SSW Fall 2009 Orientation Slideshow
SSW Student Wins National Award
Natalie Hill SW09 is a winner of the 2009 Judith Holm Memorial Award. A National panel of educators and advanced practitioners select each year’s winners for the award which is sponsored by the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work (ABE). The award is given to second year master’s students who demonstrate excellence in preparation for clinical social work practice. This very prestigious annual award is given to only five students nation-wide. Competitors must submit papers based on clinical work done in field placement. Natalie’s award winning paper is titled “Helping Clients Navigate the Coming Out Process: A Person in Environment Approach". Her two field placements at Simmons SSW were : Big Sister Association of Boston and The Wentworth Institute of Technology Counseling Center.
Gary Bailey Appointed to the Mass Educational Financing Authority
Gary Bailey has been appointed a member of the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority by Governor Patrick. Gary's appointment is effective immediately. We know that Gary will be an effective advocate for the needs of students and institutions of higher education in his new role.
Helen Reinherz & the SSW Longitudinal Study Featured in Boston Globe on April 27, 2009
Helen Reinherz and the Simmons SSW Longitudinal Study were prominently featured in the Boston Globe on April 27, 2009. The article titled "A lingering cloud: A study that began more than 30 years ago in Quincy shows that family arguing leaves a long-lasting imprint on children" summarizes the project's most recent article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry "...focused on family arguments and physical violence. It looked at the effects of parents fighting with each other, and with their children." Read the article.
New Publications by Hugo Kamya. Hugo and Tien Ung Recieved a New Research Grant
Associate Professor Hugo Kamya recently published works in several professional publications. “Mama Jaja: The stresses and strengths of HIV-affected Ugandan grandmothers” appeared in the fall issue of Social Work in Public Health. The chapter “Healing from Refugee Trauma: The Significance of Spiritual Beliefs, Faith Community, and Faith-based Services,” was published in Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy, 2nd edition (Guilford Press, 2008). And the chapter “Working with Immigrant and Refugee Families” was published in Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, culture and gender in clinical practice, 2nd edition (Guilford Press, 2008). Kamya and Assistant Professor Tien Ung have received a Simmons Presidential Fund for Research grant to address community- based services for African immigrants and refugees. They will study the roles of social, human, and cultural capital in defining family functioning and well-being of these populations.
Johnnie Hamilton-Mason Article Published In Smith College Studies in Social Work
Professor Johnnie Hamilton-Masonco-authored “When the Floods of Compassion are not Enough: A Nation’s and a City’s Response to the Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina” in the Smith College Studies in Social Work (Vol. 78, Issue: 4, 2008). The article is based on a research project by Hamilton-Mason and her colleagues, sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin Center for Social Work Research Hurricane Recovery Research Collaborative.
Denise Humm-Delgado has Co-Authored a New Book on Our Nation's Prisons
Associate Professor Denise Humm-Delgadoco-authored Health and Health Care in the Nation's Prisons: Issues, Challenges, and Policies (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009). In addition to providing an overview of the most common prison health care problems, the book offers an assessment of the needs of largely overlooked prison populations, including women, people of color, and older adults.
Peter Maramaldi has Co-published a New Article on Oncology Social Work
Associate Professor Peter Maramaldi recently co-published “Oncology social worker competencies and implications for education and training” in Social Work in Health Care, volume 47(4). He also presented a paper on “Evidence- Based Psychosocial Interventions with Cancer Patients and Families” at the 61st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Geontological Society of America in Washington, D.C., in November.
Michael Melendez New Publication and Activities
At the Society on Social Work Research conference in New Orleans Jan. 18, Associate Professor Michael Melendez served as moderator of the panel “Preparing the next generation: Are we teaching them what they need to know?” and presented “Describing the Impact of Required Diversity Courses on Beginning Social Work Students Developing Multicultural Competence.” He also served as intervention director on a research team for the Institute on Urban Health Research at Northeastern University and co-authored its findings, Spiritual Self Schema Therapy: Pilot Study Final Report. Two of Melendez’s works also have been accepted for publication. “Facilitating difficult conversations in the classroom,” co-authored with Professor Ann Fleck-Henderson will be published in the Journal of Teaching in Social Work, and the chapter “Crisis Intervention and Counseling” will be published in Social Services and Social Action in the HIV Pandemic: Principles, Methods, Populations (Wiley, 2009).
Dawn Belkin-Martinez Has Written a Book Chapter Just Published.
Assistant Professor Dawn Belkin-Martinez wrote a book chapter entitled “Community Social Work with Latinos” Fruma, R & Negi eds. Social work practice with Latinos: Key issues and emerging themes. Chicago: Lyceum books, Spring 2009.
Michelle Putnam Recent Publications
Assistant Professor Michelle Putnamrecently authored several publications. She co-published “Indicators of Long-term Care Planning and Preparation Among Persons with Multiple Sclerosis” in Home Health Care Services Quarterly,27(2) and “Exploring Effects of Institutional Characteristics on Saving Outcome: The Case of the Cash and Counseling Program” in the Journal of Policy Practice, 7(4). Putnam published the chapter “Long-term Care Policy as an Investment in Baby Boomers and Future Generations,” in Boomer Bust? (Praeger Publishing Company, 2008). She also presented “Long-term Care as Investment Policy: Widening the Lens of Social Work in Aging” at The Council on Social Work Education National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education track meeting Nov. 1 in Philadelphia.
Social Work Hearing: Gary Bailey
Gary Bailey, Associate Professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work, testified at an Education and Labor Committee Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee hearing concerning the state of social work in America on July 29, 2008.
SSW Faculty & Students in the News
- April 27, 2009, Boston Globe article on the Simmons SSW Longitudinal Study
- November 19, 2007 Boston Globe interview with Professor Helen Reinherz
- From the January 23, 2007 Living Arts of the Boston Globe
- Boston Globe interview with Professor Hugo Kamya
- Boston Globe story on Professor Helen Reinherz
- Boston Globe story on Suicide Prevention Conference
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