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Listed below are a selection of faculty publications. For a complete listing of faculty publications, please contact the faculty member directly.

Scott Allard Associate Professor
Beth Angell Associate Professor
Jennifer Bellamy Assistant Professor
William Borden Senior Lecturer
Evelyn Brodkin Associate Professor
E. Summerson Carr Assistant Professor
Robert Chaskin Associate Professor; Deputy Dean for Strategic Initiatives;
Research Fellow,
Chapin Hall Center for Children
Yoonsun Choi Associate Professor;
Faculty Associate,
Chapin Hall Center for Children
Malitta Engstrom Assistant Professor
Robert Fairbanks Assistant Professor
Sarah Gehlert Helen Ross Professor;
Deputy Dean for Research Director, Center for Health Disparities Research;
Executive Committee, Institute for Mind and Biology;
Investigator, University of Chicago Cancer Research Center;
Research Associate, Center for Health Administration Studies
Colleen Grogan Associate Professor;
Faculty Chair, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy;
Research Associate, Center for Health Administration Studies
Neil B. Guterman Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor
Jung Hwa-Ha Assistant Professor
Sydney Hans Professor;
Chair, Doctoral Program
Julia Henly Associate Professor
Heather Hill Assistant Professor
Penny Johnson Dean of Students;
Lecturer
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr.

Associate Professor;
Faculty Associate, Chapin Hall Center for Children;
Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

Susan Lambert Associate Professor;
Research Associate, Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work
Jens Ludwig McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service, Law, and Public Policy
Jeanne C. Marsh Dean
George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor
Stanley McCracken Senior Lecturer
Jennifer Mosley Assistant Professor
Dolores Norton Samuel Deutsch Professor
Virginia Parks Assistant Professor
Charles A. Payne Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor
Harold Pollack Associate Professor;
Faculty Chair, Center for Health Administration Studies
Melissa Roderick Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor
Tina Rzepnicki David and Mary Winton Green Professor
Gina M. Samuels Assistant Professor;
Faculty Associate, Chapin Hall Center for Children
William Sites Associate Professor
Michael Sosin Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor;
Editor, Social Service Review
Karen Teigiser Senior Lecturer;
Deputy Dean for the Curriculum
Dexter R. Voisin Associate Professor;
Faculty Associate,
Chapin Hall Center for Children
Michael E. Woolley Assistant Professor

ALLARD, SCOTT W. Associate Professor. B.A., Minnesota; Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: welfare policy and reform; poverty and inequality. Selected publications:

  • Allard, S.W. In press. 2008. Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Allard, S.W. 2008. "Place, race, and access to the safety net." In Colors of poverty, eds. A. Chih Lin & D. Harris. NewYork: Russell Sage Foundation.
  • Allard, S.W. 2008. "Mismatches and unmet needs: Access to social services in urban and rural America." In Welfare reform and its long-term consequence for America's poor, ed. J. Ziliak. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Allard, S.W. 2007. The changing face of welfare during the Bush administration. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 37(3): 304-32.
  • Allard, S.W. 2006. A starting foul in the study of the race to the bottom. Social Science Quarterly 87(4): 782-90.
  • Allard, S.W. 2004. Competitive pressures and the emergence of mothers' aid programs in the U.S. Policy Studies Journal 32(4): 521-44.
  • Lambright, K. & Allard, S.W. 2004. Making tradeoffs between SSBG and TANF: The interplay of block grant programs. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 34(3): 131-154.
  • Allard, S.W. & Danziger, S. 2003. Proximity and opportunity: How residence and race affect the employment of welfare recipients. Housing Policy Debate 13(4): 675-700.
  • Allard, S.W., Rosen, D. & Tolman, R. 2003. Access to mental health and substance abuse services among women receiving welfare in Detroit. Urban Affairs Review. 38(6): 787-807.
  • Allard, S.W. & Straussman, J. 2003. Using student consulting projects as a capstone in a public administration graduate program. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22(4): 689-701.
  • Allard, S.W., Tolman, R. & Rosen, D. 2003. Proximity to service providers and service utilization among welfare recipients: The interaction of place and race. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22(4): 599-613.
  • Allard, S.W., Tolman, R. & Rosen, D. 2003. The geography of need: Spatial distribution of barriers to employment in metropolitan Detroit. Policy Studies Journal 31(3): 293-307.

ANGELL, BETH. Associate Professor. B.A., North Carolina; M.S.S.W., Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison. Fields of Special Interest: services for individuals with serious mental illness; social support and service delivery networks; therapeutic relationships; methods to address adherence problems in involuntary treatment settings; stigma and mental illness, and the treatment of individuals with dual involvement in the mental health and criminal justice systems. Selected publications:

  • Watson, A.C., Angell, B., Morabito, M., & Robinson, N. In press. Defying negative expectations: Dimensions of fair and respectful treatment by police officers as perceived by people with mental illness. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research.
  • Rao, D., Angell, B., Corrigan, P., and Lam, C. In press. Stigma in the workplace: Employer attitudes about people living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Chicago. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Angell, B. 2008. "Behavioral theory." Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition, eds. T. Mizrahi & L. Davis. New York: Oxford University Press and NASW.
  • Tsang, H., Angell, B., Corrigan, P., Lee,Y.T., Shi, K., Lam, C.S., Jin, S., & Fung, K.M.T. 2007. A cross-cultural study of employers' concerns about hiring people with psychotic disorder: Implications for recovery. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 42, 723-733.
  • Watson, A.C., & Angell, B. 2007. Applying theories of procedural justice to understanding police interactions with people who have serious mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 58, 787-793.
  • Angell, B., Martinez, N.I., Mahoney, C., & Corrigan, P (2007). Payeeship, financial leverage, and the client-provider relationship. Psychiatric Services, 58, 365-372.
  • Angell, B., & Mahoney, C.A. 2007. Re-conceptualizing the case management relationship in intensive treatment: A study of staff perceptions and experiences. Administration and Policy in Mental Health & Mental Health Services Research, 34, 172-188.
  • Angell, B., Mahoney, C.A., & Martinez, N.I. 2006. Promoting treatment adherence in assertive community treatment. Social Service Review, 80(3), 485-526.
  • Angell, B. 2006. Measuring strategies used by mental health providers to encourage medication adherence. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 33, 53-72.
  • Monahan, J., Redlich, A.D., Swanson, J., Robbins, P.C., Appelbaum, P.S., Petrila, J., Steadman, H.J., Swartz, M.D., Angell, B., & McNiel, D.E. 2005. Use of leverage to improve adherence to psychiatric treatment in the community. Psychiatric Services, 56, 37-44.
  • Angell, B., Cooke, A., & Kovac, K. 2005. "First-person accounts of stigma." In On the Stigma of Mental Illness: Practical Strategies for Research and Social Change, ed. P. Corrigan, 69-98.Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Watson, A.C., Corrigan, P.W., & Angell, B. 2005. What motivates public support for legally mandated mental health treatment? Social Work Research, 29, 87-94.
  • Angell, B. 2003. Contexts of social relationship development among assertive community treatment clients. Mental Health Services Research. 5, 13-25
  • Angell, B., & Test, M.A. 2002. "Clinical and Environmental Predictors of Social Functioning in Young Adults with Schizophrenia." Schizophrenia Bulletin, 28, 259-271.
  • Sands, R.G., & Angell, B. 2002. "Social Workers as Collaborators on Interagency and Interdisciplinary Teams." In K. Bentley (Ed.), Social Work Practice in Mental Health. Brooks/Cole.

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BELLAMY, JENNIFER L. (née Vick). Assistant Professor. B.A., M.S.W., Texas; Ph.D., Columbia. Fields of Special Interest: mental health services; child welfare; evidence-based practice; fathering. Selected publications:

  • Bellamy, J. L. In Press. A national study of male involvement among families in contact with the child welfare system. Child Maltreatment.
  • Bellamy, J.L., Bledsoe, S.E., Mullen, E.J., Fang, L. & Manuel, J. In press. Learning from agency-university partnership for evidence-based practice in social work:Participant voices from the BEST project. Journal of Social Work Education.
  • Bledsoe, S.E., Lukens, E., Onken, S., Bellamy, J.L., & Cardillo-Geller, L. In press. Mental illness, evidence-based practice, and recovery: Is there compatibility between service user identified recovery facilitating and hindering factors and evidence based practices? Best Practices in Mental Health: An International Journal.
  • Kohl, P. L., Schurer, J. & Bellamy, J. L. In Press. Who is doing the work: A snapshot of current parent training programs in one Midwestern city. Families in Society.
  • Manuel, J. I., Mullen, E. J., Fang, L., Bellamy, J. L., & Bledsoe, S. E. In press. Preparing Social Work Practitioners to Use Evidence-based Practice:  A Comparison of Experiences from an Implementation Project. Research on Social Work Practice.
  • Matthieu, M.M., Bellamy, J.L., Pena, J.B., & Scott, L.D. In press. Accelerating research productivity in social work programs: Perspectives on NIH's postdoctoral research training mechanism. Social Work Research.
  • Mullen, E.J., Bellamy, J.L. & Bledsoe, S.E. In press. "Best practices." In Encyclopedia of social work, 20th edition, eds. T. Mizrahi & L. Davis. New York: Oxford University Press and NASW.
  • Mullen, E.J., Bellamy, J.L. & Bledsoe, S.E. In press. "Evidence based social work practice." In Evidenzbasierte soziale arbeit, eds. M. Hüttemann & P. Sommerfeld. Baltmannsweiler: SchneiderVerlag.
  • Mullen, E.J., Bledsoe, S.E. & Bellamy, J.L. In press. "Implementing evidence-based social work practice." In What works in social work practice: Towards modernizing social work's knowledge-base, ed. H. Otto. Germany: Bielefeld University.
  • Mullen, E.J., Bellamy, J.L. & Bledsoe, S.E. In press. "Limits of evidence in evidence based policy & practice." To be published in an edited book of conference proceedings from International Inter-Centre Network for the Evaluation of Social Work Practice Workshop 2006: The diversity of research methods, approaches and theories in evaluation of social work practice. Copenhagen, Denmark: Danish University of Pedagogy.
  • Bellamy, J.L. 2008. Behavioral problems following reunification of children who have experienced long term foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, 30, 216-228.
  • Mullen, E., Bledsoe, S.E. & Bellamy, J.L. 2008. Implementing evidence-based social work practice. Research on Social Work Practice, 18(4), 325-338.
  • Mullen, E.J., Bellamy, J.L., Bledsoe, S.E. & Francois, J.J. 2007. Teaching evidence-based practice. Research on Social Work Practice, 17(5): 574-582.
  • Mullen, E.J., Bellamy, J.L. & Bledsoe, S.E. 2007. "Evidence based social work practice." In Social work research and evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches, eds. R. Grinell &Y. Unrau. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Manuel, J., Fang, L., Bellamy, J.L. & Bledsoe, S.E. 2007. "Evaluating existing evidence." In Social work research and evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches, eds. R. Grinell &Y. Unrau. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Fang, L., Manuel, J., Bledsoe, S.E. & Bellamy, J.L. 2007. "Finding existing knowledge." In Social work research and evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches, eds. R. Grinell &Y. Unrau. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Bellamy, J., Bledsoe, S.E. & Traube, D. 2006. The current state of evidence based practice in social work: A review of the literature and qualitative analysis of expert interviews. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work 3(1): 23-48.
  • McRoy, R.G. &Vick, J. 2006. "Intersecting child welfare": Substance abuse and domestic violence. In Intersecting child welfare, substance abuse and family violence: Culturally competent approaches, eds. R. Fong & C. Ortiz-Hendricks. Washington, DC: Council on Social Work Education.
  • Pawson, R. & Bellamy, J.L. 2006. "Realist synthesis": An explanatory focus for systematic review. In Moving beyond effectiveness in evidence synthesis: Methodological issues in the synthesis of evidence from diverse sources of evidence, eds. J. Popay & H. Roberts. London: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
  • Mullen, E.J., Bellamy, J.L. & Bledsoe, S.E. 2005. "Implementing evidence-based social work practice." In Evidence-based social work-towards a new professionalism? ed. P. Sommerfeld, 149-174. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Mullen, E.J., Shlonsky, A.R., Bledsoe, S.E. & Bellamy, J.L. 2005. From concept to implementation: Challenges facing evidence-based social work. Evidence and Policy 1: 1.
  • Shlonsky, A.R., Bellamy, J., Elkins, J. & Ashare, C.J. 2005. The other kin: Setting the course for research, policy, and practice with siblings in foster care. Children and Youth Services Review 27(7): 697-716.
  • Shlonsky, A.R., Elkins, J., Bellamy, J.L. & Ashare, C.J. 2005. Introduction to the special issue on siblings and foster care. Children and Youth Services Review 27(7): 693-695.
  • Vick, J., McRoy, R. & Matthews, B.M. 2003.Young female sex offenders: Assessment and treatment issues. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 11(2): 1-23.
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BORDEN, WILLIAM. Senior Lecturer. B.A., Indiana; A.M., Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: contemporary psychodynamic theory, research, and practice; comparative psychotherapy; integrative approaches to psychosocial intervention; neuroscience; developmental psychology; narrative psychology; psychology of religion; clinical social work practice; role of humanities in social work education. Selected publications:

