Christine Lynn Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5823320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Lynn Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Norton |
| SIGNATURE | NORTON C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6904-5010 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Mixed Methods Exploration of Participants’ Perspectives
Background: Youth who have experienced cancer face challenges that include social isolation, increased psychological risks, and developmental interruptions. Adventure therapy may offer a tool to enhance resilience for this population. Purpose: This study sought to understand how adolescents with lived experiences of cancer perceive and experience their participation in a wilderness-based adventure therapy program. Method: This study used a mixed …
“We Are Human Before We Are Labels”—Transfiguring Testimonios With Adventure Therapy
Background: Latina women face mental health disparities, often exacerbated by cultural stigma and systemic barriers. Eurocentric therapeutic models frequently overlook the collectivist values and cultural nuances central to Latina identity, leading to ineffective or alienating treatment. There is a growing need for culturally relevant interventions that address trauma holistically and empower marginalized voices. Adventure therapy (AT), an experi…
Trends and Issues in Experiential and Outdoor Education Programs
This brief article summarizes five trends and issues discussed during a moderated panel and round table discussion at the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) Symposium on Experiential Education Research (SEER) in November 2023. The aim of this session was to expand on prior documented trends and disseminate current experiential and outdoor education (EOE) trends, issues, and related research. These are only a few of the many EOE trends a…
Foster Care Liaisons in Higher Education
Outdoor Adventure and Experiential Education and Covid-19
Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) now known as COVID-19 changed the world and the outdoor adventure and experiential education (OAEE) fields were not immune. These changes significantly impacted various OAEE programs in multiple ways and at different levels of intensity. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to ascertain the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the OAEE fields and identify how OAEE organ…
Involuntary Youth Transport (IYT) to Treatment Programs
Involuntary youth transport (IYT) is a controversial practice used to admit adolescents into residential care. Critics point out that IYT is in need of regulation and is best used as a last resort. This article examines the risks and benefits of IYT, especially the longterm effects on the client, in order to ensure that all facets of a client’s treatment are trauma-informed and guided by research-based practices and ethical principles. Practices …
Nature-based interventions in social work practice and education
This paper presents findings from an investigation of nature-based practices, from the perspectives of 10 academics/educators from six nations. Participants engaged in a focus group exploring the prevalence and inclusion of nature in social work practice and education. While the study focused on individual members’ experiences and perspectives, the findings highlight important context-specific factors for including nature within social work to re…
Dispositional Mindfulness Is Associated with Greater Nature Connectedness and Self-Reported Ecological Behavior
Environmental problems are worsening as human behavior continues to damage the environment. However, not all human behavior has negative environmental consequences, and many people make concerted efforts to behave in environmentally sensitive ways. Yet, the personal qualities that contribute to ecological behavior remain imprecisely characterized. The present study explored two individual difference variables believed to support ecological behavi…
A Qualitative Gender Analysis of Women Field Guides’ Experiences in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare
Rationale: Social work has long supported activity-based group work for young people. One such approach includes outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH), also known as wilderness therapy, which often employs nonclinical field staff to lead outdoor activities as part of the overall treatment model. Although men and women both serve as field guides, the culture of OBH has historically been male-dominated, at times obscuring the voices and perspectives …
Family Enrichment Adventure Therapy
Enhancing Family Communication
Designing a campus support program for foster care alumni
Promoting Ecological Health
This article presents preliminary findings from an exploratory, qualitative research study that examined the impact of Great Plains Restoration Council's (GPRC) environmentally based pilot program Restoration Not Incarceration (RNI), which targets the restoration of Houston (TX) prairies, bayous, wetlands, and Gulf Coast shore, in conjunction with rehabilitation and recidivism reduction of young adults with a history of involvement in the crimina…
Social work and the environment
Norton CL. Social work and the environment: An ecosocial approach This article draws on insights from social work, ecopsychology and ecofeminism to inform an ecosocial approach honouring humans' interconnectedness with nature. It re‐examines social work's ecosystems perspective and redefines its central ‘person‐in‐environment’ configuration to embrace a broadened emphasis on the natural world. It identifies insights from ecofeminism on the parall…
Ecopsychology and Social Work
Social work as a profession has a unique commitment in honoring the dignity and worth of human beings, and believing in the power of human relationships (NASW, 2008). In its approach to helping people, social work has distinguished itself through its dual focus on the person and the environment, a construct which has been widely identified as person-in-environment (Rogge & Cox, 2001). This construct has guided social work to engage in the empower…
Designing a campus support program for foster care alumni
Social work and the environment
Norton CL. Social work and the environment: An ecosocial approach This article draws on insights from social work, ecopsychology and ecofeminism to inform an ecosocial approach honouring humans' interconnectedness with nature. It re‐examines social work's ecosystems perspective and redefines its central ‘person‐in‐environment’ configuration to embrace a broadened emphasis on the natural world. It identifies insights from ecofeminism on the parall…
