School of Social Work News

Assistant Professor Xiaoling Xiang received a grant from the National Institute on Aging to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of home care aides-administered behavioral intervention for depression from the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, including older African Americans, home care aides, home care nurses and social workers, as well as home care agency leadership.

Assistant Professor Addie Weaver received a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01). This four-year grant will support her career development in key areas related to mental health intervention and implementation research, as well as her research to adapt and test technology-assisted group CBT for depression for delivery in rural churches. She is one of only 12 social work-affiliated researchers who hold a current K-award from any NIH institute, and one of only two social work affiliated faculty who hold an NIMH K-award.

Assistant Professor David Cordova's article, "Longitudinal Trajectories of Family Functioning Among Recent Immigrant Adolescents and Parents: Links With Adolescent and Parent Cultural Stress, Emotional Well-Being, and Behavioral Health" was published in Child Development. 

His article, "Substance use disorders among immigrants in the United States: A research update" was also published in Addictive Behaviors.

Professors Linda Chatters and Robert Taylor's article, "Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Older Adults: Differences between Baby Boomers and Pre-Boomers" was published in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Associate Professors Luke Shaefer and Trina Shanks, Assistant Professors Kristin Seefeldt and Mat Despard, and LEO Adjunct Lecturer Adrienne Lapidos piloted Summer17, a summer youth employment program in Washtenaw County which pairs county youth ages 16-24 with U-M faculty and staff to help them gain work experience, mentorship and life skills training. The program is part of the University's Poverty Solutions initiative and was featured in The University Record.

Assistant Professor Mat Despard's research project, Mapping Financial Opportunity, was selected to receive a 2017 Association of Public Data Users Data Viz Award in the Researchers and Students category. This was a joint effort of researchers at the U-M, University of Kansas and and New America in Washington, DC.

Director of Joint Doctoral Program and Associate Professor Daphne Watkins, Assistant Professor Jamie Mitchell, and Jaclynn Hawkins (PhD'15) co-authored “Physical and Mental Health Interventions for Black Men in the United States“, one of 8 field scan reports on black men of color literature recently released by Research, Integration, Strategies and Evaluation (RISE) for Boys and Men of Color.

Associate Professor Lydia Li’s research was cited in the HuffPost Lifestyle article, “Older Chinese-Americans Who’ve Faced Bias Are More Likely To Have Suicidal Thoughts”.