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Read about Dean Barth in the Fall 2006 UMB SSW Connections Alumni Magazine  Mailing Information: | Contact Information: | University of Maryland | Phone: (410) 706.7794 | School of Social Work | Fax: (410) 706.0273 | 525 West Redwood Street | E-mail: rbarth@ssw.umaryland.edu | Baltimore, Maryland 21201 | Room: 5E14 |
Education: | AB, Brown University | MSW; PhD, University of California-Berkeley |
Expertise and Research Interests: | | Adoption | Child Welfare | Families and Children | Evidenced-based Practice |
Memberships: | American Orthopsychiatric Association | American Public Health Association | American Psychological Association (Divisions 5, 37) | California Association of School Social Workers | Council on Social Work Education | National Association of Social Workers | Society for Social Work Research | | Executive Committee of the St. Louis Group for Excellence in Social Work Research and Education |
Honors and Awards: | University of California Regents Fellowship, 1979. | Doctor of Philosophy with Distinction, 1982. | Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize from the University of Chicago for excellence in scholarship in child welfare services, 1989. | Lois and Samuel Silberman Fund Senior Faculty Fellow, 1990-1991. | Senior Fulbright Scholar to Sweden, 1990-1992. | John Milner Lecturer, University of Southern California, School of Social Work, 1991. | Fidele Fauri Memorial Lecturer, University of Michigan, School of Social Work, 1995. | Presidential Award for Excellence in Research, National Association of Social Workers, 1998. | Grace Brody Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, 2000. | James E. Flynn Prize for Research, University of Southern California, 2005 | Dean’s Recognition of Teaching Excellence, University of North Carolina, 2006 | Senior Fulbright Specialist in Australia, 2006 | | The Peter Forsythe Award for Leadership in Public Child Welfare by the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators, 2007 |
Recent Publications: | BOOKS | Barth, R. P., Brodzinsky, D., & Freundlich, M. (Eds.). (2000). Adoption and prenatal drug exposure: The research, policy and practice challenges. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America. | Pecora, P. J., Whittaker, J. K., Maluccio, A. N., & Barth, R. P. (2000). Child welfare challenge (2nd Edition). New York: Aldine De Gruyter. | Wulczyn, F., Yuan, Y.Y., Barth, R.P., Jones-Harden, B. & Landsverk, J. (2005). Evidence for child welfare policy reform. New York: Aldine De Gruyter. | | BOOK CHAPTERS | Barth, R. P. (2001). Adoption and residential care: Likely effects of current national policy. In Contributions to residential treatment (pp. 19-30). Washington, DC: The American Association of Children's Residential Centers. | Barth, R. P. (2001). Linking our circles. In L. Dominelli, W. Lorenz. and H. Soydan (Eds). Beyond racial divides: Ethnicities in social work practice. (pps. 137-146). London: Ashgate. | Barth, R. P., and Brooks, D. (2001). Outcomes for drug-exposed children eight years post-adoption. In R. Barth, D. | Brodzinsky, and M. Freundlich, (Eds.). Adoption and prenatal drug exposure: The research, policy and practice challenges. (pps. 23-58). Washington, DC, Child Welfare League of America. | Barth, R. P. (2002). Abusive and neglecting parents and the care of their children. In S. Sugarman, M. A. Mason, A. Skolnick (Eds.), All our families: new policies for a new century. (pp. 265-284). New York: Oxford University Press. | Barth, R. P., Brown, E. L., Cuccaro-Alamin, S., & Needell, B. (2002). Administrative data on the well-being of children on and off welfare. In R. Maynard (Ed.). Administrative data in the evaluation of welfare reform. (ppp 316-353). Washington, DC: National Academy of Science. | Barth, R. P. (in press). Models of disproportionality. In D.M. Derezotes, J. Poertner, & M. Testa (Eds.). Race matters: Examining the overrepresentation of African American children in the child welfare system. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America | Barth, R. P., & Price, A. (in press). Shared family care: Evidence from implementing an innovative child protection and family preservation program. In J. Scott & H. Ward (Eds.). Promoting the wellbeing of vulnerable children. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers | Brooks, D., Simmel, C., Wind, L., & Barth, R. P. (in press). Contemporary adoption in the united states: implications for the next wave of adoption theory, research, and practice. In D. Brodzinsky & J. Palacios (Eds.), Psychological Issues In Adoption: Theory, Research, And Application. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. | | Barth, R. P., Lenerz, K., and Gibbs, D. “Post Adoption Services: A Study of Program Participants, Services and Outcomes” (2006). In M. Dore (Ed.), The Post-Adoption Experience: Adoptive Families Service Needs and Service Outcomes (pps. 95-110). Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America. | | ARTICLES | Allphin, S., Simmons, B., & Barth, R. P. (2001). Adoption of foster children: How much does it cost public agencies. 