School of Social Work News

Assistant Professor David Cordova was selected for the National Institutes of Health-funded Visiting Professor Program at the University of California San Francisco Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.

Assistant Professors Desmond Patton and Reuben Miller co-authored the Academy of Violence and Abuse’s Research Review - “Examining the Relationship Between Adolescent Violence Exposure and Adulthood Violence Perpetration Among Urban Black and African American Men”.

Associate Professor Brad Zebrack was a section editor and author of the inaugural Handbook of Oncology Social Work: Psychosocial Care for People with Cancer, which was published by Oxford University Press. The book provides a repository of the scope of oncology social workers’ clinical practice, education, research, policy and program leadership in the psychosocial care of people with cancer and their families.

Associate Dean Jorge Delva was selected as a 2015 Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation Policy Fellow.The 2015 class brings six researchers from U-M and six Lansing policymakers together to learn from a broad range of health policy leaders and subject matter experts, and to learn from each other.

Associate Professor and Institute for Social Research Faculty Associate Trina Shanks was cited in The Huffington Post’s article, “Blank Account: The American Struggle to Save and Share”.

Professors Mieko Yoshihama and Richard Tolman co-authored an article, “Using Interactive Theater to Create Socioculturally Relevant Community-Based Intimate Partner Violence Prevention” which was published in the American Journal of Community Psychology.

Associate Professor Andrew Grogan-Kaylor was cited in The Christian Science Monitor’s article, “Why school dress codes may be harmful to girls”.

Assistant Professor David Cordova’s paper, "Toward a Typology of Acculturative Stress: Results among Hispanic Immigrants in the United States" has been accepted for publication in the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.