(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The following presentations from GCSW faculty, students, and alums have been accepted for the Society for Social Work and Research 26th Annual Conference taking place from January 12鈥�16, 2022 in Washington, DC. This year鈥檚 conference theme is 鈥淪ocial Work Science for Racial, Social, and Political Justice.鈥�
PLEASE NOTE: Some presenters may not be attending SSWR 2022 in person in light of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Presentations marked with # have been withdrawn or shall occur online.
GCSW Presentation Schedule
The following schedule of presentations, workshops, roundtables, and other events by and/or featuring the work of GCSW faculty, students, and researchers is based on the SSWR 2022 . All sessions will be held at the Marriott Marquis Washington, DC. The names of GCSW faculty, students, and alums are bold.
Thursday, January 13 | Friday, January 14 | Saturday, January 15 | Sunday, January 16 | Special Interest Groups & Panels
Thursday, January 13
| Presentation Title | GCSW Affiliated Presenters | Location | Time | Key Takeaway |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reiko Boyd, PhD, 91视频
Alan Dettlaff, PhD, 91视频 |
Supreme Court, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 1:30 PM EST | ||
| Quenette Walton, PhD, LCSW, 91视频
Priscilla Kennedy, MSW, 91视频 Gabbie Aquino-Adriatico, MSW, 91视频 Nina Tahija, MSW, 91视频 |
Monument, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 1:30 PM EST | ||
| Bec Sokha Keo, MSW, 91视频
Samira Ali, PhD, LMSW, 91视频 Katie McCormick, LMSW, University of Texas at Austin Sustain Team, 91视频 |
Independence BR A, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 1:30 PM EST | The space is designed to facilitate reflection and strategize around application of CRT/I tenants to advance anti-racist SW research and center community priorities. | |
| McClain Sampson, PhD, 91视频
Wen Xu, MSW, 91视频 |
Monument, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 1:30 PM EST | ||
| Jodi Berger Cardoso, PhD, 91视频
Arlene Bjugstad, MSW, 91视频 Caitlyn Mytelka, LMSW, 91视频 |
Liberty Ballroom O, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 3:15 PM EST | ||
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Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, MSW, 91视频 Arlene Bjugstad, MSW, PhD student, 91视频 Jodi Berger Cardoso, PhD, 91视频 |
Liberty Ballroom O, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 3:15 PM EST | ||
| E-Poster Presentations | ||||
| Presentation Title | GCSW Affiliated Presenters | Location | Key Takeaway | |
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Xin Chen, PhD, Soochow University Monit Cheung, PhD, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 6, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | |||
Friday, January 14
| Presentation Title | GCSW Affiliated Presenters | Location | Time | Key Takeaway |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Narendorf, PhD, 91视频Caitlyn Mytelka, LMSW, 91视频
Sarah Helaire, 91视频 |
Supreme Court, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 8:00 AM EST | Young adults define their social networks in different ways; networks are shaped by foster care experiences and current living situation | |
| Holly Davies, MSW, 91视频
Isabel Torres-Vigil, MPH, DrPH, 91视频 |
Liberty Ballroom K, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 8:00 AM EST | Six factors are significantly associated with mental health status after Harvey. Four predict mental health deterioration, and two predict mental health resilience. | |
| Monit Cheung, PhD, 91视频
Yu-Ju Huang, MSW, 91视频 Holly Davies, MSW, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 12, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 9:45 AM EST | Dissonance exists between where teens say they want to get sex education and where they get sex education. | |
| Monit Cheung, PhD, 91视频
Yu-Ju Huang, MSW, 91视频 Holly Davies, MSW, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 12, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 9:45 AM EST | Adolescents in Hong Kong tend to obtain sexual health knowledge from teachers and classmates. The internet and textbooks are two primary preferred autodidactic sources. There was a high motivation that these students would like to acquire sex education motivation in their school years. A youth-friendly self-assessment tool would serve as a channel to express their needs to receive formal sex education. Culturally and gender-sensitive instructions are crucial teaching tools to increase the effectiveness of sexual health education to evoke students鈥� learning interest and motivation to learn from formal sources. Training should include selecting topics of interest to students to foster a healthy and holistic learning environment. | |
| Monit Cheung, PhD, Professor, 91视频
Patrick Leung, PhD, 91视频 Yu-Ju Huang, MSW, 91视频 Shu Zhou, MSW, Huazong University of Science and Technology Miao Yu, University of Texas at Arlington Amanda Ford, PhD, Houston Baptist University |
Marquis BR Salon 12, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 9:45 AM EST | Timing of implementation and open attitude to health promotion are important considerations in designing sex education programs for preteens. Since girls turn to teachers and mothers for information while boys turn to internet sources, this study supports delivering an age-appropriate sex education curriculum starting earlier than the fifth grade, probably from the first grade on a topic of gender differences as suggested by sex educators. Teachers and parents may plan sexual health content with technology-assisted teaching methods. The psychology of the targeted youth鈥檚 keen learning desire is projected through their high response rate to each survey question. The unique aspect is that the respondents did not view early timing as a fixed starting point, but rather a continuum learning journey to understand more about sexuality and sexual health. With a curriculum designed to focus on the youth鈥檚 desire to learn, primary school students would be able to gradually increase their knowledge based on their developmental needs. Hearing directly from the preteens is an important planning step toward building a user-friendly learning platform. | |
| Holly Davies, MSW, 91视频
Monit Cheung, PhD, Professor, 91视频 Yu-Ju Huang, MSW, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 12, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 9:45 AM EST | This study exposed large differences between sex education mores and behavior of teenagers. Before developing a comprehensive grade-by-grade sexual education programs in Hong Kong, educators must work with adolescents to hear about their source preferences: peer support, online sexual education, and age-appropriate education in schools. Given the large disparity between the role adolescents believe the family members should play in sexual education and sex education provided by family members, future research should evaluate which specific areas of family engagement would best engage adolescents in the sex education process. Future curricula can be designed with these preferences in mind. Finally, given the rise of STDs among youth, public health initiatives, including sex-appropriate education in schools, must consider the gendered preferences of the adolescents. Engaging youth in sex education planning according to their preferences can increase the participation and fulfill UNESCO鈥檚 goals in providing sexual education to world youth to increase their knowledge about sexual development and behaviors, enrich emotional content, and endorse risk reduction. | |
| Robin Gearing, PhD, 91视频
Patrick Leung, PhD, 91视频 Monit Cheung, PhD, 91视频 Christian Carr, PhD, 91视频 Arlene Bjugstad, MSW, 91视频 |
Mint, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 2:00 PM EST | In China, fewer than 10% of individuals with mental health problems seek out professional treatment. Findings indicate that beliefs about seeking professional help for mental health are influenced by knowing someone with a mental health problem. In addition, males who were older, had a child, and were married endorsed more openness to help-seeking for mental health needs, underscoring the importance of life experience as an important variable when considering attitudes toward help-seeking. Findings support future research identifying the mechanisms by which these life experiences impact individuals鈥� help-seeking attitudes. | |
| Chiara Acquati, PhD, MSW, 91视频
Elena Ionescu, MSG, 91视频 |
Liberty Ballroom O, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 3:45 PM EST | ||
| Chiara Acquati, PhD, MSW, 91视频
Elena Ionescu, MSG, 91视频 |
Liberty Ballroom O, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 3:45 PM EST | ||
| McClain Sampson, PhD, 91视频 | Liberty Ballroom J, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 3:45 PM EST | ||
| Charles Lea, PhD, 91视频
Gabriela Mohr, MSW, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 9, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 5:30 PM EST | ||
| Nicole Bromfield, PhD, 91视频 | Monument, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 5:30 PM EST | The findings suggest that all (n=32) child participants were subjected to extreme abuse by law enforcement. Findings indicate that police officers were both active and passive abusers of children. As active abusers, police intentionally harmed, abused, raped, trafficked, or tortured children under the pretext of maintaining law and order or to 鈥渃lean鈥� public places by removing children. Most egregiously, boy informants reported being kicked, jailed, slapped or beaten with batons by police. Girl informants reported being forced to have sex or to participate in transactional sexual acts, imprisoned, or expelled from public places by police. Girl respondents also said that police patronized pimps to confine them, as victims of sex trafficking, for repeated sexual abuse by police. | |
| Nicole Bromfield, PhD, 91视频 | Monument, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 5:30 PM EST | Participants identified four significant themes as causes of child marriage: 1) the financial burden of girls; 2) issues around girls鈥� safety, security, and protecting honor; 3) religious traditions; and 4) lack of awareness of consequences of child marriage. As researchers, we found that the interventions currently being used by the participant stakeholders were not aligned with many of the identified causes of child marriage. Notably, none of the research participants used or suggested using interventions that related to meaningful enforcement of current laws, religious community leaders鈥� control over marriages and divorce in Syrian communities, racism and discrimination against refugees, the ongoing misogynist harassment of women and girls, nor the abject poverty within the Syrian refugee community. | |
| E-Poster Presentations | ||||
| Presentation Title | GCSW Affiliated Presenters | Location | Key Takeaway | |
| Ying Ma, PhD, MSW, 91视频
Patrick Leung, PhD, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 6, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 1. Resilience was not identified to be significantly in older respondents without ADL disability (BI=100). 2. Resilience was the second strongest significant predictor for cognitive function (B=0.095, p< .001) in older respondents with ADL disability (BI<100), accounting for an additional 3.4% of variance in cognitive function (螖R2=0.034, p< .001). | ||
| Micki Washburn, PhD, UTA School of Social Work
Robin Gearing, PhD, 91视频 Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, MSW, 91视频 Alberto Cabrera, MSW, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 6, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | Identifying early warning signs of self-harm and suicide intentions is an effective way to prevent completed suicides, yet few participants explicitly acknowledged the thoughts of self-harm present in the vignette. Unexpectedly, our results did not indicate any significant differences in stigma based on the vignette subject demographics, indicating that stigma towards a person with suicidal ideation may not be affected by the gender or age of the person experiencing suicidal thoughts. Immigrant generation, however, played an important role in our respondents鈥� perception of individuals experiencing suicidal ideation. Consistent with prior literature, first generation immigrants reported higher levels of community-level stigma toward the vignette subject than those from subsequent generations, indicating those who are second generation immigrants and beyond may be more highly acculturated and thus may report overall lower levels of mental health stigma. This was not the case for personal-level stigma wherein second and third generation immigrants expressed less willingness to accept those experiencing suicidal ideation. | ||
| Anil Arora, MSW, 91视频
Sarah Narendorf, PhD, 91视频 Gabriela Westbrook, MSW, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 6, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | |||
Saturday, January 15
| Presentation Title | GCSW Affiliated Presenters | Location | Time | Key Takeaway |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandra Kalu, LMSW, 91视频
Aly Kramer Jacobs, M.Ed, 91视频 |
Mint, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 9:45 AM EST | ||
| Suzanne Pritzker, PhD, 91视频 | Archives, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 9:45 AM EST | Findings demonstrate that disasters may create a window of opportunity for increased civic involvement and in some cases, can more deeply connect people with their communities. Findings also highlight challenges to civic engagement. Inadequate and confusing coordination of disaster assistance and volunteers, limited access (including language access) to reliable information, feelings of abandonment by public officials, and distrust due to inadequate and inequitable systems of recovery suggest needed policy responses to support equitable post-disaster community well-being. | |
| Christina E. Miyawaki, PhD, 91视频 | Marquis BR Salon 8, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 9:45 AM EST | ||
| Christina E. Miyawaki, PhD, 91视频 | Independence BR G, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 4:00 PM EST | ||
| Lindamarie Olson, LMSW, 91视频 | Archives, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 4:00 PM EST | Study results show the strong, positive association between TBI and psychopathy, and elucidate the need for more research, clinical practice, and policy work examining this relationship and its potential effects further. Clinical implications suggest early intervention is needed to treat the potential long-term effects of TBIs and the development of psychopathic traits. |
Sunday, January 16
| Presentation Title | GCSW Affiliated Presenters | Location | Time | Key Takeaway |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priscilla Kennedy, MSW, 91视频
Nina Tahija, BA, 91视频 Quenette Walton, PhD, LCSW, 91视频 Gabrielle Aquino, MSW, 91视频 |
Liberty Ballroom N, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 8:00 AM EST | ||
| Patrick Leung, PhD, 91视频
Gabrielle Aquino, MSW, 91视频 L. Christian Carr, 91视频 Monit Cheung, PhD, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 8, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 8:00 AM EST | ||
| Sheara W. Jennings, PhD, MSW, 91视频 | Marquis BR Salon 7, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 9:45 AM EST | ||
| Charles Lea, PhD, 91视频 | Marquis BR Salon 13, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 9:45 AM EST | ||
| E-Poster Presentation | ||||
| Presentation Title | GCSW Affiliated Presenters | Location | Key Takeaway | |
| Chinyere Eigege, MA, MSW, 91视频
Quenette Walton, PhD, LCSW, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 6, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | |||
| Lindamarie Olson, LMSW, 91视频
Patrick Leung, PhD, 91视频 |
Marquis BR Salon 10, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | Students reported significantly better outcomes in family, friends, school, and afterschool outcomes in fall 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. More research on how COVID-19 impacts afterschool programs is needed to determine implications for future programming. | ||
Special Interest Groups and Panels
| Title | GCSW Affiliated Presenters | Date | Location | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Lea, PhD, 91视频 | Friday, January 14, 2022 | Liberty Ballroom J, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 12:30 PM EST | |
#Invited Journal Editors' Workshop: Forum on Publishing Qualitative Research |
Susan Robbins, PhD, 91视频 | Friday, January 14, 2022 | Marriott Marquis Washington, DC | 3:45 PM |
| Charles Lea, PhD, 91视频 | Saturday, January 15, 2022 | Marquis BR Salon 12, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 7:00 AM EST | |
| Sarah Narendorf, PhD, 91视频 | Saturday, January 15, 2022 | Liberty Ballroom O, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 12:00 PM EST | |
| McClain Sampson, PhD, 91视频 | Saturday, January 15, 2022 | Independence BR F, ML 4 (Marriott Marquis Washington, DC) | 12:30 PM EST |