Marina Lalayants
Biographic Data
| ID | 4415388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Lalayants |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina |
| FAMILY NAME | Lalayants |
| SIGNATURE | LALAYANTS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9813-6237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Protective Role of Early Childhood Education Programmes on Outcomes of Children in the Child Welfare System: A Systematic Review
Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes are recognised as effective interventions that help mitigate the adverse effects of cumulative risk factors experienced by children with a history of maltreatment. This systematic review examines the protective role of ECE programmes in promoting positive developmental outcomes for children involved in the child welfare system. A comprehensive search across multiple academic databases—including APA PsycI…
Evaluating parent partner programs: Key challenges and insights
What makes peer support supportive? A scoping review of multidimensional parent advocacy support in child welfare
Parents advocates provide a range of diverse supports not adequately captured in current support definitions. • Fourteen unique support domains are identified that highlight the important contribution of parent advocates and their lived experience. • The breadth and depth of parent advocate support needs to be more fully recognized in practice and research, including its contribution to positive outcome achievement. Parent peer advocacy is an inc…
Navigating the child welfare system: The Role of Enhanced Parent Advocacy Supports in Child Protection
Families impacted by the child welfare system can find themselves overwhelmed and lost in agency-driven service planning, with fragmented support and changing needs. This qualitative study explored the role of parent advocates in supporting families during the period between the initial and follow-up child safety conferences. Three domains of support emerged: service-related, concrete, and moral. The findings suggest that these vital supports, de…
Bridging the gap: The role of parent advocates in enhancing child protective services practice
Separation and psychosocial challenges of parents with children in foster care
Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes
The Family Group Conference (FGC) is grounded in a rights‐based framework, whereby children and their families have the right and responsibility to be primary decision‐makers when child protection issues arise, and the statutory agency has the responsibility to convene the entitled members of the family network to lead the decision‐making. A distinct core component of FGC—private family time (PFT)—allows families to discuss the information and fo…
A burdened workforce: Exploring burnout, job satisfaction and turnover among child welfare caseworkers in the era of Covid-19
Secondary traumatic stress among parent advocates in child welfare
Parent advocates are peers with lived experience who were formerly involved with the child welfare system and who interact with child welfare-involved parents and families to provide varying types of needed supports. Understanding the role of the secondary traumatic stress among parent advocates is crucial as secondary traumatic stress can not only hamper the quality of services provided to families but can also adversely impact advocates. Given …
Mechanisms that mitigate the effects of child poverty and improve children's cognitive and social–emotional development: A systematic review
The negative effects of poverty on children's development have been examined in many studies. Poverty exerts its influence on children indirectly through mediating pathways, some of which have powerful effects in reducing the impact of early economic deprivation. However, the literature on the mediating mechanisms through which poverty operates and influences children's cognitive and social–emotional development is limited. This review provides a…
Building evidence for family group decision-making in child welfare: Operationalizing the intervention
Family group decision-making (FGDM) is a system reform strategy that positions family groups as decision-making leaders in family meetings, based on family-centered, strength-based, culturally relevant principles. Evidence of outcomes of family meetings is equivocal due to the differences in models and insufficient operationalization of core components. An important phase of intervention research mandates the importance of clearly operationalizin…
Outcomes of the Parent Advocacy Initiative in child safety conferences: Placement and repeat maltreatment
Wanna grab some dinner? Social relations between helping professionals and members of community mental health or other human service organizations
PURPOSE: Could practitioners and members (consumers) of mental health or other organizations interact socially by regularly going out for drinks or dinner together, for example? The American Psychological Association explicitly states for example, "your psychologist shouldn't also be your friend." However such social interactions have occurred for decades in certain clubhouse-modeled community mental healthcare, and maybe research and a more bala…
Peer support services in family reunification process in child welfare: Perceptions of parents and family coaches
Despite the fact that family reunification remains the foremost permanency-planning goal for children in the child welfare system, reunification is not always successful and reentry into foster care after reunification is hardly a rare event due to parental unaddressed needs, stress, and lack of supports. This study explored a peer-delivered pre- and post-reunification support program for child welfare-involved families. Using qualitative focus g…
Examining a peer-delivered program for child welfare-involved caregivers at risk for depression
