Faculty Publications



- Diversity in Social Work Doctoral Programs: Mapping the Road Ahead
- SMART Cougars: Development and Feasibility of a Campus-based HIV Prevention Intervention

- A confirmatory factor analysis of the Perceived Ability to Cope with Trauma (PACT) scale
- A Systematic Review of Dyadic Studies Examining Relationship Quality in Couples Facing Colorectal Cancer Together
- Future Directions for the Provision of Person-Centered Psychological Interventions for Cancer Patients and Survivors: A Review of Three Experiences
- Promoting Patient and Caregiver Engagement to Care in Cancer

- Alcohol use severity and depressive symptoms among late adolescent Hispanics: Testing associations of acculturation and enculturation in a bicultural transaction model
- Emotional nonacceptance within the context of traumatic event exposure: The explanatory role of anxiety sensitivity for traumatic stress symptoms and disability among Latinos in primary care setting
- Examining differences in culturally based stress among clinical and non-clinical Hispanic adolescents
- General and Ethnic Biased Bullying among Latino Students: Exploring Risks of Depression, Suicidal Ideation and Substance Use
- Stress and multiple substance use behaviors in Latino adolescents
- Subjective Social Status and Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms and Disorders among Low Income Latinos in Primary Care: The Role of Emotion Dysregulation
- Parenting in the Context of Deportation Risk

- Favoring Reunification for Children in Foster Care is a Legal Mandate, Not Bias Against Foster Parents
- Financial well-being in family-based foster care: Exploring variation in income supports for kin and non-kin caregivers in California

- The care of orphaned and vulnerable children in Islam: Exploring kafala with unaccompanied refugee minors in the United States
- Dangerous driving behavior among young male drivers: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
- From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers
- Social work education in the Arabian Gulf: Challenges and opportunities
- Vulnerable road users and road safety culture: An exploratory study of child safety seat use in the United Arab Emirates

- A research framework for investigating help-seeking behaviors among male victims in heterosexual intimate partner violence
- Voices from social work graduates in China: Reasons for not choosing social work as career
- Sentencing male sex offenders under the age of 14: A law reform advocacy journey in Hong Kong
- Globalization and social work: Influencing practice through continuing education
- Prevalence and predictors of depression for the older Asian Americans in Houston
- Song therapy for adolescents: A research-based practice guide for therapists
- Racial disproportionality in the foster care system in Texas: Trends to consider in system redesign
- Learning contextualized practice in Cambodia: A hidden living place with practice insight
- Nepalese living in Hong Kong: Social exclusion and higher education enhancement
- Child welfare policy reform in China: Historical milestones and current evaluations
- Testing gender applicability of father involvement instruments
- City size matters: Vietnamese immigrants having depressive symptoms


- Development and Validation of a Video Measure for Assessing Women’s Risk Perception for Alcohol-Related Sexual Assault

- Assessment of adolescent mental health and behavioral problems in institutional care: Discrepancies between staff-reported CBCL scores and adolescent-reported YSR scores
- Prevalence and correlates of depression, PTSD, and suicidality in Jordanian youth in institutional care
- Parental help-seeking for adolescents experiencing first episode psychosis: A new pathway model

- A research framework for investigating help-seeking behaviors among male victims in heterosexual intimate partner violence
- Attitudinal and behavioral indicators influencing employment decisions among married and single mothers in Taipei, Taiwan
- Prevalence and predictors of depression for the older Asian Americans in Houston
- Voices from social work graduates in China: Reasons for not choosing social work as career
- Factors associated with knowledge of personal gestational weight gain recommendations: Research notes
- Understanding the cultural adaptation of foreign wives of South Korean men: Research notes
- Opportunities for a new dialogue about professional development through Title IV-E training: Unexpected results for goodness of fit
- Racial disproportionality in the foster care system in Texas: Trends to consider in system redesign
- Child welfare policy reform in China: Historical milestones and current evaluations
- City size matters: Vietnamese immigrants having depressive symptoms
- The Changing Status and Growth of Social Work Education Worldwide: Process, Findings and Implications of the IASSW 2010 Census
- Effectiveness of an education intervention on reducing misconceptions among ethnic minorities with complicated mild to severe traumatic brain injury.
- Finding 'health' and 'meaning' in Texas-Sized Turnover: Application of seminal management principles for administration and research in U.S. public child welfare agencies.


- Acceptability of Fitbit for physical activity tracking within clinical care among men with prostate cancer.
- Beyond strength: Participant perspectives on the benefits of an older adult exercise program
- Multi-Component Interventions and Cognitive Health: A Scoping Review
- Sociodemographic characteristics and health status of Asian, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White family caregivers of older adults across generations

- Barriers and facilitators of shelter use among homeless youth
- Counting and surveying homeless youth: Recommendations from YouthCount 2.0!, a community-academic partnership
- Development and piloting of a treatment foster care program for older youth with psychiatric problems
- Emotion dysregulation problems in older foster youth: Prevalence, correlates, and relationship to young adult outcomes
- A national survey of graduate education in psychopharmacology: Advancing the Social Work perspective on psychiatric medication
- Parenting and homeless: Profiles of young adult mothers and fathers in unstable housing situations
- Relations between mental disorders, mental health treatment and substance use in homeless youth
- Relationships among diverse peers in a cohort-based MSW Program: A social network analysis
- Symptoms, circumstances, and service systems: Pathways to psychiatric crisis service use among uninsured young adults
- Then you fall off: Transitions to homelessness and unstable housing in youth

- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Prevention and Treatment
- Preventing Alcohol- and Tobacco-Exposed Pregnancies with CHOICES Plus in Primary Care Clinics: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Standardized assessment measures and computer-assisted technologies for evidence-based practice
- Virtual patient simulations for brief assessment of mental health disorders in integrated care settings

- Commentary: Political social work: History, forms, and opportunities for innovation
- Educator and practitioner views of professional competencies for macro social work practice
- Going “macro”: Exploring the careers of macro practitioners
- Learning to vote: Influencing political participation among college students
- Political social work
- Promoting Election-Related Policy Practice Among Social Work Students
- Strengthening youth participation in civic engagement: Applying the Convention on the Rights of the Child to social work practice
- Toward culturally competent financial education interventions with Latinos

- It's Not CSI: The importance of forensics for social work education.
- Publish, Don’t Perish!: Strategies for Getting Published in Peer Reviewed Journals.
- Working with clients who have recovered memories.
- The red pill or the blue pill?: Transcending binary thinking.
- Writing a good peer review to improve scholarship: What editors value and authors find helpful.
- Editorial: The Future of Social Work Education
- Guest editorial: Social justice in social work practice and education


- Childbearing in Geographically Isolated Communities: The Smith Island Experience
- Postpartum depression, risk factors and child’s home environment among mothers in a home visiting program


Luis Torres
- Hispanic Perspectives on Recovery High Schools: If We Build Them, Will They Come?
- The Perceived Role of Family in Heroin Use Behaviors of Mexican American Men
- SMART Cougars: Development and Feasibility of a Campus-based HIV Prevention Intervention