  • Borden, W. 2009. Contemporary Psychodynamic Theory and Practice: Toward a critical pluralism. Chicago: Lyceum Books.
  • Borden, W. 2009. "Taking multiplicity seriously": Pluralism, pragmatism, and integrative perspectives in social work practice. In The play and place of theory in social work: Comparative perspectives in contemporary practice, ed.W. Borden. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Borden, W. 2009. "Theory and practice in contemporary social work": Orienting perspectives. In The play and place of theory in social work: Comparative perspectives in contemporary practice, ed.W. Borden. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Borden, W. 2008. "Comparative theory and integrative perspectives in psychosocial intervention." In Social workers' desk reference, ed. A. Roberts. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Borden, W. 2008. "Contemporary object relations psychology and psychosocial intervention." In Social workers' desk reference, ed. A. Roberts. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Borden, W. 2006. Psychoanalysis, social justice, and the therapeutic endeavor. Psychoanalytic Social Work 12(2): 67-76.
  • Borden, W. 2003. "Donald Woods Winnicott." In Parenthood in America, ed. L. Balter, 850-856. Denver: ABC-CLIO.
  • Borden, W. 2002. “Object Relations Psychology and Clinical Social Work.” In A. Roberts & G. Greene (Eds.), Social Workers’ Desk Reference (pp. 153–158). New York: Oxford University Press.

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BRODKIN, EVELYN Z. Associate Professor.M.P.A., Northeastern; Ph.D.,MIT. Fields of Special Interest: public policy; politics of the welfare state; public management; social politics; policy delivery and implementation. Selected publications:

  • Brodkin, E.Z. 2008. Accountability in street-level bureaucracies: Issues in the analysis of organizational practice. International Journal of Public Administration.
  • Brodkin, E.Z. & Majmundar, M. 2008. Organizations and exclusion: An inquiry into bureaucratic proceduralism. Working paper #08-05, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan.
  • Brodkin, E.Z. Accepted for publication. "Social policy and management in the U.S.": The uncertain politics of reform. In La gerencia pública en América del Norte, eds. M. Pardo & E.Velasco. Tendencias actuales de la reforma administrativa en Canadá, Estados Unidos y México (Public Management in North America: Contemporary Trends in Administrative Reform in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.). Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
  • Brodkin, E.Z. 2007. Bureaucracy redux: Management reformism and the welfare state. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 17: 1-17.
  • Brodkin, E.Z. 2006. "Does good politics make for good practice? Reflections on welfare-to-work in the U.S." In Refereed conference proceedings: The politics and practice of welfare to work, eds. G. Marston, P. Henman & C. McDonald. Brisbane: University of Queensland.
  • Brodkin, E.Z. 2005. "Toward a contractual welfare state? The case of work activation in the U.S." In Contractualism in employment services: A new form of welfare state governance, eds. E. Sol & M.Westerveld. The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
  • Brodkin, E.Z., Fuqua, C. &Waxman, E. 2005. "Accessing the safety net: Administrative barriers to public benefits in metropolitan Chicago." Chicago: Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law and Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago.
  • Brodkin, E.Z. 2005. "Welfare administration." In Poverty and social welfare in America: An encyclopedia, eds. G. Mink & A. O'Connor. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
  • Brodkin, E.Z. 2003. "Requiem for welfare." Reprinted in Taking sides: Clashing views on controversial economic issues, 11th edition, eds. T. Swartz & F. Bonello. New York: McGraw Hill; and in Social Problems, 32nd edition. New York: Dushkin, 2004.
  • Brodkin, E.Z. 2003. "Street-level research": Policy at the front lines. In Policy into action: Implementation research and welfare reform, eds. T. Corbett & M.C. Lennon. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
  • Brodkin E.Z., Fuqua, C. & Thoren, K. 2002. "Contracting Welfare Reform: Uncertainties of Capacity-building within Disjointed Federalism." Joint Center for Poverty Research working paper.

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CARR, E. SUMMERSON. Assistant Professor. B.S., M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: the anthropology of social work; therapeutic language and metalanguage; cultural and social theory; drug use and treatment; gender and sexuality; qualitative methods; personhood; semiotics and sociolinguistics. Selected publications:

  • Carr, E.S. 2010. Enactments of Expertise. Annual Review of Anthropology 39.
  • Carr, E.S. 2009. Anticipating and Inhabiting Institutional Identities. American Ethnologist 36 (2).
  • Carr, E.S. 2006. "Secrets keep you sick": Metalinguistic labor in a drug treatment program for homeless women. Language in Society 35(5): 631-653.
  • Carr, E.S. 2004. "Accessing resources, transforming systems": Group work with poor and homeless people. In Handbook for social work with groups, eds. C. Garvin, L. Gutierrez & M. Galinksky, 655-687. Guilford Press.
  • Carr, E.S. 2003. Rethinking empowerment theory using a feminist lens: The importance of process. Affilia: Journal ofWomen and Social Work 18(1): 8-20.
  • Yoshihama, M., & Carr, E.S. 2002. "Community Participation Reconsidered: Feminist Participatory Action Research among Women." Journal of Community Practice, 10(4), 85-104.

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CHASKIN, ROBERT J. Associate Professor, B.S., Northwestern; A.M., Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: community organizing and development; community social organization; comprehensive community initiatives; youth development; associations and nonprofits; philanthropy and social change; research application and evaluation; cross-national research. Selected publications:

  • Chaskin, R.J. & Rosenfeld, J.M., eds. 2008. Research for action: Cross-national perspectives on connecting knowledge, policy, and practice for children. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Chaskin, R.J. & Rosenfeld, J.M. 2008. "Introduction": Mapping the terrain. In Research for action: Cross-national perspectives on connecting knowledge, policy, and practice for children, eds. R. Chaskin & J. Rosenfeld. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Chaskin, R.J. 2008. "Research, dissemination and impact": Issues, lessons and future directions. In Research for action: Cross-national perspectives on connecting knowledge, policy, and practice for children, eds. R. Chaskin & J. Rosenfeld. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Rosenfeld, J.M. & Chaskin, R.J. 2008. "Charting a course for fuller engagement": Toward a framework for action. In Research for action: Cross-national perspectives on connecting knowledge, policy, and practice for children, eds. R. Chaskin & J. Rosenfeld. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Chaskin, R.J. 2008. Resilience, community, and resilient communities: Conditioning contexts and collective action. Child Care in Practice 14(1): 65-74.
  • Sites, W., Chaskin, R.J. & Parks, V. 2007. Reframing community practice for the 21st century: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges. Journal of Urban Affairs 29(5): 519-541.
  • Joseph, M.L., Chaskin, R.J. &Webber, H.S. 2007. The theoretical basis for addressing poverty through mixed-income development. Urban Affairs Review 42(3): 369-409.
  • Brown, P., Chaskin, R.J., Hamilton, R. & Richman, H. 2007. "Toward greater effectiveness in community change": Challenges and responses for philanthropy. In The community development reader, eds. J. deFillipsis & S. Saegert. New York: Routledge.
  • Kubisch, A., Auspos, P., Brown, P., Chaskin, R.J., Fulbright-Anderson, K. & Hamilton, R. 2007. "Strengthening the connections between communities and external resources." In The community development reader, eds. J. deFillipsis & S. Saegert. New York: Routledge.
  • Chaskin, R.J., Goerge, R.M., Skyles, A. & Guiltinan, S. 2006. Measuring social capital: An exploration in researcher-community partnership. Journal of Community Psychology 34(4): 489-514.
  • Chaskin, R.J. 2006. "Family support as community-based practice": Considering a community capacity framework for family support provision. In Family support as reflective practice, eds. P. Dolan, J. Canavan & J. Pinkerton. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
  • Chaskin, R.J. 2006. "Defining neighborhood." In Planning and urban design standards, eds. M. Lewis & B. Klein. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Chaskin, R.J. 2005. Democracy and bureaucracy in a community planning process. Journal of Planning Education and Research 24(4): 408-419.
  • Chaskin, R.J. 2003. Fostering neighborhood democracy: Legitimacy and accountability within loosely coupled systems. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 32(2): 161-189.
  • Chaskin, R.J. 2003. The challenge of two-tiered evaluation in community initiatives. Journal of Community Practice 11(1): 61-83.
  • Chaskin, R.J., Brown, P., Venkatesh, S., Vidal, A. 2002. Building Community Capacity. Alpine Transaction.

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CHOI, YOONSUN. Associate Professor, B.A., Ewha University (Korea); M.S.S.W., Texas-Austin; Ph.D., Washington-Seattle. Fields of Special Interest: minority youth development; effects of race, ethnicity, and culture in youth development; children of immigrants; Asian American youth; prevention of youth problem behaviors; quantitative research methods. Selected publications:

  • Choi,Y. 2008. "Asian Americans": Korean. In Encyclopedia of social work, 20th edition, eds. T. Mizrahi & L.E. Davis, 169-172.New York: Oxford University Press and NASW.
  • Choi,Y. 2008. Diversity within: Subgroup differences of youth behaviors among Asian Pacific Islander American adolescents. Journal of Community Psychology 36(3): 352-370.
  • Choi,Y., He, M. & Harachi, T.W. 2008. Intergenerational cultural dissonance, family conflict, parent-child bonding, and youth antisocial behaviors among Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrant families. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 37: 85-96.
  • Choi,Y. 2007. Academic achievement and problem behaviors among Asian Pacific Islander American adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 36(4): 403-415.
  • Choi,Y., Harachi, T.W. & Catalano, R.F. 2006. Neighborhoods, family, and substance use: Comparisons of the relations across racial and ethnic groups. Social Service Review 80(4): 675-704.
  • Harachi, T.W., Choi,Y., Abbott, R., Catalano, R.F. & Bliesner, S.L. 2006. Examining cross-cultural equivalence of concepts and measures in diverse samples. Prevention Science 7(4): 359-368.
  • Choi,Y. & Lahey, B.B. 2006. Testing the model minority stereotype: Youth behaviors across racial and ethnic groups. Social Service Review 80(3): 419-452.
  • Choi,Y., Harachi, T.W., Gillmore, M.R. & Catalano, R.F. 2006. Are multiracial adolescents at greater risk? Comparisons of rates, patterns, and correlates of substance use and violence between monoracial and multiracial adolescents. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 76(1): 86-97.
  • Choi,Y., Mericle, A. & Harachi, T.W. 2006. Using Rasch Model to test the crosscultural item equivalence of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the Hopkins Symptom Checklist across Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrant mothers. Journal of Applied Measurement 7(1): 16-38.
  • Choi,Y., Harachi, T.W., Gillmore, M.R. & Catalano, R.F. 2005. Applicability of the social development model to urban ethnic minority youth: Examining the relationships between external constraints, family socialization and problem behaviors. Journal of Research on Adolescence 15(4): 505-534.
  • Choi,Y., Golder, S., Gillmore, M.R. & Morrison, D.M. 2005. Analysis with missing data in social work research. Journal of Social Service Research 31(3): 23-48.

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ENGSTROM, MALITTA. Assistant Professor.A.B., Brown; M.S.,M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia. Fields of Special Interest: women and families affected by substance use problems and co-occurring concerns, such as trauma, physical and mental health problems, and incarceration; multigenerational social work practice with families; gerontology; linking research and practice; advanced quantitative methods. Selected publications:

  • Engstrom, M. 2008. Involving caregiving grandmothers in family interventions when mothers with substance use problems are incarcerated. Family Process, 47, 357-371.
  • Engstrom, M., El-Bassel, N., Go, H. & Gilbert, L. 2008. Childhood sexual abuse and intimate partner violence among women in methadone treatment: A direct or mediated relationship? Journal of Family Violence, 23, 605-617.
  • Engstrom, M. 2006. "Physical and mental health": Interactions, assessment, and intervention. In Handbook of health social work, eds. S. Gehlert & T. Arthur. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  • Mahoney, C.A., Engstrom, M. & Marsh, J.C. 2006. "Substance use problems in health social work practice." In Handbook of health social work, eds. S. Gehlert & T. Arthur. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  • Engstrom, M., Lee, R., Ross, R., Harrison, M., McVeigh, K., Josephson, L., Plapinger, J., Herman, D., King, C. & Sederer, L. 2003. Children's mental health needs assessment in the Bronx. New York: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Planning Evaluation and Quality Improvement.
  • Schiff, M., El-Bassel, N., Engstrom, M., & Gilbert, L. 2002. "Psychological Distress and Intimate Physical and Sexual Abuse among Women in Methadone Treatment Programs." Social Service Review, 76(2): 302-320.

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FAIRBANKS, ROBERT P., II. Assistant Professor. B.A., Boston; M.S.W.,Vermont; Ph.D., Pennsylvania. Fields of Special Interest: urban ethnography; urban studies; history and philosophy of the welfare state; critical social welfare policy analysis. Selected publications:

  • Fairbanks, R.P., II. In press. How it works: Post-welfare politics in the Kensington recovery house movement. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Fairbanks, R.P., II & Lloyd, R., eds. In press. Critical ethnography and the neoliberal city. Ethnography.
  • Fairbanks, R.P., II. In press. Statecraft, recovery markets, and urban informality in Philadelphia's recovery house movement. Ethnography.
  • Fairbanks, R.P. II. 2008. Governing the local: Sovereignty, social governance and community safety: A critical response to K. Stenson. Social Work & Society.
  • Fairbanks, R.P., II. 2007. "The political-economic gradient of urban space." In Handbook of community movements and local organizations, eds. R.A. Cnaan & C. Milofsky. New York: Springer.
  • Iversen, R.R., Gergen, K.J. & Fairbanks, R.P., II. 2005. Assessment and social construction: Conflict or co-creation? The British Journal of Social Work 35: 1-21.
  • Fairbanks, R.P., II. 2003. A theoretical primer on space. Critical Social Work 3: 131-154.
  • Fairbanks, R.P., II. 2003. Research note: Blighted spaces and the politics of everyday life. Social Work & Society 1(1): 123-128

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GEHLERT, SARAH. Helen Ross Professor. M.A., M.S.W., Missouri-Columbia; Ph.D., Washington University. Fields of Special Interest: health disparities; women's health and mental health; adaptation to neurologic illness and traumatic injury; survey methods of research; practice evaluation; transdisciplinary research and team science. Selected publications:

  • Gehlert, S., Murray, A., Sohmer, D., McClintock, M., Conzen, S. & Olopade, O. In press. The importance of transdisciplinary collaborations for understanding and resolving health disparities. Journal of Health and Social Policy.
  • Gehlert, S. & Sohmer, D. In press. "Cancer, adulthood, and later life." In Encyclopedia of the life course and human development, ed. D. Blanchfield. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning.
  • Paskett, E.D., Reeves, K.W., McLaughlin, J.M., Katz, M., Sheck McAlearney, A., Ruffin, M.T., Hughes Halbert, C., Merete, C., Davis, F., & Gehlert, S. In press. Recruitment of minority and underserved populations in the United States: The Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities Initiative. /Contemporary Clinical Trials/.
  • Suskind, D., Kenna, M. & Gehlert, S. In press. "Special considerations in working with children from lower socioeconomic status families." In Clinical management of children with cochlear implants, ed. L. Eisenberg. Plural Publishing.
  • Gehlert, S., Mininger, C., Sohmer, D., & Berg, K. 2008. (Not so) gently down the stream: Choosing targets to ameliorate health disparities. Health & Social Work, 33: 163-167.
  • Gehlert, S., Sohmer, D., Sacks, T., Mininger, C., McClintock, M. & Olopade, O. 2008. Targeting health disparities: A model linking upstream determinants to downstream interventions. Health Affairs 27: 339-349.
  • Gehlert, S., Song, I.H., Chang, C.-H., Hartlage, S.A. 2008. The prevalence of premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Psychological Medicine, www.journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PSM.
  • Holmes, J.H., Ferketich, A.K., Hade, E., Lehmann, A., Gehlert, S., Rauscher, G., Abrams, J. & Bird, C. 2008. Challenges to multi-level health disparities research. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35,/S182-S192.
  • Salant, T. & Gehlert, S. 2008. Collective memory, candidacy, and victimization: Community epidemiology of breast cancer risk. Sociology of Health and Illness 30(4): 599-615.
  • Warnecke, R.B., Oh, A., Gehlert, S., Lurie, N., Rebbeck, T., Paskett, E., Tucker, K., Goodwin, J., Flack, J., Hiatt, R., Kerner, J., Heurtin-Roberts, S., Abeles, R., Tyson, F. & Patmios, G. 2008. Approaching health disparities from a population perspective: The NIH centers for population health and health disparities. American Journal of Public Health, 98,/1608-1615.
  • Gehlert, S., Rebbeck, T., Lurie, N., Warnecke, R., Paskett, E., Goodwin, J., Tucker, K.L. & Flack, J. 2007. Cells to society: Overcoming health disparities. National Cancer Institute, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Gehlert, S., Furumoto-Dawson, A., Gehlert, S., Sohmer, D., Olopade, O. & Sacks, T. 2007. Early life conditions and mechanisms of population health vulnerabilities. Health Affairs 26: 1238-1248.
  • Grushko, T., McClintock, M., Conzen, S., Gehlert, S., Masi, C. & Olopade, O. 2006. Mechanisms of environmental influence on mammary gland cancer gene expression: Achievements and prospects of research. Postmethodika 7: 274-280.
  • Grushko, T., McClintock, M., Conzen, S., Gehlert, S., Masi, C. & Olopade, O. 2006. Biological consequences of psychosocial isolation: A report of interdisciplinary team research. Scientific Bulletin Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Pedagogics Melitopol 7: 63-75.
  • Gehlert, S. & Browne, T.A., eds. 2006. The handbook of health social work. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Gehlert, S., Kovac, K., Song, I.H. & Hartlage, S.A. 2006. "Understanding the mental health services use of rural women." In Rural women's mental health: Mental, behavioral, and physical issues, eds. R.T. Coward, L.A. David, C.H. Gold, H. Smiciklas-Wright, L.E. Thorndyke & F.W.Vondracek, 147-162. New York: Springer Verlag.
  • Gehlert, S., Chang, C.-H., Bock, D.R. & Hartlage, S.A. 2006. Development and validation of a women's quality of life questionnaire (WOMQOL). Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 59: 525-533.
  • McClintock, M., Conzen, S., Gehlert, S., Masi, C. & Olopade, O. 2005. Mammary cancer and social interactions: Identifying multiple environments that regulate gene expression throughout the life span. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences Special Issue 1: 12-23.
  • Chang, C.H. & Gehlert, S. 2003. Psychometric evaluation of the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory (WPSI) using the Dichotomous Rasch Model. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy 12: 261-267.

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GROGAN, COLLEEN. Associate Professor. B.A., Wisconsin; Ph.D., Minnesota. Fields of Special Interest: American government and public policy; health policy and health politics; the American welfare state; comparative state level policy and politics. Selected publications:

  • Grogan, C.M. & Gusmano, M.K. In press. The voice of advocates in health care: Policymaking for the poor. Journal of Health and Social Policy.
  • Grogan, C.M. & Smith,V. In press. "From charity care to Medicaid": Governors, states, and the transformation of American health care. In A more perfect union, ed. E. Sribnick. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Grogan, C.M. 2008. "Medicalization of long-term care": Weighing the risks. In Handbook of long-term care administration and policy, eds. C.M. Mara & L. Katz Olson. New York: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Grogan, C.M. 2008. "Medicaid": Health care for you and me? In Health politics and policy, eds. J. Morone, T. Litman & L. Robins. New York: Delmar Thompson.
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Michael K. Gusmano. 2007. Healthy Voices/Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.
  • Grogan, C.M. 2006. "A marriage of convenience": The history of nursing home coverage and Medicaid. In Putting the past back in: History and health policy in the United States, eds. R.A. Stevens, C.E. Rosenberg & L.R. Burns. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Grogan, C.M. 2005. "The politics of aging within Medicaid." In The new politics of old age policy, ed. R.B. Hudson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Grogan, C.M. & Gusmano, M.K. 2005. Deliberative democracy in theory and practice: Connecticut's Medicaid managed care council. State Politics & Policy Quarterly 5(2).
  • Grogan, C.M. & Patashnik, E. 2005. "Medicaid at the crossroads." In Healthy, wealthy and fair: Health care and the good society, eds. L. Brown, L. Jacobs & J. Morone. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Kandula, N.R., Grogan, C.M., Rathouz, P.J. & Lauderdale D.S. 2004. The unintended impact of welfare reform on the Medicaid enrollment of eligible immigrants. Journal of Health Services Research 39(5): 1509-1526.
  • Grogan, C.M. & Patashnik, E. 2003. Between welfare medicine and mainstream program: Medicaid at the political crossroads. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28(5): 821-858.
  • Grogan, C.M. & Patashnik, E. 2003. Universalism within targeting: Nursing home care, the middle class, and the politics of the Medicaid program. Social Service Review 77(1): 51-71.

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GUTERMAN, NEIL B. Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor. B.A., California-Santa Cruz; M.S.W, Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: children and violence; child maltreatment and its prevention; children's exposure to community violence; development of clinical services; contextual influences in service delivery; Jewish communal services. Selected publications:

  • Cameron, M.C., Elkins, J. & Guterman, N.B. 2006. "Assessment of trauma in children and youth." In Working with traumatized youth in child welfare, ed. N. Boyd-Webb. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Guterman, N.B. & Lee,Y.L. 2005. The role of fathers in risk for physical child abuse and neglect: Possible pathways and unanswered questions. Child Maltreatment 10(2): 136-149.
  • Dubowitz, H. & Guterman, N.B. 2005. "Preventing child neglect and physical abuse." In Child maltreatment-A clinical guide and reference, 3rd edition, ed. A. Giardino. Maryland Heights, MO: G.W. Medical Publishing.
  • Guterman, N.B. & Taylor, C. 2005. "The prevention of physical child abuse and neglect." In Child welfare for the twenty-first century: A handbook of practices, policies, and programs, eds. P. Hess & G. Mallon. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Hahm, H.C., Lahiff, M. & Guterman, N.B. 2004. Asian American adolescents' acculturation, binge drinking, and alcohol and tobacco using peers. Journal of Community Psychology 32(3): 295-308.
  • Guterman, N.B. 2003. Advancing prevention research on child abuse, youth violence, and domestic violence: Emerging strategies and issues. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 19: 299-321.
  • Hahm, H.C., Lahiff, M. & Guterman, N.B. 2003. Acculturation and parental attachment in Asian American adolescents' alcohol use. Journal of Adolescent Health 33: 119-129.
  • Guterman, N.B. & Embry, R.A. 2003. "Prevention and treatment strategies targeting physical child abuse and neglect." In Intervention with children and adolescents: An interdisciplinary perspective, eds. P. Allen-Meares & M. Fraser. New York: Allen & Bacon.
  • Guterman, N.B., Cameron, M. & Hahm, H. 2003. Community violence exposure and associated behavior problems among children and adolescents in residential treatment. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma 6(2): 111-136.
  • Guterman, N.B. 2002. "The Role of Research in Defining a ‘Practiceable' Problem for Social Work: The Parallax of Community and Family Violence Exposure among Children and Youth." Social Work Education, 21(3), 313-322.
  • Guterman, N.B., Hahm, H.C., & Cameron, M. 2002. "Adolescent Victimization and Subsequent Use of Mental Health Counseling Services." Journal of Adolescent Health, 30, 336-345.

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HA, JUNG-HWA. Assistant Professor. B.A., Seoul National University; M.S.W., M.A., Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: aging and the life course; social and behavioral determinants of health and mental health; social support; stress and coping; productive aging. Selected publications:

  • Ingersoll-Dayton, B., Campbell, R. & Ha, J. In press. Enhancing forgiveness: A group intervention for the elderly. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.
  • Ha, J. 2008. Changes in support from confidantes, children, and friends following widowhood. Journal of Marriage and Family, 70, 306-318.
  • Ha, J., Hong, J., Seltzer, M. M., & Greenberg, J. S. 2008. Age and gender differences in the well-being of midlife and aging parents with children with mental health problems or developmental disorders: Report of a national study. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 49, 301-316.
  • Ha, J. & Ingersoll-Dayton, B. 2008. The effect of widowhood on intergenerational ambivalence. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 63B, S49-S58.
  • Ha, J., Carr, D., Utz, R.L. & Nesse, R. 2006. Older adults' perceptions of intergenerational support after widowhood: How do men and women differ? Journal of Family Issues 27: 3-30.
  • Ha, J. & Carr, D. 2005. The effect of parent-child geographic proximity on widowed parents' psychological adjustment and social integration. Research on Aging 27: 578-610.
  • Carr, D. & Ha, J. 2005. "Spousal bereavement." In Handbook of girls' and women's psychological health: Gender and well-being across the life span, eds. J. Worrell & C. Goodheart. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Ingersoll-Dayton, B., Neal, M., Ha, J. & Hammer, L. 2003. Collaboration among siblings providing care for older parents. Journal of Gerontological Social Work 40: 51-66.
  • Ingersoll-Dayton, B., Neal, M., Ha, J. & Hammer, L. 2003. Redressing inequity in parent care among siblings. Journal of Marriage and the Family 65: 201-212.

HANS, SYDNEY L. Professor and Chair of the Doctoral Program. B.S., Cornell; Ph.D., Harvard. Fields of Special Interest: developmental psychopathology; parent-child relationships throughout the life course; impact of parental psychopathology and substance abuse on children; women and violence; adolescent parenting; roles of fathers in families; supportive interventions for infants, young children, and families. Selected publications:

  • Melnick, S., Finger, B., Hans, S., Patrick, M. & Lyons-Ruth, K. In press. "Pervasively unintegrated/hostile-helpless states of mind on the Adult Attachment Interview": Implications for the intergenerational transmission of disorganized attachment. In Clinical applications of the Adult Attachment Interview, eds. H. Steele & M. Steele. New York: Guilford.
  • Hans, S.L. & Thullen, M.J. In press. The relational context of adolescent motherhood. In Handbook of infant mental health, 3rd edition, ed. C. Zeanah. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Auerbach, J.G., Erlenmeyer-Kimling, L., Fish, B., Hans, S.L., Ingraham, L.J., Marcus, J., McNeil, T.F. & Schubert, E. In press. "Genetic risk for schizophrenia": Findings from prospective longitudinal high risk studies. In Handbook of behavioral genetics, ed.Y.-K. Kim. New York: Springer.
  • Melnick, S., Finger, B., Hans, S., Hobson, R. P., Patrick, M., & Lyons-Ruth, K. In press. "Pervasively Unintegrated/Hostile-helpless States of Mind on the Adult Attachment Interview": Implications for the Intergenerational Transmission of Disorganized Attachment. In H. Steele & M. Steele (eds.), Clinical Uses of the Adult Attachment Interview.
  • Sokolowski, M.S., Hans, S.L., Bernstein,V.J. & Cox, S. In press. Mothers' representations of their infants and parenting behavior: Associations with personal and social-contextual variables in a high-risk sample. Infant Mental Health Journal 28: 344-365.
  • Hans, S.L. 2007. Review of "Developmental origins of aggression," eds. R.E. Tremblay, W.W. Hartup & J. Archer. Social Service Review 81(1): 178-180.
  • Dukic,V.M., Niessner,M., Benowitz, N., Hans, S. & Wakschlag, L. 2007.Modeling the relationship of cotinine and self-reported measures of maternal smoking during pregnancy: A deterministic approach. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 9: 453-465.
  • Hans, S.L. 2006. "Mothering and depression." In Women's mental health, eds. S.E. Romans & M.V. Seeman, 311-320. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams &Wilkins.
  • Hans, S.L. 2005. Review of "Adult attachment: Theory, research, and clinical implications," eds. W.S. Rholes & J.A. Simpson. Social Service Review 79(3): 566-568.
  • Erlenmeyer-Kimling, L., Hans, S., Ingraham, L., Marcus, J.,Wynne, L., Rehman, A., Roberts, S.A. & Auerbach, J. 2005. Handedness in children of schizophrenic parents: Data from three high-risk studies. Behavior Genetics 35(3): 351-385.
  • Bernstein,V., Harris, E.J., Long, C.W., Iida, E. & Hans, S.L. 2005. Issues in the multicultural assessment of parent-child interaction: An exploratory study from the starting early, starting smart collaboration. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 26: 241-275.
  • Hans, S.L., Auerbach, J.G., Auerbach, A.G. & Marcus, J. 2005. Development from birth to adolescence of children at risk for schizophrenia. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 15: 384-394.
  • Goodman, G., Hans, S.L. & Bernstein,V.J. 2005. Mother expectation of bother and infant attachment behaviors as predictors of mother and child communication at 24 months in children of methadone-maintained women. Infant Mental Health Journal 26: 549-569.
  • Hans, S.L., Auerbach, J.G., Styr, B. & Marcus, J. 2004. Offspring of schizophrenic parents: Mental disorders during childhood and adolescence. Schizophrenia Bulletin 30: 303-315.
  • Wakschlag, L.S., & Hans, S.L. 2002. "Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy and Conduct Problems in High-Risk Youth: A Developmental Framework." Development and Psychopathology, 14, 351-369.
  • Hans, S.L. 2002. "Studies of Prenatal Exposure to Drugs: Focusing on Parental Care of Children." Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 24, 329-337.
  • Behnke, E.F., & Hans, S.L. 2002. "Becoming a Doula." Zero to Three, 23, 9-13.
  • Hans, S.L., & Korfmacher, J. 2002. "The Professional Development of Paraprofessionals." Zero to Three, 23, 4‑8.

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HENLY, JULIA R. Associate Professor. B.A.,Wisconsin; M.S.W., Ph.D.,Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: family poverty; child care and welfare policy; work-family strategies of low-wage workers; informal support networks; employment discrimination. Selected publications:

  • Campbell, E., Henly, J.R., Elliott, D., Irwin, K. In press. Subjective constructions of neighborhood boundaries. Journal of Urban Affairs,Vol 31.//
  • Lambert, S. & Henly, J.R. 2007. "Lower-Level Jobs andWork-Family Studies." In Sloan work and family encyclopedia, wfnetwork.bc.edu/encyclopedia_template.php?id=4254.
  • Henly, J.R., Shaefer, H.L. &Waxman, R.E. 2006. Nonstandard work schedules: Employer- and employee-driven flexibility in retail jobs. Social Service Review 80: 609-634.
  • Henly, J.R., Danziger, S.K. & Offer, S. 2005.The contribution of social support to the material well-being of welfare recipients. Journal of Marriage and Family 67: 122-140.
  • Henly, J.R. & Lambert, S. 2005. "Nonstandard work and child care needs of low income parents." In Workforce/workplace mismatch? Work, family, health & wellbeing, eds. S.M. Bianchi, L.M. Casper, K.E. Christensen & R.B. King. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
  • Lyons, S., Henly, J.R. & Schuerman, J. 2005. Informal support in maltreating families: its effect on parenting practices. Children and Youth Services Review 27(1): 21-28.
  • Bromer, J. & Henly, J.R. 2004. Child care as family support? Care giving practices across child care provider types. Children and Youth Services Review 26(10): 941-964.
  • Henly, J.R. 2002. "Informal Support Networks and the Maintenance of Low-wage Jobs." In F. Munger (Ed.), Laboring Below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy (pp. 179-203). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

HILL, HEATHER. Assistant Professor. B.A., Washington; M.P.P., Michigan; Ph.D., Northwestern. Fields of Special Interest: poverty and inequality; welfare policy; low-wage employment; early childhood development; family demography. Selected publications:

  • Hill, H.D. & Morris, P. In press.  Welfare policies and very young children: Experimental data on stage-environment fit. Developmental Psychology.
  • Hill, H.D. In press. Data Sources, Adulthood: Current Population Survey (CPS). In the Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, ed. Carr, D. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
  • Hill. H.D. 2007. Steppin' out: Infidelity and sexual jealousy.  In P. England & K. Edin (Eds.), Unmarried Couples with Children. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
  • Bos, H., Duncan, G.J., Gennetian, L., & Hill, H.D. 2007. Fulfilling America's ‘make work pay' promise with New Hope.  A Hamilton Project Strategy and Discussion Paper. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

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JOHNSON, PENNY RUFF. Lecturer and Dean of Students. B.S., Wisconsin; A.M., Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: protective services, adoption, and foster care; child welfare case decision-making. Selected publications:

  • Rzepnicki, T.L. & Johnson, P.R. 2005. Examining decision errors in child protection cases: A new application of root cause analysis. Children and Youth Services Review 27: 383-407.

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JOHNSON, WALDO E., JR. Associate Professor. B.A.,Mercer;M.S.W.,Michigan; Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: male roles and involvement in African American families; nonresident fathers in fragile families; the physical and psychosocial health statuses of African American males. Selected publications:

  • Johnson,W. In press. Masculinity and Sexual Identity: Making Meaning of Paternal Identity among Young African American Males. Journal of African American Men.
  • Johnson,W., ed. In press. Social Work and Social Welfare Responses to African American Males: What Have We Seen with Our Own Eyes. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Johnson,W., Shears, J. & Perry, A. In press. Paternal Involvement among African American Fathers: Evidence from the Early Head Start and Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Research on Social Work Practice.
  • Ravenell, J., Whitaker, E. & Johnson, W. 2008. According to him: Barriers to healthcare among African American men. Journal of National Medical Association 100(10): 434-445.
  • Johnson, W. 2007. "Working with marginalized and minority men." In International encyclopedia of men and masculinities, volume 1, eds. M. Flood, J. Gardiner, B. Pease & K. Pringle. London: Routledge.
  • Johnson, W. & Salter, W. 2006. Paternity disestablishment, father involvement and the best interest of the child: Lessons from child welfare and family law. Commissioned paper for the Emerging Issues in Paternity Symposium. Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Ravenell, J., Johnson,W. & Whitaker, E. 2006. African-American men's perceptions of health: A focus group study. Journal of National Medical Association 98(4): 544-550.
  • O'Donnell, J., Johnson, W., D'Aunno, L. & Thornton, H. 2005. Fathers in child welfare: Caseworkers' perspectives. Child Welfare 84(3): 387-414.
  • Johnson, W. & Bryant, V. 2005. "Unwed African American fathers' participation in child welfare permanency planning": Case workers' perspectives. In Child welfare revisited: An Africentric perspective, eds. J. Everett, S. Chipungu & B. Leashore, 169-196. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Johnson, W. 2005. Review of "The Promise Keepers: Servants, soldiers and godly men", by J.P. Bartkowski. Social Service Review 79(3): 564-66.
  • Pate, D., Johnson,W. & Turner, M. 2005. Strengths and vulnerabilities of low income married parents. Commissioned paper for the Strengthening Healthy Marriage Initiative, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
  • Currence, P. & Johnson ,W. 2003. The negative implications of incarceration on black fathers. African American Research Perspectives 9(1): 24-32.
  • Johnson, W. 2003. Conceptualization and measurement of positive healthy couple relationships. Invited Paper for the Measurement Issues in Family Demography Conference, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Family and Child Well-Being Research Network, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families; The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, November 13-14, 2003
  • Johnson, W. 2002. "Time Out of Bound: High School Completion and Work Preparation among Urban, Poor, Unwed African American Fathers." In W. Allen, M. Spencer, & C. O'Connor (Eds.), African American Education: Race, Community, Inequality and Achievement - A Tribute to Edgar G. Epps (pp. 229-258). UK: Elsevier/ JAI Press.
  • Johnson, W. 2002. "Social Work Strategies for Sustaining Paternal Involvement among Unwed Fathers: Insights from Field Research." Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education, 4(3)/5(1), 70-83.

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LAMBERT, SUSAN J. Associate Professor. M.S.W., Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: organizational theory and management; the relationship between home and personal life; lower-skilled jobs and low-wage workers. Selected publications:

  • Lambert, S. In press. "Passing the buck": Labor flexibility practices that transfer risk onto hourly workers. Human Relations.
  • Lambert. S. In press. "Making a difference for hourly employees." In Work-life polices that make a real difference for individuals, families, and organizations, eds. A. Booth & A. Crouter. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
  • Lambert, S. 2008. "Human needs": Work/employment. In the Encyclopedia of social work, 20th edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Lambert, S. & Henly, J.R. 2007. "Low-level jobs and work family studies." In Work family encyclopedia, eds. P. Raskin & M. Pitt Catsouphes. Sloan Work-Family Research Network, Boston College.
  • Lambert, S. 2006. "Both art and science": Employing organizational documentation in workplace-based research. In Handbook on work-family research, eds. M. Pitt- Catsouphes, E.E. Kossek & S. Sweet. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Henly, J.R. & Lambert, S. 2005. "Nonstandard work and child care needs of low income parents." In Work, family, health & well-being, eds. S. Bianchi, L. Casper & R. King. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Kossek, E. & Lambert, S., eds. 2005.Work and life integration: Organizational, cultural, and individual perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Lambert, S. &Waxman, E. 2005. "Organizational stratification": Distributing opportunities for work-life balance. In Work and life integration: organizational, cultural, and individual perspectives, eds. E. Kossek & S. Lambert. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Lambert, S. & Haley-Lock, A. 2004. “The organizational stratification of opportunities for work-life balance”: Addressing issues of equality and social justice in the workplace. Community, Work & Family 7(2), 181–197.

  • Lambert, S. 2003. Review of "The work side of welfare-to-work": Lessons from recent policy research. Work and Occupations 30(4): 474-478.

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LEVINE, JUDITH A. Senior Lecturer. A.B., Harvard, M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern. Fields of Special Interest: poverty and social policy; welfare policy; social stratification; low-wage labor market; gender inequality; organizations and occupations; economic sociology; health. Selected publications:

  • Levine, J.A., Emery, C., & Pollack, H.A. 2007. "The Well-Being of Children Born to Teen Mothers." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 69(1), 105-122.
  • DeLeire, T., Levine, J.A., & Levy, H. 2006. "Is Welfare Reform Responsible for Low-skilled Women's Declining Health Insurance Coverage in the 1990s?" Journal of Human Resources, 41(3), 467-494.
  • Kalil, A., Levine, J.A., & Ziol-Guest, K. 2005. "Following in Their Parents' Footsteps: How Characteristics of Parental Work Predict Adolescents' Interest in Parents' Jobs." In B. Schneider & L. Waite (Eds.), Families Working: Time Apart, Time Together. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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LUDWIG, JENS. McCormick Foundation Professor. B.A., Rutgers; Ph.D.,Duke. Fields of Special Interest: urban poverty, education, crime, and housing. Selected publications:

  • Duncan, G.J., Ludwig, J. & Magnuson, K.A. In press. Reducing poverty through preschool interventions. The Future of Children.
  • Cook, P.J., Ludwig, J.,Venkatesh, S. & Braga, A. In press. Underground gun markets. The Economic Journal. (Also published as NBERWorking Paper 11737.)
  • Ludwig, J. & Kling, J. 2007. Is crime contagious? Journal of Law and Economics. (Also published as NBER working paper 12409.)
  • Ludwig, J.& Miller, D.L. 2007. Does Head Start improve children's life chances? Evidence from a regression discontinuity approach. Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(1): 159-208. (Also published as NBER Working Paper 11702 and IRP DP 131-05.)
  • Ludwig, J. & Mayer, S.E. 2006.‘Culture' and the inter-generational transmission of poverty: The prevention paradox. Future of Children 16(2): 175-196.
  • Harcourt, B.E. & Ludwig, J. 2006. Broken windows: New evidence from New York City and a five city social experiment. The University of Chicago Law Review 73(1): 271-320.
  • Cook, P.J. & Ludwig, J. 2006. The social costs of gun ownership. Journal of Public Economics 90(1-2): 379-391.
  • Ludwig, J. & Duncan, G. 2006. "Promising solutions in housing and the community." In Deviant peer contagion, eds. K. Dodge, J. McCord & T. Dishion. Duke Series in Child Development and Public Policy.
  • Cook, P.J. & Ludwig, J. 2006. "Assigning deviant youth to minimize total harm." In Deviant peer contagion, eds. K. Dodge, J. McCord & T. Dishion. Duke Series in Child Development and Public Policy.
  • Cook, P.J. & Ludwig. J. 2006. Aiming for evidence-based gun policy. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 25(3): 691-736.
  • Ludwig, J. & Marcotte, D. 2005. Anti-depressants, suicide and drug regulation. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 24(2): 249-272.
  • Peters, J., Cook, P.J. & Ludwig, J. 2005. Gun crime and gun control: The Hawaiian experience. The University of Chicago Legal Forum 55-90.
  • Ludwig, J. 2005. Better gun enforcement, less crime. Criminology and Public Policy 4(4): 677-716.
  • Cook, P.J., Ludwig, J. & Braga, A. 2005. Criminal records of homicide offenders. Journal of the American Medical Association 294(5): 598-601.
  • Jacob, B. & Ludwig, J. 2005. "Can the federal government improve education research?" In Brookings papers on education policy, ed. D. Ravitch, 47-88. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Holzer, H.J. & Ludwig, J. 2005. Measuring discrimination in education: Are methodologies from labor and housing markets useful? Teacher's College Record.
  • Kling, J.R., Ludwig, J. & Katz, L.F. 2005. Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth: Evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment. Quarterly Journal of Economics 120(1): 87-130.
  • Ludwig, J., Duncan, G.J. & Pinkston, J. 2005. Housing vouchers and economic self sufficiency: Evidence from a randomized experiment. Journal of Public Economics 89: 131-156.
  • Ludwig, J. & Miller, M. 2005. Interpreting the WIC debate. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 24(3): 691-701.
  • Duncan, G.J., Magnuson, K.A. & Ludwig, J. 2004. The endogeneity problem in developmental studies. Research in Human Development 1(1&2): 59-80.
  • Cook, P.J. & Ludwig, J. 2004. Does gun prevalence affect teen gun carrying after all? Criminology 42(1): 27-54.
  • Cook, P.J. & Ludwig, J. 2004. Principles for effective gun policy. Fordham Law Review 73(2): 589-613.
  • Ludwig, J. 2003. Evaluating gun-policy evaluations. Criminology and Public Policy 2(3): 411-419.
  • Cook, P.J. & Ludwig, J. 2003. Fact-free gun policy? University of Pennsylvania Law Review 151(4): 1329-1340.
  • Cook, P.J. & Ludwig, J. 2003. "Pragmatic gun policy." In Evaluating gun policy, eds. J. Ludwig & P.J. Cook, 1-40.Washington, DC: Brookings.
  • Cook, P.J. & Ludwig, J. 2003. "The effects of gun prevalence on burglary": Deterrence vs. inducement. In Evaluating gun policy, eds. J. Ludwig & P.J. Cook, 74-120.Washington, DC: Brookings. (Also published as NBER working paper #8926.)
  • Raphael, S. & Ludwig, J. 2003. "Do prison sentence enhancements reduce gun crime? The case of Project Exile." In Evaluating gun policy, eds. J. Ludwig & P.J. Cook, 251-286.Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Cohen, J. & Ludwig, J. 2003. "Policing crime guns." In Evaluating gun policy, eds. J. Ludwig & P.J. Cook, 217-250.Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Ladd, H.F. & Ludwig, J. 2003. "The effects of MTO on educational opportunities in Baltimore": Early evidence. In Choosing a better life, eds. J. Goering & J. Feins, 117-152.Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
  • Ludwig, J., Duncan, G.J. & Ladd, H.F. 2003. "MTO's effects on children and parents": evidence from Baltimore. In Choosing a better life, eds. J. Goering & J. Feins, 153-176.Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
  • Ludwig, J. 2003. "Improving neighborhoods for poor children." In One percent for the kids: New policies, brighter futures for America's children, ed. I. Sawhill, 136-155. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Ludwig, J. & Cook, P.J., eds. 2003. Evaluating gun policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Cook, P.J. & Ludwig, J. 2003. "The effects of the Brady Act on gun violence." In Guns, crime and punishment in America, ed. B. Harcourt. New York: New York University Press.
  • Bassi, L.J., Ludwig, J., McMurrer, D.P., & Van Buren, M. 2002. "Profiting from Learning: Firm-level Effects of Training Investments and Market Implications." Singapore Management Review, 24(3), 61-76.
  • Johnson, M., Ladd, H.F., & Ludwig, J. 2002. "The Benefits and Costs of Residential Mobility Programs." Housing Studies, 17(1), 125-138.
  • Cook, P.J., & Ludwig, J. 2002. "Firearms." In W.K. Viscusi (Ed.), Regulation through Litigation (pp. 67-105). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Cook, P.J., & Ludwig, J. 2002. "The Costs of Gun Violence Against Children." The Future of Children, 12(2), 87-100.

