Faculty and PhD Students Presenting at SSWR Annual Conference

SSW Professors Mary Collins, Cassandra Clay, Hyeouk Chris Hahm, Ruth Paris, and Sunny Hyucksun Shin, PhD students Jieha Lee and Rolanda Ward, and MSW/MPH student Rendelle Bolton are presenting at this week’s Annual Conference of The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). The conference is being held in Washington, DC today through Sunday.

The presentations include:

Developing State Policy Regarding Foster Youth Transition to Independence: Problem Definition, Policy Solutions, Political Strategies. Mary Collins, Cassandra Clay, Rolanda Ward

Longitudinal Predictors of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and Sexual Risk Behaviors among White and Asian Young Females: Findings from Add Health Study. Jieha Lee, Hyeouk Chris Hahm, Al Ozonoff

Recent HIV/Sti Testing among Asian and Pacific Islanders (API): Correlates and Contexts. Hyeouk Chris Hahm, Kristina Wong, Al Ozonoff

Understanding How a Home-based Intervention Helps Women with Postpartum Depression and their Infants.

Ruth Paris, Rendelle Bolton, Jieha Lee.

Postpartum depression and mother-infant interactions: Findings from a study of a home-based therapeutic intervention. Ruth Paris, M. Katherine Weinberg, Rendelle Bolton.

Multiple Facets of Maltreatment As Predictors Of Youth Alcohol: Use and Binge Drinking. Sunny Hyucksun Shin

For more information on these presentations, please contact Professor Collins at mcollins@bu.edu , Professor Hahm at hahm@bu.edu, Professor Paris at rparis@bu.edu or Professor Shin at hshin@bu.edu

In addition, a previous news brief posted on the web announced the SSWR presentation on compulsive hoarding by a team from SSW: /ssw/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=692&id=48345