positive outcomes has the potential to play a vital role in coping with the often tumultuous migration and resettlement experiences of refugees. We share qualitative findings from 14 Karen refugees for whom religious practices are inextricably tied to resilience through family closeness and community-bui…
How Financial Socialization Messages Relate to Financial Management, Optimism and Stress
Sex is Bad, Sex is Bad, Sex is Bad”
The Grieving Process of Opioid Overdose Bereaved Parents in Maryland
In recent years, the opioid epidemic in the United States has garnered attention due to the increasing number of fatal overdoses. Research on overdose death has increasingly focused on the psychological impacts of drug-related bereavement and disenfranchised bereavement. This study aims to contribute to the growing body of emergent literature on drug death bereavement, by exploring the experiences of parents whose children passed away due to opio…
The Effect of Out-of-Home Placement on the School Engagement of Child-Welfare-Involved Children
Sentí que Alguien Murió’ (‘I felt someone died’)
Over 16 million people in the United States belong to a mixed‐status family in which at least one member of their household is undocumented. The current study will explore adult reflections on childhood experiences of parental deportation in order to elucidate their meaning of the loss and if their experiences resemble an ambiguous loss. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was utilized to analyse in‐depth retrospective meaning‐making narrati…
Daily discrimination, church support, personal mastery, and psychological distress in black people in the United States
Together, our study findings provide useful first steps towards developing interventions to reduce the adverse psychological impacts of daily discrimination on African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans. Intervention efforts such as individual psychotherapy aimed to improve Afro-Caribbean individuals' sense of mastery would be a partial solution to alleviating the adverse effects of discrimination on their psychological health
African Immigrant Women’s Perspectives on Network Support and Intimate Partner Violence
Millennials and Generation Z
In contemporary politics, feminist activism is largely conducted through social media and hashtag activism and is often called “hashtag feminism.” The feminist hashtags #MeToo, #HeForShe, and #HowIWillChange are well-known symbols of the modern feminist movement. This interpretive phenomenological study explored how Millennial and Generation Z men perceive the hashtag feminist movement. It also aimed to capture how these men experienced and perce…
Things That Could Have Helped Me Cope
Experiencing parental deportation during childhood is associated with higher rates of mental health and behavioral health challenges. This adversity may be exacerbated by the uncertainty of what is happening to their deported parent and to their family system following a deportation experience. Effective clinical intervention can reduce the likelihood and/or severity of physical health, mental health and behavioral health difficulty caused by the…
“Ustedes Tienen El Uno Al Otro” [You Guys Have Each Other]
Siblings are the longest-lasting relationships most individuals experience. While there is limited research on sibling relationships in general, research on Latino/a/x sibling relationships is even more limited. This study explored Latino/a/x siblings’ cultural adaptation processes in the United States and how this adaptation impacted their sibling relationships. Researchers conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with Latino/a/x sibling…
The impact of Maternal Mentalizing on Racial Trauma and Substance Use Risk for Black Mothers in the United States
Maternal substance use disorder (SUD) is a significant and growing public health problem in the US. Maternal substance use destabilizes families, places children at higher risk for poor developmental outcomes, and contributes to more than $700 billion in national healthcare costs annually. Despite these realities, mothers with substance use difficulties remain an understudied and underserved population. For Black mothers in the US, the lack of re…
Decolonizing Approaches to Family Science as Intersectional Latinx and Caribbean Scholars
The field of human development and family science is broadening the scope for what is deemed legitimate science; however, the voices of Latinx and Caribbean scholars have been largely absent. We contend that it is not sufficient to merely disrupt hegemonic worldviews and practices in the production of knowledge, but it is also necessary to center our ways of knowing as Latinx and Caribbean scholars and practitioners. In this paper, we utilize our…
It’s Just Not the Same as Being There”
UndocuBlack
UndocuBlack individuals hold intersecting identities as migrants, undocumented, and Black people. These overlapping experiences deepen marginalization and oppression, increase mental health difficulties, and decrease access to mental health care, leading to worsened outcomes. Using the framework of Critical Race Theory, this article illustrates the importance of clinicians assessing the role of racism in the mental health care landscape and under…
At the crossroads of race and migration
African and Caribbean Black (ACB) immigrant adolescents experience unique constellations of risk factors that increase their vulnerability of both experiencing and initiating violence. Traditional disciplinary and punitive approaches are ineffective at addressing these root causes. Mental health interventions have the potential to reduce and prevent ACB adolescent violence; however, clinicians need culturally-responsive and community-informed str…
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)