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Substantive
Areas of Interest:
Caribbean
Immigrants
Co-occurring Disorders of Substance Abuse and Mental
Illness
Incarcerated Women and Adolescents
Victims of Violence
Grants/Research:
Community-Based
Treatment of Criminal Offenders with Co-occurring
Mental Illness and Substance Abuse- A Preliminary
Study, with Hung-En Sung (CUNY Collaborative Award).
Toward
the Integration of Indigenous Empowerment Practice
Models (PSC-CUNY Award).
Empowerment
Social Work Models in the African Diaspora. An Historical
Analysis of the Contributions of Pioneering Social
Workers from the West Indies.
Recent
Publications - Book
The Health and Well- Being of Caribbean Americans
in the United States, Haworth Press, New York, 2004.
Articles
and Book Chapters
Caribbean
Americans, Encyclopedia of Social Work, 2008 with
Marcia Bayne-Smith
Facilitating
a Smooth Transitional Process for Immigrant Caribbean
Children. The Role of Teachers, Social Workers and
Related Professional Staff. Journal of Ethnic&
Cultural Diversity in Social Work Vol.14 (½)
2005, with Lear Matthews.
In
the Aftermath of Elder-Homicide: Coping and Recovery
Patterns of Surviving Kin. Caribbean Journal of Social
Work, Vol. 3, pp.38-56, 2004..
Understanding
the Psychosocial Sequelae to the Murder of a Grandparent/Caregiver:
Cases of Jamaican School- Age Children. Journal of
Loss and Trauma. Vol.2. 2004.
Bridging
the Power Gap: Narrative Therapy with Incarcerated
Women. Prison Journal
With C. Daniel.
Confronting
the Reality: An Overview of the Impact of HIV/AIDS
on the Caribbean Community. Journal of Immigrant and
Refugee Services, Vol. 2.2004, with M. Spooner and
C. Daniel.
In
Search of Identity: Challenges of Uprooted Adolescents
from the West Indies. Mico International Journal.
Vol.1 2003.
Newly
Arrived Caribbean Adolescents: A Call for a Cohesive
social Welfare Response to their Adjustment Needs.
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Services. Vol.1 (1)
2002.
Technology and the Poor, International Education and
Human Development; An Encyclopedia (In press).
Caribbean
Immigrants in the United States- Health and Health-Care:
The Need for a Social Agenda, with Darrel Wheeler
(In Press).
Social
Violence, Psychological Consequences and Considerations
for Social Work Intervention: Cases of Jamaica and
Guyana, with L. Matthews (In Press).
Book
Review: Social Work and the Black Experience. Journal
of Teaching in Social Work, Vol. 21(1/2), 2004.
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