Q L Walton
Biographic Data
| ID | 47057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Q L Walton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Q L |
| FAMILY NAME | Walton |
| SIGNATURE | WALTON Q L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2845-6726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nobody is Taking Care of Us”
Intersecting social inequalities in prenatal and postnatal care
Exploring self‐care practices of African American informal kinship caregivers
African American caregivers providing informal kinship care are vulnerable to chronic stress. Research has indicated stress increases individuals' risk for many adverse physical and mental health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and depression. Given the adverse outcomes related to stress, identifying mechanisms to help these caregivers lower and manage their stress is critical to their overall health and well-being…
Using the Colaizzi Method to Explore Intimate Partner Violence Caseworkers’ Subjective Experience
Successful intimate partner violence (IPV) safety, advocacy, and intervention programs require recruitment and retention of persons of experience and commitment. To examine lived experiences of IPV advocates working in transitional shelter programs for women exiting IPV relationships, focus group discussions of 15 transitional housing and IPV shelter caseworkers were analyzed using the Colaizzi seven-step phenomenological method of analysis. Seve…
Normal Wasn’t Good
Research has shown that women within academia, particularly mothers, continue to endure challenges in their workplaces. For Women of Color (WOC) who are mothers, these demands are exacerbated when there are expectations to take on additional responsibilities related to antiracist practices. This article centers on the experiences of three WOC who are tenure-earning mothers in academia during two ongoing pandemics: COVID-19 and racial injustice. I…
We Can Only Go So Far”
How to engage and apply intersectionality is still a point of contention among scholars. In this conceptual paper, we use examples from our preliminary research on the experiences of middle-class Black women with depression and Black Muslim women who have experienced intimate partner violence to illustrate how we applied intersectionality as a framework and a method. We highlight the foundational literature that informed our applications. We then…
Comparing In-Person and Online Modalities for Photo Elicitation Interviews Among a Vulnerable Population
The purpose of the current study was to use Orsmond and Cohn's feasibility framework to compare two methods of collecting photo elicitation interviews: (1) in-person and (2) online among low-income community college students. We described the feasibility of the recruitment and retention procedures and compared the participants' characteristics and the type of data obtained by data collection modality. Focus group participants ( n = 34) were invit…
Building Bridges
Reflections From Academic Mothers of Young Children on Social Work Research and Education
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound societal impact with unprecedented impact on women’s labor force participation, including among academic mothers. Yet, persistent gendered and racialized inequities in academia remain structurally unaddressed, including in social work. We believe that as social work educators we are well-positioned to develop an academic culture that helps us refocus on what matters most; redefine excellence in teaching, s…
This Person is Safe
Significant conceptual and empirical evidence has been found through qualitative research about the benefits, limitations, and uses of individual interviews. However, there is scant research illustrating how researchers use specific techniques that center participants' intersecting identities to build rapport, trust, and authentic connections during individual interviews, and especially during interviews with Black women. We illustrate how we use…
Conducting Research Six Feet Apart
The county-wide lockdowns that were implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in some in-person qualitative research studies needing to be transitioned online using a video conferencing platform. However, evaluating the feasibility of transitioning an ongoing qualitative research study focused on low-income, racial/ethnic minorities had not been performed. Orsmond and Cohn's feasibility framework was used to evaluate this study in three p…
Black women and Covid-19
COVID-19 has significantly impacted a substantial number of Black Americans. Black women, in particular, are facing challenges financially, physically, and mentally during this unprecedented time. Between serving as frontline workers, being concerned about contracting the virus, contributing to their families financially, and worrying about their loved ones’ health, Black women are experiencing great strain on their mental health and well-being. …
Living in Between
Empirical evidence consistently has linked the identification and treatment of depression among low-income Black women. Research on depression and Black women also suggests Black women are a monolithic group who experience depression similarly. The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain a deeper understanding of how the identity of middle-class Black women may shape their experiences with depression. Using grounded theory as the guiding me…
How Ancestral Trauma Informs Patients' Health Decision Making
