Brian D. Christens, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2008 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 
Area:
Social Work, Social Psychology, General

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Year Citation  Score
2023 Haapanen KA, Christens BD, Cooper DG, Jurinsky J. Alliance-building for equity and justice: An inter-organizational perspective. Evaluation and Program Planning. 102: 102382. PMID 37866133 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2023.102382  0.417
2023 Haapanen KA, Christens BD, Speer PW, Freeman HE. Narrative change for health equity in grassroots community organizing: A study of initiatives in Michigan and Ohio. American Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 37807963 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12708  0.726
2023 Haapanen KA, Christens BD, Freeman HE, Speer PW, Crowell-Williamson GA. Stories of self, us, and now: narrative and power for health equity in grassroots community organizing. Frontiers in Public Health. 11: 1144123. PMID 37361159 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1144123  0.707
2022 Christens BD, Morgan KY, Cosio M, Dolan T, Aguayo R. Persistence of a youth organizing initiative: Cultivating and sustaining a leadership development ecosystem. Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 35032400 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22791  0.408
2021 Faust V, Pollard E, Welch K, Hilgendorf A, Anahkwet Reiter G, Brown T, Thunder C, Wescott S, Wilber D, Christens BD, Wells A. Building power through reindigenization: Sharing the story of Menīkānaehkem. Journal of Community Psychology. 49: 3162-3177. PMID 34766632 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22733  0.336
2021 Christens BD, Gupta J, Speer PW. Community organizing: Studying the development and exercise of grassroots power. Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 34473854 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22700  0.738
2021 Haapanen KA, Christens BD. Community-engaged Research Approaches: Multiple Pathways To Health Equity. American Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 34312882 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12529  0.328
2021 Speer PW, Christens BD, Peterson NA. Participation in community organizing: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of impacts on sociopolitical development. Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 33844316 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22578  0.713
2020 Roberts LM, Christens BD. Pathways to Well-being among LGBT adults: Sociopolitical Involvement, Family Support, Outness, and Community Connectedness with Race/Ethnicity as a Moderator. American Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 33326618 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12482  0.398
2020 Nation M, Christens BD, Bess KD, Shinn M, Perkins DD, Speer PW. Addressing the problems of urban education: An ecological systems perspective Journal of Urban Affairs. 42: 715-730. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2019.1705847  0.612
2019 Christens BD, Butterfoss FD, Minkler M, Wolff T, Francisco VT, Kegler MC. Learning From Coalitions' Efforts to Promote Equity and Justice. Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society For Public Health Education. 46: 110S-114S. PMID 31549559 DOI: 10.1177/1090198119871551  0.414
2019 Cooper DG, Christens BD. Justice System Reform for Health Equity: A Mixed Methods Examination of Collaborating for Equity and Justice Principles in a Grassroots Organizing Coalition. Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society For Public Health Education. 46: 62S-70S. PMID 31549558 DOI: 10.1177/1090198119859411  0.486
2019 Hilgendorf A, Guy Reiter A, Gauthier J, Krueger S, Beaumier K, Corn R, Moore TR, Roland H, Wells A, Pollard E, Ansell S, Oshkeshequoam J, Adams A, Christens BD. Language, Culture, and Collectivism: Uniting Coalition Partners and Promoting Holistic Health in the Menominee Nation. Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society For Public Health Education. 46: 81S-87S. PMID 31549556 DOI: 10.1177/1090198119859401  0.434
2019 Kegler MC, Wolff T, Christens BD, Butterfoss FD, Francisco VT, Orleans T. Strengthening Our Collaborative Approaches for Advancing Equity and Justice. Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society For Public Health Education. 46: 5S-8S. PMID 31549552 DOI: 10.1177/1090198119871887  0.554
2019 Medellin PJ, Speer PW, Christens BD, Gupta J. Transformation to leadership: Learning about self, the community, the organization, and the system. Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 31475366 DOI: 10.1002/Jcop.22236  0.742
2019 Christens BD. Ultrasociality and Intersubjectivity. American Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 31469448 DOI: 10.1002/Ajcp.12391  0.382
2019 Speer PW, Peterson NA, Christens BD, Reid RJ. Youth Cognitive Empowerment: Development and Evaluation of an Instrument. American Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 31116873 DOI: 10.1002/Ajcp.12339  0.645
2018 Christens BD, Byrd K, Peterson NA, Lardier DT. Critical Hopefulness Among Urban High School Students. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. PMID 29968065 DOI: 10.1007/S10964-018-0889-3  0.462
2016 Spahr C, Wells A, Christens BD, Pollard E, LaGro J, Morales A, Dennis S, Hilgendorf A, Meinen A, Korth A, Gaddis J, Schoeller D, Tomayko EJ, Carrel A, Adams A. Developing a Strategy Menu for Community-Level Obesity Prevention. Wmj : Official Publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin. 115: 264-8. PMID 29095589  0.302
2016 Christens BD, Inzeo PT, Meinen A, Hilgendorf AE, Berns R, Korth A, Pollard E, McCall A, Adams A, Stedman J. Community-Led Collaborative Action to Prevent Obesity. Wmj : Official Publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin. 115: 259-63. PMID 29095588  0.364
2016 Christens BD, Speer PW, Peterson NA. Assessing Community Participation: Comparing Self-Reported Participation Data with Organizational Attendance Records. American Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 27233221 DOI: 10.1002/Ajcp.12054  0.725
2016 Christens BD, Krauss SE, Zeldin S. MALAYSIAN VALIDATION OF A SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTROL SCALE FOR YOUTH Journal of Community Psychology. 44: 531-537. DOI: 10.1002/Jcop.21777  0.369
2015 Christens BD, Peterson NA, Reid RJ, Garcia-Reid P. Adolescents’ Perceived Control in the Sociopolitical Domain: A Latent Class Analysis Youth and Society. 47: 443-461. DOI: 10.1177/0044118X12467656  0.383
2015 Christens BD, Speer PW. Community Organizing: Practice, Research, and Policy Implications Social Issues and Policy Review. 9: 193-222. DOI: 10.1111/Sipr.12014  0.747
2015 Christens BD, Inzeo PT. Widening the view: situating collective impact among frameworks for community-led change Community Development. 46: 420-435. DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2015.1061680  0.567
2015 Faust V, Christens BD, Sparks SM, Hilgendorf AE. Exploring relationships among organizational capacity, collaboration, and network change Psychosocial Intervention. 24: 125-131. DOI: 10.1016/J.Psi.2015.09.002  0.381
2015 Sparks SMA, Faust V, Christens BD, Hilgendorf AE. EFFECTS OF A CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGY ON RACIAL DISPARITIES IN INFANT MORTALITY Journal of Community Psychology. 43: 701-716. DOI: 10.1002/Jcop.21751  0.45
2014 Neal JW, Christens BD. Linking the levels: network and relational perspectives for community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology. 53: 314-23. PMID 24752731 DOI: 10.1007/S10464-014-9654-2  0.495
2014 Christens BD, Inzeo PT, Faust V. Channeling power across ecological systems: social regularities in community organizing. American Journal of Community Psychology. 53: 419-31. PMID 24398621 DOI: 10.1007/S10464-013-9620-4  0.515
2014 Christens BD, Lin CS. Influences of Community and Organizational Participation, Social Support, and Sense of Community on Psychological Empowerment: Income as Moderator Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal. 42: 211-223. DOI: 10.1111/Fcsr.12056  0.59
2014 Christens BD, Inzeo PT, Faust V. Erratum to: Channeling Power Across Ecological Systems: Social Regularities in Community Organizing American Journal of Community Psychology. 53: 432-432. DOI: 10.1007/S10464-014-9626-6  0.53
2014 Collura JJ, Christens BD. Perspectives on Systems Change Among Local Change Agents: A Comparative Study Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 25: 19-33. DOI: 10.1002/Casp.2192  0.516
2013 Christens BD, Collura JJ, Tahir F. Critical hopefulness: a person-centered analysis of the intersection of cognitive and emotional empowerment. American Journal of Community Psychology. 52: 170-84. PMID 23793530 DOI: 10.1007/S10464-013-9586-2  0.454
