Child Welfare Research Lab | Publications

Beal, SJ; Nause, K; Lutz, N; Greiner, MV. The Impact of Health Care Education on Utilization Among Adolescents Preparing for Emancipation From Foster Care. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2020; 66:740-746.

Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ; Antommaria, AH M. Perspectives on informed consent practices for minimal-risk research involving foster youth. Pediatrics. 2020; 145:e20192845-e20192845.

Beal, SJ; Kashikar-Zuck, S; King, C; Black, W; Barnes, J; Noll, JG. Heightened risk of pain in young adult women with a history of childhood maltreatment: A prospective longitudinal study. Pain. 2020; 161:156-165.

Dexheimer, JW; Beal, SJ; Divekar, P; Hall, ES; Patel, V; Greiner, MV. Automated patient linking for electronic health record and child welfare databases. Journal of Technology in Human Services. 2019; 37:286-292.

Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ; Dexheimer, JW; Divekar, P; Patel, V; Hall, ES. Improving Information Sharing for Youth in Foster Care. Pediatrics. 2019; 144:e20190580-e20190580.

Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ. Developing a Health Care System for Children in Foster Care. Health Promotion Practice. 2018; 19:621-628.

Beal, SJ; Nause, K; Crosby, I; Greiner, MV. Understanding health risks for adolescents in protective custody. Journal of Applied Research on Children. 2018; 9.

Waite, D; Greiner, MV; Laris, Z. Putting families first: How the opioid epidemic is affecting children and families, and the child welfare policy options to address it. Journal of Applied Research on Children. 2018; 9:1-35.

Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ; Nause, K; Staat, MA; Dexheimer, JW; Scribano, PV. Laboratory Screening for Children Entering Foster Care. Pediatrics. 2017; 140:e20163778-e20163778.

Beal, SJ; Greiner, MV. Children in nonparental care: health and social risks. Pediatric Research. 2016; 79:184-190.

Greiner, MV; Greiner, HM; Care, MM; Owens, D; Shapiro, R; Holland, K. Adding Insult to Injury: Nonconvulsive Seizures in Abusive Head Trauma. Journal of Child Neurology. 2015; 30:1778-1784.

Greiner, MV; Ross, J; Brown, CM; Beal, SJ; Sherman, SN. Foster Caregivers' Perspectives on the Medical Challenges of Children Placed in Their Care: Implications for Pediatricians Caring for Children in Foster Care. Clinical Pediatrics. 2015; 54:853-861.

Sheanon, NM; Beal, SJ; Kichler, JC; Casnellie, L; Backeljauw, P; Corathers, S. Readiness for transition to adult care in adolescents and young adults with Turner syndrome. Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2020; 33:1165-1171.

Beal, SJ; Nause, K; Lutz, N; Greiner, MV. The Impact of Health Care Education on Utilization Among Adolescents Preparing for Emancipation From Foster Care. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2020; 66:740-746.

Beal, SJ; Dorn, LD; LoBraico, EJ; Lutz, N; Ram, N. Strategies for Assessing and Modeling Depressive Symptoms in Longitudinal Studies of Adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 2020; 30:345-360.

Beal, SJ; Greiner, MV; Crosby, I; Beck, AF. Socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods where youth in out-of-home care reside. Journal of Public Child Welfare. 2020; 14:320-335.

Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ; Antommaria, AH M. Perspectives on informed consent practices for minimal-risk research involving foster youth. Pediatrics. 2020; 145:e20192845-e20192845.

Corathers, SD; Yi-Frazier, JP; Kichler, JC; Gilliam, LK; Watts, G; Houchen, A; Beal, S. Development and Implementation of the Readiness Assessment of Emerging Adults With Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosed in Youth (READDY) Tool. Diabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association. 2020; 33:99-103.

Beal, SJ; Kashikar-Zuck, S; King, C; Black, W; Barnes, J; Noll, JG. Heightened risk of pain in young adult women with a history of childhood maltreatment: A prospective longitudinal study. Pain. 2020; 161:156-165.

Noll, JG; Guastaferro, K; Beal, SJ; Schreier, HM C; Barnes, J; Reader, JM; Font, SA. Is Sexual Abuse a Unique Predictor of Sexual Risk Behaviors, Pregnancy, and Motherhood in Adolescence?. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 2019; 29:967-983.

Dexheimer, JW; Beal, SJ; Divekar, P; Hall, ES; Patel, V; Greiner, MV. Automated patient linking for electronic health record and child welfare databases. Journal of Technology in Human Services. 2019; 37:286-292.

Feldman, KW; Lindberg, DM; Coffman, J; Bretl, D; Harper, N; Deye, K; Laskey, AL; Harris, T; Duralde, Y; Donaruma-Kwoh, M; et al. Clinically occult abusive head trauma: which age group should we screen?. Pediatric Radiology: roentgenology, nuclear medicine, ultrasonics, CT, MRI. 2019; 49:1378-1379.

Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ; Dexheimer, JW; Divekar, P; Patel, V; Hall, ES. Improving Information Sharing for Youth in Foster Care. Pediatrics. 2019; 144:e20190580-e20190580.

