Kathryn J Murray

Journal article Adoption Quarterly · January 1, 2025 The current study describes a preliminary evaluation of the Learning and Empowerment for Adoptive Families (LEAF) workshop. This workshop is offered to adoptive families to enhance communication about adoption, cope with strong emotions, and build social c ... Full text Cite

Effectiveness of a Workforce Stress Intervention Among Providers of Evidence-Based Treatment for Child Traumatic Stress

Journal article Traumatology · January 1, 2025 Despite thewell-established risk of secondary traumatic stress and other forms of workforce stress for mental health clinicians providing trauma treatment, there is little research to support interventions to mitigate this stress. The current study is a pr ... Full text Cite

Enhancing early parenting in the community: Preliminary results from a learning collaborative approach to scale up Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up.

Journal article Infant Ment Health J · November 2023 Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is a promising home-visiting intervention promoting sensitive caregiving and secure parent-child attachment in families with young children. The goal of this study was to examine a learning collaborative approach ... Full text Link to item Cite

What about trauma? Accounting for trauma exposure and symptoms in the risk of suicide among adolescents who have been adopted.

Journal article Child Abuse Negl · August 2022 BACKGROUND: Research suggests that individuals who have been adopted are at increased risk for suicidal behaviors, but this research does not account for the role of trauma. OBJECTIVES: The study provided rates of trauma exposure among individuals who were ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disseminating parent-child interaction therapy through the learning collaborative model on the adoption and implementation of an evidence-based treatment

Journal article Children and Youth Services Review · June 1, 2019 Evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for childhood disruptive behavior disorders, such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), have limited availability in community settings. Recent research highlights the importance of implementation support models to en ... Full text Cite

Promoting trauma-informed parenting of children in out-of-home care: An effectiveness study of the resource parent curriculum.

Journal article Psychol Serv · February 2019 The Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC) is a workshop designed to promote trauma-informed parenting among foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers (i.e., resource parents). The ultimate goal of RPC is to improve placement stability and promote healing from tr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using clinical assessment to enhance adoption success

Journal article Families in Society · January 1, 2017 There is a growing recognition that adoptive families have unique clinical needs, including the need for postadoption mental health services that are adoption competent, trauma informed, and evidence based. Although underrepresented in the literature, the ... Full text Cite

Trauma-Informed Care for Children in the Child Welfare System: An Initial Evaluation of a Trauma-Informed Parenting Workshop.

Journal article Child Maltreat · May 2016 An essential but often overlooked component to promoting trauma-informed care within the child welfare system is educating and empowering foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers (resource parents) with a trauma-informed perspective to use in their parenti ... Full text Link to item Cite