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Karen M O’brien

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ID4516472
NAMEKaren M O’brien
GIVEN NAMESKaren M
FAMILY NAMEO’brien
SIGNATUREO’BRIEN K M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ORCID0000-0002-0927-2489
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS271
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10
  • Psychological adjustment in grief in the United States and South Korea: Continuing bonds, meaning making, and social support

    Open Access•NaYeon Yang, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•Death Studies•2026

    Psychological adjustment following a loss involves grief-related proceses that may be common across cultures and culturally shaped. Continuing bonds, meaning making, and social support play significant roles in bereavement adjustment, yet their roles may vary across cultural contexts. In this cross-national study, we investigated similarities and differences in the relations among psychological distress, salient grief-related variables (i.e., int…

  • Losing a Part of Yourself’: How Women Grieve Their Close Friend’s Death

    Open Access•Elizabeth Sauber, Elizabeth W Sauber et al.•ARTICLE•OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying•2025

    Friendship provides women with a plethora of benefits, including reduced physiological and psychological distress. Little is known regarding what happens when women experience the death of their closest women friends. Thus, this study qualitatively described the bereavement of seven women who experienced the death of a close woman friend and tested an integrative model predicting prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth with 148 women grieving th…

  • Forever Changed: Predicting Grief and Growth After an Opioid-Related Loss

    Open Access•Erin M Hill, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 51

    Over 564,000 people died from an opioid-related overdose from 1999 to 2020. Minimal research has examined factors contributing to grief outcomes for the thousands of people mourning these stigmatized deaths. Informed by the model of resilience and transactional model of stress, this study investigated the degree to which disenfranchised grief, social support, and coping predicted grief outcomes in a sample of 159 people grieving an opioid-related…

  • Black Grief Matters: Undergraduate Students’ Experiences Grieving Police Murders of Black Americans

    Open Access•Madelyn G Harris, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 51

    Black Americans’ witnessing of online anti-Black police brutality is related to negative psychological outcomes, including stress and depressive symptoms. This study examined the degree to which grief disenfranchisement, social support, and coping style predicted stress, depressive symptoms, and prolonged grief among 189 Black undergraduate students grieving police murders of Black Americans. The students experienced moderate stress, elevated dep…

  • Assessing Knowledge and Predicting Grief Counseling Skills Among University Counseling Center Therapists

    Open Access•Greta Jankauskaite, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 24

    This mixed-method study advances knowledge regarding the practice of grief counseling in a sample of 171 university counseling center therapists. First, several components of therapists’ self-reported work with grieving clients was assessed (e.g., training level, initial responses to a grieving client, principles applied in counseling, therapist comfort, and potential therapist issues related to counseling grieving clients). Second, grounded in t…

  • Coping With Loss: Understanding Growth and Grief in Kashmiri Students

    Open Access•Shereen Ashai, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 54

    Youth in Kashmir experience considerable loss during their formative years as a result of ongoing exposure to severe sociopolitical conflict and devastating natural disasters. This study identified the losses experienced by 204 Kashmiri college students, their adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies, and the degree to which they experienced symptoms of complicated grief and posttraumatic growth. These predominantly Muslim students relied on th…

  • A new treatment model for veterans: Results from a program evaluation of a recovery-oriented intensive outpatient program for veterans with heterogeneous diagnostic presentations

    Open Access•Karen M O’brien, Mary E Dozier et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Contextual Behavioral…•2020

  • Bereaved College Students: Social Support, Coping Style, Continuing Bonds, and Social Media Use as Predictors of Complicated Grief and Posttraumatic Growth

    Open Access•Natania S Lipp, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying•2020

    Many college students experience the death of someone close to them and could be at risk for complicated grieving. Their primary sources of support may be unavailable as family members may live far away and their peers may be unprepared to respond to their grief. In addition, college students are exposed to a variety of stressors that could result in maladaptive coping. Furthermore, although most college-aged students use social media, little is …

  • The Good Mothering Expectations Scale: An International Instrument Development Study

