Carissa van den Berk-Clark

Biographic Data

ID6078552
NAMECarissa van den Berk-Clark
GIVEN NAMESCarissa van den
FAMILY NAMEBerk-Clark
SIGNATUREVAN DEN BERK-CLARK C
AFFILIATIONSCarissa van den Berk-Clark and James McGuire are with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, St. Louis Healthcare Center (van den Berk-Clark) and West Los Angles Healthcare Center (McGuire). Carissa van den Berk-Clark is also with the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Through the eyes of community health workers

    Open AccessAnusha Ban, Ashish Shrestha et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, elucidate the strengths, weaknesses, and significant gaps in infrastructure, compatibility and consistency in communication systems, as well as the quality of collaborative relationships, and provider and workforce capacity. They also expose longstanding patterns of mistrust in the government and healthcare systems, and inadequacy in socio-economic infrastructures. These issues resulted in…

  • Mental Health Help Seeking Among Traumatized Individuals

    Open AccessCarissa van den Berk-Clark, Carissa van den Berk‐Clark et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2017

    OBJECTIVE: Prior research has suggested that competing neurobehavioral decision-making processes might affect health outcomes among traumatized populations. Regulatory imbalances to impulsive and executive decision systems are affected by high levels of stress, including stress resulting from traumatic events. Such regulatory imbalances have been associated with addictive behaviors. However, it is not well known whether addictive behavior increas…

  • Impact of Race on the Implementation of Empirically Supported Treatments in Substance Abuse Treatment

    Carissa van den Berk-Clark, Carissa van den Berk‐Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Practice…2017

    The effort to address the gap between research and practice in substance abuse treatment has largely neglected the role of local resources and political trends. This study seeks to clarify the role of the local environment in implementing empirically supported treatments (ESTs). The study consisted of secondary data analysis of substance abuse treatment centers (N = 13,079) and U.S. Census data to determine the likelihood of using EST by substanc…

  • Implementing Outside the Box

    David A Patterson Silver Wolf, David A Patterson Silver Wolf Adelv Unegv et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Service Research2015Cited by: 1References: 36

    A cross-cutting theme that emerged was the context in which the intervention was implemented, as this was central to each of the three primary themes identified from the focus groups (i.e., the usefulness and appropriateness of the intervention and the implementation process overall). Practitioner buy-in concerns also indicate the need for better addiction service training opportunities for those without addiction-specific educational backgrounds…

  • Elderly Homeless Veterans in Los Angeles

    Carissa van den Berk-Clark, Carissa van den Berk‐Clark et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2013Cited by: 1References: 19

    Objectives. We compared the characteristics of chronically homeless and acutely homeless elderly veterans to better understand precipitants of homelessness. Methods. We conducted interviews with 33 chronically and 26 acutely homeless veterans aged 65 years and older receiving transitional housing services in Los Angeles, California, between 2003 and 2005. We asked questions regarding their sociodemographic characteristics and other social status …