This article considers intergenerational trauma by drawing on the experience of a 37-year-old Black woman whose great-grandfather died as a result of involuntary involvement in the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Although she never met her great-grandfather, the abuse, exploitation, and human rights violations he suffered at the hands of the US government profoundly influenced her health experiences. This article contextualiz…
Feasibility of Delivering an on-Campus Food Distribution Program in a Community College Setting
Despite community college students experiencing food insecurity there has been a dearth of research conducted on the feasibility of providing a program designed to increase access to fruits and vegetables among community colleges. This study used a mixed methods sequential explanatory design to examine the feasibility of delivering an on-campus food distribution program (FDP) to community college students and to examine the association between FD…
Teaching and Learning During and After Covid-19
Social work programs are preparing professionals to respond to natural disasters and global pandemics when they arise. However, literature on the learning experiences of students in the social work classroom with synchronous instruction during a natural disaster or global pandemic is limited, as is documentation of the experiences of social work faculty. Further, seldom discussed in the literature are the personal and emotional reflections of stu…
Critical Feminisms
Conceptualizing healing through the African American experience of historical trauma
For the African American healing journey, it is essential for cultural strengths that preceded and followed the original injury of enslavement, and consequent racially based trauma, to be recognized and elevated. Historical trauma has offered an important framework for understanding how the structural determinants of health are related to mass group-level subjugation for Indigenous people across generations, with a growing focus on protective fac…
Voices Unheard
There is little empirical or conceptual literature about depression among middle-class Black women, as the majority of the depression research focuses on low-income Black women or middle-class White women. While some work has been done to explore the ways in which race, class, and gender intersect to influence depression among Black women in general, more scholarship that puts forth an intersectional, cultural, and person-in-environment frame to …
The Case for #BlackGirlMagic
This article puts forth a culturally relevant practice framework that integrates components of intersectionality and strengths-based perspectives. This framework incorporates key factors of Black women’s social identities and builds on their strengths to provide a richer understanding of how depression is experienced in their lives. To arrive at this framework, we provide a brief summary of intersectionality; use a case study to examine the influ…
Missing the mark
Many studies state that African Americans are underdiagnosed with major depressive disorder when compared to Whites, yet little research exists on the specific differences in symptom expression in African Americans. Even fewer studies explore gender-based differences in depressive symptom expression between African Americans. This article reviews literature on African-American symptom expression differences through a social determinants of health…
A review of how states are addressing placement stability
This Person is Safe
Significant conceptual and empirical evidence has been found through qualitative research about the benefits, limitations, and uses of individual interviews. However, there is scant research illustrating how researchers use specific techniques that center participants' intersecting identities to build rapport, trust, and authentic connections during individual interviews, and especially during interviews with Black women. We illustrate how we use…
The Case for #BlackGirlMagic
This article puts forth a culturally relevant practice framework that integrates components of intersectionality and strengths-based perspectives. This framework incorporates key factors of Black women’s social identities and builds on their strengths to provide a richer understanding of how depression is experienced in their lives. To arrive at this framework, we provide a brief summary of intersectionality; use a case study to examine the influ…
Missing the mark
Many studies state that African Americans are underdiagnosed with major depressive disorder when compared to Whites, yet little research exists on the specific differences in symptom expression in African Americans. Even fewer studies explore gender-based differences in depressive symptom expression between African Americans. This article reviews literature on African-American symptom expression differences through a social determinants of health…
Conducting Research Six Feet Apart
The county-wide lockdowns that were implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in some in-person qualitative research studies needing to be transitioned online using a video conferencing platform. However, evaluating the feasibility of transitioning an ongoing qualitative research study focused on low-income, racial/ethnic minorities had not been performed. Orsmond and Cohn's feasibility framework was used to evaluate this study in three p…
Critical Feminisms
Voices Unheard