Dexheimer, JW; Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ; Johnson, D; Kachelmeyer, A; Vaughn, LM. Sharing personal health record data elements in protective custody: Youth and stakeholder perspectives. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2019; 26:714-721.

Beal, SJ; Wingrove, T; Mara, CA; Lutz, N; Noll, JG; Greiner, MV. Childhood Adversity and Associated Psychosocial Function in Adolescents with Complex Trauma. Child and Youth Care Forum: an independent journal of day and residential child and youth care practice. 2019; 48:305-322.

Melville, JD; Hertz, SK; Steiner, RD; Lindberg, DM; Coffman, J; Bretl, D; Harper, N; Deye, K; Laskey, AL; Harris, T; et al. Use of Imaging in Children With Witnessed Physical Abuse. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2019; 35:245-248.

Beal, SJ; Wingrove, T; Nause, K; Lipstein, E; Mathieu, S; Greiner, MV. The role of shared decision-making in shaping intent to access services for adolescents in protective custody. Child Care in Practice. 2019; 25:64-78.

Kugler, KC; Guastaferro, K; Shenk, CE; Beal, SJ; Zadzora, KM; Noll, JG. The effect of substantiated and unsubstantiated investigations of child maltreatment and subsequent adolescent health. Child Abuse and Neglect. 2019; 87:112-119.

Greiner, M; Beal, S; Allen, A; Patel, V; Meinzen-Derr, J; Antommaria, A. Who Speaks for Me?: Addressing Variability in Informed Consent Practices for Minimal Risk Research Involving Foster Youth. 2018; 11:111-131.

Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ. Developing a Health Care System for Children in Foster Care. Health Promotion Practice. 2018; 19:621-628.

Messer, EP; Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ; Eismann, EA; Cassedy, A; Gurwitch, RH; Boat, BW; Bensman, H; Bemerer, J; Hennigan, M; et al. Child adult relationship enhancement (CARE): A brief, skills-building training for foster caregivers to increase positive parenting practices. Children and Youth Services Review. 2018; 90:74-82.

Tillery, R; Beal, SJ; Thompson, AN; Pai, AL H. Relationship between cancer-related traumatic stress and family milestone achievement in adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2018; 65:e26998-e26998.

Beal, SJ; Dorn, LD; Berga, SL. Examining the Validity of Self-reported Primary and Secondary Exposure to Cigarette Smoke in Adolescent Girls: The Utility of Salivary Cotinine as a Biomarker. Substance Use and Misuse. 2018; 53:792-799.

Beal, SJ; Tillery, R; Wu, YP; Thompson, AN; Pai, A. Future orientation in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors and unaffected peers. Psycho-Oncology: journal of the psychological, social and behavioral dimensions of cancer. 2018; 27:1078-1081.

Beal, SJ; Nause, K; Crosby, I; Greiner, MV. Understanding health risks for adolescents in protective custody. Journal of Applied Research on Children. 2018; 9.

Waite, D; Greiner, MV; Laris, Z. Putting families first: How the opioid epidemic is affecting children and families, and the child welfare policy options to address it. Journal of Applied Research on Children. 2018; 9:1-35.

Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ; Nause, K; Staat, MA; Dexheimer, JW; Scribano, PV. Laboratory Screening for Children Entering Foster Care. Pediatrics. 2017; 140:e20163778-e20163778.

Greiner, MV; Beal, SJ. Foster care is associated with poor mental health in children. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2017; 182:404-404.

Kupzyk, KA; Beal, SJ. Advanced Issues in Propensity Scores: Longitudinal and Missing Data. Journal of Early Adolescence. 2017; 37:59-84.

Wingrove, T; Beal, SJ; Weisz, V. Father Involvement in Dependency Review Hearings. Journal of Public Child Welfare. 2016; 10:495-504.

Beal, SJ; Crockett, LJ; Peugh, J. Adolescents' Changing Future Expectations Predict the Timing of Adult Role Transitions. Developmental Psychology. 2016; 52:1606-1618.

Beal, SJ; Riddle, IK; Kichler, JC; Duncan, A; Houchen, A; Casnellie, L; Woodward, J; Corathers, SD. The Associations of Chronic Condition Type and Individual Characteristics With Transition Readiness. Academic Pediatrics. 2016; 16:660-667.

Beal, SJ; Grimm, KJ; Dorn, LD; Susman, EJ. Morningness-Eveningness and Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls: Menarche as a Transition Point. Child Development. 2016; 87:1106-1114.

Pawlik, MC; Kemp, A; Maguire, S; Nuttall, D; Feldman, KW; Lindberg, DM; Coffman, J; Bretl, D; Harper, N; Deye, K; et al. Children with burns referred for child abuse evaluation: Burn characteristics and co-existent injuries. Child Abuse and Neglect. 2016; 55:52-61.

Beal, SJ; Greiner, MV. Children in nonparental care: health and social risks. Pediatric Research. 2016; 79:184-190.