Sara Goodkind
Biographic Data
| ID | 72288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Goodkind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodkind |
| SIGNATURE | GOODKIND S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2936-0686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Unionization in Healthcare: Examining Working Conditions and Worker Mental Health Outcomes in Hospital Settings
This study examines the association between unionization, working conditions, and mental health among hospital healthcare workers. Survey data were collected from 1,466 unionized and non-unionized hospital workers in a city in Western Pennsylvania. Using propensity score matching to control for confounding factors, we found that unionization is significantly associated with predictable raises, not holding multiple jobs, not working overtime due t…
From Invisible Workers to Pandemic Heroes but Still Struggling: Lower-Wage Hospital Workers’ Challenges Before, During, and After Covid-19
Although vital to the functioning of hospitals, service, clerical, and technical workers have been a largely invisible workforce. Like other lower-wage workers, these hospital employees have faced challenges making ends meet. The COVID-19 pandemic likely aggravated these stressors, whereas pandemic relief policies may have mitigated them. Using data from surveys of unionized hospital service, clerical, and technical workers, we investigated chang…
Covid-19-Era Government Cash Transfers and One Year After: Material Hardship and Mental Health Among Full-Time Hospital Workers
Restorative Practices and Disproportionate Discipline of Black Girls: An Intersectional and Ecological Analysis
This mixed-methods study examines the disproportionate discipline of Black girls attending a U.S. high school implementing restorative justice practices. Grounded in ecological systems theory and intersectionality, this study presents overall and within-gender disciplinary outcomes, with qualitative data providing context for these trends. Quantitative analyses, including a relative risk index and Pearson's chi-square tests, confirm significant o…
Diverging Trajectories of Child Externalizing Behavior by Family Economic Status at Birth: The Mediating Role of Neighborhood Poverty
From going on vacation to falling off a benefits cliff: Understanding the Range of Low-Wage Workers’ Perceptions of a Union-Negotiated Wage Increase
Social workers have long been active in social and political organizing to ensure a living wage. Yet recent social work research largely neglects efforts to raise wages and effective means for organizing to do so. This paper draws on in-depth interviews from a longitudinal study of low-wage hospital workers who formed a union and negotiated annual, incremental wage increases to achieve a $15 minimum wage floor to understand their perceptions of t…
Do wage increases help? Wage increases and material hardships among low-wage hospital workers
This study examines whether and how wage increases are associated with hardships experienced by low-wage workers and their strategies to manage these hardships. Data are drawn from a survey of 166 hospital service, clerical, and technical workers at a large hospital in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Following an initial wage increase, workers experienced fewer hardships and used fewer strategies to make ends meet, such as financial support from famil…
Caught in the Neoliberal Churn: Pushing Back Against “Productivity” as a Measure of Impact
Positionality in Critical Feminist Scholarship: Situating Social Locations and Power Within Knowledge Production
First They Came for Critical Race Theory
Using research to build power: The Pittsburgh Wage study
Social workers seek to address numerous forms of oppression. While our research has focused on extensively documenting problems, solutions often remain out of grasp. Many schools of social work remain entrenched in traditional academic structures focused on narrow measures of academic success and impact. This article critiques these measures, proposing a framework for using research to build community power for societal impact. Using the Pittsbur…
Feminism, Social Work, Militarization, and War
Moving From Despair to Action
In light of today's announcement that the Supreme Court has officially overturned Roe v. Wade—the Constitutional right to have an abortion—I want to share some resources that may be of interest to you, your loved ones, and your clients. If you’re feeling overwhelmed... Whatever you are feeling is okay. Know that while the media will present this as unexpected, reproductive justice advocates have been preparing for this moment since the day Roe v.…
Making Aims Explicit: Establishing Intersectionality Criteria for Gender Equity Analyses
Social work researchers often conduct population-level analyses of equity, sometimes focusing on how social and economic well-being are differently experienced depending on gender. In response to the United States’ refusal to ratify the United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, city-level campaigns began conducting gender equity analyses to highlight and address inequality. To date, these analyses…
