Katherine Tyson Mccrea
Biographic Data
| ID | 4619776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Tyson Mccrea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine Tyson |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccrea |
| SIGNATURE | MCCREA K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9930-6979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From just doing research to doing just research
The social work profession has always prioritized working toward social justice, yet how research can accomplish that aim has been conceptualized in diverse ways. Now, problems such as the implementation gap that renders much evidence-based knowledge unavailable for high-burden communities, the ways scientific research can be unwittingly infused with racism, gender bias, homophobia, ablism and colonialism, and demands for participatory knowledge …
Developmental sensitivities and strengths in adolescent mentors of community children
Cross-age mentoring programs provide adolescents with opportunities to develop leadership, empathy, and self-efficacy while supporting younger peers. However, little is known about the developmental sensitivities and strengths adolescent mentors bring to cross-age mentoring relationships, particularly among youth of color in economically stressed communities. Guided by a phenomenological and ecological systems framework, this study examined how a…
‘Mentors need mentors’
This study investigates instructor activities that 158 adolescent mentors of community children found meaningful in the context of their under-resourced urban communities. Theoretical frameworks draw from trauma theory, self-psychology, and community cultural wealth. Data include field notes, peer-to-peer programme evaluation interviews, exit interviews, focus groups, and notes from clinical seminars for instructors. Mentors found instructor supp…
A bond as strong as a lock and chain”
Youth of color experiencing low-income in the United States face multiple human rights violations: overpolicing, community violence, racial discrimination, and insufficient voice in the programs and policies that impact their current and future lives. To accomplish transitional justice, participatory processes are needed that elicit youths' cultural strengths and wisdom about themselves, their social conditions, services they find helpful, and wh…
Street-Based Social Work Praxis
Street-based social work responds to the “social disaster” of U.S. youth of color experiencing poverty who fall through the cracks of existing social safety nets. Drawing from 17 years of feedback from youth clients about street-based service provision in university–community partnerships, the flexible street-based model uses several trauma-focused, strengths-based, and humanistic modalities to provide youth with a positive childhood experience a…
Toward a Theory of Resistance for an Emancipatory Social Work
This paper proposes a theory of resistance as crucial for an emancipatory social work. Using five stories as case study illustrations, the paper explores the nature of resistance and social change. The concepts, principles, and assumptions comprising a theory of resistance for social work are derived from the examples and existing research. The paper discusses how individual acts of resistance are necessary for fostering transformational change a…
We are not all gangbangers
Centering youth voices in a participatory cross-age mentoring program in urban high-poverty communities, this paper addresses three problems in knowledge about youth of color experiencing low-income: 1) Misrepresenting youth as disproportionately violence-prone, 2) minimizing stressors youth experience, and 3) ignoring youths' goals. Those knowledge problems can be framed as a contemporary form of DuBois' construct of "scientific racism." To coun…
We got to stand up and speak”
Help me to decide”
Decision making is the basis for individual autonomy and societal participation. To support persons' human right to make life decisions, the model of supported decision making (SDM) has evolved and complies with Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Models for implementing SDM and outcomes achieved by applying SDM in community settings remain insufficiently explored. This study used a human …
Even in Fateful Situations a Vital Optimism Remains
To advance a social work model for working with patients with diagnoses of cancer in diverse global contexts, this paper draws from qualitative research with clients diagnosed with cancer, and their social workers, in Lithuania. As in many countries, Lithuanian social work is a new profession, finding its way to helping people through many life stressors in a unique cultural context. The threat cancer presents – of dying from a protracted and pai…
Towards improving engagement of youth of color in cross-age mentoring programs in high poverty, high crime neighborhoods
The Flow that Pushes you”
Understanding violence and developing resilience with African American youth in high-poverty, high-crime communities
Love Your Love Life”
Sexually transmitted disease transmission, dating violence, trafficking, and unplanned pregnancy disproportionately afflict disadvantaged African American adolescents, and social services to effectively remedy this crisis need improvement. Moreover, disadvantaged African American adolescents have been significantly underrepresented in mental health, social services, and best practices research, so existing evidence-based practice models are insuf…