Caregivers involved in the child welfare system are at heightened risk for depression, which has innumerable, deleterious effects upon the family. Screening and active outreach can facilitate identification and service use, yet there are considerable obstacles to detection and help-seeking. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a peer-delivered detection and active outreach program upon depression and engagement in mental health …
The role of out-of-home caregivers in the achievement of child welfare permanency
The Influence of Policy Context on Transition Age Foster Youths' Views of Self-Sufficiency
In this exploratory study, focus group methodology was used to examine the potential influence of policy context on informing transition age youth (TAY) views of self-sufficiency upon aging out of foster care. The authors purposively selected two different policy contexts concerning extended foster care: New York City and Los Angeles County. Compared to New York City, Los Angeles has a relatively newer policy concerning extending the age of foste…
Partnership between child protective services and parent representatives
Examples of parent representation programmes in child welfare have been growing in an effort to promote family engagement, empowerment of child welfare‐involved parents and a family‐centred approach. Although research on overall benefits of the parent representation model is slowly emerging, no knowledge exists on how child welfare agencies adjust to the inclusion of parent representatives. This study examined the perceptions of partnership betwe…
Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Child Protective Clinical Consultations: Perceptions of Best Practices
Mental illness, substance abuse, and domestic violence are common co-occurring problems in families involved in child maltreatment allegations. When two or more of these problems are involved in a case, the integration of multiple professionals and collaboration among them become especially complex. This study examined perceptions of best practices of multidisciplinary collaboration at an innovative clinical consultation program in a large, gover…
Pedagogy of international social work: A comparative study in the USA, UK, and Georgia
The social work profession worldwide has been increasingly influenced by globalization and its effects on social issues that require social workers to be responsive and knowledgeable in addressing them. In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on the internationalization of the social work profession and education. With limited examples of international social-work-teaching methods discussed in the literature, there is also a lack of …
Students’ perceptions of international social work: A comparative study in the USA, UK, and Georgia
The field of social work worldwide has been increasingly influenced by globalization, migration, and other conditions that require professionals to be responsive and knowledgeable in addressing them. This collaborative project examined students’ perceptions of international social work at three universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Georgia. Students’ responses indicated an overall strong interest and widespread agreement that the…
Overcoming Graduate Students' Negative Perceptions of Statistics
Although there has been some attention in the literature to such issues as students' attitudes toward statistics, instructors are still constantly faced with the challenge to engage students; understand their perceptions, motivations, and interests; and deal with their reluctance and negative attitudes toward the field of statistics. The purpose of the present study was to (1) examine students' attitudes toward statistics; (2) identify characteri…
Clinical data-mining: Learning from practice in international settings
This article describes a practice-based, mixed-method research methodology – Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) – as a strategy for engaging international practitioners for describing, evaluating and reflecting upon endogenous forms of practice with the ultimate goal of improving practice and contributing to knowledge (Epstein, 2010). These knowledge contributions are perforce ‘local’, but through conceptual reflection and/or empirical replication they m…
Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: A clinical data‐mining evaluation
Lalayants M, Epstein I, Adamy D. Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: a clinical data-mining evaluation Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 156–166 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This article presents the results of an evaluation of a multidisciplinary consultation program in child protection by applying a clinical data-mining ap…
A review of generalization methods used in empirical social work literature
This article reviews methods currently used for generalization of findings, based on a review of a representative sample of empirical research studies drawn from three major social work research journals: Social Work Research , Journal of Social Service Research , and Research on Social Work Practice , over a 10‐year period (1996–2005). Findings revealed a greater discussion of generalizability limitations in comparison with the past, and other t…
Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Child Protective Clinical Consultations: Perceptions of Best Practices
Mental illness, substance abuse, and domestic violence are common co-occurring problems in families involved in child maltreatment allegations. When two or more of these problems are involved in a case, the integration of multiple professionals and collaboration among them become especially complex. This study examined perceptions of best practices of multidisciplinary collaboration at an innovative clinical consultation program in a large, gover…
Students’ perceptions of international social work: A comparative study in the USA, UK, and Georgia
