Conference Highlights

Due to the large number of presentations at the conference, only a small sample of the workshops/symposia/papers appear in this listing:

Workshops
• GIS Applications in Community Assessment and Social Work Research
• Optimal Propensity Score Matching and Its Applications to Social Work Evaluations and Research
• Developing Evidence-Based Curricula For Social Work Practice At The Intersections Of Mental Health, Substance Use, Health And Aging

Roundtables
• Data and Research on Human Trafficking
• Designing and Evaluating Economic Development in Low-Income Communities
• “Coming to a Point”: Systematic Approaches to Integrating Qualitative Research
• Preparing the Next Generation of Social Work Researchers: Interdisciplinary Paths in Postdoctoral Training and Early Career Development

Symposia
• Findings from the Federal Multi-Site Evaluation of Foster Youth Services
• Mental Health Recovery and Homelessness: Qualitative and Mixed Method Approaches to Understanding What Works (and How) in Service Delivery
• The Katrina Legacy—Long Term Psychological Sequelae of a Natural Catastrophe
• Acculturation and Health Behavior in Latino Adolescents: Advances in Statistical Modeling of Mediation Processes and Longitudinal Trajectories
• Current Innovative Social Work Research Using the NIH K-Award Mechanism
• Interventions for Maternal Depression and Infant/Toddler Wellbeing: Building on Strengths in Vulnerable Families
• Preventing Bullying and Aggression: Findings from the Denver Public Schools Trial

Papers
• Contextual Influences on Parental Educational Aspirations for Their Children
• Rebuilding and Sustaining Livelihoods after a Natural Disaster: An Evaluation of a Microcredit Program for Poor Women in South India
• Construct Validity Invariance and Discrepancies in Dichotomous Effect Sizes across Different Measures
• Preventing Homelessness in Persons with Severe Mental Illness: A Randomized Trial of Critical Time Intervention Following Hospital Discharge
• The Causal Relationships Among Neurocognition, Social Cognition and Functional Outcome in Schizophrenia: Implications for Heterogeneity and Assessment
• Geographic Disparities in Mental Health Service Utilization among a National Sample of Children in the Child Welfare System
• Barriers and Resources to Managing Type 2 Diabetes and Transitioning to Adult Care Among African American Adolescents
• Using Intergroup Dialogue to Reduce Sexual Orientation Prejudice in Public Schools: A Mixed Methods Experimental/Qualitative study
• Depression Treatment Preferences of Low-Income Latinos: A Qualitative Study
• Testing the Ecological Dissimilarity Hypothesis: The Case of Racial Disparities in Foster Care Admissions
• Emotion Dysregulation and Violence in Borderline Personality Disorder