Social Work

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Characteristics of Individuals Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Provider Interaction inthe Predominantly Rural Southeast" 
  • A Cautionary Tale: Using Propensity Scores to Estimate the Impact of Food Stamps on Food Insecurity 
  • A Longitudinal Examination of the Family Stress Model of Economic Hardship in Seven Countries. 
  • A Pilot Investigation of Media Multitasking and Trauma Symptoms Among Adolescents 
  • A Qualitative Study of Smoking Behaviors among Newly Released Justice-Involved Men and Women in New York City. 
  • A conceptual framework for the analysis of risk and problem behaviors: The case of adolescent sexual behavior 
  • A conceptually based scale to measure consumers' treatment motivation 
  • A machine learning approach for identifying predictors of success in a Medicaid-funded, community-based behavioral health program using the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) 
  • A new program to prevent primary school absenteeism: Results of a pilot study in five schools 
  • A parent-based intervention to reduce sexual risk behavior in early adolescence: building alliances between physicians, social workers, and parents. 
  • A prescription for promoting social work research in a university hospital. 
  • A theory-based approach to understanding best practices in using online marketing materials for home-based parenting programs 
  • Adults Who Were Adopted Contacting Their Birthmothers: What Are the Outcomes, and What Factors Influence These Outcomes? 
  • An integrated, multidimensional treatment model for individuals living with HIV, mental illness, and substance abuse. 
  • Are the Average Effects of Foster Care Placement Really Close to Zero? 
  • Assessing trauma, substance abuse, and mental health in a sample of homeless men. 
  • Balancing Autonomy and Dependence for Community and Nongovernmental Organizations 
  • Barriers and consultation needs regarding implementation of evidence-based treatment in community agencies. 
  • Barriers to No Hit Zone implementation 
  • Benign Inequality: Frames of Poverty and Social Class Inequality in Children’s Movies 
  • Best practices for mental health in child welfare: parent support and youth empowerment guidelines. 
  • Best practices for mental health in child welfare: screening, assessment, and treatment guidelines. 
  • Beyond symptom management: Family relations, unmet needs of persons living with severe mental illnesses, and potential implications for social work in South Africa. 
  • Bridging the gap between financial distress and available resources for patients with cancer: a qualitative study. 
  • Building communities of care for military children and families. 
  • Caring and thriving: An international qualitative study of caregivers of orphaned and vulnerable children and strategies to sustain positive mental health 
  • Case file coding of child maltreatment: Methods, challenges, and innovations in a longitudinal project of youth in foster care. 
  • Challenges of providing interdisciplinary mental health education 
  • Characteristics of the front-line child welfare workforce 
  • Child adult relationship enhancement (CARE): A brief, skills-building training for foster caregivers to increase positive parenting practices 
  • Child wellbeing assessment in child welfare: A review of four measures 
  • Comparing families and staff in nursing homes and assisted living: implications for social work practice. 
  • Complex trauma and mental health in children and adolescents placed in foster care: findings from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. 
  • Comprehensive Family Assessment: Benefits of motivational interviewing and coaching for improving family engagement 
  • Condom Decision Making Among Latino and Black Adolescent Males: Social Neurobiological and Paternal Influences 
  • Courts, care proceedings and outcomes uncertainty: The challenges of achieving and assessing “good outcomes” for children after child protection proceedings 
  • Day-to-day variation in adolescent food insecurity 
  • Defining suspected child maltreatment using International Classification of Diseases codes: A scoping literature review 
  • Depression and Religiosity in African American and White Community-Dwelling Older Adults 
  • Desired Characteristics of HIV Testing and Counseling among Diverse Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Receiving Social Services. 
  • Differences in patterns of maternal arrest and the parent, family, and child problems encountered in working with families 
  • Disseminating parent-child interaction therapy through the learning collaborative model on the adoption and implementation of an evidence-based treatment 
  • Dissemination of the Coping Power program: importance of intensity of counselor training. 
  • Effectively addressing the impact of child traumatic stress in child welfare. 
  • Effectiveness of educational and social worker interventions to activate patients' discussion and pursuit of preemptive living donor kidney transplantation: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of Employment-Based Programs on Families by Prior Levels of Disadvantage. 