The field of social work worldwide has been increasingly influenced by globalization, migration, and other conditions that require professionals to be responsive and knowledgeable in addressing them. This collaborative project examined students’ perceptions of international social work at three universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Georgia. Students’ responses indicated an overall strong interest and widespread agreement that the…
Clinical data-mining: Learning from practice in international settings
This article describes a practice-based, mixed-method research methodology – Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) – as a strategy for engaging international practitioners for describing, evaluating and reflecting upon endogenous forms of practice with the ultimate goal of improving practice and contributing to knowledge (Epstein, 2010). These knowledge contributions are perforce ‘local’, but through conceptual reflection and/or empirical replication they m…
A burdened workforce: Exploring burnout, job satisfaction and turnover among child welfare caseworkers in the era of Covid-19
Outcomes of the Parent Advocacy Initiative in child safety conferences: Placement and repeat maltreatment
The Influence of Policy Context on Transition Age Foster Youths' Views of Self-Sufficiency
In this exploratory study, focus group methodology was used to examine the potential influence of policy context on informing transition age youth (TAY) views of self-sufficiency upon aging out of foster care. The authors purposively selected two different policy contexts concerning extended foster care: New York City and Los Angeles County. Compared to New York City, Los Angeles has a relatively newer policy concerning extending the age of foste…
Partnership between child protective services and parent representatives
Examples of parent representation programmes in child welfare have been growing in an effort to promote family engagement, empowerment of child welfare‐involved parents and a family‐centred approach. Although research on overall benefits of the parent representation model is slowly emerging, no knowledge exists on how child welfare agencies adjust to the inclusion of parent representatives. This study examined the perceptions of partnership betwe…
Separation and psychosocial challenges of parents with children in foster care
Navigating the child welfare system: The Role of Enhanced Parent Advocacy Supports in Child Protection
Families impacted by the child welfare system can find themselves overwhelmed and lost in agency-driven service planning, with fragmented support and changing needs. This qualitative study explored the role of parent advocates in supporting families during the period between the initial and follow-up child safety conferences. Three domains of support emerged: service-related, concrete, and moral. The findings suggest that these vital supports, de…
Bridging the gap: The role of parent advocates in enhancing child protective services practice
Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes
The Family Group Conference (FGC) is grounded in a rights‐based framework, whereby children and their families have the right and responsibility to be primary decision‐makers when child protection issues arise, and the statutory agency has the responsibility to convene the entitled members of the family network to lead the decision‐making. A distinct core component of FGC—private family time (PFT)—allows families to discuss the information and fo…
Pedagogy of international social work: A comparative study in the USA, UK, and Georgia
The social work profession worldwide has been increasingly influenced by globalization and its effects on social issues that require social workers to be responsive and knowledgeable in addressing them. In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on the internationalization of the social work profession and education. With limited examples of international social-work-teaching methods discussed in the literature, there is also a lack of …
Building evidence for family group decision-making in child welfare: Operationalizing the intervention
Family group decision-making (FGDM) is a system reform strategy that positions family groups as decision-making leaders in family meetings, based on family-centered, strength-based, culturally relevant principles. Evidence of outcomes of family meetings is equivocal due to the differences in models and insufficient operationalization of core components. An important phase of intervention research mandates the importance of clearly operationalizin…
Examining a peer-delivered program for child welfare-involved caregivers at risk for depression
Caregivers involved in the child welfare system are at heightened risk for depression, which has innumerable, deleterious effects upon the family. Screening and active outreach can facilitate identification and service use, yet there are considerable obstacles to detection and help-seeking. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a peer-delivered detection and active outreach program upon depression and engagement in mental health …
Overcoming Graduate Students' Negative Perceptions of Statistics
Although there has been some attention in the literature to such issues as students' attitudes toward statistics, instructors are still constantly faced with the challenge to engage students; understand their perceptions, motivations, and interests; and deal with their reluctance and negative attitudes toward the field of statistics. The purpose of the present study was to (1) examine students' attitudes toward statistics; (2) identify characteri…
Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: A clinical data‐mining evaluation
