Lauren Bennett Cattaneo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4438436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Bennett Cattaneo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren Bennett |
| FAMILY NAME | Cattaneo |
| SIGNATURE | CATTANEO L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0210-7509 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 206 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Call for Creative Maladjustment Has Much to Offer Educators in the Modern Battleground
In this essay, justice-oriented educators Lauren B. Cattaneo and Wendi N. Manuel-Scott take up Martin Luther King Jr.9s 1967 call to academics to join the ranks of the “creatively maladjusted,” recognizing that education is a perennial site of struggle, particularly in times of social upheaval. In detailing King9s call for maladjustment as an ongoing commitment to resisting conformity to societal structures that perpetuate inequity and to the pra…
Centering malleable factors in Black women’s mental health: How psychological armoring and social support role dynamics connect to trauma symptoms from gendered racism
Prior research centering Black women's mental health has established a link between gendered racism and psychological distress, with perceived low social support and disengagement coping exacerbating adverse mental health outcomes, but these constructs and relationships among them require elaboration to inform culturally relevant care. The present study aimed to extend the literature by examining the mediating role of psychological armoring (a cu…
When Policy Is Not Enough: Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Search for Housing Assistance in Washington, D.C
Policies throughout the U.S. respond to the well-documented relationship between housing instability and intimate partner violence (IPV), but in practice survivors’ needs often remain unmet. In this community-based participatory study, an interdisciplinary research team interviewed 41 survivors seeking emergency housing assistance at the sole public gateway for homeless families in Washington, D.C. Only four survivors received immediate assistanc…
Black men need friends: Social support moderates the connection between gendered racism and psychological distress
Religious Help-Seeking in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Building strength for the long haul toward liberation: What psychology can contribute to the resilience of communities targeted by state‐sanctioned violence
State-sanctioned violence (SSV) has resounding effects on entire populations, and marginalized communities have long persisted in the work toward liberation despite continued SSV. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the vast scholarship on resilience and the practical challenge of sustaining and thriving in communities targeted by SSV. We use the theoretical frame of the Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience (TMER) to articula…
Survivor-Centered Practice and Survivor Empowerment: Evidence From A Research–Practitioner Partnership
In the domestic violence field, a survivor-centered approach to services is a shared ideal, but there is little empirical work demonstrating its importance. This study filled that gap, focusing on a key outcome-safety-related empowerment. We gathered data from 177 intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors seeking community-based services, and after one session with an advocate, results revealed a significant change in two of three subscales of th…
Assessing Implicit and Explicit Attitudes about Classism
Extensive research demonstrates that corresponding implicit and explicit attitudes are less similar when examined socially sensitive topics. However, little research has examined attitudes towards people living in poverty, a marginalized and growing portion of people in the United States. We developed a Classism Implicit Association Test (IAT-C) and compared implicit associations with explicit attitudes about attribution for poverty. Using a samp…
Elaborating the Connection between Social Class and Classism in College
Highlights Financial stress is a key predictor of classism among college students. Financial stress predicts classism across immigration status and race. For U.S. born students, higher reported social class predicts greater exposure to classist narratives
Threatened-masculinity shame-related responses among straight men: Measurement and relationship to aggression
The development of the Systems and Individual Responsibility for Poverty (Sirp) Scale
Poverty is a widespread social problem that affects a substantial number of Americans each year. Attitudes can affect a range of judgments, behavioral intentions, and actions related to addressing this problem. However, existing tools that measure attitudes toward those in poverty do not fully capture the deficit ideology that is a critical component of beliefs about social class. We developed the Systems and Individual Responsibility for Poverty…
Deciding Where to Turn: A Qualitative Investigation of College Students’ Helpseeking Decisions After Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is a widespread problem on college campuses that has been the subject of substantial attention in recent years (Ali, 2011; Krebs, Lindquist, Berzofsky, Shook-Sa, & Peterson, 2016). Resources designed to address the problem exist, but there is evidence that they are underutilized by survivors (Campbell, 2008). The current study used grounded theory to explore how sexual assault survivors make decisions about helpseeking. In-depth in…
From Moment to Movement: Empowerment and Resilience as a Framework for Collective Action in Hong Kong
The Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience ( American Journal of Community Psychology , 52, 2013, 333) suggests that a set of resilience and empowerment resources fuel both initial and sustained participation in collective action. Using the case study of a prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong, the present study focused on the subset of those resources that are relevant in ongoing collective action: efficacy, skills, and maintenance. As…
Barriers to Help Seeking for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive and devastating social problem that is estimated to occur in one of every four opposite-sex relationships and at least one of every five same-sex romantic relationships. These estimates may not represent violence against those who identify as transgender or genderqueer, and very little comprehensive research has been conducted on IPV within these populations. One statewide study on IPV found rates of…
What is empowerment anyway? A model for domestic violence practice, research, and evaluation.