13 Children and Youth Services Review, 23, 865-892. | Barth, R. P. (2001). Policy implications of foster family characteristics. Family Relations, 50, 16-19. | Barth, R. P. (2001). Research outcomes of prenatal substance exposure and the need to review policies and procedures regarding child abuse reporting. Child Welfare, 80, 275,-296. | Barth, R. P., & Miller, J. (2001). Building effective post-adoption services: What are the empirical foundations? Family Relations, 49, 447-455. | Simmel, C., Brooks, D., Barth, R. P., & Hinshaw, S. (2001). Prevalence of externalizing symptomatology in an adoptive sample: Linkages between pre-adoption risk factors and post-adoption outcomes. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29, 57-69. | Barth, R. P. (2002). Outcomes of adoption and what they tell us about designing adoption services. Adoption Quaterly, 6, 45-60. | Barth, R. P., Webster, D. II, & Lee, S. (2002). Adoption of American Indian children: Implications for implementing the Indian Child Welfare And Adoption And Safe Families acts. Children and Youth Services Review, 24, 139-158. | Brooks, D. B., Allen, J., & Barth, R. P. (2002). Adoptions services use, helpfulness, and need: A comparison of public and private agency and independent adoptive families. Children and Youth Services Review, 24, 213-238. | Brooks, D. B., James, S. & Barth, R. P. (2002). Preferred characteristics of children in need of adoption: Is there a demand for available foster children? Social Service Review, 76, 575-602. | Kerman, B., Wildfire, J., & Barth, R. P. (2002). Outcomes for young adults who experienced foster care. Children & Youth Services Review, 24, 319-344. | The NSCAW Research Group. (2002). Methodological lessons from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Wellbeing: The first three years of the USA’s first national probability study of children and families investigated for abuse and neglect. Children and Youth Services Review, 24, 513-543. | Chapman, M. V., Gibbons, C. B., Barth, R. P., McCrae, J. S., & the NSCAW Research Group. (2003). Parent views of inhome services: What predicts satisfaction with child welfare workers? Child Welfare. 82, 571-596. | Jonson-Reid, M., & Barth, R. P. (2003). Probation foster care as an outcome for children exiting child welfare foster care. Social Work, 48, 348-361. | | Barth, R. P., Wildfire, J., & Green, R. L. (2006). Placement into foster care and the interplay of urbanicity, child behavior problems, and poverty. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(3), 358-366. | | Barth, R.P., Lloyd, E.C., Green, R.L., James, S., Leslie, L.K., & Landsverk, J. (2007). Predictors of placement moves among children with and without emotional and behavioral disorders. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 15, 46-55. | Barth, R.P. Greeson, J. Guo, S., Green. R. L., Hurley, S. & Sisson, J. (2007). Changes in family functioning and child behavior following intensive-in home therapy. Children & Youth Services Review, 29, 988-1009. | Barth, R.P., Lloyd, E.C., Green, R.L., James, S., Leslie, L.K., & Landsverk, J. (2007). Predictors of placement moves among children with and without emotional and behavioral disorders. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 15, 46-55. | | Simmel, C., Barth, R.P., & Brooks, D. (2007). Adopted foster youths' psychosocial functioning: A longitudinal perspective. Child and Family Social Work. 12, 336-348. | | Wind, L. H., Brooks, D., & Barth, R. P. (2007). Strengthening families and communities: Promising practices in adoption-competent mental health services. Family Relations, 56, 378-389. | | Barth, R.P., Guo, S. Green, R.L., & McCrae, J.S. (2007). Developmental outcomes for children in kinship and nonkinship care: Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. In R. Haskins, F. Wulczyn, & M. B. Webb (Eds.). Child protection: Using research to improve policy and practice. (pp. 187-206) Washington, DC: Brookings. | | Casanueva, C., Martin, S., Runyan, D., Barth, R.P., & Bradley, R. Quality of Maternal Parenting among Intimate-Partner Violence Victims Involved with the Child Welfare System. Journal of Family Violence. | | Barth, R.P., Scarborough, A.A., Lloyd, E.C., Losby, J.L., Casanueva, C., and Mann, T., "Developmental Status and Early Intervention Service Needs of Maltreated Children, Final Report ," Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Developmental Needs of Children Investigated for Child Protective Services. | | Barth, R. P., Weigensberg, E. C., Fisher, P. A., Fetrow, B., & Green, R. L. (2008). Reentry of elementary aged children following reunification from foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, 30(4), 353-364. | | Barth, R.P., Guo, S., & McCrae, J.S. (2008). Propensity score matching strategies for evaluating the success of human service programs. Research on Social Work Practice, 18, 198-211. | | Crea, T. M., Barth, R. P., Guo, S., and Brooks, D. (2008). Externalizing behaviors of substance-exposed adopted children: 14 years postadoption. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78(1), 11-19. | | PUBLISHED CURRICULA | Barth, R. P. (1991, 1996) Reducing the Risk. (1st and 2nd Editions). Scotts Valley, CA: Education Training and Research Associates. (CDC Award as a “Program That Works”). | Fetro, J., Barth, R. P., & Coyle, K. (1998). Safer Choices. Scotts Valley, CA: ETR Associates. | Becker, H., Barth, R. P., Cagampang, H., and White, R. (2001). Power Through Choices. Oklahoma, City, OK: National Resource Center on Youth Development. |
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