Scholarly work by the School's faculty spans a wide range of questions, problems and populations, including the development and testing of clinical interventions, evaluation of agency based service programs, the conceptual and philosophical foundations of clinical practice, development of clinical theory, assessment of social work education, and the needs of vulnerable populations. Its health-related research on outreach, prevention, coping and caretaking spans a wide range of disease conditions and underserved populations. The faculty's trauma-related work includes the short and long term effects of disaster, immigration, and self care for clinicians. Faculty play key roles in major social work journals, and the School is home to the only centralized web resource covering professional news and new scholarship from around the world, Information for Practice.
children and families
Post-Adoption Service Needs and the Stability of Adoptions Out of Foster Care
Professor Trudy Festinger
Early Head Start and Head Start Evaluation
Dr. Mark Spellmann
Expediting Adoptions Through Agency and Court Procedural Changes
Professor Trudy Festinger
Vision and Hearing Problems of Foster Care Children
Professor Trudy Festinger
Survey of ACS Adoption Hot Line Callers
Professor Trudy Festinger (NYU) and Rachel Pratt (Administration for Children's Services)
The Effects of C-588 in Speeding Adoptions
Professors Trudy Festinger (NYU), Aron Shlonsky (Columbia University), and Alan Brookhart (Harvard University)
Mothers Referred for Substance Abuse Evaluation
Professors Trudy Festinger (NYU) and Judy Fenster (Adelphi)
Qualitative Methods in Evaluation of Teens in Foster Care
Professor Deborah Padgett
Improving the Lives of Low-Income Families Led by Single Mothers
Professor Robert Leibson Hawkins
What Children Learn from their Parents' Marriage
Professor Judy Siegel
adolescents and youth
Youth Violence Prevention: The Effect of Leadership Initiatives
Professor Gerald Landsberg
Mentally-Ill Adolescents: Underserved and Caught Between Systems
Professor Marjorie Rock
The Dimensional Structure of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Symptoms
Professor Robert E. Moore
Partnership for after school education: Partners in healing 2006-2007 evaluation report.
Professor Gerald Landsberg
The Impact of Training and Technical Assistance in After-School Agencies
Professor Gerald Landsberg
higher education and the profession
Survey of Doctoral Students in Social Work
Professor Jeane Anastas
Social Cognitive Theory Outcome Measure Development
Professor Gary Holden
Knowledge Dissemination via the Internet
Professor Gary Holden
Bibliometrics in Social Work
Professor Gary Holden
Research Methods with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Populations
Professor James Martin
Digital Teaching and Learning for Advanced Clinical Practice
Professor Tazuko Shibusawa
the elderly
Support Services in Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
Professor Gerald Landsberg
Service Needs of Elderly Hispanic Women
Professor Caroline Gelman
Group Intervention for Elders with Advanced Cancer and their Caregivers
Professor Daniel Gardner
Elder Abuse and Neglect in Japan
Professor Tazuko Shibusawa
mental health and forensic mental health
Victims of Mentally-Ill Offenders
Professors Gerald Landsberg and Marjorie Rock
Muslim Americans' Beliefs and Attitudes About Mental Illness
Professor Marjorie Rock
Out of Jail and Into Treatment: Diverting the Mentally Ill From the Criminal Justice System
Professors Gerald Landsberg and Marjorie Rock
Forensic Mental Health: Planning and Advocacy for Adults
Professor Gerald Landsberg
Intimate Abuse: Criminal and Restorative Justice Responses
Professor Linda Mills
Dual-Diagnosed Homeless Adults: Service Needs and Decisions from the Client's Perspective
Professor Deborah Padgett
Treating Depression in Vulnerable Urban Women
Professor RoseMarie Perez Foster
Narcissistic Vulnerability and Mid-Life Crisis
Professor Eda Goldstein
Containing Terror, Rage and Despair
Professor Jeffrey Seinfeld
Clarifying the Concept of Relational Disorder
Professor Jerome Wakefield
Clinician Perceptions of Mental Disorder in Youth
Professor Jerome Wakefield
Distinguishing Depression from Normal Sadness
Professor Jerome Wakefield
Treating the Bilingual Person
Professor Rosemarie Perez Foster
Substance Abuse Among Soviet Immigrants to Three Countries
Professor Lala Straussner
Mental Health Care for New Hispanic Immigrants
Professor Gladys Gonzalez-Ramos
trauma
The Long Reach of Chernobyl: Mental Health and Other Sequellae of the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster
Professor RoseMarie Perez Foster
Post-9/11 Community Response to Traumatized Residents and Public Safety Employees
Professor Linda Mills
Cultural Integration and Social Capital Development in Low-Income Families Affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Professor Robert Leibson Hawkins
Peri-Migration Trauma in Childhood
Professor RoseMarie Perez Foster
Decoding Children's 9/11 Narratives
Professor Theresa Aiello
illness and health care
Sexuality and Disability
Professor James Martin
Parkinson's Disease: National Needs Assessment and Planning for Underserved Patient Communities
Professor Gladys Gonzalez Ramos
The Significance of Family Narratives about Hereditary Disease
Professor Allison Werner-Lin
Women at High Risk For Cancer: Support Services and Adherence to Follow-Up Regimen
Professor Deborah Padgett
Support for Alzheimer's Disease Family Caregivers
Professor Caroline Gelman
The Nexus of HIV, Substance Abuse and Menopause
Professor Ellen Tuchman
HIV/AIDS Risk in Gay Men
Professor James Martin
Couples Facing Chronic and Terminal Illness
Professor Daniel Gardner
clinical work
Conceptual and Philosophical Underpinnings of Clinical Intervention
Professor Jerome Wakefield
Empathy in Work with Women Offenders
Professor Lala Straussner
Spirituality and Transcendence in Sexuality: Implications for HIV Prevention Among Gay Men
Professor James Martin
Using Media as an Approach to Adolescent Trauma
Professor Carol Tosone
Attachment-Based Clinical Practice
Professor Jeff Seinfeld
Practice-Based Research on Adolescent Termination from Mental Health Treatment
Professor Diane Mirabito
Dangerous Listening: Secondary Trauma After Protracted Exposure to Trauma Narratives
Professor Martha Gabriel
Spirituality Approaches in Clinical Social Work Practice
Professors Barbara Dane and Robert Moore
Gay Men and Lesbians in Psychotherapy
Professor Mary Ann Jones