Faculty, Staff & Center News
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Edward Alessi
**Edward Alessi provided commentary and was quoted in the following Star-Ledger article: The life & death of a ‘perfect human:’ A N.J. teen’s tragic suicide reveals the depths and despair of a growing mental health crisis. https://www.nj.com/news/2022/12/the-life-death-of-a-perfect-human.html
Vicki Banyard
Hamby, S., Montgomery, K. M., Storer, H. L. & Banyard, V. (accepted) “That Was the Happiest Time of my Life”: Understanding Childhood Eco-Connections in Appalachian Communities International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Edwards, K. M., Banyard, V. L., Waterman, E. W., Simon, B., Hopfauf, S., Mitchell, K., Jones, L., Kollar, L. & Valente, T. W. (accepted). Diffusion effects of a youth-led sexual violence prevention initiative. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Divya Bhagianadh
McCord, C., Ullrich, F., Merchant, K. A. S., Bhagianadh, D., Carter, K. D., Nelson, E., Marcin, J. P., Law, K. B., Neufeld, J., Giovanetti, A., & Ward, M. M. (2022). Comparison of in-person vs. telebehavioral health outcomes from rural populations across America. BMC psychiatry, 22(1), 778. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04421-0
Ward, M. M., Bhagianadh, D., Ullrich, F., Merchant, K. A. S., & Mena, C. (2022). Overview of School-Based Telehealth Network Grant Program Services Delivered to Students in Rural Schools. The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses, 10598405221142498. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10598405221142498
Ward, M. M., Merchant, K. A. S., Ullrich, F., Bhagianadh, D., Carter, K. D., Smith, K., Gillette, T. L., Freed, S., & Mack, L. J. (2022). Telehealth Services for Primary Care and Urgent Care to Support Rural Schools and Students. Telemedicine journal and e-health: the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 10.1089/tmj.2022.0364. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2022.0364
Elsa Candelario
Appointments
Professor Candelario was recently appointed as a member of the board of directors of the New Jersey Mental Health Institute whose mission is: “to increase the recognition, understanding and acceptance of mental illness and to identify and seek the establishment of effective mental illness prevention and treatment services.”
Funding
Professor Candelario the PI on a new Cigna Foundation grant of $62,000 with the following purpose: “through a partnership with Cigna, LISTA’s goal is to ensure Latinx communities are better served through workforce development
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efforts that will increase the number of social workers prepared to work with them and who are committed to improving the health and wellbeing of individuals.”
Laura Cuesta
Hakovirta, M., Cuesta, L., Haapanen, M.*, & Meyer, D. R. (2022). Child support policy across high-income countries: Similar problems, different approaches. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162221119959
Invited Talks
On December 1st, 2022, Dr. Laura Cuesta presented main findings from the article Child support policy across highincome countries: Similar problems, different approaches (coauthored with Mia Hakovirta, Mari Haapanen, and Dan Meyer) at the Brookings Institution – AAPSS Webinar on ANNALS Volume on Single-Parent Families and Public Policy. The recording of the webinar is available here: https://youtu.be/h97QUO0-n90
Antoinette Farmer and Sarah McMahon
Drs. Antoinette Farmer and Sarah McMahon co-edited a special issue for the Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work called "Sexual Assault Climate Surveys: Methodological Issues and Innovations", available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/webs22/19/5
Patricia Findley
*Milano, N., Petruzzi, L., Covington, E., Jones, B. , Findley, PA. (2022). Social workers in integrated care beyond primary care: a scoping review, Translational Behavioral Medicine, (12), 11, Pages 1038–1048, https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibac082
Caroline Harmon-Darrow Presentations
Afkinich, J., Franke, N. D.*, Harmon-Darrow, C. (November 18, 2022). Police Diversion at Arrest: Current Program Landscape. Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Harmon-Darrow, C., Burruss, K., Aggarwal, N.* (November 10, 2022). Human trafficking field placements: Tensions in the work. Paper presented at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Public Meeting, Anaheim, CA.
Woojin Jung
Presentation
Dr. Jung is presenting at the National Research and Innovation Symposium in December 2022 at the University of Zambia. Developing AI-informed vulnerability index to target food security pack in Zambia Woojin Jung & Benny Kabwela. Presentation at the National Research and Innovation Symposium.
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Michael LaSala Honors
Dr. Michael LaSala was recently listed as one of the top 100 Contributors to Social Work Journal Scholarship. You can read more about the methodology behind this list via the below article. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10497315221136623
Judith McCoyd
McCoyd, J.L.M. (2022). Forget the “5 stages”: Ask the 5 questions of grief (Commentary- peer reviewed). Social Work swac047, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swac047
Book Release
McCoyd, J.L.M., Lee, J. E., Kerson, T. S., (Eds. and authors) & Associates. (2023). Social work in health settings (5th). London: Routledge. (Online release November 2022; print December 2022)
Felix Muchomba
Muchomba, F. M., Teitler, J., & Reichman, N. E. (2022). Association Between Housing Affordability and Severe Maternal Morbidity. JAMA network open, 5(11), doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.43225
Media
The above noted publication received significant media coverage. A selection of the features are as follows: https://www.futurity.org/high-rent-maternal-health-2835212-2/ https://news.yahoo.com/higher-rent-costs-linked-increased-151033416.html https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/3747865-higher-rent-costs-linked-with-increased-riskof-pregnancy-complications-study/
Sheri Munch Invited Lecture
Invited Guest Lecture (October 17, 2022). Special Topics in the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Required course for first-year medical students: “Health Psychology and Medical Communication.” Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
Presentation
Mihai, A., Lazăr, F., Gaba, D., Rentea, G.C., Ciocănel, A., & Munch, S (2022, November). Satisfaction at work: Romanian social workers’ perspectives on workplace resources and relations. Paper presentation at the Social Work International Conference (SWIC), 6th Edition. Bucharest, Romania.
Lenna Nepomnyaschy
*Scher, C., Nepomnyaschy, L., & Amano, T. (2022). Comparison of Cognitive and Physical Decline as Predictors of Depression Among Older Adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648221139255
Nepomnyaschy, L., Thomas, M., *Haralampoudis, A., & *Jin, H. (2022). Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 702(1), 78–96. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162221119348
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Emmy Tiderington
*Enich, M., Tiderington, E., & Ure, A. (2022). Street Medicine: A scoping review of program elements. International Journal on Homelessness. Advanced online publication. https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ijoh/article/view/15134
Media
NJ Spotlight discusses a new assembly bill that would enable behavioral health care providers to treat people staying in an emergency shelter, quoting Emmy Tiderington https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2022/12/nj-bill-would-allow-behavioralhealth-care-providers-treat-people-in-homeless-shelters/
Mark van der Maas
Shi, J., van der Maas, M., Yu, L., Jiang, Q., Agasee, S., & Turner, N. E. (2022). Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 48, 101231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101231
Funding
Dr. van der Maas was recently awarded a Seed Grant: Online gambling and death by suicide: A quasi-experimental approach to gambling policy impacts. The total awarded $34,500 in 2022 The aim of the project is to use the Restricted Access Database of the National Violent Death Reporting System to investigate changes in the rate and characteristics of deaths by suicide in states that have legalized online casino gambling compared against synthetic controls.
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Doctoral Student News
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Crystal Mathews
2nd year DSW student, Crystal Mathews, recently solo authored the following publication: **Mathews, C. (2022). Acknowledging soul loss from an Indigenous perspective to promote healing in prison. Clinical Social Work Journal. https://doi-org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/10.1007/s10615-022-00858-8
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