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Book Chapters
Leversee, T. (2011). Understanding and applying typologies in the context of a
holistic model for the treatment of sexually offending juveniles. In Calder, M.
(Ed.). Contemporary practice with young people who sexually abuse. Holyoke,
MA: NEARI press.
Anthony, E. & Nicotera, N. (2011). The role of neighborhoods in adolescent
development. In R.J. Levesque (Ed.). Encyclopedia of adolescence (pp. 1869-
1881). New York, NY: Springer.
McCauley, S., Nicotera, N., Fretz, E., Nickels, S., Agnoletti, C., Goedert, H.,
Neff, E., Rowe, T., Takeall, R. (2011). Civic leadership and public achievement
at the University of Denver’s Center for Community Engagement and Service
Learning. In N. V. Longo & C. Gibson (Eds.). From command to community: A
new approach to leadership education in colleges and universities (pp. 149-
168). Medford, MA: Tufts University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Altschul, I. (2011). Parental involvement and the academic achievement of
Mexican American youths: What kinds of involvement in youths’ education
matter most? Social Work Research, 35(3), 159-170.
Altschul, I. & Lee, S. J. (2011). Direct and mediated effects of nativity and other
indicators of acculturation on Hispanic mothers’ use of physical aggression.
Child Maltreatment 16(4).
Lee, S. J., Altschul, I., Shair, S., & Taylor, C. (2011). Hispanic fathers and risk for
maltreatment in father involved families with young children. Journal of the
Society for Social Work and Research 2(2), 125-142.
Bender, K. A., Brisson, D., Jenson, J. M., Forrest-Bank, S. S., Lopez, A., & Yoder,
J. (2011). Challenges and strategies for conducting program-based research in
after-school settings. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 28, 319-334.
Bender, K., Tripodi, S. J., Sarteschi, C., & Vaughn, M. G. (2011). A meta-analysis
of interventions to reduce adolescent cannabis use. Research on Social Work
Practice, 21, 153-164.
Bender, K., Postlethwait, A., Thompson, S. J., & Springer, D. W. (2011). Internalizing
symptoms linking youth’s maltreatment and delinquent behavior. Child
Welfare, 90, 69-89.
Ferguson, K.M., Bender, K., Thompson, S. J., Xie, B., & Pollio, D. (2011).
Correlates of street-survival behaviors in homeless young adults in four U. S.
cities. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 81(3), 401-409.
Thompson, S. J., Bender, K., Cardoso, J. B., & Flynn, P. M. (2011). Experiential
activities in family therapy: Perceptions of caregivers and youth. Journal of
Child and Family Studies.
Thompson, S. J., Bender, K., Kim, J. (2011). Family factors as predictors of
depression among runaway youth: Do males and females differ? The Child
and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 28, 35-48.
Tripodi, S. & Bender, K. (2011). Substance abuse treatment for juvenile
offenders: A review of quasi-experimental and experimental research. The
Journal of Criminal Justice, 39, 246-252.
Brisson, D. & Altschul, I. (2011). Collective efficacy predicting experience of material
hardship in low-income neighborhoods. Urban Affairs Review, 47(4), 541-563.
Williford, A. P., Brisson, D., Bender, K. A., Jenson, J. M. & Forrest-Bank, S. (2011).
Patterns of aggressive behavior and peer victimization from childhood to early
adolescence: A latent class analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40, 644-655.
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Dettlaff, A., Rivaux, S., Baumann, D. J., Fluke, J. D., & Rycraft, J. R. (2011),
Disentangling substantiation: The influence of race, income, and risk on the
substantiation decision in child welfare. Children and Youth Services Review,
33 (9), 1630-1637.
Gilbert, R., Fluke, J., O’Donnell, M., Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A., Brownell, M.,
Gulliver, P., Janson, S., & Sidebotham, P. (December, 2011). Trends in child
maltreatment in six developed countries. Lancet.
Nicotera, N., Cutforth, N., Fretz, E. & Summers-Thompson, S. (2011). Dedication
to the public good: A higher education conundrum? Journal of Community
Engagement and Scholarship, 4(1), 37-49.
Nickels, S. N., Walls, N. E., Laser, J., & Wisneski, H. (2011). Differences in
motivations of cutting behavior among sexual minority youth. Journal of Child
& Adolescent Social Work, 29, 41-59.
Seelman, K. L., Walls, N. E., Hazel, C., & Wisneski, H. (2012). Student school
engagement among sexual minority youth: Understanding the contributors to
academic achievement. Journal of Social Service Research, 38, 3-17.
Peer-Reviewed Presentations
Lee, S. J., & Altschul, I. (2011, June). Risk and protective factors associated
with spanking and other forms of aggressive parenting among Latino fathers.
Poster presented at The Global Summit on Ending Corporal Punishment and
Promoting Positive Discipline, Dallas, TX.
Bexell, S. M., Xu, P. & Li, Y. (2011, November) Increasing success of reintroduction
of wild animals through public education. Presentation at the Giant Panda
Annual Meeting, Changsha, Hunan, P. R. China.
Adams, R. A. & Bexell, S. M. (2011, October). Estimates of urban and rural bat
species presence and educational outreach in Sichuan Province, China. Poster
presentation at the North American Symposium for Bat Research, Toronto,
Canada.
Bexell, S. M., Tang, Y. F., Wang, Y. M., and Xu P. (2011, June). Overcoming
psychological barriers to animal welfare and wildlife conservation through
early childhood education. Presentation at the Asia for Animals Conference,
Chengdu, P. R. China.
Li Y., Bexell, S. M., Wang, J. P. & Xu P. (2011, June). Conservation education as a
tool for protecting giant panda habitat and minority cultures in rural Southwest
China. Presentation at the Asia for Animals Conference, Chengdu, P. R. China.
Fluke, J., Casillas, K, & Cappa, C., (2011, October). Child disciplinary practices:
Results from the MICS3. 9th ISPCAN Asia Pacific Conference on Child Abuse &
Neglect. Delhi, India
Boeckel, J. A., Ortega, D. M., Chifalo, M. (2011, September). Parenting for Latinos
in same-gender love relationships. 1st annual Gender and Love conference.
University of Oxford. Oxford, England.
Longo, J., Walls, N. E., & Wisneski, H. (2011, August). Religious tradition
and religiosity: Protective or risk factors for sexual minority youth. Paper
accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association. Washington, DC.
The following papers were presented in October 2011 at the Council on Social
Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Atlanta, GA:
Chifalo, M. J., Boeckel, J. A., Ortega, D. M. The experience of parenting for gay
and lesbian Latinos.
Petrila, A., Sienkiewicz, M. & Bensen, K. An integrated approach to field
problem identification and resolution: From “cradle to grave.”
Sienkiewicz, M. & Petrila, A. A field education database worth having: A stateof-the-art
web database that serves the field team, agencies, and students.
Nickels, S. N., & Walls, N. E. Differences in motivations of cutting behavior
among sexual minority youth.
The following papers were presented in January 2012 at the Annual
Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research in Washington, DC:
Altschul, I., Clark, L., & Roybal, K. What it means to be a leader: Conceptions
of leadership among low-income, urban adolescents.
Lee, S., Altschul, I., & Gershoff, L. The association of maternal physical
punishment and warmth with children’s aggressive and positive behaviors.
Altschul, I., Lee, S., & Gershoff, L. Father’s physical punishment and child
externalizing behavior: A longitudinal examination.
Bender, K., Thompson, S., Ferguson, K., Komlo, C., Taylor, C., & Yoder, J.
The relationship between trauma and substance use among street-involved
young people.
Ferguson, K., Bender, K., Thompson, S., Bin, X., & Pollio, D. E. Exploration of
arrest activity among homeless young adults in four U.S. cities.
Lippman, A., Thompson, S., Ryan, T., Bender, K., & Ferguson, K. Resiliency
among highly transient homeless young adults: An exploratory study.
Brisson, D., Jenson, J. M., Bender, K. A., & Williford, A. Person-centered
effects of the Youth Matters program: Results from a group-randomized
trial.
Dettlaff, A., Graham, J. C., Baumann, D., & Fluke, J. Factors that influence the
removal decision in child protective services: Development of an instrument
to understand the decision-making process.
Gilbert, R., Fluke, J., O’Donnell, M., Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A., Brownell, M.,
Gulliver, P., Janson, S., & Sidebotham, P. Trends in child maltreatment in six
developed countries.
Jenson, J. M. Promoting positive development in children, youth, and families.
Jenson, J. M., Brisson, D., Bender, K. A., Williford, A., & Forrest-Bank, S. S.
Effects of the Youth Matters prevention program on bullying and peer
victimization among elementary and middle school students.
Potter, C., Altschul, I., & Middleton, J. Using existing scales to assess child
welfare workforce characteristics: How scales fail.
Middleton, J., Potter, C., & Altschul, I. The relationship between vicarious
traumatization and retention among child welfare professionals.
In addition to the GSSW doctoral students listed as co-authors and copresenters
above, doctoral students Sarah Nickels and Jennifer Dickman
Portz were co-presenters of the following recent presentations:
Fairbrother, G., LeSueur, P., Nickels, S., & Ramos, M. (2011, June). CHIPRA:
Demonstrating quality health care via school-based health centers.
Workshop presented at the National School-Based Health Care Convention,
Chicago, IL.
Portz, J. D. (2012, January) Translating the NORC model to address health and
social service gaps for GLBT senior population residing in and around Capitol
Hill neighborhood, Denver, CO. Poster presented at the Sixteenth Annual
Society for Social Work Research Conference, Washington, DC.
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Jeff Jenson, Philip D. and Eleanor G. Winn Professor for Children
and Youth at Risk, delivered a presentation at Oxford University’s
Department of Social Policy and Intervention in Oxford, England on
November 30, 2011. His presentation was entitled Effects of a bully
prevention program on patterns of bullying and victimization from
elementary to middle school.
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Associate Professor Eugene Walls
was featured in the University of
Buffalo School of Social Work’s
podcast series, Living Proof, discussing
research that he and his team
of faculty, graduate students and
community partners have been
conducting on gay/straight alliances
(GSAs) in schools and the impact the
alliances have on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth.
The podcast episode, School engagement among sexual minority students:
Allies, alliances and academic outcomes, includes the implications
of Walls’ research findings for school social workers, educators and
other adult allies of LGBT youth. To access the podcast click here, then
select Episode 89.
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