Ester R Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 6363513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ester R Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ester R |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Working with communities responding to violent immigration enforcement
This paper applies the transdisciplinary activist research method of “institutional autoethnography” to review my personal reflections on collaborative responses to an evolving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crisis in 2007, reflecting on lessons learned relevant to current, escalating ICE violence against immigrant communities by appreciating its historical continuity and oppositional opportunities. Institutional ethnography was develo…
Cultivating Feminist Transnational Practice with Immigrant Women
This article applies methods of collaborative autoethnography and participatory education dialogues to explore our evolving “trans” national/disciplinary cultural practice with immigrant women and girls. Drawing from Latinx and Chicanx scholar/activist explorations of healing centered on indigenous and Afrodiasporic worldviews, we reflect on our continuing learning in the aftermath of the massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raid…
Trajectories of depressive symptoms from adolescence to adulthood among multiple Latino subgroups
Decolonizing qualitative research through transformative community engagement
Histories of violence and ongoing settler-colonialism impacting Palestinian communities living under Israeli occupation require unique, critical enactments of psychology research. The current article reflects on community engagement strategies used in a qualitative study of resilience with Palestinian refugees entitled: Palestinian Refugee Family Trees of Resilience (PRFTR). In realizing PRFTR, the authors developed partnerships between Universit…
Adoptive Gay Fathers
This article discusses transformations of the masculine homosexual self that occur in gay men who decide to parent in the context of a committed relationship. Using a developmental narrative approach, 10 adoptive gay fathers (5 couples) participated in multiple open-ended interviews (both individually and as couples). Data were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings from this study indicate that fathering was a catalyst for pa…
Latina Re-Visionings of Participatory Health Promotion Practice
This article presents Latina re-visionings of ecosystemic and participatory health promotion practice linking personal and social change in gender, culture, and politics of shared development. The authors, a Cuban-American clinical psychologist and a Chicana/Italian-American PhD student, apply transnational and multiracial frameworks informing strengths-based, collaborative practice connecting women's lived experiences of struggle and striving wi…
Developing Diverse, Collaborative Leaders
Recent work in leadership studies emphasizes the importance of developing leaders who can foster collaboration within diverse workgroups. However, leadership development programs are rarely evaluated using measures that link (a) the program’s theoretical framework, (b) its pedagogical practice, and (c) participants’ changes in specific relevant domains, in comparison to those of a peer group. This study used a quasi-experimental design to empiric…
Our Nation's Immigrants in Peril
Journal Article Our Nation's Immigrants in Peril: An Urgent Call to Social Workers Get access Yolanda C. Padilla, PhD, LMSW-AP, Yolanda C. Padilla, PhD, LMSW-AP professor of Social Work and Women's Studies, and faculty associate Center for Mexican American Studies, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, D3500, Austin, TX 78712, e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Whose Recovery, of What? Relationships and Environments Promoting Grief and Growth
This article explores the concept of recovery in the wake of a loved one's death, using a cultural and developmental systems approach to understanding child, adult, and family bereavement outcomes as evolving, interdependent adaptive responses to changed circumstances of development within highly specific contexts in intergenerational time and cultural space. An integrative life span perspective on developmental psychopathology and resilience emp…
Because Words Are Not Enough
This essay suggests that U.S. Latina immigrants working in feminist health promotion can make a distinctive contribution to transnational and transversal approaches to feminist activism while remaining associated with global third-world feminisms through nation of origin connections. The author, a Cuban American who served as coordinating editor of Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas (NCNV), the Spanish cultural adaptation of Our Bodies, Ourselves (…
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice in Bereavement
This article discusses issues in bridging the gap between research and practice in the field of bereavement. A conceptual framework is developed that emphasizes that the gulf reflects the lack of exchange and mutual influence between researchers and practitioners. Studies are presented using qualitative and quantitative methods to gain a better understanding of the nature of the gap between research and practice in bereavement. Finally recommenda…
The Resource Mothers Program for Maternal Phenylketonuria
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of resource mothers in reducing adverse consequences of maternal phenylketonuria. METHODS: Nineteen pregnancies in the resource mothers group were compared with 64 pregnancies in phenylketonuric women without resource mothers. Weeks to metabolic control and offspring outcome were measured. RESULTS: Mean number of weeks to metabolic control was 8.5 (SE = 2.2) in the resource mo…
The healing power of culture stories
Grief in Freud's life
Exile and Professional Identity