Status Quo Versus Status Quake: Putting the Power Back in Empowerment
Empowerment is a compelling concept inside and outside of community psychology, but widespread use has diffused its meaning such that it has come to mean almost any action intended to help a person or community. Consequently, it is difficult to synthesize research or compare programs that emphasize empowerment. We contend that two components of the construct are essential: relevance and power. Drawing on a theoretical model of empowerment, we exp…
The effects of procedural and distributive justice on intimate partner violence victims’ mental health and likelihood of future help-seeking
Using a longitudinal dataset of 142 victims of intimate partner violence seeking help from the criminal justice system, this study explored the relationship between victims' perceptions of procedural and distributive justice and their mental health and intention to use the system again. Controlling for reabuse and victims' mental health at baseline, victims who perceived higher levels of procedural justice experienced higher levels of quality of …
Criminal Case Outcomes, Incarceration, and Subsequent Intimate Partner Violence
A Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience: Divergence, Convergence and Interactions in Kindred Community Concepts
Resilience and empowerment are widely employed concepts in community psychology and other social sciences. Although empowerment is more closely associated with community psychology, both concepts hone to community psychology's strengths‐based values, recognizing, respecting, and promoting local capacity and positive outcomes. Both concepts also have been critiqued for lacking clear consensus regarding definition, operationalization, and measureme…
Risk Assessment With Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Investigating the Gap Between Research and Practice
In intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessment, there is consensus that a large gap exists between research and practice. This exploratory study interviewed 13 practitioners working with IPV victims to generate ideas about the nature of this gap, and found that only two conducted standardized risk assessment. Others felt imposing structure might detract from the quality of their work. Results support the need for different techniques in diffe…
The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Interactions with Police Among a National Sample of Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Using a national dataset of 820 women who had called the police for an incident of intimate partner violence, this study explored the relationship between several components of socioeconomic status (education, income, and employment), race, and the nature of interactions with police. Over and above the effects of control variables (the presence of an advocate on the scene, the severity of violence in the relationship, and prior calls to police), …
The process of empowerment: A model for use in research and practice
In this article, we propose a model of the process of empowerment. The notion of empowerment is compelling and much employed across many subfields inside and outside of psychology, but the lack of consistency in the ways prior literature has defined it is an obstacle to meaningful synthesis of findings and consistent application in practice. Our empowerment process model builds on prior work in taking the following steps: articulating empowerment…
The Victim-Informed Prosecution Project: A Quasi-Experimental Test of a Collaborative Model for Cases of Intimate Partner Violence
The Victim-Informed Prosecution Project (VIP) was designed to amplify the voice of the victim in the prosecution of a battering current or ex-partner through collaboration between the prosecution and victim-centered agencies. This article describes the rationale for and design and implementation of VIP and then explores whether it increased perceived voice. While some VIP services (advocacy and civil protection order representation) were associat…
The role of socioeconomic status in helpseeking from hotlines, shelters, and police among a national sample of women experiencing intimate partner violence
The role of socioeconomic status (SES) in the prevalence and course of intimate partner violence (IPV) has been established, but mechanisms of this role are less clear. An untested assumption has been that women of greater resources are better able to seek help. This study used a national sample of 1,077 women who had experienced IPV to explore the role of income and education in helpseeking from hotlines, shelters, and police. The authors found …
Intimate Partner Violence Victims’ Accuracy in Assessing their Risk of Re-abuse
The process of empowerment: A model for use in research and practice
In this article, we propose a model of the process of empowerment. The notion of empowerment is compelling and much employed across many subfields inside and outside of psychology, but the lack of consistency in the ways prior literature has defined it is an obstacle to meaningful synthesis of findings and consistent application in practice. Our empowerment process model builds on prior work in taking the following steps: articulating empowerment…
A Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience: Divergence, Convergence and Interactions in Kindred Community Concepts
Resilience and empowerment are widely employed concepts in community psychology and other social sciences. Although empowerment is more closely associated with community psychology, both concepts hone to community psychology's strengths‐based values, recognizing, respecting, and promoting local capacity and positive outcomes. Both concepts also have been critiqued for lacking clear consensus regarding definition, operationalization, and measureme…
Intimate Partner Violence Victims’ Accuracy in Assessing their Risk of Re-abuse
Status Quo Versus Status Quake: Putting the Power Back in Empowerment
Empowerment is a compelling concept inside and outside of community psychology, but widespread use has diffused its meaning such that it has come to mean almost any action intended to help a person or community. Consequently, it is difficult to synthesize research or compare programs that emphasize empowerment. We contend that two components of the construct are essential: relevance and power. Drawing on a theoretical model of empowerment, we exp…