When Traumatic Stressors are Not Past, But Now
Cocreating a Social Work Apprenticeship with Disadvantaged African American Youth
Cocreating an after-school program with disadvantaged African American youth (2006–2011) resulted in a social work apprenticeship. In a participatory action, youth-led evaluation process, youth (N = 203) prioritized positively impacting their communities, especially mentoring community children and promoting alternatives to community violence. Starting from the strengths perspective and self-determination theory, topics youth valued included huma…
Keeping It Real”
Youth are increasingly seen as competent in participating in research and program evaluation, two activities previously reserved for adults. This article is a report of the findings from an evaluation audit of Stand Up! Help Out!, a participatory action after-school youth leadership development program for disadvantaged urban youth that utilized youth evaluations to develop a best practices service model. The youths' feedback assisted providers i…
Indicated Truancy Interventions for Chronic Truant Students
Objective: Examine the effects of indicated interventions on attendance with chronic truant students. Method: Systematic review and meta-analytic methods, following Campbell Collaboration guidelines, were utilized. A comprehensive search identified 5 randomized and 11 quasi-experimental studies. Results: The mean effect on attendance outcomes was moderate, positive, and significant, g = .46, 95% confidence interval [.30, .62], p < .05, translatin…
I'm Glad you Asked
Homeless clients with severe mental illness can offer considerable insight about their residential care, but there are significant methodological challenges in eliciting their service evaluations: maximizing participation, facilitating self-expression, and preserving clients' natural meanings. This study addresses those challenges and presents qualitative data residential care staff obtained from 210 clients. While clients prioritized meeting the…
Indicated Truancy Interventions for Chronic Truant Students
Objective: Examine the effects of indicated interventions on attendance with chronic truant students. Method: Systematic review and meta-analytic methods, following Campbell Collaboration guidelines, were utilized. A comprehensive search identified 5 randomized and 11 quasi-experimental studies. Results: The mean effect on attendance outcomes was moderate, positive, and significant, g = .46, 95% confidence interval [.30, .62], p < .05, translatin…
Understanding violence and developing resilience with African American youth in high-poverty, high-crime communities
Keeping It Real”
Youth are increasingly seen as competent in participating in research and program evaluation, two activities previously reserved for adults. This article is a report of the findings from an evaluation audit of Stand Up! Help Out!, a participatory action after-school youth leadership development program for disadvantaged urban youth that utilized youth evaluations to develop a best practices service model. The youths' feedback assisted providers i…
Towards improving engagement of youth of color in cross-age mentoring programs in high poverty, high crime neighborhoods
Love Your Love Life”
Sexually transmitted disease transmission, dating violence, trafficking, and unplanned pregnancy disproportionately afflict disadvantaged African American adolescents, and social services to effectively remedy this crisis need improvement. Moreover, disadvantaged African American adolescents have been significantly underrepresented in mental health, social services, and best practices research, so existing evidence-based practice models are insuf…
I'm Glad you Asked
Homeless clients with severe mental illness can offer considerable insight about their residential care, but there are significant methodological challenges in eliciting their service evaluations: maximizing participation, facilitating self-expression, and preserving clients' natural meanings. This study addresses those challenges and presents qualitative data residential care staff obtained from 210 clients. While clients prioritized meeting the…
Indicated Truancy Interventions for Chronic Truant Students
Objective: Examine the effects of indicated interventions on attendance with chronic truant students. Method: Systematic review and meta-analytic methods, following Campbell Collaboration guidelines, were utilized. A comprehensive search identified 5 randomized and 11 quasi-experimental studies. Results: The mean effect on attendance outcomes was moderate, positive, and significant, g = .46, 95% confidence interval [.30, .62], p < .05, translatin…
Keeping It Real”
Youth are increasingly seen as competent in participating in research and program evaluation, two activities previously reserved for adults. This article is a report of the findings from an evaluation audit of Stand Up! Help Out!, a participatory action after-school youth leadership development program for disadvantaged urban youth that utilized youth evaluations to develop a best practices service model. The youths' feedback assisted providers i…
When Traumatic Stressors are Not Past, But Now
Cocreating a Social Work Apprenticeship with Disadvantaged African American Youth
