Research That Matters (January 17 - 20, 2008)

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Program-at-a-Glance


Technical Program

FRIDAY
January 18
SATURDAY
January 19
SUNDAY
January 20
AM PM AM PM AM PM
Oral and Poster [A/G] Influences on Health and Well Being Among Older Persons
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[ADOL] Adolescent Risk Behaviors, Mental Health and Service Utilization
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[ADOL] Community Level Interventions for Youth
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[CW] Caseworker Well Being
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[CW] Violence and Children's Mental Health
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[E/C] Community Engagement and Participation
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[G/WI] HIV/AIDS in the Lives of Women
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[G/WI] Mitigating the Impact of Sexual Victimization
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[POV/C] Welfare Reform and Low Wage Earners
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[RD/M] Measurement/Psychometrics
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[RD/M] Research on Evidence Based Practice
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[A/G] Effects of Public Policy on Health of Aging Persons
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[ADOL] Adolescents: Substance Use, Mental Health and Systems of Care
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[ADOL] Inhalant Use and Substance Use Treatment Models
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[CW] Caseworker Retention/Turnover
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[CW] Child Welfare Systems Partners
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[E/C] Factors Influencing Minority Health and Mental Health
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[G/WI] Intimate Partner Violence, Health, and Parenting
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[H/D] Mental Illness and Substance Use
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[MH] Depression: Measurement and Treatment
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[POV/C] Organizations: Supervision, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Culture
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[RD/M] Academic Success and Child Outcomes
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM 
[A/G] Social Support/Networking
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[ADOL] Family Processes: Mental Health and Substance Use
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[CW] Risk and Decision Making (A)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[E/C] Does Neighborhood Matter?
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[H/D] Treatment Issues in Substance Use
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[MH] Depression and Medical Conditions
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[POV/C] Asset Accumulation, Saving, and Individual Development Accounts
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[POV/C] Education, Self-Sufficiency and Social Capital
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[RD/M] Methodological Issues
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Poster Session I Aging/Gerontology, Ethnicity/Community, Health/Disability, Mental Health, Poverty/Crime
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM 
[ADOL] Adoption, Parenting Practice, Health and Well-Being
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[ADOL] Child Maltreatment and Problem Behaviors
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[CW] Risk and Decision Making (B)
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[E/C] Challenges Facing African American Women and Families
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[E/C] Person-Environment Interaction
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[H/D] Criminal and Risky Behavior and Health
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[MH] Mental Health Treatment Services
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[OTH] Research on SW Education
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[POV/C] Family Incomes: Sources, Choices, and Impacts
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[RD/M] Intervention Research: Meta-Analysis and Evidence-Based Practice
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[ADOL] Adolescent Mental Health
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[ADOL] Trauma and Coping: Intended and Unintended Outcomes
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[CW] Permanency Outcomes (A)
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[CW] Systemic Change/Reform
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[E/C] Discrimination Effects
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[E/C] HIV/AIDS
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[G/WI] Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[H/D] Factors Influencing Health Services Use
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[MH] Health/Mental Health Policy
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[POV/C] Employment, Family Incomes, and the Earned Income Tax Credit
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM 
[A/G] Supportive Services for Older Adults
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[ADOL] Religion, Sexuality, and Youth Behaviors
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[CW] Measurement and Assessment of Foster Care
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[CW] Permanency Outcomes
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[E/C] Services for Immigrant Populations
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[E/C] Welfare Reform
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[H/D] Measurement Issues in Health
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[OTH] International Social Work: Economic Globalization
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[POV/C] Substance Abuse and Mental Health in Jails
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[POV/C] Understanding Organizational Action and Decisions
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[RD/M] Social Environment and Academic Success
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[A/G] Instrument Construction and Verification
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[ADOL] Social and Academic Outcomes
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[CW] Children with Disabilities
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[CW] Staffing Stability and Worker Burnout
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[E/C] Community-Based Participatory Research
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[E/C] Understanding the Muslim Community
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[G/WI] Intimate Partner Violence: Theories and Intervention
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[H/D] Group Differences in Health and Health Behavior
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[OTH] International Social Work: Vulnerable Populations in Africa
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[POV/C] Criminal Justice: Needs, Services, and Recommitment
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[POV/C] Organizational Change and Collaboration
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Poster Session II Adolescents, Child Welfare, Gender/Women's Issues, Other, Research Design/Measurement
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM 
[A/G] Caregiving & Mental Illness
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[ADOL] Hispanic/Latino and Asian Youths: Alcohol Use, Mental Health and Academic Outcomes
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[CW] Maltreatment and Long Term Outcomes (A)
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[CW] Parents' Mental Health, Social Support and Employment
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[E/C] The Significance of Fathers and Men
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[G/WI] Interventions for at-Risk Mothers and Infants
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[G/WI] Uncovering Hidden Experiences through Qualitative Research
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[H/D] Salient Issues in Disabilities
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[MH] Mental Health Treatment/Services
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[POV/C] Arrests, Services, and Recidivism
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[POV/C] Risk and Resilience for Veterans
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[A/G] Aging and Mental Health
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
[ADOL] Juvenile Justice
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
[ADOL] Mental Health and Urban Adolescents
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
[CW] Maltreatment and Long Term Outcomes (B)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
[G/WI] Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals: Identity and Behavior
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
[POV/C] Homelessness and Housing
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 
 
