Projects
Healing Resources Database
Challenge: Create an expanded list of healing resources that are hard to find and aren’t aggregated in any one place for surviors.
Solution: Research and build a national database of healing resources across the country.
Results: 1000+ healing resources for metoo digital library.
Survey Design & Insights
Challenge: Gain a better understanding of target audience and assess needs to create a better experience for customers.
Solution: Design a customer and client experience questionnaire to gather information from PBE’s live event.
Results: Insights helped curate improved live experiences for customers and increased PBE’s bottomline, PBE Conference
Questionnaire Development
Challenge: Create an assessment to measure the stress and coping in African American women.
Solution: Design a questionnaire using advanced statistical methodologies.
Results: Valid and reliable questionnaire created, The Giscombe Superwoman Schema Questionnaire
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Publications
Woods-Giscombe, C. L., Steed, T. C., Allen, A., Li, Y., Lackey, C., & Black, A. R. (2019). The Giscombe Superwoman Schema Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and associations with mental health and health behaviors in African American women. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 40, 8, 672-681, DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2019.1584654
Allen, A. M., Wang, Y., Chae, D. H., Price, M. M., Powell, W., Steed, T., Black, A., Dhabhar, F. S., Marquez-Magana, L., & Woods-Giscombe, C. L. (2019). Racial discrimination, the superwoman schema, and allostatic load: exploring an integrative stress-coping model among African American women. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1457(1). 104-127 https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14188
Steed, T. C., Superwoman Schema: Using Structural Equation Modeling To Investigate Measurement Invariance In A Questionnaire (2013). https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Steed_uncg_0154D_11315.pdf
He, Y., Prater, K. & Steed, T. (2011) Moving beyond ‘just good teaching’: ESL professional development for all teachers, Professional Development in Education, 37:1, 7-18, DOI: 10.1080/19415250903467199