New Faculty Publications
When forever does not mean forever: perspectives of foster care alumni following legal and relational permanency disruption
A new study by Kimberly D. Osborn, Amanda Cruce, Bailey Stevens, Scout Hartley, Dakota Roundtree-Swain, and Jyotsana Sharma explores what happens when foster youth achieve legal, but not relational permanency.
Restorative Practices and Disproportionate Discipline of Black Girls
Explore this recent study by Andrea Joseph-McCatty, Sara Goodkind, Kenyette Garrett, and Corrina Joyner that examines how Black girls experience disproportionate school discipline and how restorative practices can promote equity and stronger student-teacher relationships.
2024-2025 Publications
- 2025
Reiss, Dana & Perry, Marlo & Gomez, Rebecca & Tomlinson, Camie & Reddish, Naomi. (2025). Exploring the Role of Independent Living Workers in How Youth in Care Access and Utilize Technology. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. 1-16. 10.1007/s10560-025-01018-w.
Druss, B. G., & Jones, N. (2025). Evidence-Based Practicing in Mental Health. JAMA psychiatry.
Marsteller, J. A., Goldberg, R. W., Boumaiz, Y., Jumper, M. B., Taylor, J., Saravana, A., ... & Bennett, M. E. (2025). Building a two-state learning healthcare system for persons with first episode psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 277, 74-85.
Mangum, L. C., Whitfield, D. L., Blackstock, O., Chu, K. H., Eack, S. M., & Copeland, V. C. (2025). Psychosocial Determinants of Antiretroviral Treatment Adherence among Black Mothers with HIV. Affilia, 08861099251328354.
Walker, E. A., Futcher, R., Segel, N., Menon, N., Vroman, J., Gribov, A. E., ... & Gartner, R. E. (2025). Development and implementation of a website assessment tool to evaluate policies and resources for sexual assault and alcohol use on US college campuses. BMC Global and Public Health, 3(1), 26.
Vest, J. R., Wu, W., & Conner, K. (2025). Clusters of Health-Related Social Needs Among Adult Primary Care Patients. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Tang, F., Yin, Q., Da, W., Jin, G., & Jiang, Y. (2025). Relationships between physical frailty and cognitive decline over 8 years: A longitudinal study among community-dwelling older Chinese immigrants. The Journal of nutrition, health and aging, 29(4), 100511.
Rosales, R., Zelaya, D. G., Hevey, B., Moreno, O., Chavez, S. J., Figuereo, V., ... & DeBlaere, C. (2025). Double Jeopardy: Does Intersectional Discrimination Moderate the Relationship Between Acculturation and Cigarette Dependence Among Latinx Sexual Minority Men Current Smokers?. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 1-13.
Greeno, C. G., Rauktis, M. E., Lee, D. H., Cruce, A., Li, K., Mcdaniel, S. L., ... & Farmer, E. M. (2025). “Keeping the Legacy Alive”: Experiences of African American and White Grandparents Providing Kinship Care for Out of Home Placements. Race and Social Problems, 17(1), 75-87.
Moon, D. J., & Cruce, A. (2025). Child Flourishing Index: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance Between Youth of Color and White Youth in the United States. Families in Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894241295295Moreno, O., Rosales, R., Chavez, S. J., Zelaya, D. G., Figuereo, V., & Bravo, A. J. (2025). Social Anxiety and Drinking Behaviors: A Cross-Comparison Analysis of Hispanic Students in Hispanic-serving Institutions Versus Predominantly White Institutions. DIGITAL HEALTH, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076241228024
Ohmer, M. L., & DeMasi, K. (2009). Applying consensus organizing to other fields. In Applying consensus organizing to other fields (pp. 293-316). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452274744
Greeno, C.G., Rauktis, M.E., Lee, D.H.J. et al. “Keeping the Legacy Alive”: Experiences of African American and White Grandparents Providing Kinship Care for Out of Home Placements. Race Soc Probl 17, 75–87 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-024-09431-z
Vincent, Aviva, Mary Elizabeth Rauktis, Laurie Maxwell, and Elizabeth Knudsen. 2025. "The Role and Scope of Practice of Veterinary Social Workers in Animal Shelters" Pets 2, no. 1: 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/pets2010006
Kim, Hyosin, Yanping Jiang, Paul R. Duberstein, Fengyan Tang, and Elizabeth A. Luth. “Trust in Physicians and End‐of‐life Discussions and Preferences for Place of Care among Us Chinese Older Adults.” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, February 10, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.19396.
