Thirty students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the Boston College School of Social Work will showcase their research at the 2022 conference of the Society for Social Work and Research.
The conference will take place at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC., from Wednesday, Jan. 12 to Sunday, Jan. 16. BCSSW will host a reception for attendees on Friday, Jan. 14 at 8:15 p.m. at the Marriott.
SSWR, a nonprofit founded in 1994, promotes research that fosters a diverse, just, and equitable society. BCSSW researchers will present work on a range of topics at the conference, including social isolation, the use of hallucinogens in the U.S., and the impact of COVID-19 on Latinx populations.
Here’s the list of presenters and links to summaries of their research projects:
Day: Thursday, Jan. 13
Type of presentation: Workshop
Title of project: How to Prepare Social Workers for Emancipatory and Meaningful Research? Neuroscientific Principles to Unleash Brain Potential
BCSSW contributors: Associate professor Jessica M. Black and doctoral student Ricardo Diego Suárez Rojas
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: Special interest group meeting
Title of project: Latinx-Focused Research
BCSSW contributors: Associate professor Rocío Calvo
Type of presentation: Special interest group meeting
Title of project: Advancing Long and Productive Lives (Grand Challenge)
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Cal Halvorsen
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: Special interest group meeting
Title of project: Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment (Grand Challenge)
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Praveen Kumar
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project: Impact of Fracking on Birth Outcomes Across the US
BCSSW contributors: Associate professor Summer Sherburne Hawkins
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project: Youth Who Have Lived in out-of-Home Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploratory, Comparative Analyses of Nationally-Representative Data
BCSSW contributors: Doctoral candidate Sarah Neville and professor Thomas Crea
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project : Psychological Distress and Sleep Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Filipinx Americans
BCSSW contributors: Dale Dagar Maglalang, PhD’21
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project: Child Abuse and Neglect and Child Protection in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Scoping Review
BCSSW contributors: Doctoral candidate Sarah Neville and reference and instruction librarian Adam Williams
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: Symposium
Title of project: Randomized Controlled Trial Testing Brief Parenting Education Programs Designed to Promote Positive Parenting
BCSSW contributors: Professor Catherine A. Taylor
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project: SNAP and Hardship in Households with Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Vincent Fusaro
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project: Pain, Fatigue and Headaches: Long-Term Patterns of Somatic Symptoms Among Men with and without Histories of Child Sexual Abuse
BCSSW contributors: Associate professor Scott Easton
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project: Experiences and Unmet Needs of Informal Caregivers for Black Breast Cancer Patients
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Robert O. Motley Jr.
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project: Associations between Exposure to Police Violence (warranted or unwarranted), Perceptions of Police Legitimacy, and Personal Safety Interventions Among Black Emerging Adults
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Robert O. Motley Jr.
Day: Friday, Jan. 14
Type of presentation: Workshop
Title of project : Examining Additive Interaction of Risk Factors on Binary Dependent Variables to Address Racial, Social and Political Justice in Cross-Cultural Social Work Research
BCSSW contributors: Professor Tranh Tran and Thuc-Nhi Nguyen, PhD’15.
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: Symposium
Title of project: From Exclusion to Inclusion: Un-erasing Asian identities and dismantling systemic racism through Praxis
BCSSW contributors: Dean Gautam N. Yadama
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: Special interest group meeting
Title of project: Policy Research, and Social Work
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Vincent Fusaro
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: Special interest group meeting
Title of project: Grand Challenge to Eradicate Social Isolation
BCSSW contributors: Associate professor Erika Sabbath
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project: Research on Doctoral Social Work Education: Improving Curriculum through Equity Justice and Inclusion Frameworks
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Samuel Bradley Jr.
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project: Residential Black Fathers’ Engagement as a Protective Mechanism for Sexual Outcomes Among Black Adolescent Females
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Tyrone M. Parchment
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project: Assessing the Socio-Ecological Factors That Influence Failure to Thrive in Children within the First 1000 Days of Life: Implications for Racial, Economic Equality, and Child Well-Being
BCSSW contributors: Dale Dagar Maglalang, PhD’20, and doctoral candidate Juan Pablo Sanchez King
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project : The Use of Hallucinogens in the United States: Prevalence, Correlates, and a Typology of Use
BCSSW contributors: Doctoral student James Hodges and professor Christopher Salas-Wright
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project : “I Need to Work for My Children Because If I Give up, What about Their Education?”: Job and Family Demands of Filipina Care Workers in the Informal Sector
BCSSW contributors: Dale Dagar Maglalang, PhD’21, professor Shanta Pandey, and associate professor Erika Sabbath
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project : Provider Perceptions of Structural and Individual Barriers Towards Mental Health Access Among Latinx Immigrants
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor María Piñeros-Leaño
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project : Development, Construct Validity, and Measurement Invariance of the Modified Classes of Racism Frequency of Racial Experiences Measure (M-CRFRE) to Capture Direct and Indirect Exposure to Perceived Racism-Based Police Use of Force for Black Emerging Adults
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Robert O. Motley Jr.
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project : Factors of Racial Self-Classification Among Ethnically Diverse Latinx Adults
BCSSW contributors: Victor Figuereo, PhD’20, associate professor Rocío Calvo, and Robert Rosales, PhD, ‘20
Day: Saturday, Jan. 15
Type of presentation: Roundtable
Title of project : Unprecedented Times for Research: Creating Space during Data Collection
BCSSW contributors: Abril Harris, PhD’21, Dale Dagar Maglalang, PhD’21, assistant professor Tyrone M. Parchment, and doctoral student Ty Tucker
Day: Sunday, Jan. 16
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project : Driving Under the Influence of Stimulants: Prevalence and Psychosocial Correlates
BCSSW contributors: Professor Christopher Salas-Wright, doctoral student James Hodges, and Manuel Cano, PhD’19
Day: Sunday, Jan. 16
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project : The Gaze of the Gatekeeper: Understanding the Effect's of Frontline Social Welfare Worker's Perceptions of Clients Who Engage in the Sex Trade
BCSSW contributors: Doctoral student Josh Lown
Day: Sunday, Jan. 16
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project : COVID-19 and its Impact on Latinx Immigrant Communities
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor María Piñeros-Leaño
Day: Sunday, Jan. 16
Type of presentation: ePoster
Title of project : Show Me Who Your Friends Are: Adolescent Health Risk Behavior Outcomes By Proxy
BCSSW contributors: Doctoral student Ty Tucker
Day: Sunday, Jan. 16
Type of presentation: Oral presentation
Title of project : The Prevalence and Correlates of Exposure to Perceived Racism-Based Police Violence Among Black Emerging Adult Men and Women
BCSSW contributors: Assistant professor Robert O. Motley Jr.