2007 issue 1 interface.pmd - School of Social Welfare - University of ...

2006 and was a Council on Social Work
Education Minority Clinical Fellow. His
teaching areas include direct social
work practice and school social work.
Dr. Kim’s research areas focus on
evaluating school based interventions,
solution-focused brief therapy, and
asset building. He has published
several manuscripts in peer reviewed
journals and book chapters on the
application and effectiveness of
solution-focused brief therapy model as
well as school related issues. Prior to
his doctoral studies, Dr. Kim worked as
a school counselor and case manager
for community based mental health
agencies in Seattle.
Terry L. Koenig, Ph.D., MSW, joined the
faculty at the KU School of Social
Welfare in the fall of 2005. Dr. Koenig
earned her graduate degrees, including
her doctorate in 2001, from the
University of Kansas. She has
extensive teaching and social work
practice experience in the areas of
aging, health care, and ethical decisionmaking.
After receiving her Ph.D., Dr.
Koenig joined the faculty at the
University of Buffalo, where she focused
her research and scholarship efforts on
professional ethical decision-making
and on older adult and family decisionmaking
as it relates to assisted living
(AL) transitions.
Dr. Koenig is a Hartford Geriatric Social
Work Faculty Scholar conducting research
in the Buffalo, NY area on the decisions
and transitions faced by older adults as
they make the move into AL. Dr. Koenig
was selected to participate in the Institute
on Aging and Social Work sponsored by
the National Institute of Health and is
expanding her research interests to
examine how the Long-Term Care
Ombudsman Program defines, screens
and develops decision-making strategies
to address elder mistreatment.
Woochan Shim, Ph.D., MSW, joined the
faculty at the KU School of Social
Welfare as an assistant professor in the
fall of 2005. She earned her MSW
degree from Columbia and her Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign. Previously, as a social
worker, she worked at a domestic
violence shelter in Korea and at a
Korean domestic violence counseling
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center in New York. After completing her
doctorate, Dr. Shim joined the faculty at
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for
one year before coming to KU. Her
teaching areas include social work with
diverse populations, fundamentals of
social work practice, and intimate
partner violence. Dr. Shim’s areas of
special interest are intersections
between intimate partner violence and
other types of family violence, such as
child maltreatment and elder abuse.
Currently, she is working on the effects
of spirituality and religiosity in coping
with the effects of intimate partner
violence, especially among older
populations. She is also interested in
studying healthy marriage formation
and maintenance among couples with
mental disorders and the adjustment
process of Korean multinational singleparent
households, so called “girogi”
families.
Ariana E. Wall, PhD., MSW, joined the
faculty at the KU School of Social
Welfare as an assistant professor in the
fall of 2005. Dr. Wall received her Ph.D.
form the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in May 2005 and was a
National Institute of Justice Graduate
Research Fellow. Her teaching areas
include research methods and
statistics and child/youth problem
behaviors. Her research areas include
adolescent problem behavior, child
maltreatment, risk and protective
factors, and gender differences. Prior to
her doctoral studies, Dr. Wall was the
assistant director of the Louisiana State
University School of Social Work, Office
of Social Service Research and
Development. Dr. Wall is a member of
the National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW)
Research Group. She has co-authored
two recent articles on the NSCAW
baseline data, has several articles in
preparation or under review from her
dissertation work with the 18-month
NSCAW data. Dr. Wall has experience
with longitudinal data analysis and
interpretation, complex sampling
designs, weighting, grant writing,
project management, and program
evaluation.
Terry L. Koenig
Ariana E. Wall
*Photos courtesy of KU University Relations
Johnny S. Kim*
Woochan Shim
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