Tamara Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6633584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0602-2924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Persons with a mental disorder are often stigmatized, which results in reluctance to seek treatment and self-stigma. These consequences are exacerbated in rural communities due to the limited healthcare infrastructures. Familiarity and emotions may be promising avenues for decreasing stigmatization of persons with a mental disorder. However, findings are mixed, and studies’ often fail to use measures that capture the complexities of familiarity (…
What Factors Contribute to Differential Perceptions Toward Evidence-Based Practices? An Examination of Officer Role Orientation, Job Satisfaction, Confidence, and Skill Proficiency
Training probation officers on evidence-based practices (EBPs) is vital to ensuring that community supervision is maximally effective at reducing recidivism. However, after training, probation officers often have differential perceptions regarding EBPs. Thus, this study surveyed 90 adult probation officers after they participated in a training based on the Risk-Need-Responsivity model and Core Correctional Practices and examined whether their rol…
A Classification System to Guide Treatment Needs for Juveniles Who Have Engaged in Abusive Sexual Behavior
Developing an empirically derived classification system that accounts for the heterogeneity of youth could benefit the court, probation officers, and clinicians in making informed management and treatment decisions. This study used a latent class analysis to examine histories and treatment needs patterns among 561 youths who engaged in problematic sexual behavior (PSB) from five U.S. states. Three classes emerged and included: (a) low treatment n…
Rural residents' emotions, beliefs, and sources that influenced those beliefs regarding sex offender policies, practice, and the efficacy of treatment
Public perceptions regarding a sex offender's likelihood to reoffend and the efficacy of sex offender policies and practices is often inconsistent with the extant literature in academia. Thus, there is a critical need to better understand what influences those beliefs regarding sex offender policies and practices. We collected data from 284 residents from government defined rural counties and sought to examine: (1) the sources that were most infl…
Tracking dynamic intervention needs as a vehicle for mitigating riskamong juveniles with sex offenses
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Rural residents' emotions, beliefs, and sources that influenced those beliefs regarding sex offender policies, practice, and the efficacy of treatment
Public perceptions regarding a sex offender's likelihood to reoffend and the efficacy of sex offender policies and practices is often inconsistent with the extant literature in academia. Thus, there is a critical need to better understand what influences those beliefs regarding sex offender policies and practices. We collected data from 284 residents from government defined rural counties and sought to examine: (1) the sources that were most infl…
Tracking dynamic intervention needs as a vehicle for mitigating riskamong juveniles with sex offenses
A Classification System to Guide Treatment Needs for Juveniles Who Have Engaged in Abusive Sexual Behavior
Developing an empirically derived classification system that accounts for the heterogeneity of youth could benefit the court, probation officers, and clinicians in making informed management and treatment decisions. This study used a latent class analysis to examine histories and treatment needs patterns among 561 youths who engaged in problematic sexual behavior (PSB) from five U.S. states. Three classes emerged and included: (a) low treatment n…
What Factors Contribute to Differential Perceptions Toward Evidence-Based Practices? An Examination of Officer Role Orientation, Job Satisfaction, Confidence, and Skill Proficiency
Training probation officers on evidence-based practices (EBPs) is vital to ensuring that community supervision is maximally effective at reducing recidivism. However, after training, probation officers often have differential perceptions regarding EBPs. Thus, this study surveyed 90 adult probation officers after they participated in a training based on the Risk-Need-Responsivity model and Core Correctional Practices and examined whether their rol…
Close to home
Persons with a mental disorder are often stigmatized, which results in reluctance to seek treatment and self-stigma. These consequences are exacerbated in rural communities due to the limited healthcare infrastructures. Familiarity and emotions may be promising avenues for decreasing stigmatization of persons with a mental disorder. However, findings are mixed, and studies’ often fail to use measures that capture the complexities of familiarity (…
Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (3 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Anger (1 work)