Current Students

Areas Of Expertise: Empathy and Avoidance; Serious Mental Illness and Recovery; Qualities of Mental Health Practitioners

Areas of Expertise: Child Maltreatment Prevention, Interpersonal Violence, Gender Issues, Informal Social Control, Bystander Intervention, Implementation Science

Areas of Expertise: Intervention science targeting the neurobiological ramifications of PTSD among IPV survivors using fMRI to evaluate the treatment effect

Areas of Expertise: Poverty; Migration; Mobilities; Housing; Work

Areas of Expertise: Critical race theory; Information and communication technology (ICT)-mediated (e.g., video games) interpersonal violence (IPV) and child development; Mental health in minoritized groups; Family process in immigrant families

Areas of Expertise: International social work, global poverty, African and Caribbean women and poverty, international development, poverty reduction policy; Participatory research; Women’s empowerment; Culturally competent social work practice

Areas of Expertise: Housing and homelessness; Maternal substance use; Mental health interventions; Health disparities; Trauma; and the Integration of behavioral health

Areas of Expertise: Racial and community trauma; Intersection of addictions and neuroscience; Adolescent and young adult development; Culturally competent social work practice; Translational research

Areas of Expertise: Health disparities and marginalized communities; Help-seeking; Culture/religion and health; Culturally-sensitive health services; Community-based research; Qualitative research

Areas of Expertise: Substance use disorder intervention; Cross section between substance and behavioral additions; Harm reduction policy and implementation; Impact of the criminal justice approach on addiction; Reentry after criminal justice involvement

Areas of Expertise: Aging and the life course; Social determinants of health; Inequality; Digital

Areas of Expertise: Older adults; Poverty alleviation; Healthcare insurance; Charitable giving; Quantitative research 

Areas of Expertise: Impacts of trauma and stress on health and wellbeing; Adverse childhood experiences; Traumatic stress

Areas of Expertise: Othering, belonging, and bridging, particularly when centering disability as an intersectional identity; Cross-discipline problem solving; the Evolution of research methodologies to reflect changing identities; and Coalition-building

Areas of Expertise: Implementation science; School-to-prison pipeline; Social-emotional learning; Dialectical Behavior Therapy; Mass incarceration; Juvenile justice; and Child welfare

Areas of Expertise: Community-level interventions; Age-friendly communities; Community practice; Implementation science; Qualitative methods; Social network analysis

Areas of Expertise: Understanding and improving services provided to people experiencing homelessness through religious institutions; Improving end of life care options for people experiencing homelessness; Harm reduction; Community organizing; and Critical research

Areas of Expertise: Global child welfare; Child wellbeing and development; Child maltreatment; Diversity and inclusion in the academy; Prevention and implementation research; Mixed methods research; Decolonizing methodology; Community based action research

Areas of Expertise: Acculturation process of immigrant children especially, Chinese immigrant children; Acculturation process of international students; Adolescent and young adult development; the Impact of different acculturation levels among immigrant children

Areas of Expertise: Gender-based violence prevention; Technology and social work; Masculinities; Sexual and reproductive health; Intervention development and evaluation; Bystander intervention

Areas of Expertise: Participatory action research; Refugee youth and families; Ethnic enclaves and mental health; Diasporic communities and identity formation; Refugee resettlement and immigration policies