Key Components of the Batterer Intervention Program Process: An Analysis of Observational Data From Two Community-Based BIPs
Qualitative research on batterer intervention programs (BIPs) has primarily consisted of interview-based studies of clients and facilitators. To date, no research has utilized observational data to understand how BIPs "work," or the processes occurring in BIPs that promote prosocial behavioral change. Forty-four observations of BIP group sessions were conducted. Two key processes were found: "facilitator processes" (e.g., managing group dynamics …
Critical Feminisms: Principles and Practices for Feminist Inquiry in Social Work
IAmHer: Anjanette Young Speaks Truth to Power
In early 2019, Anjanette Young was getting ready to launch her new business in her native Chicago, mentoring social workers to complete their licensure exam. Anjanette, who has two master’s degrees, one in human services and one in social work from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois Chicago, was just doing what she had always done, lighting the passions of young people and coaching them to be of service to others.…
Pandemics, Protests, and Feminist Politics of Resistance
The article explores the journal's publication of inquiries into social work settings and the role of anticarceral feminisms in enacting and preserving a carceral system in the U S as of 2021 Topics covered include exposing the divides of social work, and strengthening a critical feminist politics of resistance and liberation Also noted is the journal's aim to continuously provide critical feminist scholarship amid the coronavirus pandemic
Critical Feminist Reflections on the Atlanta Murders of March 16, 2021
It would be foolish to pretend that our jobs aren't political”: Social Workers Organizing for Power in the Nonprofit Sector
Procedural justice and legal socialization among juvenile offenders: The role of defense attorneys
Research is increasingly focusing on how young people interpret their experiences with the legal system and whether and how this shapes attitudes and beliefs about the system. This study adds to the extant literature by examining the relationship between perceptions of procedural justice and attitudes toward the law and legal system for a sample of youth ( N = 227) in residential placements. Specifically, it focuses on how youths’ perceptions of …
Are My Pants Lowering Your Test Scores? Blaming Girls and Girls' Empowerment for the 'Boy Crisis' in Education
Drawing on participatory research in a high school implementing single-sex classes, this article demonstrates how single-sex education masks racialized economic inequality by framing low academic achievement among low-income youth of color as a function of gender, thereby scapegoating girls for a supposed 'boy crisis' in education. We demonstrate this with data collected by and from students, as well as from educators and parents, delineating how…
Moving Beyond Poverty: Effects of Low-Wage Work on Individual, Social, and Family Well-Being
Social work has long been committed to eliminating poverty, which is at the root of many of the social issues and challenges we address. Over 40% of the U.S. workforce makes less than $15/hour, and the accumulating evidence suggests this is not enough to meet basic needs. In this introduction to a special issue about low-wage work, we describe what is known regarding the experiences and well-being of low-wage workers, as well as promising policy …
From Scarcity to Investment: The Range of Strategies Used by Low-Income Parents With “Good” Low-Wage Jobs
Low-wage workers have borne the brunt of the changing labor market, including wage stagnation, growing income inequality, and increasingly unstable work environments. Most research on low-wage workers focuses on precarious minimum wage employment; however, some low-wage workers hold jobs earning more than minimum wage with consistent, full-time hours. This study explores strategies parents in these “good” low-wage jobs use to provide for their ch…
Redefining Resilience and Reframing Resistance: Empowerment Programming with Black Girls to Address Societal Inequities
Black girls in the U.S. experience high levels of discrimination and adversity. Resilience is a term used within social work, psychology, and health professions to indicate positive adaptation to adversity, trauma, or stress. This article examines traditional and alternative models of resilience through analyses of quantitative and qualitative data from an evaluation of a year-long empowerment program for 33 Black girls (mean age = 14.97 years). …
Why youth leave care: Understandings of adulthood and transition successes and challenges among youth aging out of child welfare
Gender-Specific Services in the Juvenile Justice System: A Critical Examination
This article reviews the literature on gender-specific services for girls in the juvenile justice system. Drawing on feminist theorizing, it offers four critiques: (a) that the increasing involvement of girls in the system is taken as a real indicator of greater crime and delinquency; (b) that an essentialized notion of gender is used; (c) that the problem is located in the individual, to the exclusion of solutions that focus on system/structural…
