Faculty Publications
Submissions from 2024
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
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 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
Submissions from 2021
Sent out or sent home: understanding racial disparities across suspension types from critical race theory and quantcrit perspectives, Yolanda Anyon, Kathryn Wiley, Ceema Samimi, and Miguel Trujillo
Understanding Alcohol and Marijuana Use among Sexual Minority Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study, Lauren A. Bochicchio, Laurie A. Drabble, Ellen D.B. Riggle, Cat Munroe, Angie R. Wootton, and Tonda L. Hughes
The Online Adaptation and Outcomes of a Family-Based Intervention Addressing Substance Use Disorders, Edward Cohen and Rosemary Tisch
Introduction to Special Issue: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBTQ+ Health and Well-Being, Laurie A. Drabble and Michele J. Eliason
Harmful drinking, tobacco, and marijuana use in the 2000–2015 National Alcohol Surveys: Examining differential trends by sexual identity, Laurie A. Drabble, Amy A. Mericle, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, and Karen F. Trocki
Examining Perceived Effects of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization Among Sexual Minority Women: Identifying Demographic Differences and Factors Related to Alcohol Use Disorder, Depression, and Self-Perceived Health, Laurie A. Drabble, Amy A. Mericle, Cat Munroe, Angie R. Wootton, Karen F. Trocki, and Tonda L. Hughes
Measuring the Impact of Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage among Sexual Minority Women, Laurie A. Drabble, Amy A. Mericle, Angie R. Wootton, Cat Munroe, Libo Li, Karen F. Trocki, and Tonda Hughes
Perceived psychosocial impacts of legalized same-sex marriage: A scoping review of sexual minority adults’ experiences, Laurie A. Drabble, Angie R. Wootton, Cindy B. Veldhuis, Ellen D.B. Riggle, Sharon S. Rostosky, Pamela J. Lannutti, Kimberly F. Balsam, and Tonda L. Hughes
Once arrived: A qualitative study of refugees and service providers in the first six months of resettlement, Nicole Dubus
Welcoming refugee families: A qualitative study of 20 professionals’ views of resettlement of Syrian families in Iceland, Nicole Dubus
Moderated Mediation of the eCHECKUP TO GO College Student Cannabis Use Intervention, Theodore Fetterling, Jamie Parnes, Mark A. Prince, Bradley T. Conner, Melissa W. George, Audrey M. Shillington, and Nathaniel R. Riggs
Understanding Gender-Based Violence and Health in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka: The Role of Intersecting Traumas, Ruvani W. Fonseka
Understanding intimate partner violence and health in post-conflict Sri Lanka, Ruvani W. Fonseka
"You have to do a lot of good deeds in this life, so that you can become a man in your next life”: - Gender-nonconformity Among Youth in Urban Sri Lanka, Ruvani W. Fonseka
Understanding at-the-moment stress for parents during COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions, Bridget Freisthler, Paul J. Gruenewald, Erin Tebben, Karla Shockley McCarthy, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Activity spaces: assessing differences in alcohol exposures and alcohol use for parents, Bridget Freisthler, Nancy J. Kepple, Jennifer Price Wolf, and Leslie Carson
Enhancing Permanency in Children and Families (EPIC): a child welfare intervention for parental substance abuse, Bridget Freisthler, Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Susan Yoon, Elinam Dellor, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Daily Stress and Use of Aggressive Discipline by Parents during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Bridget Freisthler, Jennifer Price Wolf, Caileigh Chadwick, and Katherine Renick
Harm from Others' Drinking among Sexual Minority Adults in the United States, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, Laurie Drabble, Karen F. Trocki, Tonda L. Hughes, and Thomas K. Greenfield
Examining public stigma of Alzheimer’s disease and its correlates among Korean Americans, Sang E. Lee, Michin Hong, and Banghwa L. Casado
Workplace bullying among higher education faculty: A review of the theoretical and empirical literature, Kathy Lemon and Kendra Barnes
India Ignited: COVID-19 Second Wave Unleashes Death and Devastation, Nidhi Mahendra, Soma Sen, and Tanvi Kothari, Newsweek
Challenges of Virtual RDS for Recruitment of Sexual Minority Women for a Behavioral Health Study, Deirdre Middleton, Laurie A. Drabble, Deborah Krug, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, Amy A. Mericle, Tonda L. Hughes, Ronaldo Iachan, and Karen F. Trocki
Mechanisms of change in an adapted marijuana e-CHECKUP TO GO intervention on decreased college student cannabis use, Mark A. Prince, Alexander J. Tyskiewicz, Bradley T. Conner, Jamie E. Parnes, Audrey M. Shillington, Melissa W. George, and Nathaniel R. Riggs
First Comes Marriage, Then Comes the Election: Macro-level Event Impacts on African American, Latina/x, and White Sexual Minority Women, Ellen D.B. Riggle, Laurie A. Drabble, Alicia K. Matthews, Cindy B. Veldhuis, Robyn A. Nisi, and Tonda L. Hughes
An ecological framework for understanding HIV- and AIDS-related stigma among Asian American and Pacific Islander men who have sex with men living in the USA, Soma Sen, Jemel P. Aguilar, and Mac Petty
How Higher Education in America Has Been Hijacked by Colonization Warfare and Why We Need to Fight Back Now, Soma Sen and Keenan Norris, Visible Magazine
The relationship between commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among boys and girls in Haiti, Jay G. Silverman, Sabrina C. Boyce, Ruvani W. Fonseka, Daniel Triplett, Laura F. Chiang, Sharon S. Caslin, and Anita Raj
The intersection of child welfare services and public assistance: An analysis of dual-system involvement and successful family preservation completion on a maltreatment re-report, James David Simon, Amy D'Andrade, and Hsun Ta Hsu
Classification trees identify shared and distinct correlates of nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidal ideation across gender identities in emerging adults, Gemma T. Wallace, Bradley T. Conner, and Audrey M. Shillington
Prescription Drug Misuse and Child Maltreatment Among High-Risk Families, Jennifer Price Wolf
Stress, alcohol use, and punitive parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jennifer Price Wolf, Bridget Freisthler, and Caileigh Chadwick
Parenting in poor health: Examining associations between parental health, prescription drug use, and child maltreatment, Jennifer Price Wolf, Bridget Freisthler, and Karla Shockley McCarthy
Relationships between social host policies, youth drinking contexts, and age, Jennifer Price Wolf, Sabrina Islam, Grisel García-Ramírez, Mallie J. Paschall, and Sharon Lipperman-Kreda
Submissions from 2020
It's complicated: The impact of marriage legalization among sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals in the United States, Laurie Drabble, Angie Wootton, Cindy Veldhuis, Ellen Perry, Ellen Riggle, Karen Trocki, and Tonda Hughes
Could Americans become the next wave of refugees?, Nicole Dubus, San Jose Mercury News
The Welfare Queen Was A Myth, But We Have A Real-life Welfare King: His Name Is Donald Trump, Nicole Dubus, The Hill Reporter
Using the 2016 Demographic and Health Survery to Understand Intimate Partner Violence in Sri Lanka, Ruvani W. Fonseka
Adapting an evidence-based model to reduce reproductive coercion and intimate partner violence and increase contraceptive use among adolescents in the border region of San Diego county: ARCHES Jóvenes, Ruvani W. Fonseka, N. Carter, P. Perez, I. Brongiel, H. Helvink, R. Vera Monroy, V. Maldonado, A. E. Servin, T. Burks, and Jay G. Silverman
Does Concordance Matter? Examining the Associations Between Marital Concordance of Gender Equity Attitudes on Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Married Adolescent Girls and Their Husbands in Niger, Ruvani W. Fonseka, S. DeLong, S. Challa, H. B. Shakya, and Jay G. Silverman
An Exploratory Study of Parenting in Public Places: What Can We Learn from Parents’ Activity Locations and Physical Punishment?, Bridget Freisthler, Holly Thurston, and Jennifer Price Wolf
Alcohol Use and Harm to Children by Parents and Other Adults, Bridget Freisthler, Jennifer Price Wolf, Ashleigh I. Hodge, and Yiwen Cao
Caregiving Burden and self-care among European-American and Chinese-American family caregivers of people with mental illness, Meekyung Han, Sadhna Diwan, Megan Chang, Karly Comfort, and Kathy Forward
