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Faculty Research Interests

Becky Antle, PhD

  • Family health issues
  • Solution-based child welfare practice
  • Impact of domestic violence on children

Anita Barbee, PhD

  • Child welfare
  • Training and program evaluation
  • Formation and maintenance of close relationships
  • Social support
  • Womens health, breast cancer, and AIDS
  • Domestic violence
  • Organizational development

Linda Bledsoe, PhD

  • Health behavior theory development
  • Smoking cessation
  • Health literacy
  • Substance abuse and HIV
  • High risk groups for substance abuse and HIV
  • Women and substance abuse
  • Effects of domestic violence on children

Sharon Bowland, PhD

  • Violence against women
  • Spirituality/religion and mental health
  • Mental health and aging
  • Mental health interventions
  • Dissemination of research into practice

 Joe Brown, PhD

  • Children of divorce
  • High conflict families

Crystal Collins-Camargo, PhD

  • Child welfare practice and policy
  • Social work supervision
  • Organizational culture and structures
  • Evidence-informed social work practice

Dana Christensen, PhD

  • Juvenile sexual offender relapse prevention
  • Child welfare, protection and permanency
  • Integrated Services, community collaboration for the protection of children
  • Family systems applications in large public agencies

Rick Cloud, PhD

  • Treatment and prevention of substance abuse in general
  • Effects of twelve step and mutual aid involvement
  • Factors and influences affecting twelve step program affiliation
  • Community involvement and collaboration in prevention and treatment of substance abuse
  • Use of the internet in substance abuse interventions
  • Evaluate research directed at substance abuse prevention and treatment programs
         Prisons/community re-integration
         Mutual aid
         Program evaluation
         Prisons

 Wanda Lott Collins, PhD

  • Spirituality and social work
  • The African American church and family supports
  • African American Families
  • Alzheimer’s and care giving issues
  • Faith Based Initiative
  • Environmental stressors and spirituality
  • Spiritual Solution Based approach
  • Caregiving in families

Anna Faul, PhD

  • Health disparities
  • Older adults
  • Diabetes
  • Multilevel modeling
  • Scale development and validation
  • Employee wellness and organizational climate
  • Practice, program, and training evaluation

Andy Frey, PhD

  • School social work
  • Emotional and behavioral disorders
  • Educational placement
  • Violence prevention
  • Early intervention

 Martha Fuller, MSSW

  • Field education
  • Learning styles/learning disabilities
  • Child welfare

Seana Golder, PhD

  • Womens illicit substance use, related high risk behavior, and criminal justice involvement
  • Criminal justice issues particularly as they relate to community reentry

Ruth Huber, PhD

  • Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
  • Elder Abuse and Neglect
  • Hospice
  • Right-to-Die
  • Social work education

Eli Karam

  • Psychotherapy Progress Research
  • Therapeutic Alliance
  •  Integration of Research into MFT Clinical Practice
  • Common Factors

Tom Lawson, PhD

  • International Social Work and Social Welfare
  • Community Development
  • Public Management and Administration
  • Public Health
  • Social Work Education

Lynetta Weathers Mathis

  • Health disparities
  • Psychosocial aspects of cardiac disease and treatment
  • Treatment adherence issues for chronic health conditions in minority populations
  •  Spirituality in social work

Sharon Moore, PhD

  •  Human Diversity
  • Substance abuse and African American adolescents
  • The African American church and community empowerment
  • Tenure and promotion issues among African American Faculty
  • Solution based approaches within the African American community
  • Church social work

Armon Perry, PhD

  • African American families
  • Fathers' involvement in families
  • Social Work education

Noell Rowan, PhD

  • Chemical dependency/substance abuse treatment
  • LGBT population, and gerontology.

Bibhuti Sar, PhD

  • Adoption/special needs adoption
  • Family development
  • Family violence
  • Evaluating service delivery systems and programs
  • Cultural impact on practice research

Terry L. Singer, PhD, Dean

  • Organizational change in relation to emerging sandwich generation demographics
  • Sexual harassment
  • Social work education

 M.A. van Zyl, PhD

  • Evaluation of training and training outcomes
  • Evidence based practice
  • Learning organizations
  • Assessment in prisons and jails
  • Evaluation of training and training outcomes
  • Evidence based practice
  • Learning organizations
  • Measurement in Social Work
  • Suicide prevention

 Pam Yankeelov

  • Child Welfare and Training Evaluation
  • Program Evaluation
  • Interpersonal Conflict
  • Domestic Violence
  • Attachment
  • Social Support
  • Interdisciplinary Training

 

 

 

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