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April Guy

An international internship is an exciting prospect for any student. But dual-depgree graduate April Guy (MSW '07, MA '07) took things one step further, creating a micro-enterprise program that made it possible for 30 Kenyan girls to attend high school.


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Books

  • Furman, R., Rowen, D., and Bender, Kimberly (2008). An Experimental Approach to Groupwork. Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books, Inc.
  • Jones, John F. (2009) Liberty to live: Human Security and Development. New York: Nova Publishers. 
  • Potter, Cathryn & Brittain, Charmaine (Eds.) (2009). Child welfare supervision: A practical guide for supervisors, managers and administrators. New York: Oxford University Press.  

Book chapters

  • Brittain, Charmaine & Potter, Cathryn (2009). Developing worker competence. In C. Potter & C. Brittain (Eds.), Supervision in child welfare. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • East, Jean & Hanna, Michele D.  (2009). Management Essentials. In C. Potter & C. Brittain (Eds.), Supervision in Child Welfare. Oxford University Press.
  • Hanna, Michele D. (2009). The Child Welfare Unit. In C. Potter & C. Brittain (Eds.), Supervision in Child Welfare. Oxford University Press.
  • Potter, Cathryn (2009). The supervisory context in child welfare. In C. Potter & C. Brittain (Eds.), Supervision in child welfare. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Book review

  • Van Wormer, Katherine and Thyer, Bruce (Eds.) (2008). Evidence-based practice in the field of substance abuse: What does science tell us? Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishing. (manuscript reviewed for publication by William Cloud, University of Denver)

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Journal publications

  • Anthony, E.K., Alter, Catherine & Jenson, Jeffrey M. (2009).  Development of a risk and resilience-based out-of-school time program for children and youth.  Social Work, 54, 45-55.
  • Brisson, Daniel (2009). Testing the relationship of formal bonding, informal bonding, and formal bridging social capital on key outcomes for families in low-income neighborhoods. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 36 (1).
  • Bussey, Marian, & Wise, J. (2008). The recovery paradigm in trauma work: Approaches to healing psychiatric disability and substance abuse in women's lives. Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 7(3/4), 355-379.
  • Bussey, Marian. (2008). Trauma response and recovery certificate program: Preparing students for effective practice. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 28(1/2), 117-144.
  • Chambers, R., & Potter, Cathryn (2009). A typology of family needs in child neglect cases. Families in Society, 89(5), 18-27.
  • Cloud, William & Granfield, R. (2008). Conceptualizing recovery capital: Expansions of a theoretical construct. Journal of Substance Use and Misuse.
  • DiNitto, D. M., Busch, N. B., Bender, Kimberly., Woo, H. (2008). Testing telephone and web-based survey methods for studying men's sexual assault perpetration behaviors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
  • Freedenthal, Stacey, Potter, Cathryn, & Grinstein-Weiss, M. (2008). Institutional supports for faculty scholarship. Social Work Research, 32(4), 220-231.
  • LaMendola, Walter, Ballantyne, N., & Daly, E. Practitioner Networks: Professional Learning in the Twenty-First Century. British Journal of Social Work  Advance Access published online on February 24, 2009. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcp023.
  • Lee, S. J., Altschul, Inna, & Mowbray, C. T. (2008). Using a planned adaptation approach to implement evidence-based programs with new populations. Special edition "Illuminating a Framework for Bridging Science and Practice: Improving Dissemination and Implementation of Prevention Programs, Processes, and Principles" of the American Journal of Community Psychology. 41 (1-2).
  • Moran, J. & Bussey, Marion (2008) Results of an alcohol prevention program with urban American Indian youth. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 24 (1).
  • Rutter, P. A., Freedenthal, Stacey, & Osman, A. (2008). Assessing protection from suicidal risk: Psychometric properties of the Suicide Resilience Inventory. Death Studies, 32, 1-12.
  • Thompson, S. J., Bender, Kimberly, Lewis, C., & Watkins, R. (2008).  Runaway and Pregnant: Factors associated with pregnancy in a national sample of runaway/homeless females. Journal of Adolescent Health, 43(2), 125-32.
  • Walls, N. Eugene, Freedenthal, Stacey & Wisneski, H. (2008). Suicidal ideation and attempts among sexual minority youth receiving social services. Social Work, 53, 21-29.

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Special issues of journals

  • Jenson, Jeffrey M., Briar-Lawson, K., & Flanzer, J. (2009). Research capacity and infrastructure development in social work. Social Work Research, 32.
  • Potter, Cathryn, & Hughes, R. (Eds.). (2008). Evidence based practice in child welfare. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 2(2), 139-192.

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Presentations

  • Altschul, Inna. (January, 2008). Establishing an evidence base for policy and program intervention: Testing a combined model of family, school, and student factors underlying the academic outcomes of Mexican American youth. Society for Social Work Research, Washington, D. C.
  • Altschul, Inna. (January, 2008). Assessing the mediated, direct and indirect effects of two parenting factors on the academic achievement of Mexican American youth. Society for Social Work Research, Washington, D. C.
  • Brisson, Daniel & Altschul, Inna. (January, 2008). The relationship of neighborhood social cohesion and informal social control to three indicators of material hardship - food insecurity, housing insecurity and unmet medical need. Society for Social Work Research, Washington, D. C.
  • Freedenthal, Stacey & Stiffman, A. R. (January, 2008). Suicidal behavior in self and others: Differential relationships in American Indian youth. Society for Social Work Research, Washington, D. C.
  • Jenson, Jeffrey. (January, 2008). Publication practices in social work: A report from the SSWR Presidential Task Force on Publications. Society for Social Work Research, Washington, D. C.
  • Jenson, Jeffrey. (January, 2008). Publishing empirical studies in social work: Writing articles that matter. Society for Social Work Research, Washington, D. C.
  • Jenson, Jeffrey & members of the Austin Initiative on Evidence-Based Practice. (January, 2008). Issues in teaching evidence-based practice. Society for Social Work Research, Washington, D. C.
  • Walls, N. Eugene (April, 2008). The effects of interactions between hostile heterosexism and subdomains of modern sexism on support for lesbian and gay rights. Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR.

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