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Sandra P. Thomas is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research contributes to the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to Mental Health Treatment and Access, Nursing education and management, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19.

Sandra P. Thomas has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Issues in Mental Health Nursing
  • AJN American Journal of Nursing
  • International Journal of Qualitative Methods
  • Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

Their recent papers cover a range of topics and include:

  • From Uncomfortable Squirm to Self-Discovery: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Bracketing Experience, 2023, International Journal of Qualitative Methods
  • Resolving tensions in phenomenological research interviewing, 2020, Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Kids helping kids: The lived experience of adolescents who support friends with mental health needs, 2020, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
  • Nurse staffing legislation: Empirical evidence and policy analysis, 2021, Nursing Forum
  • Focus on Depression and Suicide in the Era of COVID-19, 2020, Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Collaborations are noted with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Marissa Bartmess
  • Carole R. Myers
  • Kendrea Todt
  • Katherine Morgan
  • Brian K. Sohn

Best Publications

  • Listening to Patients: A Phenomenological Approach to Nursing Research and Practice

    Sandra P. Thomas;Howard R. Pollio

  • “Take my hand, help me out:” Mental health service recipients’ experience of the therapeutic relationship

    Mona M. Shattell;Sharon S. Starr;Sandra P. Thomas

  • “A Fly in the Buttermilk”: Descriptions of University Life by Successful Black Undergraduate Students at a Predominately White Southeastern University

    Mitzi Davis;Yvonne Dias-Bowie;Katherine Greenberg;Gary Klukken

  • Problematic interviewee behaviors in qualitative research.

    Melinda Collins;Mona Shattell;Sandra P. Thomas

  • How patients and nurses experience the acute care psychiatric environment

    Mona M. Shattell;Melanie Andes;Sandra P. Thomas

  • Through the lens of Merleau‐Ponty: advancing the phenomenological approach to nursing research

    Sandra P. Thomas

  • What?s therapeutic about the therapeutic milieu?

    Sandra P. Thomas;Mona Shattell;Tracey Martin

  • Junior Nursing Students' Experiences of Vertical Violence During Clinical Rotations

    Sandra Thomas;Renee Burk

  • Hearing the Voices of Students and Teachers: A Phenomenological Approach to Educational Research

    Brian Kelleher Sohn;Sandra P. Thomas;Katherine H. Greenberg;Howard R. Pollio

  • A phenomenologic study of chronic pain.

    Sandra P. Thomas;Mary Johnson

  • “She Took the Time to Make Sure She Understood”: Mental Health Patients' Experiences of Being Understood

    Mona M. Shattell;Sara McAllister;Beverly Hogan;Sandra P. Thomas

  • Living with postpartum depression: the father's experience

    Molly Meighan;Mitzi W. Davis;Sandra P. Thomas;Patricia G. Droppleman

  • Life Trajectories of Female Child Abuse Survivors Thriving in Adulthood

    Sandra P. Thomas;Joanne M. Hall

  • School connectedness, anger behaviors, and relationships of violent and nonviolent American youth.

    Sandra P. Thomas;Helen Smith

  • Adolescent stress and coping: A longitudinal study

    Maureen W. Groër;Sandra P. Thomas;Dava Shoffner

  • Women and Anger

    Sandra P. Thomas

  • Gender differences in anger expression: Health implications

    Sandra P. Thomas

  • Handling Anger in the Teacher-Student Relationship.

    Sandra P. Thomas

  • The downward spiral of postpartum depression.

    Angela F. Wood;Sandra P. Thomas;Patricia G. Droppleman;Mary (Molly) Meighan

  • Women's anger, aggression, and violence

    Sandra P Thomas

  • World Health Assembly adopts comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan for 2013-2020.

    Sandra P. Thomas

  • Mental Health Nursing

    Sandra Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig J. Thompson
Craig J. Thompson University of Wisconsin–Madison

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