Christopher Salas-Wright

Education

MA, Boston College; MSW, University of Washington; PhD, Boston College

Doctoral Graduation Date

August 2012

Current Position

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS)

Research Interests

Substance abuse prevention; youth violence and delinquency; high-risk and gang-involved Latino youth; and the role of spirituality and religiosity in positive youth development

Organization Affiliations

Council on Social Work Education, Society of Social Work Research, Society for Research on Adolescence, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

Dissertation Title

Spirituality, religiosity, and problem behavior among high-risk and gang-involved youth in El Salvador

Publications

Salas-Wright, C.P., Olate, R., & Vaughn, M. (in press). Assessing empathy in Salvadoran high-risk and gang-involved adolescents and young adults: A Spanish validation of the "Basic Empathy Scale". International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Maynard, B.R., Salas-Wright, C.P., Vaughn, M.G., & Peters, K.E. (in press). Who are truant youth? Examining distinctive profiles of truant youth using latent profile analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Salas-Wright, C.P., Vaughn, M.G., Hodge, D.R., & Perron, B.E. (in press). Religiosity profiles of American youth in relation to substance use, violence, and delinquency. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Yu, M., Lombe, M. Nebbitt, V.E., Pitner, R., & Salas-Wright, C.P. (2012). Understanding tobacco use among urban African American adolescents living in urban public housing communities: An application of problem behavior theory. Addictive Behaviors, 37(8), 978-981.

Olate, R., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Vaughn, M.G. (2012). Predictors of violence and delinquency among high risk youth and youth gang members in San Salvador, El Salvador. International Social Work, 55(3), 383-401.

Olate, R., Salas-Wright, C.P., & Vaughn, M.G. (2011). A cross national comparison of externalizing behaviors among high-risk youth and youth gang members in metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts, and San Salvador, El Salvador. Victims & Offenders, 6(4), 356-369.

Olate, R., & Salas-Wright, C.P. (2010). ¿Cómo intervenir en los problemas de violencia y delincuencia juvenil? El fracaso de los enfoques punitivos y las posibilidades del enfoque de la salud pública [How can we create social interventions to reduce juvenile delinquency and violence? The failure of the punitive approach and the possibilities of a public health framework]. Revista de Trabajo Social, 79, 7-21.