Assessing the Risk of Future Psychological Abuse: Predicting the Accuracy of Battered Women’s Predictions
Deciding Where to Turn: A Qualitative Investigation of College Students’ Helpseeking Decisions After Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is a widespread problem on college campuses that has been the subject of substantial attention in recent years (Ali, 2011; Krebs, Lindquist, Berzofsky, Shook-Sa, & Peterson, 2016). Resources designed to address the problem exist, but there is evidence that they are underutilized by survivors (Campbell, 2008). The current study used grounded theory to explore how sexual assault survivors make decisions about helpseeking. In-depth in…
From Moment to Movement: Empowerment and Resilience as a Framework for Collective Action in Hong Kong
The Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience ( American Journal of Community Psychology , 52, 2013, 333) suggests that a set of resilience and empowerment resources fuel both initial and sustained participation in collective action. Using the case study of a prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong, the present study focused on the subset of those resources that are relevant in ongoing collective action: efficacy, skills, and maintenance. As…
Threatened-masculinity shame-related responses among straight men: Measurement and relationship to aggression
Religious Help-Seeking in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
The Victim-Informed Prosecution Project: A Quasi-Experimental Test of a Collaborative Model for Cases of Intimate Partner Violence
The Victim-Informed Prosecution Project (VIP) was designed to amplify the voice of the victim in the prosecution of a battering current or ex-partner through collaboration between the prosecution and victim-centered agencies. This article describes the rationale for and design and implementation of VIP and then explores whether it increased perceived voice. While some VIP services (advocacy and civil protection order representation) were associat…
Victim‐reported risk factors for continued abusive behavior: Assessing the dangerousness of arrested batterers
Policy changes have dramatically increased the number of domestic violence cases entering criminal courts, creating a critical need for competent risk assessment. This study adds to the knowledge base about risk factors important to consider in such assessments, using a prospective design and follow‐up through victim interview. Participants were 169 primarily African American women who appeared at a court intake center following the arrest of an …
Black men need friends: Social support moderates the connection between gendered racism and psychological distress
Survivor-Centered Practice and Survivor Empowerment: Evidence From A Research–Practitioner Partnership
In the domestic violence field, a survivor-centered approach to services is a shared ideal, but there is little empirical work demonstrating its importance. This study filled that gap, focusing on a key outcome-safety-related empowerment. We gathered data from 177 intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors seeking community-based services, and after one session with an advocate, results revealed a significant change in two of three subscales of th…
Assessing Implicit and Explicit Attitudes about Classism
Extensive research demonstrates that corresponding implicit and explicit attitudes are less similar when examined socially sensitive topics. However, little research has examined attitudes towards people living in poverty, a marginalized and growing portion of people in the United States. We developed a Classism Implicit Association Test (IAT-C) and compared implicit associations with explicit attitudes about attribution for poverty. Using a samp…
Elaborating the Connection between Social Class and Classism in College
Highlights Financial stress is a key predictor of classism among college students. Financial stress predicts classism across immigration status and race. For U.S. born students, higher reported social class predicts greater exposure to classist narratives
Risk Assessment With Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Investigating the Gap Between Research and Practice
In intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessment, there is consensus that a large gap exists between research and practice. This exploratory study interviewed 13 practitioners working with IPV victims to generate ideas about the nature of this gap, and found that only two conducted standardized risk assessment. Others felt imposing structure might detract from the quality of their work. Results support the need for different techniques in diffe…
The development of the Systems and Individual Responsibility for Poverty (Sirp) Scale
Poverty is a widespread social problem that affects a substantial number of Americans each year. Attitudes can affect a range of judgments, behavioral intentions, and actions related to addressing this problem. However, existing tools that measure attitudes toward those in poverty do not fully capture the deficit ideology that is a critical component of beliefs about social class. We developed the Systems and Individual Responsibility for Poverty…
Criminal Case Outcomes, Incarceration, and Subsequent Intimate Partner Violence
The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Interactions with Police Among a National Sample of Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Using a national dataset of 820 women who had called the police for an incident of intimate partner violence, this study explored the relationship between several components of socioeconomic status (education, income, and employment), race, and the nature of interactions with police. Over and above the effects of control variables (the presence of an advocate on the scene, the severity of violence in the relationship, and prior calls to police), …
Victim‐reported risk factors for continued abusive behavior: Assessing the dangerousness of arrested batterers