Enhancing Family Communication
Nature-based interventions in social work practice and education
This paper presents findings from an investigation of nature-based practices, from the perspectives of 10 academics/educators from six nations. Participants engaged in a focus group exploring the prevalence and inclusion of nature in social work practice and education. While the study focused on individual members’ experiences and perspectives, the findings highlight important context-specific factors for including nature within social work to re…
Ecopsychology and Social Work
Social work as a profession has a unique commitment in honoring the dignity and worth of human beings, and believing in the power of human relationships (NASW, 2008). In its approach to helping people, social work has distinguished itself through its dual focus on the person and the environment, a construct which has been widely identified as person-in-environment (Rogge & Cox, 2001). This construct has guided social work to engage in the empower…
Promoting Ecological Health
This article presents preliminary findings from an exploratory, qualitative research study that examined the impact of Great Plains Restoration Council's (GPRC) environmentally based pilot program Restoration Not Incarceration (RNI), which targets the restoration of Houston (TX) prairies, bayous, wetlands, and Gulf Coast shore, in conjunction with rehabilitation and recidivism reduction of young adults with a history of involvement in the crimina…
Social work and the environment
Norton CL. Social work and the environment: An ecosocial approach This article draws on insights from social work, ecopsychology and ecofeminism to inform an ecosocial approach honouring humans' interconnectedness with nature. It re‐examines social work's ecosystems perspective and redefines its central ‘person‐in‐environment’ configuration to embrace a broadened emphasis on the natural world. It identifies insights from ecofeminism on the parall…
Designing a campus support program for foster care alumni
Enhancing Family Communication
Family Enrichment Adventure Therapy
A Qualitative Gender Analysis of Women Field Guides’ Experiences in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare
Rationale: Social work has long supported activity-based group work for young people. One such approach includes outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH), also known as wilderness therapy, which often employs nonclinical field staff to lead outdoor activities as part of the overall treatment model. Although men and women both serve as field guides, the culture of OBH has historically been male-dominated, at times obscuring the voices and perspectives …
Dispositional Mindfulness Is Associated with Greater Nature Connectedness and Self-Reported Ecological Behavior
Environmental problems are worsening as human behavior continues to damage the environment. However, not all human behavior has negative environmental consequences, and many people make concerted efforts to behave in environmentally sensitive ways. Yet, the personal qualities that contribute to ecological behavior remain imprecisely characterized. The present study explored two individual difference variables believed to support ecological behavi…
Outdoor Adventure and Experiential Education and Covid-19
Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) now known as COVID-19 changed the world and the outdoor adventure and experiential education (OAEE) fields were not immune. These changes significantly impacted various OAEE programs in multiple ways and at different levels of intensity. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to ascertain the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the OAEE fields and identify how OAEE organ…
Involuntary Youth Transport (IYT) to Treatment Programs
Involuntary youth transport (IYT) is a controversial practice used to admit adolescents into residential care. Critics point out that IYT is in need of regulation and is best used as a last resort. This article examines the risks and benefits of IYT, especially the longterm effects on the client, in order to ensure that all facets of a client’s treatment are trauma-informed and guided by research-based practices and ethical principles. Practices …
Nature-based interventions in social work practice and education
This paper presents findings from an investigation of nature-based practices, from the perspectives of 10 academics/educators from six nations. Participants engaged in a focus group exploring the prevalence and inclusion of nature in social work practice and education. While the study focused on individual members’ experiences and perspectives, the findings highlight important context-specific factors for including nature within social work to re…
Foster Care Liaisons in Higher Education
Trends and Issues in Experiential and Outdoor Education Programs
This brief article summarizes five trends and issues discussed during a moderated panel and round table discussion at the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) Symposium on Experiential Education Research (SEER) in November 2023. The aim of this session was to expand on prior documented trends and disseminate current experiential and outdoor education (EOE) trends, issues, and related research. These are only a few of the many EOE trends a…
A Mixed Methods Exploration of Participants’ Perspectives
Background: Youth who have experienced cancer face challenges that include social isolation, increased psychological risks, and developmental interruptions. Adventure therapy may offer a tool to enhance resilience for this population. Purpose: This study sought to understand how adolescents with lived experiences of cancer perceive and experience their participation in a wilderness-based adventure therapy program. Method: This study used a mixed …
“We Are Human Before We Are Labels”—Transfiguring Testimonios With Adventure Therapy
Background: Latina women face mental health disparities, often exacerbated by cultural stigma and systemic barriers. Eurocentric therapeutic models frequently overlook the collectivist values and cultural nuances central to Latina identity, leading to ineffective or alienating treatment. There is a growing need for culturally relevant interventions that address trauma holistically and empower marginalized voices. Adventure therapy (AT), an experi…
Psychology (13 works) · Outdoor and Experiential Education (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)