Priscilla A. Gibson
Assistant Professor
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) Office: 265
Peters Hall
Phone: (612) 624-3678
E-mail: pgibson@umn.edu
Mailing address: 105 Peters Hall
Degrees & Institutions
Ph.D., University of Denver, 1996
M.S.W., Tulane University,
1985 B.S., Southern University at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1972
Interest Areas
Culturally sensitive services to African American families, African
American grandmothers as kinship care providers, families with children
who have developmental delays, qualitative research methods.
Current Research
Service Utilization: Stories of African American grandmother
caregivers and service providers; Raising a vulnerable generation;
Experiences of African American grandmother caregivers in preparing
grandchildren to succeed in the 21st century; and The Hennepin County
caregiver-child matching tool project.
Recent Publications
Lightfoot, E., & Gibson, P.A. (in press). Universal Design: A new
framework for accommodating students in social work courses.
Journal of Social Work Education
Gibson, P. A. (2005). Intergenerational parenting from the
perspective
of African American Grandmothers. Family Relations.
Gibson, P. A., & McRoy, R. G. (2004). Cultural Maintenance: Building
on
the Common Heritage of Black families. In E. M. Freeman & S.
L.
Logan (Eds.), Reconceptualizing the strengths and common
heritage
of Black families: Practice, research, and policy issues
(pp. 237-265)
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher.
Gibson, P. A. (2004). Religious expressions of African American
grandmother caregivers: Social Work's role with church
communities.
Arjte.
Gibson, P.A., & Abrams, L. S. (2003). Racial differences in engaging,
recruiting, and interviewing in African American communities.
Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice, 2 (4),
457-476.
Gibson, P.A. (2003). Barriers, lessons learned, and helpful hints:
Grandmother caregivers talk about service utilization.
Journal of
Gerontological Social Work, 39 (4), 55-74.
Gibson, P.A. (2002). Caregiving affects family relationships of
African
American grandmothers as new mothers again: A
phenomenological
perspective. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 28
(3), 341-353.
Gibson, P.A. (2002). African American grandmothers as new mothers
again: Answering the call to help their grandchildren.
Families in
Society, 83 (1), 35-43.
Gibson, P.A. (2000). Developmental mothering in an African American
community: From grandmother to new mother again. Journal
of the
Association for Research on Mothering, 2 (2), 32-41.
Gibson, P.A. (1999). African American grandmothers: New mothers
again. Affilia, 14(3), 329-343.