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Consultations & Professional Service

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Honors & Awards

• Vaughnie J. Lindsay Research Professor Award, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2006-2008
• Outstanding Contributions to Community/Public Health Nursing Research Award, Association of Community Health Nurse Educators, 2003
• Honored by St. Louis University School of Nursing under the Midwest Nursing Research Society's Honor a Researcher Program, 1995
• Recipient of the first annual Faculty Recognition Award, St. Louis University Graduate Student Association, 1994
• Nominated for St. Louis YWCA Leadership Award for Community Service, 1993
• Research Award, Tribute to Missouri Nurses, 1991
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health, Washington University School of Medicine, 1988 - 1990
• Nursing Excellence Award, Delta Lambda Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International, 1986
• Certificate of Recognition for research with adolescent parents, Third District Missouri Nurse's Association, 1986
• Certificate of Recognition, St. Louis YWCA Annual Leaders Lunch, honoring working women, 1985
• Honored by St. Louis Magazine as one of St. Louis's outstanding young professionals, 1985
• Elected to Delta Omega (National Honor Society of Public Health), 1979
• Elected to Sigma Theta Tau International (National Honor Society of Nursing), 1979
• National Research Service, Individual Predoctoral Nursing Fellowship, Division of Nursing, DHHS, 1978 - 1980
• Title II Federal Nurse Traineeship, 1975 - 1977

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Memberships and  Related Activities

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Presentations

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Professional Experience

2006 to 2008

2005 to Present

2005 to Present

1997 to 2005

Publications

• Chapters

          Flick, L.H. & Homan, S.M. (1998) Sense of Coherence as a Predictor of Family Functioning and Child Problems: Preliminary Findings Among Homeless, Substance-Abusing Women With Children. In Stress, Coping, and Health in Families : Sense of Coherence and Resiliency.  Hamilton I. McCubbin & Elizabeth A. Thompson (Ed.s), Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.

          Homan, S.M., Flick, L.H., Heaton, T.M., Mayer, J.P. & Klein, M (1993) Reaching beyond crisis management: Design and implementation of extended shelter-based services for chemically dependent homeless women and their children.  In Treatment of Chemically Dependent Homeless: Theory and Implementation in Fourteen American Projects.  Eds. K J Conrad, CL Hultman and JS Lyons, Haworth Press, Inc. 

          Flick, L.H. (1991), Critique of community-based tertiary prevention with the adolescent parent and child. In S. Humenick & N. Wilkerson (Ed.s). Adolescent Pregnancy: Nursing Perspectives on Prevention.  New York: March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation: Original Article Series, Volume 27, Number 1, 1991, pp. 250-264.  (AJN Book of the Year Award).

• Refereed Journal Articles

          Flick, LH, Cook, C.A., Homan, S.M., Campbell, C., McSweeney, M. and Parnell, L. (In Press, 2006) Persistent tobacco use in pregnancy and risk of psychiatric disorder. American Journal of Public Health. 96(10), 1799-1807.

          Chaimongkol, Nujjaree N. and Flick, Louise H. (2006) Maternal sensitivity and attachment security in Thailand: Cross-cultural validation of western measures. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 14(1), 5-16.

          Markovitz, BP, Cook, R , Flick, LH,. Leet, TL (2005) Socioeconomic factors and adolescent pregnancy outcomes: Distinctions between neonatal and post-neonatal deaths. BMC Public Health 5,79. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/5/79

          Cook, C.A., Flick, L.F., Homan, S.M., Campbell, C., McSweeney, M. and Gallagher, M.E. (2004) PTSD in pregnancy: Prevalence, risk factors and treatment. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 103 (4), 710-717.

          Caldwell, K., Homan, S., & Flick, L. (2003). Developmental outcomes in children of homeless substance-abusing mothers. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 12(3),153-172.

          Leet, T & Flick, LH (2003) The effect of exercise on birthweight, Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 46 (2), 423-431.

          Parnell, L.A., Strathearn, C., Cook, C.A.L., Flick, L.H., McSweeney, M., Homan, S.M., Campbell, C. & Gallagher, M. (2001). Prenatal Mental Health Research from the Field Instructor and Student Perspective.  The New Social Worker, 9(3), 14-16.

          Flick,L, Vemulapalli, C, Stulac,B, Kemp, J (2001) The influence of grandmothers and other senior caregivers on infant sleep position. Arch Peds Adol Med., 155, 1231-1237.

          Flick, LH, White, DK, Vemulapalli,C, Stulac, B & Kemp, JS (2001) Sleep Position and the Use of Soft Bedding Among African American Infants at Increased Risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Journal of Pediatrics, 138, 338-343.

          Anderson, N., Smiley, D, Flick, LH & Hegamin-Younger C.  (2000) The Rural Adolescent Pregnancy Project. Public Health Nursing, 17(5), 355-362.

          True, W.R., Romeis, J.C., Heath, A.C., Flick, L.H., Shaw, L., Eisen, S.A., Goldberg, J., Lyons, M.J., (1997) An analysis of genetic and environmental contributions to health care need.  Health Services Research, 32(1),37-53.

          Flick, L.H., Ruchala, P. & McSweeney, M. (1996) Adolescent children of teenage mothers: The next generation of youth at risk. (ABSTRACT) The Missouri Nurse, 65, 12.

          Flick, L.H., Reese, C.G. & Harris, A., (1996) Aggregate/community-centered undergraduate community health nursing experience.  Public Health Nursing, 13(1), 36-41.

          Flick, L.H., Reese, C.G., Rogers, G., Fletcher, P. & Sonn, J. (1994). Building community for health: Lessons from a seven year-old neighborhood/ university partnership.  Health Education Quarterly. 21(3), 369-380.

