Social Work Reseach Studies

Anthony Hassan, MSW, EdD will be speaking at the National Association of Social Workers 2012 Conference
RESTORING HOPE: THE POWER OF SOCIAL WORK

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Anthony Hassan, MSW, EdD
University of Southern California, School of Social Work

  • Clinical Associate Professor
  • Director, USC Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families

Dr. Hassan's career has been marked by an interest in administration, leadership and innovation. He previously served as deputy department head of the Leadership Directorate and director of the master's degree program in counseling and leadership at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He transformed the graduate program's curriculum ensuring quality education for more than 80 top-tier Air Force commanders and improving cadet leader development and squadron organizational performance. At the academy, Hassan also helped develop a defense health program research project to study factors promoting resiliency in the Army National Guard. Prior to the Air Force Academy, he was the CEO of a military community mental health center, which ranked No. 1 of 10 community mental health centers in the region for productivity and "best clinic."

Hassan served during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 on the first-ever Air Force combat stress control and prevention team embedded with an Army unit. He was also hand-selected to assist and educate East-African countries in 2006 with capacity building for disaster response. Adding to his work abroad, Hassan led the largest military substance abuse and family advocacy programs in the Pacific which were recognized as benchmark programs and training sites for all other Pacific bases.

http://sowkweb.usc.edu/faculty/anthony-hassan
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/experts/1695.html

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Jan Nissly, MSW, PhD
University of Southern California, School of Social Work

  • Research Assistant Professor

A former social work practitioner, Dr. Nissly possesses 20 years of experience in the fields of mental health and veteran's issues. Specializing in crisis intervention and stress response, she practiced in acute psychiatry, post-traumatic stress disorder treatment, emergency response and homeless services within the Department of Veterans Affairs and in two civilian hospital trauma units. She also served for five years as a member of the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Services team, providing stress responses services after community and aviation disasters.

With particular interests in disaster, stress and trauma, coping, and workforce issues, she has published and presented in a variety of areas, including occupational stress and worker well-being, mental health screening, and stress-related intervention. Her publications appear in several peer-reviewed journals including Social Service Review, Children and Youth Services Review, Administration in Social Work, and Community Mental Health Journal.

Nissly's current research interests focus on preparing practitioners to meet the needs of returning service members and their families, provision of supports and services to families of deployed and returning service members, and on innovative approaches to identifying and engaging at-risk veterans into community services. She has served as an investigator on eight sponsored projects and is currently leading the evaluation of a large-scale mental health workforce training intervention designed to prepare mental health workers to meet the psychosocial needs of returning service members, veterans and their families.

http://sowkweb.usc.edu/faculty/jan-nissly

 

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LTC Jeffrey Yarvis, PhD
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Fort Belvoir Community Hospital

  • Deputy Commander for Behavioral Health Service (Fort Belvoir Community Hospital)
  • Assistant Professor of Family Medicine (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)

Dr. Yarvis’s doctoral research was conducted with Veterans Affairs Canada on post-traumatic stress disorder and he recently published the first definitive text on sub-threshold PTSD in Veterans and was a contributing author on the new Textbook of Military Medicine on Operation Behavioral Health. He has written doctrine on COSC during support and sustainment operations and standards for military social work curriculum for the Council on Social Work Education. Dr. Yarvis has presented his work at numerous international medical conferences and has published his work on traumatic stress in several peer reviewed journals. He is currently writing textbook for Sage Publications called Social Work Practice with Veterans: An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment.

http://www.icsw.edu/conference/yarvis.php

 
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Jesse Harris, MA, MSW, PhD
University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Social Work

  • Professor

Dr. Harris’s research has specialized in the history of Social Work in the Military, the psychosocial stress of soldiers and military families, and the stress of families. He holds a broad view of clinical social work practice in relation to health and mental health, and its requisite high level of clinical skills. This view he has promoted and implemented in programs encompassing soldiers and their families around the globe. It now infuses the mission and service of the social work outreach center he established at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. The Center’s target population are the children and families of one of Baltimore’s neediest communities. Under his leadership, the Center has developed links with the University of Maryland Medical School, the Baltimore Public School System, the Baltimore Department of Housing, and other city agencies.

http://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/faculty_and_research/bios/harris/
http://www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/h/harris.htm

 

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Gary Bowen, PhD
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Social Work

  • Kenan Distinguished Professor

Dr. Bowen’s research investigates social work with families; middle and high school success; crime and violence in schools; work and family linkages; military families; community capacity building; neighborhood effects; and performance driven management. His fieldwork in military social work focuses on helping military commanders understand how soldiers returning from active duty can successfully transition into non-active duty life.

http://ssw.unc.edu/about/faculty/bowen-g
http://www.unc.edu/meet-a-tar-heel/CCM1_032346
http://ssw.unc.edu/files/u9/attachments/UniversityGazette_BowenArticle2-24-10.pdf

 

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Ruth Paris, MSW, PhD
Boston University

  • Associate Professor of Clinical Practice
  • Director, Family Therapy Certificate Program

Dr. Harris studies the therapeutic interventions for parents and young children; cross-cultural parenting; caregiving over the life course; mixed methods research; and family therapy practice and research. She has recently co-presented on the challenges of military families with children. These presentations include:

Paris, R., DeVoe, R., Spencer, R., & Ross, A. (January, 2010). Military families with young children: Facing the challenges of deployment and reintegration. Presentation at the annualmeeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Francisco, CA. (moderator and symposium convener)

Paris, R., DeVoe, E., & Acker, M. (December, 2009). Servicing military families with young children: Preliminary findings from the development of a home-based reintegration program. Presentation at the National Training Institute of Zero To Three, Dallas, TX.

DeVoe, E., Paris, R., Ross, A. (November, 2009). From US warrior to preschool parent: Reintegration after deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan. Poster presentation at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.

http://www.bu.edu/ssw/about/facultystaff/faculty/paris/


 


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