There is little empirical or conceptual literature about depression among middle-class Black women, as the majority of the depression research focuses on low-income Black women or middle-class White women. While some work has been done to explore the ways in which race, class, and gender intersect to influence depression among Black women in general, more scholarship that puts forth an intersectional, cultural, and person-in-environment frame to …
Exploring self‐care practices of African American informal kinship caregivers
African American caregivers providing informal kinship care are vulnerable to chronic stress. Research has indicated stress increases individuals' risk for many adverse physical and mental health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and depression. Given the adverse outcomes related to stress, identifying mechanisms to help these caregivers lower and manage their stress is critical to their overall health and well-being…
Comparing In-Person and Online Modalities for Photo Elicitation Interviews Among a Vulnerable Population
The purpose of the current study was to use Orsmond and Cohn's feasibility framework to compare two methods of collecting photo elicitation interviews: (1) in-person and (2) online among low-income community college students. We described the feasibility of the recruitment and retention procedures and compared the participants' characteristics and the type of data obtained by data collection modality. Focus group participants ( n = 34) were invit…
Using the Colaizzi Method to Explore Intimate Partner Violence Caseworkers’ Subjective Experience
Successful intimate partner violence (IPV) safety, advocacy, and intervention programs require recruitment and retention of persons of experience and commitment. To examine lived experiences of IPV advocates working in transitional shelter programs for women exiting IPV relationships, focus group discussions of 15 transitional housing and IPV shelter caseworkers were analyzed using the Colaizzi seven-step phenomenological method of analysis. Seve…
Normal Wasn’t Good
Research has shown that women within academia, particularly mothers, continue to endure challenges in their workplaces. For Women of Color (WOC) who are mothers, these demands are exacerbated when there are expectations to take on additional responsibilities related to antiracist practices. This article centers on the experiences of three WOC who are tenure-earning mothers in academia during two ongoing pandemics: COVID-19 and racial injustice. I…
A review of how states are addressing placement stability
Missing the mark
Many studies state that African Americans are underdiagnosed with major depressive disorder when compared to Whites, yet little research exists on the specific differences in symptom expression in African Americans. Even fewer studies explore gender-based differences in depressive symptom expression between African Americans. This article reviews literature on African-American symptom expression differences through a social determinants of health…
The Case for #BlackGirlMagic
This article puts forth a culturally relevant practice framework that integrates components of intersectionality and strengths-based perspectives. This framework incorporates key factors of Black women’s social identities and builds on their strengths to provide a richer understanding of how depression is experienced in their lives. To arrive at this framework, we provide a brief summary of intersectionality; use a case study to examine the influ…
Voices Unheard
There is little empirical or conceptual literature about depression among middle-class Black women, as the majority of the depression research focuses on low-income Black women or middle-class White women. While some work has been done to explore the ways in which race, class, and gender intersect to influence depression among Black women in general, more scholarship that puts forth an intersectional, cultural, and person-in-environment frame to …
Black women and Covid-19
COVID-19 has significantly impacted a substantial number of Black Americans. Black women, in particular, are facing challenges financially, physically, and mentally during this unprecedented time. Between serving as frontline workers, being concerned about contracting the virus, contributing to their families financially, and worrying about their loved ones’ health, Black women are experiencing great strain on their mental health and well-being. …
Living in Between
Empirical evidence consistently has linked the identification and treatment of depression among low-income Black women. Research on depression and Black women also suggests Black women are a monolithic group who experience depression similarly. The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain a deeper understanding of how the identity of middle-class Black women may shape their experiences with depression. Using grounded theory as the guiding me…
How Ancestral Trauma Informs Patients' Health Decision Making
This article considers intergenerational trauma by drawing on the experience of a 37-year-old Black woman whose great-grandfather died as a result of involuntary involvement in the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Although she never met her great-grandfather, the abuse, exploitation, and human rights violations he suffered at the hands of the US government profoundly influenced her health experiences. This article contextualiz…
Feasibility of Delivering an on-Campus Food Distribution Program in a Community College Setting
Despite community college students experiencing food insecurity there has been a dearth of research conducted on the feasibility of providing a program designed to increase access to fruits and vegetables among community colleges. This study used a mixed methods sequential explanatory design to examine the feasibility of delivering an on-campus food distribution program (FDP) to community college students and to examine the association between FD…
