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Journal Articles and Reports

Dow-Fleisner, S. J., Conradt, E., Garber, J., Hill, N., Lefkowitz, E., & the SRCD Presidential Working Group Research Assistants. (2023). The Impact of Overturning Roe v. Wade for Children and Families (p. 19). Report for the Society for Research on Child Development Presidential Working Group. Click Here for Report.

Dow-Fleisner, S., Leong, A. D. & Lee, H. (2023). The interaction between peer bullying and school connectedness on youth health and wellbeing. Child and Youth Services Review, 155, 1-8. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107147

Dow-Fleisner, S., Baum, C., Pandey, S., & Hawkins, S. S. (2023). Parenting While Depressed: The influence of interpersonal supports and community resources for mothers. Journal of Family Issues. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X231181369

Struik, L., *Christianson, K., *Khan, S., *Yang, Y., *Werstuik, S., Dow-Fleisner, S. & Ben-David, S. (2023). Factors that influence decision-making among youth who vape and youth who don’t vape. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 18, 1-10. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2023.100509

Struik, L., *Werstuik, S., *Sundstrom, A., Dow-Fleisner, S. & Ben-David, S. (2022). Factors that Influence the Decision to Vape among Indigenous Youth. BMC Public Health, 22. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13095-y

Dow-Fleisner, S., Pandey, S, Baum, C & Hawkins, S. (2021). Heterogeneity in child health and wellbeing in the context of maternal depression: A latent profile analysis. Journal of the Society for Social Work Research, 12(1), 131-154. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1086/713569

Pilin, M.A., Robinson, J.M., Dow-Fleisner, S., Sanchez, T.A., & Krank, M.D. (2020). Automatic cognitions as mediators of parental influence on adolescent cannabis use. Addictive Behaviors. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106728

Dow-Fleisner, S. & Hawkins, S. (2018). Child physical wellbeing in the context of maternal depression. Social Work Research, 42(2), 95-105. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svy006

Tufford, L., & Lee, B. (2020). Relationship repair strategies when reporting child abuse and neglect. Child and Adolescent Social Work, 37(3), 235-249. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10560-020-00656-6

Tufford, L., & Lee, B. (2019). Decision-making factors in the mandatory reporting of child maltreatment. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma. 2019(12), 233-244. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-018-0211-2

Lee, B., Fuller Thomson, E., Fallon, B., & Trocmé, N., & Black, T. (2017). Asian-Canadian families involved in the child welfare system in Canada: A mixed methods study. Child Abuse and Neglect, 70 (2017), 342-355. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.06.022

Lee, B., Fuller Thomson, E., Black, T., Fallon, B., & Trocmé, N. (2017). Examining child welfare decisions and services for Asian-Canadian versus White-Canadian households in the child welfare system. Child Maltreatment, 22(2), 132-144. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559517690829

Lee, B., Fuller Thomson, E., Trocmé, N., Fallon, B., & Black, T. (2016). Delineating disproportionality and disparity of Asian-Canadian versus White-Canadian households in the child welfare system. Child and Youth Service Review, 70, 383-393. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.10.023

Lee, B., Rha, W., & Fallon, B. (2014). Physical abuse and Asian families in the Canadian child welfare system. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 23(5), 532-551. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2014.904462

Journal Articles

Dow-Fleisner, S., Harris-Gendron, S., van Donkelaar, P., & Mason, K. (2023). Assessing measures of resilience and posttraumatic growth for use among survivors of intimate partner violence-related brain injury: A scoping review. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 9(2), 160-179. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000370

Dow-Fleisner, S., Stager, M., Gregoire, N., Woodmass, K., More, J. W., & Wells, S. J. (2023). Development of a measure of child welfare practice excellence. Research on Social Work Practice. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/10497315231180296

Dow-Fleisner, S., Lomness, A. & Woolgar, L. (2022). Impact of Safe Consumption Facilities on Individual and Community Outcomes: A Scoping Review. Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health, 2(100046), 1-13. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etdah.2022.100046

Seaton, C.L., Rondier, P., Rush, K.L., Li, E., Plamondon, K., Pesut, B., . . . Bottorff, J. L. (2022). Community Stakeholder-Driven Technology Solutions Towards Rural Health Equity: A Concept Mapping Study in Western Canada. Health Expectations. Please click here for an open access copy.

Dow-Fleisner, S., Seaton, C. L., Li, E., Plamondon, K., Oelke, N., Kurtz, D., . . . Rush, K. (2022). Internet access is a necessity: A cross-sectional analysis of challenges and technology use among rural community residents during COVID-19. BMH Public Health, 22(845), 1-11. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13254-1 Please click here for an open access copy.

Rush, K. L., Seaton, C. L., Corman, K., Hawe, N., Li, E., Dow-Fleisner, S. J., . . . Pesut, B. (2022). Virtual Care Prior to and During COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Rural and Urban Adults. JMIR Formative Research, 6(8), e37059. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.2196/37059

Stene, K., Dow-Fleisner, S., Ermacora, D., Agathen, J., Falconnier, L., Stager, M. & Wells, S. (2020). Measuring the quality of care in kinship foster care placements. Child and Youth Services Review, 116, 105-136. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105136

Struik, L., Dow-Fleisner, S., *Belliveau, M., *Thompson, D. & Janke, R. (2020). Tactics for drawing youth to vaping: A content analysis of e-cigarette advertisements. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(8), e18943. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.2196/18943

Dow-Fleisner, S. J. (2020, June). Impacts of child maltreatment in Canada: Examining the social consequences and economic costs (p. 8). Please click here for a copy of this report.

Wyman Battalen, A., Dow-Fleisner, S., & Brodzinsky, D. (2019). School responsiveness to adoption among lesbian mothers. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 1, 1-16. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2019.1630191

Wyman Battalen, A., Dow-Fleisner, S., Brodzinsky, D. & McRoy, R. (2019). Lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents’ attitudes towards racial socialization practices. Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, 16(2), 178-191. Retrieved from https://doi.org/0.1080/23761407.2019.1576565

Hawkins, S., Dow-Fleisner, S., & Noble, A. (2015). Breastfeeding and the Affordable Care Act. Pediatric Clinics of North America, 62(5), 1071-1091. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2015.05.002

Journal Articles

Tufford, L., Lee, B., Thieu, V., & Zhao, R. (2023). Emotional regulation in peer-to-peer role-plays in social work education: The contribution from standardized clients in medicine. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 43(5), 627-643. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2023.2266521

Tufford, L., Lee, B., Thieu, V., & Zhao, R. (2022). Field Instructors’ perspectives on educating social work students in the mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect. Field Educator, 12(2), 1-31. Retrieved from https://fieldeducator.simmons.edu/article/field-instructors-perspectives-on-educating-social-work-students-in-the-mandatory-reporting-of-child-abuse-and-neglect/

Asakura, K., Lee, B., Occhiuto, K., & Kourgiantakis, T. (2022). Observational learning in simulation-based social work education: Comparison of interviewers and observers. Social Work Education: The International Journal. (online). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.1831467

Lee, B., Ji, D. & O’Kane, M. (2021). Examining cross-cultural child welfare practice through simulation-based education. Clinical Social Work Journal, 42(2), 271-285. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-020-00783-8

Tufford, L., Lee, B., Bogo, M., Wenghofer, E., Etherington, C., Thieu, V. & Zhao, R. (2021). Decision-making and relationship competence when reporting suspected physical abuse and child neglect: An Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation. Clinical Social Work Journal, 42(2), 256-270. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-020-00785-6

Tufford, L., Bogo, M., Katz, E., Lee, B., & Ramjattan, R. (2019). Reporting suspected child maltreatment: Educating social work students in decision making and maintaining the relationship. Journal of Social Work Education, 22(3), 579-595. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2019.1600442