School of Social Work News

David Cordova’s paper, "Family Functioning Trajectories and Substance Use and Misuse among Minority Urban Adolescents: A Growth Mixture Model" has been accepted for publication in Substance Use and Misuse.

Professor David Cordova, along with colleagues Christopher Salas-Wright, Trennette Clark, and Michael Vaughn, had their paper entitled, "Profiles of Acculturation among Hispanics in the United States: Links with Discrimination and Substance Use," has been accepted in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Assistant Professor David Cordova's paper,  "An Application of the Complier Average Causal Effect Analysis to Examine the Effects of a Family Intervention in Reducing Illicit Drug Use among High-Risk Hispanic Adolescents" is published in the March volume of Family Process Journal.

David Cordova presented his research, "The Impact of Family Functioning on HIV Risk Behaviors among Urban Adolescents: A Latent Class Growth Analysis," and "Religiosity, Acculturation, and Substance Use among Latino Adolescents: Results from a National Sample," at the 15th Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting.
 

David Cordova published his article entitled, “Do Parent-Adolescent Discrepancies in Family Functioning Increase the Risk of Hispanic Adolescent HIV Risk Behaviors?” in the journal, Family Process.
 

Assistant Professor David Cordova received a grant from the Detroit Community Academic Urban Research Center to support the Preventing Substance Abuse and Mental Health Problems among Detroit Hispanic Youth project. He will work with the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation to eliminate substance use and mental health disparities experienced by Latino youth residing in southwest Detroit.

Assistant Professor David Cordova's manuscript, "“They Don’t Look at What All Affects Us”: The Role of Ecodevelopmental Factors on Alcohol and Drug Use among Latinos with Physical Disabilities" is published in Ethnicity and Health.

David Cordova has received funding from the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research to conduct a community-based participatory research study to work toward integrating and implementing a research-informed mental health preventive intervention in a primary care setting.