Lissette M Piedra
Biographic Data
| ID | 4467697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lissette M Piedra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lissette M |
| FAMILY NAME | Piedra |
| SIGNATURE | PIEDRA L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5201-5170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In this issue…Expanding the boundaries of qualitative social work
From desk review to peer review: How editors assess qualitative manuscripts
In this issue… ethics, lived experience, and practice innovations in social work
Navigating uncertainty
In this issue… Qualitative insights advancing inclusion and understanding
Paradigms, positionality, and the responsibilities of inquiry
In this issue… exploring violence, reflexivity, and transformative practices
Member checking: A brief metalogue of a career interview
In this issue… exploring identities, methodologies, and lived experiences in social work practice
Reimagining Social Work Education: A Systems-Thinking Approach to a BSW/MSW Program for Community College Students
Community college students are an untapped reservoir of talent and including them in social work education aligns with the values of the profession. Yet these students encounter formidable obstacles on the path from a 2-year degree to an affordable social work degree. In this article, we describe the systems thinking underlying a newly instituted Bachelor of Social Work completer program and how this approach was used to address barriers posed by…
Addressing Cognitive Assessment Disparities Among Hispanic Adults: Adapting the MoCA-SA for Improved Accuracy and Accessibility Among Spanish Speakers
Objectives Hispanic adults display a higher likelihood of early-stage cognitive decline than their White counterparts yet receive fewer clinical diagnoses. This troubling trend highlights the significance of longitudinal surveys like the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) in monitoring cognitive changes in aging Hispanics. Using NSHAP’s Rounds 2 and 3, we observed notable cognitive score differences between English and Spanis…
Race/Ethnicity and the Measurement of Cognition in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Recommendations for Robustness
Objectives In this study, we examine the measurement of cognition in different racial/ethnic groups to move toward a less biased and more inclusive set of measures for capturing cognitive change and decline in older adulthood. Methods We use data from Round 2 (N = 3,377) and Round 3 (N = 4,777) of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) and examine the study’s Survey Adjusted version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-…
In this issue…Onward
Is that all? —Reflections on beginnings, endings, and hopeful transitions
Positionality—An analytical building block
A garden of compassion…In memory of Norman K. Denzin
In this issue
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review
In this issue… p <.05 and other qualitative musings
In this issue … insights and understandings
An editorial is presented on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that in the United States, fully vaccinated people would longer need to wear masks indoors. The article discussed that numerous businesses reassured their customers that they had opted to continue their mask-wearing requirement;and the policies of many U.S. institutions in this pandemic, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) declared
Lessons from the nursery: The role of childcare in a cognitive behavioral treatment intervention for Latinas
Providing childcare along with interventions for disadvantaged mothers increases the benefit. However, program designers rarely focus on the implementation of that care and how it affects program participants. Using the common factors model as a lens, this paper explores the challenges that arose in the third year of an intervention that provided childcare to Spanish-speaking immigrant mothers enrolled in a Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) gr…
Detecting Risk of Neglect in NSHAP Round 3 Using New Follow-Up Questions to Activities of Daily Living Measures
Findings suggest that these new measures can be useful for identifying NSHAP respondents who are at risk of types of neglect that can be associated with having I/ADL limitations
Participant responses to a water treatment intervention in rural Guatemala
Each year, 1.1 billion people suffer from disease, dehydration, and malnutrition fueled by waterborne pathogens. Although point-of-use water filters are a viable solution, effectiveness requires consistent use. As collaborators in international development projects, social workers are poised to address service barriers through their focus on multilevel practice and a relentless emphasis on culturally competent practice. This article describes an …
In this issue … A glimpse into our cluttered landscape
Segmented Assimilation Theory and the Life Model: An Integrated Approach to Understanding Immigrants and Their Children
The life model offers social workers a promising framework to use in assisting immigrant families. However, the complexities of adaptation to a new country may make it difficult for social workers to operate from a purely ecological approach. The authors use segmented assimilation theory to better account for the specificities of the immigrant experience. They argue that by adding concepts from segmented assimilation theory to the life model, soc…
Beyond Bilingual and Bicultural: Serving Latinos in a New-Growth Community
This study explores how human services providers in “new-growth” communities—those with rapidly growing Latino immigrant populations and limited Spanish-speaking professionals—work with newcomers who tend to be Spanish-speaking and poor. We interviewed 25 human service professionals working with Latino immigrants in one new-growth community and found that service delivery to Latinos requires not just language ability and cultural knowledge, but t…
Improving the parental self-agency of depressed Latino immigrant mothers: Piloted intervention results
Building a Latino Youth Program: Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community-Based Strategies for Success
In this study, a mixed methodology called concept mapping was used to bring 233 community members together to identify culturally relevant intervention strategies that could be used in developing a program for Latino youth. Three phases of data collection were completed to generate and rank 66 desirable strategies clustered around three goals: 1) staying in school, 2) developing positive social and family roles, and 3) bridging American and Latin…
Addressing Cognitive Assessment Disparities Among Hispanic Adults: Adapting the MoCA-SA for Improved Accuracy and Accessibility Among Spanish Speakers
Objectives Hispanic adults display a higher likelihood of early-stage cognitive decline than their White counterparts yet receive fewer clinical diagnoses. This troubling trend highlights the significance of longitudinal surveys like the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) in monitoring cognitive changes in aging Hispanics. Using NSHAP’s Rounds 2 and 3, we observed notable cognitive score differences between English and Spanis…
Unbanked in India: A qualitative analysis of 24 years of financial inclusion policies
Social work has historically engaged in pioneering interventions to improve the financial well-being of people. India is an interesting case as it has the highest number of unbanked people on one side and numerous policy interventions on the other. Using systematic review and Gioia methodology, we analyzed 24 years of financial inclusion policies. Our analysis revealed that the efficacy of policies was impeded by flawed designs, as the policymake…
