Andrew Achenbaum | Dale Alexander | Patrick S. Bordnick | C. Brené Brown | Monit Cheung | Ira C. Colby | Maxine Weinman Epstein | Jean Kantambu Latting | Mary Lewis | Sandra Lopez | Patrick Leung | Danielle Parrish | Suzanne Pritzker | Ellen Stevens-Roseman | Virginia Robbins | Paul R. Raffoul | Susan Robbins | Luis Torres | Sheara Williams

Andrew Achenbaum, Ph.D., Professor of History and Social Work

• History of aging (images, experiences, policies)
• Spirituality and aging
• Societal aging

Dale Alexander, Ph.D., LCSW, Associate Professor

• Substance use
• Marijuana screening
• Clinical practice education

Patrick S. Bordnick, MPH, Ph.D., LCSW, Professor

• Behavioral science
• Public health prevention and practice
• Technology in clinical assessment and treatment
• Addiction
• PTSD
• Family assessment and interventions

C. Brené Brown, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor

• Shame, gender, culture and resilience
• Shame resilience and families (including parenting)
• Shame and education
• Empathy and culture
• Violence against women
• Social work education with an emphasis on contextualized practice
• Qualitative methodologies with special focus on grounded theory

Monit Cheung, Ph.D., LCSW, Professor

• Treatment effectiveness in child sexual abuse, creative therapy, traditional healing, immigrant adjustment and minority youth
• Training effectiveness in child protection, forensic interviews, counseling Asian Americans, and child psychology

Ira C. Colby, Dean and Professor of Social Work

• Social welfare policy
• social work education and administration
• political social work

Maxine Weinman Epstein, Dr. P.H., Professor

• Adolescent mental and physical health
• Fatherhood programs
• Adolescent pregnancy
• Adolescent risk factors
• Adolescent protective factors

Jean Kantambu Latting, Dr.P.H., Kantambu Latting Endowed Professor of Leadership and Change

• Creating high performance organizations
• Systematic approaches to workforce diversity
• Forming alliances across differences
• Fostering personal competence and accountable leadership

Mary Lewis, Ph.D., Professor Emerita

• Social policies and services for children, international perspectives
• Educationally disadvantaged children, international perspectives
• Juvenile justice

Sandra Lopez, LCSW, Clinical Professor

• Grief and bereavement
• Traumatic grief
• Compassion fatigue and secondary traumatization
• Cultural competence

Patrick Leung, Ph.D., Professor

• Cultural sensitivity training
• Asian mental health issues
• Children and families
• Immigrant issues
• Domestic violence
• Gerontology

Danielle Parrish, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

• Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment with Adolescent and Adult Females.
• Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).
• Mental Health/Direct Practice.
• Evidence-Based Practice.
• Dissemination and Implementation of Research in Practice.
• Applied Behavioral Health Research.

Suzanne Pritzker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

• Youth civic engagement (especially among poor and minority adolescents).
• Service-learning.
• Positive youth development.
• Political advocacy.
• Social welfare policy.

Ellen Stevens-Roseman, D.S.W., Associate Professor

• Later life satisfaction
• Evaluating social work practice effectiveness
• Enhancing gerontological attitudes, knowledge, and skills of multi-cultural service providers

Virginia Robbins, LCSW, Clinical Professor

• Field education
• Gerontological social work
• School social work

Paul R. Raffoul, Ph.D., Associate Professor

• Public mental health delivery
• Substance abuse treatment and evaluation
• Future issues in social work
• Technology and social work

Susan Robbins, Ph.D., LCSW, Associate Professor

• Human behavior theory
• Cults
• Satanic ritual abuse
• Recovered memories
• False allegations of child sexual abuse
• Substance use, misuse and abuse
• Native American issues
• Mediation

Luis Torres, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

• Latino health disparities
• Co-occurring mental health, substance abuse and medical disorders in adolescents and young adults, with a particular emphasis on Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans in their countries of origin
• Acculturation models and their impact on illness development
• Best practices in screening, assessment and integrated treatment across service settings
• Culture and psychiatric diagnosis and cultural adaptation of interventions

Sheara Williams, Ph.D., ACSW, Associate Professor

• Psychosocial factors related to school behavior and academic achievement
• Behavioral, social, and emotional aspects of school readiness-implications for families and schools
• The academic achievement gap for poor and minority children
• Children's mental and behavioral health.