    Open Access•Karen M O’brien, Sung‐Kyung Yoo et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 37

    Our purpose in this research was to develop a measure that reflected cross-cultural and cultural-specific expectations of “good mothering.” We based our measure on samples of South Korean mothers ( n = 626) and White mothers in the United States ( n = 612). We developed an initial pool of 74 items that described good mothering in both cultures. We conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses separately for each group. We found different…

  • Taking Racism to Heart: Race-Related Stressors and Cardiovascular Reactivity for Multiracial People

    Open Access•Marisa Franco, Karen M O''Brien et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    Multiracial people experience an accumulation of racial stress for both their minority and their multiracial identities, yet no research has examined the physiological impact of this stress. This within-groups experimental study examined whether two race-related stressors-identity invalidation and discrimination from family-affect cardiovascular reactivity for Black/White multiracial adults (N = 60). The authors found a Condition × Phase interact…

  • Attachment, Affective Responsiveness, and Cohesion in Adoptive Families: Child and Parent Perspectives

    Maria Wydra, Maria Ann Wydra et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Some adoptive families are at risk for problems in family functioning. This study investigated the extent to which attachment to parents and affective responsiveness of the family predicted family cohesion and satisfaction with the adoptive family from both the child's and the parent's perspectives. Using a sample of 50 adopted children and their parents, our findings indicated that attachment to mother was salient in predicting children's percep…

  • Racial identity invalidation with multiracial individuals: An instrument development study

    Marisa G Franco, Marisa Franco et al.•ARTICLE•Cultural Diversity & Ethnic…•2017•Cited by: 36•References: 38

    The findings highlight the different dimensions of racial identity invalidation and indicate their negative associations with connectedness and psychological well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record

  • Forbidden identities: A qualitative examination of racial identity invalidation for Black/White Biracial individuals

    Open Access•Marisa G Franco, Marisa Franco et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2016•Cited by: 29•References: 23

  • The Changing Face of Psychology: Leadership Aspirations of Female Doctoral Students

    Open Access•Margo A Gregor, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2015•Cited by: 9•References: 30

    Given the increasing number of women entering the field of psychology, this study investigated the degree to which achievement motivation, leader identity, career salience, and willingness to compromise career for partner and children were predictive of leadership aspirations generally and in the American Psychological Association. Data from 202 female graduate students in counseling and clinical doctoral programs indicated that leader identity, …

  • Critical Secret Disclosure in Psychotherapy With Korean Clients

    Open Access•Young-Joo Han, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2014•References: 31

    Korean clients who had completed counseling in Korea and viewed the therapy as successful were interviewed about critical secret disclosure during their therapy. In-depth interviews along with grounded theory-informed analyses in a methodological hermeneutic framework revealed that many Korean clients reported that despite initial fears and needing to test their counselors, sharing their secrets was a powerful experience that deepened their conne…

  • Educating Undergraduate Students to Work With Children of Abused Women

    Open Access•Karen M O’brien, Cristina M Risco et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 23

    Student learning was assessed in an innovative university–community partnership in which undergraduate students enrolled, first, in a didactic course on intimate partner violence and, subsequently, in a service-learning course where they worked with children living in a shelter for survivors of intimate partner violence. Data were collected at the start and end of the first semester, and at the end of the second semester. Quantitative and qualita…

  • A pilot evaluation of the AfterDeployment.org online posttraumatic stress workshop for military service members and veterans

    Nigel Bush, Annabel Prins et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Trauma Theory…•2013

    This pilot study employed a nonconcurrent, multiple-baseline single-case design to examine the impact of an online self-management posttraumatic stress (PTS) workshop on self-reported symptoms of PTS, depression, and functional impairment. Eleven student veterans with PTS first completed between three and five weekly baseline measures. Second, they took part in eight weekly online workshop sessions, each accompanied by symptom assessments. Third,…

  • Predictors of White Adoptive Parents’ Cultural and Racial Socialization Behaviors With Their Asian Adopted Children

    Maria L Berbery, Maria Berbery et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2011•Cited by: 10•References: 10

    This study investigated the role of White racial identity statuses, cultural and racial socialization beliefs, cultural socialization self-efficacy, and racial socialization self-efficacy in predicting White adoptive parents’ (N = 200) cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children. Only cultural and racial socialization beliefs contributed to the prediction of socialization practices. In addition, we examined wheth…

  • Psychological Health and Meaning in Life: Stress, Social Support, and Religious Coping in Latina/Latino Immigrants

    Open Access•Marianne Dunn, Marianne G Dunn et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic Journal of Behavioral…•2009•Cited by: 19•References: 36

    This study examined the relative contributions of (a) gender, (b) perceived stress, (c) social support from family and significant other, and (d) positive and negative dimensions of religious coping to the prediction of the psychological health and meaning in life among 179 Central American immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala. Findings reveal that greater perceived stress by Latinas/Latinos was predictive of psychological health and meaning…

  • Are Shelter Workers Burned Out: An Examination of Stress, Social Support, and Coping

    Open Access•Lisa M Baker, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Violence•2007•Cited by: 7•References: 4

  • Jewish Women's Psychological Well-Being: The Role of Attachment, Separation, and Jewish Identity

    Open Access•Julie Goldberg, Julie L Goldberg et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Women Quarterly•2005•Cited by: 3

    The purpose of this study was to examine the contributions of attachment, separation, and Jewish identity to psychological well-being in a sample of 115 late adolescent Jewish women. Results from multiple regression analyses demonstrated that attachment to parents, separation from parents, and Jewish identity collectively accounted for variance in psychological distress, as measured by anxiety, depression, self-esteem problems, and interpersonal …

  • Multicultural and Gender Influences in Women's Career Development: An Ecological Perspective

    Open Access•Ellen P Cook, Mary J Heppner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2005•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    Any framework used to conceptualize the career development of women and of racial and ethnic minorities must accommodate multiple influences shaping their experiences concurrently and over time. An ecological model of counseling is proposed to expand conceptualizations and interventions of counseling practice with diverse groups of individuals. Cualquier armazón utilizado para conceptualizar el desarrollo de la carrera de mujeres y de minorías ra…

  • Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage

    Karen M O’brien, K O'Brien•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2003•Cited by: 1

    1University of Warwick Family and Friends in Eighteenth‐Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage NaomiTadmor CambridgeCambridge U.P. 2001312£40

  • Breaking the Silence: Advancing Knowledge about Adoption for Counseling Psychologists

    Open Access•Kathy P Zamostny, Mary O’Leary Wiley et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2003•Cited by: 11•References: 17

  • Understanding Adoptive Families: An Integrative Review of Empirical Research and Future Directions for Counseling Psychology

    Open Access•Karen M O’brien, Karen M O'Brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2003•Cited by: 14•References: 46

    Contrary to societal stereotypes about adoption, this integrative review of published empirical research on adoptive families noted several positive and few negative out-comes with regard to satisfaction with the adoption, familial functioning, and parent-child communication. The critical analysis of 38 studies on adoptive families revealed a prevalence of descriptive passive research designs with concomitant concerns regarding sampling and gener…

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  • Racial identity invalidation with multiracial individuals: An instrument development study

    Marisa G Franco, Marisa Franco et al.•ARTICLE•Cultural Diversity & Ethnic…•2017•Cited by: 36•References: 38

    The findings highlight the different dimensions of racial identity invalidation and indicate their negative associations with connectedness and psychological well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record

  • Forbidden identities: A qualitative examination of racial identity invalidation for Black/White Biracial individuals

    Open Access•Marisa G Franco, Marisa Franco et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2016•Cited by: 29•References: 23

  • Multicultural Counselor Training: Students' Perceptions of Helpful and Hindering Events

    Open Access•Mary J Heppner, Karen M O''Brien et al.•ARTICLE•Counselor Education and Supervision•1994•Cited by: 24•References: 20

