AASWSW - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- President - Elect of the International Association for Relationship Research
- Professor
Anita P. Barbee, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville. She and her colleagues have secured $48 million in extramural funding from numerous local, state and federal agencies such as the Children's Bureau, Office of Family Assistance, Office of Adolescent Health, SAMHSA, and OJJDP in two major areas 1) interpersonal relationship formation and maintenance and the impact of relationship education on improving communication and parenting skills and reducing intimate partner violence and risky sexual behavior; 2) development, execution and evaluation of workforce and practice interventions, and capacity building in family and youth serving organizations such as child welfare, juvenile justice, and out of school time, youth serving agencies in order to improve policy, practice and outcomes for families, youth and children affected by trauma. This work has led to hundreds of publications and presentations.
Dr. Barbee is President-Elect of the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) and is on the Executive Council of the National Staff Development and Training Association (NSDTA). She serves on the Editorial Boards of seven journals such as the Journal of Public Child Welfare and Personal Relationships. She is a Fellow in Division 9 of American Psychological Association's, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and received the Dissertation Award in 1989 and the Miller Early Career Award in 1997 from IARR as well as the Lifetime Achievement and President's Service Award from NSDTA in 2007 and 2014, respectively. She has worked with numerous organizations such as the Brookings Institution, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancies, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Safe Place Network, and the Centers for Disease Control as well as 30 states and several countries to improve child welfare, education and pregnancy prevention services.
Dr. Jackson's scholarship explores interrelationships between and among economic hardship, parental psychological well-being, parenting in the home environment, and child developmental outcomes in families headed by low-income, single-parent, black mothers with young children. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
From 1997-1998, Jackson also was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. In 2000, she received an Outstanding Research Award from the Society of Social Work and Research (SSWR). In 2015, she was an invited participant at the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies, Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children, Open Session, in Washington DC. She can be reached at ajacks@ucla.edu.
Job Titles:
- Helen Rehr / Ruth Fizdale Professor of Health
Dr. Barbara Berkman is the Helen Rehr/Ruth Fizdale Professor of Health and Mental Health at Columbia University School of Social Work and adjunct professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She received her Doctorate from Columbia University School of Social Work, a MA from the University of Chicago, and her BA with distinction and honors in Philosophy from the University of Michigan.
She has directed 23 federally and foundation supported research projects in health and aging, and is currently principal investigator and national director of the John A. Hartford Foundation's Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program.
Dr. Berkman has received many awards and honors primarily for her research and policy efforts in health, mental health, and aging. Most recently, she has been honored with the 2009 Donald P. Kent Award from the Gerontological Society of America for her professional leadership in gerontology through teaching, service, and interpretation of gerontology to the larger society.
Dr. Berkman's professional contribution to the knowledge base in health care and aging includes over 200 books, chapters, and articles. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Ben Saunders is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. He is affiliated with the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center and the National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center and is a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice in South Carolina. His research, training, and clinical interests include the initial and long-term impact of violence and abuse on children and adolescents; the epidemiology of psychological trauma, violence, and abuse; treatment approaches for victimized and traumatized children and their families; the use of technology in mental health training and service delivery; and innovative methods for training, disseminating, implementing, and delivering evidence supported interventions in community service agencies.
Job Titles:
- Professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Brett Drake has been a professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis since 1991. Much of his work utilizes big data to advance "front end" child maltreatment epidemiology, service provision and policy, with a particular emphasis on race, ethnicity and poverty. Along with his wife, Melissa Jonson-Reid, he is the author of the recent book "After the Cradle Falls: What Child Abuse Is, How We Respond To It, And What You Can Do About it", published by Oxford.
In addition, Drake teaches doctoral classes on research methodology, due to his interest in the philosophical and theoretical aspects of social work research. He also consults with a number of state and local agencies regarding evaluation and administrative data.
Charles E. Lewis, Jr., a political social worker, is the founder and director of the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy (CRISP), a nonprofit organization that works to engage social workers with the U.S. Congress. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work and a member of the 12 Grand Challenges for Social Work Leadership Board. Dr. Lewis was Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director for former Congressman Ed Towns when he oversaw the creation of the Congressional Social Work Caucus. Dr. Lewis was an adjunct professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and member of the faculty of Howard University School of Social Work. In 2017, Dr. Lewis was selected as the Macro Practitioner of the Year by the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA). He earned his MSW degree in clinical counseling from Clark Atlanta University and PhD in policy, planning and policy analysis from Columbia University.
Trained in both social work and epidemiology, Dr. Herman is a leading scholar in the area of homelessness and its nexus with mental illness. In 2012, he joined the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College as Professor and Associate Dean for Scholarship and Research. Prior to this, he spent over a decade as a researcher and faculty member at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and New York State Psychiatric Institute where he also served as the Director of Social Work Research.
Dr. Herman began his career as a practitioner in New York's public mental health and system where he worked in a broad range of service delivery settings. After entering research, he was the first professional social worker to receive an early career K award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Herman is internationally known for his efforts to evaluate and disseminate Critical Time Intervention (CTI), a model of time-limited case management that has been widely recognized as one of few effective approaches for the prevention of homelessness among high-risk populations. Dr. Herman has also studied the mental health impacts of the September 11 terrorist attacks and has carried out epidemiological research on long-term outcomes associated with adverse childhood experiences.
His research has been supported from NIMH, SAMSHA, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD). Dr. Herman is a standing member of the Mental Health Services Research Committee of NIMH and is past Vice-President of the Society for Social Work and Research, which honored him with its Outstanding Research Award in 1999.
Job Titles:
- Distinguished University Professor
Daniel Flannery is a Distinguished University Professor and the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and Director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention, Research and Education in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). From 1998 to 2011 he served as founding Director of the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence at Kent State University. He is a licensed clinical -child psychologist and a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Case University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. He has authored several edited volumes including Youth Violence: Prevention, Intervention and Social Policy (1999) for American Psychiatric Press and the Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression (2007 and 2018) for Cambridge University Press. He is author of Violence and mental health in everyday life: Prevention and intervention for children and adolescents (2006) and Wanted on Warrants: The Fugitive Safe Surrender Program (2013). He was a committee member and co-author of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's 2016 report Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy and Practice. He has published over 100 papers and book chapters and was named in 2019 one of the 100 most influential contemporary Social Work faculty. Flannery's primary areas of research are in youth violence prevention, the link between violence and mental health, and community-based program evaluation. He received his PhD in 1991 in Clinical Psychology from The Ohio State University. His previous appointments were as Assistant Professor of Family Studies and Psychology at the University of Arizona, Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry at CWRU, and Professor of Criminal Justice Studies and Public Health at Kent State University. He was named a University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State in 2006. In 2008 he was appointed by the Secretary of Education to the U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug Free Schools Community Advisory Committee. Dr. Flannery has generated as Principal or Co-principal investigator over 70 million dollars in externally funded research. He has served as advisor to various local and national organizations including the Institute of Medicine, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Crime Prevention Council, the National Resource Center for Safe Schools, and the Ohio School Safety Center.
Job Titles:
- Professor in the School of Social Work at Ari
David R. Hodge, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. He also holds appointments at: the University of Pennsylvania in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, Baylor University in the Institute for Studies of Religion, and at Duke University in the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at the Center for Aging, Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Hodge's research focuses on spirituality, religion and culture, especially as these interrelated constructs intersect health and wellness. He has written over two hundred articles and book chapters on these and other topics.
David T. Takeuchi, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. Dr. Takeuchi is a sociologist with postdoctoral training in epidemiology and health services research. His research focuses on the social, structural, and cultural contexts that are associated with different health outcomes, especially among racial and ethnic minorities. He also examines the use of health services in different communities. Dr. Takeuchi has published in a wide range of journals including the American Journal of Psychiatry, American Journal of Public Health, Archives of General Psychiatry, American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Medical Care, Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Education, and Social Forces. He has received funding for his work from the National Institutes of Health, W.T. Grant Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Dr. Takeuchi received the Legacy Award from the Family Research Consortium for his research and mentoring and the Innovations Award from the National Center on Health and Health Disparities for his research contributions. Prior to coming to BC, he was at the University of Washington for eleven years. He was honored with the University of Washington 2011 Marsha Landolt Distinguished Mentor Award. In 2012, he was elected into the Washington State Academy of Sciences and the Sociological Research Association, an honor society of the nation's top sociologists. He currently serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Program. He recently agreed to serve on the Immigration Integration Committee for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Science. The panel will examine the issues confronting immigration settlement and integration especially around demographics, legal status, and geographic location and the overall impact of immigration, both legal and illegal.
Dawn Anderson-Butcher is a full professor in the College of Social Work and Affiliate Faculty in Human Sciences (Kinesiology) at The Ohio State University and a Licensed Independent Social Worker in the State of Ohio. At Ohio State, Dawn is the Director of the Community and Youth Collaborative Institute (http://cayci.osu.edu/), as well as the Executive Director of Teaching/Research of LiFE sports, a nationally recognized sports-based positive youth development initiative (www.osulifesports.org).
Dawn earned a BA in psychology, a BS in exercise/sport sciences, and an MS in health/sport studies from Miami University, Ohio. She earned both an MSW and a PhD from the College of Health at the University of Utah. Her primary research interests are positive youth development in various social settings, including schools, afterschool programs, and youth sport. Dawn has amassed over 100 publications throughout her career and generated over 15 million dollars in funding to support research, teaching, and outreach agendas.
In addition to being a Fellow in the American Association of Social Work and Social Welfare, she is a Research Fellow in both the Society of Health and Physical Educators and the Society of Social Work Researchers. Dawn also has won numerous awards for her scholarship, such as the Gary A. Shaffer Award for Academic Contributions to the Field of School Social Work, the Community Engaged Scholar Award at Ohio State, Alumni Profound Impact Award at Miami University, the Kristen Marie Gould Endowed Lecturer on Sport for Children and Youth at Michigan State University, and the Evaluation Recognition Award at the Ohio Program Evaluators Group. She enjoys spending time with her family, exercising, watching sports, and playing golf in her spare time.
Job Titles:
- Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor
Deborah Gorman-Smith is the Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor and interim Dean of the School of Social Service Administration, effective July 1, 2017. She is also the Principal Investigator and director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention, one of 6 national Academic Centers of Excellence funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Her program of research, grounded in a public health perspective, is focused on advancing knowledge about development, risk, and prevention of aggression and violence, with specific focus on minority youth living in high burden urban communities. Gorman-Smith has been or currently is Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on several longitudinal risk and preventive intervention studies funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), CDC-P, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the William T. Grant Foundation. She has published extensively in areas related to youth violence, including the relationship between community characteristics, family functioning and aggression and violence, including partner violence and the impact of family-focused preventive interventions.
Gorman-Smith led a study for the United Nations on violence against children that provided an in-depth picture of the prevalence, nature, and causes of all forms of violence against children. Her research group put forth recommendations for consideration by Member States of the UN. She was also a member of a Study Group on Primary Prevention of Antisocial Behavior for the United Kingdom's Department of Health.
Gorman-Smith is the past President for the Society for Prevention Research and has served on other national and state committees including the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control.
Gorman-Smith received her PhD in Clinical-Developmental Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Co - Chair, Nominations and Elections Committee
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- University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Dr. Barbara Jones is University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Josleen and Frances Lockhart Professor of Direct Social Work Practice and Associate Dean for Health Affairs at the UT Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work. At Dell Medical School, she is Chair of the Department of Health Social Work, Associate Director of Social Sciences and Community Based Research in the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes, and Distinguished professor of oncology, population health, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences. She is a Founding Steering Committee Member of the UT Austin Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education. Dr. Jones is a Distinguished Scholar/Fellow of the National Academies of Practice and past Vice-Chair of the Social Work Academy. She is the Past President of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Work and a founding Board member of the Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network. She serves on the National Advisory Board of the Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program and on the Pediatric Palliative Care Research Network. Dr. Jones' research focuses on palliative care, pediatric and AYA oncology and social work leadership in health care. Her work has been published in top journals including Pediatrics, Social Work in Health Care, and Cancer.
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Professor at the University of Alabama
Dr. David L. Albright is a University Distinguished Professor at The University of Alabama. He is committed to public policy and administrative leadership aimed at improving the health, well-being, safety, and prosperity of disproportionately affected populations, rural and underserved communities, and our country's military Veterans. He has published widely and is the recipient of federal, state, and foundation research grants and contracts.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Social Work Research
Dr. Enola Proctor is the Frank J. Bruno Professor of Social Work Research and associate dean for faculty at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, in St. Louis, MO. She leads the NIH-funded Center for Mental Health Services Research which collaborates with its national network of research partners and local and state social service agencies to improve the quality of care to vulnerable populations and advance the scientific study of moving mental health practices from clinical knowledge to practical applications.
Her current research tests strategies to improve organizational functioning and increase the uptake and sustainability of evidence based mental health services. She directs the Dissemination and Implementation Research Core as part of Washington University's Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (a CTSA grant funded through NIH/NCRR), leads an NIH funded Implementation Research Institute to provide national training to implementation researchers, and is on the Faculty Advisory Council for Washington University's Institute for Public Health.
She was appointed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to serve on the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institute of Mental Health. She has served as scientific chairperson for many NIH-supported research conferences and was editor in chief for Social Work Research.
Her awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Social Work and Research in 2002, the National Association of Social Workers' Presidential Award for Excellence in Research in 1994; the Mental Health Professional of the Year award from the St. Louis Alliance for the Mentally Ill in 1997, and numerous teaching, mentoring, and faculty awards from Washington University, including the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award in 2009.
Dr. Eric Garland, PhD, LCSW is Presidential Scholar, Associate Dean for Research, and Professor in the University of Utah College of Social Work and Director of the Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development. Dr. Garland is the developer of a mindfulness-based therapy founded on insights derived from affective neuroscience, called Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE). Dr. Garland has over 140 scientific publications, and as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator, received nearly $50 million in research grants from the NIH, DOD, and PCORI to conduct randomized clinical trials of MORE and mindfulness as a treatment for addiction, distress, and chronic pain.
Dr. Gail Steketee is Professor and Dean Emerita at the Boston University School of Social Work where she served as Dean from 2005 through 2017, helping advance the School's research and academic profile to top 10 U.S. News and World Report status. A graduate of Harvard University, she received her MSW and PhD from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Her scholarly work has focused on developing and testing treatments for obsessive compulsive (OC) disorder and OC spectrum conditions, including hoarding disorder over the past 20 years. She has published over 200 journal articles and chapters, and more than a dozen books on these topics. These include Frost and Steketee's non-fiction best seller Stuff (Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) and the Oxford Handbook for Hoarding and Acquiring (Oxford, 2014). She published the first empirically based self-help book (When Once is Not Enough) and clinician guide for OCD (Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Her work has been featured in media outlets including the New York Times, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, and CNN. She is a Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and served as President from 2016-17 and board member from 2015-2018. An elected Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare since 2012, she served on the Board and as Vice-President from 2014-19. Dr. Steketee has received several career awards including the Outstanding Career Achievement Award from the International OCD Foundation. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals and frequently lectures and conducts workshops on hoarding and related disorders for professional and public audiences in the U.
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean
- Principal Investigator
Dr. Brekke is the associate dean of research at the USC School of Social Work. He is the past director of the Hamovitch Center for Science in the Human Services, and in 2001 was installed as the Frances Larson Professor of Social Work Research. He does extensive grant reviewing for federal agencies and was a standing member of the Services Research Scientific Merit Review Committee at NIMH for six years.
Dr. John Tropman is the Henry J. Meyer Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Adjunct Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business.
Dr. Tropman's research focuses on the organizational elements that create high-performing organizations. Topics of special interest are entrepreneurship, effective group decision making, C-level executives, the problem of executive burnout and flameout, and organizational rewards systems.
Dr. Tropman is an internationally recognized leader in social work research and education whose work is advancing knowledge and practice related to the organizational context of service delivery. His sustained attention to the organizational elements of service delivery in his teaching and research has resulted in a body of knowledge and a cadre of social work scholars contributing to more effective organizational practice.
Dr. Karina L. Walters is the Associate Dean for Research and the William P. and Ruth Gerberding Endowed University Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work. Dr. Walters is also the Director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute National Center of Excellence funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Institute's many notable contributions include hosting the 2010 International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development conference, a biennial gathering aimed at improving the health of indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States through indigenous and community-led research, health services and workforce development.
Dr. Walters is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Senior Research Award where she was an honorary visiting scholar at Ngā Pae o te Maramatanga National Institute for Research Excellence in Maori Development and Advancement at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research focuses on historical, social and cultural determinants of physical and mental health among American Indians and Alaska Natives. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on her research and mentors numerous American Indian and Alaska Native junior faculty, researchers, post-doctorate, graduate and undergraduate students.
Edwina ("Eddie") Uehara, MSW, PhD, is past president of SSWR, past president of the St. Louis Group for Excellence in Social Work Research & Education, and Professor and Dean, School of Social Work, University of Washington. Dr. Uehara's scholarly interests center on understanding the interplay of social structure and the cultural construction of health, illness and healing. Her research has been published in a range of journals in social work and related disciplines, including American Journal of Sociology; Journal of Health and Social Behavior; Archives of General Psychiatry; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; American Journal of Community Psychology; Social Science and Medicine; Social Work; and Gerontology.
Recipient of the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award (1996), the School of Social Work's Students' Award for Classroom Excellence (1994), and the Edith Abbott Award for Career Excellence from the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration (2007), Dr. Uehara is the inaugural holder of the Ballmer Endowed Deanship in Social Work, the first position of its kind in a public university. She has taught and mentored scores of masters, doctoral, and post-doctoral students, particularly those specializing in ethnography, grounded theory, narrative analysis, social networks analysis, and the intersection of race, culture, socioeconomic class and mental health.
Elizabeth Lightfoot is Director and Distinguished Professor of Social Policy at the Arizona State University School of Social Work. Lightfoot's research centers on disability policy and services, with a focus on the intersections of disability with child welfare, aging, disparities, and abuse. She has completed numerous projects investigating the interactions of people with disabilities in the child welfare system and her research findings have been used as evidence in the creation of national policies involving disability. She also has been involved in several ongoing community based participatory research partnerships related to the development of strengths or asset-based interventions targeting immigrant and refugee health, particularly for those from East Africa.
Before coming to ASU, she was the Distinguished Global Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work for 23 years. At Minnesota she directed the PhD Program for 15 years, developed new MSW tracks in community practice, international social work, and health, disability and aging, and established an MSW field placement in Namibia. She also has been a Fulbright Scholar for sabbatical years in both Namibia and Romania and is the first Social Work Fulbright Faculty Ambassador through the Fulbright Program and the Institute for International Education.
She has served as the President of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work and has been on the boards of the Society for Social Work and Research, the Council of Social Work Education, and the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. She has received the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education's Educational Leadership award and has received university and college wide awards for international engagement, educational leadership, and teaching.
She enjoys teaching doctoral classes in research methods and policy and MSW courses in disability, policy and macro practice, she has advised more than two dozen PhD students, and she has mentored students and faculty around the world.
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- Distinguished Professor for Children
Emily Putnam-Hornstein is the John A. Tate Distinguished Professor for Children in Need at UNC Chapel Hill's School of Social Work and faculty co-director of the Children's Data Network. She also maintains appointments as a distinguished scholar at the University of Southern California and as a research specialist with the California Child Welfare Indicators Project at UC Berkeley. For nearly two decades, Emily has partnered with public agencies - including the California Department of Social Services and California's Health and Human Services Agency - to carry out applied research to inform child welfare policy and practice. More recently, her agency partnerships have focused on the translation of predictive risk models into operational tools. Emily is the recipient of the Forsythe Award for Child Welfare Leadership from the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators and the Commissioner's Award from the Children's Bureau. Emily graduated from Yale University with a BA in Psychology, received her MSW from Columbia University, and earned her Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley.
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- Professor of Social Work Research
Dr. John Brekke joined the University of Southern California (USC) School of Social Work faculty in 1984. Prior to assuming an academic appointment, Dr. Brekke had a number of clinical positions working with persons diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness in inpatient and outpatient settings.
Since 1989, Dr. Brekke has been the principal investigator on five longitudinal studies funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, one funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and he received a mid-career K-Award from NIMH. His work focuses on the improvement of community-based services for individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness and on developing biosocial models for enhancing treatment effectiveness.
He publishes in the most highly ranked journals in social work, psychology, and psychiatry. In 1994, Dr. Brekke received the "Armin Loeb Achievement in Research Award" from the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services; in 1999, he received the "Excellence in Research Award" from the Society for Social Work and Research; and in 2010, he received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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- Professor of Direct Social Work Practice
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- Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration
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- Senior Editor of the Professional Journal Child Welfare
Dr. Mallon is the Senior Editor of the professional journal Child Welfare and the author or editor of more than twenty-four books. His most recent publication, co-edited with Peg Hess, is Child welfare for the twenty-first century: A Handbook of practices, policies, and programs published by Columbia University Press in 2014.
David Biegel, Ph.D., is the Henry L. Zucker Professor of Social Work Practice and Professor of Psychiatry and Sociology at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Biegel's research focuses on the impact of chronic illnesses and developmental disabilities on family caregivers in mental illness, co-occurring mental illness and substance use, aging, and autism spectrum disorders. As the author of a number of important books and scholarly papers, Dr. Biegel has made theoretical and empirical contributions to better understanding both the special needs and special contributions of those who care for a family member with serious illness. In particular, Dr. Biegel has played a leading role in addressing the problem of "silos" of knowledge, proposing the importance of examining similarities as well as differences in caregiver stressors and impacts across diseases and population groups.
Dr. Biegel has been the recipient of numerous research grants funded by federal, state and local sources. Dr. Biegel has served as lead editor of three book series including the nine volume Evidence-Based Practices Series published by Oxford University Press and the seven volume Family Caregiver Applications Series published by Sage Publications. He is the author of over one hundred thirty publications principally focused on family caregiving with low-income persons with serious mental illness, co-occurring mental illness and substance use, and frail elderly individuals. Dr. Biegel was a founding director of a number of research centers including the Center for Practice Innovations, the Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving Institute, and the Cuyahoga County Community Mental Health Research Institute. A Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and the Society for Social Work and Research, he served as a member of the Program Committee and Director of Mentoring for the Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program.
Irwin Garfinkel is the Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems at the Columbia University School of Social Work, co-founding director of the Columbia Population Research Center, and the co-principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Well Being Study.
He was the director of the Institute for Research on Poverty (1975-1980) and the School of Social Work (1982-1984) at the University of Wisconsin. Between 1980 and 1990, he was the principal investigator of the Wisconsin Child Support Study.
A social worker and an economist by training, he has authored or co-authored over 180 scientific articles and twelve books on poverty, income transfer policy, program evaluation, single parent families, child support policy, and the welfare state. His research on child support and welfare influenced legislation in Wisconsin and other American states, the US Congress, Great Britain, Australia, and Sweden.
His most recent book is Wealth and Welfare States: Is America a Laggard or Leader?
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- Chairman of the Finance Committee
- Chairman of the Innovation Research Committee
- Treasurer
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- George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor
- Professor
Jeanne C. Marsh is the George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her work focuses on the delivery of integrated health and social services, substance abuse treatment and service delivery, social work practice and program decision-making.
Professor Marsh has held appointments in both the School of Social Service Administration and the Committee on Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. She also has served as visiting professor at the London School of Economics, Clare Hall, Cambridge University and Sciences Po Paris. She publishes broadly on issues of integrated health and social services, substance abuse treatment services for women and families, knowledge utilization and professionalization processes in social work.
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- Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work
Jennifer Bellamy is a Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. Her scholarship focuses on evidence-based practice and the engagement of fathers in child and family services by implementing family and systems-level interventions. She is the Principal Investigator on the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)-funded Fathers and Continuous Learning in Child Welfare (FCL) Project in partnership with Mathematica Policy Research. FCL implemented and evaluated the Breakthrough Series Collaborative approach with 6 child welfare teams across the U.S. to improve placement stability and permanency outcomes for children by engaging their fathers and paternal relatives. She is also the Co-Principal Investigator for the ACF-funded Colorado Fatherhood Project Evaluation. This 7-site project designed to develop, pilot test, and test the outcomes of a new co-parenting intervention in partnership with the Colorado Department of Early Childhood. Dr. Bellamy is a co-developer of the Dads Matter-HV and the Nurturing Dads and Partners (NDAP) Program.
Jerome Wakefield is a Professor at NYU Silver as well as an NYU University Professor with multidisciplinary appointments. His clinical training and experience have been within the mental health field and were integrative, including psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, and family training, with work in agencies as well as private practice. He was for many years a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey.
Dr. Wakefield's scholarly specialty is the conceptual foundations of clinical theory. He is the author of more than 300 publications appearing in journals and books in psychology, philosophy, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and social work, dealing with issues at the intersection of philosophy and the mental health professions. Much of his recent work has concerned the concept of mental disorder, especially how normal negative responses to a problematic social environment can be distinguished from mental disorder and how DSM diagnostic criteria fail to adequately draw this distinction. Dr. Wakefield rejects both the anti-psychiatric critique that holds that there is no such thing as mental disorder other than as a label for socially disvalued conditions, and the standard psychiatric position that any well-defined syndromal set of symptoms can define a disorder. He argues for a middle ground position in which the concept of a physical or mental medical disorder is a hybrid value and scientific concept requiring both harm, assessed according to social values, and dysfunction, anchored in facts about evolutionary design. Unlike the anti-psychiatric view, Dr. Wakefield's "harmful dysfunction" analysis offers a position from which to mount meaningful and constructive criticism of standard psychiatric diagnostic criteria based on assumptions about disorder that, he argues, lie at the foundation of psychiatry itself. This work has been widely recognized. For example, in 1995, NIMH held a conference of leading researchers on conduct disorder devoted to exploring the implications of Dr. Wakefield's views for that field. In 1999, a special issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology was devoted to his views; his "harmful dysfunction" analysis of the concept of mental disorder is currently the most cited approach in the psychological literature for distinguishing mental disorder from normal-range distress and suffering due to environmental stressors. His analysis is widely cited in abnormal psychology and introductory psychology textbooks; and many articles have appeared in journals devoted to analyzing and critiquing his views.
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- Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Ari
Jill Messing, MSW, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. She earned her both master's degree and a doctorate in social welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, and went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in interdisciplinary violence research at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied under the mentorship of Professor Jacquelyn Campbell.
Her interest areas are intimate partner violence, risk assessment, domestic homicide and femicide, criminal justice-social service collaborations and evidence-based practice. She has published 27 articles and book chapters, and her work appears in top-tier social work and interdisciplinary journals.
Messing specializes in intervention research. She is the principal investigator on the National Institute of Justice-funded Oklahoma Lethality Assessment Study, which examines the effectiveness of the Lethality Assessment Program across seven jurisdictions in Oklahoma, and the co-investigator on the National Institute of Mental Health-funded study "The use of Computerized Safety Decision Aids with Victims of Intimate Partner Violence."
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- Distinguished Professor for Children in Need, School of Social Work, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John M. Wallace, Jr., Ph.D. holds the David E. Epperson Chair at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. Dr. Wallace is also the senior pastor of Bible Center Church, located in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood. His current efforts mobilize the resources of the University of Pittsburgh to implement and evaluate a set of two-generation (i.e., parent and child) interventions for students and their parents who live, learn, play and work in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood. Dr. Wallace has been married to his wife Cynthia for over thirty-one years and together they have four adult children.
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- Dean and Professor of the School of Social Work at Boston
Jorge Delva is Dean and Professor of the School of Social Work at Boston University. He is also the Director of the BU SSW Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health (http://www.bu.edu/ciswh/). Prior to this appointment he was the Kristine A. Siefert Collegiate Professor of Social Work and Director of the Community Engagement Core of the Michigan Institute on Clinical & Health Research, School of Medicine. At the University of Michigan School of Social Work he served as founding co-Director of the Curtis Research & Training Center as well as Associate Dean for Research and Associate Dean for Educational Programs.
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- Professor of Child Welfare
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- Professor in the Crown Family School of Social
Julia Henly is a Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago, where she chairs the PhD program and co-directs the Employment Instability, Family Well-being, and Social Policy Network. Henly's scholarship aims to advance understanding of the economic and caregiving strategies of low-income families to inform the design and improve the effectiveness of work-family policies and public benefits, especially child care policy. Her ongoing projects investigate equity in child care subsidy access and the effects of recent subsidy policy changes on program dynamics; the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on child care programs; parental child care decision making in Latinx communities; and the prevalence and consequences of precarious work schedules on work-family outcomes.
Henly is a 2018 Society for Social Work and Research Fellow, a 2016 Interdisciplinary Research Leadership Fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a 2016 Distinguished Fellow of the William T. Grant Foundation. She received her B.A. with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her M.S.W. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her scholarship has received funding from both federal agencies and private foundations and is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and edited book volumes.
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- Director of the Social Development Research Group
Dr. Haggerty is the Director of the Social Development Research Group and Endowed Professor of Prevention at the UW School of Social Work. He is a principal investigator on a variety of projects, including Utah Communities That Care Training program, Staying Connected with Your Teen, Families Facing the Future (formerly Focus on Families) and study testing an adaptation of an evidence based family prevention intervention for foster caregivers and their teens called Connecting. He is an investigator of the Community Youth Development Study, which tests the effectiveness of the Communities That Care (CTC) program. Dr. Haggerty specializes in prevention programs at the community, school and family level. For more than 30 years, he has focused on developing innovative ways to organize the scientific knowledge base for prevention so that parents, communities and schools can better identify, assess and prioritize customized approaches that meet their needs. An expert on substance abuse and delinquency prevention, Dr. Haggerty speaks, conducts training's, and writes extensively on this field.
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- Professor and Director of the National Resource Center for Participant - Directed Services
Mahoney is the Professor and Director of the National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services at the School of Social Work at Boston College.
Kevin J. Mahoney, PhD is professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and Deputy Director of the Home and Community-Based Services Resource Network established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
An expert on state government and long-term care innovation, he speaks and writes extensively on consumer direction, the roles of the public and private sectors in financing long-term care, long-term care insurance and care management.
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- Professor in the Graduate School of Social
Kimberly Bender, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. In her work, she partners with young people facing adversity, and the community-based agencies that serve them, to make life more hopeful and society more just. The majority of her work partners engages young people experiencing homelessness to understand their needs, engage them in social change projects and develop skills that can prevent adverse experiences. Bender serves as co-PI on a six-state multi-site research project with youth experiencing homelessness through shelter, drop-in and transitional housing services to better understand risk and protective factors in this population. She also serves as principle investigator on a NIDA-funded randomized trial of a mindfulness-based cognitive intervention to prevent victimization and substance among youth residing in emergency shelters. More recently, Bender's participatory research has shifted toward understanding mutual aid as a model of intervention with young people experiencing homelessness.
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- Emeritus
- Chairman in Mental Health and Social Policy at the University of Texas
- Professor
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- Director of the Institute for Research
Education
BA, Rutgers University; MSW, Hunter College; Ph.D., Columbia
Lawrence (Lonnie) Berger is the Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the ways in which economic resources, sociodemographic characteristics, and public policies affect parental behaviors and child and family wellbeing. He is engaged in studies in three primary areas: (1) examining the determinants of substandard parenting, child maltreatment, and out-of-home placement for children; (2) exploring associations among socioeconomic factors (family structure and composition, economic resources, household debt), parenting behaviors, and children's care, development, and wellbeing; and (3) assessing the influence of public policies on parental behaviors and child and family wellbeing. To address these topics, he utilizes a variety of statistical techniques to analyze data from a range of large-scale datasets. His work aims to inform public policy in order to improve its capacity to assist families in accessing resources, improving family functioning and wellbeing, and ensuring that children are able to grow and develop in the best possible environments. This research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Administration on Children and Families), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Casey Family Services, Wisconsin Child Abuse and Prevention Board, and Wisconsin Department of Children and Families.
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- Chairman of the Awards Committee
- Member of the Board
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- Chairman
- Chairman, Early Career Mentoring Program
Robert F. Schilling II has held direct practice roles in youth, child welfare and developmental disabilities settings, and he has been a foster parent, fieldwork supervisor, fieldwork liaison, faculty member and departmental chair.
He received his B.A. from Hamline University, his M.S.W. from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison and, later, his Ph.D. in social work from the University of Washington. His early research focused on developmental disabilities and prevention of social problems among minority youth.
From 1986-1999 he was assistant, associate and full professor at Columbia University School of Social Work. Schilling's first NIH-funded study tested a group HIV risk reduction intervention with 90 methadone patients. Initial promising results showed some lasting between-group differences, in the first published HIV prevention outcomes beyond one year. He extended his work into related studies involving women drug users in jail, untreated cocaine and heroin users, and patients in methadone clinics, sexually transmitted disease clinics, prisons and detoxification units.
Schilling was one of the principal investigators on the seven-site NIMH Multisite HIV Prevention Trial-then, the largest fully randomized HIV prevention trial ever conducted in the U.S. Study outcomes, involving 3,700 women and men in 37 clinics, were reported in 1998 in Science.
At UCLA, he went on to publish papers on guardianship arrangements of children of women in detoxification, parental status and entry to methadone maintenance, proximity to needle exchange programs and HIV-related risk behavior, community-level HIV prevention with drug users, determinants of HIV-related drug-sharing in injection drug users, victimization of women drug users, and drug abuse treatment careers. More recent studies involved persons with HIV disease or at-risk populations in Asia.
To date, he has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles, as well as book chapters, reviews, invited papers, and letters. Schilling's publications have appeared in AIDS, The American Journal of Public Health,The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, The New England Journal of Medicine, Social Service Review, and Social Work.
Schilling was one of several co-authors receiving the James H. Nakano Citation for Outstanding Scientific Paper Published in 1994, from the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The next year, the same group was nominated for the Charles C. Shepard Science Award, for Demonstrating Excellence in Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. In 2003, he was listed as one of the most productive scholars in social work in review of reputation and publication productivity among social work researchers. In 2006, Schilling was listed among researchers above the 95th percentile distribution of extramural NIH grants over the last 25 years. In a 2010 a review of HIV/AIDS scholarship by faculty within U.S.-based schools of social work, he was listed as first in citations. His work has been cited more than 4000 times. In 2011, Schilling was elected to the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.
Schilling has been a standing and ad hoc member and chair of NIH review panels, and has chaired university subjects review committees. From 1996-1998, he chaired the technical advisory committee of the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research. In 1997, he chaired an ad hoc group convened for the purpose of advising NIMH on the reorganization of its prevention mission. Later, he chaired another task group crafting a document, Strengthening America's Families and Communities: Applying R&D in Re-Inventing Human Service Systems, sent to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. In 2002, he served as a consultant to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration's HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence, Health Outcomes and Cost Study. In 2005, Schilling organized and chaired the group examining the quality and impact of social work journals and the processes of peer review and publication, with recommendations issued in The Miami Statement.
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- Professor and Director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention
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- Co - Chair, Nominations and Elections Committee