You can be anything you want, but you have to believe it: Commercialized Feminism in Gender-Specific Programs for Girls
Sex and the Single (Neoliberal) Girl: Perspectives on Being Single Among Socioeconomically Diverse Young Women
Positionality in Critical Feminist Scholarship: Situating Social Locations and Power Within Knowledge Production
How different are their experiences and outcomes? Comparing aged out and other child welfare involved youth
Motherhood in Liminal Spaces: White Mothers’ Parenting Black/White Children
Most of the extant social work research on biracial children and families has focused on the experiences of transracially adopted black or biracial children and their white parents or Afro-Caribbean/white children and their white mothers in the United Kingdom. This study adds to the body of knowledge by using focus group interviews analyzed through a feminist lens to understand the experiences of a diverse group of white women parenting their bio…
Social Justice for Crossover Youth: The Intersection of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems
Social workers are critical to promoting racial and social justice. "Crossover youth," a term used to describe youths who have contact with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, are an especially vulnerable but often overlooked population with whom social workers engage. A disproportionate number of crossover youth are African American. Empirical research on crossover youth is growing, but such scholarship rarely engages with a hum…
Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Juvenile Detention, Placement, and Jail Among Youth with Out-of-Home Child Welfare Placement
Youth who experience out-of-home placement in the child welfare system are more likely to have justice system involvement. However, research has yet to fully address the underlying heterogeneity of trajectories and trajectory groups regarding substantial justice system involvement within this population. Using administrative data from a child welfare placement sample of 794 children and youth in a large, urban county in Pennsylvania, this longitu…
Single-sex Public Education for Low-income Youth of Color: A Critical Theoretical Review
The Impact of Sexual Abuse in the Lives of Young Women Involved or At Risk of Involvement With the Juvenile Justice System
Girls in the juvenile justice system have high rates of past sexual abuse. To better understand the relationship between sexual abuse and justice system involvement, we analyzed survey interviews with 169 young women involved or at risk of involvement with juvenile justice, comparing girls who experienced sexual abuse with those who did not. Girls experiencing sexual abuse had more negative mental health, school, substance use, risky sexual behav…
It would be foolish to pretend that our jobs aren't political”: Social Workers Organizing for Power in the Nonprofit Sector
Racial Disproportionality in Juvenile Justice: The Interaction of Race and Geography in Pretrial Detention for Violent and Serious Offenses
First They Came for Critical Race Theory
Procedural justice and legal socialization among juvenile offenders: The role of defense attorneys
Research is increasingly focusing on how young people interpret their experiences with the legal system and whether and how this shapes attitudes and beliefs about the system. This study adds to the extant literature by examining the relationship between perceptions of procedural justice and attitudes toward the law and legal system for a sample of youth ( N = 227) in residential placements. Specifically, it focuses on how youths’ perceptions of …
An empirical portrait of youthful offenders who sell drugs
Living Arrangements and Social Support: Effects on the Well-Being of Mothers with Mental Illness
This article examines the effects of living arrangements on the well-being of mothers with a serious mental illness. Analyses of data from a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study of an urban, primarily African American sample of 379 mothers with mental illness revealed few differences in parenting or social functioning between mothers living with their children and a spouse or partner and those living with their children only. However,…
Critical Feminisms: Principles and Practices for Feminist Inquiry in Social Work
Are girls really becoming more delinquent? Testing the gender convergence hypothesis by race and ethnicity, 1976–2005
Using research to build power: The Pittsburgh Wage study
Social workers seek to address numerous forms of oppression. While our research has focused on extensively documenting problems, solutions often remain out of grasp. Many schools of social work remain entrenched in traditional academic structures focused on narrow measures of academic success and impact. This article critiques these measures, proposing a framework for using research to build community power for societal impact. Using the Pittsbur…
Feminist Social Work and Political Engagement: Working Toward Social Justice Through Local Policy
Providing new opportunities or reinforcing old stereotypes? Perceptions and experiences of single-sex public education
From going on vacation to falling off a benefits cliff: Understanding the Range of Low-Wage Workers’ Perceptions of a Union-Negotiated Wage Increase
Social workers have long been active in social and political organizing to ensure a living wage. Yet recent social work research largely neglects efforts to raise wages and effective means for organizing to do so. This paper draws on in-depth interviews from a longitudinal study of low-wage hospital workers who formed a union and negotiated annual, incremental wage increases to achieve a $15 minimum wage floor to understand their perceptions of t…
Placement type matters: Placement experiences in relation to justice system involvement among child welfare-involved youth and young adults
Out-of-home placement in the child welfare system is related to justice system involvement. Yet, few studies address the similarities and differences of child welfare placement types in relation to justice system involvement within the same sample of youth, which can provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between the two. Utilizing a sample of child welfare youth with substantial out-of-home placements (N = 794), we investigate …
Using Photovoice to Identify Service Needs of Older African American Methadone Clients
This article presents findings from a photovoice project designed to identify service needs of older-adult African American methadone clients, as well as their current barriers to and supports for abstinence. The project involved 10 participants (aged 53 to 63 years old) recruited from a methadone maintenance program in a large Northeastern U.S. city. Thematic analysis techniques were used to analyze participants’ narratives of their pictures. Tr…
Study of delinquent, diverted, and high-risk adolescent girls: Implications for mental health intervention
Journal Article Study of delinquent, diverted, and high-risk adolescent girls: Implications for mental health intervention Get access Mary C. Ruffolo, PhD, Mary C. Ruffolo, PhD associate professor School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 South University, #2726, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rosemary Sarri, PhD, Rosemary Sarri, PhD professor…
Gender-Specific Services in the Juvenile Justice System: A Critical Examination
This article reviews the literature on gender-specific services for girls in the juvenile justice system. Drawing on feminist theorizing, it offers four critiques: (a) that the increasing involvement of girls in the system is taken as a real indicator of greater crime and delinquency; (b) that an essentialized notion of gender is used; (c) that the problem is located in the individual, to the exclusion of solutions that focus on system/structural…
Living Arrangements and Social Support: Effects on the Well-Being of Mothers with Mental Illness
This article examines the effects of living arrangements on the well-being of mothers with a serious mental illness. Analyses of data from a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study of an urban, primarily African American sample of 379 mothers with mental illness revealed few differences in parenting or social functioning between mothers living with their children and a spouse or partner and those living with their children only. However,…
The Impact of Sexual Abuse in the Lives of Young Women Involved or At Risk of Involvement With the Juvenile Justice System
Girls in the juvenile justice system have high rates of past sexual abuse. To better understand the relationship between sexual abuse and justice system involvement, we analyzed survey interviews with 169 young women involved or at risk of involvement with juvenile justice, comparing girls who experienced sexual abuse with those who did not. Girls experiencing sexual abuse had more negative mental health, school, substance use, risky sexual behav…
A Widening of the Net of Social Control: “Gender-Specific” Treatment for Young Women in the U.S. Juvenile Justice System
Young women's involvement with the U.S. juvenile justice system has grown rapidly over the last two decades. With this growth has come a proliferation of interventions intended to meet a 1992 federal initiative for correctional facilities and programs for adolescents to provide "gender-specific" services. In this article, we present the results of an inductive, qualitative evaluation of an art therapy program for institutionalized girls developed…
Are girls really becoming more delinquent? Testing the gender convergence hypothesis by race and ethnicity, 1976–2005
You can be anything you want, but you have to believe it: Commercialized Feminism in Gender-Specific Programs for Girls
Racial Disproportionality in Juvenile Justice: The Interaction of Race and Geography in Pretrial Detention for Violent and Serious Offenses
Why youth leave care: Understandings of adulthood and transition successes and challenges among youth aging out of child welfare
Using Photovoice to Identify Service Needs of Older African American Methadone Clients
