Mimi Choy-Brown

Biographic Data

ID5417244
NAMEMimi Choy-Brown
GIVEN NAMESMimi
FAMILY NAMEChoy-Brown
SIGNATURECHOY-BROWN M
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
ORCID0000-0002-3303-726X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS41
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Working Conditions, Professional Discretion, and Resistance of Frontline Social Workers

    Open AccessJessica Toft, Ruti Sofer-Elnekave et al.ARTICLESocial Work2025References: 9

    This study examines 21st century social workers' working conditions through the lens of neoliberalism, a political and economic ideology that has profoundly shaped the delivery of social services in the United States. This study explores the working conditions, professional discretion, and resistance to neoliberal managerialism of direct line workers. A statewide survey was sent out to all licensed social workers in Minnesota, and 2,329 direct li…

  • Orienting social work to incorporate place-based principles

    Open AccessG Allen Ratliff, Genevieve Graaf et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work2023

    Social work has long history with practice in diverse places. Indigenous social work traditions have long been grounded in place and land. There has been little attention to the role of place in Western and Northern social work practices. Place-based theories attend to the fundamental role of place in social work practice and provide principles that social workers can use to recognize place in their practice. There has been little practical guida…

  • Effects of Neoliberalism on Social Work Practice in the United States

    Open AccessJessica Toft, Elizabeth Lightfoot et al.ARTICLESocial Work Research2023

    Neoliberalism, as an ideology and policy model that favors free market logic, operates across multiple levels of social work practice. Although there is growing interest in the topic, there is a lack of knowledge about the nature of this scholarship. The purpose of this scoping review was to provide a synthesis and summary of the extent, variety, and characteristics of the peer-reviewed literature on the effects of neoliberalism on social work pr…

  • Moving upstream

    Open AccessJeffrey Waid, Mimi Choy-BrownARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2021Cited by: 6References: 40

  • I see your punitive measure and I raise you a person-centered bar”

    Open AccessMimi Choy-BrownARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2021Cited by: 1References: 35

  • Delivering Person-Centered Care in Community Mental Health Programs

    Open AccessMimi Choy-Brown, Victoria Stanhope et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2020Cited by: 3References: 4

    The aim of this study was to examine the extent of and variation in person-centered care across programs within community mental health clinics. Service plans ( N = 160) from programs within eight clinics were assessed for person-centered care planning using an objective fidelity measure. Univariate statistics calculated overall fidelity to person-centered care planning and mixed-effect regression models examined person-centered care planning by …

  • Getting to the table

    Open AccessMimi Choy-Brown, Emily Hamovitch et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2020References: 37

  • Do Providers Know What They Do Not Know? A Correlational Study of Knowledge Acquisition and Person-Centered Care

    Open AccessElizabeth B Matthews, Victoria Stanhope et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2018Cited by: 2References: 25

  • Person-Centered Care and the Therapeutic Alliance

    Open AccessEmily Hamovitch, Mimi Choy-Brown et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2018Cited by: 5References: 25

  • Case Manager Perspectives on the Role of Treatment in Supportive Housing for People with Severe Mental Illness

    Open AccessVictoria Stanhope, Mimi Choy-Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Society for Social…2016Cited by: 3References: 3

    Case managers understand supportive housing to be a treatment program; however, given the external constraints and their own beliefs about mental illness, case managers often equate treatment with taking medication. Study findings demonstrate the need to train case managers about mental health recovery and integrated health care. The findings also have implications for policies that tie housing to services

  • Operationalizing Social Work Science Through Research–Practice Partnerships

    Open AccessLawrence A Palinkas, Amy S He et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2016Cited by: 6References: 13

    Recent efforts to identify and promote a distinct science for the discipline of social work have led to an ongoing debate regarding the nature and function of such a science. Central to this debate is a lack of consensus as to how to operationalize a social work science. Drawing from the field of implementation science and its application in reducing the gap between research and practice in child welfare and child mental health, this article exam…

  • Catalyzing Innovation in Social Work Practice

    Open AccessDorian E Traube, Stephanie Begun et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2016Cited by: 6References: 1

    Social innovation is defined by novelty and improvement. This definition requires social work practice to be more effective or efficient than preexisting alternatives. Practice innovation is accomplished by leveraging technical, social, and economic factors to generate novel interventions, diffusion or adoption of the interventions into broader use, and identification of the value created by the new approaches or processes. Innovation in social w…

  • Rebuilding lives and identities

    Open AccessBikki Tran Smith, D K Padgett et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2015Cited by: 9References: 25