Brian D. Christens

Best Publications

• Toward Relational Empowerment

  Brian D. Christens

  489
  Citations

• The psychology and practice of youth-adult partnership: bridging generations for youth development and community change.

  Shepherd Zeldin;Brian D. Christens;Jane L. Powers

  477
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• Interweaving Youth Development, Community Development, and Social Change Through Youth Organizing

  Brian D. Christens;Tom Dolan

  325
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• The Role of Empowerment in Youth Development: A Study of Sociopolitical Control as Mediator of Ecological Systems' Influence on Developmental Outcomes

  Brian D. Christens;N. Andrew Peterson

  311
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• Targeting empowerment in community development: a community psychology approach to enhancing local power and well-being

  Brian D. Christens

  229
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• Community Participation and Psychological Empowerment Testing Reciprocal Causality Using a Cross-Lagged Panel Design and Latent Constructs

  Brian D. Christens;N. Andrew Peterson;Paul W. Speer

  213
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• Measuring youth empowerment: validation of a Sociopolitical Control Scale for Youth in an urban community context

  N. Andrew Peterson;Christina Hamme Peterson;Lynn Agre;Brian D. Christens

  185
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• Widening the view: situating collective impact among frameworks for community-led change

  Brian D. Christens;Paula Tran Inzeo

  176
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• Community Organizing: Practice, Research, and Policy Implications

  Brian D. Christens;Paul W. Speer

  154
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• Taking stock of youth organizing: An interdisciplinary perspective

  Brian D. Christens;Ben Kirshner

  146
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• Empowerment and Critical Consciousness: A Conceptual Cross-Fertilization

  Brian D. Christens;Lawrence T. Winn;Adrienne M. Duke

  143
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• PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP BUILDING IN GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: RELATIONAL INTERVENTION FOR INDIVIDUAL AND SYSTEMS CHANGE

  Brian D. Christens

  141
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• Critical Hopefulness: A Person-Centered Analysis of the Intersection of Cognitive and Emotional Empowerment

  Brian D. Christens;Jessica J. Collura;Faizan Tahir

  137
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• Contextual influences on participation in community organizing: a multilevel longitudinal study.

  Brian D. Christens;Paul W. Speer

  136
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• Transdisciplinary, multilevel action research to enhance ecological and psychopolitical validity

  Brian Christens;Douglas D. Perkins

  133
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• Review Essay: Tyranny/Transformation: Power and Paradox in Participatory Development

  Brian Christens;Paul W. Speer

  120
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• Youth civic development: Historical context and emerging issues

  Constance A. Flanagan;Brian D. Christens

  120
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• Social class as moderator of the relationship between (dis)empowering processes and psychological empowerment

  Brian D. Christens;Paul W. Speer;N. Andrew Peterson

  103
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• Pathways to Well-being among LGBT adults: Sociopolitical Involvement, Family Support, Outness, and Community Connectedness with Race/Ethnicity as a Moderator

  Leah Marion Roberts;Brian D Christens

  96
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• Community Power and Empowerment

  Brian D. Christens

  88
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