Liza Barros-Lane
Biographic Data
| ID | 4516236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liza Barros-Lane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liza |
| FAMILY NAME | Barros-Lane |
| SIGNATURE | BARROS-LANE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston - Downtown |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6421-0208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Plight of Language Deprivation in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children Born to Hearing Parents
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children who experience language deprivation face heightened risk for long-term cognitive, social, and emotional harm. These outcomes are not due to parental unpreparedness but arise from entrenched social biases and professional practices that that frame deafness itself as a problem to be corrected rather than prioritizing early access to a fully accessible natural language. A natural signed language, American Sign…
The difficulties of parenting when widowed
Partner loss is considered one of the most stressful events in a person's life. Complicating this for young widows with children is the distress of witnessing the grief of their children. Widows must navigate managing their and their children's grief. This existential phenomenological study seeks to understand the experience of young widows in the parenting of their children after the death of their partner. Qualitative findings from 19 women ind…
Widows’ fire
Widows' fire-widows' intense, unbidden sexual desire post-loss-is underexplored, despite its impact on meaning-making and identity. Using an existential-phenomenological design and thematic analysis, this study applied a meaning reconstruction lens to explore how 21 young widows (aged 45 or younger) made sense of widows' fire. Three themes emerged: (1) Widows' fire is a bodily grief response, rooted in trauma regulation, yearning, and vitality-se…
Young widowhood
Partner loss deprives young widows of physical contact, emotional intimacy, and the fulfillment of sexual desire. Although disenfranchised and oppressed, sexuality is a core piece of women's identity, and sexual bereavement may compel widows to reconstruct their sexual identities. This existential phenomenological study seeks to illuminate the sexual loss and coping of young widows aged 45 and under. Qualitative findings from 21 women indicated t…
Solidarity in Time of a Pandemic
Using an anti-oppressive lens, this Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program intentionally introduced power sharing between students and faculty during the first semester of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study qualitatively examined the students’ response to this interpersonal intervention and found: (1) This experience helped all participants appreciate each person’s unique contribution, which was helpful in building their confidence in themselves an…
Cohort-Based Education and Other Factors Related to Student Peer Relationships
Graduate students face a variety of stressors that relate to poor academic performance, lower completion rates, and high rates of depressive symptoms, anxiety, and stress. Student peers provide supports for coping with these stressors and succeeding academically. However, graduate students may find it difficult to form relationships with their peers. This mixed method social network analysis (MMSNA) examines graduate student perceptions of their …
A National Study of Adult Women Sexually Abused by Clergy
Given the paucity of research on the experiences of women who are sexually abused by clergy as adults and the advent of the #ChurchToo movement in 2017, the results of a mixed-methods national study highlight the experiences of those who survived the abuse and report on what factors are most healing in their recovery. Internet-based surveys with both quantitative and qualitative items were completed by 159 respondents. Less than 10 percent report…
Assessing a Trauma-Informed Approach to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Higher Education
The coronavirus pandemic may be characterized as a disaster because it presents (a) a threat of harm or death to a large group of people, (b) disruption of social processes, and (c) secondary consequences among those affected. Universities may support students exposed to this disaster event by using the trauma-informed care (TIC) approach. Using a convergent, parallel, mixed methods design, this study evaluated the TIC approach that a bachelor's …
Teaching Note—Course Models for Increased Competency for Practice Integrated With Financial Capability and Asset Building
The Financial Capability and Asset Building (FCAB) for All Grand Challenge provides an impetus to increase financial content in social work education so that students and practitioners are prepared for practice that includes finances. This teaching note will describe the rationale for including FCAB within social work education and the fit with the profession. To provide guidance on curricular integration, the implementation of 4 course models wi…
Es Como Que no los Conociera”
Family reunification following migration-related separations is often challenging for immigrant youth as they adjust to their new environment and reacquaint with their caregiver. Scant research has explored the experiences of family reunification specifically for unaccompanied immigrant youth. This study was a secondary analysis to explore the complexities of family reunification through the lens of attachment theory and family systems. Data were…