2013 Christens BD. In search of powerful empowerment. Health Education Research. 28: 371-4. PMID 23487560 DOI: 10.1093/Her/Cyt045  0.343
2013 Zeldin S, Christens BD, Powers JL. The psychology and practice of youth-adult partnership: bridging generations for youth development and community change. American Journal of Community Psychology. 51: 385-97. PMID 23054170 DOI: 10.1007/S10464-012-9558-Y  0.472
2013 Speer PW, Christens BD. An Approach to Scholarly Impact through Strategic Engagement in Community-Based Research Journal of Social Issues. 69: 734-753. DOI: 10.1111/Josi.12039  0.751
2012 Christens BD. Toward relational empowerment. American Journal of Community Psychology. 50: 114-28. PMID 22094588 DOI: 10.1007/S10464-011-9483-5  0.498
2012 Christens BD, Peterson NA. The role of empowerment in youth development: a study of sociopolitical control as mediator of ecological systems' influence on developmental outcomes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 41: 623-35. PMID 22038436 DOI: 10.1007/S10964-011-9724-9  0.383
2012 Christens BD, Collura JJ. Local Community Organizers and Activists Encountering Globalization: An Exploratory Study of their Perceptions and Adaptations Journal of Social Issues. 68: 592-611. DOI: 10.1111/J.1540-4560.2012.01765.X  0.52
2012 Christens BD. Targeting empowerment in community development: a community psychology approach to enhancing local power and well-being Community Development Journal. 47: 538-554. DOI: 10.1093/Cdj/Bss031  0.535
2011 Christens BD, Kirshner B. Taking stock of youth organizing: an interdisciplinary perspective. New Directions For Child and Adolescent Development. 2011: 27-41. PMID 22147599 DOI: 10.1002/Cd.309  0.523
2011 Flanagan CA, Christens BD. Youth civic development: historical context and emerging issues. New Directions For Child and Adolescent Development. 2011: 1-9. PMID 22147597 DOI: 10.1002/Cd.307  0.434
2011 Christens BD, Peterson NA, Speer PW. Community participation and psychological empowerment: testing reciprocal causality using a cross-lagged panel design and latent constructs. Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society For Public Health Education. 38: 339-47. PMID 21460177 DOI: 10.1177/1090198110372880  0.703
2011 Christens BD, Speer PW. Contextual influences on participation in community organizing: a multilevel longitudinal study. American Journal of Community Psychology. 47: 253-63. PMID 21203831 DOI: 10.1007/S10464-010-9393-Y  0.709
2011 Christens BD, Dolan T. Interweaving youth development, community development, and social change through youth organizing Youth and Society. 43: 528-548. DOI: 10.1177/0044118X10383647  0.577
2011 Peterson NA, Peterson CH, Agre L, Christens BD, Morton CM. Measuring youth empowerment: Validation of a Sociopolitical Control Scale for Youth in an urban community context Journal of Community Psychology. 39: 592-605. DOI: 10.1002/Jcop.20456  0.422
2011 Christens BD, Speer PW, Peterson NA. Social class as moderator of the relationship between (dis)empowering processes and psychological empowerment Journal of Community Psychology. 39: 170-182. DOI: 10.1002/Jcop.20425  0.694
2011 Speer PW, Christens BD. Local Community Organizing and Change: Altering Policy in the Housing and Community Development System in Kansas City Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 22: 414-427. DOI: 10.1002/Casp.1132  0.739
2010 Christens BD. Public relationship building in grassroots community organizing: relational intervention for individual and systems change Journal of Community Psychology. 38: 886-900. DOI: 10.1002/Jcop.20403  0.535
2008 Christens B, Perkins DD. Transdisciplinary, multilevel action research to enhance ecological and psychopolitical validity Journal of Community Psychology. 36: 214-231. DOI: 10.1002/Jcop.20232  0.508
2007 Christens BD, Hanlin CE, Speer PW. Getting the social organism thinking: strategy for systems change. American Journal of Community Psychology. 39: 229-38. PMID 17410423 DOI: 10.1007/S10464-007-9119-Y  0.7
2006 Heflinger CA, Christens B. Rural behavioral health services for children and adolescents: An ecological and community psychology analysis Journal of Community Psychology. 34: 379-400. DOI: 10.1002/Jcop.20105  0.404
2005 Christens B, Speer PW. Predicting Violent Crime Using Urban and Suburban Densities Behavior and Social Issues. 14: 113-128. DOI: 10.5210/Bsi.V14I2.334  0.619
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