Katherine Tyson McCrea, Ph.D., Professor, earned B.A. and M.Div. degrees from Yale University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration. She received a Doctorate, Honoris Causa, from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, in June, 2015. Recognized as a Master Teacher by the Council on Social Work Education since 1994, she developed social work curriculum about child treatment, philosophy of research, and global social work practice. A Fulbright Senior Specialist, she taught seminars for social workers from the U.S. and abroad (Korea, Lithuania, Italy, Greece, Finland, and Thailand), in-person and through video-conference methods. Her publications have focused on 1) improving services for disadvantaged persons, especially children and homeless adults, and 2) a practitioner-relevant philosophy of research for the social and behavioral sciences with a focus on participatory action methods. The founding Editor-in-Chief of Illinois Child Welfare, she developed the journal so that it has become international and multidisciplinary, with a practice-oriented emphasis (see www.illinoischildwelfare.org).
Since 2006 she has been the Principal Investigator for the participatory-action–based Empowering Counseling Program (ECP), which provides clinical social work and after-school services (see www.standuphelpout.org) for disadvantaged children and youth in Chicago’s Bronzeville and Woodlawn communities. The Empowering Counseling Program has received over $500,000 in funding from After School Matters, the Illinois Violence Prevention Program, the McCormick Tribune Foundation, and the Gabe W. Miller Memorial Foundation. The ECP has educated 38 masters and doctoral level social workers, and served over 500 disadvantaged children and youth. ECP research has yielded two dissertations, several journal articles, and local, national, and international presentations. As Empowering Counseling Program PI, Prof. McCrea is a Co-Principal Investigator, in partnership with Prof. and PI Maryse Richard's Risk and Resilience Lab, in a $1 million Department of Justice award, studying the development of resilience via cross-age mentoring for youth living in high-poverty, high-crime Chicago communities.
Professor Tyson McCrea’s current research foci are 1) improving clinical social work models for traumatized, disadvantaged children and youth, 2) the development of compassion in disadvantaged youth through processes such as cross-age mentoring, 3) global social work with a focus on child welfare, and 4) participatory action research. She lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.
Since 2006 she has been the Principal Investigator for the participatory-action–based Empowering Counseling Program (ECP), which provides clinical social work and after-school services (see www.standuphelpout.org) for disadvantaged children and youth in Chicago’s Bronzeville and Woodlawn communities. The Empowering Counseling Program has received over $500,000 in funding from After School Matters, the Illinois Violence Prevention Program, the McCormick Tribune Foundation, and the Gabe W. Miller Memorial Foundation. The ECP has educated 38 masters and doctoral level social workers, and served over 500 disadvantaged children and youth. ECP research has yielded two dissertations, several journal articles, and local, national, and international presentations. As Empowering Counseling Program PI, Prof. McCrea is a Co-Principal Investigator, in partnership with Prof. and PI Maryse Richard's Risk and Resilience Lab, in a $1 million Department of Justice award, studying the development of resilience via cross-age mentoring for youth living in high-poverty, high-crime Chicago communities.
Professor Tyson McCrea’s current research foci are 1) improving clinical social work models for traumatized, disadvantaged children and youth, 2) the development of compassion in disadvantaged youth through processes such as cross-age mentoring, 3) global social work with a focus on child welfare, and 4) participatory action research. She lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.
Contact:
Loyola University Chicago
School of Social Work
1 E. Pearson St.
Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: (312) 915-7028
E-Mail: [email protected]
Loyola University Chicago
School of Social Work
1 E. Pearson St.
Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: (312) 915-7028
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Recent Publications
Onyeka, O. Richards, M., McCrea, K. Tyson, Miller, K. Matthews, C., Donnelly, W., Sarna, V., Kessler, J., Swint, K. (revise and resubmit, in press). The Role of Positive Youth Development in Mental Health and the Development of Critical Consciousness for Youth of Color living in High-Stress Communities: A Strengths-Based Approach. Psychological Services.
Wathen, Maria, Decker, P., Richards, M., McCrea, K. Tyson, Onyeka, C., DiClemente, C., Donnelly, W. (2021). Towards Improving Engagement of Youth of Color in Preventive Interventions. Children and Youth Services Review. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740921001110?dgcid=author.
McCrea, Katherine Tyson and Gillespie, C. Kevin, S.J. (2021). “The Flow that pushes you”: Christocentric perspectives on the compassion expressed by African American Chicago youth suffering profound disadvantage. Pastoral Psychology. Online first: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11089-021-00964-3. Doi: 10.1007/s11089-021-00964-3.
Kevin M. Miller, Heather Watson, Nikki Malazarte, Chana Matthews, Enneseca Miller, Tiera McGary, &, Tamia-Eve Wronowski, LaDarrien Prince, McCrea, K. Tyson. (2020). Law Under Curious Minds Youth Advocates: A Black and Latinx Youth Centered Virtual Public Investigation of the Impact of COVID-19 in Chicago In: Children’s Rights in the Time of COVID-19. Video and text available at: https://www.luc.edu/law/currentstudents/events/eventsdirectory/childrens-rights-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
Asta Kiaunytė, Jonas Ruškus, Roberta Žadeikytė, McCrea, K. Tyson. (2021). Even in fateful situations a vital optimism remains: Social work “accompaniment” with persons with cancer. Qualitative Report, 26, 5, https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol26/iss5/16/.