Conner, C. M., Yu, L., MacKenzie, K. T., Zeglen, K. N., Rutenberg, E. L., Pilkonis, P. A., Eack, S. M., & Mazefsky, C. A. (2025). The Relationships, Employment, Autonomy, and Life Satisfaction (REALS) Measures for Autistic Adults and Adults With Other Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Psychometric Testing of the Self-Report and Proxy Versions. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 10.1002/aur.70002. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.70002
Fengyan Tang, Qingqing Yin, Wendi Da, Guoping Jin, Yanping Jiang, Relationships between physical frailty and cognitive decline over 8 years: A longitudinal study among community-dwelling older Chinese immigrants, The Journal of nutrition, health and aging, Volume 29, Issue 4, 2025, 100511, ISSN 1279-7707, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnha.2025.100511.
Cotton, Q.D., Bailey, D., Albers, E. et al. Understanding the implementation process of the Adult Day Services Plus program. BMC Geriatr 25, 95 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-025-05757-4
Kim, S., Woo, J., Engel, R. J., Goodkind, S., & Shook, J. J. (2025). COVID-19-Era Government Cash Transfers and One Year After: Material Hardship and Mental Health Among Full-Time Hospital Workers. Journal of Social Service Research, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2025.2465336
- 2024
Paul, B. T., Greeno, C. G., & Kloepper, M. F. (2024). Identifying Suicide-Related Predictors Using Overseas Airborne Infantry Brigade Serious Incident Reports. Military Medicine, 189(Supplement_3), 165-170.
Gonzales, L., Saperstein, A. M., Jones, N., Erlich, M. D., & Medalia, A. Perceived Stigma Toward Cognitive Impairment Among People With Schizophrenia. Psychiatric services (Washington, DC), appips20240106.
Ballentine, K. L., Goodkind, S., Waton, A., Thyberg, C. T., Schleitwiler, T., & Shook, J. J. (2024). From going on vacation to falling off a benefits cliff: understanding the range of low-wage workers’ perceptions of a union-negotiated wage increase. Journal of Community Practice, 1-18.
Hoy-Gerlach, J., Volin, A., Rauktis, M. E., Vincent, A., & Landis, K. (2024). Supporting Rights to Emotional Support Animals as an Accommodation: A Scoping Review of Professional Guidelines for Verifying Eligibility. Anthrozoös, 1-29.
Tillman, H., Huerta, C., Engel, R. J., & Shook, J. Human Service Organizations’ Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Innovative Solutions. THE TROPMAN REPORT, 24.
Wang, M. T., Henry, D. A., Wu, W., Del Toro, J., & Huguley, J. P. (2024). Racial stereotype and Black adolescents' math achievement: Unpacking the socio-cognitive mechanisms. Journal of School Psychology, 106, 101350.
Pagdon, S., Shahriar, S. S., Murphy, S., Babusci, C. B., Flores, A. T., Rivens, A. J., ... & Bennett, M. E. From Rhetoric to Action: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Coordinated Specialty Care for Early Psychosis. Psychiatric services (Washington, DC), appips20240041.
Lincoln, A. K., Jones, N., & Koenen, K. C. Three Things We Learned Along the Way: lessons for training in psychiatric epidemiology. American journal of epidemiology, kwae123.
Wang, R., Milani, S., Chiu, J. C., Eack, S. M., Labrum, T., Murphy, S. M., ... & Chen, Z. Z. (2024). PATIENT-{\Psi}: Using Large Language Models to Simulate Patients for Training Mental Health Professionals. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19660.
Li, K., Tang, F., Albert, S. M., Rauktis, M. E., & Ohmer, M. L. (2024). Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults: The Moderating Effect of Resilience. The Gerontologist, gnae056.
Zhang, Y., Moon, D., Zhang, K., & Yi, Y. (2024). Does Harsh Parenting Really Harm? A Systematic Review of Studies in China. Child Abuse Review, 33(3), e2873.
Coulter, R. W., Gartner, R. E., Cramer, C., Smith, E. K., Abebe, K. Z., & Miller, E. (2024). Universal sexual violence intervention effects in a cluster-randomized trial: moderation by sexual orientation. Journal of interpersonal violence, 08862605241253031.
Labrum, T., Luk, K., Newhill, C., & Solomon, P. (2024). Relationship Quality Among Persons with Serious Mental Illness and Their Relatives: Rates and Correlates. Psychiatric Quarterly, 1-17.
MacKenzie, K. T., Theodat, A., Beck, K. B., Conner, C. M., Mazefsky, C. A., & Eack, S. M. (2024). Correlates of quality of life in autistic individuals. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 115, 102401.
Bick, N. A., Redfern, M. S., Jennings, J. R., Eack, S. M., Iverson, J. M., & Cham, R. (2024). Attention and sensory integration for gait in young adults with autism spectrum disorder. Gait & Posture, 112, 74-80.
Tang, F., Zhu, Y., Jayawardena, D., & Jin, G. (2024). Sleep quality and cognitive functioning among Chinese older adults living in the US: A mixed-effects model analysis. Research Square.
Luk, K.T., Jones, N. National Seclusion and Restraint Trends within Child Residential Treatment Facilities: 2010–2020 in Review. Psychiatr Q (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-024-10098-3Cruce, A., Sable, P. & Moon, D.J. Flourishing After Foster Care: Examining Factors Affecting Flourishing in Transition Age Youth in the United States. Child Adolesc Soc Work J (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-024-00990-z
Soobin Kim, Christopher T Thyberg, Rafael J Engel, Sandra Wexler, Jihee Woo, Does Working Full-Time Guarantee Hospital Service Workers’ Material Well-Being? A Latent Class Regression Analysis, Social Work Research, 2024;, svae020, https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svae020
Yanping Jiang, Mengting Li, Soonhyung Kwon, Yuyang Zhu, Bei Wu, Fengyan Tang, Impacts of Acculturation on Depressive Symptoms and Activities of Daily Living of U.S. Older Chinese Immigrants, The Gerontologist, Volume 64, Issue 11, November 2024, gnae124, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnae124
Murray BJ, Erwin J, Leotti S, Allen E, Bakko M, Jacobs LA, Hostetter CR, Tomczak SM, Fixler A. ‘Compassionate’ Control: Social Work and the Rise of Carceral Feminism in Progressive Era Police Reform. Social Sciences. 2024; 13(9):454. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13090454
Li K, Tang F, Kwon S, Jiang Y. Social Isolation and Depressive Symptoms of Older Chinese Immigrants: The Mediating Effect of Activity Engagement. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/00914150241297414Jacobs, L.A., McClean, A., Branson, Z. et al. Correction: Incremental Propensity Score Effects for Criminology: An Application Assessing the Relationship Between Homelessness, Behavioral Health Problems, and Recidivism. J Quant Criminol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-024-09598-z
Arluke, A., & Rauktis, M. E. (2024). Dog Acquisition in Lower-Income Communities as Consumer Behavior: An Exploratory Qualitative Study. Journal of Shelter Medicine and Community Animal Health, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.56771/jsmcah.v3.73
Chengappa, K. N., Eack, S., Montrose, D., Sarpal, D., Jones, N., Carter, C., Wood, H., Prasad, K., Ganguli, R., Schooler, N., Kelly, C., & Keshavan, M. (2024). Over 30 years of STEP: The Pittsburgh experience with first‐episode psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 18(10), 869–876. https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.13536
Greeno, C.G., Rauktis, M.E., Lee, D.H.J. et al. “Keeping the Legacy Alive”: Experiences of African American and White Grandparents Providing Kinship Care for Out of Home Placements. Race Soc Probl (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-024-09431-z
Publication Spotlights Continued
- Faculty Publication Spotlight: Using Research to Build Power: The Pittsburgh Wage Study
- Faculty Publication Spotlight: Caught in the Neoliberal Churn: Pushing Back Against “Productivity” as a Measure of Impact
- Faculty Publication Spotlight: Animal Companionship during COVID-19
- Faculty Publication Spotlight: Innovations in Opioid Use Treatment
- Faculty Publication Spotlight: There goes the neighborhood? The public safety enhancing effects of a mobile harm reduction intervention
Previous Publications
- 2023
Compton, M. T., Pope, L. G., de Bibiana, J. T., Boswell, T., Fu, E., Zern, A., Bello, I., Broussard, B., Jones, N., Pollard, J., Watson, A. & Dixon, L. (2023). Changes in knowledge, behavioural expectations, self-efficacy, and stigma after an educational campaign about early psychosis for jail correction officers. Early Intervention in Psychiatry.
Jones, N., Callejas, L., Brown, M., Carras, M.C., Croft, B., Pagdon, S., Sheehan, L., Oluwoye, O., Zisman-Ilaani, L. (2023). Multi-stakeholder perspectives on barriers to meaningful participatory mental health services research and priority next steps: Findings from a national survey. Psychiatric Services.
Lee, Y.Y., Buyanga, M., Mehta, A., Omowunmi, O., Sunkel, C., Vasquez, A., & Jones, N. (2023). Collective reflections on integrating lived experience of psychosis in research and policy in the context of a global commission. Community Mental Health Journal.
Pagdon, S. & Jones, N. (2023). Psychosis Outside the Box: A user-led project to amplify the diversity and richness of experiences described as psychosis. Psychiatric Services.
Mary Beth Rauktis: A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth and Foster Parents During COVID-19. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
Mary Beth Rauktis. Early Adverse Childhood Experiences and Exclusionary Discipline Practices in Middle Childhood.” Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Cortney VanHook Would Caring Teachers Buffer the Link Between Violence Victimization and Early Sexual Initiation? Comparing Heterosexual and Non-Heterosexual African American Youth Archives of Sexual Behavior.
- 2022
Aftab, A., Collings, S., & Jones, N. (2022). Beyond binary narratives of mental health advocacy: Latent profiles of mental health activists and advocates with lived experience. Psychiatric Services.
Atterbury, K. & Jones, N. (2022). Overcoming factionalism in serious mental illness policy making: A counter-perspective. Psychiatric Services.
Callejas, L. & Jones, N. (2022). Development & implementation of a multi-stakeholder youth & young adult crisis and acute mental health services focused participatory research collaborative. Psychiatric Services.
Clarke, S., Mordecai, D. & Nev Jones (2022; in press). Authenticity and the (in)visibility of service user representation. International Mad Studies Journal
Colder Carras, M., Machin, K., Brown, M., Marttinen, T. L., Maxwell, C., Frampton, B., ... & Jones, N. (2022). Strengthening Review and Publication of Participatory Mental Health Research to Promote Empowerment and Prevent Co-optation. Psychiatric Services.
Aliya Durham's Dissertation: If Not Us, then, Who? The Homewood Children's Village: A Case Study of Applied Collective Impact Theory
Eack, S., & Copeland, V. (2022). Davis, Larry E. In Encyclopedia of Social Work. Oxford University Press.
Ettinger, A., Ohmer, M.L., Culyba, A., Beery, J., Tharp-Gilliam, S., Miller, L., et al. (2022). Allegheny County (SM84931): ReCAST Community Strategic Plan. Report submitted to SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration).
Ettinger, A., Ohmer, M.L., Underwood, E., Culyba, A., Beery, J., Tharp-Gilliam, S., Miller, L., et al. (2022). Allegheny County (SM84931): Community Needs and Resources Assessment. Report submitted for the ReCAST Project to SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration).
Florence, A., Mehta, A. & Jones, N. (2022). Activist & community perspectives on mental health/psychosocial disability from the Global South.
Givens, A., Leah Jacobs., Canada, K. E., & Edwards Jr, D. (2022). Mental illness‐related stigma among probation officers. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health.
Hiller-Venegas, S., Gilmer, T. P., Jones, N., Munson, M. R., & Ojeda, V. D. (2022). Clients’ perspectives regarding peer support providers’ roles and support for client access to and use of publicly funded mental health programs serving transition-age youth in two Southern California Counties. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 1-21.
James Huguley, Dashawna Fussell-Ware, Shante Stuart McQueen, and Bianca DeBellis: Completing the Circle: Linkages Between Restorative Practices, Socio-Emotional Well-Being, and Racial Justice in Schools. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Leah Jacobs, Branson, Z., Katie Greeno, Skeem, J. L., & Travis Labrum. (2022). Community Behavioral Health Service Use and Criminal Recidivism of People With Mental, Substance Use, and Co-occurring Disorders. Psychiatric Services, appi.ps.202100530.
Jacobs, L. A., Ashcraft, L. E., Sewall, C., Wallace, D., & Folb, B. (2022). Recidivism in context: A meta-analysis of concentrated disadvantage and repeat offending. Criminal Justice and Behavior.
Jang, H., Pikauskas, N., & Tang, F. (2022). Age at Immigration and Depression: The Mediating Role of Contemporary Relationships with Adult Children among Older Immigrants. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 77(3), 413-423.
Alicia Johnson (2022). Adverse Childhood Experiences: How Incidents From the Past Affect a Student's Classroom Behavior Today. In Research Anthology on Interventions in Student Behavior and Misconduct. IGI Global, 2022. Pgs. 246-264.
Jones, N. (2022). Taking Issue: Lived experience leadership in peer support research as the new normal. Psychiatric Services.
Kim, S., Kang. C., & Engel, R. (In press). What convinces donors? An analysis of donation-based crowdfunding projects from nonprofit charities: The case of South Korea. Nonprofit Management & Leadership.
Kimhy, D., Jones, N., & Dixon, L. (2022). Investing in a research workforce with personal experience of serious mental illness. JAMA Psychiatry.
MacKenzie, K. T., & Eack, S. M. (in press). Interventions to improve outcomes for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Ohmer, M.L. (2022). Consensus Organizing: Facilitating Community Change, in Rapp-McCall, L., Corcoran, K. & Roberts, B. (Editors), Social Workers' Desk Reference, 4th Edition. Oxford University Press.
Ohmer, M.L. & Underwood, E. (2022). Communities in Macro Practice, in Mizrahi, T. & Bailey, D. (Editors), Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work. Oxford University Press.
Ohmer, M.L. & Underwood, E. (2022). Community Assessment in Macro Social Work Practice, in Mizrahi, T. & Bailey, D. (Editors), Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work. Oxford University Press.
Ohmer, M.L., Pearl, D. & Green, A. (2022). Research for Equity and Power (REP) Equitable Development Playbook: Hazelwood. University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work.
Mary Ohmer, Finkelstein, C., Durham, A., Melnick, A., & Dostilio, L. (2022). University-Community Engagement during a Pandemic: Moving Beyond “Helping” to Public Problem Solving. Metropolitan Universities Journal, COVID19-Innovations Through Crisis, 33(1), 81-91.
Shah, J., Jones, N., van Os, J., McGorry, P., & Guloksuz, S. (in press; 2022). What shape might multi-level next-generation early intervention infrastructures for youth mental health take? Integrating pluripotentiality, staging, and transdiagnostic shifts. Lancet Psychiatry.
Christopher Thyberg and Christina Newhill: Applying critical race theory and risk and resilience theory to the school-to-prison pipeline: Theoretical frameworks for social workers. The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare.
Christopher Thyberg "Social Work Answers the (Video) Call: Tele-Behavioral Health Use During COVID-19" Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Christopher Thyberg and Brianna Lombardi: "Examining Racial Differences in Internalizing and Externalizing Diagnoses for Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences" in the Clinical Social Work Journal.
Thomas, E. C., Nev Jones, Shern, D. L., & Salzer, M. S. (2022). Identifying indicators of community participation‐promoting efforts within coordinated specialty care: A modified e‐Delphi study of stakeholder perspectives. Early Intervention in Psychiatry
van der Ven, E., Jones, N., Bareis, N., Scodes, J. M., Dambreville, R., Ngo, H., ... & Wall, M. M. (2022). An intersectional approach to ethnoracial disparities in pathways to care among individuals with psychosis in Coordinated Specialty Care. Jama Psychiatry.
Cortney VanHook: Police brutality, heightened vigilance, and the mental health of Black adults. Study published in the American Psychological Association's Psychology of Violence journal.
Wojtalik, J. A., Mesholam-Gately, R. I., Hogarty, S. S., Greenwald, D. P., Litschge, M. Y., Sandoval, L. R., Shashidhar, G., Guimond, S., Keshavan, M. S., & Eack, S. M. (in press). Confirmatory efficacy of Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for early course schizophrenia: Results from a multi-site randomized controlled trial. Psychiatric Services. - still in press
Wojtalik, J.A., Flores, A.T., Keshavan, M.S., Eack, S.M. (in press). Premorbid sociality moderates social adjustment change during Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for adults with early schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
Woo, J., Shook, J., Goodkind, S., Ballentine, K., Engel, R., Kim, S., & Petracchi, H. (2022). Do Wage Increases Help? Wage Increases and Material Hardships among Low-Wage Hospital Workers. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2022.2036282
Woo, J., Ballentine, K., Shook, J., Engel, R., & Goodkind, S. (2022). Material hardships, perceived stress, and health among low-wage hospital workers. Health & Social Work, 47(10), 19-27.
Xu, L., Tang, F., Chen, Y., & Dong, X. (2022). Acculturation and depressive symptoms among older Chinese immigrants in the United States: The roles of positive and negative social interactions. Aging and Mental Health. Published online Feb 11, 2022.
- 2021
Allan H., Rauktis M.E., Pennell J., Merkel-Holguin L., Crampton D. (2021) Family Meetings as a System Reform to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparities. In: Dettlaff A.J. (eds) Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System. Child Maltreatment (Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy), vol 11. Springer, Cham.
Ballentine, K. L., & Woo, J. (2021). Structural Equation Model of Emotional Labor, Work-Home Interaction, and Well-Being. Social Work Research, 45(4), 269-280.
Daley, T., Jones, N., George, P., & Rosenblatt, A. (2021). First person accounts of change among young adults with a first episode of psychosis. Psychiatric Services.
Goodkind, S., Gartner, R., Jacobs, L., Branson, D., King, J., Meaux, S., & Miller, E. (2021). Making AIMS explicit: Establishing intersectionality criteria for gender equity analyses. Social Work Research, 45(3), 169-186.
Goodkind, S., & Bay-Cheng, L. Y. (2021). Are my pants lowering your test scores? Blaming girls and girls’ empowerment for the “boy crisis” in education. Youth & Society, 53(5), 745-763.
Goodkind, S., Kim, M. E., Zelnick, J., Bay-Cheng, L. Y., Beltrán, R., Diaz, M., Gibson, M. F., Kanuha, K., Harrell, S., Moulding, N., Mountz, S., Sacks, T. K., Simon, B., Toft, J., & Walton, Q. L. (2021). Critical feminisms: Principles and practices for feminist inquiry in social work. Affilia, 36(4), 481-487.
Goodkind, S., Gardner, R., Jacobs, L., Branson, D., King, J., Meaux, S., & Miller, E. (2021). Making AIMS explicit: Establishing intersectionality criteria for gender equity analyses. Social Work Research, 45(3), 169-186.
Humensky, J. L., Nossel, I., Bello, I., Malinovsky, I., Radigan, M., Gu, G., Jones, N. & Dixon, L. B. (2021). Rates of inpatient and emergency room use before and after discharge among Medicaid enrollees at OnTrackNY. Psychiatric Services,
Jacobs, L. A., Fixler, A., Labrum, T., Givens, A., & Newhill, C. (2021). Risk Factors for Criminal Recidivism Among Persons With Serious Psychiatric Diagnoses: Disentangling What Matters for Whom. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 778399.
Jacobs, L. A., & Booth, J. (2021). Teaching to Tech: A Quasi-Experimental Assessment of a Technology-Enhanced Social Work Course. Journal of Social Work Education.
Jacobson Lopez, D., Garcia, A., Engel, R., & Jackson, J. (2021). Challenges and opportunities to recruiting and engaging with gay male Latino sexual assault survivors. Field Methods
Jang, H., Rauktis, M., & Tang, F. (2021). The quality of relationship with adult children and depressive symptoms among grandparents. Aging and Mental Health. Published online Nov 23, 2021.
Jang, H. & Tang, F. (2021). Loneliness, Age at Immigration, Family Relationships, and Depression among Older Immigrants: A Moderated Relationship. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Published online Dec 15, 2021
Jang, H., Tang, F. Fusco, R., Engel, R., & Albert, S. (2021). Grandparenting, Social Relations, and Mortality in Old Age. Research on Aging. Published online June 10, 2021
H Jang, ME Rauktis, F Tang - Aging & mental health, 2021. The quality of relationships with adult children and depressive symptoms among grandparents.
Jones, N., Gius, B.*, Shields, M., Florence, A., Watson, A., & Munson, M. (in press; 2021). Youth and young adult accounts of interactions with police officers in the context of involuntary psychiatric hold initiation. Psychiatric Services.
Jones, N., Kamens, S., Mascayano, F., Perry, C., Olowuye, D., Manseau, M. & Compton, M. (2021). Structural disadvantage and culture, race & ethnicity in early intervention in psychosis services: International landscape and provider views. Psychiatric Services.
Jones, N., Atterbury, L., Byrne, L., Carras, M., Hansen, M. & Phalen, P. (2021). Lived experience, research leadership and the transformation of mental health services: Building a pipeline. Psychiatric Services.
Jones, N., Basaraba, C., Piscitelli, S., Jewell, T., Nossel, I., Bello, I., Mascayano, F., Marino, L., Wall, M. & Dixon, L. (2021). Clients’ preferences for family involvement and subsequent family contact patterns in Coordinated Specialty Care for early psychosis in New York State. Psychiatric Services.
Jones, N. (2021). Service user leadership in priority setting: an end in itself as well as a means to an end. Journal of Mental Health, 1-2.
Kim, M., Goodkind, S., & Zelnick, J. (2021). Critical feminist reflections on the Atlanta murders of March 16, 2021. Affilia, 36(3), 269-271.
Kim, M. E., Zelnick, J. R., & Goodkind, S. (2021). Pandemics, protests, and feminist politics of resistance. Affilia, 36(1), 5-9.
H Lee, ME Rauktis, RA Fusco - Social Work Education, 2021. Perceived stress and sleep quality among master's students in social work.
Li, K. & Tang, F. (2021). The role of solitary activity in moderating the association between social isolation and perceived loneliness among U.S. older adults. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.
Lombardi, B. M., Thyberg, C. T., & Bledsoe, S. E. (2021). Concordance of children’s adverse childhood experiences amongst child, caregiver, and caseworker. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 1-15.
