Aging
- Aging in place
- Healthy aging
- Intergenerational family work
- Gerontechnology
- Long-term care
- Care transitions
- Cognitive and functional issues
- Training and education
- Development of educational competencies
- Abuse in later life
- Family care giving
- Risk factors for dementia
- Cognitive decline
- Life transitions
- Dementia caregivers
- Assistive technology for dementia care
Jerry Rousseau*
- Aging mindfully
- Caring for older family members
- Self-care for the caregiver
- Getting to know who you are becoming as you grow older
*Emeritus Faculty
Child Welfare
- Child abuse and neglect
- Traumatic grief and loss
- Resilience
- Child welfare practice and policy
- Differential response
- Agency decision making
- Family engagement
- Child Protective Services
- Foster care case management
- employee self-care
- Child welfare policy and practice
- Child maltreatment
- Family preservation
- Foster care
- Adoption
- Placement stability
- Childhood trauma
- Child Protective Services
- Foster care
- Adversity and trauma
- Resilience
- Child and family well-being
- Father involvement
- Non-custodial parents
- Child welfare practice and policy
- Children and families’ issues with trauma
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Supervision in child welfare
- Case management in child welfare
- Child neglect
- Cross-cultural perspectives
- Child welfare policy and practice
- Consequences and prevention of child maltreatment
- Foster/adoptive parent training
- Out-of-home youth worker
- Competency development
*Emeritus Faculty
Community Practice
- Neighborhood responsiveness to aging-in-place
- Disability accommodation (ADA Standards for Accessible Design)
- Integrated approach to advance care planning
- Community education and outreach services
- Mental health private practice
- Neighborhood characteristics and local non-economic institutions on crime outcomes
Katie Mangan*
- Multi-systems
- Family therapy
- Home-based outreach
- Local political organizing
- Sexual assault and domestic violence services
- Aging out of foster care
- Foster care
- Family preservation
- Child abuse and neglect
- Adoption
- Case management
- Safety in the field
- Community-engaged research
*Emeritus Faculty
Conflict Resolution and Social Work Practice
Roberta Hanus*
- Process-oriented leadership and conflict resolution
- Restorative and transformative justice
Jerry Rousseau*
- Learning the skills of successful conflict engagement
- Appreciating those who disturb us as necessary allies
*Emeritus Faculty
Corrections
- LGBTQ+ youth & young adults involved in the criminal legal system
- Parole
- Prisoner re-entry
- Intervention strategies with correctional clients
- Parole
- Prisoner reintegration
- Rehabilitation
- Women in jail
- Alternatives to incarceration
- Child support
- Welfare and males
- Women in jail
- Addiction and child welfare needs
- Individual and neighborhood-level influences of recidivism
- Prisons and jails
- Prison administration
- Prisoner re-entry
*Emeritus Faculty
Crime
- Crime patterns and analysis
- Criminal investigation
- Criminal investigation
- Criminal intelligence and analysis
- Domestic violence
- Sexual assault
- Human trafficking
- Gender and crime
- Juvenile delinquency
- Race/ethnicity and crime
- Criminological theory
- Race and crime
- Crime in the mass media
- Desistance
- Recidivism
- Gun violence
- Geographic criminology
- Theories of crime
- Decision-making
- Social networks
- Criminological theory
- Philosophy of criminal justice
- Corrections
*Emeritus Faculty
Criminal Justice Policy and Administration
- Issues in police management
- Police management
- Police management
- Administration of justice
- Correctional administration and programming
- Prisoner reintegration
- Criminal justice administration
*Emeritus Faculty
Criminal Justice Process
- Crime and law enforcement
- Judicial processing
- Criminal justice processing
- Corrections process
- Corrections process
- Criminal justice processing
Cultural Diversity Issues
- Racial and ethnic disparities in adolescent substance abuse
- Racial and ethnic discrimination
- Ethnic and racial socialization
- Cultural sensitivity training in law enforcement
- Race/ethnicity in the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems
- Older adults
- Access to health care and mental health care
- Race/ethnicity and the criminal justice system
- Culturally responsive social work practice
- Latino families and care giving
- Formerly incarcerated persons’ simultaneous stigmas
- Race/ethnicity in dementia care; older immigrants
- Disparities in the criminal justice system
- Diversity and its implications for social work education
- Social work with Asian Americans
Katie Mangan*
- Multi-systems family therapy in an urban setting
Deborah Padgett*
- Diversity and organizations
- Cultural humility
- Cultural intelligence (CQ)
- Culturally competent social work practice
- Cultural inclusiveness in organizational culture
- Generational diversity
- Black families
