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November 06, 2009

 

The Faculty and Their Research

Gloria Adams portrait photo Gloria Adams, Lecturer and Coordinator, Faith-Based Community Partnerships; D.Min., Hartford Seminary. Spirituality and religion in social work.
Jean Bacon portrait photo Jean Bacon, Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Field Instruction; Ph.D., South Carolina. Death and dying, ethnic-sensitive practice, AIDS, child welfare, qualitative methods, mental health, student-community development, women’s studies.
Candyce Berger portrait photo Candyce S. Berger, Associate Professor; Ph.D., USC. Health policy, social work practice in health-care settings, structure and financing of health-care delivery, administration and leadership, resizing and restructuring strategies, case management, women’s health.
Joel Blau portrait photo Joel Blau, Professor and Director of the Ph.D. program; D.S.W., Columbia. Social policy, history of social welfare, poverty, homelessness, the political economy of social welfare, comparative social welfare.
Ruth Brandwein portrait photo Ruth Brandwein, Professor; Ph.D., Brandeis. Family violence, welfare, and poverty; women in administration; organizational and social change; single-parent families; feminist frameworks; history of U.S. social policy; international social welfare.
Frances Brisbane portrait photo Frances Brisbane, Professor and Dean; Ph.D., Union (Ohio). Alcoholism, counseling with people of color, complementary medicine.
Angel Campos portrait photo Angel P. Campos, Associate Professor and Executive Associate Dean; Ed.D., Columbia. Hispanics/Latinos in the United States, the Hispanic/Latino family, mental health and the Hispanic/Latino, cross-cultural social work practice, cultural competency in social work practice, social gerontology, social work education
Thomas Cassidy portrait photo Thomas M. Cassidy, Clinical Associate Professor, M.A., geriatric care management, professional continuing education, Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care financing and the prevention of elder fraud and abuse. Author of, Elder Care/What To Look For/What To Look Out For! (New Horizon Press, 2004) Co-editor of, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Aging (Springer Publishing Company, 2004).
John Colon portrait photo John Colon, Lecturer; M.A., Inter American of Puerto Rico. Substance abuse, methadone treatment, inner-city community-based organizations, grant reviewer for SAMSHA.
Harvey Faberman portrait photo Harvey A. Farberman, Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota. Philosophy of social work, public mental health services, research.
  Jack Farrington, Clinical Associate Professor; Ph.D., Nova Southeastern. Community health orientation, advocacy, human rights for Long Island teenagers, domestic violence.
Jean Bertrand Finc portrait photo Jean Bertrand Finch, Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for Field Instruction; D.S.W., Columbia. Child welfare, social work practice, drug-involved women and their children, clinical practice with children in foster care, qualitative research, and quality assurance within nonprofit organizations.
  Linda E. Francis, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director, Graduate Program; Ph.D., Indiana. Mental health, health services research, qualitative methods, stress and emotion.
Rose Leung portrait photo Rose Leung, Assistant Professor; Psy.D., Biola. Community psychology, community mental health, psychosocial models of intervention, Asian-American communities’ needs and assessments, racial/cultural sensitivity training and education.
Michael Lewis portrait photo Michael A. Lewis, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for New York City Sites; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center. Poverty and social policy, the application of sociology, economics, and moral philosophy to the examination of social policy and social programs.
Abraham Lurie portrait photo Abraham Lurie, Professor; Ph.D., NYU. Mental health, case management, the aged.
Kathleen Monahan portrait photo Kathleen Monahan, Associate Professor; D.S.W., Adelphi. Siblings and sexual abuse, battered women, domestic violence, disability.
Richard Morgan portrait photo Richard Morgan, Clinical Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Fordham. Child welfare policy and programs, child sexual abuse and juvenile sex offenders, research.
Bertha Murphy portrait photo Bertha Murphy, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director, Undergraduate Program; M.S.W., SUNY at Stony Brook. Substance abuse and ethnically sensitive practice.
Carolyn Peabody portrait photo Carolyn Peabody, Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for Eastern Long Island Sites; Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook. Advocacy/empowerment theory and practice, feminist theory and practice, mental health, lesbian and gay issues, development of political identity among oppressed populations, impact of sexual abuse histories among mental health populations.
Charles Robbins portrait photo Charles Robbins, Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, D.S.W., Yeshiva. Violence in intimate relationships and as a public health problem, health-care policy, health care disparities, social work and health care, the use of complementary medicine, men’s health, cultural competency.
Carlos Vidal portrait photo Carlos M. Vidal, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Development; Ph.D., Fordham. Child welfare policy and research methods, Hispanics, empowerment and advocacy, health-care issues among children of color, violence in schools and communities of color.
Betty Jean Wrase portrait photo Betty Jean Wrase, Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Field Instruction; M.S.W., SUNY at Stony Brook. Program evaluation, social welfare administration, case management and health.

RESEARCH, SERVICE, AND TRAINING PROJECTS

Center for Health Promotion and Wellness
Centers for Culturally Competent Education and Training
New York State Center for Aging Policy Research
New York State Center for Sudden Infant Death
Project for Aging and Cultural Diversity
Resource Center for Spirituality and Health Care Education
Sayville Project
The Child Welfare Training Program
The Family Violence Education and Research Center
The Social Justice Center
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