The author tells the story of her lifelong attempts to create a coherent, complex cultural identity from her family's multiple diaspora legacies, and the impact of these struggles on her personal and professional development. She emphasizes the intergenerational conflicts created by the sociopolitical circumstances of her generation's Cuban immigration experience, and progressive attempts to include her Cuban identity in her sense of self. An une…
Grief in Freud's life
Grief in Freud's life
Grief in family and cultural context
The following article offers an integrative theory of family development in sociocultural context, which critically examines the goodness of fit between the grief experiences of culturally diverse families and prevailing North American grief practices. This model suggests that many Latino families, even when they are themselves from a variety of national backgrounds with somewhat different sociopolitical histories and cultural practices, offer an…
Women and Anger in Psychotherapy
No abstract available for this article
Decolonizing qualitative research through transformative community engagement
Histories of violence and ongoing settler-colonialism impacting Palestinian communities living under Israeli occupation require unique, critical enactments of psychology research. The current article reflects on community engagement strategies used in a qualitative study of resilience with Palestinian refugees entitled: Palestinian Refugee Family Trees of Resilience (PRFTR). In realizing PRFTR, the authors developed partnerships between Universit…
Whose Recovery, of What? Relationships and Environments Promoting Grief and Growth
This article explores the concept of recovery in the wake of a loved one's death, using a cultural and developmental systems approach to understanding child, adult, and family bereavement outcomes as evolving, interdependent adaptive responses to changed circumstances of development within highly specific contexts in intergenerational time and cultural space. An integrative life span perspective on developmental psychopathology and resilience emp…
Our Nation's Immigrants in Peril
Journal Article Our Nation's Immigrants in Peril: An Urgent Call to Social Workers Get access Yolanda C. Padilla, PhD, LMSW-AP, Yolanda C. Padilla, PhD, LMSW-AP professor of Social Work and Women's Studies, and faculty associate Center for Mexican American Studies, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, D3500, Austin, TX 78712, e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice in Bereavement
This article discusses issues in bridging the gap between research and practice in the field of bereavement. A conceptual framework is developed that emphasizes that the gulf reflects the lack of exchange and mutual influence between researchers and practitioners. Studies are presented using qualitative and quantitative methods to gain a better understanding of the nature of the gap between research and practice in bereavement. Finally recommenda…
The Resource Mothers Program for Maternal Phenylketonuria
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of resource mothers in reducing adverse consequences of maternal phenylketonuria. METHODS: Nineteen pregnancies in the resource mothers group were compared with 64 pregnancies in phenylketonuric women without resource mothers. Weeks to metabolic control and offspring outcome were measured. RESULTS: Mean number of weeks to metabolic control was 8.5 (SE = 2.2) in the resource mo…
Women and Anger in Psychotherapy
No abstract available for this article
Latina Re-Visionings of Participatory Health Promotion Practice
This article presents Latina re-visionings of ecosystemic and participatory health promotion practice linking personal and social change in gender, culture, and politics of shared development. The authors, a Cuban-American clinical psychologist and a Chicana/Italian-American PhD student, apply transnational and multiracial frameworks informing strengths-based, collaborative practice connecting women's lived experiences of struggle and striving wi…
Developing Diverse, Collaborative Leaders
Recent work in leadership studies emphasizes the importance of developing leaders who can foster collaboration within diverse workgroups. However, leadership development programs are rarely evaluated using measures that link (a) the program’s theoretical framework, (b) its pedagogical practice, and (c) participants’ changes in specific relevant domains, in comparison to those of a peer group. This study used a quasi-experimental design to empiric…
Cultivating Feminist Transnational Practice with Immigrant Women
This article applies methods of collaborative autoethnography and participatory education dialogues to explore our evolving “trans” national/disciplinary cultural practice with immigrant women and girls. Drawing from Latinx and Chicanx scholar/activist explorations of healing centered on indigenous and Afrodiasporic worldviews, we reflect on our continuing learning in the aftermath of the massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raid…
Women and Anger in Psychotherapy
No abstract available for this article
Grief in family and cultural context
The following article offers an integrative theory of family development in sociocultural context, which critically examines the goodness of fit between the grief experiences of culturally diverse families and prevailing North American grief practices. This model suggests that many Latino families, even when they are themselves from a variety of national backgrounds with somewhat different sociopolitical histories and cultural practices, offer an…
Grief in Freud's life
Exile and Professional Identity
The author tells the story of her lifelong attempts to create a coherent, complex cultural identity from her family's multiple diaspora legacies, and the impact of these struggles on her personal and professional development. She emphasizes the intergenerational conflicts created by the sociopolitical circumstances of her generation's Cuban immigration experience, and progressive attempts to include her Cuban identity in her sense of self. An une…
