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