Lombardi, B. M., Zerden, L. D. S., & Thyberg, C. (2021). Social Work Answers the (VIDEO) Call: Tele-Behavioral Health Use During COVID-19.
Lombardi, B., Greeno, C., Jacobs, L. A., & Gordon, J. (2021). Complex Service Needs of Emerging Adults Accessing Treatment for Co-Occurring Opioid and Mental Health Conditions. Social Work in Mental Health.
Montes, A. N., Wallace, D., Fahmy, C., Henson, A., Chamberlain, A. W., & Jacobs, L. A. (2021). An Assessment of Prisoner Reentry, Legal Financial Obligations and Family Financial Support: A Focus on Fathers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(18), 9625.
Morgan, C., Dazzan, P., Gureje, O., Hanlon, C., Jones, N., Esponda, G. M., ... & Vasquez, A. (2021). Announcing the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Psychoses in Global Context. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(9), 743-744.
Morrison, P., Goodkind, S., Holland, C., Cluss, P., Miller, E., George, D., Fleming, R., & Chang, J. (2021). Key components of the batterer intervention program process: An analysis of observational data from two-community based BIPs. Violence Against Women, 27(14) 2617-2641.
MA Perry, ME Rauktis, H Cahalane - Journal of Public Child …, 2021. A principles-based approach to evaluating family engagement group strategies: Lessons from a IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project.
ME Rauktis, J Hoy-Gerlach, CJR Sewall, H Lee. Anthrozoös, 2021.Preliminary findings of a ten-item scale to assess the commitment of low-income owners to their companion animals.
Mulvaney, E., Petracchi, H., & Engel, R. (2021). Lessons learned: Developing an undergraduate Hartford Partnership Program in Aging. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work. 26(1), 1-13.
Roe, D., Jones, N., Hasson-Ohayon, I., & Zisman-Ilani, Y. (2021). Conceptualization and study of antipsychotic medication use: From adherence to patterns of use. Psychiatric Services.
Roe, D., Slade, M., & Jones, N. (2021). The utility of patient-reported outcome measures in mental health. World Psychiatry.
Shook, J., Goodkind, S., Kolivoski, K., & Ballentine, K. (2021). Legal socialization and procedural justice among juvenile offenders: The role of defense attorneys. Journal of Social Issues, 77(2), 484–503.
Tang, F., Gibbons, L.E., Snitz, B.E., & Dong, X. (2021). Psychometric Characteristics of the Mini-Mental State Examination among Older Chinese Immigrants. International Journal of Aging Research, 4:89, 1-10.
Tang, F., Li, K., Jang, H., & Rauktis, M. E. (2021). Depressive Symptoms in the Context of Chinese Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren. Aging and Mental Health. Published online
F Tang, K Li, H Jang, MB Rauktis - Aging & mental health, 2021. Depressive symptoms in the context of Chinese grandparents caring for grandchildren.
*Tillman, H., *Huerta, C., Shook, J., *Williams, D., & Engel, R. (2021). Perceptions of human service organization leaders to raising the minimum wage. The Tropman Report.
Woo, J., Choi, H., & Engel, R. (2021). Economic stress and life satisfaction in retirement among Korean older adults: The roles of different types of social support. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.
Young, A., Goodkind, S., Zelnick, J. R., Kim, M. E., Harrell, S., & Toft, J. (2021). #IAmHer: Anjanette Young speaks truth to power. Affilia, 36(2), 129-139.
Zelnick, J. R., Goodkind, S., & Kim, M. E. (2022). “It would be foolish to pretend that our jobs aren’t political”: Social workers organizing for power in the nonprofit sector. Affilia, 37(1), 5-12.
Other Publications
Profiles in Research (PDF): Highlights of the School of Social Work's Research work for the year
Grand Challenges at Pitt Social Work: A report listing of the School of Social Work's ongoing and recent projects in each of the Grand Challenges.