Faculty Publications
Submissions from 2026
Family-Based Programs for Black Families, Edward Cohen and Joshina Cluff
Family-Based Programs for Native American and Indigenous Communities, Edward Cohen and Bonnie Lockhart-Ochoa
Family-Based Programs for Hispanic Families, Edward Cohen and Maria Ramirez
Preventing Child Abuse: Family-Based Programs to Improve Resiliencies and Address Substance Use, Edward Cohen, Rosemary Tisch, and Melissa Santos
Family-Based Programs for Asian American Families, Edward Cohen and Katrina Trinh
Family-Based Programs for LGBTQ+ Family Caregivers, Edward Cohen and Lisa Willmes
Identifying Dominant Factors That Impact Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority Groups, Laurie A. Drabble, Cat Munroe, Anthony Surace, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, and Priscilla Martinez-Matyszczyk
Social Work Practice With Forced Migrants: Trauma-Informed Resilience Perspective, Nicole Dubus
The Caregiving Journey: Service Provider Reflections on the Experiences of Family Caregivers Supporting Individuals With Serious Mental Illness, Meekyung Han, Christina Holland, Allen Nguyen, and Sadhna Diwan
Internal Structure and Reliability of the Public Stigma of Alzheimer’s Disease Scale (PSAD-K) Among Korean Americans, Michin Hong and Sang E.Rachel Lee
Sober Curiosity Among LGBTQ+ Women and Non-Binary People in Aotearoa New Zealand, Tonda L. Hughes, Jillian R. Scheer, Lauren Bochicchio, Laurie A. Drabble, Carol Emslie, David Whiteley, Belinda Lunnay, Paul R. Ward, and Antonia C. Lyons
A Critique of Competency-Based Social Work Education and Deep Ecology as an Alternative Framework for Global Social Work, Arrash Abri Lavasani, Gregory Munro, Felicity K. Blance, Soma Sen, and Jemel P. Aguilar
Sex Differences in the Association Between Childhood Cyberbullying Victimization and College Sexual Assault: Moderating Roles of Parental Monitoring and Relationship with Deviant Peers, Jungup Lee, Debra Patterson, Na Youn Lee, Jinyung Kim, Stephen J. Tripodi, and Hyunkag Cho
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Globally: Women’s Economic Empowerment as a Comprehensive Tool for Prevention and Response, Tatenda Manomano, Eziwe Mutsikiwa, and Nicole Dubus
Conclusion, Tatenda Manomano, Eziwe Mutsikiwa, and Nicole Dubus
Using Women's Economic Empowerment to Combat Intimate Partner Violence, Tatenda Manomano, Eziwe Mutsikiwa, and Nicole Dubus
Social Work Practices: Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges, Soma Sen
Alternative Frameworks for Global Social Work Practice, Soma Sen and Jemel P. Aguilar
Rethinking the Eurocentric Emphasis on the Conceptualization of Human Rights, Soma Sen and Jemel P. Aguilar
Integrating Immigrants Into the United States of America: A Social Capital Approach, Soma Sen, Jemel P. Aguilar, and Gokul Mandayam
Exploring the Meaning of Integration Post-Citizenship Among the Latinx Community, Soma Sen, Joyce Raya, Emily Harrington, and Jasmine Becerra
Submissions from 2025
Unveiling the veil: Understanding the intersection of racism and body image among Vietnamese American young adults, Thien Dang and Meekyung Han
Living Undocumented During a Pandemic: A Mixed Method Study of DACA Eligible Students at a California State University, Nicole Dubus
Living Undocumented During a Pandemic: A Mixed Method Study of DACA Eligible Students at a California State University, Nicole Dubus
Geographic Availability of Alcohol in Residential Neighborhoods and Changes in Rates of Child Abuse and Neglect, Bridget Freisthler, Holly Thurston, Joselyn Sarabia, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Geographic Availability of Alcohol in Residential Neighborhoods and Changes in Rates of Child Abuse and Neglect, Bridget Freisthler, Holly Thurston, Joselyn Sarabia, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Examining How Dosage of Intervention Components from the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project Affect Child Abuse and Neglect, Bridget Freisthler, Yun Ye, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Scoping Review of Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research in Ireland, John P. Gilmore, Tonda L. Hughes, Sean Kearns, Laurie A. Drabble, Diarmuid Stokes, Siobhán D. Thomas, Chris Noone, and Lauren Bochicchio
Scoping Review of Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research in Ireland, John P. Gilmore, Tonda L. Hughes, Sean Kearns, Laurie A. Drabble, Diarmuid Stokes, Siobhán D. Thomas, Chris Noone, and Lauren Bochicchio
Voices of Korean Youth with Developmental Disabilities: Transition to Adulthood, Meekyung Han, Soyon Jung, Honglan Seo, Nayoung Kim, Youngmi Bae, and Jiyon Kim