Onyeka, O., Phan, J., Matthews, C., Granot, Y., Richards, M. & McCrea, K. Tyson. (in press). Police beats and city streets: Examining Black and Latinx youth perceptions of police and safety. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Onyeka, Cynthia, Miller, Kevin, Matthews, Chana, Moore, Amzie, McCrea, K. Tyson and Richards, M. (2020). Community Collaborations with Saving Lives, Inspiring Youth: A Community-Based Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program. The Community Psychologist, (Winter), 22-25.
McCrea, K. Tyson, Richards, M.H., Quimby, D., Scott, D., Davis, L., Thomas, A., Hart, S., and Hopson, S. (2019). Understanding Violence and Developing Resilience with African American Youth in High-Poverty, High-Crime Communities. Children and Youth Services Review. 99, 296-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.12.018.
Richards, M., Dusing, C. R., Miller, K., Onyeka, O., Moore, A., Phan, J., Quimby, D., & McCrea, K. Tyson (accepted). Stress, resilience, and empowerment: A trauma-informed mentoring model for youth of color. In B. Butler, L. Garo, & C. Lewis (Eds.) The Urban Educator’s Trauma Toolkit: Transformative School-Based Strategies for Children Exposed to Violence.
Richards, M., McCrea, K. Tyson, Rice, C., Onyeka, C. & DiClemente, C. (in press). Saving Lives and Inspiring Youth (S.L.I.Y): A Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program. Bulletin of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs.
Richards, M.H., McCrea, K. Tyson, Dusing, C.R., DiClemente, C., Deane, K., Quimby, D. (2017). Interim report for the evaluation of a cross-age peer mentoring program for youth in high violence Chicago communities. Office of Justice Programs’ National Criminal Justice Reference Service. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/grants/251379.pdf.
Wathen, Maria, Decker, P., Richards, M., McCrea, K. Tyson, Onyeka, C., DiClemente, C., Donnelly, W. (2021). Towards Improving Engagement of Youth of Color in Preventive Interventions. Children and Youth Services Review. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740921001110?dgcid=author.
McCrea, Katherine Tyson and Gillespie, C. Kevin, S.J. (2021). “The Flow that pushes you”: Christocentric perspectives on the compassion expressed by African American Chicago youth suffering profound disadvantage. Pastoral Psychology. Online first: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11089-021-00964-3. Doi: 10.1007/s11089-021-00964-3.
Kevin M. Miller, Heather Watson, Nikki Malazarte, Chana Matthews, Enneseca Miller, Tiera McGary, &, Tamia-Eve Wronowski, LaDarrien Prince, McCrea, K. Tyson. (2020). Law Under Curious Minds Youth Advocates: A Black and Latinx Youth Centered Virtual Public Investigation of the Impact of COVID-19 in Chicago In: Children’s Rights in the Time of COVID-19. Video and text available at: https://www.luc.edu/law/currentstudents/events/eventsdirectory/childrens-rights-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
Asta Kiaunytė, Jonas Ruškus, Roberta Žadeikytė, McCrea, K. Tyson. (2021). Even in fateful situations a vital optimism remains: Social work “accompaniment” with persons with cancer. Qualitative Report, 26, 5, https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol26/iss5/16/.
Onyeka, O., Phan, J., Matthews, C., Granot, Y., Richards, M. & McCrea, K. Tyson. (in press). Police beats and city streets: Examining Black and Latinx youth perceptions of police and safety. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Onyeka, Cynthia, Miller, Kevin, Matthews, Chana, Moore, Amzie, McCrea, K. Tyson and Richards, M. (2020). Community Collaborations with Saving Lives, Inspiring Youth: A Community-Based Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program. The Community Psychologist, (Winter), 22-25.
McCrea, K. Tyson, Richards, M.H., Quimby, D., Scott, D., Davis, L., Thomas, A., Hart, S., and Hopson, S. (2019). Understanding Violence and Developing Resilience with African American Youth in High-Poverty, High-Crime Communities. Children and Youth Services Review. 99, 296-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.12.018.
Richards, M., Dusing, C. R., Miller, K., Onyeka, O., Moore, A., Phan, J., Quimby, D., & McCrea, K. Tyson (accepted). Stress, resilience, and empowerment: A trauma-informed mentoring model for youth of color. In B. Butler, L. Garo, & C. Lewis (Eds.) The Urban Educator’s Trauma Toolkit: Transformative School-Based Strategies for Children Exposed to Violence.
Richards, M., McCrea, K. Tyson, Rice, C., Onyeka, C. & DiClemente, C. (in press). Saving Lives and Inspiring Youth (S.L.I.Y): A Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program. Bulletin of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs.
Richards, M.H., McCrea, K. Tyson, Dusing, C.R., DiClemente, C., Deane, K., Quimby, D. (2017). Interim report for the evaluation of a cross-age peer mentoring program for youth in high violence Chicago communities. Office of Justice Programs’ National Criminal Justice Reference Service. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/grants/251379.pdf.