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Overview

Brett Drake is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology, social sciences, and health professions, with extensive contributions in clinical psychology, general health professions, safety research, sociology and political science, and health.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Social Work Education and Practice
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement

Their recent publications showcase their active engagement with child welfare and maltreatment research. Selected recent papers are:

  • "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Child Protective Services Reporting, Substantiation and Placement, With Comparison to Non-CPS Risks and Outcomes: 2005-2019" (2023) in Child Maltreatment
  • "A Practical Framework for Considering the Use of Predictive Risk Modeling in Child Welfare" (2020) in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • "Research to Consider While Effectively Re-Designing Child Welfare Services" (2021) in Research on Social Work Practice
  • "Outcomes following child welfare services: what are they and do they differ for black children?" (2020) in Journal of Public Child Welfare
  • "Has the relationship between community poverty and child maltreatment report rates become stronger or weaker over time?" (2023) in Child Abuse & Neglect

Brett Drake frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Melissa Jonson-Reid
  • Dylan Jones
  • Hyunil Kim
  • Richard P. Barth
  • Jun-Hong Chen

Their work appears regularly in a number of publication venues known for social work and child welfare research. These include:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Research on Social Work Practice
  • Child Maltreatment
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • Social Science & Medicine

The research contributions of Brett Drake cover a broad scope of child welfare, child abuse, and trauma-related issues, with significant attention to racial and ethnic disparities, risk assessment methodologies, and community factors related to child maltreatment.

Best Publications

  • Understanding the relationship between neighborhood poverty and specific types of child maltreatment.

    Brett Drake;Shanta Pandey

  • Lifetime Prevalence of Investigating Child Maltreatment Among US Children

    Hyunil Kim;Christopher Wildeman;Melissa Jonson-Reid;Brett Drake

  • Time to Leave Substantiation Behind: Findings From A National Probability Study

    Patricia L. Kohl;Melissa Jonson-Reid;Brett Drake

  • A structural equation model of burnout and job exit among child protective services workers

    Brett Drake;Gautam N. Yadama

  • Child and Adult Outcomes of Chronic Child Maltreatment

    Melissa Jonson-Reid;Patricia L. Kohl;Brett Drake

  • Racial Bias in Child Protection? A Comparison of Competing Explanations Using National Data

    Brett Drake;Jennifer M. Jolley;Paul Lanier;John D. Fluke

  • Substantiation and recidivism.

    Brett Drake;Melissa Jonson-Reid;Ineke Way;Sulki Chung

  • Race and child maltreatment reporting: Are Blacks overrepresented?

    Brett Drake;Sang Moo Lee;Melissa Jonson-Reid

  • A prospective analysis of the relationship between reported child maltreatment and special education eligibility among poor children

    Melissa Jonson-Reid;Brett Drake;Jaeyeun Kim;Shirley Porterfield

  • Is the overrepresentation of the poor in child welfare caseloads due to bias or need

    Melissa Jonson-Reid;Brett Drake;Patricia L. Kohl

  • Child maltreatment risk as a function of poverty and race/ethnicity in the USA

    Hyunil Kim;Brett Drake

  • Poverty and Child Maltreatment

    Brett Drake;Melissa Jonson-Reid

  • Child Maltreatment and Pediatric Health Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study of Low-income Children

    Paul Lanier;Melissa Jonson-Reid;Mary Jo Stahlschmidt;Brett Drake

  • Cross-type recidivism among child maltreatment victims and perpetrators.

    Melissa Jonson-Reid;Brett Drake;Seockhoon Chung;Ineke Way

  • Rereporting of child maltreatment: Does participation in other public sector services moderate the likelihood of a second maltreatment report?

    Brett Drake;Melissa Jonson-Reid;Lina Sapokaite

  • Neglect subtypes, race, and poverty: individual, family, and service characteristics.

    Melissa Jonson-Reid;Brett Drake;Pan Zhou

  • Unraveling “Unsubstantiated”

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  • The Operationalization, Implementation, and Effectiveness of the Strengths Perspective: A Review of Empirical Studies

    Marlys Staudt;Matthew O. Howard;Brett Drake

  • Relationship Competencies in Child Welfare Services

    Brett Drake

  • The racial divide among American children in poverty: Reassessing the importance of neighborhood

    Brett Drake;Mark R. Rank

  • Differential Response: What to Make of the Existing Research? A Response to Hughes et al.

    Brett Drake

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa Jonson-Reid
Melissa Jonson-Reid Washington University in St. Louis
John N. Constantino
John N. Constantino Washington University in St. Louis
Richard P. Barth
Richard P. Barth University of Maryland, Baltimore
Luis H. Zayas
Luis H. Zayas The University of Texas at Austin
Laura J. Bierut
Laura J. Bierut Washington University in St. Louis
Scott C. Roesch
Scott C. Roesch San Diego State University
Christopher Wildeman
Christopher Wildeman Duke University

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