Alaina Brenick
Associate Professor/Human Dev and Family Sciences
Scholarly Contributions

186 Scholarly Contributions

130
Poster/Presentations
44
Journal Articles
6
Editorships
6
Book Chapters
1Anti-racist principles to guide policy and practice in SRCD
2024
Leondra O Rogers, Alaina Brenick
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Together we rise: Community partnerships and interventions as agents of social justice for youth. 
2024
Isha Metzger, Rianne E Anderson, Leondra O Rogers, Alaina Brenick, Maria Larusso
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1.RWA mediates Support for Right to Housing and Critical Action 
2024
Katelyn Pitcher, Alaina Brenick, Sydney Klein
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More than policy: Queer experiences of non-inclusive sexual-health education
2024
Grace Goldberg, Alexa Udell, Liam Cohen, Alaina Brenick, Aria B Kowalski, Emily Herry
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Toward Anti-racist publication practices: Perspectives and recommendations from experts.
2024
Shelbi Matlock, Lauren Bader, Dawn Witherspoon, Tiffany Yip, Miao Qian, Gilda Morelli, Tiyobisha Maereg, Alaina Brenick
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Mindful development: Promoting psychological and professional well-being of Palestinian teachers during Covid-19. Paper presented at the t, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2023
Alaina Brenick
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Dismantling Discrimination: A Qualitative Assessment of Transgender and Nonbinary Youth’s Interpersonal and Institutional School-Based Discrimination
2023
Alaina Brenick
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Empathy in action: Justice, care, service, and activism in the lives of adolescents.
2023
Alaina Brenick
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Why Step in? Shifting Justifications for Bystander Behaviors Among Youth in the Middle-East Through Interventions.
2023
Alaina Brenick
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Educator Well-being During the Covid-19 Pandemic
2023
Alaina Brenick
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Judgments of and responses to intergroup bias-based bullying: Assessing race, Immigrant background, and school climate
2023
Alaina Brenick
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The role of teachers in how U.S. youth evaluate and respond to immigrant biased-based bullying.
2023
Alaina Brenick
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Acculturative development of South Asian-American late adolescent and emerging adult second-generation immigrants.
2023
Alaina Brenick
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†Karna, A., *Wu, R., Kelly, M. C., Berger, R., & ‡Brenick, A. (2023, March). Observations of compassion: Examining mindfulness- and empathy-based interventions as facilitators of compassion amongst Jewish-Israeli kindergarteners. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2023
Alaina Brenick
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Ethnic identity associated with second-generation, South Asian-American young adults.
2022
Ankita Karna, Alaina Brenick, Sydney Klein
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Purposeful Harm? Evaluating White and Black Transgressors in Bullying Scenarios
2022
Alaina Brenick, M Johnson, Rui Wu, T Rangel
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The intersections of social justice and your professional world
2022
Alaina Brenick
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Take a stand!?: Youth well-being and victimization bystander intervention in the U.S.
2022
Alaina Brenick
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Promoting positive intergroup relations amidst conflict: Contact v. skills-training interventions.
2022
Alaina Brenick
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Can Mindfulness Interventions Increase Prosocial Behaviors in Jewish-Israeli Kindergarten Children? Mindful Versus Empathy-based Approaches.
2022
Rony Berger, Alaina Brenick, Sydney Klein, Joy Benatov
Research Type: Poster/Presentation