School of Social Work Faculty Publications
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Submissions from 2023
Human Rights and Latina Feminisms: Implications for Clinical Practice with the Latine Diaspora in Anti-immigrant Times, Leticia Villarreal Sosa and Miriam Castillo Martinez
Decolonizing Faculty Governance at Hispanic Serving Institutions, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, Gina A. Garcia, and Jacob Bucher
School Social Work 238 Exam Preparation: Resources and Handouts, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, Tiffany Nelson, Brenda Coble-Lindsey, Annette Johnson, and Giesela Grumbach
Beyond the Treatment: the Role of Race, Sex, and Education in Health Trajectories Between Cancer Survivors and Noncancer Older Adults, Minzhi Ye, Eva Kahana, Gary Deimling, Adam Perzynski, and Kurt Stange
Two pathways to Mexico: Forced deportation or voluntary return of parents and US citizen children, Luis H. Zayas, Guillermina Natera, Fransilvania Callejas, Georgina Miguel Esponda, Miguel Pinedo, and Jaime Fuentes-Balderrama
Submissions from 2022
Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships During COVID-19: Providing Virtual Field Opportunities for Student Learners and Addressing Social Isolation in Older Adults, Omolola E. Adepoju, Sheara Jennings, Patti Schrader, Kathleen Reeve, Tracy McManaman-Bridges, Lauren Gilbert, Ben King, Jessica Dobbins, Andy Rollins, and Luis R. Torres-Hostos
COVID-19 Pandemic and Intimate Partner Violence: an Analysis of Help-Seeking Messages in the Spanish-Speaking Media, Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez, Iris Cardenas, and Allison Bloom
Contact based intervention reduces stigma among pharmacy students, Christine R. Bakos-Block, Tamara Al Rawwad, Marylou Cardenas-Turanzas, and Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer
Understanding and Addressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Latinx Families & Children With Developmental Disabilities, Jasmine P. Brown-Hollie, Mansha Mirza, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Vanessa L. Errisuriz, Weiwen Zeng, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Deborah Parra-Medina, Paula Morales, Hilda Torres, and Sandy Magana
Improving Spanish Translations of Tobacco Dependence Measures Using Cognitive Interviewing, Yessenia Castro, Annette Leija, Zully C. Guerra, Tatiana Londoño, Nazanin M. Heydarian, and Virmarie Correa-Fernández
Remedios: Coping with Mental Distress among Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley, Romeo Escobar, Irán Barrera, Denise Longoria, John M. Gonzalez, and Isaias Melgoza
“The hierarchy is your constraint:” a qualitative investigation of social workers’ moral distress across a U.S. health system, Sophia Fantus, Rebecca Cole, and Lataya Hawkins
A Brief Report Examining the Stereotype Content Model with Blind Americans, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Yessenia Castro, and Osvaldo F. Morera
System Dynamics of Cognitive Vulnerabilities and Family Support Among Latina Children and Adolescents, Peter S. Hovmand, Esther J. Calzada, Lauren E. Gulbas, Su Yeong Kim, Saras Chung, Jill Kuhlberg, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, and Luis H. Zayas
“It’s embarrassing. I get angry. I get frustrated.”: Understanding severe hypoglycemia and glucagon usage from the perspectives of people with type 1 diabetes, Allyson S. Hughes, Katherine Chapman, Jeoffrey Bispham, Jeannett Dimsits, Stuart Weinzimer, Wendy Wolf, and Nazanin M. Heydarian
“It’s embarrassing. I get angry. I get frustrated.”: Understanding severe hypoglycemia and glucagon usage from the perspectives of people with type 1 diabetes, Allyson S. Hughes, Katherine Chapman, Jeoffrey Bispham, Jeannett Dimsits, Stuart Weinzimer, Wendy Wolf, and Nazanin M. Heydarian
The impact of Strong Families, Strong Communities on relationship functioning in low-income African American and Hispanic individuals: Findings from a federally funded randomized control trial, Sheara Jennings, Luis R. Torres-Hostos, Roderick A. Rose, and Roberta Leal
Leadership challenges and strategies to dementia care in Chinese faith-based nursing homes: A qualitative study, Lin Jiang, Fei Sun, Robin P. Bonifas, and David R. Hodge
A Preliminary Exploration on the Views of Terrorism Among Indian and U.S. College Students, Eric G. Lambert, Shanhe Jiang, N. Prabha Unnithan, and Sudershan Pasupuleti
Research Note: The Effects of Organizational Trust on the Work Attitudes of U.S. Social Workers, Eric G. Lambert, Sudershan Pasupuleti, Terry Cluse-Tolar, Sridhar Srinivasan, and Shanhe Jiang
The role of community factors in predicting depressive symptoms among Chinese workforce: a longitudinal study in rural and urban settings, Wanlian Li, Guanghan Gao, Fei Sun, and Lin Jiang
The Contribution of Positive Affect and Loneliness on Readiness and Self-efficacy to quit smoking among Spanish-Speaking Mexican American Smokers, Tatiana Londoño, John R. Moore, Zully C. Guerra, Nazanin M. Heydarian, and Yessenia Castro
Disparities in Healthcare Access and Outcomes Among Racial and Ethnic Minoritized People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Get access Arrow, Sandy Magaña, Nazanin M. Heydarian, and Sandra Vanegas
Community-clinic linkages for promoting HIV prevention: organizational networks for PrEP client referrals and collaborations, Rebecca L. Mauldin, Tamara Al Rawwad, Muhammad Amith, Lisa M. Kuhns, John A. Schneider, and Kayo Fujimoto
Associations of positive and negative affect on health risk behaviors among Latinos., John R. Moore, Zully C. Guerra, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Tatiana Londoño, and Yessenia Castro
An Exploratory Study on the Role of Burnout and Devaluation among Staff in Psychiatric Correctional Facilities, Lindamarie Olson, Robin Gearing, Berenice Perez Ramirez, and Luis R. Torres-Hostos
Channa Reddy In Telangana Statehood Movement: Initiation, Intervention And Contribution, Jakkula Koteswar Rao and Ram Shepherd Bheenaveni
“Immigration Enforcement Is a Daily Part of Our Students’ Lives”: School Social Workers’ Perceptions of Racialized Nested Contexts of Reception for Immigrant Students, Sophia Rodriguez, Benjamin J. Roth, and Leticia Villarreal Sosa
The Texas Community-Engagement Research Alliance Against COVID-19 in Disproportionately Affected Communities (TX CEAL) Consortium, Rebecca A. Seguin-Fowler, Chris Amos, Bettina M. Beech, Robert L. Ferrer, Lorna McNeill, Jasmine J. Opusunju, Emily Spence, Erika L. Thompson, Luis R. Torres-Hostos, and Jamboor K. Vishwanatha
Suicide among South Asian Americans: A Systematic Review of Causal and Risk Factors, Susheelabai R. Srinivasa, Sudershan Pasupuleti, and Rani Dronamraju
Implementation of the Texas Community-Engaged Statewide Consortium for the Prevention of COVID-19, Erika L. Thompson, Bettina M. Beech, Robert L. Ferrer, Lorna McNeill, Jasmine J. Opusunju, Rebecca A. Seguin-Fowler, Emily Spence, Luis R. Torres-Hostos, Christopher I. Amos, Palak Desai, and Jamboor K. Vishwanatha
Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants, Carolina Venturi, Diana Guízar-Sánchez, María Elena Ramos-Tovar, Melissa Torres, Flor D. Avellaneda, Luis R. Torres-Hostos, and Omar Matuk-Villazon
School Social Work: Challenges and Opportunities, Leticia Villarreal Sosa
Latinos’ Conceptualization of Depression, Diabetes, and Mental Health–Related Stigma, Micki Washburn, Kathryne Brewer, Robin Gearing, Roberta Leal, Miao Yu, and Luis R. Torres
Social Work Advocacy in Federal Immigration Courts: A Consultant’s Reflection on Successful Cases, Luis H. Zayas
Submissions from 2021
Do nursing and pharmacy students practice what they preach on safe drug storage and disposal? A cross-sectional study, Tamara Al Rawwad, Patrici K. Schrader, Andrea Brooks, Lillian Duong, and Douglas Thornton
Teaching Note—Teaching Intersectionality Across the Social Work Curriculum Using the Intersectionality Analysis Cluster, Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez
“No queremos quedar mal”: A qualitative analysis of a boundary setting training among Latina community health workers., Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez, J. Maria Bermudez, Pamela Orpinas, Rebecca Matthew, Alejandra Calva, and Carolina Darbis
When a Crisis Becomes the New Normal: Supporting Children, Families, and Schools during and after COVID-19, Eileen A. Dombo, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, and Christine Sabatino
Challenges Faced by Mexican Americans when Accessing Mental Health Care Service Utilization along the South Texas – Mexico border, Romeo Escobar, John M. Gonzalez, Denise Longoria, and Nelda Rodriguez
Employing Mexican American Folklore as an Educational Tool to Teach Cultural Competence, Leyla Feize, Denise Longoria, and Alfredo Fernandez
Immigration Policy Changes and the Mental Health of Mexican-American Immigrants, Robin E. Gearing, Micki Washburn, Luis R. Torres-Hostos, L. Christian Carr, Alberto Cabrera, and Reyna Olivares
Motivational factors in continuing and completing outpatient mental health treatment: perspectives of older Mexican-American women, John M. Gonzalez, Steven Applewhite, Marissa C. Hansen, Denise Longoria, and Elizabeth I. Silva
Visual Impairment and Self-Efficacy in Diabetes Management, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Brittany Brown-Podgorski, and Jahanett Ramirez
