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Lin Fang
Associate Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 212-851-2226
Bio:
Lin Fang is an associate research scientist at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York. She is also an assistant professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. Dr. Fang was a clinical social worker and supervisor at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in New York City and provided mental health assessments, treatments and evaluations for clients with a variety of mental health issues. Dr. Fang has over a decade of clinical practice experience.
Dr. Fang's research areas include acculturation, psychosocial adjustment of immigrant families, the etiology and prevention of substance abuse among adolescents, evidence-based practice implementation in social work agencies, and culturally appropriate mental health assessments and treatments. In 2006, Dr. Fang was awarded a minority investigator award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to prepare her independent research on effective, culturally competent substance abuse preventions for the Asian American adolescents. In 2007, she also wrote and received a grant from NIDA to support the advanced recruitment of Asian American girls and their mothers for a 5-year randomized controlled drug use prevention trial. Dr. Fang has received a catalyst grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research in 2009 and is working on evaluating treatment process of a web-based CBT treatment program.
Research Interests:
- From acculturation, diaspora to hybridity
- Parent-child acculturation disparity
- Psychosocial adjustment of immigrant families
- Substance abuse prevention
- Underage drinking
- Web-based intervention programming
- Evidence-based practice in social work agencies
- Culturally appropriate mental health treatments for ethnic minorities
- Risk and protective factors of substance abuse among adolescents
Current Projects:
- Developing and testing a family-based intervention to reduce girls drug abuse by CD-ROM and Internet
Selected Publications:
Journal Articles
Fang, L., Barnes-Ceeney, K., Lee, R. A., & Tao, J. (in press). Substance use among Asian American adolescents: Perceptions of use and preferences for prevention programming. Social Work in Health Care.
Fang, L. (in press). A sociocultural perspective of mental health service use by Chinese immigrants. Canadian Social Work Journal.
Schinke, S. P., Fang, L., Cole, K., & Cohen-Cutler, S. (2011). Preventing substance abuse among Black- and Hispanic-American adolescent girls: Results from a computer-delivered, mother-daughter intervention approach. Substance Use & Misuse, 46, 35-45.
Fang, L., Schinke, S. P., & Cole, K. (2010). Preventing substance use among early Asian-American adolescent girls: Initial evaluation of a web-based, mother-daughter program. Journal of Adolescent Health, 47, 529-532.
Schinke, S. P., Schwinn, T., & Fang, L. (2010). Longitudinal outcomes of an alcohol abuse prevention program for urban adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 46, 451-457.
Fang, L., Schinke, S. P., & Cole, K. (2009). Underage drinking among young adolescent girls: The role of family processes. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23, 708-714.
Schinke, S. P., Fang, L., & Cole, K. (2009). Computer-delivered, parent-involvement intervention to prevent substance use among adolescent girls. Preventive Medicine, 49, 429-435.
Schinke, S. P., Fang, L., & Cole, K. (2009). Preventing drug abuse among adolescent girls: 1-year outcomes of a computerized, mother-daughter program. Addictive Behaviors, 34, 1060-1064.
Manuel, J., Mullen, E. J., Fang, L., Bellamy, J., & Bledsoe, S. E. (2009). Preparing social work practitioners to use evidence-based research in practice: A comparison of experiences from an implementation research project. Research on Social Work Practice, 19, 613-627.
Schinke, S. P., Cole, K., & Fang, L. (2009). Gender-specific intervention to reduce underage drinking among early adolescent girls: A test of a computer-mediated, mother-daughter program. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70, 70-77.
Schinke, S. P., Fang, L., & Cole, K. (2008). Substance use among early adolescent girls: Risk and protective factors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 43, 191-194.
Bellamy, J., Bledsoe, S. E., Mullen, E., Fang, L., & Manuel, J. (2008). Agency-university partnership for evidence-based practice in social work. Journal of Social Work Education, 44(3), 55-76.
Fang, L., & Schinke, S. P. (2007). Complementary alternative medicine use among Chinese Americans: Findings from a community mental health service population. Psychiatric Services, 58, 402-404.
Book Chapters
Fang, L., Manuel, J., Bledsoe, S. E., & Bellamy, J. (2011). Finding existing knowledge. In R. Grinnell & Y. Unrau (Eds.), Social work research and evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches (9th ed., pp. 129-144). New York: Oxford University Press.
Manuel, J., Fang, L., Bellamy, J., & Bledsoe, S. E. (2011). Evaluating existing evidence. In R. Grinnell & Y. Unrau (Eds.), Social work research and evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches (8th ed., pp. 145-159). New York: Oxford University Press.
Fang, L., Manuel, J., Bledsoe, S. E., & Bellamy, J. (2007). Finding existing knowledge. In R. Grinnell & Y. Unrau (Eds.), Social work research and evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches (8th ed., pp. 466-480). New York: Oxford University Press.
Manuel, J., Fang, L., Bellamy, J., & Bledsoe, S. E. (2007). Evaluating existing evidence. In R. Grinnell & Y. Unrau (Eds.), Social work research and evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches (8th ed., pp. 481-495). New York: Oxford University Press.
Fang, L., & Chen, T. (2004). Community outreach and education to deal with cultural resistance to mental health services. In N. Webb (Ed.), Mass trauma and violence: Helping families and children cope (pp. 234-255). New York: Guilford Press.
Last updated January 19, 2011. |