Cocreating an after-school program with disadvantaged African American youth (2006–2011) resulted in a social work apprenticeship. In a participatory action, youth-led evaluation process, youth (N = 203) prioritized positively impacting their communities, especially mentoring community children and promoting alternatives to community violence. Starting from the strengths perspective and self-determination theory, topics youth valued included huma…
Love Your Love Life”
Sexually transmitted disease transmission, dating violence, trafficking, and unplanned pregnancy disproportionately afflict disadvantaged African American adolescents, and social services to effectively remedy this crisis need improvement. Moreover, disadvantaged African American adolescents have been significantly underrepresented in mental health, social services, and best practices research, so existing evidence-based practice models are insuf…
Understanding violence and developing resilience with African American youth in high-poverty, high-crime communities
Even in Fateful Situations a Vital Optimism Remains
To advance a social work model for working with patients with diagnoses of cancer in diverse global contexts, this paper draws from qualitative research with clients diagnosed with cancer, and their social workers, in Lithuania. As in many countries, Lithuanian social work is a new profession, finding its way to helping people through many life stressors in a unique cultural context. The threat cancer presents – of dying from a protracted and pai…
Towards improving engagement of youth of color in cross-age mentoring programs in high poverty, high crime neighborhoods
The Flow that Pushes you”
We got to stand up and speak”
Help me to decide”
Decision making is the basis for individual autonomy and societal participation. To support persons' human right to make life decisions, the model of supported decision making (SDM) has evolved and complies with Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Models for implementing SDM and outcomes achieved by applying SDM in community settings remain insufficiently explored. This study used a human …
Street-Based Social Work Praxis
Street-based social work responds to the “social disaster” of U.S. youth of color experiencing poverty who fall through the cracks of existing social safety nets. Drawing from 17 years of feedback from youth clients about street-based service provision in university–community partnerships, the flexible street-based model uses several trauma-focused, strengths-based, and humanistic modalities to provide youth with a positive childhood experience a…
Toward a Theory of Resistance for an Emancipatory Social Work
This paper proposes a theory of resistance as crucial for an emancipatory social work. Using five stories as case study illustrations, the paper explores the nature of resistance and social change. The concepts, principles, and assumptions comprising a theory of resistance for social work are derived from the examples and existing research. The paper discusses how individual acts of resistance are necessary for fostering transformational change a…
We are not all gangbangers
Centering youth voices in a participatory cross-age mentoring program in urban high-poverty communities, this paper addresses three problems in knowledge about youth of color experiencing low-income: 1) Misrepresenting youth as disproportionately violence-prone, 2) minimizing stressors youth experience, and 3) ignoring youths' goals. Those knowledge problems can be framed as a contemporary form of DuBois' construct of "scientific racism." To coun…
From just doing research to doing just research
The social work profession has always prioritized working toward social justice, yet how research can accomplish that aim has been conceptualized in diverse ways. Now, problems such as the implementation gap that renders much evidence-based knowledge unavailable for high-burden communities, the ways scientific research can be unwittingly infused with racism, gender bias, homophobia, ablism and colonialism, and demands for participatory knowledge …
Developmental sensitivities and strengths in adolescent mentors of community children
Cross-age mentoring programs provide adolescents with opportunities to develop leadership, empathy, and self-efficacy while supporting younger peers. However, little is known about the developmental sensitivities and strengths adolescent mentors bring to cross-age mentoring relationships, particularly among youth of color in economically stressed communities. Guided by a phenomenological and ecological systems framework, this study examined how a…
‘Mentors need mentors’
This study investigates instructor activities that 158 adolescent mentors of community children found meaningful in the context of their under-resourced urban communities. Theoretical frameworks draw from trauma theory, self-psychology, and community cultural wealth. Data include field notes, peer-to-peer programme evaluation interviews, exit interviews, focus groups, and notes from clinical seminars for instructors. Mentors found instructor supp…
A bond as strong as a lock and chain”
Youth of color experiencing low-income in the United States face multiple human rights violations: overpolicing, community violence, racial discrimination, and insufficient voice in the programs and policies that impact their current and future lives. To accomplish transitional justice, participatory processes are needed that elicit youths' cultural strengths and wisdom about themselves, their social conditions, services they find helpful, and wh…
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Poverty (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)