Bio:

Since earning her MSW, Dr. Marion Riedel has worked as a social worker with adolescents, women living with HIV/AIDS and their children, and persons who are chemically dependent. Over the past several years, Dr. Riedel has delivered lectures and staff trainings in various applications of harm reduction principles and has developed programs and trained staff in four Central Asian countries in motivational interviewing and other treatment readiness techniques.

Dr. Riedel also has extensive experience in intervention research. She is co-investigator of a NIDA funded project using motivational interviewing to help women and people of color living with HIV/AIDS decide if they should be screened for clinical trials. She is also collaborating on several other structured clinical interventions - one, a multifamily group to reduce family violence and, another, a NIAAA funded research project testing the efficacy of a harm reduction intervention with HIV-positive and HIV-negative alcohol and drug-using mothers of adolescents. She works as a clinical consultant in a number of community-based organizations developing and evaluating programs, training and supervising staff, and writing intervention and staff development manuals.

Research Interests:

• Families living with and affected by HIV/AIDS
• People with problematic drug and alcohol use
• Motivational Interviewing techniques
• Supervision strategies
• Adolescence

Select Publications & Presentations:

Book Chapters
Riedel, M. (2009). Writing in program and proposal development: The Social Work writer as translator.  In B. Simon & W. Green (Eds.) Columbia guide to writing in the 21st Century Social Work. Manuscript in revision. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Franks, C. & Riedel, M. (2008). Privilege. In E. Stannard (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th Edition.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles
Gwadz, M. V., Cylar, K., Leonard, N.R., Riedel, M., Herzog, N., Arredondo, G.N., Cleland, C.M., Aguirre, M., Marshak, A., Mildvan, D., & The Project ACT study team. (2009). An exploratory behavioral intervention trial to improve rates of screening for AIDS clinical trials among racial/ethnic minority and female persons living with HIV/AIDS. AIDS and Behavior. doi: 10.1007/s10461-009-9539-9.

Gwadz, M.V., Leonard, N.R., Riedel, M., Arredondo, G.N., Cleland, C.M., &
Mildvan, D. (2008).  An exploratory non-randomized behavioral intervention trial to improve rates of screening for AIDS clinical trials among racial/ethnic minority and female persons living with HIV/AIDS. Manuscript submitted for publication.  Social Science and Medicine.

Gwadz, M.V., Leonard, N. R., Cleland, C. M, Riedel, M., Aredondo, G.N., Wolfe, H., Hardcastle, E. & Morris, J. (2008). Behavioral interventions for HIV infected and uninfected mothers with problem drinking and drug use. Addictions Theory and Research, 16(4), 531-544.

Leonard, N.R., Gwadz, M.V., Arredondo, G.N., Riedel, M., Rotko, L., Hardcastle, E.J., Potere, Jodi, C. (Aug 2007). Description of a behavioral intervention to reduce substance use and related risk and increase positive parenting among urban mothers with alcohol and other drug problems. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 16(4): 531-544.

de Guzman, R., Leonard, N. R., Gwadz, M. V., Young, R., Ritchie, A. S., Arredondo, G., & Riedel, M. (2006). "I thought there was no hope for me": A behavioral intervention for urban mothers with problem drinking. Qualitative Health Research, 16(9), 1252-1266.

Intervention and Training Manuals
Riedel, M. (2008).  Street Smart Plus: An HIV and STI prevention curriculum for gay and trans youth.  (Available from Institute for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), 71 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010).

Riedel, M. (2007).  Using Motivational Interviewing for HIV/STI prevention among alcohol-abusing women in Mongolia. (Available from Social Intervention Group, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave.  New York, NY 10027).

Riedel, M. (2007).  Reducing harm from cocaine and crack use. (Available from Citizens Advice Bureau, 336 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY).

Riedel, M. (2007).  Project ACT 2: Addressing health disparities in AIDS clinical trials.  (Available from Institute for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), 71 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010).

Riedel, M. (2006). Using a harm reduction approach for people living with HIV/AIDS in a community-based setting. (Available from Citizens Advice Bureau,  336 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY).

Riedel, M. (2005). A training manual for Drug Demand Reduction Programs treatment readiness staff in Uzbekistan, Ferghana region of Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.  (Available from DDRP, USAID/AOSI, 14, Kizil Kum str., Yakka Saray district, Tashkent city, Uzbekistan, 700100.

Riedel, M. & Witte S., Motivational Interviewing: Lessons Learned from Central Asia and Mongolia that Inform US Practices and Policy. Sixth National Harm Reduction Conference, Miami, FL, November 2008.

Franks, C., Lukens, E., O’Neill, P., Riedel, M., Sormanti, M., & Witte, S.  Forging new pedagogical approaches: Facilitating challenging dialogues in the classroom Council on Social Work Education Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 2008.

Last updated July 27, 2009.