    Counselor trainees perceptions during a multicultural counseling course highlighted the importance of experiential activities and ethnically diverse speakers to the development of awareness and knowledge

  • The Practice of Adoption: History, Trends, and Social Context

    Open Access•Kathy P Zamostny, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2003•Cited by: 22•References: 88

    This article presents an overview of the practice of adoption to counseling psychologists to promote clinical understanding of the adoption experience and to stimulate research on adoption. The article includes definitions of adoption terminology, important historical and legal developments for adoption, a summary of adoption statistics, conceptualizations of adoption experience, themes and trends in adoption outcome research related to adoptees …

  • Psychological Health and Meaning in Life: Stress, Social Support, and Religious Coping in Latina/Latino Immigrants

    Open Access•Marianne Dunn, Marianne G Dunn et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic Journal of Behavioral…•2009•Cited by: 19•References: 36

    This study examined the relative contributions of (a) gender, (b) perceived stress, (c) social support from family and significant other, and (d) positive and negative dimensions of religious coping to the prediction of the psychological health and meaning in life among 179 Central American immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala. Findings reveal that greater perceived stress by Latinas/Latinos was predictive of psychological health and meaning…

  • Self-Efficacy and Hispanic College Students: Validation of the College Self-Efficacy Instrument

    Open Access•V Scott Solberg, V Scott H Solberg et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic Journal of Behavioral…•1993•Cited by: 18•References: 16

    Self-efficacy theory was proposed as an important determinant in Hispanic college student adjustment. Self-efficacy refers to the strength of a person's belief that they are able to produce a given behavior, and operationally. college self-efficacy was defined as a student's degree of confidence that they could successfully complete a given college-related task (e.g., taking notes, asking a question in class, etc.). The College Self-Efficacy Inve…

  • Understanding Adoptive Families: An Integrative Review of Empirical Research and Future Directions for Counseling Psychology

    Open Access•Karen M O’brien, Karen M O'Brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2003•Cited by: 14•References: 46

    Contrary to societal stereotypes about adoption, this integrative review of published empirical research on adoptive families noted several positive and few negative out-comes with regard to satisfaction with the adoption, familial functioning, and parent-child communication. The critical analysis of 38 studies on adoptive families revealed a prevalence of descriptive passive research designs with concomitant concerns regarding sampling and gener…

  • The relation of male gender role conflict and attitudes toward career counseling to interest in and preferences for different career counseling styles

    Aaron B Rochlen, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•Psychology of Men & Masculinity•2002•Cited by: 12•References: 5

  • Training Counseling Psychologists in Career Development: Are We Our Own Worst Enemies

    Open Access•Mary J Heppner, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•1996•Cited by: 12•References: 29

    Although the diminishing role of career counseling in the future plans of counseling psychology trainees has been well documented, no empirical data have explained why this phenomenon is occurring. A sample of 290 counseling psychology graduate students was surveyed from 12 American Psychological Association (APA)-approved counseling psychology training programs. Results indicate that trainees' most negative experiences were disparaging remarks a…

  • Breaking the Silence: Advancing Knowledge about Adoption for Counseling Psychologists

    Open Access•Kathy P Zamostny, Mary O’Leary Wiley et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2003•Cited by: 11•References: 17

  • Predictors of White Adoptive Parents’ Cultural and Racial Socialization Behaviors With Their Asian Adopted Children

    Maria L Berbery, Maria Berbery et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2011•Cited by: 10•References: 10

    This study investigated the role of White racial identity statuses, cultural and racial socialization beliefs, cultural socialization self-efficacy, and racial socialization self-efficacy in predicting White adoptive parents’ (N = 200) cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children. Only cultural and racial socialization beliefs contributed to the prediction of socialization practices. In addition, we examined wheth…

  • The Changing Face of Psychology: Leadership Aspirations of Female Doctoral Students

    Open Access•Margo A Gregor, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2015•Cited by: 9•References: 30

    Given the increasing number of women entering the field of psychology, this study investigated the degree to which achievement motivation, leader identity, career salience, and willingness to compromise career for partner and children were predictive of leadership aspirations generally and in the American Psychological Association. Data from 202 female graduate students in counseling and clinical doctoral programs indicated that leader identity, …

  • Are Shelter Workers Burned Out: An Examination of Stress, Social Support, and Coping

    Open Access•Lisa M Baker, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Violence•2007•Cited by: 7•References: 4

  • Predicting Gender-Role Attitudes In Adolescent Females: Ability, Agency, and Parental Factors

    Open Access•Julia Ahrens, Julia A Ahrens et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Women Quarterly•1996•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    The contribution of ability, agency, and parental factors to the prediction of gender-role attitudes was investigated in a sample of 409 adolescent females enrolled in a private, college-preparatory high school. Results indicated that ability and agency were predictive of gender-role attitudes, whereas parental factors were not significant contributors. Recommendations for further research examining the etiology of gender-role attitudes are provi…

  • Assessing Knowledge and Predicting Grief Counseling Skills Among University Counseling Center Therapists

    Open Access•Greta Jankauskaite, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 24

    This mixed-method study advances knowledge regarding the practice of grief counseling in a sample of 171 university counseling center therapists. First, several components of therapists’ self-reported work with grieving clients was assessed (e.g., training level, initial responses to a grieving client, principles applied in counseling, therapist comfort, and potential therapist issues related to counseling grieving clients). Second, grounded in t…

  • Black Grief Matters: Undergraduate Students’ Experiences Grieving Police Murders of Black Americans

    Open Access•Madelyn G Harris, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 51

    Black Americans’ witnessing of online anti-Black police brutality is related to negative psychological outcomes, including stress and depressive symptoms. This study examined the degree to which grief disenfranchisement, social support, and coping style predicted stress, depressive symptoms, and prolonged grief among 189 Black undergraduate students grieving police murders of Black Americans. The students experienced moderate stress, elevated dep…

  • Men's Reasons for and against Seeking Help for Career-Related Concerns

    Open Access•Aaron B Rochlen, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Journal of Men s Studies•2002•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    This study categorized the responses of 77 undergraduate men to questions of why they would or would not seek career counseling. Common reasons cited for seeking career counseling included receiving advice, obtaining general career assistance, learning about job opportunities and increasing or exploring career options. Common reasons cited for not seeking career counseling included inconvenience/lack of time, preferences to solve problems alone, …

  • Enhancing Research Training for Counseling Students: Interuniversity Collaborative Research Teams

    Open Access•Karen M O''Brien, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•Counselor Education and Supervision•1995•Cited by: 4•References: 29

    This article presents the development of an interuniversity research team that addressed factors related to research productivity as well as a preliminary evaluation of this innovative method of enhancing research training

  • Taking Racism to Heart: Race-Related Stressors and Cardiovascular Reactivity for Multiracial People

    Open Access•Marisa Franco, Karen M O''Brien et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    Multiracial people experience an accumulation of racial stress for both their minority and their multiracial identities, yet no research has examined the physiological impact of this stress. This within-groups experimental study examined whether two race-related stressors-identity invalidation and discrimination from family-affect cardiovascular reactivity for Black/White multiracial adults (N = 60). The authors found a Condition × Phase interact…

  • Attachment, Affective Responsiveness, and Cohesion in Adoptive Families: Child and Parent Perspectives

    Maria Wydra, Maria Ann Wydra et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Some adoptive families are at risk for problems in family functioning. This study investigated the extent to which attachment to parents and affective responsiveness of the family predicted family cohesion and satisfaction with the adoptive family from both the child's and the parent's perspectives. Using a sample of 50 adopted children and their parents, our findings indicated that attachment to mother was salient in predicting children's percep…

  • Jewish Women's Psychological Well-Being: The Role of Attachment, Separation, and Jewish Identity

    Open Access•Julie Goldberg, Julie L Goldberg et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Women Quarterly•2005•Cited by: 3

