Recent Faculty Publications

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Lonnie Berger, Ph.D.Associate Professor

Berger, Lawrence M., Heintze, Theresa, Meyers, Marcia K., and Naidich, Wendy B. (in press). “Subsidized Housing and Household Hardship Among Low-Income Single-Mother Households.” Journal of Marriage and Family.

Osborne, Cynthia and Berger, Lawrence M. (in press). “Parental Substance Abuse and Child Well-Being: A Consideration of Parent Gender and Coresidence.” Journal of Family Issues.

Mersky, Joshua P., Berger, Lawrence M., Reynolds, Arthur J., and Gromoske, Andrea N. (in press). “Risk Factors for Child and Adolescent Maltreatment: A Longitudinal Investigation of a Cohort of Inner-City Youth.” Child Maltreatment.

Berger, Lawrence M., Carlson, Marcia J., Bzostek, Sharon H., and Osborne, Cynthia. (2008). “Parenting Practices of Resident Fathers: The Role of Marital and Biological Ties.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 70(3), 625-639.

Berger, Lawrence M., Brown, Patricia, Joung, Eun Hee, Melli, Marygold, S., and Wimer, Lynn. (2008). “The Stability of Child Physical Placements Following Divorce: Descriptive Evidence from Wisconsin.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 70(2), 273-283.

Berger, Lawrence M., Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Paxson, Christina, and Waldfogel, Jane. (2008) “First-Year Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: Variation Across Racial and Ethnic Groups.” Children and Youth Services Review, 30(4), 365-387.

Aaron Brower, Ph.D.Professor and Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning

Heiss Arms, J.K., Cabrera, A.F., Brower, A.M. (2008). Moving Into Students’ Spaces: The Impact of Location of Academic Advising on Student Engagement Among Undecided Students. NACADA Journal (the Journal of the National Academic Advising Association), 28(1), 8-18.

Soldner, M., Inkelas, K. K., & Brower, A. M. (2008). Learning Communities. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology, 2, 579-584. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Brower, A.M. (2008). More like a home than a hotel: The impact of living-learning programs on college high-risk drinking. Journal of College and University Student Housing, 35(1), 30-47.

Brower, A.M., Garvin, C.D., & Kettner-Polley, R. (2008). Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation, and Application. In Gitterman, A., & Salmon, R. (Eds.). Encyclopedia of social work with groups. New York: Routledge.

Bergman, C.J. & Brower, A.M. (forthcoming). Faculty involvement in residence halls: Bridging between faculty and staff cultures by implementing and extending the features of residential learning communities. Chapter 7 in W. Zeller & T. Skipper (Eds.) Residence Life Programs and the First Year Experience. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.

Maria Cancian, Ph.D.Professor

Nam, Kisun, Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer. Forthcoming. "How Program Participants Learn Program Rules: Implications for Implementation and Evaluation." Social Service Review.

Cancian, Maria, Daniel R. Meyer and Emma Caspar. 2008. "Welfare and Child Support: Complements, not Substitutes" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 27(2):354-375.

Meyer, Daniel R., Maria Cancian and Steven Cook. 2005. "Multiple Partner Fertility: Incidence and Implications for Child Support Policy." Social Service Review. 79 (4): 577-601. (Received 2006 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize).

Jan Steven Greenberg, Ph.D.Professor and Director

Ha, J.H., Hong, J., Seltzer, M.M., & Greenberg, J.S. (in press). Age and gender differences in the well-being of midlife and aging parents with children with mental health problems or developmental disorders: Report of a national study. Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Rogers, C., Floyd, F.J., Seltzer, M.M., Greenberg, J.S., & Hong, J. (in press). Long-term effects of the death of a child on parents’ adjustment in midlife. Family Psychology.

Smith, L. E., Seltzer, M. M., Tager-Flusberg, H., Greenberg, J. S., & Carter, A. S. (in press). A comparative analysis of well-being and coping among mothers of toddlers and mothers of adolescents with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Seltzer, M.M., Greenberg, J.S., Orsmond, G.I., Lounds, J., & Smith, M.J. (in press). Unanticipated lives: Inter- and intra-generational relationships in families with children with disabilities. In A. Booth, A. Crouter, S. Bianchi,& J.A. Seltzer (Eds.), Caring exchange within and across generations. Washington,DC: Urban Institute Press.

Betty Kramer, Ph.D.Professor

Gardner, D. S. & Kramer, B.J.  (in Press).  “End of life concerns and care preferences:  Congruence among terminally ill elders and their family members.” OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying.

Kramer, B.J., Kavanaugh, M., Trentham-Dietz, A., Walsh, M., & Yonker, J.A. (2009).  Predictors of family conflict at the end of life: The experience of spouses and adult children of persons with lung cancer. The Gerontologist, doi: 10.1093/geront/gnp121.

Kramer, B. J., Boelk, A., & Auer, C. (2006).Family conflict at the end-of-life:  Lessons learned in a model program for vulnerable older adults. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 9, 791-801.

Hooyman, N. R. & Kramer, B. J. (2006). Living throughloss: Interventions across the lifespan. Columbia University Press.

Sandra Magaña, Ph.D.Associate Professor and Chican@/Latin@ Studies Program Director

Magaña, S. & Smith, M. (in press). Health behaviors, service utilization and access to care among older mothers of color who have children with developmental disabilities. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Parish, S., Magaña, S., & Cassiman, S. (2008). It's just that much harder: Multi-layered hardship experiences by low-Income mothers with disabilities. Affilia.

Magaña, S., & Cassiman, S. (2008). SSI. In the Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th Edition. NASW and Oxford University Press.

Magaña, S., Parish, S., & Cassiman, S. (In press). Policy lessons from low-income mothers with disabilities. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.

Katherine Magnuson, Ph.D.Assistant Professor

Magnuson, K. and Jane Waldfogel, Editors. (2008). Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap, Russel Sage Foundation, N.Y.

Gennetian, L., Magnuson, K. and Morris, P. (in press). From statistical associations to causation: What developmentalists can learn from instrumental variables techniques coupled with experimental data. Developmental Psychology.

Magnuson, K. (2007).Maternal education and children’s academic achievement during middle childhood. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1497-1512.

Magnuson, K., Ruhm, C. and Waldfogel, J. (2007). The Persistence of Preschool Effects: Do Subsequent Classroom Experiences Matter? Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 22,18-38.

Magnuson, K., Meyers, M., and Waldfogel, J. (2007). The Effects of Expanded Public Funding For Early Education and Child Care on Preschool Enrollments during the 1990s. Social Service Review, 81, 47-83.
Colleen Mahoney, Ph.D.Assistant Professor

Angell, Beth, & Mahoney, Colleen A. (2007). Reconceptualizing the case management relationship in intensive treatment: A study of staff perceptions and experiences. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 34, 172-188.

Angell, Beth, Martinez, Noriko I., Mahoney, Colleen A., & Corrigan, Patrick W. (2007). Money management, financial leverage, and the client-provider relationship. Psychiatric Service, 58,365-372.

Mahoney, Colleen, Engstrom, Malitta, & Marsh, Jeanne C. (2006). Substance use issues in social work practice in health care. In S. Gehlert & T.A. Browne (Eds.), Handbook of Health Social Work. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Daniel R. Meyer, Ph.D.Professor

2007 Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Emma Caspar. “Welfare and Child Support: Complements, Not Substitutes.” Forthcoming in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Revised government report.

2007 Daniel R. Meyer, Yoonsook Ha, and Mei-Chen Hu. “Do Higher Child Support Orders Discourage Child Support Payments?” Forthcoming in Social Service Review. Revised government report.

2007 Daniel R. Meyer, Maria Cancian, and Kisun Nam. “Welfare and Child Support Program Knowledge Gaps Reduce Program Effectiveness.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 26:575-601. Revised government report.

Tally Moses, Ph.D.Assistant Professor

Moses, T. (In Press). The 'other' effects of psychotropic medication: Social workers' perspectives on the psychosocial effects of medication treatment on adolescent clients. Child and Adolescent Social Work.

Moses, T. (In Press). Psychotropic medication practices with youth „in the system‟:
Social workers‟ perspectives. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

Moses, T., Leuchter, A., Cook, I. & Abrams, M. (2007). What shapes depressed subjects‟ pre-
treatment expectations? Internet Journal of Mental Health, 3(2).

Moses, T. & Kirk, S. (In press). Social work roles in drug treatment with youth. Social
Work in Mental Health.

Stephanie Robert, Ph.D.Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies

Yao, Li and Stephanie A. Robert. In press. "The contributions of race, individual socioeconomic status, and neighborhood socioeconomic context in the self-rated health trajectories and mortality of older adults." Research on Aging.

Chou, Rita Jing-Ann and Stephanie A. Robert. In press. "Workplace support, role overload, and job satisfaction of direct care workers in assisted living." Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Weden, Margaret, Richard Carpiano, and Stephanie Robert. In press. "Subjective and objective neighborhood characteristics and adult health." Social Science and Medicine.

Tracy Schroepfer, Ph.D.Assistant Professor and Director of Part-time Education Schroepfer, T. (2008). Social Relationships and Their Role in the Consideration to Hasten Death. The Gerontologist, 48(5), 612-621.

Schroepfer, T. (2007). Critical events in the dying process: The potential for physical and psychosocial suffering. Journal of Palliative Medicine,10(1), 136-147.

Feld, S., Dunkle, R. E., Schroepfer, T., & Shen, H. W. (2006). Expansion of elderly couples’ IADL caregiver networks beyond the marital dyad. International Journal of Aging and Human Development,63(2), 95-113.

Schroepfer, T. (2006). Mind frames towards dying and factors motivating their adoption by terminally ill elders. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences,61B(3), S129-S139.

Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Ph.D.Professor and Director, Waisman Center
Kristen Shook Slack, Ph.D.Associate Professor and Associate Director

Yoo, J., Slack, K.S., and Holl, J. (forthcoming). Material hardship and physical health of school-age, low-income children. American Journal of Public Health.

Renner, L.R., Slack, K.S. and Berger, L. (forthcoming). A descriptive study of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment: Implications for child welfare policy. In D. Lindsey and A. Shlonsky (eds.). Child Welfare Research. New York: Oxford University Press.

Slack, K.S., Lee, B.J., and Berger, L. (2007). Do Welfare Sanctions Increase Child Protective Services Involvement? A Cautious Answer. Social Service Review, 81(2), 207-228.

Slack, K.S., Magnuson, K. & Berger, L.M. (2007). Introduction to the Special Issue: How Are Children and Families Faring a Decade After Welfare Reform? Evidence from Five Non-Experimental Panel Studies. (Special Issue of the Children and Youth Services Review, guest-edited by K.S.

Slack, K. Magnuson, & L. Berger), 29(6), 693-697. Slack, K.S., Holl, J., Yoo, J., Amsden, L. Collins, E, and Bolger, K. (2007). Welfare, Work and Health Insurance among Illinois TANF Families: An Exploration of Children’s Physical Health. (Special Issue of the Children and Youth Services Review, guest-edited by K.S. Slack, K. Magnuson, & L. Berger), 29(6), 762-781