  • Effects of a Rural Family Drug Treatment Court Collaborative on Child Welfare Outcomes: Comparison Using Propensity Score Analysis. 
  • Efficiency Considerations in the Social Welfare Agency 
  • Emerging services for community-based long-term care in urban China: a systematic analysis of Shanghai's community-based agencies. 
  • Empirical evidence on legal levers aimed at addressing child maltreatment 
  • Engaging communities in evidence-based interventions for dementia caregivers. 
  • Enjoyment and meaning in daily activities among caregivers of orphaned and separated children in four countries 
  • Epidemiology of depression for clinicians. 
  • FAMILY CAREGIVER'S PERCEPTION OF DEMENTIA AND CAREGIVING IN CHINESE CULTURE 
  • Factors Associated with Doubled-Up Housing - A Common Precursor to Homelessness 
  • Factors Associated with Patients' Connection to Referred Social Needs Resources at a Federally Qualified Health Center. 
  • Factors predicting prosecution of child maltreatment cases 
  • Feasibility and acceptability of the TALK social worker intervention to improve live kidney transplantation. 
  • Fidelity Decision Making in Social and Behavioral Research: Alternative Measures of Dose and Other Considerations. 
  • Fidelity to the Child and Family Team Meeting Model: Impacts on Child Welfare Outcomes 
  • Foster care and Medicaid managed care. 
  • Functional limitations and religious service attendance among African American and white older adults. 
  • Health care and social service use among Chinese immigrant elders. 
  • Health education needs of intimate partner violence survivors: Perspectives from female survivors and social service providers. 
  • Health literacy as a process: caseworker perspectives on HIV health literacy. 
  • Identifying and addressing barriers to African American and non-African American families' discussions about preemptive living related kidney transplantation. 
  • Impact of a Novel Social Work Program on Access to Tertiary Care. 
  • Implementing a Prison Medicaid Enrollment Program for Inmates with a Community Inpatient Hospitalization. 
  • Implementing a case management initiative in high-need schools 
  • Income inequality and child maltreatment risk during economic recession 
  • Intimate partner violence: Persistence of myths and implications for intervention 
  • Is anybody out there? Integrating HIV services in rural regions. 
  • Latino Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Behaviors and Outcomes: Research Informed Guidance for Agency-based Practitioners. 
  • Letting go: separation-individuation in a wife of an Alzheimer's patient. 
  • Leveraging Identity, Gaining Access: Explorations of Self in Diverse Field-Based Research Settings 
  • Light-touch design enhancements can boost parent engagement in math activities 
  • Local Job Losses and Child Maltreatment: The Importance of Community Context. 
  • Long-term effects of early childhood programs through eighth grade: Do the effects fade out or grow? 
  • Making a home in the community for the academic medical center. 
  • Making a target work: Messages from a pilot of the 6-month time limit on care proceedings in England 
  • Measuring fidelity of empirically-supported treatment foster care: Preliminary psychometrics of the together facing the challenge—fidelity of implementation test (TFTC-FIT) 
  • Meeting children's basic needs: Introduction 
  • Meeting the Basic Needs of Children: Does Income Matter? 
  • Multidisciplinary training in the College Mental Health Service. 
  • Multiple Response System: Evaluation of Policy Change in North Carolina's Child Welfare System. 
  • Nationwide evidence that education disrupts the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. 
  • Novel Service Delivery Approach to Address Reproductive Health Disparities within Immigrant Latino Communities in Geographic Hot Spots: An Implementation Study. 
  • Once validated, always validated? 
  • Oral Health among Older Chinese Immigrants and Implications for Social Work Practice 
  • Out-of-home placement of children exposed to violence 
  • Overcoming barriers to fathers' participation in clinically relevant research: Recommendations from the field 
  • Pairing nurses and social workers in schools: North Carolina’s school-based child and family support teams. 
  • Parental arrest and children involved with child welfare services agencies. 
  • Parent–youth communication to reduce at-risk sexual behavior: A systematic literature review 
  • Patient Barriers to Accessing Referred Resources for Unmet Social Needs. 
  • Predictors of Psychological Functioning and Adoption Experience in Adults Searching for Their Birthparents 
  • Professionals, friends, and confidants: After-school staff as social support to low-income parents 
  • Psychiatric advance directives and social workers: an integrative review. 
  • Psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents in foster care: review of research literature. 
  • Response to the letter to the editor by Matthew Raider, "hospice in the nursing home: perspective of a medical director". 
  • Risky Sexual Behavior and Substance Use among Adolescents: A Meta-analysis. 
  • Self-reported ageism in social work practitioners and students. 
  • Service use and multi-sector use for mental health problems by youth in contact with child welfare 
  • Should palliative care be a necessity or a luxury during an overwhelming health catastrophe? 
  • Social Gerontology 
  • Social network and health: A comparison of Chinese older adults in Shanghai and elderly immigrants in Boston 
  • Social service interventions for caregivers of patients with dementia: impact on health care utilization and expenditures. 
  • Social work competencies in palliative and end-of-life care. 
  • Social workers' familiarity with psychiatric advance directives: Implications for education, practice, and research 
  • Some considerations in developing family planning services. 
  • State-Level Variation in the Cumulative Prevalence of Child Welfare System Contact, 2015-2019. 
  • State-level legal and sociodemographic correlates of child marriage rates in the United States 
  • Statewide dissemination of an evidence-based practice using Breakthrough Series Collaboratives 
  • Strategies for Longitudinal Research with Youth in Foster Care: A Demonstration of Methods, Barriers, and Innovations. 
  • Substance Use Outcomes of an Integrated HIV-Substance Use Treatment Model Implemented by Social Workers and HIV Medical Providers 
  • Substance Use among Adolescent Mothers: A Review. 
  • Supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefit cycles and student disciplinary infractions 
  • The Durham Family Initiative: a preventive system of care. 
  • The Effect of WIC on Breastfeeding: A New Look at an Established Relationship 
  • The Emergency Department Sickle Cell Assessment of Needs and Strengths (ED-SCANS): reliability and validity. 
  • The TALKS study to improve communication, logistical, and financial barriers to live donor kidney transplantation in African Americans: protocol of a randomized clinical trial. 
  • The benefits of motivational interviewing and coaching for improving the practice of comprehensive family assessments in child welfare. 
  • The content and process of mother-adolescent communication about sex in Latino families 
  • The cost of implementing new strategies (COINS): A method for mapping implementation resources using the stages of implementation completion 
  • The effect of lowering welfare payment ceilings on children's risk of out-of-home placement 
  • The effects of time limits and make-work-pay strategies on the well-being of children: Experimental evidence from two welfare reform programs 
  • The ethics of care: social workers in an influenza pandemic. 
  • The impact of low- and moderate-wealth homeownership on parental attitudes and behavior: Evidence from the community advantage panel 
  • The impact of system of care support in adherence to wraparound principles in Child and Family Teams in child welfare in North Carolina. 
  • The relative effects of home care client characteristics on the resource allocation process: do personality and demeanor matter? 
  • The role of public and private food assistance in supporting families’ food security and meal routines 
  • The work of a health visitor in a residential family unit. 
  • Tiny Homes Are Huge for People Living With Serious Mental Illness 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Psychosocial and Family Support. 
  • Understanding public attitudes towards Social Security 
  • Use of informal safety nets during the supplemental nutrition assistance program benefit cycle: How poor families cope with within-month economic instability 
  • Use of mental health services by youth in contact with social services 
  • Using clinical assessment to enhance adoption success 
  • Values that Fathers Communicate to Sons about Sex, Sexuality, Relationships, and Marriage. 
  • Vile vigilance: An integrated theoretical framework for understanding the state of Black surveillance 
  • Who Counts? Educational Disadvantage among Children Identified as Homeless and Implications for the Systems That Serve Them 
  • Zero tolerance: Policing a free society 
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  • “It’s Like Night and Day”: How Bureaucratic Encounters Vary across WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bennett, Vann, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Smith, Sophia Kustas, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing