Featured Scholar: Barbara Pierce, Ph.D., LCSW
Professor, IU School of Social Work
Research Video: https://go.iu.edu/4Rz3
From Clinician to Community-Engaged Translational Practitioner: Building Social and Mental Health Programs for Children, Families, and Practitioners
Barbara Pierce, Ph.D., LCSW, has been a clinical social worker for 40 years and an academic for 20 years. She is a Professor of Social Work at the IU School of Social Work and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship Program graduate. She specializes in teaching about and working to dismantle the destructive effects of the social determinants of health/mental health by creating a culture of health and trauma-responsive programming for children, youth, and their families. I am also dedicated to working to create trauma-responsive work cultures for all social workers, teachers, and other professionals dedicated to working with children and youth. Dr. Pierce is also a community-engaged participatory action scholar. She facilitates trainings to state, national, and tribal federal leaders on developing a resilient and trauma-responsive workforce. Her new grant, part of the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, is a Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Project to build capacity for school mental health services in Indiana. This $5.7 million 5-year grant will serve low-income school corporations in communities with low mental health service capacity. Dr. Pierce's focus on bringing trauma-responsive and equitable health programming to students and practitioners is another excellent example of how IU Indianapolis's faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.
Selected Publications in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks
With several scholarly articles contributed to IU Indianapolis's free, open access repository, Dr. Pierce has made research knowledge available to researchers, students, and readers around the world.
Kim, J., Pierce, B., Park, T. (2023). Secondary traumatic stress and public child welfare workers' intention to remain employed in child welfare: The interaction effect of job functions. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/36928
Kim, J., Choi, M., Pierce, B. (2023). Organizational justice and secondary traumatic stress among child welfare workers: The moderated mediation model. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/36929
Thruston, W., Pierce, B., & Carlson, M. (2020) Social and Emotional Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Public School Personnel-the first five months (Indianapolis Area Schools. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/26108
Kim, J., Yi, E.-H., Pierce, B., & Hall, J. (2019). Effective workload management in child welfare: Understanding the relationship between caseload and workload. Social Policy & Administration, 53(7), pp 1095-1107. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/21496
Pierce, B., Klemme, P., Tate, V., & Studley, M. (2019). Trust in Participatory Action Community Engaged Partnerships: Relationships and Historic Trauma Matter. ENGAGE!, 1(1), Article 1. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/37291
Pierce, B., & Park, T. (2017). Competency Curriculum Intervention: Student Task Self-Efficacy and Attitudes in Child Welfare. Advances in Social Work, 18(2), Article 2. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/37293
Kinney, M. K., Brandon-Friedman, R., Pierce, B., & Fortenberry, D. (2016). Former Foster Youths’ Perceptions of Their Acquisition of Sexual Health Information While in Foster Care. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/37292
Find more free articles by Barbara Pierce in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks.