Society for Social Work and Research 20th Annual Conference - Grand Challenges for Social Work: Setting a Research Agenda for the Future: Workshops

Thursday, January 14, 2016

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1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Research Design and Measurement

[Workshops] Integrated Healthcare: Opportunities for Research (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Catherine Greeno, PhD , Sean E. Lynch, PhD , Peter Delany, PhD , Mary Fleming, MA , Valire Copeland, PhD , John Lovelace, MS , Jonathan Han, MD , James Mercuri, LSCW and Gary Sadler, LSW

Research Design and Measurement

[Workshops] Social Network Analysis in Social Work Research (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speakers/Presenters: Andrew D. Reynolds, MSW, MEd and Rebecca Mauldin, MSW

3:15 PM-4:45 PM

Organizations, Management, & Communities

[Workshops] An Introduction to Samhsa's Data Systems: Accessing and Using Data to Advance the Health of Individuals with Behavioral Health Disorders (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Peter Delany, PhD , Joseph J. Shields, PhD and Kelley E. Smith, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

[Workshops] A Introduction to Conducting Latent Class Analysis (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speaker/Presenter: Bridget E. Weller, PhD

Friday, January 15, 2016

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8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Organizations, Management, & Communities

[Workshops] Building Capacity for Human Service Organizational and Managerial Research (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speakers/Presenters: Bowen McBeath, PhD , Jennifer Mosley, PhD , Erick Guerrero, PhD , Karen M. Hopkins, PhD , Michael J. Austin, PhD and John Tropman

9:45 AM-11:15 AM

Research Design and Measurement

[Workshops] Showcasing Software to Make Systematic Reviews More Systematic (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Michael Killian, PhD , Donna L. Schuman, MSSW , Heather Farineau, PhD and Karen A. Randolph, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

[Workshops] The Use of Item Response Theory and IRT-PRO to Conduct Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Studies of Likert Type Items (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speaker/Presenter: William R. Nugent, PhD

1:45 PM-3:15 PM

Health and Disability

103

[Workshops] Xenotransplantation: The Challenge to Current Psychosocial Knowledge (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speakers/Presenters: Wayne Paris, PhD , D.K.C. Cooper, MD, PhD, FRCS , Jane Harrison, MSW, LCSW and Ali Prus, MSSW Candidate

Research Design and Measurement

104

[Workshops] Understanding Structural Equation Modeling: An Introduction for Social Work Researchers (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Natasha Bowen, PhD and Christopher J. Wretman, MSW

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Research Design and Measurement

127

[Workshops] Introduction to Propensity Score Analysis Using R for Social Work Research and Program Evaluation (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Kaipeng Wang, MSW and Thanh V. Tran, PhD

Social Work Practice

128

[Workshops] Use Wix.Com to Build Your Research-Practice Integration Platform (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speakers/Presenters: Shu Zhou, MSW and Monit Cheung, PhD

5:15 PM-6:45 PM

Child Welfare

150

[Workshops] Four Guiding Principles for Quantitative Research Using Advanced Statistical Models (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speaker/Presenter: Shenyang Guo, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

151

[Workshops] Addressing Experiences of Secondary Trauma Among Researchers in the Field of Trauma Survivors (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Catherine E. Buttner, MSW , Jane E. Palmer, MSW, PhD , Judy L. Postmus, PhD and Julia O'Connor, MSW, MPH

Saturday, January 16, 2016

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8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Child Welfare

174

[Workshops] Meeting the Grand Challenge of Big Data in Child Welfare Program and Policy Research (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Melissa Jonson-Reid, PhD , Brett Drake, PhD , Emily Putnam-Hornstein, PhD , Claudia Coulton, PhD and Fred H. Wulczyn, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

175

[Workshops] “New” Tools for Analyzing Social Work Interaction: Using Conversation Analysis As a Methodology in Social Work Research and Practice (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speakers/Presenters: Maureen T. Matarese, EdD and Rebekah J. Johnson, EdD

9:45 AM-11:15 AM

Child Welfare

197

[Workshops] Enabling Propensity Score Analysis in Survival Analysis (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Yan Ming, PhD and Shenyang Guo, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

198

[Workshops] Analyzing Categorical and Continuous Limited Dependent Variables with R (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speakers/Presenters: Wendy Zeitlin, PhD , Charles Auerbach, PhD , Matthew J. Cuellar, MSW and John G. Orme, PhD

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Aging Services and Gerontology

221

[Workshops] Focus Group Research in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Designing, Implementing and Maximizing the Intersection of Research Methods and Social Work (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speaker/Presenter: Iris Cohen Fineberg, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

222

[Workshops] Directed Acyclic Graphs in Social Work Research (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speaker/Presenter: Roderick A. Rose, PhD

Sunday, January 17, 2016

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8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Crime and Criminal Justice

243

[Workshops] Research Funding & Career Advancement Opportunities at the National Institute of Justice (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speakers/Presenters: Bethany L. Backes, PhD, MSW, MPH , Marie Garcia, PhD and Nadine Frederique, PhD

Research Design and Measurement

244

[Workshops] Using Innovative Mixed-Methods to Map Context in Social Work Research (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Samantha Teixeira, PhD , Nicole Nicotera, PhD , Dennis Kao, PhD and Angela Lavery, PhD, LCSW, FT

9:45 AM-11:15 AM

Research Design and Measurement

265

[Workshops] Statistical Programming with R: New Opportunities for Social Work Researchers (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speakers/Presenters: Brian Perron, PhD and Bryan Victor, MSW

Social Work Practice

266

[Workshops] Conducting a Systematic Review: A Step-By-Step Introduction (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Brandy R. Maynard, PhD and Julia H. Littell, PhD

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Organizations, Management, & Communities

286

[Workshops] Using a Data-Informed Approach for Developing and Supporting a Strong Agency Workforce (Ballroom Level-Congressional Hall C)
Speakers/Presenters: Robin Leake, PhD , Catherine K. Lawrence, PhD, LCSW and Barrett Johnson, MSW, LCSW

Research Design and Measurement

287

[Workshops] Taking the Pulse of the Profession- Opportunities and Challenges Associated with Sampling US Social Workers (Lobby Level-Penn Quarter)
Speakers/Presenters: Anne K. Hughes, PhD , Donna Harrington, PhD , Shari E. Miller, MSW, PhD , Kristen A. Prock, MSW, LCSW and Cristy E. Cummings, MSW