Kristian Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 5418246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristian Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristian |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6327-8048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Belonging beyond the bell
Belonging is essential to students' sense of mattering, yet understanding this process for racial and/or cultural minority students requires closer attention. One mechanism for enhancing mattering is strengthening school belonging through participation in extracurricular activities. Although these activities show promise, questions remain about who facilitates this process and in what ways. Using a sample of 15 teachers, we used semi-structured i…
Extended Foster Care Practice and Program Reform
Extended Foster Care (EFC) provides services and benefits on a voluntary basis to young adults leaving the foster care system without having attained legal permanency. In the US, more than 19,000 young adults transitioned out of foster care without achieving legal permanency in 2021. As states seek to improve supports to young adults eligible for EFC, it is important to identify institutional barriers and needed practice reforms. This study repor…
Friends in Our Lives
Mentoring programs are popular interventions to support holistic development for young people. One specific model of mentoring that has emerged over the past few decades in the United States is professional mentoring. Research has illustrated that this model of mentoring may be particularly helpful for young people who could benefit from extra support in their lives that a volunteer mentoring program does not have the capacity to provide. Despite…
Meeting them where they’re at
Cultural humility development in adults serving as mentors for youth
This qualitative review synthesizes evidence regarding how cultural humility (i.e., critical self‐reflection, challenging inequity) may be influenced by the experience of serving as a mentor in a youth program. A systematic search identified 35 qualitative studies with findings that address this question. Thematic synthesis of extracted data identified the following six themes, all but one of which pertains to ways in which serving as a mentor ap…
Do We Belong? Examining the Associations Between Adolescents' Perceptions of School Belonging, Teacher Discrimination, Peer Prejudice and Suicide
All Things Considered
“Expect to Be Taken Out of Class”
This study explores the intersections of race, gender, and trauma in students’ school experiences. We collected focus group data from 36 trauma-exposed Black girls and 10 trauma-exposed Black boys from two urban high schools. Data was analyzed using an intersectional framework and resulted in the following themes: (1) Don’t Touch the Students; (2) You Gettin’ Suspended; (3) You Supposed to Be the Bigger Person; and (4) If We Have a Uniform, They …
Bridging the gap
Overall, the results from the current study highlight that there is a need for more training on evidenced-based treatment models, to include the KRTTM intervention, to build clinicians' capacity to provide support to BIPOC individuals who have experienced racial trauma during their lifetimes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Forming an alliance
Little is known about how mentors' interactions with youths' families and broader social networks influences the mentoring relationship while considering differences in race and socioeconomic status between the mentor and the youth. This study utilized a constructivist grounded theory to examine how non-Black volunteer mentors perceived their interactions with the youth's family impacted the youth mentoring relationship. The findings highlight th…
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Community-Based Services
Purpose: Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is practiced by social workers in clinical, community-based services, but no reviews of the outcome research have been completed. Methods: A meta-analysis of randomized studies. Outcome domains included depression, anxiety, behavioral health, health and wellbeing, family functioning, and psychosocial adjustment. Results: Twenty-eight studies with 340 effect sizes were analyzed in meta-regression with…
Motivations, program support, and personal growth
Striving for safety, impact, and equity
In this virtual special issue (VSI) we curate and reflect upon 22 articles on formal youth mentoring previously published in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) . First, we provide historical context and highlight AJCP 's 2002 special issue on mentoring, which played an important role in establishing youth mentoring as a vibrant area of research. Next, we review and discuss findings from subsequent AJCP studies in three interrelat…
Identifying predictors of psychological well‐being among volunteer mentors in Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) facilitates mentoring relationships between youth and volunteer mentors. Although research has examined outcomes for youth in BBBS, relatively less investigation has been undertaken for volunteer outcomes. This study explored factors associated with changes in psychological well-being among BBBS volunteer mentors. Participants included 593 mentors (Mage = 31) surveyed at study baseline and 15-month follow-up. A cla…
Social Work and the Next Frontier of Racial Justice