Policy changes have dramatically increased the number of domestic violence cases entering criminal courts, creating a critical need for competent risk assessment. This study adds to the knowledge base about risk factors important to consider in such assessments, using a prospective design and follow‐up through victim interview. Participants were 169 primarily African American women who appeared at a court intake center following the arrest of an …
Risk Factors for Reabuse in Intimate Partner Violence: A Cross-Disciplinary Critical Review
The identification of factors that contribute to reabuse in cases of intimate partner violence is a critical research aim in a variety of disciplines. Such information would have relevance in many contexts where systems or professionals struggle to intervene in such cases, especially in the context of limited resources. This article crosses disciplines to take stock of this body of literature and provide a road map for future research. We include…
Intimate Partner Violence Victims’ Accuracy in Assessing their Risk of Re-abuse
Assessing the Risk of Future Psychological Abuse: Predicting the Accuracy of Battered Women’s Predictions
Longitudinal helpseeking patterns among victims of intimate partner violence: The relationship between legal and extralegal services
Current theory assumes that intimate partner violence (IPV) victims' helpseeking is a process that unfolds over time rather than a one-time event, but this assumption has never been explored with longitudinal data. This study describes the pattern of formal helpseeking efforts in a sample of 406 IPV victims over the course of a year. Further, we explore the relationship between legal and extralegal helpseeking, reflecting current controversy over…
The role of socioeconomic status in helpseeking from hotlines, shelters, and police among a national sample of women experiencing intimate partner violence
The role of socioeconomic status (SES) in the prevalence and course of intimate partner violence (IPV) has been established, but mechanisms of this role are less clear. An untested assumption has been that women of greater resources are better able to seek help. This study used a national sample of 1,077 women who had experienced IPV to explore the role of income and education in helpseeking from hotlines, shelters, and police. The authors found …
The Victim-Informed Prosecution Project: A Quasi-Experimental Test of a Collaborative Model for Cases of Intimate Partner Violence
The Victim-Informed Prosecution Project (VIP) was designed to amplify the voice of the victim in the prosecution of a battering current or ex-partner through collaboration between the prosecution and victim-centered agencies. This article describes the rationale for and design and implementation of VIP and then explores whether it increased perceived voice. While some VIP services (advocacy and civil protection order representation) were associat…
The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Interactions with Police Among a National Sample of Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Using a national dataset of 820 women who had called the police for an incident of intimate partner violence, this study explored the relationship between several components of socioeconomic status (education, income, and employment), race, and the nature of interactions with police. Over and above the effects of control variables (the presence of an advocate on the scene, the severity of violence in the relationship, and prior calls to police), …
The process of empowerment: A model for use in research and practice
In this article, we propose a model of the process of empowerment. The notion of empowerment is compelling and much employed across many subfields inside and outside of psychology, but the lack of consistency in the ways prior literature has defined it is an obstacle to meaningful synthesis of findings and consistent application in practice. Our empowerment process model builds on prior work in taking the following steps: articulating empowerment…
Risk Assessment With Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Investigating the Gap Between Research and Practice
In intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessment, there is consensus that a large gap exists between research and practice. This exploratory study interviewed 13 practitioners working with IPV victims to generate ideas about the nature of this gap, and found that only two conducted standardized risk assessment. Others felt imposing structure might detract from the quality of their work. Results support the need for different techniques in diffe…
Criminal Case Outcomes, Incarceration, and Subsequent Intimate Partner Violence
A Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience: Divergence, Convergence and Interactions in Kindred Community Concepts
Resilience and empowerment are widely employed concepts in community psychology and other social sciences. Although empowerment is more closely associated with community psychology, both concepts hone to community psychology's strengths‐based values, recognizing, respecting, and promoting local capacity and positive outcomes. Both concepts also have been critiqued for lacking clear consensus regarding definition, operationalization, and measureme…
Status Quo Versus Status Quake: Putting the Power Back in Empowerment
Empowerment is a compelling concept inside and outside of community psychology, but widespread use has diffused its meaning such that it has come to mean almost any action intended to help a person or community. Consequently, it is difficult to synthesize research or compare programs that emphasize empowerment. We contend that two components of the construct are essential: relevance and power. Drawing on a theoretical model of empowerment, we exp…
The effects of procedural and distributive justice on intimate partner violence victims’ mental health and likelihood of future help-seeking
Using a longitudinal dataset of 142 victims of intimate partner violence seeking help from the criminal justice system, this study explored the relationship between victims' perceptions of procedural and distributive justice and their mental health and intention to use the system again. Controlling for reabuse and victims' mental health at baseline, victims who perceived higher levels of procedural justice experienced higher levels of quality of …
What is empowerment anyway? A model for domestic violence practice, research, and evaluation.