    The purpose of this study was to examine the contributions of attachment, separation, and Jewish identity to psychological well-being in a sample of 115 late adolescent Jewish women. Results from multiple regression analyses demonstrated that attachment to parents, separation from parents, and Jewish identity collectively accounted for variance in psychological distress, as measured by anxiety, depression, self-esteem problems, and interpersonal …

  • Multicultural and Gender Influences in Women's Career Development: An Ecological Perspective

    Open Access•Ellen P Cook, Mary J Heppner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2005•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    Any framework used to conceptualize the career development of women and of racial and ethnic minorities must accommodate multiple influences shaping their experiences concurrently and over time. An ecological model of counseling is proposed to expand conceptualizations and interventions of counseling practice with diverse groups of individuals. Cualquier armazón utilizado para conceptualizar el desarrollo de la carrera de mujeres y de minorías ra…

  • Shelter workers' perceptions of battered women

    Open Access•Karen M O’brien, Nancy L Murdock•ARTICLE•Sex Roles•1993•Cited by: 2•References: 7

  • Forever Changed: Predicting Grief and Growth After an Opioid-Related Loss

    Open Access•Erin M Hill, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 51

    Over 564,000 people died from an opioid-related overdose from 1999 to 2020. Minimal research has examined factors contributing to grief outcomes for the thousands of people mourning these stigmatized deaths. Informed by the model of resilience and transactional model of stress, this study investigated the degree to which disenfranchised grief, social support, and coping predicted grief outcomes in a sample of 159 people grieving an opioid-related…

  • Coping With Loss: Understanding Growth and Grief in Kashmiri Students

    Open Access•Shereen Ashai, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 54

    Youth in Kashmir experience considerable loss during their formative years as a result of ongoing exposure to severe sociopolitical conflict and devastating natural disasters. This study identified the losses experienced by 204 Kashmiri college students, their adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies, and the degree to which they experienced symptoms of complicated grief and posttraumatic growth. These predominantly Muslim students relied on th…

  • Shelter workers' perceptions of battered women

    Open Access•Karen M O’brien, Nancy L Murdock•ARTICLE•Sex Roles•1993•Cited by: 2•References: 7

  • Self-Efficacy and Hispanic College Students: Validation of the College Self-Efficacy Instrument

    Open Access•V Scott Solberg, V Scott H Solberg et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic Journal of Behavioral…•1993•Cited by: 18•References: 16

    Self-efficacy theory was proposed as an important determinant in Hispanic college student adjustment. Self-efficacy refers to the strength of a person's belief that they are able to produce a given behavior, and operationally. college self-efficacy was defined as a student's degree of confidence that they could successfully complete a given college-related task (e.g., taking notes, asking a question in class, etc.). The College Self-Efficacy Inve…

  • Multicultural Counselor Training: Students' Perceptions of Helpful and Hindering Events

    Open Access•Mary J Heppner, Karen M O''Brien et al.•ARTICLE•Counselor Education and Supervision•1994•Cited by: 24•References: 20

    Counselor trainees perceptions during a multicultural counseling course highlighted the importance of experiential activities and ethnically diverse speakers to the development of awareness and knowledge

  • Enhancing Research Training for Counseling Students: Interuniversity Collaborative Research Teams

    Open Access•Karen M O''Brien, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•Counselor Education and Supervision•1995•Cited by: 4•References: 29

    This article presents the development of an interuniversity research team that addressed factors related to research productivity as well as a preliminary evaluation of this innovative method of enhancing research training

  • Predicting Gender-Role Attitudes In Adolescent Females: Ability, Agency, and Parental Factors

    Open Access•Julia Ahrens, Julia A Ahrens et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Women Quarterly•1996•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    The contribution of ability, agency, and parental factors to the prediction of gender-role attitudes was investigated in a sample of 409 adolescent females enrolled in a private, college-preparatory high school. Results indicated that ability and agency were predictive of gender-role attitudes, whereas parental factors were not significant contributors. Recommendations for further research examining the etiology of gender-role attitudes are provi…

  • Training Counseling Psychologists in Career Development: Are We Our Own Worst Enemies