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the United States and the world into a state of uncertainty. Before the onset of the coronavirus, awareness of health disparities across cities in the United States was questionable at best. As the world continues to grapple with the fallout of the pandemic and the response to it, several states and developed and developing countries created and implemented response efforts that were used as a guide, which social wor…
The Mental Health of Black Youth Affected by Community Violence
Black youth who experience community violence occupy multiple environments with varying levels of influence on how they display resiliency to prevent adverse mental health outcomes. Considering the recent rise of mental health concerns (i.e., increase in suicidal outcomes) among Black youth, along with the abundance of research illustrating the detrimental impact of community violence, more research is needed to examine how different environmenta…
Suicidal ideations and Attempts Within the Family Context
Family Support and Sociocultural Factors on Depression among Black and Latinx Sexual Minority Men
Family-based approaches are critical for improving health outcomes in sexual minority men (SMM) of color. Yet, it is unclear how family context, internalized homophobia, and stress influence mental health outcomes among sexual minority men of color. From a cross-sectional sample of 448 participants, aged 16-24 years, survey data were analyzed to examine rates of family social support, the perception of sexuality by family, the stressfulness of li…
Impact of MindUP on elementary school students’ classroom behaviors
Serving the Co-Morbid Mental Health and Substance Use Needs of People with HIV
The impact of independent living programs on foster youths' educational outcomes
Factors that contribute to help-seeking among homeless, trauma-exposed youth
Factors that contribute to help-seeking among homeless, trauma-exposed youth
Do We Belong? Examining the Associations Between Adolescents' Perceptions of School Belonging, Teacher Discrimination, Peer Prejudice and Suicide
Striving for safety, impact, and equity
In this virtual special issue (VSI) we curate and reflect upon 22 articles on formal youth mentoring previously published in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) . First, we provide historical context and highlight AJCP 's 2002 special issue on mentoring, which played an important role in establishing youth mentoring as a vibrant area of research. Next, we review and discuss findings from subsequent AJCP studies in three interrelat…
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Community-Based Services
Purpose: Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is practiced by social workers in clinical, community-based services, but no reviews of the outcome research have been completed. Methods: A meta-analysis of randomized studies. Outcome domains included depression, anxiety, behavioral health, health and wellbeing, family functioning, and psychosocial adjustment. Results: Twenty-eight studies with 340 effect sizes were analyzed in meta-regression with…
Meeting them where they’re at
Cultural humility development in adults serving as mentors for youth
This qualitative review synthesizes evidence regarding how cultural humility (i.e., critical self‐reflection, challenging inequity) may be influenced by the experience of serving as a mentor in a youth program. A systematic search identified 35 qualitative studies with findings that address this question. Thematic synthesis of extracted data identified the following six themes, all but one of which pertains to ways in which serving as a mentor ap…
Forming an alliance
Little is known about how mentors' interactions with youths' families and broader social networks influences the mentoring relationship while considering differences in race and socioeconomic status between the mentor and the youth. This study utilized a constructivist grounded theory to examine how non-Black volunteer mentors perceived their interactions with the youth's family impacted the youth mentoring relationship. The findings highlight th…
Motivations, program support, and personal growth
Serving the Co-Morbid Mental Health and Substance Use Needs of People with HIV
Factors that contribute to help-seeking among homeless, trauma-exposed youth
The impact of independent living programs on foster youths' educational outcomes
Suicidal ideations and Attempts Within the Family Context
Family Support and Sociocultural Factors on Depression among Black and Latinx Sexual Minority Men
Family-based approaches are critical for improving health outcomes in sexual minority men (SMM) of color. Yet, it is unclear how family context, internalized homophobia, and stress influence mental health outcomes among sexual minority men of color. From a cross-sectional sample of 448 participants, aged 16-24 years, survey data were analyzed to examine rates of family social support, the perception of sexuality by family, the stressfulness of li…
Impact of MindUP on elementary school students’ classroom behaviors
Serving the Co-Morbid Mental Health and Substance Use Needs of People with HIV
Social Work and the Next Frontier of Racial Justice
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the United States and the world into a state of uncertainty. Before the onset of the coronavirus, awareness of health disparities across cities in the United States was questionable at best. As the world continues to grapple with the fallout of the pandemic and the response to it, several states and developed and developing countries created and implemented response efforts that were used as a guide, which social wor…
The Mental Health of Black Youth Affected by Community Violence