Other Events Registration for All Attendees
7:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Exhibits Open
9:00 AM - 7:30 PM 
Aaron Rosen Lecture
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SPECIAL SESSION Organizational Responses to Social Policy: The Case of Welfare Reform
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Unification Meeting
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Presidential Plenary and Awards
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
President's Reception
5:45 PM - 7:30 PM 
Registration for All Attendees
7:30 AM - 2:00 PM
President's Task Force on Publications
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Exhibits Open
8:30 AM - 8:30 PM
SPECIAL SESSION A Mixed Methods Approach to Studying How System Change Impacts Clinics and Consumers in Public Mental Health
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM 
Unification Meeting
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
SPECIAL SESSION Neighborhoods and Community Development: Issues in Designing Research for Policy
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
SSWR Town Hall Meeting on Unification
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Reception
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM 
SSWR Membership Meeting and Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM 
 
Roundtable [RD/M] Challenges to Effective Research after Natural Disasters
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[OTH] Issues in Teaching Evidence-Based Practice
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[Pov/C] Making Research Matter: Building University and Community Capacity for Research Engagement
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM 
[OTH] Putting Evidence into Practice: Mobilizing University-Community Partnerships
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM 
  [G/WI] Studying Women’S Everyday World: Methodological Focus on Institutional Ethnography
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM 
[OTH] Effective Practice in Real World Settings: The Need to Expand Social Work Translational Research
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[H/D] Developing Testable HIV-Related Interventions for the Real World
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 
 
Symposium [A/G] Factors Impacting Independence Living among Older Adults
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[MH] Compulsive Hoarding: Psychopathology and Public Health Issues
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[CW] Matching Services to Client Needs in Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[H/D] Social Work and the Aids Pandemic: Global Responses to Issues of Orphans and Vulnerable Children
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[Pov/C] Social Environment Influences on the Academic Success of Middle and High School Students: the School Success Profile
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM 
[CW] Research That Matters for Child Welfare: the Collaboration to Adoptuskids Research Project
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[H/D] HIV Prevention Research in Diverse Contexts: From Relationship- Building to Adapting and Testing Interventions in Brazil, Mongolia and Kazakhstan
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[H/D] Racial/Ethnic Differences in Organizational and Service Characteristics in Substance Abuse Treatment
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[Pov/C] Arrested Developments: the Intersection of Mental Illness, Crime, Substance Abuse, and Social Context
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM 
[A/G] Challenges in End-of-Life Care: Social Workers Respond
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[CW] Research on the Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[H/D] Cancer and the Family
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[MH] Understanding the Nature and Treatment of Perinatal Depression: Expanding Research Knowledge to Families, Culture, and Community
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[A/G] Observational Approaches to Aging Research
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[ADOL] Childhood Exposure to Violence and Later Perpetration and Victimization of Violence in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Findings of Prospective Longitudinal Research
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM 
[ADOL] Intergenerational Research Using the Nlsy79-C
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[CW] Parent Cognitions and Interactive Behavior as Targets for Early Intervention: a Role for Social Work in Infant Mental Health
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[Pov/C] Making Homelessness Research Matter; Diverse Perspectives on How Homeless People Negotiate Life’S Challenges
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[MH] Social Work and Treatment Adherence: Examining the Impact and Contributions across Four Research Studies
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM 
[CW] Modeling Risk for Maternal Physical Abuse and Neglect Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[P/C] Recruitment, Retention and Sampling of Vulnerable Transition Age Youth in Longitudinal Qualitative Research
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
[P/C] Shifting the Research Focus to Include Individuals and Institutions: the Perils and Prospects of Improving Today's Low-Wage Jobs
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 
 
Workshop [RD/M] Publishing Empirical Studies in Social Work: Writing Articles That Matter
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM 
  [RD/M] Meta-Analysis: Doing It Right
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
[E/C] Psychometric Development of a Culturally-Valid Acculturation Scale - WITHDRAWN
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
[Pov/C] Narrative Means for Social Work Ends
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM 
[RD/M] Advanced Topics in Program Evaluation: Statistical Approaches
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
[OTH] Introduction to Econometric Time Series Models
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
[RD/M] Ethical Challenges and Responsibilities When Conducting Research with Vulnerable Populations
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM 
[OTH] Making Time for Dissertation Grant Submissions: a Review of Strategies for Doctoral Students and Educators
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM