New York to Shanghai - NYU Silver School of Social Work

Social Work
Spring 2015
New York to Shanghai
Westchester Anniversary • Building a Mentor Network
Outstanding Alumni • Professional Development
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in this issue:
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A Letter from the Dean
Expanding Social Work Education and Research in China
NYU Silver Westchester Campus Celebrates 20 Years
Building a Network One Person
at a Time: Mary Pender Greene, MSW ’74
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NYU Silver Honors Its
Outstanding Alumni
A Teacher at Heart: Mara Gottlieb, MSW ’97, PhD ’14
Cutting-Edge Knowledge for Practice: NYU Silver Expands
its Professional Development Opportunities
NYU Silver Welcomes New
Faculty Members
Faculty Awards and Honors
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Class Notes
Momentum Campaign
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Thank You Silver
School Supporters
Written by Elizabeth Jenkins,
Associate Director of Communications,
and Penelope Yates, MSW ’15
Designed by Kate Hogan, Graphic Designer
For comments or suggestions about the
Newsletter, contact Elizabeth Jenkins
E-mail: elizabeth.jenkins@nyu.edu
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A Letter
from the Dean
Dear alumni and friends:
Happy spring! I am pleased to say that after a long, cold winter signs of spring
are making an appearance at Washington Square Park.
The 2014-15 academic year has been extremely productive as we officially
launched several new programs at the Silver School, including the MSW program
at Shanghai and New York, DSW program, and dual-degree MSW/MA program
in health advocacy. You will read more about these in this issue of the Newsletter. I recently returned from a momentous trip to Shanghai, where we held an
open house for candidates for our MSW program at Shanghai and New York and
signed a memo of understanding for a dual PhD program with East China Normal University. This trip was the culmination of four years of work and support of
many members of our community. I am proud that we are building a strong presence for NYU Silver in Shanghai, and look forward to the next steps as students
arrive at NYU Shanghai’s campus this fall to start the MSW program.
In addition to opportunities in Shanghai, we have two new programs that
will welcome their first cohorts of students in the fall: the DSW program and the
dual-degree MSW/MA program in health advocacy. Our continuing education
offerings have grown and diversified to meet the demand for CEU requirements
for social workers in New York State. Faculty continue to hold leadership roles
that shape social services. Students have received numerous awards and recognitions. It has been a busy time at the School, and I am grateful for all the work
of our faculty and staff.
This issue of the Newsletter comes with a new look. With this new design,
we aim to give the publication more of a magazine look—including extra space
for photos—to better showcase what’s happening at NYU Silver. We are continuing to examine ways to improve the content and bring more articles that are of
interest to you. For example, we are now featuring more alumni profiles and will
have expanded content available online. We welcome your feedback, which can
be sent to silver.communications@nyu.edu.
Finally, thank you to all our generous donors who supported us in 2013-14.
You can find a list of names in our annual honor roll. Your scholarship gifts made
a world of difference to many students, and your programmatic gifts make it
possible for our faculty and school to achieve and contribute so much.
Lynn Videka
Dean and Professor
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Expanding
Social Work Education
and Research in China
Over the last year, the NYU Silver School of Social Work has made
significant progress in research and program development in Shanghai.
As the Chinese government grows the country’s social work profession, NYU Silver is creating a research base
on poverty and inequality, deepening its partnership with Chinese health and social service organizations, and
establishing programs to educate the next generation of social workers.
MSW Program
Last fall NYU Silver announced a new MSW program option that allows students fluent in both Mandarin and
English to study for a year in Shanghai and a year in New York. The School will welcome its first cohort of students
in fall 2015.
“Students will have the opportunity to experience an innovative global MSW education and be trained in
culturally appropriate practices,” said Professor Wen-Jui Han, co-director of the MSW program at Shanghai and New
York. “With training in both China and the United States, students will have a first-hand experience in both countries.”
Course work will be modeled after NYU Silver’s highly ranked two-year MSW program in New York and will
be taught entirely in English. During the program’s first year, offered in Shanghai, students will take courses in English at the NYU Shanghai campus while doing field instruction in Mandarin in Shanghai social service agencies and
health settings. The second year will take place at NYU’s Washington Square campus in New York City, where all
instruction and field learning will be in English.
“Graduates from this program will be fully equipped to work with populations in China or diverse populations around the world, including in New York’s own Chinatown,” said Associate Professor Tazuko Shibusawa,
director of the MSW program and co-director of the MSW program at Shanghai and New York.
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New Doctor of Social Work Degree …
NYU Silver proudly announces a new doctoral program in clinical social work (DSW) for professional social workers.
The DSW is a practice-oriented doctoral degree, and the DSW program in clinical social work will prepare licensed
social workers for leadership roles in academic and agency settings. The first cohort of students will start in the fall.
The program builds on NYU Silver’s recognized excellence and long reputation in clinical social work
training and will offer state-of-the-art coursework on theory, evidence-based practices, research, and policy, as
well as intensive writing workshops. The three-year, executive-style program allows students to continue working
full-time. Students will be able to focus their internships in either teaching or clinical supervision. In lieu of a dissertation, students will write two publishable papers and present work at a professional conference.
Carol Tosone, associate professor and recipient of the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award, will serve as
program director. She is editor-in-chief of the Clinical Social Work Journal, a distinguished scholar in the National
Academy of Practice in Social Work, and recipient of the Postgraduate Center Memorial Award in recognition of
clinical excellence.
Learn more at socialwork.nyu.edu/academics/dsw-program
Dual PhD Program
NYU Silver is also developing a dual PhD program to address one of China’s deepest workforce needs: social work
researchers and educators. The program with the School of Social Development at East China Normal University
(ECNU) will provide students an opportunity to have doctoral experiences in two countries.
Students will spend half of the time in New York City taking required foundation courses. Students will spend
the other half at ECNU in Shanghai for their disciplinary specialization coursework. Each student will have a faculty
mentor from NYU and ECNU, and the NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai will provide a
strong research infrastructure for research mentoring. The first cohort of students is expected to start fall 2016.
“This program reflects opportunities for Chinese and American students to be trained binationally and
biculturally in a way to address social welfare needs of people in China and the US,” said Professor Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, director of NYU Silver’s PhD program. “This is a great way to expand NYU Silver’s global linkages and
connect more with the Chinese population in the United States.”
Research: Well-Being of Chinese Children
The Institute for Social Development released its inaugural research project this past fall, a descriptive understanding of children’s well-being in contemporary China. The study examined the two major contexts—family and
school—that shape children’s well-being. Data were collected on 2,200 first-grade children in seven school districts
in Shanghai through surveying school administrators, teachers, and parents. These participants will be surveyed in
future years as part of a longitudinal study.
Researchers found that most of the first graders were happy and healthy. Parents reported having solid marriages, high academic expectations, and a middle-class income averaging $29,000. Exceptions, however, included:
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Boys in general, and children from low-income or rural hukou status families, tended to perform less well in
school than children of urban residents and have lower socio-emotional well-being.
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70 percent of children had normal weight; but 30 percent were considered overweight or obese, a rate
similar to the US based on the most recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Children were more likely to be overweight in families with higher income, unlike in the United States.
These children tend to attend large elementary schools—averaging 1,000 students—and have well-educated
teachers with a high degree of career satisfaction. While schools are seen as having adequate classroom space,
libraries, computer rooms, and music rooms, other facilities such as gymnasiums, auditoriums, and multi-purpose
rooms were viewed as lacking.
“Given the increasing income disparity China faces, our findings can help us understand the factors that
nurture or impede a child’s healthy development and hold implications for the future of China’s society,” said Han,
also co-director of the Institute.
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around campus:
NYU Silver Westchester
Campus Celebrates 20 Years
cursed with a zillion choices about how to practice, and
we will likely not master them all,” she said. The unifying theme among these myriad modalities, she stated,
is “the curative factor of the relationship itself.” Aiello
talked about the shift from classical, Freudian-based
training to a psychodynamic, “relatedness”-based
approach. She also spoke of the ubiquity of trauma in
today’s therapeutic world, recommending psychiatrist
From left to right: Theresa Aiello, Bill Reulbach,
Courtney O’Mealley, Susan Gerbino, Robin Miller,
Karen Wright, and Lynn Videka
Mark Epstein’s books for clinicians interested in learning
about the lesser traumas of everyday life.
A master of storytelling, Reulbach, MSW ’82,
On October 5, 2014, faculty, alumni, and students of the
reminisced about his journey from social work student
MSW program at the NYU Silver Westchester County
to social work teacher, sharing examples of his early
campus gathered in the Heimbold Visual Arts Cen-
work as a school social worker and of the power of the
ter at Sarah Lawrence College to celebrate the 20th
supervisory relationship.
anniversary of the campus. Attendees mingled over
Janet Smith-Spencer, MSW ’07, is proof of the
light refreshments and reminisced about their time as
power of strong supervision. “Every time I wanted to
students at this enclave of the Silver School of Social
run away, a supervisor saved me,” she shared. “Bill put
Work. Participants then heard from keynote present-
a smile on everyone’s face and warmed my heart with
ers Theresa Aiello, retired associate professor, and Bill
his stories as usual.... what a true social worker.”
Reulbach, retired adjunct lecturer.
Welcoming remarks were given by Susan Ger-
“As a mature student with grown children, I felt
very welcomed in this program,” said Sarah Arnold Ro-
bino, clinical associate professor and coordinator of the
setti, MSW ’13. “In my experience, the social work field
Westchester campus; Lynn Videka, dean and profes-
attracts many career-changers like myself, and for us,
sor; Courtney O’Mealley, assistant dean of student and
NYU Westchester feels like home.” She noted that she
alumni affairs; and Karen Wright, director of develop-
felt more connected to the Westchester campus than
ment. Gerbino reminisced about the founding of the
her undergraduate alma mater.
campus, and its first class of 16 students. “They really
Marlene Furtick, MSW ’97, remarked that the
took a chance on us,” she shared. The spirit of this
Westchester campus is the same “nurturing and caring
small community lives on in today’s program, whose
campus” she remembered. She said, “So much credit
hallmarks include a close-knit student body and faculty
must be given to Susan Gerbino as the leader of this
who work together and look out for each other in a
[campus]. I had the pleasure of having Bill as one of my
“lovely, non-competitive environment.”
first teachers that first semester in 1994. He was able to
Videka marveled at the growth of the Westchester campus, addressing the alumni in the audience:
weave actual true life teaching experiences then as he
did on October 5.”
“The program’s accomplishments are your accomplishments, and the quality of mentoring and student
services that have been created here is unparalleled.”
She also shared exciting news about future of the Silver
School, which includes a new dual-degree MSW/MA
program in health advocacy, as well as a clinical doctoral program, both set to begin in fall 2015.
Aiello gave a scintillating address on the changing scope of psychotherapy, and the litany of modalities
available to clinicians today. “We’re both blessed and
Members of the Westchester campus Class of 2013
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alumni spotlight:
Building a
Network
One Person
at a Time
Mary Pender Greene,
MSW ’74
“If you were to ask me if I have a mentor, I really don’t
have just one. I have many,” said Mary Pender Greene.
“Throughout my career lots of people have helped me.”
Pender Greene’s accomplished career includes
roles as a nonprofit executive, career and executive
coach, and a psychotherapist. At the NYU Silver School
of Social Work, she serves on the Advisory Committee
of the School’s McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and
Research. She calls her business network a “virtual personal board of directors.” Each person provides insight
in his or her area of expertise—such as social media,
marketing, salary negotiation, or issues of difference.
Pender Greene compiled her life lessons about
networking, mentoring, and career development in a
book recently published by Oxford University Press.
Creative Mentorship and Career Building Strategies:
How to Build Your Virtual Board of Directors brings the
most advanced mentoring methods out of the Fortune
500 boardroom to readers, giving them access to the
groundbreaking and innovative techniques utilized by
powerful and influential professionals.
“The idea is that you can’t become your best
self by yourself,” she explained. “The book is about the
do’s and don’ts of networking and the idea of recognizing that successful people never become successful
by themselves.”
In practical terms, Pender Greene provides the
rules of engagement. The first: Never ask anyone to be
on your virtual board or be your mentor. She has found
that people often do not want to commit to a required
number of hours, but are happy to sporadically help you
over the course of a year.
Another rule: Be responsive to referrals and/or
requests by people in your network and the networks
of others. She likened this system of mentorship to a
food co-op. There is no fee up front to participate in
the network, but you need to offer something to the
collective—a phone conversation, a coffee meeting,
connections to other people—to benefit from the group.
Pender Greene argues that the days of traditional mentorship provided by an employer are by and large
over. Today’s financially strapped environment plus
people changing jobs multiple times over their careers
has created the need for creative mentorship.
“Usually you think of someone being the passive
recipient of mentorship,” said Pender Greene. “Creative
mentorship is about becoming an active participant, and
you are pursuing mentors—lots of them.” She calls the
book a portable mentorship kit, which will include an
app to use for organizing contact information, writing
notes, and giving each person a virtual board position.
The book is a natural evolution for Pender
Greene, who worked at the Jewish Board of Family and
Children’s Services for many years. She held several
executive and management positions there and was in
charge of the organization’s staff development and the
placement of hundreds of social work students. She
knew most of the staff and students personally—often
providing career guidance. Many have stayed connected
even after they left the agency. In addition, Pender
Greene provides career and executive coaching services
as part of her private psychotherapy practice.
“It doesn’t end. You always need mentoring,”
said Pender Greene, who noted that someone on her
personal board encouraged her to write this book and
introduced her to his agent. “And as time goes on, you
are helpful to the mentees and they are helpful to you.”
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NYU Silver Honors Its
Outstanding Alumni
On Saturday, November 8, the NYU Silver School of Social Work
presented its annual Alumni Awards, honoring six alumni for their
contributions to the field of social work and the School.
Attendees, who included representatives from every decade of the School’s existence, mingled over a delicious
meal for an exuberant celebration of the individual and collective accomplishments of NYU Silver alumni.
Part of NYU Alumni Day 2014, the Silver Alumni awards—Distinguished Alumni Award, Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, and Making a Difference Award—were distributed at a luncheon at the NYU Global Center for
Academic and Spiritual Life, hosted by Silver School Dean Lynn Videka. Gary Parker, deputy director of the McSilver
Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, served as emcee for the event.
Karen Wright, director of development, presented Anne DeLaney, MSW ’88, with the Making a Difference
Award for her longstanding commitment to nonprofit work in the United States and abroad. “I am honored,
humbled, and grateful,” said DeLaney. A licensed clinical social worker with a two-decades long grief-counseling
practice, DeLaney is the co-founder of OneGift, the nation’s first wish fulfillment program for adults with cancer.
Since 1988, OneGift has granted over 3,500 wishes to cancer patients and their families. “I always wanted to make a
difference,” she shared. “People always said, ‘Oh, you’re so idealistic.’ But at NYU, people finally believed me.”
Dina Rosenfeld, clinical associate professor, presented Amanda Raposo, BS ’11, with the Outstanding Recent
Alumni Award for her philanthropic and entrepreneurial contributions to New York City mothers and children.
Raposo is the founder of Powerhouse NYC, a nonprofit organization that helps mothers in need achieve economic
empowerment. The organization—which Raposo established as an NYU undergraduate student—is sustained by
Project Playdate. Project Playdate, where Raposo serves as executive director, is the fundraising arm of Powerhouse
NYC and offers drop-off playdates and pajama parties for children.
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Chris Gates, BS ’09, received the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award for his educational work in Tanzania.
As a freshman at NYU, Gates started his own non-profit, the Janada L. Batchelor Foundation for Children (JBFC),
through which he founded a school in Tanzania in 2010. Today, JBFC’s Joseph & Mary School is ranked in the top
100 schools in the country and educates nearly 300 primary and secondary students. JBFC also maintains a home
for abused and abandoned girls. Ashli Sims, who works alongside Gates as director of development for JBFC presented him with the award.
Heath Bloch, assistant executive director for the Shield Institute, presented Irene Chung, PhD ’00, with the
Distinguished Alumni Award for her extensive research and work on suicide among Asian American populations.
“My utmost desire in social work is to give back to the community,” she shared. Chung, who emigrated from Hong
Kong to the United States, spoke candidly about her personal struggle to prove herself as a woman of color whose
native language is not English, especially in a field dominated by Eurocentric psychodynamic concepts. She folds
her experiences into her clinical work, using a cross-cultural practice perspective in her work with the Asian American community. Chung is a prolific writer whose most recent publication is the 2013 book Contemporary Clinical
Practice with Asian Immigrants: A Relational Framework with Culturally Responsive Approaches, co-authored with
NYU Silver Associate Professor Tazuko Shibusawa. She has served as president of the New York Coalition for Asian
American Mental Health for the past five years.
Robert Schachter, executive director of the NYC Chapter of NASW, presented Carmen Collado, MSW ’92,
with the Distinguished Alumni Award for her tremendous work as a policymaker, program designer, and advocate
for the social work profession. In November, Collado joined ICL as chief network and relationship officer. She is
responsible for ensuring that relationships between the organization and government officials, clients, collaborators,
and donors remain strong and transparent. Collado came to ICL from the Jewish Board of Family Children’s Services
(JBFCS), where she had been chief government and community relations officer since 2002. A member of the New
York State Board for Social Work, she serves as a social work representative, advising the Board of Regents and
State Department of Education on matters of professional regulation. Collado reminisced proudly on her formative training at NYU: “I am grateful for, and cherish, my clinical education. I am proud to be part of a school whose
legacy is preparing social workers to repair the world.”
The event concluded with the presentation of the Distinguished Alumni Award to Constance McCatherin
Silver, BS ’78, MSW ’79, who has tirelessly lent her support—and name—to the School. She received a PhD from the
Union Institute and University in 1983, and is a teacher, therapist, artist, and philanthropist. Silver has been a member of the NYU Board of Trustees since 2003, and serves on the Academic Affairs, University Life, and Global Affairs
Committees. Reflecting on the growth of the School, Silver smiled, “This is, no doubt, the little engine that could.”
Videka praised Silver for her storied and varied endeavors, which include a thriving artistic practice as a sculptor
of bright, vibrant pieces. Silver is also responsible for the creation of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and
Research, which Videka heralded: “McSilver is pioneering social work as a scientific enterprise while maintaining a
commitment to scholarship and expanding student diversity.”
From left to right: Irene Chung, Chris Gates, Carmen Collado, Lynn Videka,
Constance Silver, Anne DeLaney, and Amanda Raposo
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alumni spotlight:
A Teacher
at Heart
Mara Gottlieb, MSW ’97,
PhD ’14
Mara Gottlieb’s decision to pursue a career in social
work and diversity was inspired by her hometown. A
self-professed “New York City kid,” Gottlieb grew up in
the urban epicenter of cultural heterogeneity. She felt
pulled to social work, with its focus on diversity and
social justice, from a young age.
Gottlieb received her undergraduate degree
from Brown University, where she accepted her first social work position as the student head of the Women’s
Center. Her supervisor—hoping to address what she
perceived as a lack of diversity among students using
the center’s services—sent Gottlieb to a three-day
a renewed focus on research and empirical scholar-
diversity training seminar sponsored by the National
ship and a built-in mentor support system. She also
Coalition Building Institute.
acknowledged the support she received from Tazuko
“The experience changed my life forever,” she
said. “I was so affected by this opportunity to hear people talk about the way they wanted to be seen versus
as the chair of her dissertation committee.
Gottlieb’s dissertation Self-Awareness, Self-
how they had the experience of being seen. I walked
Compassion, and Cultural Competence: Implications
out into the sunlight blinking my tears away, knowing
for Social Work Education and Practice anonymously
that I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing this,
surveyed NYU Silver MSW students through a three-
in one way or another.” Getting more education, she
measure study designed to examine whether compas-
decided, would open more doors.
sion and self-awareness help practitioners be more
After graduating from the NYU Silver School of
culturally competent. Her findings made it “abundantly
Social Work, Gottlieb worked as the director of a New
clear that self-compassion really does undergird cultur-
York City domestic violence hotline run through Safe
al competence, and also supports self-awareness. There
Horizon, where she engaged in the cultural compe-
are massive links to our ability to be forgiving to our-
tence work she had craved. She quickly discovered
selves as therapists and practitioners, and being able to
she had a knack for teaching, and in 1999, she founded
work with others cross-culturally.” Gottlieb’s disserta-
her own diversity consultancy firm, Talking Changes.
tion highlights an often-overlooked issue in social work
Social work agencies hire Gottlieb to conduct trainings
research: “There’s so much focus on empathy for the
on topics including bias reduction, cultural awareness/
client, but next to nothing on empathy for ourselves.”
competency, LGBT issues, and working with survi-
The pursuit of a PhD has also allowed Gottlieb
vors of rape and sexual assault. After the economic
to put her anti-bias and diversity work to good use and
downturn of 2005 slowed her business, she decided to
return to teaching. She has been an adjunct lecturer at
return to school once more. Gottlieb applied to NYU
the School since 2007. “My heart is in teaching,” she
Silver’s PhD program and was accepted.
said. Gottlieb has taught Advanced Practice, a course
Gottlieb’s journey through the PhD program
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Shibusawa, director of the MSW program, who served
for undergraduate juniors; Behavior I and II and the
was an eight-and-a-half-year process, during which she
seminal Diversity, Racism, Oppression, and Privilege
watched the program grow and improve. She applauds
(DROP), all part of the MSW curriculum. She has also
the work of PhD Program Director Vincent Guilamo-Ra-
resumed consultancy, and is leading cultural com-
mos, who, with the Doctoral Program Committee, has
petence workshops for agencies in line with the new
made changes to the program structure. These include
LCSW cultural competence requirements.
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program updates:
Cutting-Edge
Knowledge
for Practice:
NYU Silver Expands its
Professional Development
Opportunities
As of January 1, all New York state LMSWs and LCSWs
After a successful seminar series in 2014, the
are required to complete 36 hours of formal continuing
School is hosting a second installment of Fridays at
education coursework during each triennial registration
Silver on the Square this spring. “The series includes
period, making New York the latest state to establish
a look at the neurobiological implications of behav-
such requirements.
ioral addictions and is focusing on gambling, sexual
“Systematizing the continued knowledge-build-
addiction in the digital age, eating disorders, and
ing of social workers will help to advance practice,”
Internet addiction,” explained Wolkstein. These half-day
said Eileen Wolkstein, director of global and lifelong
workshops address key social work issues surrounding
learning at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. “It
ethics, values, and practice challenges.
will ensure that social workers remain abreast of new
NYU Silver will also host a featured spring
theories and modalities and that they add to their
conference on creative arts and social work on April 27.
diverse repertoire of skills to best serve clients’ unique
Speakers include social workers and creative arts thera-
and disparate needs.”
py faculty and practicing therapists in music, drama,
To address this new requirement, NYU Silver has
dance, art, and poetry from NYU Silver; NYU Steinhardt
greatly expanded its continuing education course op-
School of Culture, Education, and Human Develop-
tions through its Office of Global and Lifelong Learning,
ment; and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. As Wolkstein
offering a new post-master’s certificate program, a se-
described, “The conference will look at the intersection
ries of conferences and workshops, and online learning
of modalities of creative arts therapies and social work
programs. All of NYU Silver’s professional development
for individuals, groups, and communities and provide
options are available for contact hours upon comple-
resources for practitioners and agencies interested in
tion. NYU Silver is recognized by the New York State
exploring creative arts in their work with clients.”
Education Department’s State Board for Social Work
For clinicians practicing outside of New York
as an approved provider of continuing education for
City or unable to attend events in person, the Office
licensed social workers. As new NYU Silver programs
of Global and Lifelong Learning expanded its online
are approved by the state, they will be posted online.
learning opportunities with a video lecture series by
The School has expanded its acclaimed post-
Associate Professor Judith Siegel on family resilience.
master’s certificate programs with a new offering in
Webinars on dialectical behavioral therapy, adult be-
integrated primary and behavioral health. This program
reavement, and sexual addiction will be offered. Online
consists of five modules focused on transforming pri-
options will continue to grow over the next year, and
mary and behavioral healthcare systems in relation to
information will be posted on NYU Silver’s website as it
changes under the Affordable Care Act. Each module
becomes available.
is designed as a stand-alone learning experience, but
taken together offer a comprehensive overview of
healthcare reform. Completion of each module results
For more information on these and other
in a certificate in the area of concentration and a cor-
professional development opportunities, please visit:
responding number of contact hours. Completion of
socialwork.nyu.edu/continuing-education
all five modules results in the advanced certificate in
healthcare reform.
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faculty news:
NYU Silver Welcomes
New Faculty Members
campuses in various capacities. Her current research
The Silver School of Social Work has welcomed seven
professors/faculty fellows joined the
new members to its esteemed faculty during the 2014-
School. Aminda Heckman Chomanczuk’s
15 academic year.
primary research interest is helping
interest is global social work and cross-cultural studies
on mental health issues.
In addition, two new assistant
Assistant Professor Minchao Jin
social workers develop and deliver cul-
focuses his research on global social
turally and linguistically competent practices.
development and public health, with
Wenhua Lu’s research interests include
a particular focus on asset-based ap-
child and adolescent mental health
proaches and child outcomes. His cur-
services, school mental health, minority
rent work examines the pathways via which household
health issues and health disparities, and
assets may contribute to the nutritional outcomes for
child health behaviors and outcomes.
preschool children. Jin has practice experiences in poverty alleviation and community development in several
agencies in both China and the United States.
Assistant Professor Jennifer
Manuel conducts research on the delivery and quality of treatment services
among persons with co-occurring
substance use and mental health needs.
She has been awarded a National Institute on Drug
Abuse Mentored Research Scientist Development
Award to adapt and pilot test an assertive outreach
and linkage program for individuals with co-occurring
substance use and mental health needs following residential substance abuse treatment.
Assistant Professor Rohini
Pahwa’s work examines cross-cultural
and cross-national differences in the
process of community integration for
individuals with severe mental illness
through quantitative and social network methodologies. Her work is rooted in her research, practice, and
teaching experience in India and the United States.
Other faculty appointments include:
Linda Lausell Bryant, as clinical
assistant professor and director of the
undergraduate field learning program.
She comes to NYU Silver with a 30-year
career in youth services. Most recently,
she served as executive director of Inwood House since
2005. In September 2015, she will assume the role of
executive-in-residence and Katherine and Howard Aibel
Visiting Assistant Professor.
Siu-Ping Ma as clinical associate
professor. She specializes in Asian-American mental health, and has extensive
experience in the community mental
health field and has worked in a number
of multi-cultural community agencies and college
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Faculty Awards
and Honors
Briana Barocas, a research associate professor, has
been awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, and been accepted into its prestigious Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program. She will
use the funding to research, develop, and launch a
domestic violence knowledge database based on her
research with Linda G. Mills, the executive director of
NYU’s Center on Violence and Recovery.
Susan Gerbino, clinical associate professor
and director of the Zelda Foster Studies Program in
Palliative and End-of-Life Care, will receive the 2015
Association of Oncology Social Work’s Quality of Life
in Cancer Care Award. Gerbino will be recognized—and
give a special lecture—at the 2015 AOSW Annual Conference on May 20-22.
The board of directors of the Latino Commission on AIDS has elected Professor Vincent
Guilamo-Ramos to be part of its board. The Commission is dedicated to addressing health disparities and
responding to the impact of HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis
in the Latino communities.
Associate Professor Michael A. Lindsey has
been elected member-at-large to the board of the
Society for Social Work and Research, an organization
dedicated to the advancement of social work research.
His three-year term began on February 1, 2015.
Mary M. McKay, McSilver Professor of Poverty
Studies and director of NYU Silver’s McSilver Institute
for Poverty Policy and Research, has been named to
New York State’s Delivery System Reform Incentive
Payment Project Approval and Oversight Panel, the
state’s Medicaid system reform initiative.
Associate Professor Michelle Munson has been
awarded a three-year, $660,000 grant to develop the
promising Cornerstone intervention that helps lowincome youth with mental disorders transition from
child to adult mental health care.
Clinical Associate Professor Dina Rosenfeld will
be honored with an inaugural NYU Global Spiritual Life
Award. This award recognizes Rosenfeld’s leadership
in the integration of spiritual life and the academic
programs of the School and the University, including
the multifaith leadership minor.
Dean Lynn Videka has been named board chair
of the New York Council of Nonprofits. With its nearly
This past summer, Phil Coltoff’s book
The Block: One Block in the South Bronx,
1940s – 1980s was published by NYU Silver.
Coltoff, the Katherine W. and Howard Aibel Visiting Professor and executive-in-residence, reflects
on his youth in the neighborhood of Crotona Park,
the place that he, his friends, and the residents
created the foundation that enabled them to move
on but left an indelible mark on their personalities
and formed a value system for their future.
3,000 members, NYCON provides a collective policy
voice for the nonprofit sector, helps inform philan-
For a list of faculty publications, visit
thropic giving, and conducts research to demonstrate
socialwork.nyu.edu/about-silver/publications
relevance and impact.
Class Notes
In fall 2014, Kathleen Levinstein, BS ’84, MSW ’85, joined the University of Michigan-Flint as an assistant professor.
She will continue her research on healthcare torture, including an anthology of ABA survivors titled “At the Expense
of Joy” and an anthology of the last voices of autism titled “Not Dark Yet.”
Gretchen Peterson, MSW ’97, was named the founding program director at Gilda’s Club Twin Cities. Under her direction, this affiliate of the nation-wide Cancer Support Community opened its doors in January 2014, offering social
and emotional support to anyone touched by cancer within the 11-county Twin Cities metropolitan area. Gretchen is
pursuing her EdD in leadership at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis.
Jerry Rhine, MSW ’04, has written the book Healing Cancer, Heart Disease, and More. It features psychoneroimmunology using over 50 transformative images to change emotions and chemicals in neurotransmitters and to empower the
immune system. This results in the potential reversal of advanced cancer and heart disease, as occurred with Jerry.
Andy Yen, MSW ’14, works at Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco, Adult Psychiatric Clinic as an assistant psychiatric social worker.
