Graduate Faculty

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*Members of the Graduate Faculty with endorsement to chair dissertation committees

Faculty	Research Interests
Margaret Adamek*	Mental health and aging, elder suicide, late-life depression in long term care
William Barton*	Juvenile justice, youth development, program evaluation, evaluation methods, policy implementation
Joann Beathea	African American women, adolescent female issues
Bob Bennett	Mental health practices, adolescent sex offenders and their families, group work, children and adolescents
Carolyn Black	Domestic violence, survivors of sexual assault, client-centered practice and research
Lorraine Blackman	Developing empirically-based, preventive practice models in family life education, reconnecting social work practice to its historical roots in prevention such as family life education and public health education, family policy analysis and formulation, ethnic and gender-sensitive practice in social work and family life education, research methods with small samples, including single subject designs, non-parametric statistics, and qualitative methods
Katharine Byers	Welfare reform, social welfare policy analysis, teaching strategies in the policy sequence, community and organizational practice, qualitative research methods     top
Frank Caucci	Narrative therapy, object relations, lbgt identity issues, HIV/AIDS, particularly psychosocial etiologies and treatment & prevention programs
Valerie Chang	Women, abusive relationships, interpretive interactivism, evaluation of social work practice skills, qualitative methods, educational assessment
Barry Cournoyer	Mental health, clinical social work, educational assessment, social work skills development
James Daley*	Couples coping with chronic illness, family assessment, international military social work
Ed Fitzgerald	Legal aspects of social work
Gail Folaron	Child welfare, foster care, emancipating youth, qualitative research methods
Carol Hostetter	Child welfare education and training, evaluation of online courses, and the scholarship of teaching and learning
Khadija Khaja	Social welfare needs of Muslim communities, global health care needs of culturally diverse women, international research, qualitative ethnographic research
Hea-Won Kim	Mental health, psychosocial rehabilitation for persons with severe mental illness, stress and coping processes of families of persons with disabilities, including cross-cultural issues, family psychoeducation
Kathy Lay	Substance abuse intervention and treatment of individuals and families, theory for practice, social work values and ethics, feminist theory for practice     top
Eldon Marshall	Effect of HIV with families, adolescent sex offenders, family therapy practice
Lisa McGuire	Child welfare, housing and homelessness, welfare reform, qualitative research methods
Paul Newcomb*	Substance abuse, child mental health
Philip Ouellette*	Trauma survivors of natural disasters, eco-systemic family therapy and training, oppositional teens and families, instructional technology and computer-assisted learning, family mediation and conflict resolution, group behavior and dynamics
Manoj Pardasani	Aging and social policy, community-based services for the elderly, community development, organizations and empowerment, cultural competence in social work practice, HIV/AIDS and supportive housing
Michael Patchner*	Aging and health care, social work education, program evaluation
Cathy Pike*	Instrument development and psychometric testing, measurement of social work educational outcomes, values and ethics, rapid assessment instrument development for measuring client progress
Gerald Powers*	Mental health, school social work, teaching/learning styles, professional ethics, behavioral science research     top
Irene Queiro-Tajalli	Community practice, diversity, educational assessment, gerontology, international social work, Latino issues, online teaching
Theresa Roberts	African-centered social work paradigms, cultural competency and diversity, leadership and macro practice, qualitative research, health disparities, transformational planning
Wm. Patrick Sullivan	Mental health, strengths perspective, case management public policy
Jeffry Thigpen	Childhood sexual behavior, sexual development, sexual health, and African-American sexuality
Denise Travis	HIV/AIDS research in communities of color, child welfare and ASFA, and mental health and addictions
Rebecca Van Voorhis	Welfare reform, mental health and addictions services, empowerment
Robert Vernon*	Technology policy in social work, digital divide issues, agency technology development
Marion Wagner	Feminist administration, political advocacy, women's issues, lesbian issues, child welfare
David Westhuis*	Substance abuse treatment and prevention, family issues, program evaluation, rapid assessment instrument development & validation, adjustment of military families, use of technology in the clinical setting, and curriculum evaluation and assessment
Sabrina Williamson	Scope and efficacy of faith-based social services, intervention research with an emphasis on anti-poverty initiatives, welfare reform, and the scholarship of teaching and learning    top