- Celebrating LGBTQ identities in social services settings
*Emeritus Faculty
Death and Dying
- Developmental and lifespan processes related to death, dying and grief
- End-of-life decision making
Roberta Hanus*
- The intersection of spirituality and social work
Katie Mangan*
- Death in family systems
*Emeritus Faculty
Disabilities
- Policy issues
- Cognitive functioning
- Functional impairments
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Huntington’s Disease
- Movement disorders
- Early intervention programming
Economic and Social Policy Issues
- Healthcare policy access
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Retirement policies including Social Security
- Supplemental Security Income
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Federal and state policy development
- Organizational theory
- Social workers as change agents
- Vulnerable families inside public systems
- Civil disabilities of formerly incarcerated persons
- Prisoner reintegration
- Human service organizations and non-profit agencies
- Working with human service organizations and non-profit agencies
- Organizational theory
- Social power
Deborah Padgett*
- Management and organization theory
- Social welfare policy
- Non-custodial fathers
*Emeritus Faculty
Health and Medical
- Alcohol interventions in general medical settings
- Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
- Social determinants of health and health disparities
- Behavioral decision-making for health behaviors
- Health and safety issues in policing
- Healthcare service access and delivery
- Long-term care
- Care transitions
- Palliative careRoberta Hanus*
- Chronic symptoms and community processes
- HIV prevention and harm reduction
- Medical social work
- Integrated care
- SBIRT
- Health and social work
- Child caregivers
- Chronic illness and families
- Multiple chronic conditions
- Mild cognitive impairment and dementia
- Cognitive functionKatie Mangan*
- Medical social work
- Chronic and acute management in families
- Population health
- Home visiting
- HIV/AIDS
- Alcohol and drug addiction
Jerry Rousseau*
- Exploring the psychological aspects of physical symptoms
- Health disparities
- Educational predictors of adult health
- Maternal and infant health
- Public health and social work
*Emeritus Faculty
Homelessness
- Chronicity
- Treatment of co-occurring disorders
- SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access and Recovery (SOAR)
- Targeted Case Management (TCM)
- Supportive permanent housing
- Housing First
- Supportive permanent housing
- Harm reduction housing first models
*Emeritus Faculty
International Social Development
- Gerontechnology
- South Africa health care and neurological disorders
- Social policy and practice in Austria
- Social policy and practice in Cuba
*Emeritus Faculty
Juvenile Justice
- Processing juveniles in the system
- Juvenile justice interventions
- LGBTQ+ youth and young adults and policing
Law Enforcement
- Police decision making and behavior
- Police policy Criminal investigation
- Police management
- Criminal investigation
- Police management
- Gang crimes intel
- Police decision making and behavior
- Police policy
- Police management Data-driven policing
- Women and policing
- Crime mapping and spatial analysis
- Social network analysis
- Data-driven policing
- Gun violence reduction
*Emeritus Faculty
LGBTQ+
- LGBTQ+ issues and older adults
- Social and structural exclusion among LGBTQ+ youth and young adults
- Victimization among LGBTQ+ individuals
- LGBTQ+ youth and young adults involved in the criminal legal system
- Queer theory and social work practice
- LGBTQ+ anti-violence work
- Sexual violence and intimate partner violence in LGBTQ+ identities
- Helping clients explore coming out process
- Exploring gender and sexuality
- Healthy relationships and sexuality
Marriage and Family
- Intergenerational treatment involving older adults and families
Roberta Hanus*
- Individual and couples/group process work
- Coping skills and survival strategies of battered partners and rape survivors
Katie Mangan*
- Individual, marriage and family therapy
Deborah Padgett*
- Working with groups
- Managing health organizations
- Family adjustments to caring for a newborn
*Emeritus Faculty
Mental Health/Mental Illness
- Mental health in older adult populations
- Direct practice skills
- Screening and assessment tools
- Stigma
- African/Black psychology
- Mental health and theology
- Family caregiving across the life span
- Impact of illness on family
- Family preservation and the home-building model
- Family violence and its impact on children
- Mental health in dementia caregivers and older immigrants
- Health intervention models
- Health behaviors
- Dual diagnosis
- Family-centered practice
- Strength-based practice with families and community development
- Strength-based interventions
- Empowerment and family development practice
- Solution-focused interviewing
- Fatherhood and domestic violence
Dion Racks
