Areas of Interest: Gender and juvenile justice, child maltreatment, interpersonal trauma, adolescent and young adult development, service implementation, and quantitative and qualitative methodology.
Grand Challenges for Social Work: Promote smart decarceration
Areas of Interest: Biobehavioral health, child development, child maltreatment, parent-child interactions, sleep, stress, substance use, mindfulness- and trauma-informed intervention, and risk and resiliency.
Grand Challenges for Social Work: Ensure healthy development for all youth; Stop family violence; Close the health gap
Areas of Interest: Psychosocial oncology; existential quality of life; end-of-life communication; identity development, adjustment to illness; interprofessional collaborative practice
Grand Challenges for Social Work: Close the health gap; eradicate social isolation; harness technology for social good
Areas of Interest: Critical perspectives in mental health and psychopharmacology, psychosocial and peer-run alternatives for persons in acute mental/emotional distress, subjective treatment experiences, training helping professionals to improve prescribing practices, and advancing the role of social work in psychopharmacology.
Grand Challenges for Social Work: Ensure healthy development for all youth; Eradicate social isolation
Areas of Interest: How evidence-based programs consider cultural and racial difference and the social justice implications of implementing these programs; the development of community-based research to practice partnerships; etiological research on the social environment on behavioral health to inform intervention development
Grand Challenges for Social Work: Ensure healthy development for all youth; Achieve equal opportunity and justice; Close the health gap
Areas of Interest: Immigrant integration and rights; immigrant family well-being; cultural pluralism and intergroup relations; intergroup attitude formation and change; social policymaking; measurement development; intervention research
Grand Challenges for Social Work: Achieve Equal Opportunity and Justice; Close the Health Gap; Reduce Extreme Economic Inequality
Areas of Interest: human-animal interaction; anthrozoology; therapy dogs; service dogs; companion animals; psychosocial wellbeing; mental health; community-engaged research
Grand Challenges for Social Work: Ensure healthy development for all youth; Eradicate social isolation
Areas of Interest: Bullying, aggression, peer victimization, school-based prevention and intervention, juvenile justice, and gender and racial/ethnic differences in risk.
Grand Challenges for Social Work: Ensure healthy development for all youth; Smart decarceration