Lalayants M, Epstein I, Adamy D. Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: a clinical data-mining evaluation Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 156–166 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This article presents the results of an evaluation of a multidisciplinary consultation program in child protection by applying a clinical data-mining ap…
A review of generalization methods used in empirical social work literature
This article reviews methods currently used for generalization of findings, based on a review of a representative sample of empirical research studies drawn from three major social work research journals: Social Work Research , Journal of Social Service Research , and Research on Social Work Practice , over a 10‐year period (1996–2005). Findings revealed a greater discussion of generalizability limitations in comparison with the past, and other t…
Trends in Domestic and International Social Work Research: A 10-Year Review of American Research Journals
This article presents a typology of international social work research and analyzes trends over a 10-year period (1995–2004) based on reviews of 707 articles from three major American social work research journals: Social Work Research, Journal of Social Service Research, and Research on Social Work Practice. The analysis revealed there was a considerable increase (3.5%) in the total amount of research articles, particularly a higher increase in …
Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: A clinical data‐mining evaluation
Lalayants M, Epstein I, Adamy D. Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: a clinical data-mining evaluation Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 156–166 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This article presents the results of an evaluation of a multidisciplinary consultation program in child protection by applying a clinical data-mining ap…
Overcoming Graduate Students' Negative Perceptions of Statistics
Although there has been some attention in the literature to such issues as students' attitudes toward statistics, instructors are still constantly faced with the challenge to engage students; understand their perceptions, motivations, and interests; and deal with their reluctance and negative attitudes toward the field of statistics. The purpose of the present study was to (1) examine students' attitudes toward statistics; (2) identify characteri…
Clinical data-mining: Learning from practice in international settings
This article describes a practice-based, mixed-method research methodology – Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) – as a strategy for engaging international practitioners for describing, evaluating and reflecting upon endogenous forms of practice with the ultimate goal of improving practice and contributing to knowledge (Epstein, 2010). These knowledge contributions are perforce ‘local’, but through conceptual reflection and/or empirical replication they m…
Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Child Protective Clinical Consultations: Perceptions of Best Practices
Mental illness, substance abuse, and domestic violence are common co-occurring problems in families involved in child maltreatment allegations. When two or more of these problems are involved in a case, the integration of multiple professionals and collaboration among them become especially complex. This study examined perceptions of best practices of multidisciplinary collaboration at an innovative clinical consultation program in a large, gover…
Pedagogy of international social work: A comparative study in the USA, UK, and Georgia
The social work profession worldwide has been increasingly influenced by globalization and its effects on social issues that require social workers to be responsive and knowledgeable in addressing them. In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on the internationalization of the social work profession and education. With limited examples of international social-work-teaching methods discussed in the literature, there is also a lack of …
Students’ perceptions of international social work: A comparative study in the USA, UK, and Georgia
The field of social work worldwide has been increasingly influenced by globalization, migration, and other conditions that require professionals to be responsive and knowledgeable in addressing them. This collaborative project examined students’ perceptions of international social work at three universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Georgia. Students’ responses indicated an overall strong interest and widespread agreement that the…
Partnership between child protective services and parent representatives
Examples of parent representation programmes in child welfare have been growing in an effort to promote family engagement, empowerment of child welfare‐involved parents and a family‐centred approach. Although research on overall benefits of the parent representation model is slowly emerging, no knowledge exists on how child welfare agencies adjust to the inclusion of parent representatives. This study examined the perceptions of partnership betwe…
The Influence of Policy Context on Transition Age Foster Youths' Views of Self-Sufficiency
In this exploratory study, focus group methodology was used to examine the potential influence of policy context on informing transition age youth (TAY) views of self-sufficiency upon aging out of foster care. The authors purposively selected two different policy contexts concerning extended foster care: New York City and Los Angeles County. Compared to New York City, Los Angeles has a relatively newer policy concerning extending the age of foste…
The role of out-of-home caregivers in the achievement of child welfare permanency
Peer support services in family reunification process in child welfare: Perceptions of parents and family coaches
