Current PhD Student Backgrounds & Research Interests A-K | L-Z BACKGROUND & RESEARCH INTERESTS OF CURRENT PhD STUDENTS Tina Abrefa-Gyan, background: MSW in International Social and Economic Development of Women, children, youth and families, a Ghanaian National; Research interests: Poverty alleviation through agri-business for women and health issues. Shauna Acquavita, background: tobacco cessation counseling, psychiatric social work, mental health and substance abuse care manager; research interests: tobacco, mental health, drug and alcohol. Margaret Beal 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. Jayme Delano Sunday Fakunmoju, background: Child maltreatment/CPS investigations, psychiatric social work, alcohol and substance abuse counseling, clinical practice with youth in foster care and group homes, clinical practice with individuals and adults; Research interests: Child maltreatment/child protective services; child welfare, mental health services, prevention, and intervention; alcohol and substance abuse. 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. 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. Michin Hong, background: social work administration, program development and evaluation, community based aging policy; Research interest: minority aging, immigration and cultural adjustment, long term care. 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. Jeongha Hwang, background: program management and evaluation, and social policy; Research interests: human service management, service effectiveness, social service delivery system, quantitative methods. Andrea Jones, background: Clinical - Aging Services, Mental Health, Hospice, Administrative - Community & Program Development, Geriatric Case Management; Research interests: Design & Development of Aging Programs, Community Development. Hae Jung Kim, background: case manager in community welfare center, community practice, social work administration, program planning and evaluation; Research interests: nonprofit management, community organizing, leadership in social work, organizational performance, social workers’ retention, social workers’ occupational health. Ann LeFevre Melissa Lim Brodowski, background: substance abuse counseling, county child welfare, program specialist with the federal government; Research interests: child maltreatment prevention, implementation and evidence-based practices, economic evaluation, program evaluation. Marlene Matarese 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. Darnell Morris-Compton, background: Journalism, Peace Corps, And Social Work with families and children; Research interest: Resilient youth. Karen Parker 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. Kathleen Powell, background: Social Work Practice: Aging, Program Development, and Community Development and Social Work Education: Macro Practice and Social Policy; Research interests: Social Capital, Sense of Community, Intergenerational Social Networks, Power/Empowerment, and Social Change. Karen Rice, background: child welfare supervisor, sex offender counselor, child welfare trainer, adjunct professor; Research interests: child welfare, drug and alcohol, program evaluation, social work education. Vickie Souther 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. Lucille Tuten Kimberly Searce Van Vulpen Deborah Vangeison Svoboda, background: advocacy, policy, and administration in non-profit domestic violence and rape crisis centers; Research interests: feminist management styles; voices of survivors of domestic violence in policy & program development; international perspective on violence against women. Cystal Williams, background: business management, case management, clinical services and life-coaching, psychiatric/addictive disorders, HIV/AIDS, child welfare, in-home counseling, EAP life-coaching/depression and suicide prevention; Research interests: suicide prevention, child welfare, homelessness, policy implementation and intervention research. Kristen Woodruff 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. top | | | | |
