Society for Social Work and Research

Sixteenth Annual Conference Research That Makes A Difference: Advancing Practice and Shaping Public Policy
11-15 January 2012 I Grand Hyatt Washington I Washington, DC

Symposia

Thursday, January 12, 2012

1:30 PM-3:15 PM

Adolescent and Youth Development


1
[Symposia]
Identifying the Pathways and the Risk and Protective Factors for Male Adolescent Sexual Offending and Delinquency (Arlington)
Symposium Organizer: George Leibowitz, PhD
Discussant: David L. Burton, PhD

Child Welfare


2
[Symposia]
Engaging Fathers In Child Family Services to Improve Parenting and Reduce Child Maltreatment (Cabin John)
Symposium Organizer: Jennifer L. Bellamy, PhD
Discussant: Pajarita Charles, PhD

Organizations and Management

3:30 PM-5:15 PM

Child Welfare


18
[Symposia]
Parental Physical Punishment: Predictors, Consequences, and Intervention (Constitution C)
Symposium Organizer: Shawna J. Lee, PhD
Discussant: Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, PhD

Gender and Ethnicity


19
[Symposia]
Community Based Participatory Research In Refugee and Immigrant Communities (Constitution E)
Symposium Organizer: Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD

Work, Family, and Family Policy


20
[Symposia]
Beyond the Base: Military/Civilian Coordinated Responses to the Challenges of Families Impacted by Military Service (Wilson)
Symposium Organizer: Kathleen West, DrPH
Discussant: Kathleen West, DrPH

Friday, January 13, 2012

8:00 AM-9:45 AM

Adolescent and Youth Development

Child Welfare

Gender and Ethnicity


37
[Symposia]
Unpacking the “Cultural” In Social Work Practice with Immigrants (Constitution E)
Symposium Organizer: Rupaleem Bhuyan, PhD

Research Design and Measurement


38
[Symposia]
Mining the Gaps: Using Ethnographic Methods to Study the Interface of Policy, Administration, and Clinical Social Work Practice (Independence E)
Symposium Organizer: Yvonne N. Smith, AM
Discussants: Summerson Carr, PhD and Jerry Floersch, PhD

Sexual Orientation


39
[Symposia]
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging Research and Practice (Penn Quarter B)
Symposium Organizer: Maria T. Brown, LMSW
Discussant: Maria T. Brown, LMSW

10:00 AM-11:45 AM

Gender and Ethnicity


54
[Symposia]
Promoting Social Justice for Latinos In An Anti-Immigrant Climate (Constitution E)
Symposium Organizer: Elizabeth A. Segal, PhD

Organizations and Management


55
[Symposia]
Medicaid Expansion In Health and Social Services: Opportunities and Risks for Nonprofit Organizations (Independence C)
Symposium Organizer: Christina Andrews, MSW
Discussant: Harold Pollack, PhD

Poverty and Social Policy


56
[Symposia]
Ending Homelessness Through Housing First: Evidence and Implementation (Independence D)
Symposium Organizer: Benjamin Henwood, PhD
Discussant: Deborah K. Padgett, PhD

Work, Family, and Family Policy


57
[Symposia]
Current Child Care Issues In Policy, Quality, and Use (Wilson)
Symposium Organizer: Marci Ybarra, PhD

2:30 PM-4:15 PM

Child Welfare


74
[Symposia]
Linking Child Welfare Records with Population-Level Data (Cabin John)
Symposium Organizer: Emily Putnam-Hornstein, PhD

Mental Health


75
[Symposia]
Psychosocial Correlates of Postpartum Depression: Bridging Research and Practice (Franklin Square)
Symposium Organizer: Nanmathi Manian, PhD
Discussant: Sarah E. Bledsoe, PhD, MSW, MPhil

Research on Social Work Education

Saturday, January 14, 2012

8:00 AM-9:45 AM

Aging Services and Gerontology


94
[Symposia]
Aging and Immigrantion (Burnham)
Symposium Organizer: Terry Y. Lum, PhD

Mental Health


95
[Symposia]
The Family Context of Early Childhood Mental Health Problems (Franklin Square)
Symposium Organizer: Renee C. Edwards, AM
Discussant: Susan C. McDonough, PhD

Sexual Orientation

Work, Family, and Family Policy


97
[Symposia]
Military Couples and Families Coping with the Deployment Cycle (Wilson)
Symposium Organizer: Ruth Paris, PhD
Discussant: Gary L. Bowen, PhD

10:00 AM-11:45 AM

Adolescent and Youth Development


113
[Symposia]
School-Based Bullying Prevention: Results From Intervention Trials In the US and Finland (Cabin John)
Symposium Organizer: Anne Williford

Gender and Ethnicity

Research Design and Measurement


115

Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors


116
[Symposia]
Client-Provider Relationship As An Active Ingredient In Delivery of Social Services (Roosevelt)
Symposium Organizer: Jeanne C. Marsh, PhD

2:30 PM-4:15 PM

Health and Disability


135
[Symposia]
The Incorporation of Biological and Genetic Markers In Social Work Research (Constitution E)
Symposium Organizer: Jan Steven Greenberg, PhD

Sexual Orientation


136
[Symposia]
Risk, Identity, and Engagement Among Sexual Minority Youth: Innovative Approaches and Future Directions (Latrobe)
Symposium Organizer: Colleen M. Fisher, PhD
Discussant: Diane Elze, PhD

Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors

Work, Family, and Family Policy


138
[Symposia]
Workforce Development: The Process and Prospects of Improving Employment Outcomes Among Vulnerable Workers In Today’s Economy (Arlington)
Symposium Organizer: Susan Lambert, PhD
Discussant: Laura Lein, PhD

4:30 PM-6:15 PM

Child Welfare


153
[Symposia]
Research Partnerships for Strengthening Child Welfare Practice In Indian Country (Cabin John)
Symposium Organizer: Cathryn C. Potter

Poverty and Social Policy


154
[Symposia]
Exploring the Potential of Assets to Increase Human Capital Using Randomized Experiments (Independence C)
Symposium Organizer: Michal Grinstein-Weiss, PHD
Discussant: Ray Boshara, PhD

Research Design and Measurement


155
[Symposia]
An Instrumental Variable Approach to Causal Inference In Social Work Research (Independence E)
Symposium Organizer: Lucy Bilaver, PhD

Social Work Practice

Sunday, January 15, 2012

8:45 AM-10:30 AM

Child Welfare


173
[Symposia]
The Development of Community Alternatives to Institutional Care for Children In Jordan: The Community–Family Integration Team Project (Cabin John)
Symposium Organizer: Craig S. Schwalbe, PhD
Discussant: Alean Al-Krenawi, PhD

Research Design and Measurement


174
[Symposia]
Using Longitudinal Person-Centered Analyses to Estimate Intervention Effects In Controlled Trials (Independence E)
Symposium Organizer: Mark W. Fraser, PhD

School Social Work

10:45 AM-12:15 PM

Child Welfare


191
[Symposia]
Troubled and Poor: Poverty, Policy, and the Child Welfare System (Burnham)
Symposium Organizer: Jennifer L. Romich, PhD
Discussant: Corey S. Shdaimah, PhD

International Social Work and Global Issues

Social Work Practice


193