Black youth who experience community violence occupy multiple environments with varying levels of influence on how they display resiliency to prevent adverse mental health outcomes. Considering the recent rise of mental health concerns (i.e., increase in suicidal outcomes) among Black youth, along with the abundance of research illustrating the detrimental impact of community violence, more research is needed to examine how different environmenta…
All Things Considered
“Expect to Be Taken Out of Class”
This study explores the intersections of race, gender, and trauma in students’ school experiences. We collected focus group data from 36 trauma-exposed Black girls and 10 trauma-exposed Black boys from two urban high schools. Data was analyzed using an intersectional framework and resulted in the following themes: (1) Don’t Touch the Students; (2) You Gettin’ Suspended; (3) You Supposed to Be the Bigger Person; and (4) If We Have a Uniform, They …
Bridging the gap
Overall, the results from the current study highlight that there is a need for more training on evidenced-based treatment models, to include the KRTTM intervention, to build clinicians' capacity to provide support to BIPOC individuals who have experienced racial trauma during their lifetimes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Forming an alliance
Little is known about how mentors' interactions with youths' families and broader social networks influences the mentoring relationship while considering differences in race and socioeconomic status between the mentor and the youth. This study utilized a constructivist grounded theory to examine how non-Black volunteer mentors perceived their interactions with the youth's family impacted the youth mentoring relationship. The findings highlight th…
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Community-Based Services
Purpose: Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is practiced by social workers in clinical, community-based services, but no reviews of the outcome research have been completed. Methods: A meta-analysis of randomized studies. Outcome domains included depression, anxiety, behavioral health, health and wellbeing, family functioning, and psychosocial adjustment. Results: Twenty-eight studies with 340 effect sizes were analyzed in meta-regression with…
Motivations, program support, and personal growth
Striving for safety, impact, and equity
In this virtual special issue (VSI) we curate and reflect upon 22 articles on formal youth mentoring previously published in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) . First, we provide historical context and highlight AJCP 's 2002 special issue on mentoring, which played an important role in establishing youth mentoring as a vibrant area of research. Next, we review and discuss findings from subsequent AJCP studies in three interrelat…
Identifying predictors of psychological well‐being among volunteer mentors in Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) facilitates mentoring relationships between youth and volunteer mentors. Although research has examined outcomes for youth in BBBS, relatively less investigation has been undertaken for volunteer outcomes. This study explored factors associated with changes in psychological well-being among BBBS volunteer mentors. Participants included 593 mentors (Mage = 31) surveyed at study baseline and 15-month follow-up. A cla…
Cultural humility development in adults serving as mentors for youth
This qualitative review synthesizes evidence regarding how cultural humility (i.e., critical self‐reflection, challenging inequity) may be influenced by the experience of serving as a mentor in a youth program. A systematic search identified 35 qualitative studies with findings that address this question. Thematic synthesis of extracted data identified the following six themes, all but one of which pertains to ways in which serving as a mentor ap…
Do We Belong? Examining the Associations Between Adolescents' Perceptions of School Belonging, Teacher Discrimination, Peer Prejudice and Suicide
Friends in Our Lives
Mentoring programs are popular interventions to support holistic development for young people. One specific model of mentoring that has emerged over the past few decades in the United States is professional mentoring. Research has illustrated that this model of mentoring may be particularly helpful for young people who could benefit from extra support in their lives that a volunteer mentoring program does not have the capacity to provide. Despite…
Meeting them where they’re at
Belonging beyond the bell
Belonging is essential to students' sense of mattering, yet understanding this process for racial and/or cultural minority students requires closer attention. One mechanism for enhancing mattering is strengthening school belonging through participation in extracurricular activities. Although these activities show promise, questions remain about who facilitates this process and in what ways. Using a sample of 15 teachers, we used semi-structured i…
Extended Foster Care Practice and Program Reform
Extended Foster Care (EFC) provides services and benefits on a voluntary basis to young adults leaving the foster care system without having attained legal permanency. In the US, more than 19,000 young adults transitioned out of foster care without achieving legal permanency in 2021. As states seek to improve supports to young adults eligible for EFC, it is important to identify institutional barriers and needed practice reforms. This study repor…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Mentoring and Academic Development (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)