Vida Alegre: Preliminary Findings of a Depression Intervention for Immigrant Latino Mothers
Objectives: This article reports the outcome of a pilot study of a cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT) intervention— Vida Alegre (the contented life)—designed for use with depressed immigrant mothers living in communities with small but rapidly growing Hispanic populations. Method: The study used a pretest/posttest/follow-up design to examine whether exposure to the intervention reduced symptoms of depression. Results: Although based on a s…
Race/Ethnicity and the Measurement of Cognition in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Recommendations for Robustness
Objectives In this study, we examine the measurement of cognition in different racial/ethnic groups to move toward a less biased and more inclusive set of measures for capturing cognitive change and decline in older adulthood. Methods We use data from Round 2 (N = 3,377) and Round 3 (N = 4,777) of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) and examine the study’s Survey Adjusted version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-…
Segmented Assimilation Theory and the Life Model: An Integrated Approach to Understanding Immigrants and Their Children
The life model offers social workers a promising framework to use in assisting immigrant families. However, the complexities of adaptation to a new country may make it difficult for social workers to operate from a purely ecological approach. The authors use segmented assimilation theory to better account for the specificities of the immigrant experience. They argue that by adding concepts from segmented assimilation theory to the life model, soc…
Vida Alegre: Preliminary Findings of a Depression Intervention for Immigrant Latino Mothers
Objectives: This article reports the outcome of a pilot study of a cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT) intervention— Vida Alegre (the contented life)—designed for use with depressed immigrant mothers living in communities with small but rapidly growing Hispanic populations. Method: The study used a pretest/posttest/follow-up design to examine whether exposure to the intervention reduced symptoms of depression. Results: Although based on a s…
Building a Latino Youth Program: Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community-Based Strategies for Success
In this study, a mixed methodology called concept mapping was used to bring 233 community members together to identify culturally relevant intervention strategies that could be used in developing a program for Latino youth. Three phases of data collection were completed to generate and rank 66 desirable strategies clustered around three goals: 1) staying in school, 2) developing positive social and family roles, and 3) bridging American and Latin…
Improving the parental self-agency of depressed Latino immigrant mothers: Piloted intervention results
Beyond Bilingual and Bicultural: Serving Latinos in a New-Growth Community
This study explores how human services providers in “new-growth” communities—those with rapidly growing Latino immigrant populations and limited Spanish-speaking professionals—work with newcomers who tend to be Spanish-speaking and poor. We interviewed 25 human service professionals working with Latino immigrants in one new-growth community and found that service delivery to Latinos requires not just language ability and cultural knowledge, but t…
Social work and engineering: Lessons from a water filtration project in Guatemala
International service learning (ISL) programs seek to facilitate community inclusion, but such participation can prove elusive. For technical projects, such ventures can undermine local leadership, generate mistrust in communities, and even create an aversion to technological solutions. In this article, we document how social work and engineering students collaborated to bring clean water to rural Guatemala, and demonstrate how we employed social…
Let’s walk! Age reattribution and physical activity among older Hispanic/Latino adults: Results from the ¡Caminemos! Randomized trial
clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT00183014
Vida Alegre: Teaching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Spanish
Bilingual social workers need specialized training to provide effective mental health services to Spanish-speaking Latinos. Ideally, this training should use the language in which the social workers plan to practice. This article describes an innovative two-semester course offered in Spanish that prepared advanced undergraduate and graduate students to use a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention (Vida Alegre). In the first semester, stu…
Participant responses to a water treatment intervention in rural Guatemala
Each year, 1.1 billion people suffer from disease, dehydration, and malnutrition fueled by waterborne pathogens. Although point-of-use water filters are a viable solution, effectiveness requires consistent use. As collaborators in international development projects, social workers are poised to address service barriers through their focus on multilevel practice and a relentless emphasis on culturally competent practice. This article describes an …
In this issue … A glimpse into our cluttered landscape
Assessing quality for qualitative researchers
In this issue…Keep calm and carry on
Unbanked in India: A qualitative analysis of 24 years of financial inclusion policies
Social work has historically engaged in pioneering interventions to improve the financial well-being of people. India is an interesting case as it has the highest number of unbanked people on one side and numerous policy interventions on the other. Using systematic review and Gioia methodology, we analyzed 24 years of financial inclusion policies. Our analysis revealed that the efficacy of policies was impeded by flawed designs, as the policymake…
In this issue … insights and understandings
An editorial is presented on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that in the United States, fully vaccinated people would longer need to wear masks indoors. The article discussed that numerous businesses reassured their customers that they had opted to continue their mask-wearing requirement;and the policies of many U.S. institutions in this pandemic, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) declared
Lessons from the nursery: The role of childcare in a cognitive behavioral treatment intervention for Latinas
Providing childcare along with interventions for disadvantaged mothers increases the benefit. However, program designers rarely focus on the implementation of that care and how it affects program participants. Using the common factors model as a lens, this paper explores the challenges that arose in the third year of an intervention that provided childcare to Spanish-speaking immigrant mothers enrolled in a Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) gr…
Detecting Risk of Neglect in NSHAP Round 3 Using New Follow-Up Questions to Activities of Daily Living Measures
Findings suggest that these new measures can be useful for identifying NSHAP respondents who are at risk of types of neglect that can be associated with having I/ADL limitations
In this issue
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review
In this issue… p <.05 and other qualitative musings
In this issue…Onward
Is that all? —Reflections on beginnings, endings, and hopeful transitions
Positionality—An analytical building block
A garden of compassion…In memory of Norman K. Denzin
In this issue… exploring violence, reflexivity, and transformative practices
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