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Faculty Publications­
Anastas, J. W. (2014). The science of social work and its relationship to social work practice. Research on Social
Work Practice, 24(5), 1-10. DOI: 10.1177/1049731513511335
Payne, N. A. & Anastas, J. W. (2014) The mental health needs of low-income pregnant teens: A nursing-social
work partnership in care. Research on Social Work Practice. (published online first, August 17, 2014) DOI:
10.1177/1049731514545656
Anastas, J. W. (2015) Clinical social work, science, and doctoral education: Schisms or synergy? Clinical Social Work
Journal. (published online) DOI: 10.1007/s10615-015-0534-5
Barrenger, S., Atterbury, K., & Stanhope, V. (in press). Discursive processes creating team culture and recovery
orientation among housing first providers. American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
Barrenger, S. & Canada, K. (in press). Mental illness along the criminal justice continuum. Journal of Forensic
Social Work.
Angell, B., Matthews, E. B., Barrenger, S., Watson, A. C., & Draine, J. (2014). Engagement processes in model
programs for community reentry from prison for people with serious mental illness. International Journal of Law &
Psychiatry, 37, 490-500. DOI: 10.1016/j.iijlp.2014.01.022
Blank Wilson, A., Draine, J., Barrenger, S., Hadley, T., & Evans, A. (2014). Examining the impact of mental illness and
substance use on time until re-incarceration in a county jail. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental
Health Services Research, 41, 293-301. DOI: 10.1007/s10488-013-0467-7
Coltoff, P. (2014). The Block: One Block in the South Bronx, 1940s – 1980s. New York, NY: NYU Silver School of
Social Work.
England, S. & Rust, M. (2015). Sweet old things: Moral complexities in old age in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori.
Journal of Aging Studies, 33, 76-85.
Festinger, T. (2014) Adoption disruption: Rates, correlates, and service needs. In G. P. Mallon & P. M. Hess (Eds.),
Child Welfare for the 21st Century: A Handbook of Practices, Policies, and Programs (2nd ed.). New York, NY:
Columbia University Press.
Goldín, L., Copeland, R., Padilla, D. (2015) Behind Maya doors: Gender violence, acceptance, and resistance in
Highland Guatemala. Gendered Perspectives in International Development, 305.
Goldín, L. (2014) The labor topography of Central Highland Guatemala youth: Employment diversification, health,
and education in the context of poverty. In Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals
and Moral Realities. Research in Economic Anthropology, 34, 315-347.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Lee, J., Ruiz, Y., Hagan, H., Delva, M., Quiñones, Z., Kamler, A., & Robles, G. (2015). Illicit drug
use and HIV risk in the Dominican Republic: Tourism areas as drug use opportunities. Global Public Health, 10(2),
318-330. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.966250
Holloway, I. W., Padilla, M. B., Willner, L., & Guilamo-Ramos, V. (2014). Effects of minority stress processes on the
mental health of Latino men who have sex with men and women. Archives of Sexual Behavior. DOI: 10.1007/s10508014-0424-x
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Faculty Publications (continued)
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Kantor, L. M., Levine, D. S., Lee, J., Baum, S., & Johnsen, J. (2015). Potential for using online and
mobile education to impact adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Prevention Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11121-0140469-z
Ruiz, Y., Guilamo-Ramos, V., Leavitt, S., McCarthy, K., Muñoz-Laboy, M., & López, M. R. (2014). Exploring migratory
dynamics on HIV transmission: The case of Mexicans in New York City and Puebla, Mexico. American Journal of
Public Health, 104(6), 1036-1044.
Lieberman, L., Lausell Bryant, L., Boyce, K., & Beresford, P. (2014). Pregnant teens in foster care: Challenges and
implications for conducting research with vulnerable populations. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 8(2), 143-163.
Lieberman, L., Lausell Bryant, L., & Boyce, K. (2015). Family preservation and healthy outcomes for pregnant and
parenting teens in foster care: The Inwood House theory of change. Journal of Family Social Work, 18(1), 21-39.
Barth, R. P., Kolivoski, K. M., Lindsey, M. A., Lee, B. R., & Collins, K. S. (2014) Translating the common elements
approach: Social work’s experiences in education, practice, and research. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent
Psychology, 43(2), 301-311.
Green, J. G., Johnson, R. M., Dunn, E. R., Lindsey, M. A., Xuan, Z., & Zaslavsky, A. M. (2014). Mental health service use
among high school students exposed to interpersonal violence. Journal of School Health, 84, 141-149.
Lee, B. R., Ebesutani, C., Kolivoski, K. M., Becker, K. D., Lindsey, M. A., Brandt, N. E., Cammack, N., Goolsby, D.,
Strieder, F., Chorpita, B. F., & Barth, R. P. (2014). Program and practice elements for placement prevention: A review
of interventions and their effectiveness in promoting home-based care. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,
84(3), 244-256.
Lindsey, M. A., Brandt, N. E., Becker, K. D., Lee, B., Barth, R., Daleiden, E. L., & Chorpita, B. F. (2014). Identifying the
common elements of treatment engagement in child mental health services. Clinical Child and Family Psychology
Review, 17(3), 283-298.
Doyle, M., Pecukonis, E., & Lindsey, M. A. (in press). Correlates and consequences of father nurturance in an African
American college sample. Journal of Family Issues.
Smith, M. E., Lindsey, M. A., Williams, C., Medoff, D., Lucksted, A., Fang, L. J., Schiffman, J., Lewis-Fernandez, R., &
Dixon, L. (in press). Racial differences in the experiences of family members of persons with mental illness. American
Journal of Community Psychology.
