GSSW

Most Recent Publications...

Therapeutic Interventions With Ethnic Elders: Health and Social Issues, Sara Aleman, PHD, MSW, ACSW, Tanya Fitzpatrick, DSW, RN, Thanh V Tran. PHD, MSSW, Elizabeth Gonzalez, PHD, RN, CS

Child Welfare Outcome Research in The States, The United Kingdom, and Australia, Anthony M. Maluccio, Frank Ainsworth, June Thoburn

Social Work With Elders: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Assessment and Intervention, Kathleen McInnis-Dittrich

BC GSSW Collaborative field Education 3rd Edition: Essentials for Social Work Students, Supervisors and Advisors 2001-2002, P.Collins, R. Tourse, W. Keaney, and S. Platt

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We are pleased to announce that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has approved a second grant that will support the continued development of the Sloan Work-Family Researchers Electronic Network. The Center sends a hardy congratulations to Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Teri Ann Lilly, and Brad Googins for their continued dedication on this valuable initiative. This second phase of the Sloan Work-Family Researchers Electronic Network will be a structural collaboration between the Center for Work & Family, the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, the BC Library System and the Center for Corporate Citizenship.

Assistant Professor John McNutt co-presented "A Conceptual Framework for Classifying Electronic Advocacy: Implications for Social Work Education," "Critical Issues in Technology and Distance Education" and "Using Web-Based Database Technology to Teach Social Policy Research" at the annual program meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Dallas.

Professor Betty Blythe received $15,000 for "Planning the Design and Development of a Social Work Research Center" from Massachusetts Maternity and Foundling Hospital Corp.

Lecturer Bruce Burnett was selected by the Rhode Island Chapter of NASW Executive Committee to receive the "2001 Social Worker of the Year in Children and Families" on March 30, 2001.

Associate Professor Karen Kayser received $73,886 for "Skills Training for Breast Cancer Patients: An Evaluation Study."

Director of Continuing Education Vincent Lynch received the 2001 "Greatest Contributions to Social Work Education Award" given by the Massachusetts Chapter of NASW on March 19, 2001. He was also awarded $4,000 grant from CVS/ProCare Pharmacy and $4,000 grant from Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for support of the 2001 National AIDS and Social Work Conference. He also has recently received a contract for $50,000 from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration which will be used to sponsor various sections of the Annual National Conference Social Work and HIV/AIDS.

Associate Professor Kevin Mahoney received $53,000 for "National Resource Center on Home and Community Based Services" and $56,085 for "Design and Test of Evidence- Based Communications Strategies to Increase Consumer Awareness and Understanding of Long Term Options" from the MEDSTAT Group.

Professor Anthony Maluccio received $6,000 for "Mediation Services and Training Programs" from the Lutheran Social Services of New England, Inc.

Assistant Professor John McNutt presented "The Internet and Non-Profit Advocacy: Patterns in Web-based Online Advocacy in Different Organizational Fields" at the International Society for Third-Sector Research Brenneal Conference "The Third World Sector: For What and for Whom" in Dublin.

Professor Emeritus Elaine Pinderhughes' remarks from an address on the lingering psychological effect of slavery on African-Americans was featured in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Graduate School of Social Work director of field education Sheila Platt and student Susan Coleman received $77,200 for "Educational Tuition Partnerships" from the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services

Graduate School of Social Work Director of field education Robbie Tourse a member for the Council on Social Work Reaccreditation in Washington, D.C.