[Sort by: First Name Last Name]
| Faculty Name & Professional Interests (Click on the person's name to see their faculty page) |
| Gino Aisenberg * |
- Assessment and treatment of school-age children and their parents traumatized by exposure to community violence.
- Treatment of underserved and diverse ethnic populations, including African-American and Latino child and adolescent victims of sexual abuse and depressed patients.
- Cognitive behavioral treatment of rural Latinos with depression
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| Gunnar Almgren * |
- Health care policy and practice
- Organizational practice
- Morbidity
- Mortality and social behavior
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| Michael Arthur * |
- Adolescent antisocial behavior
- State and community prevention systems
- Prevention research methodology
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| Michelle Bagshaw |
- Children, Youth and Families
- Cultural Diversity
- Adoption and Foster Care
- Field Learning
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| Mary Lou Balassone * |
- Public health social work
- Maternal and child health
- Adolescent pregnancy
- Adolescent health
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| Kimberly Balsam * |
- Minority stress and the health impact of stigma and discrimination
- Trauma/interpersonal violence
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender mental and physical health
- Same-sex couples and families
- Community-based prevention strategies
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| Karen Bancroft |
- Marginalization and Social Justice
- Spatiality and Place
- Homelessness
- Neoliberalism and Poverty
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| Jonathan Beard |
- Human resource management
- board development
- public relations
- organizational and program development
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| Shauna Carlisle |
- Health Disparities
- Social and Health Policy
- Race/ Ethnicity/ Nationality
- Immigration / Migration
- Social Demography
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| Richard F. Catalano, Jr. * |
- Promotion of positive youth development and prevention of problem behavior
- Etiology of problem behavior and positive youth development
- Research methodology, and impact of culture on etiology and prevention
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| Jon R. Conte * |
- Clinical social work
- Sexual abuse of children and adult survivors of abuse
- Interpersonal violence
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| Kelly Cue Davis * |
- Sexual Violence
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Alcohol and Drug Use/Abuse
- Sexual Risk Taking
- Sexual Health Issues
- Gender Issues
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| Stan de Mello |
- Community development and cross-cultural practice
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| James DeLong |
- Aging, men’s and gender issues
- Groupwork
- Human diversity and social justice
- Distance learning and use of information technology
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| Amelia Seraphia Derr |
- International Trafficking of Women and Children
- Immigrant Rights
- Creating Connection across Difference
- Addressing the effects of Hate Crimes, Stereotypes, Discrimination and Bias
- Social Justice and the Arts
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| Thomas Diehm |
- Field Education
- Community Mental Health
- HIV/AIDS
- Gay Men's Issue
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| Charles Emlet |
- Aging
- Public and Mental Health
- HIV/AIDS and Aging,
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| Pauline Erera * |
- Family diversity including single-parent, gay and lesbian, foster, adoptive, and immigrant families
- Qualitative and ethnographic research methods
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| Elena Erosheva * |
- statistical methodology in the social, behavioral, and health sciences
- discrete data analysis
- latent variable models
- disability in elderly people
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| Tessa Evans-Campbell * |
- Child welfare, child neglect and American Indian families, mental health, historical trauma and multicultural research and practice
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| Nancy Farwell * |
- Community mental health
- Program development
- Forced migration
- Post-war reintegration and recovery, especially among women and children
- Services with refugee communities
- International social work and development
- Cross-cultural concerns
- Ethnographic and qualitative research methods
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| Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen * |
- Social policy; gerontology
- Intergenerational relations
- Family care
- Nontraditional families, including lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals
- HIV infection
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| Amelia Gavin * |
- African-American Women and Depression
- Racial Disparities in Birth Outcomes
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| Brian Giddens |