A brief report of the prevalence of chronic and acute health conditions among blind American adults, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Yessenia Castro, and Osvaldo F. Morera
An Exploratory Mixed Methods Study of Diabetes self-management in Blind Americans, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Allyson S. Hughes, and Osvaldo F. Morera
Perspectives of Interactions with Healthcare Providers Among Patients Who Are Blind, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Allyson S. Hughes, Osvaldo F. Morera, Ashley S. Bangert, and Angela H. Frederick
Seeking Health Information and Social Support in the Diabetes Online Community, Allyson S. Hughes, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Diana Gerardo, Isabela Solis, and Osvaldo Morera
Human Rights, Collaborative Advocacy, and a Global Approach to Practice: Lessons from a Field Experience in Indonesia, Raylinn Nuckolls and Leticia Villarreal Sosa
Promotoras Voice Their Challenges in Fulfilling Their Role as Community Health Workers, Pamela Orpinas, Rebecca A. Matthew, Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez, Alejandra Calva, and J. Maria Bermúdez
Examining the Influence of Mental Health on Self-Stigma in a Mexican Prison, Berenice Perez Ramirez, Juan J. Barthelemy, Robin E. Gearing, Lindamarie Olson, Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, and Luis R. Torres-Hostos
Predictors of healthcare mistreatment among transgender and gender diverse individuals: Are there different patterns by patient race and ethnicity?, Kristie L. Seelman, Andre Vasi, Shanna K. Kattari, and Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez
Suicide among South Asians in the United States: Perspectives, Causes, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment, Susheelabai R. Srinivasa, Sudershan Pasupuleti, Rani Dronamraju, and Denise Longoria
Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Latinx Caregivers of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Mansha Mirza, Vanessa L. Errisuriz, Weiwen Zeng, Jasmine P. Brown, Sandra Vanegas, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Deborah Parra-Medina, Paula Morales, Hilda Torres, and Sandy Magaña
De-colonizing study abroad: social workers confronting racism, sexism and poverty in Guatemala, Leticia Villarreal Sosa and Jacob Lesniewski
Crossing Borders: Exploring the Role of School Social Workers in Immigrant-Serving Schools, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, Benjamin Roth, and Sophia Rodriguez
Submissions from 2020
HIV Knowledge of Middle Eastern and North Africans 18-35 Residing in the U.S.: A Cross Sectional Study, Tamara Al Rawwad, Micki Washburn, Luis R. Torres-Hostos, and McClain Sampson
“Borikén Libre”: Spaces of Resistance in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez
Community Eldercare Ecology in China, Lin Chen and Minzhi Ye
Geographic Proximity in the Community Eldercare, Lin Chen and Minzhi Ye
A Self-Reliant Umbrella: Defining Successful Aging Among the Old-Old (80+) in Shanghai, Lin Chen, Minzhi Ye, and Eva Kahana
Shaping Identity: Older Adults’ Perceived Community Volunteering Experiences in Shanghai, Lin Chen, Minzhi Ye, and Yilin Wu
My Dissertation: A Journey Towards Self-Awareness and Beyond, Leyla Feize
Developing a measure of blind patients' interactions with their healthcare providers, Nazanin M. Heydarian, Osvaldo F. Morera, and Scott D. Frankowski
Latina Daughters and Their Caregiving Roles, Denise A. Longoria, Nelda Rodriguez, John M. Gonzalez, and Romeo Escobar
A multistakeholder evaluation of Lazos Hispanos: An application of a community-based participatory research conceptual model, Pamela Orpinas, Rebecca A. Matthew, J. Maria Bermúdez, Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez, and Alejandra Calva
School Social Workers as Nepantleras in Equity Work for Immigrant Students: A Conceptual Exploration, Sophia Rodriguez, Benjamin Roth, and Leticia Villarreal Sosa
Depressive symptoms in three Chinese older workforce groups: the interplay of work stress with family and community factors, Fei Sun, Wanlian Li, Lin Jiang, and Jaewon Lee
Differences between pharmacists’ perception of counseling and practice in the era of prescription drug misuse, J. D. Thornton, Precious Anyanwu, Vaishnavi Tata, Tamara Al Rawwad, and Marc L. Fleming
The Intersection of the “Opioid Crisis” with Changes in US Immigration Policy: Contextual Barriers to Substance Abuse Research with Latinx Communities, Micki Washburn, Luis R. Torres-Hostos, Nicole Echeveria Moore, and Alberto Mancillas
Understanding the Effectiveness of Psychosocial Services for Anxiety and Depression in Chinese Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Trials, Anao Zhang, Dexia Kong, Lin Jiang, Fei Sun, Ruth E. Dunkle, and Chun Liu
Submissions from 2019
Suicide ideation, planning, and attempts: the case of the Latinx LGB youth, Javier F. Boyas, Tatiana Villarreal-Otálora, Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez, and Mariam Fatehi
Factors Affecting Perceptions of Disability and Self-Rated Health Among Older Adult, Long-Term Cancer Survivors, Gary Deimling, Holly Pappada, Minzhi Ye, Elizabeth Nalepa, Spencier Ciaralli, Erin Phelps, and Christopher J. Burant
Teaching self-awareness: social work educators’ endeavors and struggles, Leyla Feize and Catherine Faver
Universal design for inclusive science, Nazanin M. Heydarian
Health Service Use Among Chinese American Older Adults: Is There a Somatization Effect?, Lin Jiang, Fei Sun, Wei Zhang, Bei Wu, and XinQi Dong
The stress and coping experiences among Chinese rural older adults in welfare housing: through the lens of life review, Yan Luo, Fei Sun, Lin Jiang, and Anao Zhang
Pathogens without borders: Ecological determinants of sexual risk-taking behaviors among international travelers across the life course, Yok-Fong Paat and Luis R. Torres-Hostos
Accompaniment in a Mexican immigrant community: Conceptualization and identification of biopsychosocial outcomes, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, Silvia Diaz, and Rosalba Hernandez
Submissions from 2018
The power of culture and context on Hispanic/Latina teen pregnancy and birth in Oklahoma: provider and parental perspectives, Mónica M. Alzate, Susy Villegas, and Hamisu M. Salihu
“Their Today Is Our Future”: Direct Carers’ Work Experience and Formal Caring Relationships in a Community-Based Eldercare Program in Shanghai, Lin Chen, Minzhi Ye, and Eva Kahana
The influence of acculturation level and family relationships on quality of life among U.S. Chinese older adults, Yiwei Chen, Yisheng Peng, Minzhi Ye, Ling Xu, and Xinqi Dong
Role of Marital Quality in Explaining Depressive Symptoms After Marital Termination Among Older Adults, Minzhi Ye, Alfred DeMaris, and Monica A. Longmore
Submissions from 2017
Reconceptualizing Culture in Social Work Practice and Education: A Dialectic and Uniqueness Awareness Approach, Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez and Y. Joon Choi
Recall and response time norms for English–Swahili word pairs and facts about Kenya, Ashley S. Bangert and Nazanin M. Heydarian
23 Systems Contexts for Designing Culturally Adapted Prevention Interventions, Felipe González Castro, Tara G. Bautista, Maria Isabel Hombrados Mendieta, Sandra Oviedo Ramirez, Nazanin M. Heydarian, and Allyson S. Hughes
Altruism and Life Satisfaction Among LGBT Older Adults, Boaz Kahana, Eva Kahana, Tirth Bhatta, Minzhi Ye, and Jiao Yu
A Systematic Review of Mexican American Elders with Type-2 Diabetes under Family Care of Medication Administration in Borderland, Hsueh-Fen S. Kao, Diana L. Woods, Minzhi Ye, Lin Chen, Maria A. Amaya, and Show-Mei Lin
Mealtime interactions and life satisfaction among older adults in Shanghai, Minzhi Ye, Lin Chen, and Eva Kahana
A New Era in Living Arrangements: Determinants of Quality of Life Among Chinese Older Adults, Minzhi Ye, Yiwei Chen, and Yisheng Peng
Submissions from 2016
Older Mexican Americans: Role of the Family and Mental Health Service Utilization, John M. Gonzalez, Denise Longoria, Romeo Escobar, and Leyla Feize
Developing Theory With the Grounded-Theory Approach and Thematic Analysis, Nazanin M. Heydarian
Submissions from 2015
Cell Phones, Eva Kahana and Minzhi Ye
Submissions from 2014
The influence of domestic living arrangement and neighborhood identity on mental health among urban Chinese elders, Minzhi Ye and Yiwei Chen
Submissions from 2013
The Role of Children’s Support in Elders’ Decisions to Live in a Yanglaoyuan (Residential Long-Term Care), Lin Chen and Minzhi Ye
Increasing MSW Students’ Information Competencies through Online Tutorials, Application Exercises, and Course Assignments, John A. Kayser, Jennifer Bowers, Lin Jiang, and Marian Bussey
Empowering Latino Church Leaders to Deal with the HIV-AIDS Crisis: A Strengths-Oriented Service Model, Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, Héctor Luis Díaz, Janis B. Feldman, and Johnny Ramírez-Jorge
Submissions from 2008
Contemplative Theory and Practice for Social Work, Edmund Sherman and Max Siporin
Submissions from 2004
Access to Health Care Among Latinos of Mexican Descent in Colonias in Two Texas Counties, Larry Ortiz, Lydia Arizmendi, and Llewellyn J. Cornelius
