selected publications
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academic article
- Community Engaged Research for Older, Minoritized Americans: Programmatic Perspectives and Recommendations to Move the Science of Inclusion Forward.. Public Policy & Aging Report. 34:129-137. 2024
- Racial/Ethnic Variation in Family Support: African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Non-Latino Whites.. Journal of marriage and the family. 84:1002-1023. 2022
- "It Takes Some Empathy, Sympathy, and Listening": Telephone Outreach to Older Detroiters in a Pandemic as a Modality to Gain an Understanding of Challenges and Resiliency.. Journal of Urban Health. 98:91-102. 2021
- The Intersection of Pain Outcomes and Social Isolation Among African Americans.. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities. 9:1905-1911. 2021
- Taking Diversity Seriously: Within-Group Heterogeneity in African American Extended Family Support Networks.. Journal of marriage and the family. 83:1349-1372. 2021
- Fictive Kin Networks among African Americans, Black Caribbeans, and Non-Latino Whites.. Journal of family issues. 43:20-46. 2021
- African Americans' and Black Caribbeans' Religious Coping for Psychiatric Disorders.. Social work in public health. 36:68-83. 2020
- Professional service use among older African Americans, Black Caribbeans, and Non-Hispanic Whites for serious health and emotional problems.. Social work in health care. 59:199-217. 2020
- Instrumental Social Support Exchanges in African American Extended Families.. Journal of family issues. 39:3535-3563. 2018
- Family Social Support Networks of African American and Black Caribbean Adolescents.. Journal of child and family studies. 27:2757-2771. 2018
- Ethnic and Gender Differences in Family Social Support among Black Adolescents.. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland). 6. 2018
- Factors associated with the use of social workers for assistance with lifetime and 12-month behavioral health disorders.. Social work in health care. 57:267-283. 2018
- Discrimination, Serious Psychological Distress, and Church-Based Emotional Support Among African American Men Across the Life Span.. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 73:198-207. 2018
- Correlates of Objective Social Isolation from Family and Friends among Older Adults. Healthcare. 2018
- Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Older Adults: Differences between Baby Boomers and Pre-Boomers.. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 25:1393-1401. 2017
- Differences between African Americans and Non-Hispanic Whites Utilization of Clergy for Counseling with Serious Personal Problems.. Race and social problems. 9:139-149. 2017
- Church-Based Exchanges of Informal Social Support among African Americans.. Race and social problems. 9:53-62. 2017
- Extended family and friendship support and suicidality among African Americans.. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 52:299-309. 2016
- Everyday Racial Discrimination, Everyday Non-racial Discrimination, and Physical Health Among African Americans.. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work. 26:68-80. 2016
- Professional Service Use for a Serious Personal Problem: Comparing Older African Americans, Black Caribbeans, and Non-Hispanic Whites Using the National Survey of American Life.. Journal of aging and health. 27:755-74. 2014
- Social support from church and family members and depressive symptoms among older African Americans.. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 23:559-67. 2014
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in Extended Family, Friendship, Fictive Kin and Congregational Informal Support Networks.. Family relations. 62:609-624. 2013
- Major depressive disorder among older African Americans, Caribbean blacks, and non-Hispanic whites: secondary analysis of the National Survey of American Life.. Depression and Anxiety. 30:589-97. 2013
- Racial and ethnic differences in extended family, friendship, fictive kin, and congregational informal support networks. Family Relations. 2013
- Demographic correlates of DSM-IV major depressive disorder among older African Americans, Black Caribbeans, and non-Hispanic Whites: results from the National Survey of American Life.. International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 27:940-7. 2011
- Prevalence of lifetime DSM-IV affective disorders among older African Americans, Black Caribbeans, Latinos, Asians and non-Hispanic White people.. International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 27:816-27. 2011
- Use of Professional and Informal Support by Black Men with Mental Disorders.. Research on social work practice. 21:328-336. 2011
- Seeking Help from Clergy Among Black Caribbeans in the United States. Race and social problems. 2011
- Use of ministers for a serious personal problem among African Americans: findings from the national survey of American life.. The American journal of orthopsychiatry. 81:118-27. 2011
- Use of professional and informal support by Black men with mental disorders. Research on Social Work Practice. 2011
- Emotional support, negative interaction and DSM IV lifetime disorders among older African Americans: Findings from the national survey of American life (NSAL). International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 2010
- Complementary and alternative medicine for mental disorders among African Americans, black Caribbeans, and whites.. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 60:1342-9. 2009
- Mental health service use among older African Americans: the National Survey of American Life.. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 16:948-56. 2008
- Religious participation and DSM-IV disorders among older African Americans: findings from the National Survey of American Life.. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 16:957-65. 2008
- Use of professional and informal support by African Americans and Caribbean blacks with mental disorders.. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 59:1292-8. 2008
- Use of professional and informal support by African Americans and Caribbean blacks with mental disorders. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 2008
- Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Disorders Among Older African Americans: Findings From the National Survey of American Life. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2007
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chapter
- Social Networks and Minority Elders. Handbook of Minority Aging.