    Open Access•Mary J Heppner, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•1996•Cited by: 12•References: 29

    Although the diminishing role of career counseling in the future plans of counseling psychology trainees has been well documented, no empirical data have explained why this phenomenon is occurring. A sample of 290 counseling psychology graduate students was surveyed from 12 American Psychological Association (APA)-approved counseling psychology training programs. Results indicate that trainees' most negative experiences were disparaging remarks a…

  • School-to-Work Transition and Counseling Psychology

    Open Access•Robert W Lent, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•1998•Cited by: 1•References: 4

  • The relation of male gender role conflict and attitudes toward career counseling to interest in and preferences for different career counseling styles

    Aaron B Rochlen, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•Psychology of Men & Masculinity•2002•Cited by: 12•References: 5

  • The relation of male gender role conflict and attitudes toward career counseling to interest in and preferences for different career counseling styles

    Aaron B Rochlen, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Men & Masculinity•2002•Cited by: 1

  • Men's Reasons for and against Seeking Help for Career-Related Concerns

    Open Access•Aaron B Rochlen, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Journal of Men s Studies•2002•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    This study categorized the responses of 77 undergraduate men to questions of why they would or would not seek career counseling. Common reasons cited for seeking career counseling included receiving advice, obtaining general career assistance, learning about job opportunities and increasing or exploring career options. Common reasons cited for not seeking career counseling included inconvenience/lack of time, preferences to solve problems alone, …

  • Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage

    Karen M O’brien, K O'Brien•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2003•Cited by: 1

    1University of Warwick Family and Friends in Eighteenth‐Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage NaomiTadmor CambridgeCambridge U.P. 2001312£40

  • Breaking the Silence: Advancing Knowledge about Adoption for Counseling Psychologists

    Open Access•Kathy P Zamostny, Mary O’Leary Wiley et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2003•Cited by: 11•References: 17

  • Understanding Adoptive Families: An Integrative Review of Empirical Research and Future Directions for Counseling Psychology

    Open Access•Karen M O’brien, Karen M O'Brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2003•Cited by: 14•References: 46

    Contrary to societal stereotypes about adoption, this integrative review of published empirical research on adoptive families noted several positive and few negative out-comes with regard to satisfaction with the adoption, familial functioning, and parent-child communication. The critical analysis of 38 studies on adoptive families revealed a prevalence of descriptive passive research designs with concomitant concerns regarding sampling and gener…

  • The Practice of Adoption: History, Trends, and Social Context

    Open Access•Kathy P Zamostny, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2003•Cited by: 22•References: 88

    This article presents an overview of the practice of adoption to counseling psychologists to promote clinical understanding of the adoption experience and to stimulate research on adoption. The article includes definitions of adoption terminology, important historical and legal developments for adoption, a summary of adoption statistics, conceptualizations of adoption experience, themes and trends in adoption outcome research related to adoptees …

  • Jewish Women's Psychological Well-Being: The Role of Attachment, Separation, and Jewish Identity

    Open Access•Julie Goldberg, Julie L Goldberg et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Women Quarterly•2005•Cited by: 3

    The purpose of this study was to examine the contributions of attachment, separation, and Jewish identity to psychological well-being in a sample of 115 late adolescent Jewish women. Results from multiple regression analyses demonstrated that attachment to parents, separation from parents, and Jewish identity collectively accounted for variance in psychological distress, as measured by anxiety, depression, self-esteem problems, and interpersonal …

  • Multicultural and Gender Influences in Women's Career Development: An Ecological Perspective

    Open Access•Ellen P Cook, Mary J Heppner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2005•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    Any framework used to conceptualize the career development of women and of racial and ethnic minorities must accommodate multiple influences shaping their experiences concurrently and over time. An ecological model of counseling is proposed to expand conceptualizations and interventions of counseling practice with diverse groups of individuals. Cualquier armazón utilizado para conceptualizar el desarrollo de la carrera de mujeres y de minorías ra…

  • Are Shelter Workers Burned Out: An Examination of Stress, Social Support, and Coping

    Open Access•Lisa M Baker, Karen M O’brien et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Violence•2007•Cited by: 7•References: 4

  • Psychological Health and Meaning in Life: Stress, Social Support, and Religious Coping in Latina/Latino Immigrants

    Open Access•Marianne Dunn, Marianne G Dunn et al.•ARTICLE•Hispanic Journal of Behavioral…•2009•Cited by: 19•References: 36

    This study examined the relative contributions of (a) gender, (b) perceived stress, (c) social support from family and significant other, and (d) positive and negative dimensions of religious coping to the prediction of the psychological health and meaning in life among 179 Central American immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala. Findings reveal that greater perceived stress by Latinas/Latinos was predictive of psychological health and meaning…

  • Predictors of White Adoptive Parents’ Cultural and Racial Socialization Behaviors With Their Asian Adopted Children

    Maria L Berbery, Maria Berbery et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2011•Cited by: 10•References: 10

    This study investigated the role of White racial identity statuses, cultural and racial socialization beliefs, cultural socialization self-efficacy, and racial socialization self-efficacy in predicting White adoptive parents’ (N = 200) cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children. Only cultural and racial socialization beliefs contributed to the prediction of socialization practices. In addition, we examined wheth…

  • A pilot evaluation of the AfterDeployment.org online posttraumatic stress workshop for military service members and veterans

    Nigel Bush, Annabel Prins et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Trauma Theory…•2013

    This pilot study employed a nonconcurrent, multiple-baseline single-case design to examine the impact of an online self-management posttraumatic stress (PTS) workshop on self-reported symptoms of PTS, depression, and functional impairment. Eleven student veterans with PTS first completed between three and five weekly baseline measures. Second, they took part in eight weekly online workshop sessions, each accompanied by symptom assessments. Third,…

  • Critical Secret Disclosure in Psychotherapy With Korean Clients

    Open Access•Young-Joo Han, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2014•References: 31

    Korean clients who had completed counseling in Korea and viewed the therapy as successful were interviewed about critical secret disclosure during their therapy. In-depth interviews along with grounded theory-informed analyses in a methodological hermeneutic framework revealed that many Korean clients reported that despite initial fears and needing to test their counselors, sharing their secrets was a powerful experience that deepened their conne…

  • Educating Undergraduate Students to Work With Children of Abused Women

    Open Access•Karen M O’brien, Cristina M Risco et al.•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 23

    Student learning was assessed in an innovative university–community partnership in which undergraduate students enrolled, first, in a didactic course on intimate partner violence and, subsequently, in a service-learning course where they worked with children living in a shelter for survivors of intimate partner violence. Data were collected at the start and end of the first semester, and at the end of the second semester. Quantitative and qualita…

  • The Changing Face of Psychology: Leadership Aspirations of Female Doctoral Students

    Open Access•Margo A Gregor, Karen M O’brien•ARTICLE•The Counseling Psychologist•2015•Cited by: 9•References: 30

    Given the increasing number of women entering the field of psychology, this study investigated the degree to which achievement motivation, leader identity, career salience, and willingness to compromise career for partner and children were predictive of leadership aspirations generally and in the American Psychological Association. Data from 202 female graduate students in counseling and clinical doctoral programs indicated that leader identity, …

  • Forbidden identities: A qualitative examination of racial identity invalidation for Black/White Biracial individuals

    Open Access•Marisa G Franco, Marisa Franco et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2016•Cited by: 29•References: 23

  • Attachment, Affective Responsiveness, and Cohesion in Adoptive Families: Child and Parent Perspectives

    Maria Wydra, Maria Ann Wydra et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Some adoptive families are at risk for problems in family functioning. This study investigated the extent to which attachment to parents and affective responsiveness of the family predicted family cohesion and satisfaction with the adoptive family from both the child's and the parent's perspectives. Using a sample of 50 adopted children and their parents, our findings indicated that attachment to mother was salient in predicting children's percep…

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