Jill Waterman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4879827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Waterman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Waterman |
| SIGNATURE | WATERMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mental health providers working with foster/adoptive families
Belonging and Reclaiming Identity
Resource parents during two pandemics
The emergence of COVID-19 created a global health crisis and impacted children and families, disproportionately affecting minoritized communities. Simultaneously, protests and anti-racist uprisings against police violence occurred worldwide. This mixed method study examined how a group of racially diverse resource parents navigated these two pandemics. Resource parents (N = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about concerns related to COVID-…
Covid-19 and resource families
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of "Safer-at-Home" to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents r…
Concurrent Planning
Concurrent planning is a process by which all options for permanency are considered simultaneously for children in foster care. Children are placed with caregivers (resource parents) who are open to adoption if reunification with birth parents does not occur. This quantitative study explored resource parents’ perceptions of the concurrent planning process via surveys at two time points. Participants included resource parents of 77 infants assesse…
Cumulative Risk and Substance Use in Adoptees
Objective To test whether low adoptive parent stress buffers the effect of preadoptive risk on substance use among adoptees. Background Adoptees are especially susceptible to substance use in adolescence, potentially because they often experience multiple early risk factors. Because caregiver stress and child behavior problems are linked, degree of parenting stress may serve as a buffer in reducing adoptee substance use. Method In a longitudinal …
Substance use in youth adopted from foster care
Barbara Henker (1935–2017)
Presents an obituary for Barbara Henker, who died January 24, 2017, at the age of 81. Henker was professor emerita and a pioneering female faculty member in the Psychology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Arriving in 1965, she served on the faculty in the clinical and developmental psychology areas at UCLA as the first woman faculty member hired by the department. Henker also worked in the areas of health-related be…
Preparing and Partnering with Families to Support the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
This investigation evaluated the effectiveness of a pre-placement education and preparation curriculum (PREP) for prospective foster/adoptive parents in improving attitudes toward children with prenatal substance exposure and their substance-using birth parent and increasing willingness to adopt these children. Participants included 1,836 prospective parents seeking adoption through foster care who received three 3-hour sessions of PREP. Prospect…
Parent adjustment over time in gay, lesbian, and heterosexual parent families adopting from foster care
Although increasing numbers of gay and lesbian individuals and couples are adopting children, gay men and lesbian women continue to face increased scrutiny and legal obstacles from the child welfare system. To date, little research has compared the experiences of gay or lesbian and heterosexual adoptive parents over time, limiting conceptual understandings of the similarities they share and the unique challenges that gay and lesbian adoptive pare…
Can gay and lesbian parents promote healthy development in high-risk children adopted from foster care
Adoption is known to promote cognitive and emotional development in children from foster care, but policy debates remain regarding whether children adopted by gay and lesbian parents can achieve these positive outcomes. This study compared the cognitive development and behavior problems at 2, 12, and 24 months postplacement of 82 high-risk children adopted from foster care in heterosexual and gay or lesbian households. On average, children in bot…
Computeen
Race and Sex as Variables for Children Involved in Treatment
Race and sex as variables in psychiatric treatment at five child psychiatry clinics were examined. From an earlier study data indicating race was significant were reanalyzed. Across clinics major findings indicated that black females were seen for psychotherapy for significantly fewer sessions than white females, black males and white males and that parents of sons who were in therapy came in for psychotherapy significantly more often than parent…
Concurrent Planning
Concurrent planning is a process by which all options for permanency are considered simultaneously for children in foster care. Children are placed with caregivers (resource parents) who are open to adoption if reunification with birth parents does not occur. This quantitative study explored resource parents’ perceptions of the concurrent planning process via surveys at two time points. Participants included resource parents of 77 infants assesse…
Preparing and Partnering with Families to Support the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
This investigation evaluated the effectiveness of a pre-placement education and preparation curriculum (PREP) for prospective foster/adoptive parents in improving attitudes toward children with prenatal substance exposure and their substance-using birth parent and increasing willingness to adopt these children. Participants included 1,836 prospective parents seeking adoption through foster care who received three 3-hour sessions of PREP. Prospect…
Covid-19 and resource families
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of "Safer-at-Home" to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents r…
Race and Sex as Variables for Children Involved in Treatment
Race and sex as variables in psychiatric treatment at five child psychiatry clinics were examined. From an earlier study data indicating race was significant were reanalyzed. Across clinics major findings indicated that black females were seen for psychotherapy for significantly fewer sessions than white females, black males and white males and that parents of sons who were in therapy came in for psychotherapy significantly more often than parent…
Computeen
Can gay and lesbian parents promote healthy development in high-risk children adopted from foster care
Adoption is known to promote cognitive and emotional development in children from foster care, but policy debates remain regarding whether children adopted by gay and lesbian parents can achieve these positive outcomes. This study compared the cognitive development and behavior problems at 2, 12, and 24 months postplacement of 82 high-risk children adopted from foster care in heterosexual and gay or lesbian households. On average, children in bot…
Parent adjustment over time in gay, lesbian, and heterosexual parent families adopting from foster care
Although increasing numbers of gay and lesbian individuals and couples are adopting children, gay men and lesbian women continue to face increased scrutiny and legal obstacles from the child welfare system. To date, little research has compared the experiences of gay or lesbian and heterosexual adoptive parents over time, limiting conceptual understandings of the similarities they share and the unique challenges that gay and lesbian adoptive pare…
Preparing and Partnering with Families to Support the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
This investigation evaluated the effectiveness of a pre-placement education and preparation curriculum (PREP) for prospective foster/adoptive parents in improving attitudes toward children with prenatal substance exposure and their substance-using birth parent and increasing willingness to adopt these children. Participants included 1,836 prospective parents seeking adoption through foster care who received three 3-hour sessions of PREP. Prospect…
Substance use in youth adopted from foster care
Barbara Henker (1935–2017)
Presents an obituary for Barbara Henker, who died January 24, 2017, at the age of 81. Henker was professor emerita and a pioneering female faculty member in the Psychology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Arriving in 1965, she served on the faculty in the clinical and developmental psychology areas at UCLA as the first woman faculty member hired by the department. Henker also worked in the areas of health-related be…
Cumulative Risk and Substance Use in Adoptees
Objective To test whether low adoptive parent stress buffers the effect of preadoptive risk on substance use among adoptees. Background Adoptees are especially susceptible to substance use in adolescence, potentially because they often experience multiple early risk factors. Because caregiver stress and child behavior problems are linked, degree of parenting stress may serve as a buffer in reducing adoptee substance use. Method In a longitudinal …
Concurrent Planning
Concurrent planning is a process by which all options for permanency are considered simultaneously for children in foster care. Children are placed with caregivers (resource parents) who are open to adoption if reunification with birth parents does not occur. This quantitative study explored resource parents’ perceptions of the concurrent planning process via surveys at two time points. Participants included resource parents of 77 infants assesse…
Resource parents during two pandemics
The emergence of COVID-19 created a global health crisis and impacted children and families, disproportionately affecting minoritized communities. Simultaneously, protests and anti-racist uprisings against police violence occurred worldwide. This mixed method study examined how a group of racially diverse resource parents navigated these two pandemics. Resource parents (N = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about concerns related to COVID-…
Covid-19 and resource families
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of "Safer-at-Home" to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents r…
Mental health providers working with foster/adoptive families
Belonging and Reclaiming Identity
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Foster care (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Political science (4 works)