Professor Judith Scott Shares Expertise at Maternal & Child Health Conference
Professor Judith Scott joined an expert panel at the recent annual Maternal and Child Health Conference’s event, “Living Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging: Where We Are, Where We Want to Be.” The conference is jointly hosted by the BU School of Public Health Center of Excellence in Maternal & Child Health, the Harvard School of Public […]
Professor Scott & Colleagues Develop Model Examining How Skin Color Affects Race/Ethnicity Messages & Youth Development
How can a youth of color’s phenotype–or skin color–affect the messages they receive about their place in an ethnic-racial group? How can those signals affect their development? In a recent study led by Professor Judith Scott at BU School of Social Work, researchers are expanding the understanding of Ethnic-Racial Socialization (ERS) to explore just that. […]
Covid-Related Discrimination Predicts PTSD Symptoms in Asian & Asian American Young Adults
“This paper provides empirical evidence that Covid-19-related discrimination is a serious threat to public health.” A study led by Boston University School of Social Work Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm has found that increases in anti-Asian discrimination during the Covid-19 pandemic were associated with a coinciding increase in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Asian […]
The Brink: Professor Scott on Why Parents Avoid Talking About Race and How to Start the Conversation
In The Brink, BU School of Social Work Assistant Professor Judith C. Scott gives tips to parents on talking to their kids about race and racism. Excerpted from “If Babies and Toddlers Can Detect Race, Why Do So Many Parents Avoid Talking about It?” by Jessica Colarossi: All too often, kids are given less information […]
BU Today: Housing Justice is Needed Now; BUSSW Faculty Explain Why
BUSSW professors Dawn Belkin Martinez, Judith C. Scott and Linda Sprague Martinez make the case for immediate housing reform in a POV published by BU Today. From “Covid-19 Has Unmasked an Unprecedented Housing Crisis–Here’s How to Fix It”: Almost no one is escaping the healthcare crisis and economic challenges wrought by the coronavirus. For communities […]
The Hill: ‘Black Homicide Epidemic Demands Prevention, Justice’ Say Doctoral Student Johnson & Professor Scott
Doctoral student Kendall G. Johnson and assistant professor Judith C. Scott explain how systemic racism created a Black homicide epidemic and what we can do now to prevent more violence and help Black survivors. Originally published in The Hill: “‘A desperate need’: Black homicide epidemic demands prevention, justice” by Kendall G. Johnson and Judith C. Scott […]
The Washington Post: Professor Scott on Talking to Your Kids about George Floyd and Racism
From The Washington Post’s “On Parenting,” Assistant Professor Judith C. Scott explains why you should be talking to your children about the George Floyd protests. Excerpted from The Washington Post – Are you struggling with how to put this time into context with your kids, how to guide them through things they may have seen or heard in the […]
BUSSW Researchers Make the Case for Involving Race and Religion in Child Welfare Policy and Practice
An intersectional analysis of America’s child welfare system is raising new questions about how race and religion have been ignored and used problematically throughout history and contemporary practice. The analysis, conducted by two BU School of Social Work researchers, focused on the experiences of Black and Christian foster care youths, who as a group face […]
Assistant Professor Scott Receives 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award from Society for Research on Child Development
March 11, 2019 Judith C. Scott, assistant professor at BU School of Social Work, has been honored with the 2019 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Society of Research in Child Development (SRCD). Scott — who received her PhD in 2017 from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University — […]
Assistant Professor Scott Awarded Fellowship to Improve Parenting Resources in Boston’s Chinatown
Friday, February 8, 2019 | Boston University School of Social Work Beginning April 2019, BU School of Social Work assistant professor Judith C. Scott will lead a study on parenting behaviors within a culturally unique group: low-income Chinese immigrant families living in Greater Boston. Scott’s pilot study is sponsored by an $80,000 Research to Action […]