BUSSW Faculty and PhD Students Share Cutting-Edge Research at Prestigious Social Work Conference
Doctoral students and faculty from Boston University School of Social Work join social work scholars from across the country at this year’s Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Conference, January 16–21.
Browse through the listings below to find out the who, what and when of featured BUSSW presenters.
All sessions take place at the Hilton San Francisco in San Francisco, California. For detailed information about presentation locations, please see SSWR’s 2019 Conference Directory.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
| 2:00PM | Maggie Thomas, Thomas Byrne, Yoonsook Ha, Daniel Miller |
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| 3:00PM | Astraea Augsberger, Linda Sprague Martinez, Julie Sweeney Springwater | Youth Voice in Policy Advocacy: Examination of a Multi-State Foster Care Youth Coalition |
| 4:15PM | Cristina Araujo Brinkerhoff | Immigration in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies: Implications for Social Support and Health |
| 3:15PM | Ruth Paris | Prenatal and Postnatal Attachment-Based Representations: Assessment and Intervention |
| 3:15PM | Linda Sprague Martinez | Local and Transnational Youth and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches to Health Promotion |
| 3:45PM | Kendall Johnson, Linda Sprague Martinez | Constructing Meaning about Exposure to Community Violence: Participatory Action Research with Urban Youth of Color in Boston, MA |
Friday, January 18, 2019
| 8:30AM | Astraea Augsberger, Hyeouk Hahm | Exploration of Suicidal Ideation, Motivation, and Lethality of Suicide Plan Among Young Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese Women |
| 8:30AM | Judith Gonyea, Arden O’Donnell | Understanding the Roles of Religiosity and Religious Coping on Latino Caregivers’ Psychological Well-Being |
| 8:30AM | Christopher P. Salas-Wright | Psychological Distress Among Venezuelan Immigrants in the US and Colombia: The Role of Discrimination and Context of Reception |
| 9:45AM | Maggie Thomas | RCDC Roots & Wings Roundtable I: Roots Session Preparing Doctoral Students for Impactful Research through Qualifying/Comprehensive Examinations |
| 9:45AM | Christopher P. Salas-Wright | Predatory Journals and Scientific Dissemination: What to Do? |
| 10:45AM | Astraea Augsberger, Whitney Gecker, Mary Collins | From Ferguson to Parkland: What Anti-Gun Violence Activism Teaches Us about Youth Civic Engagement |
| 12:30PM | Ruth Paris | Maternal and Infant Mental Health Special Interest Group |
| 1:45PM | Daniel Miller | Preventing Obesity |
| 1:45PM | Christopher P. Salas-Wright | Perceptions and Impact of Cannabis Use |
| 3:30PM | Astraea Augsberger, Linda Sprague Martinez | Participatory Research with Youth: Best Practices for Social Work and Lessons Learned from Experience |
| 3:30PM | Christopher P. Salas-Wright | Services for Immigrants & Refugees: Challenges & Opportunities |
| 4:00PM | Renée Spencer | Participant Expectations Prospectively Predict Youth Mentoring Relationship Endings |
E-Poster Presentations
| 1:45PM | Kendall Johnson, Judith C. Scott | Cultural Exchanger: Using a Narrative Approach to Evaluate a Culturally-Based Family Agency |
| 3:30PM | Yoonsook Ha, Thomas Byrne, Maggie Thomas, Mengni Yao | Predictors of School Outcomes Among Dually Involved Youth |
| 3:30PM | Millan AbiNader, Christopher P. Salas-Wright | Violence Prevention Programs for Adolescents: A 15-Year Trend Study in the United States |
| 3:30PM | John Paul Horn | Using the National Youth in Transition Database to Explore Postsecondary Enrollment of Youth in Foster Care |
| 5:15PM | Mihoko Maru, Hyeouk Hahm | Making Sense of Emotional Abuse within Asian Parent-Child Relationships: A Qualitative Study of Asian American Women with Immigrant Parents |
| 5:15PM | Ashley Davis | Intersectionality, Race, and Poverty: A Critical Examination of Student Attitudes and Social Work Educational Practice |
Saturday, January 19, 2019
| 9:00AM | Hyeouk Hahm, Yoonsook Ha, Jenny Hsi, Rachel John, Grace Lei | Chinese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-American Women with Traumatic Event History Do Not Seek Mental, Physical, and Sexual Healthcare |
| 12:30PM | Astraea Augsberger, Linda Sprague Martinez | Youth Participatory Research and Practice |
| 4:00PM | Linda Sprague Martinez | The Complex Relationship between Gentrification and Community Violence: A Review of Multidisciplinary Theory and Evidence |
E-Poster Presentations
| 8:00AM | Yeonjung Jane Lee | Lifetime Trauma and Depression in Older Adults: Differences By Gender and Race |
| 9:45AM | Maggie Thomas, Yoonsook Ha, Thomas Byrne, Mengni Yao | Stakeholder Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators to Foster Care Students’ School Success |
| 4:00PM | Hyeouk Hahm, Rachel John | HIV Knowledge, HIV Risk Behaviors, and Testing Among Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese Women in the U.S. |
Sunday, January 20, 2019
| 9:00AM | Maggie Thomas, Daniel Miller | The Effects of Food Insecurity on Child Health: Updated Estimates from Nationally Representative Data |
| 9:45AM | Daniel Miller | Father Involvement and Child Wellbeing |
| 10:15AM | Daniel Miller | Father Involvement and Child Obesity |
| 10:15AM | Renée Spencer | Improving Youth Mentoring Programs: Findings from a Randomized Trial of an Agency-Level Quality Improvement Intervention |
| 10:45AM | Daniel Miller, Maggie Thomas | Father Involvement and Socioeconomic Disparities in Academic Outcomes for School-Aged Children |
| 10:45AM | Hyeouk Hahm | Impact of Negative Parenting on Mental Health Among Asian American Youth |
| 12:00PM | Ruth Paris | Exploring Feasibility, Acceptability and Appropriateness of an Infant Mental Health Intervention within Substance Use Treatment |