Enhancing Care: Child Protective Service Workers’ Perspectives and Experiences of Serving Children with Disabilities, Meekyung Han, Celia Rocio Murillo Lechuga, and Gaby Solis
Using a Sober Curious Framework to Explore Barriers and Facilitators to Helping Sexual Minority Women Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms: Protocol for a Descriptive Study, Tonda L. Hughes, Lauren Bochicchio, Laurie A. Drabble, Belinda Lunnay, David Whiteley, Jillian R. Scheer, Beth Meadows, Paul Ward, and Carol Emslie
Race-Conscious Approaches Addressing the Ecologies of Racial Discipline Disparities: Promoting School Professionals’ Understanding of Individual and Institutional Racism, Kamilah B. Legette, Yoli Anyon, Ariana Melero, and Miguel Trujillo
Race-Conscious Approaches Addressing the Ecologies of Racial Discipline Disparities: Promoting School Professionals’ Understanding of Individual and Institutional Racism, Kamilah B. Legette, Yoli Anyon, Ariana Melero, and Miguel Trujillo
Maternal drinking, stress and use of aggressive parenting over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jennifer Price Wolf and Bridget Freisthler
System Failures and the Realities of “Reform”: A Practical Understanding of Decision-Making in Child Welfare, Holly Thurston, Reiko Boyd, Jennifer Price Wolf, and Bridget Freisthler
Neighborhood Drug Demand and Risk of Foster Care Entries, Holly Thurston, Bridget Freisthler, and Jennifer Price Wolf
COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors Are Congruent Within Social Networks of Disenfranchised Hispanic and Criminal Legal Involved Community Members, Victoria Umutoni, Khavita Bhavan, Nickolas Zaller, Amelia Knopf, Moctezuma Garcia, Russell A. Brewer, Makenna Meyer, Faye Taxman, O’Dell Johnson, Matthew Aalsma, and John Schneider
Submissions from 2024
Improving Field Education for Social Work in Vietnam: Intern Supervisors’ Perspectives of the Current State and Potential Solutions, Megan Aikawa, Meekyung Han, Trang T. Nguyen, Linh Dinh, and Minh Thanh Bui
Everyone benefits when there is another MSW in child welfare: exploring ways to support Title IV-E MSW student-employees, Liza A. Castañeda and Meekyung Han
Characteristics of Parents Who Spent Time Away from Home During Stay-at-Home Orders and Relation to Parenting Behaviors in Ohio, Bridget Freisthler, Polina Berezina, Yun Ye, Fatoumata Bah, Balalji Ramesh, Gia Barboza-Salerno, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Effects of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project on rates of child abuse and neglect 7 years post-implementation (1999–2010), Bridget Freisthler and Jennifer Price Wolf
Intersectional Microaggressions and Implications for Health Inequities and HIV Among Latino/x Sexual Minority Males in Puerto Rico, Moctezuma Garcia
Are Racial Groups Associated with Recurrence of Adult Protective Services?, Chennan Liu, Emily Bruce, Sofía Gómez, Valerie Smith, Martha G. Jaquez, and Claudia Martell
The history of anti-asian racism and violence in the United States, Meirong Liu, Nayoun Lee, Zhanjie Si, and Olivia Aquino
Minority stress mediates associations of sexual minority state policies and tobacco use among US sexual minority young adults, Katelyn F. Romm, Erin A. Vogel, Christina Dyar, Laurie A. Drabble, Patricia A. Cavazos-Rehg, and Carla J. Berg
The College-Going Experiences of Mexican American Participants Who Graduated from a College Preparatory Program, Miguel A. Trujillo and Yolanda Anyon
Resilience Through Social Support: An Intersectional Analysis of Sexual Minority Women’s Social Resources for Wellbeing, Angie R. Wootton, Paul R. Sterzing, Amy A. Mericle, Laurie A. Drabble, Linda R. Cahoon, and Tonda L. Hughes
Using Standardized Patients to Improve the Quality of Care for AAPI Populations, Ann S. Yabusaki, Meekyung Han, and D. J. Ida
Submissions from 2023
Examining pandemic stress and mental health among a community-based sample of sexual minority women in Los Angeles County, Alison Cerezo, Roberta E. Emetu, David B. Rivera, Isaiah J. Jones, Jacquelyn Chin, Adrian Valadez, and Laurie Drabble
Examining COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic and Household Stress and Its Association With Mental Health, Alcohol, and Substance Use in a National Sample of Latinx Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Adults, Alison Cerezo, David B. Rivera, Delida Sanchez, Lucas Torres, Fiorella L.Carlos Chavez, and Laurie A. Drabble
Evaluation of a culturally adapted reminiscence therapy intervention: Improving mood, family and community connectedness in Spanish- and Vietnamese-speaking older adults, Sadhna Diwan, Angelica Eliazar, Duy Pham, and Maria Fuentes
COVID-19 Concerns, Coping and Perceived Peer Norms: Correlates of Increased Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Sexual Minority Women, Laurie A. Drabble, Cat Munroe, Alison Cerezo, and Tonda L. Hughes
Psychometric Properties and Refinement of the ATT-IPV Scale to Measure Attitudes about Intimate Partner Violence among Married Adolescents and Their Husbands in Niger, Ruvani W. Fonseka, Sneha Challa, and Jay G. Silverman
Does parent report of child physical abuse and supervisory neglect differ by method of study recruitment or mode of survey administration?, Bridget Freisthler, Christiana Kranich, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Neighborhood market potentials for alcohol use and rates of child abuse and neglect, Bridget Freisthler, Christiana Kranich, Jennifer Price Wolf, Reiko Boyd, and Paul J. Gruenewald
Sequencing drinking events and use of punitive, nonpunitive, and positive parenting behaviors with ecological momentary assessment, Bridget Freisthler and Jennifer Price Wolf
Using ecological momentary assessments to understand how drinking during special occasions relates to parenting behaviors, Bridget Freisthler, Joselyn Sarabia, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Assessing the effects of the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project (SNAPP) on child abuse and neglect, Bridget Freisthler, Holly Thurston, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Longitudinal changes in self-reported alcohol consumption by mothers’ during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bridget Freisthler and Jennifer Price Wolf
Ending the HIV Epidemic: Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Implement Molecular HIV Surveillance to Develop Real-Time Cluster Detection and Response Interventions for Local Communities, Moctezuma Garcia, Samantha Devlin, Jared Kerman, Kayo Fujimoto, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Gregory Phillips, John Schneider, and Moira C. McNulty
Child welfare: Overview, John Paul Horn, Emily Bruce, and Toni Naccarato
Health disparities in one of the world’s most progressive countries: a scoping review of mental health and substance use among sexual and gender minority people in the Netherlands, Tonda L. Hughes, Lauren Bochicchio, Laurie Drabble, Maaike Muntinga, Jan S. Jukema, Cindy B. Veldhuis, Sunčica Bruck, and Henny Bos
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) knowledge in Korean Americans: identifying knowledge gaps and misconceptions and examining predictors of AD knowledge, Sang E. Lee, Michin Hong, and Banghwa L. Casado
Just go to the office! An intersectional exploration of the role of race and gender in discipline referral reasons, Kamilah B. Legette and Yoli Anyon
Restorative practices and exclusionary school discipline: an integrative review, Ceema Samimi, Tyler M. Han, Amy Navvab, Jennifer A. Sedivy, and Yolanda Anyon
Intersections of Disproportion: A Critical Quantitative Examination of Dis/ability and Gender in Black Students’ School Discipline Outcomes, Ceema Samimi, Noah Jefferson, Shelby Flanagan, and Yolanda Anyon
Is my work racist? Critical thinking and critical discourse in social work research, Holly Thurston, Reiko Boyd, Jennifer Price Wolf, and Bridget Freisthler
Submissions from 2022
“I just want to move forward”: Themes of resilience among LGBTQ young adults experiencing family rejection and housing insecurity, Jonah P. DeChants, Jama Shelton, Yolanda Anyon, and Kimberly Bender
“It kinda breaks my heart”: LGBTQ young adults' responses to family rejection, Jonah P. DeChants, Jama Shelton, Yolanda Anyon, and Kimberly Bender
“Everything…Fell Apart Once COVID-19 Hit”—Leveraging the COVID-19 Response to Strengthen Public Health Activities toward Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Qualitative Study, Samantha A. Devlin, Moctezuma Garcia, Kayo Fujimoto, Camden Hallmark, Marlene McNeese, John Schneider, and Moira C. McNulty
Alcohol interventions for LGBTQ+ adults: A systematic review, Elena D. Dimova, Lawrie Elliott, Jamie Frankis, Laurie Drabble, Stacey Wiencierz, and Carol Emslie
Examining the differential protective effects of women's spirituality and religiosity on alcohol and marijuana use by sexual identity, Laurie A. Drabble, Amy A. Mericle, Cat Munroe, Alison Cerezo, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, Tonda L. Hughes, and Karen F. Trocki
Impact of the policy environment on substance use among sexual minority women, Laurie A. Drabble, Cat Munroe, Amy A. Mericle, Sarah Zollweg, Karen F. Trocki, and Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe
Resiliency with Forced Migrants: A Qualitative Study of Providers and Forced Migrants through a Resilience Perspective, Nicole Dubus
Social Workers' Views of Ways to Engage Communities in Refugee Resettlement, Nicole Dubus
Examining the impact of proximity to conflict on associations between gender-based violence and stunting in Sri Lanka, Ruvani W. Fonseka
Associations between spousal gender equity and recent unintended pregnancy among married adolescent girls and their husbands in rural Niger, Ruvani W. Fonseka, Stephanie M. Delong, Holly B. Shakya, Sneha Challa, Mohamed I. Brooks, and Jay G. Silverman
A mediation analysis of the role of girl child marriage in the relationship between proximity to conflict and past-year intimate partner violence in post-conflict Sri Lanka, Ruvani W. Fonseka, Lotus McDougal, Anita Raj, Elizabeth Reed, Rebecka Lundgren, Lianne Urada, and Jay G. Silverman
Does Proximity to Conflict Zones Moderate Associations Between Girl Child Marriage, Intimate Partner Violence, and Contraception in Postconflict Sri Lanka?, Ruvani W. Fonseka, Lotus McDougal, Anita Raj, Elizabeth Reed, Rebecka Lundgren, Lianne Urada, and Jay G. Silverman
Measuring the impacts of maternal child marriage and maternal intimate partner violence and the moderating effects of proximity to conflict on stunting among children under 5 in post-conflict Sri Lanka, Ruvani W. Fonseka, Lotus McDougal, Anita Raj, Elizabeth Reed, Rebecka Lundgren, Lianne Urada, and Jay G. Silverman
Families in Crisis: The Relationship Between Opioid Overdoses and Child Maltreatment in Neighborhood Areas, Bridget Freisthler, Nichole Michaels, and Jennifer Price Wolf
This Is America: Systemic Racism and Health Inequities Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, Moctezuma Garcia
"You are not alone": Family-based HIV risk and protective factors for Hispanic/Latino men who have sex with men in San Juan, PR, Moctezuma Garcia
“Family before Anyone Else”: A Qualitative Study on Family, Marginalization, and HIV among Hispanic or Latino/a/x Mexican Sexual Minority Males, Moctezuma García, S. Raquel Ramos, Lisa Aponte-Soto, Tiarney D. Ritchwood, and Laurie A. Drabble
Perinatal Experiences of Asian American Women during COVID-19, Deepika Goyal, Meekyung Han, Talia Feldman-Schwartz, and Huynh Nhu Le
A Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: A Social Work Multisystemic Practice Approach, Roberta Greene, Nicole Dubus, and Nancy Greene
Service Utilization, Self-Efficacy, Positive Attitude and Well-Being Among Asian American Family Caregivers of Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses, Meekyung Han, Sadhna Diwan, Tomasine Cole, Kristen Hay, and Marisa Paturzo
Disentangling the physical, social, and situational contexts of young adolescents’ initiation to alcohol use and intoxication: A mixed methods study, Sabrina Islam, Emily Kaner, Jennifer Price-Wolf, Joel W. Grube, and Sharon Lipperman-Kreda
The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Community-Engaged Research: Insights From a Study of Digital Storytelling With Marginalized Youth, Carlos Jimenez, Yolanda Anyon, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Heather Kennedy
Comparing substance use outcomes by sexual identity among women: Differences using propensity score methods, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, Laurie Drabble, Libo Li, Cat Munroe, Amy A. Mericle, Karen F. Trocki, and Tonda L. Hughes
Using Intergroup Contact Theory to Understand the Practices of Youth-Serving Professionals in the Context of YPAR: Identifying Racialized Adultism, Heather Kennedy, Yolanda Anyon, Corey Engle, and Lynn Schofield Clark
Substance Use and Child Maltreatment: Providing a Framework for Understanding the Relationship Using Current Evidence, Nancy Jo Kepple, Jennifer Price Wolf, and Bridget Freisthler
A scoping review of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use treatment interventions for sexual and gender minority populations, Jeremy D. Kidd, Margaret M. Paschen-Wolff, Amy A. Mericle, Billy A. Caceres, Laurie A. Drabble, and Tonda L. Hughes
An exploration of the relationship between school poverty rates and students’ perceptions of empowerment: student-staff relationships, equitable roles, & classroom sense of community, Stephanie Nisle and Yolanda Anyon
Fulbright U.S. Student Programs: Opportunities for Social Work, L. A. Rivers, D. S. Jayasundara, Ruvani W. Fonseka, S. J. Carr, and C. S. Cohen
Promoting permanency in families with parental substance misuse: lessons from a process evaluation of a multi-system program, Karla Shockley McCarthy, Jennifer Price Wolf, and Elinam Dellor
Contrasting Methods of Measurement in Spatial Analyses Examining the Alcohol Environment and Child Maltreatment, Holly Thurston, Bridget Freisthler, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Deep Punishment and Internal Colony: A Critical Analysis of In-School Suspension Rooms Inside Two Racially “Integrated” Middle Schools, Kathryn E. Wiley, Cierra Townsend, Miguel Trujillo, and Yolanda Anyon
