Catherine M Lemieux
Biographic Data
| ID | 90300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine M Lemieux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemieux |
| SIGNATURE | LEMIEUX C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9339-5675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Empowering Dementia Care Partners: How Self-Efficacy Influences Anxiety and Depression
Care partners often struggle with confidence in managing their own health. The mediating effect of self-efficacy on a care partner's mental health and social loneliness was explored. Standardized measures assessed loneliness, care partner self-efficacy, depression, and anxiety. Participants included 95 care partners who completed a survey measuring anxiety, depression, loneliness, and self-efficacy. Direct effects in the first mediation model wer…
Pathways between childhood mistreatment/victimization, posttraumatic stress, and lifetime substance use disorders among Latinx nationwide
Findings suggest that CPM may contribute to using substance to avoid physical and emotional pain, which lends support for the self-medication hypothesis. Latinx who were traumatized by both physical and sexual abuse are more likely to use substances as a negative coping strategy. The study underscores the need for assessing the role of substance use as a coping mechanism for Latinx individuals who have experienced childhood traumatic victimizatio…
The Great Flood: Race-Moderated Associations between Social Work Students’ Protective Mechanisms and Adaptive Coping
The postdisaster experiences of 167 social work students in the aftermath of the Great Flood of 2016 were examined. Using a cross-sectional survey design and validated self-report measures, the current study examined the association between students’ protective factors (hope, altruism, spiritual support; at 8, 20, and 12 items, respectively) and six adaptive coping mechanisms, and further sought to determine whether such associations varied accor…
A National Examination on Payday Loan Use and Financial Well-being: A propensity score matching Approach
Beliefs About Law Enforcement Scale: A Revalidation Study
Objective: The original 15-item Beliefs About Law Enforcement (O-BALE) scale was developed to measure social work students’ perceptions of police within the racialized context in which such perceptions manifest. The current study incorporated methodological improvements to strengthen the validity of the scale. Method: A total of 229 MSW students self-administered the O-BALE scale to report their perceptions about police violence against Black Ame…
Spiritual Coping, Emotional Responses to Existential Challenges, and Character Strengths: Revision and Validation of the Using Private Prayer for Coping Scale (UPPC-R)
Over recent decades, massive natural disasters have increased in intensity. A 40-year literature review underscored the centrality of spirituality in such disasters but called for further scale development and studies further exploring the role of personality traits. As a response, the current study (1) validated a revised Using Private Prayer for Coping (UPPC-R) scale using data (N = 566) from Category 5 Hurricanes Maria and Michael, and (2) exa…
Assessing Police Violence and Bias Against Black U.S. Americans: Development and Validation of the Beliefs About Law Enforcement Scale
Measurement of U.S. American community members’ perceptions of police historically has failed to assess police bias, violence, and accountability in Black communities. Rooted in critical race theory, conflict theory, and a substantial corpus of self-reported survey research methodology, the present study describes the development of the Beliefs About Law Enforcement (BALE) scale. Guided by a multidisciplinary and multiracial panel, whose members …
Correlates of Treatment Retention Among Persons with Serious Mental Illness Receiving Integrated Care in a Community Mental Health Setting
Knowledge about methods to retain community mental health (CMH) clients in integrated primary and behavioral health care (PBHC) programs is needed to address longstanding health disparities. A preexisting data set that contained the clinical records of 446 PBHC program participants was used to examine whether baseline sociodemographic, health, and psychosocial characteristics predicted retention in care at 6 months post-enrollment. Results indica…
Financial Knowledge and Behaviors of Chinese Migrant Workers: An International Perspective on a Financially Vulnerable Population
This article was published in the Journal of Community Practice’s special issue on Financial Capability and Asset Building and was originally presented during the April 2015 conference,Financial Capability and Asset Building: Advancing Education, Research, and Practice in Social Work. The conference was hosted by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and the Financial Social Work Initiative at the University of M…
Integrated Primary and Behavioral Health Care in Social Work: Introduction to the Special Collection
The implementation of integrated primary and behavioral health care (PBHC) programs in community mental health (CMH) settings is a recent healthcare service delivery transformation that represents a shift to a more patient-centered and recovery-oriented system of care for persons with serious mental illness (SMI). Providers of integrated PBHC are developing and testing new approaches for delivering collaborative, interdisciplinary team-based care…
Interrelationships Among Physical Health, Health-Related, and Psychosocial Characteristics of Persons Receiving Integrated Care in Community Mental Health Settings
Integrated primary and behavioral health care (PBHC) programs in community mental health (CMH) settings seek to address the health disparities and excess mortality of persons with serious mental illness (SMI) and comorbid medical disorders. The current cross-sectional, descriptive study utilized an integrated health data set to examine interrelationships among physical health, health-related, and psychosocial characteristics of 125 clients receiv…
Character Strengths and Deep Connections Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Spiritual and Secular Pathways to Resistance Among Volunteers
This study investigated a conceptual model with two pathways, altruism and perceived spiritual support, leading to resilience among student volunteers following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (H-KR). Both strengths share the sense of deep connections. Parallel pathways with the two major constructs were estimated using structural equation modeling, adjusting for demographics and peritraumatic emotional reactions. The two indicators may have served a…
Therapeutic Communities for Youths in Secure Care: Participant Characteristics and Predictors of Treatment and Postrelease Supervision
The current cross-sectional, descriptive study utilized services data to examine the characteristics, treatment, and postrelease outcomes of 226 male (64.6%) and female (35.4%) youths in therapeutic communities (TCs) housed within three secure-care facilities in one Southern state. The results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that approximately 21% of the variance in amount of TC services received was predicted by demographic, …
Modeling the Post-9/11 Meaning-Laden Paradox: From Deep Connection and Deep Struggle to Posttraumatic Stress and Growth
The prospective study follows college students after the 9/11 attacks. Based on evidence and trauma-related theories, and guided by reports on positive and negative reactions and meaning-related actions among Americans after 9/11, we explored the seemingly contradictory, yet meaning-related pathways to posttraumatic growth (PTG) and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (PTGD), indicating the sense of deep interconnectedness and deep conflict. T…
Early truancy intervention: Results of an evaluation using a regression discontinuity design
Racial Identity–Related Differential Attributions of Inadequate Responses to Hurricane Katrina: A Social Identity Perspective
The Collision of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and Substance Abuse: Research-Based Education and Training Priorities for Child Welfare Professionals
A large body of descriptive literature demonstrates the problem of substance abuse in child welfare. The 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) established time frames that make children's need for permanency the overriding priority in families involved with the child welfare system. Child welfare workers often lack proper knowledge and skill in assessing substance abuse issues that may underlie or obscure related psychosocial problems and ho…
Potential Impact of Eitc Adjustments on Financial Self-Sufficiency among Low-Income Families: A Simulation Model
Policies that help low-income mothers find and keep employment as a means of obtaining self-sufficiency have been a focal point of the welfare reform debate in the past decade. In the midst of this dialogue, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has gained popularity as one of the core work support programs for America's low- and moderately low-income families with children. This study compares the estimated effects of EITC when its value deteriora…
Volunteerism Among Social Work Students During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: A Report from the Disaster Area
This study examined volunteer activities and predictors of volunteerism among graduate and undergraduate social work students (N = 416) from four universities in the Gulf Coast area following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The convenience sample drawn from all social work students at these universities included 89% females, and 52% of the students were in a master's level program. Sixty-one percent of the respondents were African American and 31% w…
Seminar on Addictive Disorders: An Exploration of Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior
A module-based training on addictive disorders was implemented with 46 foundation- and 78 advanced-year students. Pre-test-posttest results indicated that foundation-year students increased their knowledge of theories of addiction (p <.05). Foundation- and advanced-year students increased their knowledge of treatment approaches (p <.01). Using an instrument developed by the authors, both founda-tion-and advanced-year students reported positive at…
Volunteerism Among Social Work Students During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: A Report from the Disaster Area
This study examined volunteer activities and predictors of volunteerism among graduate and undergraduate social work students (N = 416) from four universities in the Gulf Coast area following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The convenience sample drawn from all social work students at these universities included 89% females, and 52% of the students were in a master's level program. Sixty-one percent of the respondents were African American and 31% w…
Financial Knowledge and Behaviors of Chinese Migrant Workers: An International Perspective on a Financially Vulnerable Population
This article was published in the Journal of Community Practice’s special issue on Financial Capability and Asset Building and was originally presented during the April 2015 conference,Financial Capability and Asset Building: Advancing Education, Research, and Practice in Social Work. The conference was hosted by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and the Financial Social Work Initiative at the University of M…
The Collision of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and Substance Abuse: Research-Based Education and Training Priorities for Child Welfare Professionals
A large body of descriptive literature demonstrates the problem of substance abuse in child welfare. The 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) established time frames that make children's need for permanency the overriding priority in families involved with the child welfare system. Child welfare workers often lack proper knowledge and skill in assessing substance abuse issues that may underlie or obscure related psychosocial problems and ho…
Character Strengths and Deep Connections Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Spiritual and Secular Pathways to Resistance Among Volunteers
This study investigated a conceptual model with two pathways, altruism and perceived spiritual support, leading to resilience among student volunteers following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (H-KR). Both strengths share the sense of deep connections. Parallel pathways with the two major constructs were estimated using structural equation modeling, adjusting for demographics and peritraumatic emotional reactions. The two indicators may have served a…
Racial Identity–Related Differential Attributions of Inadequate Responses to Hurricane Katrina: A Social Identity Perspective
Interrelationships Among Physical Health, Health-Related, and Psychosocial Characteristics of Persons Receiving Integrated Care in Community Mental Health Settings
Integrated primary and behavioral health care (PBHC) programs in community mental health (CMH) settings seek to address the health disparities and excess mortality of persons with serious mental illness (SMI) and comorbid medical disorders. The current cross-sectional, descriptive study utilized an integrated health data set to examine interrelationships among physical health, health-related, and psychosocial characteristics of 125 clients receiv…
Therapeutic Communities for Youths in Secure Care: Participant Characteristics and Predictors of Treatment and Postrelease Supervision
The current cross-sectional, descriptive study utilized services data to examine the characteristics, treatment, and postrelease outcomes of 226 male (64.6%) and female (35.4%) youths in therapeutic communities (TCs) housed within three secure-care facilities in one Southern state. The results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that approximately 21% of the variance in amount of TC services received was predicted by demographic, …
Early truancy intervention: Results of an evaluation using a regression discontinuity design
Seminar on Addictive Disorders: An Exploration of Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior
A module-based training on addictive disorders was implemented with 46 foundation- and 78 advanced-year students. Pre-test-posttest results indicated that foundation-year students increased their knowledge of theories of addiction (p <.05). Foundation- and advanced-year students increased their knowledge of treatment approaches (p <.01). Using an instrument developed by the authors, both founda-tion-and advanced-year students reported positive at…
The Collision of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and Substance Abuse: Research-Based Education and Training Priorities for Child Welfare Professionals
A large body of descriptive literature demonstrates the problem of substance abuse in child welfare. The 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) established time frames that make children's need for permanency the overriding priority in families involved with the child welfare system. Child welfare workers often lack proper knowledge and skill in assessing substance abuse issues that may underlie or obscure related psychosocial problems and ho…
Potential Impact of Eitc Adjustments on Financial Self-Sufficiency among Low-Income Families: A Simulation Model
Policies that help low-income mothers find and keep employment as a means of obtaining self-sufficiency have been a focal point of the welfare reform debate in the past decade. In the midst of this dialogue, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has gained popularity as one of the core work support programs for America's low- and moderately low-income families with children. This study compares the estimated effects of EITC when its value deteriora…
Volunteerism Among Social Work Students During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: A Report from the Disaster Area
This study examined volunteer activities and predictors of volunteerism among graduate and undergraduate social work students (N = 416) from four universities in the Gulf Coast area following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The convenience sample drawn from all social work students at these universities included 89% females, and 52% of the students were in a master's level program. Sixty-one percent of the respondents were African American and 31% w…
Modeling the Post-9/11 Meaning-Laden Paradox: From Deep Connection and Deep Struggle to Posttraumatic Stress and Growth
The prospective study follows college students after the 9/11 attacks. Based on evidence and trauma-related theories, and guided by reports on positive and negative reactions and meaning-related actions among Americans after 9/11, we explored the seemingly contradictory, yet meaning-related pathways to posttraumatic growth (PTG) and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (PTGD), indicating the sense of deep interconnectedness and deep conflict. T…
Early truancy intervention: Results of an evaluation using a regression discontinuity design
Racial Identity–Related Differential Attributions of Inadequate Responses to Hurricane Katrina: A Social Identity Perspective
Therapeutic Communities for Youths in Secure Care: Participant Characteristics and Predictors of Treatment and Postrelease Supervision
The current cross-sectional, descriptive study utilized services data to examine the characteristics, treatment, and postrelease outcomes of 226 male (64.6%) and female (35.4%) youths in therapeutic communities (TCs) housed within three secure-care facilities in one Southern state. The results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that approximately 21% of the variance in amount of TC services received was predicted by demographic, …
Character Strengths and Deep Connections Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Spiritual and Secular Pathways to Resistance Among Volunteers
This study investigated a conceptual model with two pathways, altruism and perceived spiritual support, leading to resilience among student volunteers following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (H-KR). Both strengths share the sense of deep connections. Parallel pathways with the two major constructs were estimated using structural equation modeling, adjusting for demographics and peritraumatic emotional reactions. The two indicators may have served a…
Integrated Primary and Behavioral Health Care in Social Work: Introduction to the Special Collection
The implementation of integrated primary and behavioral health care (PBHC) programs in community mental health (CMH) settings is a recent healthcare service delivery transformation that represents a shift to a more patient-centered and recovery-oriented system of care for persons with serious mental illness (SMI). Providers of integrated PBHC are developing and testing new approaches for delivering collaborative, interdisciplinary team-based care…
Interrelationships Among Physical Health, Health-Related, and Psychosocial Characteristics of Persons Receiving Integrated Care in Community Mental Health Settings
Integrated primary and behavioral health care (PBHC) programs in community mental health (CMH) settings seek to address the health disparities and excess mortality of persons with serious mental illness (SMI) and comorbid medical disorders. The current cross-sectional, descriptive study utilized an integrated health data set to examine interrelationships among physical health, health-related, and psychosocial characteristics of 125 clients receiv…
Financial Knowledge and Behaviors of Chinese Migrant Workers: An International Perspective on a Financially Vulnerable Population
This article was published in the Journal of Community Practice’s special issue on Financial Capability and Asset Building and was originally presented during the April 2015 conference,Financial Capability and Asset Building: Advancing Education, Research, and Practice in Social Work. The conference was hosted by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and the Financial Social Work Initiative at the University of M…
Correlates of Treatment Retention Among Persons with Serious Mental Illness Receiving Integrated Care in a Community Mental Health Setting
Knowledge about methods to retain community mental health (CMH) clients in integrated primary and behavioral health care (PBHC) programs is needed to address longstanding health disparities. A preexisting data set that contained the clinical records of 446 PBHC program participants was used to examine whether baseline sociodemographic, health, and psychosocial characteristics predicted retention in care at 6 months post-enrollment. Results indica…
Assessing Police Violence and Bias Against Black U.S. Americans: Development and Validation of the Beliefs About Law Enforcement Scale
Measurement of U.S. American community members’ perceptions of police historically has failed to assess police bias, violence, and accountability in Black communities. Rooted in critical race theory, conflict theory, and a substantial corpus of self-reported survey research methodology, the present study describes the development of the Beliefs About Law Enforcement (BALE) scale. Guided by a multidisciplinary and multiracial panel, whose members …
A National Examination on Payday Loan Use and Financial Well-being: A propensity score matching Approach
Beliefs About Law Enforcement Scale: A Revalidation Study
Objective: The original 15-item Beliefs About Law Enforcement (O-BALE) scale was developed to measure social work students’ perceptions of police within the racialized context in which such perceptions manifest. The current study incorporated methodological improvements to strengthen the validity of the scale. Method: A total of 229 MSW students self-administered the O-BALE scale to report their perceptions about police violence against Black Ame…
Spiritual Coping, Emotional Responses to Existential Challenges, and Character Strengths: Revision and Validation of the Using Private Prayer for Coping Scale (UPPC-R)
Over recent decades, massive natural disasters have increased in intensity. A 40-year literature review underscored the centrality of spirituality in such disasters but called for further scale development and studies further exploring the role of personality traits. As a response, the current study (1) validated a revised Using Private Prayer for Coping (UPPC-R) scale using data (N = 566) from Category 5 Hurricanes Maria and Michael, and (2) exa…
Pathways between childhood mistreatment/victimization, posttraumatic stress, and lifetime substance use disorders among Latinx nationwide
Findings suggest that CPM may contribute to using substance to avoid physical and emotional pain, which lends support for the self-medication hypothesis. Latinx who were traumatized by both physical and sexual abuse are more likely to use substances as a negative coping strategy. The study underscores the need for assessing the role of substance use as a coping mechanism for Latinx individuals who have experienced childhood traumatic victimizatio…
The Great Flood: Race-Moderated Associations between Social Work Students’ Protective Mechanisms and Adaptive Coping
The postdisaster experiences of 167 social work students in the aftermath of the Great Flood of 2016 were examined. Using a cross-sectional survey design and validated self-report measures, the current study examined the association between students’ protective factors (hope, altruism, spiritual support; at 8, 20, and 12 items, respectively) and six adaptive coping mechanisms, and further sought to determine whether such associations varied accor…
Empowering Dementia Care Partners: How Self-Efficacy Influences Anxiety and Depression
Care partners often struggle with confidence in managing their own health. The mediating effect of self-efficacy on a care partner's mental health and social loneliness was explored. Standardized measures assessed loneliness, care partner self-efficacy, depression, and anxiety. Participants included 95 care partners who completed a survey measuring anxiety, depression, loneliness, and self-efficacy. Direct effects in the first mediation model wer…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)