Barriers to Help Seeking for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive and devastating social problem that is estimated to occur in one of every four opposite-sex relationships and at least one of every five same-sex romantic relationships. These estimates may not represent violence against those who identify as transgender or genderqueer, and very little comprehensive research has been conducted on IPV within these populations. One statewide study on IPV found rates of…
Deciding Where to Turn: A Qualitative Investigation of College Students’ Helpseeking Decisions After Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is a widespread problem on college campuses that has been the subject of substantial attention in recent years (Ali, 2011; Krebs, Lindquist, Berzofsky, Shook-Sa, & Peterson, 2016). Resources designed to address the problem exist, but there is evidence that they are underutilized by survivors (Campbell, 2008). The current study used grounded theory to explore how sexual assault survivors make decisions about helpseeking. In-depth in…
From Moment to Movement: Empowerment and Resilience as a Framework for Collective Action in Hong Kong
The Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience ( American Journal of Community Psychology , 52, 2013, 333) suggests that a set of resilience and empowerment resources fuel both initial and sustained participation in collective action. Using the case study of a prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong, the present study focused on the subset of those resources that are relevant in ongoing collective action: efficacy, skills, and maintenance. As…
Threatened-masculinity shame-related responses among straight men: Measurement and relationship to aggression
The development of the Systems and Individual Responsibility for Poverty (Sirp) Scale
Poverty is a widespread social problem that affects a substantial number of Americans each year. Attitudes can affect a range of judgments, behavioral intentions, and actions related to addressing this problem. However, existing tools that measure attitudes toward those in poverty do not fully capture the deficit ideology that is a critical component of beliefs about social class. We developed the Systems and Individual Responsibility for Poverty…
Assessing Implicit and Explicit Attitudes about Classism
Extensive research demonstrates that corresponding implicit and explicit attitudes are less similar when examined socially sensitive topics. However, little research has examined attitudes towards people living in poverty, a marginalized and growing portion of people in the United States. We developed a Classism Implicit Association Test (IAT-C) and compared implicit associations with explicit attitudes about attribution for poverty. Using a samp…
Elaborating the Connection between Social Class and Classism in College
Highlights Financial stress is a key predictor of classism among college students. Financial stress predicts classism across immigration status and race. For U.S. born students, higher reported social class predicts greater exposure to classist narratives
Survivor-Centered Practice and Survivor Empowerment: Evidence From A Research–Practitioner Partnership
In the domestic violence field, a survivor-centered approach to services is a shared ideal, but there is little empirical work demonstrating its importance. This study filled that gap, focusing on a key outcome-safety-related empowerment. We gathered data from 177 intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors seeking community-based services, and after one session with an advocate, results revealed a significant change in two of three subscales of th…
Building strength for the long haul toward liberation: What psychology can contribute to the resilience of communities targeted by state‐sanctioned violence
State-sanctioned violence (SSV) has resounding effects on entire populations, and marginalized communities have long persisted in the work toward liberation despite continued SSV. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the vast scholarship on resilience and the practical challenge of sustaining and thriving in communities targeted by SSV. We use the theoretical frame of the Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience (TMER) to articula…
Black men need friends: Social support moderates the connection between gendered racism and psychological distress
Psychology (29 works) · Social Psychology (23 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Poison control (17 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Domestic violence (15 works) · Suicide prevention (15 works) · Medical emergency (12 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (11 works)