Despite the fact that family reunification remains the foremost permanency-planning goal for children in the child welfare system, reunification is not always successful and reentry into foster care after reunification is hardly a rare event due to parental unaddressed needs, stress, and lack of supports. This study explored a peer-delivered pre- and post-reunification support program for child welfare-involved families. Using qualitative focus g…
Examining a peer-delivered program for child welfare-involved caregivers at risk for depression
Caregivers involved in the child welfare system are at heightened risk for depression, which has innumerable, deleterious effects upon the family. Screening and active outreach can facilitate identification and service use, yet there are considerable obstacles to detection and help-seeking. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a peer-delivered detection and active outreach program upon depression and engagement in mental health …
Secondary traumatic stress among parent advocates in child welfare
Parent advocates are peers with lived experience who were formerly involved with the child welfare system and who interact with child welfare-involved parents and families to provide varying types of needed supports. Understanding the role of the secondary traumatic stress among parent advocates is crucial as secondary traumatic stress can not only hamper the quality of services provided to families but can also adversely impact advocates. Given …
Mechanisms that mitigate the effects of child poverty and improve children's cognitive and social–emotional development: A systematic review
The negative effects of poverty on children's development have been examined in many studies. Poverty exerts its influence on children indirectly through mediating pathways, some of which have powerful effects in reducing the impact of early economic deprivation. However, the literature on the mediating mechanisms through which poverty operates and influences children's cognitive and social–emotional development is limited. This review provides a…
Building evidence for family group decision-making in child welfare: Operationalizing the intervention
Family group decision-making (FGDM) is a system reform strategy that positions family groups as decision-making leaders in family meetings, based on family-centered, strength-based, culturally relevant principles. Evidence of outcomes of family meetings is equivocal due to the differences in models and insufficient operationalization of core components. An important phase of intervention research mandates the importance of clearly operationalizin…
Outcomes of the Parent Advocacy Initiative in child safety conferences: Placement and repeat maltreatment
Wanna grab some dinner? Social relations between helping professionals and members of community mental health or other human service organizations
PURPOSE: Could practitioners and members (consumers) of mental health or other organizations interact socially by regularly going out for drinks or dinner together, for example? The American Psychological Association explicitly states for example, "your psychologist shouldn't also be your friend." However such social interactions have occurred for decades in certain clubhouse-modeled community mental healthcare, and maybe research and a more bala…
Adapting private family time in child protective services decision‐making processes
The Family Group Conference (FGC) is grounded in a rights‐based framework, whereby children and their families have the right and responsibility to be primary decision‐makers when child protection issues arise, and the statutory agency has the responsibility to convene the entitled members of the family network to lead the decision‐making. A distinct core component of FGC—private family time (PFT)—allows families to discuss the information and fo…
A burdened workforce: Exploring burnout, job satisfaction and turnover among child welfare caseworkers in the era of Covid-19
What makes peer support supportive? A scoping review of multidimensional parent advocacy support in child welfare
Parents advocates provide a range of diverse supports not adequately captured in current support definitions. • Fourteen unique support domains are identified that highlight the important contribution of parent advocates and their lived experience. • The breadth and depth of parent advocate support needs to be more fully recognized in practice and research, including its contribution to positive outcome achievement. Parent peer advocacy is an inc…
Navigating the child welfare system: The Role of Enhanced Parent Advocacy Supports in Child Protection
Families impacted by the child welfare system can find themselves overwhelmed and lost in agency-driven service planning, with fragmented support and changing needs. This qualitative study explored the role of parent advocates in supporting families during the period between the initial and follow-up child safety conferences. Three domains of support emerged: service-related, concrete, and moral. The findings suggest that these vital supports, de…
Bridging the gap: The role of parent advocates in enhancing child protective services practice
Separation and psychosocial challenges of parents with children in foster care
Protective Role of Early Childhood Education Programmes on Outcomes of Children in the Child Welfare System: A Systematic Review
Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes are recognised as effective interventions that help mitigate the adverse effects of cumulative risk factors experienced by children with a history of maltreatment. This systematic review examines the protective role of ECE programmes in promoting positive developmental outcomes for children involved in the child welfare system. A comprehensive search across multiple academic databases—including APA PsycI…
Political science (20 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (14 works) · Welfare (14 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (13 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Nursing (11 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (8 works)