Becci Akin

Becci Akin

University of Kansas

H-index: 24

North America-United States

About Becci Akin

Becci Akin, With an exceptional h-index of 24 and a recent h-index of 19 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Kansas, specializes in the field of Social Work, Child Welfare, Implementation Science, Intervention Research.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Honoring Family: Using parent partner expertise to strengthen a child welfare coaching program

Preventive Legal Services for Kinship Care: Reducing the Need for Foster Care with Family First

Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals

“I Ran to Make a Point”: Predicting and Preventing Youth Runaway from Foster Care

The helping relationship in the foster care context: perspectives from parent-caseworker dyads

‘Shown love from the brokenness of a system’: Themes from a Poetic Inquiry Reimagining Child Welfare

‘Youth are not something to check off your to do list’: Poetic inquiry into the symbols youth, parents and professionals use to reimagine supports for youth in foster care

Using Institutional Analysis to Examine the Systemic Sources of Racial Disproportionality and Disparity

Becci Akin Information

University

Position

Associate Professor

Citations(all)

1596

Citations(since 2020)

1060

Cited By

889

hIndex(all)

24

hIndex(since 2020)

19

i10Index(all)

39

i10Index(since 2020)

35

Email

University Profile Page

University of Kansas

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Becci Akin Skills & Research Interests

Social Work

Child Welfare

Implementation Science

Intervention Research

Top articles of Becci Akin

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Honoring Family: Using parent partner expertise to strengthen a child welfare coaching program

Children and Youth Services Review

Stacy Dunkerley

Amanda Brown

Becci Akin

Vickie McArthur

2024/4/1

Preventive Legal Services for Kinship Care: Reducing the Need for Foster Care with Family First

Families in Society

Amanda Rose Brown

Kaela Byers

Priya Vanchy Kadavasal

Dennis Alford

April L Diaz

...

2024/3

Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals

Journal of Public Child Welfare

Shelby L Clark

Brennan Miller

Becci A Akin

Kaela Byers

Kelechi Wright

...

2024/1/27

“I Ran to Make a Point”: Predicting and Preventing Youth Runaway from Foster Care

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Kaela Byers

Jared Barton

Whitney Grube

Jessica Wesley

Becci A Akin

...

2023/6/7

The helping relationship in the foster care context: perspectives from parent-caseworker dyads

Journal of Family Social Work

Stacy Dunkerley

Ashley Palmer

Becci Akin

Jody Brook

2023/1/1

‘Shown love from the brokenness of a system’: Themes from a Poetic Inquiry Reimagining Child Welfare

The British Journal of Social Work

Shelby L Clark

Becci A Akin

Sarah McCall

Kaela Byers

Mariana Gomez

2023/11/15

‘Youth are not something to check off your to do list’: Poetic inquiry into the symbols youth, parents and professionals use to reimagine supports for youth in foster care

Child & Family Social Work

Shelby L Clark

Becci A Akin

Sarah McCall

Meg Paceley

Kaela Byers

...

2023/8

Using Institutional Analysis to Examine the Systemic Sources of Racial Disproportionality and Disparity

Child Welfare

Kelechi Wright

Becci A Akin

Kaela Byers

Sarah McCall

Dennis Alford

...

2022/1/1

Barriers to services at the intersection of child maltreatment and domestic violence: a multi-perspective analysis of parents with lived experience and professionals

Journal of Family Violence

Linda Chimwemwe Banda

Juliana Carlson

April Diaz

Becci A Akin

Lonna Davis

...

2022/12/19

Randomized controlled trial study examining positive emotions and hope in solution-focused brief therapy with substance using parents involved in child welfare system

International Journal of Systemic Therapy

Johnny S Kim

Jody Brook

Kiley W. Liming

In Young Park

Becci A Akin

...

2022/7/3

Implementation drivers as practical measures of data-driven decision-making: An initial validation study in early childhood programs

Global Implementation Research and Applications

Jared L Barton

Becci A Akin

2022/6

Child welfare caseworker and trainer perspectives on initial implementation of a trauma-informed practice approach

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Stacy Dunkerley

Becci A Akin

Jody Brook

Kim Bruns

2021/4

Driving organization and systems change toward trauma-responsive services in child welfare: Supervisor and administrator perspectives on initial implementation

Journal of Public Child Welfare

Becci A Akin

Stacy Dunkerley

Jody Brook

Kim Bruns

2021/3/15

Adverse childhood experiences and foster care placement stability

Pediatrics

Kiley W Liming

Becci Akin

Jody Brook

2021/12/1

Cumulative adverse childhood experiences among children in foster care and the association with reunification: a survival analysis

Child abuse & neglect

Kiley W Liming

Jody Brook

Becci Akin

2021/3/1

Screening for trauma and behavioral health needs in child welfare: Practice implications for promoting placement stability

Child Abuse & Neglect

Becci A Akin

Crystal Collins-Camargo

Jessica Strolin-Goltzman

Becky Antle

A Nathan Verbist

...

2021/12/1

The whitewashing of social work history: How dismantling racism in social work education begins with an equitable history of the profession

Advances in Social Work

Kelechi C Wright

Kortney Angela Carr

Becci A Akin

2021/9/23

Randomized controlled trial of solution-focused brief therapy for substance-use-disorder-affected parents involved in the child welfare system

Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

Johnny S Kim

Jody Brook

Becci Akin

2021/9/1

A future of strength: The Strengths Perspective and developing social workers

Shelby L Clark

Becci A Akin

Kelechi Wright

2020

Lessons Learned from Facilitating Youth Directed, Participatory Action Research in a State-Wide Study of Child Welfare Services

Shelby L Clark

Sarah McCall

Becci A Akin

2020/11/19

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Co-Authors

H-index: 101
Todd D. Little

Todd D. Little

Texas Tech University

H-index: 39
Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez

Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez

Utah State University

H-index: 33
Mark F. Testa

Mark F. Testa

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

H-index: 30
Johnny S. Kim

Johnny S. Kim

University of Denver

H-index: 23
Jessica Strolin-Goltzman

Jessica Strolin-Goltzman

University of Vermont

H-index: 21
Jody Brook

Jody Brook

University of Kansas

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