Teaching and Learning During and After Covid-19
Social work programs are preparing professionals to respond to natural disasters and global pandemics when they arise. However, literature on the learning experiences of students in the social work classroom with synchronous instruction during a natural disaster or global pandemic is limited, as is documentation of the experiences of social work faculty. Further, seldom discussed in the literature are the personal and emotional reflections of stu…
Critical Feminisms
Conceptualizing healing through the African American experience of historical trauma
For the African American healing journey, it is essential for cultural strengths that preceded and followed the original injury of enslavement, and consequent racially based trauma, to be recognized and elevated. Historical trauma has offered an important framework for understanding how the structural determinants of health are related to mass group-level subjugation for Indigenous people across generations, with a growing focus on protective fac…
Building Bridges
Reflections From Academic Mothers of Young Children on Social Work Research and Education
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound societal impact with unprecedented impact on women’s labor force participation, including among academic mothers. Yet, persistent gendered and racialized inequities in academia remain structurally unaddressed, including in social work. We believe that as social work educators we are well-positioned to develop an academic culture that helps us refocus on what matters most; redefine excellence in teaching, s…
This Person is Safe
Significant conceptual and empirical evidence has been found through qualitative research about the benefits, limitations, and uses of individual interviews. However, there is scant research illustrating how researchers use specific techniques that center participants' intersecting identities to build rapport, trust, and authentic connections during individual interviews, and especially during interviews with Black women. We illustrate how we use…
Conducting Research Six Feet Apart
The county-wide lockdowns that were implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in some in-person qualitative research studies needing to be transitioned online using a video conferencing platform. However, evaluating the feasibility of transitioning an ongoing qualitative research study focused on low-income, racial/ethnic minorities had not been performed. Orsmond and Cohn's feasibility framework was used to evaluate this study in three p…
Exploring self‐care practices of African American informal kinship caregivers
African American caregivers providing informal kinship care are vulnerable to chronic stress. Research has indicated stress increases individuals' risk for many adverse physical and mental health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and depression. Given the adverse outcomes related to stress, identifying mechanisms to help these caregivers lower and manage their stress is critical to their overall health and well-being…
Using the Colaizzi Method to Explore Intimate Partner Violence Caseworkers’ Subjective Experience
Successful intimate partner violence (IPV) safety, advocacy, and intervention programs require recruitment and retention of persons of experience and commitment. To examine lived experiences of IPV advocates working in transitional shelter programs for women exiting IPV relationships, focus group discussions of 15 transitional housing and IPV shelter caseworkers were analyzed using the Colaizzi seven-step phenomenological method of analysis. Seve…
Normal Wasn’t Good
Research has shown that women within academia, particularly mothers, continue to endure challenges in their workplaces. For Women of Color (WOC) who are mothers, these demands are exacerbated when there are expectations to take on additional responsibilities related to antiracist practices. This article centers on the experiences of three WOC who are tenure-earning mothers in academia during two ongoing pandemics: COVID-19 and racial injustice. I…
We Can Only Go So Far”
How to engage and apply intersectionality is still a point of contention among scholars. In this conceptual paper, we use examples from our preliminary research on the experiences of middle-class Black women with depression and Black Muslim women who have experienced intimate partner violence to illustrate how we applied intersectionality as a framework and a method. We highlight the foundational literature that informed our applications. We then…
Comparing In-Person and Online Modalities for Photo Elicitation Interviews Among a Vulnerable Population
The purpose of the current study was to use Orsmond and Cohn's feasibility framework to compare two methods of collecting photo elicitation interviews: (1) in-person and (2) online among low-income community college students. We described the feasibility of the recruitment and retention procedures and compared the participants' characteristics and the type of data obtained by data collection modality. Focus group participants ( n = 34) were invit…
Nobody is Taking Care of Us”
Intersecting social inequalities in prenatal and postnatal care
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (6 works) · Focus group (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)