Research

Recent and Current Child Welfare Projects

Amy Ai

• Interdisciplinary study of aging
• Comorbidity, and geriatric care
• Research methodology of clinical trials on complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM) and behavioral intervention
• Placebo effect and expectation
• CAM and its implications for health care policy
• The relation of spirituality, human suffering, and coping
• Well-being of patients with chronic conditions
• The role of social, cultural, psychological, and belief factors in adjustment following life crisis

Charles Emlet

• Aging
• Public and Mental Health
• HIV/AIDS and Aging

Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen

• Social policy; gerontology
• Intergenerational relations
• Family care
• Nontraditional families, including lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals
• HIV infection

Lewayne Gilchrist

• Child and adolescent development
• Women and women's issues
• Preventive interventions & prevention research
• Social work research
• Doctoral education in social work

Mary Gillmore

• Adolescent sexual behavior and drug use
• Research Methods
• Statistics

Anna Haley-Lock

• Structures of opportunity and inequality in the workplace
• Program and human resource management
• Nonprofit human service sector
• Organizational theory and behavior

Tracy Harachi

• Primary prevention for children, youth and families, including school-based interventions
• Issues related to cultural adaptation and ethnic identity

Nancy Hooyman

• Gerontology
• Adult development and aging
• Family caregivers of older people
• Grief and loss
• Feminist practice
• Women and administration

Susan Kemp

• Supports for low-income families
• Public child welfare
• Community-based and environmental intervention
• Social work history and theory

Rona Levy

• Behavioral medicine
• Women’s health
• Stress
• Biofeedback
• Clinical research methodology

Karen Lincoln

• Informal social networks
• The role of social and personal resources in the stress process
• Black families
• Religious involvement among African Americans
• Aging across the life course
• Health disparities

Taryn Lindhorst

• Welfare reform
• Violence against women
• Poverty
• HIV/AIDS
• Lesbian and gay issues
• Death/grief

Maureen Marcenko

• Research of the efficacy of interventions for families of children with special needs
• Families coping with HIV/AIDS and maternal substance abuse

J’May Rivara

• Health care
• Assessment in spectrum of health care settings
• Primary care
• Childhood injury
• Research in childhood head injury

David Takeuchi

• Racial, socio-economic, and cultural factors associated with health problems, the initiation of care, and the results of health care