Danielle Maude Littman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4099998 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Danielle Maude Littman |
| PRENOMES | Danielle Maude |
| SOBRENOME | Littman |
| ASSINATURA | LITTMAN D M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5708-4511 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Embodying place
Social work scholars have called for greater attention to one’s social environment. Yet, there remains a dearth of literature that attends to built and social environments. This methodological paper describes embodied geographic methods as a promising answer to bridge the division between person and place in social work. Drawing upon embodiment and geographic methods, with particular attention to qualitative geographic information systems methods…
Teaching Note—Navigating Tomorrow
This teaching note responds to the growing interest in using futures thinking and strategic foresight within social work education. By infusing these approaches into the nine social work competencies, educators can help students prepare for the uncertainties and challenges of the future. Futures thinking involves imagining and exploring diverse potential futures, while strategic foresight provides tools for decision making and long-term planning.…
“Cold Hard Cash”
INTRODUCTION: Academic research projects that are oriented toward social and environmental justice have long recognized that participant compensation is part of reciprocal, just, community-engaged relationships. Participant compensation acknowledges and accounts for people's expertise, skills, time and effort associated with contributing to research outcomes. However, a combination of institutional barriers and researcher hesitancy often limits t…
Hearing them differently
We Built This with You in Mind
Background Belonging is vital for all graduate students’ well-being, yet many BIPOC students at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) face complex forms of bias that go unaddressed by institutions. Supportive university climates with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) resources can foster a sense of belonging; however, recent federal and state laws have diminished identity-specific supports. Theoretical Rationale and Methodology This empiri…
Geographic interviews
Social work grounds itself in a person-in-environment (PIE) paradigm, often centering Ecological Systems Theory in early coursework. However, there are limited methods in social work research for operationalizing PIE. This paper introduces geographic interviews as a method for understanding the relationship between people and their environments. Geographic interviews, a participant-driven qualitative geographic information systems (QGIS) method, …
Community Consultations to Support Scoping Review Knowledge Dissemination
Scoping reviews are a valuable form of literature review used to synthesize many types of evidence found in academic literature. Amidst the recommended best practices for conducting scoping reviews, little attention has been given to how to conduct community consultations as part of scoping review processes. The objective of this article is to describe one form that community consultation can take. As the final step in a scoping review project ex…
Pedagogies of possibility
Social workers engage across sectors to advocate for social justice, empower individuals and communities and work toward more equitable futures. Foresight practice, or the systematic scan of past and future possibilities to analyze complex problems and situations, offers social work mechanisms for sensemaking and impact that is presently missing from the field. In this article we offer four examples of using foresight strategies and tools in the …
Using geographic interviews to conduct community assessments—insights for MSW pedagogy
Social work is predicated as a person-in-environment profession, but few tools presently exist for students to operationalize person-in-environment through assessment and systematic understanding. Geographic interviews, which combine spatial mapping and qualitative go-along interviews, are one possible tool with promise for application in the social work classroom. This teaching note describes the process of integrating geographic interviews as o…
Tensions in Young Adult Housing Programs
While young adult homelessness impacts nearly one in ten young adults in the United States, limited work has explored the implementation of housing programs which support young adults. In this paper, we describe research on two case examples of housing programs for young adults in the United States: systematic program observations from Marsha and Marian's Neighbors, a shared housing program in the Mid‐Atlantic region, and resident interviews from…
“He went from being a monster to a person
Restorative justice practices such as victim-offender dialogue (VOD) have gained traction in the past few decades as routes towards healing amidst high incarceration and recidivism rates and growing public dissatisfaction with punitive carceral structures. However, little work has sought to understand the nuanced experiences of those who engage in VOD processes, in their own words. In this manuscript, we use narrative analytic methods to explore …
It’s Home for now’
Not often implemented with emerging adults (18 – 25 years), permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an intervention which aims to support transitions from chronic housing insecurity. Ontological security theory (OST) -- a sense of being whole and alive on a continuous spectrum – serves as a lens to understand this transition. Through longitudinal surveys using semi-structured interview questions, emerging adults living in PSH ( N = 28) in western C…
Practices and settings which promote a psychological sense of community among young people who experience social marginalization
From contested spaces to choice-centered places
Young adults who have endured chronic housing instability have often been failed by settings which have inadequately supported them – such as home and school settings. As such, young people experiencing homelessness and housing instability are seeking supportive settings. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is a burgeoning supportive intervention in the youth homelessness services landscape. Our study used the geographic interview methodology, a n…
Sense of community among young adults before and after moving into Permanent Supportive Housing
What do recently housed young people imagine for the future of third places? Using game‐based inquiry to (re)imagine affirming, youth‐centered third places
Third places—public and community settings like parks and libraries—are theorized to serve as sources of social connection, community, and play. Yet, young people who hold marginalized identities, such as those experiencing homelessness and housing instability, often endure discrimination in third place settings. This study used game‐based inquiry to partner with recently housed young people who have experienced chronic housing instability ( N = …
How mutual aid proliferation developed solidarity and sense of collective responsibility in the early months of Covid‐19
Although mutual aid organizing is a social movement practice long sustained by queer/trans people, immigrants, people of color, and disability communities, among other communities pushed to the margins of society, with the emergence of the COVID‐19 pandemic, and subsequent government failures in addressing unmet needs, mutual aid proliferated into new (and more socially privileged) communities in the United States and across the world. Amidst thi…
A message board from the future
Assessing the emotional and behavioral impact of community and extra curricular activities, police contact, and collective efficacy among youth
A broad body of research suggests that interactions with the police can have a negative impact on emotional and behavioral outcomes among youth. Therefore, developing interventions that simultaneously reduce youth involvement in criminalized activities and promote positive outcomes for youth are foundational to creating a just society. The present study examines the emotional and behavioral impact that police contact, community and extracurricula…
Creating Ecosystems of Care Through Mutual Aid
As COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease) spread in the United States in Spring 2020, conventional safety nets were overwhelmed and unable to meet widespread and growing needs. Mutual aid practices proliferated as an essential form of resource provision and community care, including exchanges of food, financial assistance, and social connection. Our qualitative study interviewed 25 individuals engaged in mutual aid in Colorado, USA to investigate the per…
Like a weight off my shoulders”
The aim of this study is to explore how young people experiencing homelessness or housing instability experience participating in peer support from paid peer support specialists with shared lived experiences. The present study used participatory qualitative methods, specifically a photovoice project with young people ( N = 8) experiencing homelessness or housing instability, to understand their experiences of being in a relationship with a peer s…
Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with participatory action research (PAR) teams
In this paper, six social work scholars at varying career stages and institutions used collaborative autoethnography to identify (1) structural constraints and tensions to engage in participatory action research (PAR) in the academy, (2) the strategies we have used to navigate this work, and (3) suggestions for structural changes necessary to meaningfully value this work in the academy. Key structural constraints and tensions center around questi…
How was mutual aid being conceptualized during its proliferation in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic? A critical phenomenological analysis
Mutual aid, a longstanding practice among socially marginalized communities, has proliferated as a widespread form of collective care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and compounding crises. We used critical phenomenological methods to understand how participants (N = 25) who engaged in mutual aid in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic conceptualized mutual aid, and how their social identities intersect with their conceptualizations. We found t…
Closer to the problem
Prisons are physically separated from society. As a result, the public has little contact with incarcerated people, and few avenues for understanding their lived experiences. Our evaluation draws upon construal level theory – the idea that the more concrete something becomes, the more psychological proximity we perceive – to consider whether attending a virtual prison arts event may foster psychological proximity to incarcerated individuals and i…
The association between place stayed and self-identification as homeless among unstably housed young adults in seven U.S. cities
Limited research has explored whether young adults that experience homelessness and housing instability (YAEH) self-identify as homeless. This study uses the Homeless Youth Risk and Resilience Survey (HYRRS) dataset, a seven-city sample of 1426 YAEH, to examine the relationship between the type of place a young adult stayed the night before their interview and whether they self-identified as homeless. While all participants were classified as hom…
Third Places, Social Capital, and Sense of Community as Mechanisms of Adaptive Responding for Young People Who Experience Social Marginalization
Many young people who experience social marginalization (such as young people of color, who identify as LGBTQ, and who have experienced housing instability, among others) have often faced significant trauma exposure and social oppression and may endure subsequent adverse impacts on their well‐being. Conversely, many such young people exhibit adaptive responding —the ability to maintain well‐being through and despite such contextual constraints. T…
Values and Beliefs Underlying Mutual Aid
Objective: Mutual aid has been a longstanding practice among communities who experience short-term crises (such as natural and human-made disasters) as well as long-term crises (such as systemic marginalization and poverty). It has proliferated as a widespread practice during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way for individuals and communities to share resources when government and nongovernmental services have failed. Our study aims to understand the …
Emergent media scan of digital mutual aid organizing during the Covid-19 pandemic
A rapid emergent media scan, describing 1) how mutual aid emerged as a response to COVID-19 and 2) how digital organizing was used for mutual aid, was conducted using a media bias framework to select media outlets, standardized search terms to identify relevant content, and content analysis to describe themes. A variety of digital tools (e.g., social media, crowdsourcing, video conferencing) were used to coordinate people/resources, raise funds, …
How was mutual aid being conceptualized during its proliferation in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic? A critical phenomenological analysis
Mutual aid, a longstanding practice among socially marginalized communities, has proliferated as a widespread form of collective care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and compounding crises. We used critical phenomenological methods to understand how participants (N = 25) who engaged in mutual aid in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic conceptualized mutual aid, and how their social identities intersect with their conceptualizations. We found t…
How do peer support workers value self‐directed growth over conventional change goals among young people experiencing homelessness
The aim of this study is to explore how peer support workers (individuals with similar lived experiences employed to provide support) conceptualize change work with young people experiencing homelessness. The present study used participatory qualitative methods, including semistructured interviews and journaling with peer support workers and program supervisors and administrators, to understand how peers understand change work with young people e…
Making power explicit
AIMS: Participatory action research (PAR) is a research methodology that uses collective and endemic knowledge to inform action and address social concerns. The aim of this study was to understand how one PAR team (comprised of university and community researchers) navigated power dynamics, especially considering the team's power differentials. METHODS: Drawing upon phenomenological and case study methodologies, this qualitative study used loosel…
How peer support specialists uniquely initiate and build connection with young people experiencing homelessness
From contested spaces to choice-centered places
Young adults who have endured chronic housing instability have often been failed by settings which have inadequately supported them – such as home and school settings. As such, young people experiencing homelessness and housing instability are seeking supportive settings. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is a burgeoning supportive intervention in the youth homelessness services landscape. Our study used the geographic interview methodology, a n…
Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with participatory action research (PAR) teams
In this paper, six social work scholars at varying career stages and institutions used collaborative autoethnography to identify (1) structural constraints and tensions to engage in participatory action research (PAR) in the academy, (2) the strategies we have used to navigate this work, and (3) suggestions for structural changes necessary to meaningfully value this work in the academy. Key structural constraints and tensions center around questi…
Sense of community among young adults before and after moving into Permanent Supportive Housing
What do recently housed young people imagine for the future of third places? Using game‐based inquiry to (re)imagine affirming, youth‐centered third places
Third places—public and community settings like parks and libraries—are theorized to serve as sources of social connection, community, and play. Yet, young people who hold marginalized identities, such as those experiencing homelessness and housing instability, often endure discrimination in third place settings. This study used game‐based inquiry to partner with recently housed young people who have experienced chronic housing instability ( N = …
Assessing the emotional and behavioral impact of community and extra curricular activities, police contact, and collective efficacy among youth
A broad body of research suggests that interactions with the police can have a negative impact on emotional and behavioral outcomes among youth. Therefore, developing interventions that simultaneously reduce youth involvement in criminalized activities and promote positive outcomes for youth are foundational to creating a just society. The present study examines the emotional and behavioral impact that police contact, community and extracurricula…
Educational attainment among young adults experiencing homelessness in seven cities across the United States
Educational attainment among young adults experiencing homelessness in seven cities across the United States
How peer support specialists uniquely initiate and build connection with young people experiencing homelessness
Third place theory and social work
While social work as a field predicates itself upon a person-in-environment approach, limited work has explored the nuanced relationship between a person and their environment. Exploring place, which can briefly be described as “meaningful location,” is one means of looking at the person-in-environment paradigm. This conceptual article builds upon Oldenberg and Brisset’s sociological theory of Third Places (which conceptualizes non-home/non-work …
Values and Beliefs Underlying Mutual Aid
Objective: Mutual aid has been a longstanding practice among communities who experience short-term crises (such as natural and human-made disasters) as well as long-term crises (such as systemic marginalization and poverty). It has proliferated as a widespread practice during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way for individuals and communities to share resources when government and nongovernmental services have failed. Our study aims to understand the …
Making power explicit
AIMS: Participatory action research (PAR) is a research methodology that uses collective and endemic knowledge to inform action and address social concerns. The aim of this study was to understand how one PAR team (comprised of university and community researchers) navigated power dynamics, especially considering the team's power differentials. METHODS: Drawing upon phenomenological and case study methodologies, this qualitative study used loosel…
Emergent media scan of digital mutual aid organizing during the Covid-19 pandemic
A rapid emergent media scan, describing 1) how mutual aid emerged as a response to COVID-19 and 2) how digital organizing was used for mutual aid, was conducted using a media bias framework to select media outlets, standardized search terms to identify relevant content, and content analysis to describe themes. A variety of digital tools (e.g., social media, crowdsourcing, video conferencing) were used to coordinate people/resources, raise funds, …
Closer to the problem
Prisons are physically separated from society. As a result, the public has little contact with incarcerated people, and few avenues for understanding their lived experiences. Our evaluation draws upon construal level theory – the idea that the more concrete something becomes, the more psychological proximity we perceive – to consider whether attending a virtual prison arts event may foster psychological proximity to incarcerated individuals and i…
The association between place stayed and self-identification as homeless among unstably housed young adults in seven U.S. cities
Limited research has explored whether young adults that experience homelessness and housing instability (YAEH) self-identify as homeless. This study uses the Homeless Youth Risk and Resilience Survey (HYRRS) dataset, a seven-city sample of 1426 YAEH, to examine the relationship between the type of place a young adult stayed the night before their interview and whether they self-identified as homeless. While all participants were classified as hom…
Third Places, Social Capital, and Sense of Community as Mechanisms of Adaptive Responding for Young People Who Experience Social Marginalization
Many young people who experience social marginalization (such as young people of color, who identify as LGBTQ, and who have experienced housing instability, among others) have often faced significant trauma exposure and social oppression and may endure subsequent adverse impacts on their well‐being. Conversely, many such young people exhibit adaptive responding —the ability to maintain well‐being through and despite such contextual constraints. T…
How do peer support workers value self‐directed growth over conventional change goals among young people experiencing homelessness
The aim of this study is to explore how peer support workers (individuals with similar lived experiences employed to provide support) conceptualize change work with young people experiencing homelessness. The present study used participatory qualitative methods, including semistructured interviews and journaling with peer support workers and program supervisors and administrators, to understand how peers understand change work with young people e…
Like a weight off my shoulders”
The aim of this study is to explore how young people experiencing homelessness or housing instability experience participating in peer support from paid peer support specialists with shared lived experiences. The present study used participatory qualitative methods, specifically a photovoice project with young people ( N = 8) experiencing homelessness or housing instability, to understand their experiences of being in a relationship with a peer s…
Navigating, subverting, and replacing conventional academic structures and expectations to co-create with participatory action research (PAR) teams
In this paper, six social work scholars at varying career stages and institutions used collaborative autoethnography to identify (1) structural constraints and tensions to engage in participatory action research (PAR) in the academy, (2) the strategies we have used to navigate this work, and (3) suggestions for structural changes necessary to meaningfully value this work in the academy. Key structural constraints and tensions center around questi…
How was mutual aid being conceptualized during its proliferation in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic? A critical phenomenological analysis
Mutual aid, a longstanding practice among socially marginalized communities, has proliferated as a widespread form of collective care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and compounding crises. We used critical phenomenological methods to understand how participants (N = 25) who engaged in mutual aid in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic conceptualized mutual aid, and how their social identities intersect with their conceptualizations. We found t…
“He went from being a monster to a person
Restorative justice practices such as victim-offender dialogue (VOD) have gained traction in the past few decades as routes towards healing amidst high incarceration and recidivism rates and growing public dissatisfaction with punitive carceral structures. However, little work has sought to understand the nuanced experiences of those who engage in VOD processes, in their own words. In this manuscript, we use narrative analytic methods to explore …
It’s Home for now’
Not often implemented with emerging adults (18 – 25 years), permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an intervention which aims to support transitions from chronic housing insecurity. Ontological security theory (OST) -- a sense of being whole and alive on a continuous spectrum – serves as a lens to understand this transition. Through longitudinal surveys using semi-structured interview questions, emerging adults living in PSH ( N = 28) in western C…
Practices and settings which promote a psychological sense of community among young people who experience social marginalization
From contested spaces to choice-centered places
Young adults who have endured chronic housing instability have often been failed by settings which have inadequately supported them – such as home and school settings. As such, young people experiencing homelessness and housing instability are seeking supportive settings. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is a burgeoning supportive intervention in the youth homelessness services landscape. Our study used the geographic interview methodology, a n…
Sense of community among young adults before and after moving into Permanent Supportive Housing
What do recently housed young people imagine for the future of third places? Using game‐based inquiry to (re)imagine affirming, youth‐centered third places
Third places—public and community settings like parks and libraries—are theorized to serve as sources of social connection, community, and play. Yet, young people who hold marginalized identities, such as those experiencing homelessness and housing instability, often endure discrimination in third place settings. This study used game‐based inquiry to partner with recently housed young people who have experienced chronic housing instability ( N = …
How mutual aid proliferation developed solidarity and sense of collective responsibility in the early months of Covid‐19
Although mutual aid organizing is a social movement practice long sustained by queer/trans people, immigrants, people of color, and disability communities, among other communities pushed to the margins of society, with the emergence of the COVID‐19 pandemic, and subsequent government failures in addressing unmet needs, mutual aid proliferated into new (and more socially privileged) communities in the United States and across the world. Amidst thi…
A message board from the future
Assessing the emotional and behavioral impact of community and extra curricular activities, police contact, and collective efficacy among youth
A broad body of research suggests that interactions with the police can have a negative impact on emotional and behavioral outcomes among youth. Therefore, developing interventions that simultaneously reduce youth involvement in criminalized activities and promote positive outcomes for youth are foundational to creating a just society. The present study examines the emotional and behavioral impact that police contact, community and extracurricula…
Creating Ecosystems of Care Through Mutual Aid
As COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease) spread in the United States in Spring 2020, conventional safety nets were overwhelmed and unable to meet widespread and growing needs. Mutual aid practices proliferated as an essential form of resource provision and community care, including exchanges of food, financial assistance, and social connection. Our qualitative study interviewed 25 individuals engaged in mutual aid in Colorado, USA to investigate the per…
Geographic interviews
Social work grounds itself in a person-in-environment (PIE) paradigm, often centering Ecological Systems Theory in early coursework. However, there are limited methods in social work research for operationalizing PIE. This paper introduces geographic interviews as a method for understanding the relationship between people and their environments. Geographic interviews, a participant-driven qualitative geographic information systems (QGIS) method, …
Community Consultations to Support Scoping Review Knowledge Dissemination
Scoping reviews are a valuable form of literature review used to synthesize many types of evidence found in academic literature. Amidst the recommended best practices for conducting scoping reviews, little attention has been given to how to conduct community consultations as part of scoping review processes. The objective of this article is to describe one form that community consultation can take. As the final step in a scoping review project ex…
Psychology (21 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · Sociology (19 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (14 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Qualitative research (10 obras) · Community Health and Development (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Public relations (9 obras)