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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Kimberly Stauss

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Associate Professor

Faculty Researcher

8 h-index 27 pubs 259 cited

  • Mental Disorders
  • Police
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Qualitative Research

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Kimberly Stauss's research investigates the implementation and impact of co-response programs that embed social workers within police departments. Her work has explored essential factors for the successful implementation and expansion of these programs, drawing on perspectives from sworn officers and civilian staff. Stauss has also examined the lived experiences of participants in co-response programs, highlighting their baseline perspectives and lessons learned. Her publications also extend to other areas of behavioral and social science, including the use of table-top role-playing games as a therapeutic intervention for adults to enhance social connectedness and exploring the effects of mindful nature walks on college student anxiety. She has also contributed to research on food insecurity and its relationship with supply chains and service ecosystems. Stauss holds an h-index of 8 with 27 total publications and 251 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 27
  • Citations: 259

Selected Publications

  • Exploring the Effects of Mindful Nature Walks on College Student Anxiety (2025)
    The International Journal of Health Wellness and Society DOI OpenAlex
  • “I was Able to Like, Kind of Breathe.” Baseline Perspectives and Lessons Learned from Participants of a Co-Response Program (2025)
    Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • “We Need to Not Fear You”: Essential Factors Identified by Sworn Officers and Civilian Staff for Implementation and Expansion of a Co-Response Program (2024)
    Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Food insecurity: addressing a challenging social problem with supply chains and service ecosystems (2024)
    The International Journal of Logistics Management 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Embedding Social Work into a Police Department in the South (2023)
    Journal of Forensic Social Work 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Table-top role-playing games as a therapeutic intervention with adults to increase social connectedness (2021)
    Social Work With Groups 67 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Extending A Letter-Writing Intervention Developed for Incarcerated Mothers to Incarcerated Fathers: A Mixed Methods Study (2020)
    Corrections DOI OpenAlex
  • OneCommunity Reads: A Model for Latino Parent-Community Engagement and Its Effect on Grade-Level Reading Proficiency (2020)
    Education and Urban Society 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Developing networks in disempowered communities: Experiencing hardships while focusing on opportunities (2019)
    Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Comparing the Effectiveness of an Online Human Diversity Course to Face-to-Face Instruction (2018)
    Journal of Social Work Education 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Letters to Children: Findings of a Program to Enhance Communication of Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children (2017)
    Corrections 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Letters to Children project: A letter-writing group designed to help incarcerated women develop or reinforce their roles as mothers (2017)
    Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ourtown for teens: Long-term impact of a youth diversity program (2015)
    Child & Youth Services 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Generational Impact of Single-Parent Scholarships (2015)
    Journal of Family Issues 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Family Festival Prevention Model: findings from a pilot of a teenage pregnancy prevention programme conceptualised by and for Mexican American communities (2015)
    Sex Education 2 citations DOI OpenAlex

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