          Homan, S.M., Flick, L.H., Heaton, T.M., Mayer, J.P. & Klein, M (1993) Reaching beyond crisis management: Design and implementation of extended shelter-based services for chemically dependent homeless women and their children. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. 10(3/4), 101-112.

          Pepper, A.G., Flick, L.H., Gibson, P.A., Holtgrewe, M.M., Ozier, and Sonn, J. (1988).  Form follows function:  Community health nursing and the community.  Health Action Papers. 1:8-14.

          Flick, L.H., & McSweeney, M.E. (1987).  Measurement of mother-child interaction:  A comparison of three methods.  Research in Nursing and Health. 10: 129-137.

          Flick, L.H., (1986).  Paths to adolescent parenthood: Implications for prevention. Public Health Reports. 101(2):132-147.

• Non-Refereed Journal Articles

         Flick, L.H. (1987, January).  Paths to adolescent parenthood, TEC Newsletter, 12, 3-4.

• Monographs & Dissertations

          Flick, L., (1990) Appendix: Measures of the family environment.  In Earls, F., Wilson, J., Bennett, F., Kagan, J., Lipsey, M., Moffitt, T., & Robins, L., Program on Human Development and Criminal Behavior: Final Report of the Pathways Working Group.  Castine Corporation, Castine, Maine.

          Flick, L.H. (1980).  Psychosocial development as a determinant of adolescent maternal behavior.  Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

          Halstead, L. Flick (1977).  The effect of individual development upon the parenting behavior of the adolescent mother.  Masters thesis, University of Illinois at the Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

• Abstracts

          Flick LH., Atkins FD,  McSweeney M,  Ruchala PL. (1999) Evidence against using standard statistical packages with complex sampling designs. (Abstract)  Missouri Nurse, 68(5):12.

          Stulac SN, Cibulka N, Gregory AE, Flick LH, Kemp JS.(1998) Why pregnant African-American  women plan to bedshare. Pediatr Pulmonol Vol 20, December.

          Flick, L.H., Ruchala, P. & McSweeney, M. (1996) Adolescent children of teenage mothers: The next generation of youth at risk.  The Missouri Nurse, 65, 12.

          Flick, L.H. & Heath, A.C. (1991) Genetic influence on adolescent vs. adult onset of regular alcohol use. Behavior Genetics, 21(6):571.

          Flick, L.H., Holtgrewe, M., Pepper, A., Sonn, J., (1986, April).  Partnership with community:  A working model for graduate community health nursing education (Abstract).  Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Graduate Faculty in Community Health/Public Health Nursing, New York, New York.

• Editorial Boards & Reviewer
  • Public Health Reports
  • Gerontology
  • American Journal of Public Health
  • Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

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Research & Grants

• Vaughnie J. Lindsay Research Professor Award, 50% effort for research,  Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, 2006 - 2008
• Monitoring Infant Mortality in St. Louis City and County: Update for 2000-2005 and GIS Mapping of Risk Factors and Deaths.  St. Louis Maternal, Child and Family Health Coalition Role: Principal Investigator, $26,960, 2006 - 2007
• Co-Investigator, Communication of Depressed Maternal-Child Dyads, University of Kentucky Poverty Center, $5,000, 2004
• Monitoring Infant Mortality from Vital Statistics in St. Louis City and County, The March of Dimes, St. Louis Chapter, Principal Investigator, $23,254, 2001 - 2002
• The Neuroendocrine Response to Environmental Stress in Pregnancy Among Psychiatrically Impaired Women, SLU2000 Designated Research Initiative Award, Principal Investigator, $ 17,193, 2000 - 2002
• Prenatal Mental Health of Poor Women: Services and Costs. NIMH, Co- Principal Investigator, Cindy Cook Principal Investigator, $1,044,097, 1999 - 2003
• Intervention Strategy to Reduce SIDS in African Americans. SIDS Alliance $50,000, Co-I, J. Kemp, MD, Principal Investigator, 1996 - 2001
• Faculty Scholars Summer Research Award, St. Louis University School of Nursing, Measurement of Violence, Unprotected Sex & Substance Use Risks Among Urban African-American Youth. PI, $4,932, 1995
• St. Louis University Beaumont Faculty Development Fund, Children of Adolescent Mothers: The Next Generation of Children at Risk, Principal Investigator, $2,700, 1993 - 1994
• National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, Homeless Substance Abusing Families: Breaking the Cycle.  Co-Investigator, 30% to 50% effort, $2,900,000, 1-U01-AA08804, 1990 - 1994
• DHHS, Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, Perinatal Substance Abuse Prevention for Four Federally Funded Neighborhood Health Center, Evaluator, 50% effort, 1990 - 1991
• National Institute of Mental Health, Adolescent Parenting:  A Developmental Model, $60,000, Principal Investigator, NIMH 1-RO1-MH36915-01, 1982 - 1985
• Sigma Theta Tau International, Adolescent Parenting:  A Developmental Model, $3,000, Principal Investigator, 1982 - 1985
• Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs, D.H.H.S., Adolescent Parenting:  A Developmental Model, $27,000, Principal Investigator, 1982 - 1984
• Lutheran Charities Foundation, St. Louis, MO Ranken Neighborhood Health Center Expansion, submitted by the Ranken Neighborhood Health Committee, written by Joyce Sonn, Louise Flick and others, $100,000, 1989 - 1992
• Division of Nursing, Bureau of Health Manpower, D.H.H.S., Development of a Graduate Major:  Nursing of the Community, $445,000, L.H. Flick, Project Director, July 1, 1984-June 30, 1986, 1984 - 1987

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