Center Research Affiliates Probe
Practice Issues
This issue of Practice & Research features current research
conducted by Center affiliates. Four new studies are described. The
Odyssey Project: A Descriptive and Prospective Study of Children and Youth
in Residential Treatment, Group Homes and Therapeutic Foster Care was
initiated in 1995. This national study is being conducted by the Child
Welfare League of America, Inc. (CWLA) with the cooperation and support
of its member agencies. This research seeks to describe children and youth
in these settings, specifying services offered and outcomes achieved. Neil
Guterman, Ph.D., CUSSW Assistant Professor is Principal Investigator; Bruce
A. Grellong, Ph.D., JBFCS Chief Psychologist, is Research Coordinator;
and Mark Cameron, M.S.W., is Research Assistant. A second new study, the
Multicultural Training Program, examines incoming graduate students
in five schools of social work assessing relationships between different
multicultural training models and student acquisition of culturally competent
practice skills. Karina L. Walters, Ph.D. and Darrell P. Wheeler, Ph.D.,
M.P.H., both CUSSW Assistant Professors, are Co-Principal Investigators.
A third new study, Defining Grief in Childhood: Test-Retest Reliability
of the W.T. Grant Consortium Grief Inventory, is developing measures
of childhood and adolescent grief associated with death. The Co-Principal
Investigators are Linda N. Freeman, M.D., Prudence Fisher, M.S., C.S.W.,
New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Robert H. Abramovitz, M.D., JBFCS
Chief Psychiatrist. A fourth new study, Exploration of Substance Abuse
Among People with AIDS, examines substance use among clients of JBFCS
AIDS programs. The Principal Investigator is Andrew Hamid, Ph.D., CUSSW
Assistant Professor and the Co-Investigator is Susan Bear, M.S.W., JBFCS,
Director of AIDS Programs.
Updates are provided in this issue of: From Research to Practice: Using
the Computerized Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children in Clinical
Services; Evaluation of a Protocol for Identification of Woman Abuse in
Families with Allegations of Child Abuse or Neglect; and A Study
of Suicidal Ideation and Behavior in Preadolescents.