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UBC school of social work equity and diversity strategic plan: A compilation of case studies 101
Appendix C
UC Berkeley, School of Social Welfare, Faculty Areas of Research
• Culture, SES and mental health; mental health services research in low-income
populations; Latino & minority mental health; health disparities; cognitive-behavioral
therapy for depression; mobile technology; and mental health
• Nonprofit management and planning, organizational change, policy implementation
• Children and families specialization; child welfare casework; social work practice in
schools; interagency collaboration; educational issues for foster children; individual,
family, and group practice
• Child and family poverty; child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, and child
welfare services; family policy
• Gerontology
• Community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, and immigrant
neighborhoods; community analysis and needs assessment; program planning and
development; cultural competency services
• Program planning, policy and organizational development, access to health care,
prevention, community building, women’s health issues, health disparities, holistic
approaches to ending cycles of poverty
• Impact and assessment of children’s exposure to violence; international parental
abduction in cases of domestic violence; evaluating interventions and policies on family
violence
• Community Mental Health, Culturally Competent Treatment, Non-Profit Human
Resource Management
• Professional ethics and education; evidence-based practice; professional decision making;
social learning theory; behavioral methods; evaluation of practice; social skills training
• Design and evaluation of social service delivery systems; theoretical framework for
social policy analysis; evaluative research; the welfare state; administration and
organizational theory; family policy and child abuse prevention; comparative social
welfare
• Social work education; field education; child welfare; human service organizations
• Motivational interviewing; trauma; intimate partner violence/domestic violence; anxiety
disorders; behavioral health; cognitive-behavioral therapy; assertive outreach and clinical
case management; family adjustment to disability; criminal justice system; program
management; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations; vicarious trauma
• International social welfare and social work, social development, social policy
• Chicano/Latino psychosocial problems; acculturation and adjustment of ethnic minorities
to American society; minority mental health; cognitive-behavioral therapy; depression in
Latinos; HIV prevention with Mexican migrant laborers/Latinos
• Child maltreatment, child welfare case management, child welfare agency workplace
management, mandated child abuse reporting, the Indian Child Welfare Act, tribal child
welfare services, clinical supervision; professional association leadership & participation;
social work ethics; social justice; women’s issues; and domestic violence
• Aging policies, programs, and services; aging-friendly communities; family caregiving;
work/family issues; death, dying, and bereavement; gerontological social work education