- Social Work Administration
- Health Care
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| Lewayne Gilchrist * |
- Child and adolescent development
- Women and women's issues
- Preventive interventions & prevention research
- Social work research
- Doctoral education in social work
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| Roberto G. Gonzales * |
- immigrant adaptation, the effects of immigration status
- transitions to adulthood
- youth civic engagement
- urban poverty
- Latino families and communities
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| Nancy Grote * |
- Developing, testing, and disseminating an engagement intervention to overcome barriers to mental health care in socio-economically disadvantaged women with depression
- Developing, testing and disseminating culturally relevant, evidenced-based treatments for perinatal depression in socio-economically disadvantaged women
- Examining the association between antenatal depression and adverse birth outcomes
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| Tracy Harachi * |
- Promotion of well-being and prevention of high risk behaviors among children and youth including community, school, and family-based interventions
- Issues related to migration including cultural adaptation of immigrants and refugees particularly SE Asian populations
- Area emphasis on Cambodia, see (link to study abroad course) and(link to RUPP page)
- Social work in a global context
- Program evaluation and implementation fidelity
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| Marian S. Harris |
- Mother/Child Attachment
- Child Welfare
- Mental Health
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| J. David Hawkins * |
- Adolescent development
- Crime and delinquency
- Substance abuse
- Social problems and social policy
- Research methods
- Prevention research
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| Mae C. Henderson |
- Constructions & Ideologies of Motherhood and Mothering
- Race and Ethnic Relations
- Social Inequality & Social Justice
- Black Women and Feminism
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| Todd Herrenkohl * |
- Family violence and resilience in child victims
- Etiology and prevention of aggression in children and adolescents
- Evidence-based practices in social work
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| Zynovia Hetherington |
- Family and Child Services
- African-American Children
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| Karl G. Hill * |
- Understanding the factors that influence positive and problem youth and
adult development
- Intergenerational mechanisms and processes in development
- Systems-oriented, social-developmental, life-span theory
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| Nancy Hooyman * |
- Gerontology
- Adult development and aging
- Family caregivers of older people
- Grief and loss
- Feminist practice
- Women and administration
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| T. Ron Jackson |
- Chemical dependency treatment and HIV/AIDS prevention
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| Susan Kemp * |
- Supports for low-income families
- Public child welfare
- Community-based and environmental intervention
- Social work history and theory
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| Jean Kruzich * |
- Organizational and environmental influences on provider
behavior and client outcomes
- Human services management
- Interface of child maltreatment and substance abuse
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| Karl Leggett |
- Social Work Administration - Fund Development and Marketing
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| Bonnie Letinich |
- Palliative Care
- End of Life Care
- Facilitated decision making/Healthcare conferencing
- Grief and loss
- Healthcare communication
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| Rona L. Levy * |
- Behavioral medicine
- Women's health
- Stress
- Biofeedback
- Clinical research methodology
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| Taryn Lindhorst * |
- Violence against women
- Health practice
- Poverty and welfare reform
- Death/grief
- Queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered issues
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| Elaine Loughlin |
- Family therapy
- Infant, child and adolescent development
- Attachment issues
- Complex PTSD
- EMDR (Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing)
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| Wendy Lustbader |
- intergenerational family dynamics
- aging with vitality, meaning, and social contribution
- social work ethics in a cost-effective world
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| Jane A. Macy |
- Adult and life-long learning
- Technology and education
- Distance learning
- Technology and social work practice
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| Maureen O. Marcenko * |
- Well-being of vulnerable children and families with an emphasis on the development and testing of interventions within public child welfare and other public service systems. Research and practice expertise in child mental health.
