Alida Bouris teaches the Social Work with Individuals, Families and Groups course at CUSSW and is a doctoral candidate in Advanced Clinical Practice. Ms. Bouris received her Master’s degree in Social Work from the Columbia University School of Social Work and her Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

Her primary research interest is in the development and design of family-based interventions to prevent adolescent risk behavior, with an emphasis on preventing secondary and higher-order pregnancies among pregnant and parenting teens. In addition, her research interests include HIV-prevention, health disparity research and family influences on young adult sexual behavior. Ms. Bouris’s dissertation research is being funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is examining parental influences on young adult sexual behavior and health.

Ms. Bouris has practice experience in both community- and school-based settings. Currently, she serves as a Clinician and Researcher on a number of family-based research projects working with parents and adolescents residing in New York, NY. As part of this work, she has provided clinical and interventive services to parents and adolescents focused on helping parents to prevent unintended pregnancies, STIs and HIV in their adolescent children.

Recent Publications

Guilamo-Ramos, V., & Bouris, A. (2008). Parent-adolescent communication about sex in Latino families: A guide for practitioners. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, Washington, DC.
Available at: http://www.teenpregnancy.org/espanol/english.asp.

Bouris, A., & Guilamo-Ramos, V. (in press). School-based services. In B. Simon & W. Green (Eds.), Columbia Guide to Social Work Writing in the 21st Century. Columbia University Press.

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Bouris, A., Jaccard, J., Lesesne, C., Gonzalez, B., & Kalogerogiannis, K. (in press). Family mediators of acculturation and adolescent sexual behavior among Latino youth. Journal of Primary Prevention.

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Bouris, A., Dittus, P., & Jaccard, J. (2008). Mother-adolescent communication about tobacco use in urban Puerto Rican and Dominican families. Youth and Society, 40(1), 86-113.

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., Dittus, P., Gonzalez, B., & Bouris, A. (2008). A conceptual framework for the analysis of risk and problem behaviors: The case of adolescent sexual behavior. Social Work Research, 32(1), 30-45.

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., Dittus, P., Bouris, A., Holloway, I., & Casillas, E. (2007). Adolescent expectancies, parent-adolescent communication, and intentions to have sexual intercourse among inner city, middle school youth. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 34(1), 56-66.

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Dittus, P., Jaccard, J., Johansson, M., Bouris, A., & Acosta, N. (2007). Parenting practices among Dominican and Puerto Rican mothers. Social Work, 52(1), 17-30.

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., Dittus, P., & Bouris, A. (2006). Parental expertise, trustworthiness, and accessibility: Parent-adolescent communication and adolescent risk behavior. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68(5), 1229-1246.

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccard, J., Turrisi, R., Johansson, M., & Bouris, A. (2006). Maternal perceptions of alcohol use by adolescents who drink alcohol. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 67(5), 730-737.

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Dittus, P., Jaccard, J., Goldberg, V., Casillas, E., & Bouris, A. (2006). The content and process of mother-adolescent communication about sex in Latino families. Social Work Research, 30(3), 169-181.

Jaccard, J., Guilamo-Ramos, V., Johansson, M., & Bouris, A. (2006). Multiple regression analysis in clinical child and adolescent psychology. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35(3), 456-479.

Last updated July 01, 2009.