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A-K | L-Z BACKGROUND & RESEARCH INTERESTS OF CURRENT PhD STUDENTS Shauna Acquavita, background: tobacco cessation counseling, psychiatric social work, mental health and substance abuse care manager; research interests: tobacco, mental health, drug and alcohol. Barry Adams, background: child protective services, inpatient adolescent psychiatric treatment, Navy domestic violence/child abuse; research interests: high pressure, high-profile emergency performance (combat, mass casualty, and team sports), international social work (Asia), military social work. Dara Bergel, background: medical social work; research interests: gerontology and health care. Rena Bina, background: clinical, rehabilitational, and administrative work with the emotionally disturbed in the ultraorthodox Jewish community, director of mental health department in a nonprofit organization in Israel; research interests: religion and mental health, rehabilitation and the emotionally disturbed. Karen Castellanos, background: research assistant, assistant counselor, therapist intern; research interests: children and families, women’s issues. Jennifer Clements, background: child welfare, foster care, residential youth programs; research interests: group work, child welfare, independent living, gay and lesbian youth in child welfare.
Amy Cohen-Callow, background: social work/nonprofit administration, program planning and evaluation, training, aging, volunteerism; research interests: effective administration strategies to improve service delivery, work-family balance initiatives, volunteerism. Renee Collins, background: department of social services, individual, couples, family, and group counseling; research interests: parents and families of adult male prisoners, men, grief and fathers’ experiences in caring for an autistic child.
David Dia, background: clinical social worker in private practice specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders; research interests: cognitive-behavioral therapy and anxiety disorders, particularly obsessive compulsive disorder. Otima Doyle, background: clinical work with emotionally and behaviorally disturbed adolescents, therapist, supervisor and program manager, program development, restructuring the clinical program and training the paraprofessional staff; research interests: children and adolescents; organizational theory, culture; vulnerable populations; culture and ethnicity. Elizabeth A. Fisher, background: program development and management; research interests: human service management in practice and social work education, advancement of the profession, nonprofit collaborations, active learning in social work education, organizational capacity building, and leadership in social work. Ann Gantt, background: family and children’s services, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and teaching; research interests: families and children, spirituality, diversity, social work education, and administration. Maya Gibbons, background: director, counseling center at Johnson C. Smith University, clinical social work, health social work, psychiatric social work; research interests: resiliency in trauma survivors, survivors of sexual assault, HIV/AIDS prevention education. Emmett Gill, research interests: social welfare and sports, including student-athlete academic achievement, the involvement of professional athletes in social policy and the impact of the commercialization of college sports on student-athletes. Elizabeth Greeno, background: clinical work with families, children, adolescents, trauma and foster care/child welfare, clinical supervisor, training, program development, and case management; research interests: Child welfare and foster care; incarcerated mothers; outcomes of lack of prenatal care; effectiveness of clinical techniques; burn out in social workers. Anna Hayward, background: program development and administration, research with women who are dually diagnosed, in home services with therapeutic foster children, foster parent training; research interests: preventive services for families; role of fathers and extended family in child welfare/family services. Elizabeth Hisle-Gorman, research interests: community prevention programs, community strengthening and positive family outcomes, and risk and resilience.
Anne Hughes, background: clinical work with adults, HIV/AIDS, EAP, private practice, gerontology. Research interests: health care decision making in the elderly, psychosocial impact of chronic illness, gerontology, HIV medication adherence. Jayshree Jani, background: adolescent and family counseling in various settings, social policy advocacy; research interests: PTSD and depression especially in immigrant and refugee women, access to care issues in refugee populations & girl's self esteem. M. Denise King, background: psychiatric social work and mental health, consulting firms, federal government research projects; research interests: aging issues, women’s and gender issues, conflict resolution/management, survey development. Kelli Larsen, background: associate instructor at UMBC, clinical practice in community settings with elderly and homeless populations; research interests: clinical social work in community practice; social work practice with the elderly in rural settings. Pamela Love, background: program management & administration, workshop facilitator/presenter, co-taught Supervision and IT for Social Workers; research interests: transfer of training, coaching. Shari Miller, background: program development with teens, clinical work with diverse population of children and adults, clinical supervisor, developed and facilitated professional development and assessment tool training programs; research interests: social work education; “culture” of social work; integration of theory and practice; ethnographic research methods; history of social work profession; narrative. Fatima Mirza, background: multicultural counseling, individual and group work with survivors of trauma, youth work, grief/crisis management in the Muslim community; research interests: trauma and family dynamics; minority identity; qualitative methods in research. Angela Mollette, background: inpatient psychiatric social work, emergency clinical services, adjunct teaching in substance abuse and social work practice, clinical work with autistic and emotionally disturbed children, play therapy, family therapy; research interests: attachment disorders, anxiety disorders and autism, gerontology. JuYoung Park, background: clinical work with dually diagnosed, crisis intervention, female adolescents with behavior problems; research interests: mental health; substance abuse; correlation between people with bipolar disorder and alcohol abuse. Joan Pittman, background: individual, group, family and couples therapy, groups with adolescents and adults, depression, and PTSD; research interests: group and family therapy, sexuality, depression. Becki Sander, background: Project Match, Baltimore City Head Start, Parents United for Child Care, United South End Settlement House; research interests: community based organizations, organizational development, systems response to welfare reform. Marni Seyyid, background: House of Ruth, MD, mentor network; research interests: domestic violence, attachment issues in African-American men. Alexa Smith-Osborne, background: maternal and child health program development and consulting, school social work, preschool handicapped program consulting and clinical work, community mental health center (C&A) clinical and consulting, staff development and training, EAP clinical and training, clinical private practice, adjunct faculty, human services concentration; research interests: employee assistance programs, including the military family service center models, and their roles in child/spouse abuse prevention , family preservation, and complex case management; relapse prevention and prevention of homelessness and foster care placement of chronically mentally ill children/adolescents/transition-age youth; group treatment modalities for children with externalizing behavior disorders ; early identification and multi-modal treatment, including complex medication management for young children with anxiety and mood disorders; maternal and child health, especially postpartum depression or infertility/miscarriage or maternal response to neonatal compromise and infant development; child welfare training programs and trainee retention for work obligation; religion and spirituality in social work practice. Lynda Sowbel, background: psychiatric social work, private practice, and social work education; research interests: field education, schizophrenia, and gerontology. Mindy Thiel, research interests: children and families, couples, school social work, and teaching. Carmita Vogel, background: child protective services, adolescent, child, and family therapy; research interests: group treatment in public agencies, clinical treatment of parents who physically abuse children, and access to services for public agency clients. Kathleen Walsh, background: advocacy, housing and homelessness, poverty, and social services; research interests: community organizing, activism, housing, gender equity, and management/supervision. Stephen Wilz, background: pathological gambling treatment counseling, family counseling, and mentoring project development; research interests: pathological gambling and aging. Nikki R. Wooten, background: child maltreatment training and education, child protective services, videotaped child forensic interviewing; research interests: child maltreatment, child sexual abuse, social work education, domestic violence, domestic violence groups for men, child maltreatment and development delays, videotaped child interviewing. Joohee Yum, background: aging, caregiving issues, cultural diversity, program evaluation; research interests: aging, spirituality, research design and methodology, EAPs. top . | |