Grief in Freud's life
Grief in Freud's life
The healing power of culture stories
The Resource Mothers Program for Maternal Phenylketonuria
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of resource mothers in reducing adverse consequences of maternal phenylketonuria. METHODS: Nineteen pregnancies in the resource mothers group were compared with 64 pregnancies in phenylketonuric women without resource mothers. Weeks to metabolic control and offspring outcome were measured. RESULTS: Mean number of weeks to metabolic control was 8.5 (SE = 2.2) in the resource mo…
Because Words Are Not Enough
This essay suggests that U.S. Latina immigrants working in feminist health promotion can make a distinctive contribution to transnational and transversal approaches to feminist activism while remaining associated with global third-world feminisms through nation of origin connections. The author, a Cuban American who served as coordinating editor of Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas (NCNV), the Spanish cultural adaptation of Our Bodies, Ourselves (…
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice in Bereavement
This article discusses issues in bridging the gap between research and practice in the field of bereavement. A conceptual framework is developed that emphasizes that the gulf reflects the lack of exchange and mutual influence between researchers and practitioners. Studies are presented using qualitative and quantitative methods to gain a better understanding of the nature of the gap between research and practice in bereavement. Finally recommenda…
Whose Recovery, of What? Relationships and Environments Promoting Grief and Growth
This article explores the concept of recovery in the wake of a loved one's death, using a cultural and developmental systems approach to understanding child, adult, and family bereavement outcomes as evolving, interdependent adaptive responses to changed circumstances of development within highly specific contexts in intergenerational time and cultural space. An integrative life span perspective on developmental psychopathology and resilience emp…
Our Nation's Immigrants in Peril
Journal Article Our Nation's Immigrants in Peril: An Urgent Call to Social Workers Get access Yolanda C. Padilla, PhD, LMSW-AP, Yolanda C. Padilla, PhD, LMSW-AP professor of Social Work and Women's Studies, and faculty associate Center for Mexican American Studies, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, D3500, Austin, TX 78712, e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Developing Diverse, Collaborative Leaders
Recent work in leadership studies emphasizes the importance of developing leaders who can foster collaboration within diverse workgroups. However, leadership development programs are rarely evaluated using measures that link (a) the program’s theoretical framework, (b) its pedagogical practice, and (c) participants’ changes in specific relevant domains, in comparison to those of a peer group. This study used a quasi-experimental design to empiric…
Adoptive Gay Fathers
This article discusses transformations of the masculine homosexual self that occur in gay men who decide to parent in the context of a committed relationship. Using a developmental narrative approach, 10 adoptive gay fathers (5 couples) participated in multiple open-ended interviews (both individually and as couples). Data were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings from this study indicate that fathering was a catalyst for pa…
Latina Re-Visionings of Participatory Health Promotion Practice
This article presents Latina re-visionings of ecosystemic and participatory health promotion practice linking personal and social change in gender, culture, and politics of shared development. The authors, a Cuban-American clinical psychologist and a Chicana/Italian-American PhD student, apply transnational and multiracial frameworks informing strengths-based, collaborative practice connecting women's lived experiences of struggle and striving wi…
Decolonizing qualitative research through transformative community engagement
Histories of violence and ongoing settler-colonialism impacting Palestinian communities living under Israeli occupation require unique, critical enactments of psychology research. The current article reflects on community engagement strategies used in a qualitative study of resilience with Palestinian refugees entitled: Palestinian Refugee Family Trees of Resilience (PRFTR). In realizing PRFTR, the authors developed partnerships between Universit…
Trajectories of depressive symptoms from adolescence to adulthood among multiple Latino subgroups
Cultivating Feminist Transnational Practice with Immigrant Women
This article applies methods of collaborative autoethnography and participatory education dialogues to explore our evolving “trans” national/disciplinary cultural practice with immigrant women and girls. Drawing from Latinx and Chicanx scholar/activist explorations of healing centered on indigenous and Afrodiasporic worldviews, we reflect on our continuing learning in the aftermath of the massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raid…
Working with communities responding to violent immigration enforcement
This paper applies the transdisciplinary activist research method of “institutional autoethnography” to review my personal reflections on collaborative responses to an evolving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crisis in 2007, reflecting on lessons learned relevant to current, escalating ICE violence against immigrant communities by appreciating its historical continuity and oppositional opportunities. Institutional ethnography was develo…
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Grief (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works)