Me Perdía en la Escuela”
Unaccompanied minors, or "newcomer youths," come to the United States from Mexico and Central America to escape violence and persecution, and to seek financial and academic opportunities. Many newcomer youths arrive with gaps in their formal education attributed to the immigration process and the heterogeneity of their pre-U.S. lives. Once they are enrolled in the U.S. school system, many educators struggle to accommodate the academic needs of th…
Parenting in the Context of Deportation Risk
Nearly 5.1 million children younger than age 18 live with at least one undocumented parent, about 7% of the U.S. child population. Between 2010 and 2013, an estimated 300,000 parents of U.S. citizen children were deported. Raising children in the context of deportation risk increases overall parenting stress for undocumented Latino parents. To investigate this and understand the experience of undocumented parenting, the authors interviewed 70 und…
Toward Culturally Sensitive Financial Education Interventions with Latinos
This article was published in the Journal of Community Practice’s special issue on Financial Capability and Asset Building and was originally presented during the April 2015 conference,Financial Capability and Asset Building: Advancing Education, Research, and Practice in Social Work. The conference was hosted by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and the Financial Social Work Initiative at the University of M…
Parenting in the Context of Deportation Risk
Nearly 5.1 million children younger than age 18 live with at least one undocumented parent, about 7% of the U.S. child population. Between 2010 and 2013, an estimated 300,000 parents of U.S. citizen children were deported. Raising children in the context of deportation risk increases overall parenting stress for undocumented Latino parents. To investigate this and understand the experience of undocumented parenting, the authors interviewed 70 und…
A National Study of Adult Women Sexually Abused by Clergy
Given the paucity of research on the experiences of women who are sexually abused by clergy as adults and the advent of the #ChurchToo movement in 2017, the results of a mixed-methods national study highlight the experiences of those who survived the abuse and report on what factors are most healing in their recovery. Internet-based surveys with both quantitative and qualitative items were completed by 159 respondents. Less than 10 percent report…
Me Perdía en la Escuela”
Unaccompanied minors, or "newcomer youths," come to the United States from Mexico and Central America to escape violence and persecution, and to seek financial and academic opportunities. Many newcomer youths arrive with gaps in their formal education attributed to the immigration process and the heterogeneity of their pre-U.S. lives. Once they are enrolled in the U.S. school system, many educators struggle to accommodate the academic needs of th…
Es Como Que no los Conociera”
Family reunification following migration-related separations is often challenging for immigrant youth as they adjust to their new environment and reacquaint with their caregiver. Scant research has explored the experiences of family reunification specifically for unaccompanied immigrant youth. This study was a secondary analysis to explore the complexities of family reunification through the lens of attachment theory and family systems. Data were…
The difficulties of parenting when widowed
Partner loss is considered one of the most stressful events in a person's life. Complicating this for young widows with children is the distress of witnessing the grief of their children. Widows must navigate managing their and their children's grief. This existential phenomenological study seeks to understand the experience of young widows in the parenting of their children after the death of their partner. Qualitative findings from 19 women ind…
Toward Culturally Sensitive Financial Education Interventions with Latinos
This article was published in the Journal of Community Practice’s special issue on Financial Capability and Asset Building and was originally presented during the April 2015 conference,Financial Capability and Asset Building: Advancing Education, Research, and Practice in Social Work. The conference was hosted by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and the Financial Social Work Initiative at the University of M…
Toward Culturally Sensitive Financial Education Interventions with Latinos
This article was published in the Journal of Community Practice’s special issue on Financial Capability and Asset Building and was originally presented during the April 2015 conference,Financial Capability and Asset Building: Advancing Education, Research, and Practice in Social Work. The conference was hosted by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and the Financial Social Work Initiative at the University of M…
Parenting in the Context of Deportation Risk
Nearly 5.1 million children younger than age 18 live with at least one undocumented parent, about 7% of the U.S. child population. Between 2010 and 2013, an estimated 300,000 parents of U.S. citizen children were deported. Raising children in the context of deportation risk increases overall parenting stress for undocumented Latino parents. To investigate this and understand the experience of undocumented parenting, the authors interviewed 70 und…
Me Perdía en la Escuela”
Unaccompanied minors, or "newcomer youths," come to the United States from Mexico and Central America to escape violence and persecution, and to seek financial and academic opportunities. Many newcomer youths arrive with gaps in their formal education attributed to the immigration process and the heterogeneity of their pre-U.S. lives. Once they are enrolled in the U.S. school system, many educators struggle to accommodate the academic needs of th…
Assessing a Trauma-Informed Approach to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Higher Education
The coronavirus pandemic may be characterized as a disaster because it presents (a) a threat of harm or death to a large group of people, (b) disruption of social processes, and (c) secondary consequences among those affected. Universities may support students exposed to this disaster event by using the trauma-informed care (TIC) approach. Using a convergent, parallel, mixed methods design, this study evaluated the TIC approach that a bachelor's …
Teaching Note—Course Models for Increased Competency for Practice Integrated With Financial Capability and Asset Building
The Financial Capability and Asset Building (FCAB) for All Grand Challenge provides an impetus to increase financial content in social work education so that students and practitioners are prepared for practice that includes finances. This teaching note will describe the rationale for including FCAB within social work education and the fit with the profession. To provide guidance on curricular integration, the implementation of 4 course models wi…
Es Como Que no los Conociera”
Family reunification following migration-related separations is often challenging for immigrant youth as they adjust to their new environment and reacquaint with their caregiver. Scant research has explored the experiences of family reunification specifically for unaccompanied immigrant youth. This study was a secondary analysis to explore the complexities of family reunification through the lens of attachment theory and family systems. Data were…
Cohort-Based Education and Other Factors Related to Student Peer Relationships
Graduate students face a variety of stressors that relate to poor academic performance, lower completion rates, and high rates of depressive symptoms, anxiety, and stress. Student peers provide supports for coping with these stressors and succeeding academically. However, graduate students may find it difficult to form relationships with their peers. This mixed method social network analysis (MMSNA) examines graduate student perceptions of their …
A National Study of Adult Women Sexually Abused by Clergy
Given the paucity of research on the experiences of women who are sexually abused by clergy as adults and the advent of the #ChurchToo movement in 2017, the results of a mixed-methods national study highlight the experiences of those who survived the abuse and report on what factors are most healing in their recovery. Internet-based surveys with both quantitative and qualitative items were completed by 159 respondents. Less than 10 percent report…
Solidarity in Time of a Pandemic
Using an anti-oppressive lens, this Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program intentionally introduced power sharing between students and faculty during the first semester of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study qualitatively examined the students’ response to this interpersonal intervention and found: (1) This experience helped all participants appreciate each person’s unique contribution, which was helpful in building their confidence in themselves an…
Young widowhood
Partner loss deprives young widows of physical contact, emotional intimacy, and the fulfillment of sexual desire. Although disenfranchised and oppressed, sexuality is a core piece of women's identity, and sexual bereavement may compel widows to reconstruct their sexual identities. This existential phenomenological study seeks to illuminate the sexual loss and coping of young widows aged 45 and under. Qualitative findings from 21 women indicated t…
The difficulties of parenting when widowed
Partner loss is considered one of the most stressful events in a person's life. Complicating this for young widows with children is the distress of witnessing the grief of their children. Widows must navigate managing their and their children's grief. This existential phenomenological study seeks to understand the experience of young widows in the parenting of their children after the death of their partner. Qualitative findings from 19 women ind…
Widows’ fire
Widows' fire-widows' intense, unbidden sexual desire post-loss-is underexplored, despite its impact on meaning-making and identity. Using an existential-phenomenological design and thematic analysis, this study applied a meaning reconstruction lens to explore how 21 young widows (aged 45 or younger) made sense of widows' fire. Three themes emerged: (1) Widows' fire is a bodily grief response, rooted in trauma regulation, yearning, and vitality-se…
The Plight of Language Deprivation in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children Born to Hearing Parents
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children who experience language deprivation face heightened risk for long-term cognitive, social, and emotional harm. These outcomes are not due to parental unpreparedness but arise from entrenched social biases and professional practices that that frame deafness itself as a problem to be corrected rather than prioritizing early access to a fully accessible natural language. A natural signed language, American Sign…
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)