Ph.D. 1981, University of Washington. Ecological models of well-being for women, children, and families; population-based approaches to prevention of social and health problems.
Department: Social Work
Position: Professor
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Research Summary:Lewayne Gilchrist is Endowed Professor of Social Work Practice and Women's Health and Acting Dean. Her research in the past three years has continued to examine the impact on children of birth to and rearing by an adolescent mother. This program of research has both substantive and methodological components. The methodological component applies various approaches to cluster analysis to longitudinal data to identify substantively meaningful groupings of mothers and of children based on their developmental patterns (individual trajectories) over time. The method permits the empirical identification of pathways toward a specific outcome in the absence of theory for making a priori decisions predicting membership in specific pathways. The substantive component of her work addresses disentangling the tandem risks over time for both adolescent mothers and their children to improve theory regarding the intergenerational transmission of risk and the components of resilience. One aspect of the work addresses health behavior among adolescent mothers and their children--specifically onset and escalation of drug use and sexual risk taking. A recent paper identified groups of young mothers by the pattern of the frequency and quantity of their alcohol use and links these patterns to health and behavioral outcomes in young adulthood. Overall, the 16-year long study has yielded a series of papers documenting pathways in and out of health risk and through differing family configurations as adolescent mothers move from middle adolescence through young adulthood.
Recent Publications:- Morrison, D. M.; Lohr, M. J.; Beadnell, B.; Gillmore, M. R.; Lewis, S.; Gilchrist, L., (Forthcoming), Young mothers’ decisions to use marijuana: A test of an expanded theory of planned behavior, Psychology and Health.
- Gillmore, M. R.; Gilchrist, L.; Lee, J.; Oxford, M. L., (2006), Women Who Gave Birth as Unmarried Adolescents: Trends in Substance Use from Adolescence to Adulthood, Journal of Adolescent Health, 39: 2, 237.
- Oxford, M. L.; Gilchrist, L. D.; Gillmore, M. R.; Lohr, M. J., (2006), Predicting Variation in the Life Course of Adolescent Mothers as They Enter Adulthood, Journal of Adolescent Health, 39: 1, 20.
- Gilchrist, L.; Keller, T. E.; Spieker, S. J., (2005), Patterns of risk and trajectories of preschool problem behaviors: A person-oriented analysis of attachment in context, Developmental Psychopathology.
- Oxford, M. L.; Gilchrist, L.; Lohr, M. J.; Gillmore, M. R.; Morrison, D. M.; Spieker, S. J., (2005), Life course heterogeneity in the transition from adolescence to adulthood among adolescent mothers., Journal of Research on Adolescents, 15: 4, 479-504.
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