This article presents findings from a photovoice project designed to identify service needs of older-adult African American methadone clients, as well as their current barriers to and supports for abstinence. The project involved 10 participants (aged 53 to 63 years old) recruited from a methadone maintenance program in a large Northeastern U.S. city. Thematic analysis techniques were used to analyze participants’ narratives of their pictures. Tr…
An empirical portrait of youthful offenders who sell drugs
Patterns of mental health, substance abuse, and justice system involvement among youth aging out of child welfare
Although research on youth aging out of the child welfare system has increased, there has been limited focus on how their experiences vary. In particular, there is a need to examine patterns in the involvement of these youth in other systems, which indicate constellations of challenges facing these young people as they transition out of care and into adulthood. Using administrative data from a large birth cohort of individuals born between 1985 a…
Merry Morash, Women on Probation and Parole: A Feminist Critique of Community Programs & Services
Single-sex Public Education for Low-income Youth of Color: A Critical Theoretical Review
How different are their experiences and outcomes? Comparing aged out and other child welfare involved youth
Providing new opportunities or reinforcing old stereotypes? Perceptions and experiences of single-sex public education
Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Juvenile Detention, Placement, and Jail Among Youth with Out-of-Home Child Welfare Placement
Youth who experience out-of-home placement in the child welfare system are more likely to have justice system involvement. However, research has yet to fully address the underlying heterogeneity of trajectories and trajectory groups regarding substantial justice system involvement within this population. Using administrative data from a child welfare placement sample of 794 children and youth in a large, urban county in Pennsylvania, this longitu…
Sex and the Single (Neoliberal) Girl: Perspectives on Being Single Among Socioeconomically Diverse Young Women
Motherhood in Liminal Spaces: White Mothers’ Parenting Black/White Children
Most of the extant social work research on biracial children and families has focused on the experiences of transracially adopted black or biracial children and their white parents or Afro-Caribbean/white children and their white mothers in the United Kingdom. This study adds to the body of knowledge by using focus group interviews analyzed through a feminist lens to understand the experiences of a diverse group of white women parenting their bio…
Feminist Social Work and Political Engagement: Working Toward Social Justice Through Local Policy
Racial/ethnic disparities in prior mental health service use among incarcerated adolescents
Social Justice for Crossover Youth: The Intersection of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems
Social workers are critical to promoting racial and social justice. "Crossover youth," a term used to describe youths who have contact with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, are an especially vulnerable but often overlooked population with whom social workers engage. A disproportionate number of crossover youth are African American. Empirical research on crossover youth is growing, but such scholarship rarely engages with a hum…
Placement type matters: Placement experiences in relation to justice system involvement among child welfare-involved youth and young adults
Out-of-home placement in the child welfare system is related to justice system involvement. Yet, few studies address the similarities and differences of child welfare placement types in relation to justice system involvement within the same sample of youth, which can provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between the two. Utilizing a sample of child welfare youth with substantial out-of-home placements (N = 794), we investigate …
Moving Beyond Poverty: Effects of Low-Wage Work on Individual, Social, and Family Well-Being
Social work has long been committed to eliminating poverty, which is at the root of many of the social issues and challenges we address. Over 40% of the U.S. workforce makes less than $15/hour, and the accumulating evidence suggests this is not enough to meet basic needs. In this introduction to a special issue about low-wage work, we describe what is known regarding the experiences and well-being of low-wage workers, as well as promising policy …
From Scarcity to Investment: The Range of Strategies Used by Low-Income Parents With “Good” Low-Wage Jobs
Low-wage workers have borne the brunt of the changing labor market, including wage stagnation, growing income inequality, and increasingly unstable work environments. Most research on low-wage workers focuses on precarious minimum wage employment; however, some low-wage workers hold jobs earning more than minimum wage with consistent, full-time hours. This study explores strategies parents in these “good” low-wage jobs use to provide for their ch…
Sociology (32 works) · Political science (28 works) · Psychology (27 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Criminology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works)