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| Alex Mason * |
- Adolescent development
- Family-focused preventive intervention
- Substance abuse
- Depression
- Longitudinal methodology
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| Tatiana Masters |
- Sexual resiliency, desire, pleasure, and health
- Race, racism, and health disparities
- Mixed methods research designs
- Sex education policy and practice
- HIV, STI, and sexual assault prevention
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| Marcia K. Meyers * |
- Young Child Poverty Measures
- Supporting Employment of Mothers: Cross-National Variation
- Children's Disabilities and Poverty
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| Diane M. Morrison * |
- Attitudes and behavior
- Sexual decision making
- Health psychology
- Teen parents
- HIV/AIDS prevention interventions
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| Biren (Ratnesh) Nagda * |
- Multicultural and empowerment-oriented approaches to social work practice and teaching
- Social worker job stress and strain; intergroup dialogue
- Alliance- and coalition-building across differences
- Multicultural organization development
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| Anne Nicoll |
- Agency-based Research
- Child Welfare Program Evaluation
- Feminist Social Work Practice
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| Paula Nurius * |
- Social cognition
- Stress and coping; trauma and resilience
- Violence against women
- Prevention research and intervention
- Identity and self-concept
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| Sabrina Oesterle * |
- young adult development
- life course research
- positive development
- quantitative research methods
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| Monica Oxford * |
- Child and adolescent development
- Parenting
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Research methods
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| Gena Palm |
- Program Management for Children and Youth
- behavioral healthcare advisory council member
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| Diana Pearce * |
- Poverty, particularly that of women and single mothers
- Poverty measurement
- Welfare reform
- Domestic violence
- Central Asian women's organizations and economic development and democracy
- Unemployment compensation
- Homelessness
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| Peter J. Pecora * |
- Social welfare administration
- Child welfare practice
- Family foster care
- Family preservation services
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| Leon T. Preston |
- Human resource management
- Organizational development
- Multicultural issues
- Community outreach
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| J'May Rivara |
- Health care
- Assessment in spectrum of health care settings
- Primary care
- Childhood injury
- Research in childhood head injury
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| Roger Roffman * |
- Research and practice effectiveness
- Alcoholism and substance abuse
- AIDS prevention
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| Jennifer Romich * |
- How families "particularly low-income working families" raise children within the context of America’s schools, neighborhoods, economy and social policies; combining economic modeling of the family with ethnographic and developmental psychology perspectives
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| Aiko Schaefer |
- Public policy
- community organizing
- grassroots lobbying
- communications
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| Sue Sohng * |
- Social justice and cultural diversity
- Intergroup dialogue
- Participatory action research
- Feminist pedagogy
- Multicultural research
- Community development with immigrant and refugee populations
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| Margaret L. Spearmon |
- Ethnic Identity and Oppression Issues
- Managing for Diversity
- Cross-cultural Communication with Organizations
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| Jennifer Stuber * |
- Mental health policy
- Interventions to refute stigmatization
- Tobacco related health disparities
- Social norms and the stigmatization of smoking
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| Emiko Tajima * |
- Domestic violence
- Child abuse
- Social welfare policy
- Law and social policy
- Asian American Immigrants & Refugees
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| David Takeuchi * |
- Racial, socio-economic, and cultural factors associated with health problems, the initiation of care, and the results of health care
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| Edwina Uehara * |
- Impact of high-violence urban environments on mental health
- Low income families, services to minority families with chronically mentally ill members
- Financing and organization of mental health services
- Social networks
- Social support
- Ethnography/qualitative research methods
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| Karina Walters * |
- American Indian and Alaska Native health, mental health, alcohol and substance abuse, and other wellness areas
- Multicultural social work practice identity, enculturation and cultural factor that buffer the effect of historical trauma, discrimination, and other forms of trauma and violence on indigenous wellness outcomes
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| Elizabeth Wells * |
- Cognitive behavioral approaches to treatment for opiate and cocaine dependence and prevention of drug use and sexual risk behavior
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| James Whittaker * |
- Evidence-Based Practice in Child Mental Health
- Interpersonal Practice with Individuals, Families and Small Groups
- Child & Family Policy, Practice and Research
- Social Networks & Social Support
- Social Welfare History
- Integrating Evidence-Based Practice Models in
Child Mental Health
- Developing research capacity in child &
family service agencies
- Assessing and enhancing social supports for
caregivers in high-risk families
- Linking professional and lay helping efforts
- Program evaluation and model development
- Intensive family preservation services
- Group home & residential treatment services
- Therapeutic foster care
- Wraparound Services
- Policy analysis in child & family services
- Child welfare history
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| Perry Wien |
- 28 years of experience working with adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses
- Recovery from severe and persistent mental illness
- Working with co-occurring severe/persistent mental illness and substance abuse/dependence
- Vocational services for adults with severe/persistent mental illness
- Housing and residential programs for adults with severe/persistent mental illnesses
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| Stephen Wilson |
- Children and Adolescents
- Family Treatment
- Cross Cultural Treatment Issues
- African American Mental Health
- School Social Work
- How Children Understand Race
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| Scott Winn |
- Anti-racist community organizing
- Anti-racist/anti-oppression social work practice
- Community and organizational social work practice
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