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MARSH, JEANNE C. George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor and Dean. B.A., Michigan State; M.S.W., Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: services for women and families; service integration in service delivery; social program and policy evaluation; knowledge utilization in practice and program decision making. Selected publications:

  • Cao, D., Marsh, J.C., & Shin, H.C. In press. Gender and racial/ethnic disparities in the impact of HIV prevention programming in substance abuse treatment. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
  • Gredig, D., & Marsh, J.C. In press. Improving intervention and practice. In Handbook of social work research. Beverly Hills: Sage.
  • McCracken, S. & Marsh, J. 2008. Practitioner expertise in evidence-based practice decision making. Research on Social Work Practice, 18, 301-310.
  • Marsh, J., Ryan, J., Choi, S. & Testa, M. 2006. Integrated services for families with multiple problems: Obstacles to family reunification. Children and Youth Services Review 28(9): 1074-1087.
  • Cha, T., Kuo, E. & Marsh, J. 2006. Useful knowledge for social work practice. Social Work and Society 4(1): www.socwork.net/2006/1/debate/chakuomarch.
  • Ryan, J.P.,Marsh, J.C., Testa,M.F. & Louderman, R. 2006. Integrating substance abuse treatment and child welfare services: Findings from the Illinois alcohol and other drug abuse waiver demonstration. Journal of Social Work Research 30(2): 95-107.
  • Mahoney, C.A., Engstrom, M. & Marsh, J.C. 2006. "Substance use problems in health social work practice." In Handbook of health social work, eds. S. Gehlert & T. Arthur Browne. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.
  • Marsh, J.C. & Cao, D. 2005. Parents in substance abuse treatment: Implications for child welfare practice. Children and Youth Services Review 27(12): 1259-1278.
  • Marsh, J.C. & Smith, B.D. 2005. "Commentary-Client-service matching in substance abuse treatment for women with children." In The research process in the human services: Behind the scenes, eds. L. Alexander & P. Solomon. New York: Brooks/Cole.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2005. Social justice: Social work's organizing value. Social Work 50(4): 293-294.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2005. Social work: Help starts here. Social Work 50(3): 195-196.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2005. Bush plan takes security out of social security. Social Work 50(2): 99-100.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2005. Six steps to stronger journal publication in social work. Social Work 50(1): 5-6.
  • Marsh, J.C., Cao, D. & D'Aunno, T.D. 2004. Gender differences in the impact of comprehensive services in substance abuse treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 27(4): 289-300.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004. "Social service education." In The encyclopedia of Chicago history, eds. J. Grossman, A. Keating & J. Reiff. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004. "Theory-driven versus theory-free research in empirical social work practice." In Using evidence in social work practice, eds. H.E. Briggs &T.L. Rzepnicki. Chicago: Lyceum.
  • Marsh, J.C., Cha, T. & Kuo, E. 2004. Social work readers describe ‘useful knowledge.' Social Work 49(4): 533-534.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004. Social work organizations working together. Social Work 49(3): 341-342.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004.Vanquish the backlog! And into the future-of social work! Social Work, 49(2): 149-150.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2004. Social work in a multicultural society. Social Work 49(1): 5-6.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2003. "Organizational and institutional factors in the development of practice knowledge and practice guidelines in social work." In Toward the development of practice guidelines for social workers, eds. E. Proctor & A. Rosen. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2003. The social work response to violence. Social Work 48(4): 437-438. Marsh, J.C. 2003. Chewing on cardboard and other pleasures of knowledge utilization. Social Work 48(3): 293-294.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2003. Arguments for family strengths research. Social Work 48(2): 147-149.
  • Marsh, J.C. 2003. To thine own ethics code be true. Social Work 48(1): 5-7.
  • Berlin, S, Marsh, J.C. 1993. Informing Practice Decisions. Prentice Hall College Division.

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MCCRACKEN, STANLEY G. Senior Lecturer.A.B.,Northwest Nazarene College; A.M., Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: mental health; substance abuse; co-occurring disorders; behavioral pharmacology; multicultural mental health; aging; dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practice. Selected publications:

  • McCracken, S. & Rzepnicki, T. In press. "The role of theory in conducting evidence based clinical practice." In The play and place of theory in social work practice, ed. W. Borden. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Gellis, Z. & McCracken, S. In press. Advanced MSW curriculum in mental health and aging. CSWE Gero-Ed Center. www.gero-edcenter.org.
  • McCracken, S.G. & Corrigan, P.W. 2008. "Motivational interviewing for medication adherence in individuals with schizophrenia." In Motivational interviewing in the treatment of psychological problems, eds. H. Arkowitz &W.R. Miller, 249-276. New York: Guilford.
  • McCracken, S. & Marsh, J. 2008. Practitioner expertise in evidence-based practice decision making. Research in Social Work Practice, 18, 301-310.
  • McCracken, S.G. 2007. Review of "Rethinking substance abuse: What the science shows, and what we should do about it," eds. W.R. Miller & K.M. Carroll. Social Service Review 81(1): 180-83.
  • McCracken, S.G. 2006. Review of "Intrusive thoughts in clinical disorders: Theory, research, and treatment," ed. D.A. Clark. Social Service Review 80(2): 350-52.
  • Corrigan, P.W., McCracken, S.G. & McNeilly, C. 2005. "Evidence based practices for individuals with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders." In The handbook of evidence-based practices in behavioral healthcare: Applications and new directions, eds. C. Stout & R. Hayes, 153-176. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Corrigan, P.W. & McCracken, S.G. 2005. Place first, then train: An alternative to the medical model of psychiatric rehabilitation. Social Work 50: 31-39.
  • McCracken, S.G. & Corrigan, P.W. 2005. "Staff development in mental health." In Using evidence in social work practice: Behavioral perspectives, eds. H.E. Briggs & T.L. Rzepnicki, 232-256. Chicago: Lyceum.
  • Corrigan, P.W. & McCracken, S.G. 2005. "Interviewing people with serious mental illness." In Clinical and diagnostic interviewing, 2nd edition, ed. R. Craig, 278-302. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
  • McCracken, S.G. 2005. Review of "Evidence-based practice manual: Research and outcome measures in health and human services," eds. A.R. Roberts & K.R. Yeager. Social Service Review 79(2): 374-78.
  • Corrigan, P., McCracken, S. & Blaser, B. 2003. Dissemination of evidence-based mental health practices. Evidence Based Mental Health 6: 4-5.
  • Basit, A., & McCracken, S. 2002. [Review of the book Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens edited by Y. Yazbeck Haddad]. Islamic Horizons, 90.

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MOSLEY, JENNIFER. Assistant Professor. B.A., Reed; M.S.W., Ph.D., California-Los Angeles. Fields of Special Interest: nonprofit organizations; policy advocacy and lobbying; organizational theory; civic engagement; social justice philanthropy. Selected publications:

  • Mosley, J.E. In press. "The policy advocacy role of human service nonprofits": Incentives, involvement, and impact. In Human services as complex organizations, 2nd edition, ed. Y. Hasenfeld. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Mosley, J.E. and Galaskiewicz, J. In press. "The role of foundations in shaping and responding to social welfare policy change": The case of welfare reform. In Contributions of foundations to American society, ed. H. Anheier & D. Hammack. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Mosley, J.E. In press. "Organizational theory." In The international encyclopedia of political science, ed. G. Kurian. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press.
  • Mosley, J.E. 2008. "Policy advocacy and lobbying in human service organizations." In Handbook of human service management, ed. R. Patti. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Mosley, J.E. 2008. "Contexts and settings": Nonprofit agencies and organizations. In The encyclopedia of social work, 20th edition, eds. T. Mizrahi & L. Davis. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Mosley, J.E. 2008. Review of "From the ground up: Grassroots organizations making social change," by C. Chetkovich & F. Kunreuther. Social Service Review 82(1): 157-60.
  • Mosley, J.E. 2007. Review of "Faith, hope, and jobs: Welfare-to-work in Los Angeles," by S.V. Monsma & J.C. Soper. Social Service Review 81(3): 572-75.
  • Mosley, J.E. 2005. "The tsunami relief effort." In Global civil society yearbook 2005- 06, eds. H. Anheier, M. Kaldor & M. Glasius. London: Sage Publications, Ltd.
  • Mosley, J.E. 2004. 1. "Lobbying." 2. "Political action committee." 3. "Social justice." 4. "Free rider problem." 5. "Poor law." 6. "Outdoor relief." 7. "Workhouse." 8. "Vouchers." 9. "Means-testing." 10. "Social welfare organization." 11. "Community based organization." In A dictionary of civil society, philanthropy, andthe third sector, ed. H. Anheier. London: Europa Publications.

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NORTON, DOLORES G. Samuel Deutsch Professor. A.B., Temple; M.S.S., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr. Fields of Special Interest: ecology of human development; early environment related to social, cognitive, and temporal developmental outcomes and academic achievement of children in high-risk urban environments; education for family support. Selected publications:

  • Norton, D.G.,Vincson, J. &Wilhelm, M.J. In press. "Research with high risk African American infants and children": Insights from a longitudinal study. In Research methodology in African American communities, eds. J.S. Jackson, C.H. Caldwell & S. Sellers. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Mann, T., Steward, M., Eggbeer, L. & Norton, D.G. 2007. Zero to Three's task force on culture and development: Learning to walk the talk. Zero to Three 27: 7-15.
  • Norton, D.G. 2006. "Beyond baby talk": Speaking with babies. In Concepts for car: Essays on infant/toddler development and learning, eds. J.R. Lally, P.L. Mangione & D. Greenwald, 107-109. San Francisco: West Ed.
  • Norton, D.G. 2006. "Research methods and issues for the study of African American children and school achievement." In School readiness and social and emotional development: Exploring diverse cultural perspectives, eds. B. Bowman & E.K. Moore, 59-75.Washington, DC: National Black Child DevelopmentInstitute.

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PARKS, VIRGINIA. Assistant Professor. B.A., Colorado; M.A., Ph.D., California-Los Angeles. Fields of Special Interest: urban geography; urban labor markets; immigration; racial and gender inequality; residential segregation; community organizing and development; labor. Selected publications:

  • Virginia Parks. In press. Gendering job competition: Immigration and African American employment in Chicago, 1990-2000.  Urban Geography
  • Richard Wright, Mark Ellis, Virginia Parks. In press. Immigrant niches and the intrametropolitan spatial division of labour.  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
  • William Sites, Robert Chaskin, Virginia Parks 2007. Reframing community practice for the 21st century: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges.  Journal of Urban Affairs 29 (5): 519-541
  • Mark Ellis, Richard Wright, Virginia Parks 2007. Geography and the immigrant division of labor. Economic Geography 83(3): 255-282.
  • Ellis, M.,Wright, R. & Parks, V. 2006. The immigrant household and spatial assimilation: Partnership, nativity, and neighborhood location. Urban Geography 27(1): 1-19.
  • Parks, V. 2006. Race, immigration, and the global city: Lessons from Chicago's hotel housekeepers. In Chicago's geographies: Metropolis for the 21st century, eds. R.P. Greene, M.J. Bouman & D. Grammenos, 129-142.Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers.
  • Parks, V. 2005. The Geography of Immigrant Labor Markets: Space, Networks, and Gender. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC.
  • Wright, R., Ellis, M. & Parks, V. 2005. Re-placing whiteness in spatial assimilation research. City and Community 4(2): 111-136.
  • Parks, V. 2004. Immigrant enclaves and ethnic niches: The gendered connection between residential and labor-market segregation in Los Angeles. Urban Geography 25(7): 589-630.
  • Parks, V. 2004. Accessing work: The effects of spatial and social accessibility on unemployment for native-born black and immigrant women in Los Angeles." Economic Geography 80(2): 141-172.
  • Ellis, M., Wright, R. & Parks, V. 2004.Work together, live apart? Geographies of racial and ethnic segregation at home and at work in Los Angeles. Annals of the Association of American Geographers" 94(3): 620-637.

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PAYNE, CHARLES M. Frank P. Hixson Distinguished Service Professor. B.A., Syracuse; Ph.D., Northwestern. Fields of Special Interest: urban education and school reform; the civil rights movement; social change; social inequality. Selected publications:

  • Payne, C.M., 2008. So Much Reform, So Little Change. Cambridge: Harvard Education Publishing Group.
  • Payne, C.M. & Strickland, C. eds., 2008. Teach Freedom: The African American Tradition of Education For Liberation. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Payne, C.M. 2006. Still crazy after all these years: Race in Chicago schools. Chicago Consortium on School Research, Occasional Papers Series.
  • Payne, C.M. 2004. The whole United States is southern!: Brown v. Board and the mystification of race. Journal of American History 91: 83-91.
  • Payne, C.M. & Green, A., eds. 2003. Time longer than rope: A century of African American activism, 1850-1950. New York: New York University Press.
  • Payne, C.M. 2003. More than a symbol of freedom: Education for liberation and democracy. Phi Delta Kappan September: 22-29.
  • Payne, C.M. 2003. "‘I don't want your nasty pot of gold'": The Comer School development process and the development of leadership in urban schools. In Leadership for school reform: Lessons from comprehensive school reform designs, eds. A. Datnow & J. Murphy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

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POLLACK, HAROLD. Associate Professor. B.S.E., Princeton; M.P.P., Ph.D., Harvard. Fields of Special Interest: HIV and hepatitis prevention efforts for injection drug users; drug abuse and dependence among welfare recipients and pregnant women; infant mortality prevention; child health. Selected publications:

  • Pollack, H.A. & D'Aunno, T. In press. Dosage patterns in methadone treatment: Results from a national survey, 1988-2005. Health Services Research.
  • Pollack, H.A. In press. Choose your poison: Moral, prudential, and political arguments about harm reduction. Contemporary Drug Problems.
  • Danziger, S., Davis, M.M., Orzol, S., Pollack, H.A. In press. Loss of health insurance coverage and access to care among welfare leavers. Inquiry.
  • Alexander, J.A.,Wells, R., Jiang, L. & Pollack, H.A. In press. Organizational determinants of boundary spanning activity in outpatient substance abuse treatment programs. Journal of Health Services Management Research.
  • Basu, A., Paltiel, A.D. & Pollack H.A. In press. Social costs of robbery and the cost effectiveness of substance abuse treatment. Health Economics.
  • Pollack, H.A. 2008. Evidence of things unseen: Causality and confounding in path models of youth substance use. Addiction 103(2): 320-1.
  • Chien, A.T., Conti, R.M., Pollack, H.A. 2007. A pediatric-focused review of the performance incentive literature. Current Opinion in Pediatrics 19(6): 719-725.
  • Pollack, H.A. 2007. Introduction. Women's Health Issues 17(4): 176-9.
  • Lantz, P.M., Lichtenstein, R.L. & Pollack, H.A. 2007. Health policy approaches to population health: The limits of 'medicalization.' Health Affairs 26(5): 1253-1257.
  • Alexander, J.A., Nahra, T.A., Lemak, C.H., Pollack, H.A. & Campbell, C.I. 2008. Tailored treatment in the outpatient substance abuse treatment sector: 1995-2005. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 34(3): 282-92.
  • Alexander, J.A., Pollack, H.A., Nahra, T.A.,Wells, R. & Lemak, C.H. 2007. Case management and client access to health and social services in outpatient substance abuse treatment. Journal of Behavioral Health Research 34(3): 221-36.
  • Schoeni, R.F., House, J.S., Kaplan, G.A. & H. Pollack, H.A., eds. 2008. Making Americans healthier: Social and economic policy as health policy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

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RODERICK, MELISSA. Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor. A.B., Bowdoin; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard. Fields of Special Interest: education policy; urban high schools; adolescence; youth policy; human resources policy; empirical analysis. Selected publications:

  • Roderick, M. & Stoker, G. In press. "Bringing rigor to the study of rigor": Evaluating the efficacy of Advanced Placement as a strategy for increasing college preparation in urban schools. In Schooling effects on children: Theory, methods & applications, eds. J. Meece & J. Eccles.
  • Roderick, M., Nagaoka, J., Coca, V. Moeller, E. 2008. From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, M., Nagaoka, J. & Allensworth, E. 2006. From high school to the future: An analysis of the college attendance patterns, college qualifications, and college graduation rates of Chicago Public School graduates. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, M. 2006. Closing the aspirations-achievement gap implications for high school reform: A commentary from Chicago. New York: MDRC.
  • Roderick, M. & Nagaoka, J. 2005. Retention under Chicago's high stakes testing program: Helpful, harmful, or harmless? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 27(1): 309-340.
  • Roderick, M., Nagaoka, J. & Allensworth, E. 2005. "Is the glass half full or mostly empty? Ending social promotion in Chicago." In Uses and misuses of data for educational accountability and improvement, eds. E.H. Haertel & J. Herman, 223- 259. The 104thYearbook for the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE), Part 2. Malden, MA.
  • Stone, S., Engel, M., Nagaoka, J. & Roderick, M. 2005. Getting it the second time around: Student classroom experience in Chicago's Summer Bridge Program. Teachers College Record 107(5): 935-957.
  • Smith, B.A., Degener, S. & Roderick, M. 2005. Extended learning time and accountability: Assessing outcomes and options for elementary and middle grades. Education Administration Quarterly 41: 195-236.
  • Courtney, M.E., Roderick, M., Smithgall, C., Gladden, R. & Nagaoka, J. 2004. The educational status of foster children. Chicago: Chapin Hall Center for Children Issue Brief 102.
  • Nagaoka, J. & Roderick, M. 2004. Ending social promotion in Chicago: The academic progress of retained students. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Jacob, R.T., Stone, S. & Roderick, M. 2004. Ending social promotion in Chicago: The response of teachers, students, and parents. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, M., Jacob, B. & Bryk, A.S. 2004. "Summer in the city": Achievement gains in Chicago's Summer Bridge Program. In Summer learning: Research, policies and programs, eds. G.D. Borman & M. Boulay, 73-102. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Roderick, M. 2003.What's happening to the boys? Early high school experiences and school outcomes among African American male adolescents in Chicago. Urban Education 38(5): 538-607.
  • Roderick,M., Engel, M., Nagaoka, J.& Jacob, B. 2003. Ending social promotion in Chicago: Results from Summer Bridge. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School. Research.
  • Roderick, M., Jacob, B. & Bryk, A.S. 2003. High stakes testing in Chicago: Effects on achievement in promotional gate grades. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 24: 333-358.

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RZEPNlCKI, TINA L. David and Mary Winton Green Professor. A.B., DePauw; A.M., Ph.D., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: child welfare services; case decision making; task-centered and behavioral practice; practice research. Selected publications:

  • McCracken, S. & Rzepnicki, T. In press. "The role of theory in conducting evidence based clinical practice." In The play and place of theory in social work practice, ed. W. Borden. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Rzepnicki, T.L., Johnson, P.R., Curry, A., Guerrero, E., Nguyen, H., & Smagner, J. 2007. Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol (CERAP) Report. Office of the Inspector General, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Report to the Governor and the General Assembly in January, 2007.
  • Rzepnicki, T.L. & Johnson, P.R. 2005. Examining decision errors in child protection cases: A new application of root cause analysis. Children and Youth Services Review 27: 393-407.
  • Briggs, H. and Rzepnicki, T.L., eds. 2004. Using evidence for social work practice: Behavioral perspectives. Chicago: Lyceum Books.
  • Rzepnicki, T.L. 2004. "Informed consent and practice evaluation": Making the decision to participate meaningful. In Using evidence for social work practice: Behavioral perspectives, eds. H. Briggs & T.L. Rzepnicki. Chicago: Lyceum Books.
  • Rzepnicki, T.L. and Briggs, H. 2004. "Panning for gold": Using evidence in your practice. In Using evidence for social work practice: Behavioral perspectives, eds. H. Briggs & T.L. Rzepnicki. Chicago: Lyceum Books.
  • Rzepnicki, T.L. 2003. "Informed consent and practice evaluation": Making the decision to participate meaningful. In Bridging the gap between research and practice: A festschrift honoring Elsie M. Pinkston, volume 1, 169-197. Chicago: The School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago.
  • Schuerman, J.R., Rzepnicki, T.L., and Littell, J.H. 1994.  Putting Families First: An Experiment in Family Preservation.  New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
  • Stein, T.J. and Rzepnicki, T.L. 1988. Jido fukushi inteku : ishi kettei no tame no jissen handobukku. Kyoto : Mineruva Shobo.  (Japanese)
  • Stein, T.J. and Rzepnicki, T.L. 1984. Decision Making in Child Welfare Services:  Intake and Planning. Boston:  Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing.
  • Stein, T.J. and Rzepnicki, T.L. 1983. Decision Making at Child Welfare Intake:  A Handbook for Practitioners. New York:  Child Welfare League of America.
  • Pinkston, E.M., Levitt, J.L., Green, G.R., Linsk, N., and Rzepnicki, T.L. 1982.  Effective Social Work Practice:  Advanced Techniques for Behavioral Intervention with Individuals, Families, and Institutional Staff, San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass, Inc.

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SAMUELS, GINA M. Assistant Professor. B.S., Wisconsin-Oshkosh; M.S.S.W., Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison. Fields of Special Interest: use of interpretive research methods to inform child welfare practice, multiracial and multiethnic identity, transracial adoption, kinship and identity formation among foster youth. Selected publications:

  • Samuels, G.M. & Pryce, J. M. In press. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": Survivalist self-reliance as resilience and risk among young adults aging out of foster care. Children and Youth Services Review.
  • Samuels, G.M. 2008. A reason, a season, and a lifetime: Relational permanence among young adults with foster care backgrounds. The University of Chicago: Chapin Hall Center for Children.
  • Samuels, G.M. & Ross-Sheriff, F. 2008. Identity, oppression, and power: Feminism and intersectionality theory. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 23(1): 5-9.
  • Samuels, G.M. 2007. "Beyond the rainbow": Multiraciality in the 21st century. In Our diverse society: Race, ethnicity and class-implications for 21st century America, eds. D. Engstrom & L. Piedra. Washington, DC: NASW Press.
  • Miranda, G.E. 2006. Review of "Unequal childhoods: Class, race, and family life," by A. Lareau. Children andYouth Services Review 28(1): 96-99.
  • Courtney, M.E., Skyles, A., Miranda, G.E., Zinn, A., Howard, E. & Goerge, R.M. 2005.Youth who run away from out-of-home care. Issue Brief 103, The University of Chicago. Chicago: Chapin Hall Center for Children.
  • Courtney, M.E., Skyles, A., Miranda, G.E., Zinn, A., Howard, E. & Goerge, R.M. 2005.Youth who run away from substitute care. Issue Brief 103, The University of Chicago. Chicago: Chapin Hall Center for Children.
  • Miranda, G.E. 2004. Reading between the lines: Black-white heritage and transracial adoption. African American Research Perspectives 10(1): 174-187.
  • Miranda, G.E. 2003. "Domestic transracial adoption and multiraciality." In Multiracial child resource book: Living complex identities, eds. M.P.P. Root & M. Kelley. Seattle,WA: MAVIN Foundation.
  • Coleman, H.L.K., Norton, R., Miranda, G.E. & McCubbin, L. 2003. "An ecological perspective on cultural identity development." In Handbook of multicultural competencies in counseling and psychology, eds. D. Pope-Davis, H.L.K. Coleman, W.M. Liu & R.L. Toporek. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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SITES, WILLIAM. Associate Professor. B.A., Oberlin; Ph.D., CUNY. Fields of Special Interest: urban policy and politics; community organization; political processes; social movements; social theory. Selected publications:

  • Sites, W., Chaskin, R.J. & Parks,V. 2007. Reframing community practice for the 21st century: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges. Journal of Urban Affairs, 29, 5:519-541.
  • Sites, W. Accepted for publication. "Progressive city." In Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, ed. R. Hutchison. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Sites, W. 2007. Beyond trenches and grassroots? Reflections on urban mobilization, fragmentation, and the anti-Wal-Mart campaign in Chicago. Environment and Planning A 39: 2632-2651.
  • Sites, W. 2007. "Contesting the neoliberal city? Theories of neo-iberalism and urban strategies of contention." In Contesting neoliberalism: The urban frontier, eds. H. Leitner, J. Peck & E. Sheppard. New York: The Guilford Press.
  • Sites, W. 2004. Progressive regionalism: A ‘deliberative' movement? Antipode 36(4): 766-778.
  • Sites, W. 2003. Remaking New York: Primitive globalization and the politics of urban community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Sites, W. 2003. Global city, American city: Theories of globalization and approaches to urban history. Journal of Urban History 29(3): 333-346.

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SOSIN, MICHAEL R. Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor and Editor of Social Service Review. A.B., Chicago; M.S.W., A.M., Ph.D., Michigan. Fields of Special Interest: social welfare institutions and agencies; social policy; social administration; urban poverty; and homelessness; substance abuse services. Selected publications:

  • Sosin, M.R. Forthcoming 2009. "Discretion in human service organizations": Traditional and institutional perspectives. In Human service organizations as complex organizations, 2nd edition, ed. Y. Hasenfeld. New York: Sage.
  • Mizrahi, T. and Davis, L.E., eds., Sosin, M.R., area ed. 2008. Encyclopedia of social work, 20th edition. Washington, DC: NASW Press.
  • Sosin, M.R. & Durkin, E. 2007. Perceptions about services and dropout from a substance abuse case management program. Journal of Community Psychology 35(5): 583-602.
  • Sosin, M.R. & Rathgeb Smith, S. 2006. New responsibilities of faith-related agencies. Policy Studies Journal 34(4): 533-562.
  • Sosin, M.R. 2005. The administrative control system of substance abuse managed care. Health Services Research 40(1): 157-176.
  • Sosin, M.R. 2003. Explaining homelessness in the U.S. by stratification or situation. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 13(2): 91-104.
  • Sosin, M.R. & Grossman, S. 2003. The individual and beyond: A socio-rational choice model of service participation among homeless adults with substance abuse problems. Substance Use and Misuse 38(3-6): 503.
  • Sosin, M.R. 2002. "Outcomes and Sample Selection: The Case of a Homelessness and Substance Abuse Intervention." British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 55(1), 63-91.
  • Sosin, M.R. 2002. "Negotiating Case Decisions in Substance Abuse Managed Care." The Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43(3), 277-295.
  • Sosin, M.R. 2002. "The New Emergency Aid: A Policy Proposal." Poverty Research News, 6(1).

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TEIGISER, KAREN S. Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean for the Curriculum. S.B., Allegheny College; A.M., Chicago. Fields of Special Interest: clinical work with children; curriculum design and evaluation. Selected publications:

  • Teigiser, K. In press. New approaches to generalist field education. Journal of Social Work Education.

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VOISIN, DEXTER R. Associate Professor. B.A., St. Andrews College; M.S.W., Michigan; Ph.D., Columbia. Fields of Special Interest: exposure to sexual, family, and community violence; HIV/AIDS; substance abuse; international HIV prevention; social work practice. Selected publications:

  • Voisin, D., Neilands, T., Salazar, L., DiClemente, R., Crosby, R. &Yarber, W. In press. Pathways to drug and sexual risk behaviors among detained adolescents. Social Work Research.
  • Voisin, D. & Neilands, T. In press. "Academic achievement, peer influences, and sexual behaviors among high school African American adolescent boys." In Social work and social welfare responses to African American males, ed. W. Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Voisin, D. & Guilamo-Ramos,V. 2008. A commentary on community violence exposure and HIV risk behaviors among African American adolescents. African American Research Perspectives 12(1): 83-100.
  • Voisin, D., DiClemente, R., Salazar, L., Crosby, R., Yarber, W. & Staples-Horne, M. 2007. Community violence exposure and health-risk outcomes among detained adolescents. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 74: 506-513.
  • Voisin, D., Salazar, L., Crosby, R. DiClemente, R. & Yarber, W. 2007. Understanding motivations for having sex among detained youth: Implications for HIV prevention programs. Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services 6(3): 29-41.
  • Baptiste, D.,Voisin, D., Smithgall, C., Da Costa Martinez, D. & Henderson, G. 2007. "Preventing HIV/AIDS among Trinidad and Tobago teens using a family-based program": Preliminary outcomes. In Community collaborative partnerships and empirical findings: The foundation for youth HIV prevention, eds. M. McKay, D. Baptiste, R. Paikoff & C. Bell. New York: Haworth Press.
  • Voisin, D. 2007. The effects of family and community violence exposure among youth: Recommendations for practice and policy. Journal of Social Work Education 23(1): 51-66.
  • Crosby, R.,Voisin, D., Salazar, L., DiClemente, R., Yarber,W. & Caliendo, A. 2006. Family influences and biologically confirmed sexually transmitted infections among detained adolescents. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 76(3): 389-394.
  • Voisin, D., Salazar, L., Crosby, R., DiClemente, R. & Yarber, W. 2006. Ecological factors associated with STD-risk behaviors among detained adolescent females. Social Work 51(1): 71-78.
  • Voisin, D., Baptiste, D., Da Costa Martinez, D. & Henderson, G. 2006. Exporting a U.S. HIV/AIDS prevention program to a Caribbean island-nation: Lessons from the field. International Social Work 49(1): 75-86.
  • Baptiste, D., Petersen, I., Bhana, A., McKay, M.,Voisin, D., Bell, C. & Martinez, D. 2006. Community collaborative youth-focused HIV/AIDS prevention in two countries: Preliminary findings. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 31(2): 1-12.
  • Baptiste, D., Voisin, D., Smithgall, C., Da Costa Martinez, D. & Henderson, G. 2006. Preventing HIV/AIDS among Trinidad and Tobago teens using a family-based program: Preliminary outcomes. Social Work in Mental Health 5(3-4): 327-348.
  • Voisin, D., Salazar, L., Crosby, R., DiClemente, R., Yarber, W. & Staples-Horne, M. 2006. HIV testing among detained youth. Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth 6(2): 83-96.
  • Voisin, D. 2005. The relationship between violence exposure and HIV sexual risk behaviors: Does gender matter? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 75(4): 497- 506.
  • Voisin, D., Salazar, L., Crosby, R., DiClemente, R., Yarber, W. & Staples-Horne, M. 2005. Teacher connectedness and health-related outcomes among detained adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health 37(4): 337.e17-337.e23.
  • Voisin, D., Salazar, L., Crosby, R., DiClemente, R., Yarber, W. & Staples-Horne, M. 2005. The association between gang involvement and sexual behaviors among detained adolescent males. Sexually Transmitted Infections 80: 440-442.
  • Voisin, D. 2003. Victims of community violence and HIV sexual risk behaviors among African American adolescent males. Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention & Education for Adolescents & Children 5(3-4), 87-110.
  • Anderson, T., DeCarlo, A., Voisin, D. & Bell, C. 2003. Trauma and violence in childhood: A U.S. perspective. Psychiatric Times 20(10): 17-20.
  • Voisin, D. 2002. "Family Ecology and HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors among African American and Puerto Rican Adolescent Males." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 72(2), 294-302.
  • Voisin, D., & Dillon-Remy, M. 2002. "Psychocultural Factors Associated with HIV Infection among Trinidad and Tobago Adolescents." In B.A. Dicks (Ed.), HIV/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean (pp. 65-82). New York: Haworth Press.

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WOOLLEY, MICHAEL E. Assistant Professor. B.S., M.S.W., Virginia Commonwealth; Ph.D., North Carolina. Fields of Special Interest: Social environment risk and protective factors impacting school success; development of self-report assessment instruments for practice and research with children; cognitive aspects of child and youth self report. Selected publications:

  • Woolley, M. E., Kol, K. & Bowen, G. L. In press. The social context of school success for Latino middle school students: Direct and indirect influences of teachers, family, and friends. Journal of Early Adolescence.
  • Woolley, M. E. & Patton, D. U. In press. School Violence. In Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Childhood, eds. D. Carr, R. Crosnoe, M. E. Hughes & A. Pienta. Macmillan: Farmington Hills, MI.
  • Joe, S., Woolley, M. E., Brown, G. K., Ghahramanlou-Holloway, M., & Beck, A. T. 2008. Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory-II in low income African-American suicide attempters. Journal of Personality Assessment, 90(5), 521- 523.
  • Woolley, M.E. 2008. "Assessment of children." In Comprehensive handbook of social work and social welfare, volume 3: Social work practice, eds. W. Rowe & L. Rapp- Paglicci, 215-245. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons.
  • Woolley, M. E., Grogan-Kaylor, A. Gilster, M. E., Karb, R. A., Gant, L. M. & Reischl, T. 2008. Neighborhood social support, poor physical conditions, and academic achievement. Children & Schools, 30, 133-145.
  • Karabenick, S.A.,Woolley, M.E., Friedel, J.M., Ammon, B.V., Blazevski, J., Bonney, C.R., De Groot, E., Gilbert, M.C., Kelley, K.L., Kempler, T.M. & Musu, L. 2007. Cognitive processing of self-report items in educational research: Do they think what we mean? Educational Psychologist 42(3): 139-151.
  • Mowbray, C.T.,Woolley, M.E., Grogan-Kaylor, A., Gant, L.M., Gilster, M.E. & Williams-Shanks, T.R. 2007. Neighborhood research from a spatially oriented strengths perspective. Journal of Community Psychology.
  • Woolley, M.E. & Bowen, G.L. 2007. In the context of risk: Social capital and the school engagement of middle school students. Family Relations 56: 92-104.
  • Woolley, M.E. 2006. "Advancing a positive school climate for students, families, and staff." In School social work and mental health worker's training and resource manual, eds. C. Franklin, M.B. Harris & P. Allen-Meares. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Grogan-Kaylor, A., Woolley, M.E., Mowbray, C.T., Reischl, T., Gilster, M.E., Karb, R.A., MacFarlane, P., Gant, L. & Alaimo, K. 2006. Predictors of neighborhood satisfaction. Journal of Community Practice.
  • Woolley, M.E., Bowen, G.L. & Bowen, N.K. 2006. The development and evaluation of procedures to assess child self-report item validity. Educational and Psychological Measurement 66: 687-700.
  • Woolley, M.E. & Grogan-Kaylor, A. 2006. Protective family factors in the context of neighborhood: Promoting positive school outcomes. Family Relations 55: 95-106.
  • Woolley, M.E., Bowen, N.K. & Bowen, G.L. 2005. "Mixed methods": Meaning and validity in the development of self-report items for children. In Sourcebook of family theories and methods: An interactive approach, eds. A. Acock, K. Allen,V. Bengtson, D. Klein & P. Dilworth-Anderson. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Woolley, M.E., Bowen, G.L. & Bowen, N.K. 2004. Cognitive pretesting and the developmental validity of child self-report instruments: Theory and applications. Research on Social Work Practice 14: 191-200.
  • Richman, J.M., Bowen, G.L. &Woolley, M.E. 2004. "School failure": An ecointeractional developmental perspective. In Risk and resilience in childhood, 2nd edition, ed. M.W. Fraser. Washington, DC: NASW Press.
  • Bowen, G.L., Powers, J., Woolley, M.E. & Bowen, N.K. 2003. "School violence." In Handbook of prevention interventions for children and adolescents, eds. L.A. Rapp- Paglicci, C.N. Dulmus & J.S.Wodarski. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

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