• International service learning in post-war Croatia: Capacity building for social work profession 

  Luca Sugawara, Carmen; Carlson, Joan; Makki Alamdari, Sara; Vukoviæ-Èoviæ, Sanja (20th Biennale International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD) Symposium, Zagreb, Croatia, 2017-07)

  Building on a strong partnership with University of Zagreb, Department of Social Work, and a local community organization serving a post-war community in the Osijek and Vukovar region, in 2011, the Indiana University School ...
• Evaluating the intervention of an ethic's class in students' ethical decision-making: A summative review. 

  Walker, Marquita (Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013)

  This summative evaluation is the result of two years’ of data reflecting the impact of an ethics class in terms of students’ ethical decision-making. The research compares aggregate responses from scenario-based ...
• Evaluating the Intervention of an Ethics’ Class in Students’ Ethical Decision-making 

  Walker, Marquita (Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011)

  In this pilot study, the author evaluated the impact of an ethics class in terms of students’ ethical decision-making. The research compares aggregate responses from scenario-based pre- and post-survey open-ended survey ...
• Training for my life: Lived experiences of dislocated workers in an advanced manufacturing training program 

  Walker, Marquita (Advances in Social Work Journal, 2013)

  This qualitative paper explores the lived experiences of one group of workers dislocated because of globalized trade policies who completed a hybrid Advanced Manufacturing Training Program (AMTP) by taking advantage of ...
• Workforce development through technologically enhanced-learning experiences (TELES) 

  Walker, Marquita (International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice., 2015)

  Local and global economies face serious economic and social costs in lost productivity as a result of the mismatch between workers’ skills, employers’ needs, and cost effective training programs for workforce development. ...
• Social Worker Integrated Care Competencies Scale (SICCS): Assessing Social Worker Clinical Competencies for Health Care Settings 

  Davis, Tamara S.; Reno, Rebecca; Guada, Joe; Swenson, Staci; Peck, Adriane; Saunders-Adams, Stacey; Haas-Gehres, Lauren (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  Integrating physical and behavioral health services has the potential to reduce health disparities and service inequities among persons most at risk. However, clinical social workers in integrated health settings must ...
• The Impact of paternal involvement and United States stay length on Latino youth’s depressive symptoms 

  Bishop, Christine; Makki Alamdari, Sara (University of Houston, 2019)

  Latino youth in the United States are more at-risk for depression than youth of other ethnic backgrounds. This manuscript assesses the impacts of sex, age, United States stay length, and whether or not Latino children of ...
• Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of strengths model case management (SMCM) with Chinese mental health service users in Hong Kong 

  Tse, Samson; Ng, Sau Man Catalina; Yuen, Wing Yan Winnie; Fukui, Sadaaki; Goscha, Richard J; Lo, Wann Ka Iris (BMJ, 2019-05-24)

  Introduction Strengths-based approaches mobilise individual and environmental resources that can facilitate the recovery of people with mental illness. Strengths model case management (SMCM), developed by Rapp and Goscha ...
• Improvements in Irritability with Open-Label Methylphenidate Treatment in Youth with Comorbid Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder 

  Winters, Drew E.; Fukui, Sadaaki; Leibenluft, Ellen; Hulvershorn, Leslie A. (Mary Ann Liebert, 2018-06)

  Objective: The purpose of this open-label study was to examine the effects of long-acting methylphenidate (MPH) treatment on irritability and related emotional symptoms associated with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder ...
• Does Acculturation Matter? End-of-Life Care Planning and Preference of Foreign-born Older Immigrants in the United States 

  Grace Yi, Eun-Hye (Oxford Academic, 2019-05-01)

  Abstract Background and Objectives Advance care planning (ACP) is a critical component of health care affecting the quality of later life. Responding to the increase in the older immigrant population in the United States, ...
• Alternative to Zero Tolerance Policies and Out-of-School Suspensions: A Multi-tiered Centered Perspective 

  Kyere, Eric; Joseph, Andrea; Wei, Kai (Taylor & Francis, 2018)

  Although zero-tolerance policies were created to foster safe school environments for student engagement and performance, the implementation of these policies has inadvertently resulted in the exclusion of millions of ...
• A Gardening Metaphor: A Framework for Closing Racial Achievement Gaps in American Public Education System 

  Taylor, Jerome; Kyere, Eric; King, Ѐpryl (Sage, 2018)

  The overarching purpose of this article is to introduce A Gardening Metaphor (AGM) as an evolving framework for accelerating the closure of racial achievement gaps in America. Toward this end, we provide: (a) an examination ...
• Exploring the process by which positive racial identity develops and influences academic performance in Black youth: Implications for social work 

  Kyere, Eric; Huguley, James (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  Although racial-ethnic socialization and racial-ethnic identity interlink to influence youth's developmental outcomes, the extant research has tended to investigate these constructs and their effect on youths’ outcomes ...
• Improving Graduation Rates in Drug Court Through Employment and Schooling Opportunities and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) 

  Gallagher, John Robert; Wahler, Elizabeth A.; Lefebvre, Elyse; Paiano, Tara; Carlton, Jesse; Woodward Miller, Jane (Taylor & Francis, 2018)

  Drug courts have been a key part of the criminal justice system since 1989, and this study contributes to the existing body of research by identifying which participants (n = 248) were most likely to graduate from a drug ...
• The Dilemma of Spare Embryos After IVF Success: Social Workers’ Role in Helping Clients Consider Disposition Options 

  Boys, Stephanie; Walsh, Julie (Advances in Social Work, 2017-02-17)

  Social work services for persons undergoing the in vitro fertilization process (IVF) has greatly lagged behind the medical technology opportunities provided to these clients. Advocacy for social work services for persons ...
• Analyzing high school dropouts as a social problem: Policy considerations 

  Makki Alamdari, Sara; Sullivan, Patrick (Indiana University School of Social Work, 2016-04)

  The purpose of the study is to analyze high school dropout in New Mexico and provide some policy implications. Causes, consequences, gainers and losers related to this social problem are discussed. Existing policies, ...
• Specialization and time: Two core principles for adult learning 

  Makki Alamdari, Sara; Walton, Betty; Moynihan, Stephanie (Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), 2017-11)

  Overview: Training plays an important role in the profession of social services to improve the quality of services. Interviewing ten social service providers, data analysis demonstrated that the most important principles ...
• Improving students’ engagement through policy-making 

  Makki Alamdari, Sara; Sullivan, Patrick (International Association for Truancy & Dropout Prevention, 2017-10)

  Overview of the presentation: To provide policy solutions by addressing school disengagement using model of Rapp and Poertner (1992)
• Improving civic engagement: A strength-based strategy to address post-resettlement challenges 

  Makki Alamdari, Sara (West Texas A&M University, 2017-03)

  Overview: Considering the benefits of civic engagement for integrating of refugees into new community, attitudes toward, frequency and predictors of civic engagement are examined among 14 Middle Eastern and North African ...
• Best practices for economic empowering of the homeless 

  Makki Alamdari, Sara (Indiana University School of Social Work, 2017-04)

  Overview: Aiming at economic empowering of the homeless through providing a tailored job, this conceptual paper examines existing work-related interventions for the homeless in terms of main concepts derived from five ...

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