Working with families affected by mental illness in child welfare
Understanding the effects of mental health within family systems
Mental health practice issues
Managed behavioral health care
Incarcerated mothers and pregnant women
Training for adoption competent practice
Jerry Rousseau*
- Holiday stress reduction
- Practicing self-acceptance
- Individual, couple, and group psychotherapy
- Learning to live compassionately with a family member with mental illness
- Getting to know the shadow side of who we are
- Infant and early childhood mental health
- Family system interventions
*Emeritus Faculty
Prevention and Intervention
- Adolescent development and substance use prevention
- Culturally sensitive programs for youth of color
- Parent-based prevention programs
- Prevention science
- Early illness detection and intervention
- Crime prevention
- Prevention science
- Translational research
- Home visiting
- Child care programming
- Preventing infant deaths
- Interventions to reduce risks in infant sleep environment
Quinn Wilder
- After school/community
- Youth program quality
Racial Equity and Inclusion
- Black families
- Social determinacies of health and economic security
Research Methods and Data Analysis
- Ethics in intervention research
- Systemic review and meta-analysis
- Structural equation modeling
- Elicitation study
- Mixed methods research
- Survey methodology
- Program evaluation
- Multivariate analysis
- Research design
- Questionnaire readability
- Qualitative research methods
- Critical discourse analysis
- Mixed methods
- Program evaluation
- Intervention research
- Health systems research
- Quality improvement research
- Quantitative and qualitative methods
- Latent class analysis
- Qualitative research methods
- Mixed methods research
- Applied evaluation study design
- Mixed methods
- Survey design and implementation
- Secondary analysis of administrative data
- Multivariate analyses and advanced statistical modeling
- Geospatial analysis of neighborhood effects on crime outcomes
- Secondary analysis
- Path analysis
- Longitudinal analysis
- Quantitative methods
- Spatial analysis/mapping: advanced statistical modeling
- Simulation modeling
- Social network analysis
- Program evaluation
- Longitudinal research
- Screening and assessment
- Randomized trials in community settings
- Brief standardized scales
- Surveys Cohort studies
- Quantitative and qualitative study design
- Program evaluation
- Randomized clinical trials
- Ethics in human subjects research
- Qualitative research methods/focus groups
- Use of rapid assessment instruments in clinical practice
- General methods of social welfare research
- Qualitative research methods
- Program evaluation
- Surveys
*Emeritus Faculty
Social Work Ethics and Boundaries
Deborah Padgett*
- Workers and human service professionals
- Advanced ethics and boundaries for social workers
- Advanced ethics and boundaries workshop
- Ethics and boundaries in a world of technology
- In-home services
- Hospice and palliative care
- Social work ethics in supervision
- Administration and macro practice
*Emeritus Faculty
Substance Abuse
- Treatment of alcohol use disorders – brief interventions
- and motivational interviewing Screening and assessment
- Adolescent alcohol use decision making
- Race, ethnic, and gender disparities in alcohol use
- Structural and behavioral determinants of youth alcohol use
- Substance use prevention
- Treatment issues for prisoners
- Recovery processes in addictions Drug courts
- Co-occurring addictions
- Women’s treatment issues and risk factors
- Dual diagnosis
- Adult drug treatment courts
- Substance abuse and its impact on families in child welfare
- Substance abuse and trauma
- Screening and assessment
- Working with substance affected families in child welfare
*Emeritus Faculty
Supervision
- Clinical supervision of mental health and substance abuse providers
Deborah Padgett*
- Leadership
- Management
- Effective leadership in human service organizations
Quinn Wilder
- After school/community, youth program supervision skills & strategies
*Emeritus Faculty
Technology in Social Welfare Education
Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care
- Integrated substances use disorder and trauma treatment for women
- Interpersonal violence and trauma
- Health disparities in under-served communities
- Trauma/community trauma
- Women’s issues
- African Americans and mental health
- Older adult population
- Improving supportive and legal services for LGBTQ+ survivors of victimization
- Organizational trauma-informed and trauma responsive services
- Vicarious trauma
- Trauma counseling techniques
- PTSD screening, assessment, and treatment
- Trauma theory and research
- Trauma responsive practices
- LGBTQ individuals impacted by trauma
- Basic and applied research into early trauma exposure
- Teaching and training in trauma-based interventions and practice principles
- Trauma resolution
Welfare Reform
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
- Child support
- Fathers