Kristie A Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 76917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristie A Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simmons University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8570-4071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Improving mental health therapy for people who have experienced intimate partner violence and housing instability: Advice from survivors
It is well documented that intimate partner violence and housing instability can profoundly impair survivors’ mental health, help-seeking efforts, and coping strategies. Few studies, however, focus on this population’s experiences in mental health therapy, and even fewer explore their thoughts on what therapists and survivors can do to facilitate a sustained, beneficial therapy experience. Informed by feminist therapy theory, this descriptive qua…
Factors Contributing to Social Justice Action: A Scoping Review of the Published Literature
Social Justice Action: Exploring the Evolution of Social Workers' Social Justice Engagement
Bridging the Social Justice Values to Action Gap Reconsidered: A Grounded Theory Study of How Social Workers Come to Engage in Social Justice Action
The 21st Century Cures Act: More Harm Than Good for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
The 21st Century Cures Act requires that health organizations make all medical records rapidly available to patients through secure online portals. Referred to as “open notes,” this approach is intended to improve health outcomes by facilitating easier and more transparent communication between patients and providers. For patients experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV), however, open notes can create serious safety risks to their physical a…
Racial/Ethnic and Nativity Inequalities in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: The Role of Psychosocial Stressors
Sustaining Long-term Community-Academic Partnerships: Negotiating Power and Presence
Community based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships simultaneously increase knowledge and community well-being. Despite the growing number of long-term (as opposed to project-specific) CBPR partnerships, research has yet to sufficiently explore factors that contribute to their success and sustainability over time. This study investigated this question by exploring the perceived benefits, barriers, and facilitators of participation in one l…
It Actually Isn’t Just about Housing”: Supporting Survivor Success in a Domestic Violence Housing First Program
Domestic violence (DV) agencies are increasingly utilizing tailored Housing First (HF) approaches to assist homeless and unstably housed survivors. Research, however, has yet to sufficiently explore how DV advocates who work in DVHF programs conceptualize success for survivors or what strategies they use to facilitate that success. This case study involved in-depth interviews with the DV advocates in one DVHF program (n = 7). Conventional content…
No Easy Decisions: Developing an Evidence-Informed Process to Allocate Housing Choice Vouchers to Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
This article describes the development of an evidence-informed screening tool and process to allocate 25 Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) to homeless and unstably housed survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) through an innovative pilot program called SASH (Survivors Achieving Stable Housing). Informed by empirical and community-defined evidence, the screening tool comprised two forms, a survivor self-referral form and a form completed by a d…
Exploring the Needs and Lived Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Minority Domestic Violence Survivors Through Community-Based Participatory Research: A Systematic Review
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a methodological approach where community–academic teams build equitable relationships throughout the research process. In the domestic violence (DV) field, CBPR may be particularly important when conducting research with racial and ethnic minority DV survivors, as this group faces concurrent oppressions that inform their lived experiences. To our knowledge, no systematic review has synthesized art…
Survivors Achieving Stable Housing: Implementation, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
There is a movement toward permanent housing as an alternative to emergency shelter for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Through a case study, this article illuminates the challenges survivors encountered at multiple levels after being offered one of 25 permanent housing choice vouchers (HCVs) as part of the Survivors Achieving Stable Housing project. Obtaining an HCV is a complicated and lengthy process; survivors transitioning from…
Community matters: GxE interactions predicting childhood aggression and violent behavior
No Sacred Cows or Bulls”: The Story of the Domestic Violence Program Evaluation and Research Collaborative (DVPERC)
Bringing Community Based Participatory Research to Domestic Violence Scholarship: An Online Toolkit
Parents need a village”: Caseworkers' perceptions of the challenges faced by single parents of system-involved youth
I have lost everything”: Trade-offs of seeking safety from intimate partner violence
A primary aim of mainstream domestic violence (DV) programs is to help survivors and their children achieve safety from intimate partner violence. That goal, however, is neither simple nor straightforward. Instead, research demonstrates that the very actions survivors take to achieve safety may trigger a wide range of negative consequences. Missing from this research, however, is a focus on survivors' own perception, evaluation, and expectation o…
Do You Know What It Feels Like to Drown?”: Strangulation as Coercive Control in Intimate Relationships
Strangulation is a unique and particularly gendered form of nonfatal intimate partner violence, affecting 10 times as many women as men. Medical research documents multiple negative health outcomes of such victimization, and in the past decade nearly 30 U.S. states have enacted laws making nonfatal strangulation a felony. We extended prior work by using grounded theory in a qualitative study to explore women’s experiences of, thoughts about, and …
Views of Intimate Partner Violence in Same- and Opposite-Sex Relationships
Attitudes toward same-sex intimate relationships and intimate partner violence (IPV) are changing. Little research, however, has examined norms about IPV in same-sex relationships. Using a fractional factorial (experimental vignette) design, we conducted random-digit-dialed interviews in four languages with 3,679 community-residing adults. Multivariate analyses of responses to 14,734 vignettes suggest that IPV against gay male, lesbian, and heter…
Intersections of Harm and Health: A Qualitative Study of Intimate Partner Violence in Women's Lives
Eight focus groups of women with recent exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) were conducted to elicit women's descriptions of how IPV affects their health. Their shared narratives reveal a complex relationship with three main points of intersection between IPV and health: IPV leading to adverse health effects; IPV worsening already compromised health; and women's illness or disability increasing dependency on abusive partners, thereby leng…
Do You Know What It Feels Like to Drown?”: Strangulation as Coercive Control in Intimate Relationships
Strangulation is a unique and particularly gendered form of nonfatal intimate partner violence, affecting 10 times as many women as men. Medical research documents multiple negative health outcomes of such victimization, and in the past decade nearly 30 U.S. states have enacted laws making nonfatal strangulation a felony. We extended prior work by using grounded theory in a qualitative study to explore women’s experiences of, thoughts about, and …
Bringing Community Based Participatory Research to Domestic Violence Scholarship: An Online Toolkit
Intersections of Harm and Health: A Qualitative Study of Intimate Partner Violence in Women's Lives
Eight focus groups of women with recent exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) were conducted to elicit women's descriptions of how IPV affects their health. Their shared narratives reveal a complex relationship with three main points of intersection between IPV and health: IPV leading to adverse health effects; IPV worsening already compromised health; and women's illness or disability increasing dependency on abusive partners, thereby leng…
No Sacred Cows or Bulls”: The Story of the Domestic Violence Program Evaluation and Research Collaborative (DVPERC)
Views of Intimate Partner Violence in Same- and Opposite-Sex Relationships
Attitudes toward same-sex intimate relationships and intimate partner violence (IPV) are changing. Little research, however, has examined norms about IPV in same-sex relationships. Using a fractional factorial (experimental vignette) design, we conducted random-digit-dialed interviews in four languages with 3,679 community-residing adults. Multivariate analyses of responses to 14,734 vignettes suggest that IPV against gay male, lesbian, and heter…
It Actually Isn’t Just about Housing”: Supporting Survivor Success in a Domestic Violence Housing First Program
Domestic violence (DV) agencies are increasingly utilizing tailored Housing First (HF) approaches to assist homeless and unstably housed survivors. Research, however, has yet to sufficiently explore how DV advocates who work in DVHF programs conceptualize success for survivors or what strategies they use to facilitate that success. This case study involved in-depth interviews with the DV advocates in one DVHF program (n = 7). Conventional content…
Survivors Achieving Stable Housing: Implementation, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
There is a movement toward permanent housing as an alternative to emergency shelter for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Through a case study, this article illuminates the challenges survivors encountered at multiple levels after being offered one of 25 permanent housing choice vouchers (HCVs) as part of the Survivors Achieving Stable Housing project. Obtaining an HCV is a complicated and lengthy process; survivors transitioning from…
Social Justice Action: Exploring the Evolution of Social Workers' Social Justice Engagement
Bridging the Social Justice Values to Action Gap Reconsidered: A Grounded Theory Study of How Social Workers Come to Engage in Social Justice Action
Community matters: GxE interactions predicting childhood aggression and violent behavior
Parents need a village”: Caseworkers' perceptions of the challenges faced by single parents of system-involved youth
Intersections of Harm and Health: A Qualitative Study of Intimate Partner Violence in Women's Lives
Eight focus groups of women with recent exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) were conducted to elicit women's descriptions of how IPV affects their health. Their shared narratives reveal a complex relationship with three main points of intersection between IPV and health: IPV leading to adverse health effects; IPV worsening already compromised health; and women's illness or disability increasing dependency on abusive partners, thereby leng…
Views of Intimate Partner Violence in Same- and Opposite-Sex Relationships
Attitudes toward same-sex intimate relationships and intimate partner violence (IPV) are changing. Little research, however, has examined norms about IPV in same-sex relationships. Using a fractional factorial (experimental vignette) design, we conducted random-digit-dialed interviews in four languages with 3,679 community-residing adults. Multivariate analyses of responses to 14,734 vignettes suggest that IPV against gay male, lesbian, and heter…
Do You Know What It Feels Like to Drown?”: Strangulation as Coercive Control in Intimate Relationships
Strangulation is a unique and particularly gendered form of nonfatal intimate partner violence, affecting 10 times as many women as men. Medical research documents multiple negative health outcomes of such victimization, and in the past decade nearly 30 U.S. states have enacted laws making nonfatal strangulation a felony. We extended prior work by using grounded theory in a qualitative study to explore women’s experiences of, thoughts about, and …
I have lost everything”: Trade-offs of seeking safety from intimate partner violence
A primary aim of mainstream domestic violence (DV) programs is to help survivors and their children achieve safety from intimate partner violence. That goal, however, is neither simple nor straightforward. Instead, research demonstrates that the very actions survivors take to achieve safety may trigger a wide range of negative consequences. Missing from this research, however, is a focus on survivors' own perception, evaluation, and expectation o…
Parents need a village”: Caseworkers' perceptions of the challenges faced by single parents of system-involved youth
Bringing Community Based Participatory Research to Domestic Violence Scholarship: An Online Toolkit
No Sacred Cows or Bulls”: The Story of the Domestic Violence Program Evaluation and Research Collaborative (DVPERC)
Community matters: GxE interactions predicting childhood aggression and violent behavior
No Easy Decisions: Developing an Evidence-Informed Process to Allocate Housing Choice Vouchers to Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
This article describes the development of an evidence-informed screening tool and process to allocate 25 Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) to homeless and unstably housed survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) through an innovative pilot program called SASH (Survivors Achieving Stable Housing). Informed by empirical and community-defined evidence, the screening tool comprised two forms, a survivor self-referral form and a form completed by a d…
Exploring the Needs and Lived Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Minority Domestic Violence Survivors Through Community-Based Participatory Research: A Systematic Review
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a methodological approach where community–academic teams build equitable relationships throughout the research process. In the domestic violence (DV) field, CBPR may be particularly important when conducting research with racial and ethnic minority DV survivors, as this group faces concurrent oppressions that inform their lived experiences. To our knowledge, no systematic review has synthesized art…
Survivors Achieving Stable Housing: Implementation, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
There is a movement toward permanent housing as an alternative to emergency shelter for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Through a case study, this article illuminates the challenges survivors encountered at multiple levels after being offered one of 25 permanent housing choice vouchers (HCVs) as part of the Survivors Achieving Stable Housing project. Obtaining an HCV is a complicated and lengthy process; survivors transitioning from…
It Actually Isn’t Just about Housing”: Supporting Survivor Success in a Domestic Violence Housing First Program
Domestic violence (DV) agencies are increasingly utilizing tailored Housing First (HF) approaches to assist homeless and unstably housed survivors. Research, however, has yet to sufficiently explore how DV advocates who work in DVHF programs conceptualize success for survivors or what strategies they use to facilitate that success. This case study involved in-depth interviews with the DV advocates in one DVHF program (n = 7). Conventional content…
Racial/Ethnic and Nativity Inequalities in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: The Role of Psychosocial Stressors
Sustaining Long-term Community-Academic Partnerships: Negotiating Power and Presence
Community based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships simultaneously increase knowledge and community well-being. Despite the growing number of long-term (as opposed to project-specific) CBPR partnerships, research has yet to sufficiently explore factors that contribute to their success and sustainability over time. This study investigated this question by exploring the perceived benefits, barriers, and facilitators of participation in one l…
Bridging the Social Justice Values to Action Gap Reconsidered: A Grounded Theory Study of How Social Workers Come to Engage in Social Justice Action
The 21st Century Cures Act: More Harm Than Good for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
The 21st Century Cures Act requires that health organizations make all medical records rapidly available to patients through secure online portals. Referred to as “open notes,” this approach is intended to improve health outcomes by facilitating easier and more transparent communication between patients and providers. For patients experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV), however, open notes can create serious safety risks to their physical a…
Factors Contributing to Social Justice Action: A Scoping Review of the Published Literature
Social Justice Action: Exploring the Evolution of Social Workers' Social Justice Engagement
Improving mental health therapy for people who have experienced intimate partner violence and housing instability: Advice from survivors
It is well documented that intimate partner violence and housing instability can profoundly impair survivors’ mental health, help-seeking efforts, and coping strategies. Few studies, however, focus on this population’s experiences in mental health therapy, and even fewer explore their thoughts on what therapists and survivors can do to facilitate a sustained, beneficial therapy experience. Informed by feminist therapy theory, this descriptive qua…
Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Poison control (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Domestic violence (11 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Suicide prevention (10 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)