McKay, M., Alicea, S., Elwyn, L., McClain, Z., Parker, G., Small, L., & Mellins, C. (2014). Addressing the need for theorydriven programs capable of impacting urban children’s health, mental health, and prevention needs: CHAMP and
CHAMP+, evidence-informed, family-based interventions to address HIV risk and care. Journal of Clinical Child and
Adolescent Psychology, 43, 428-441.
McKay, M., Small, L., Jackson, J., & Gopalan, G. (2014). Using research to inform practice with youth evidencing
co-morbid or complex difficulties. Research on Social Work Practice. (published online first, June 10, 2014)
Hoagwood, K., Olin, S., Horwitz, S., McKay, M., Cleek, A., Gleacher, A., Lewandowshki, R., Nadeem, E., Acri, M., Chor,
K., Kuppinger, A., Burton, G., Weiss, D., Frank, S., Finnerty, M., Bradbury, D., Woodlock, K., & Hogan, M. (2014). Scaling
up evidence-based practices for children and families in New York state: Towards evidence-based policies on
implementation for state mental health systems. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 43, 145-157.
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Stevens, T., Schwartz-McGuire, M., Rotko, L., Fuss, A., & McKay, M. (2014). A learning collaborative supporting the
implementation of an evidence-informed program, the 4Rs and 2S for children with conduct difficulties and their
families. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 11, 84-96.
Chor, K., Olin, S., Weaver, J., Cleek, A., McKay, M., Hoagwood, K., & Horwitz, S. (2014). Characterizing clinic adoption
in child mental health initiatives in New York state. Psychiatric Services. (published online first, August 1, 2014)
DOI:10.1176/appi.ps.201300535.
Parker, G., Ali, S., Ringell, K., & McKay, M. (2014). Bi-directional exchange: The cornerstone of globally focused social
work. Global Social Welfare: Research, Policy & Practice, 1, 1-8.
Small, L., Mercado, M., Gopalan, P., Mellins, C., & McKay, M. (2014). Enhancing the emotional wellbeing of perinatally
HIV infected youth across global contexts. Global Social Welfare: Research, Policy & Practice, 1, 25-35.
Dorsey, S., Pullmann, M., Berliner, L., Koschmann, E., McKay, M., & Deblinger, E. (2014). Engaging foster parents in
treatment: A randomized trial of supplementing Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with evidence-based
engagement strategies. Child Abuse & Neglect, 38, 1508-20.
Lynn, C. J., Acri, M. C., Goldstein, L., Bannon, W., Beharie, N., & McKay, M. (2014). Improving youth mental health
through family-based prevention in family homeless shelters. Children and Youth Services Review, 44, 243-248.
Olin, S., Chor, B., Weaver, J., Duan, N., Kerker, B., Clark, L., Cleek, A., McKay, M., & Hoagwood, K. (2014). Multilevel
predictors of clinic adoption of state-supported trainings. Psychiatric Services. (published online first, August 1,
2014) DOI:10.1176/appi.ps.201300535.
Mellins, C., Nestadt, D., Bhana, A., Petersen, I., Abrams, E., Alicea, S., Host, H., Myeza, N., John, S., Small, L., & McKay,
M. (2014). Adapting evidence-based interventions to meet the needs of adolescents growing up with HIV in South
Africa: The VUKA case example. Global Social Welfare: Research Policy & Practice, 1, 97-110.
Umpierre, M., Meyers, L., Ortiz, A., Paulino, A., Rivera Rodriguez, A., Miranda, A., Rodriguez, R., Kranes, S., & McKay, M.
(2014). Understanding Latino parents’ child mental health literacy: Todos a bordo/All aboard. Research on Social Work
Practice. (published online first, August 28, 2014)
Gromadzka, O., Dolezal, C., Abrams, E., Santamaria, K., Elkington, K., Wiznia, A., Benavides, J., Leu, C., Bamji, M.,
McKay, M., & Mellins, C. (in press). Sexual health knowledge in a sample of perinatally HIV-infected and perinatally
HIV-exposed uninfected youth. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services.
Schwartz-McGuire, M., Parker, G., Small, L., Kim, P., & McKay, M. (in press). Relationships between caregiver
violence exposure, caregiver depression, and youth behavioral health among homeless families. Research on
Social Work Practice.
Merritt, D. & Klein, S. (2015). Do early care and education services improve language development for maltreated
children? Evidence from a national child welfare sample. Child Abuse and Neglect, 39, 185-196.
Merritt, D. H. & Snyder, S. (2014). Maltreatment type and behaviors: Does listening matter? Child Abuse and Neglect,
38, 2062-2071.
Snyder, S. & Merritt, D. H. (in press). The influence of supervisory neglect on subtypes of emerging adult substance
use after controlling for familial factors, relationship status, and individual traits. Substance Abuse.
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Snyder, S. & Merritt, D. H. (2014). Do childhood experiences of neglect affect delinquency among child welfare
involved youth? Children and Youth Services Review, 46, 64-71.
Klein, S. & Merritt, D. H. (2014). Neighborhood racial & ethnic diversity as a predictor of child welfare system
involvement. Children and Youth Services Review, 41, 95-105.
Kim, H., Tracy, E. M., Biegel, D. E., Min, M. O., & Munson, M. R. (2014). The effects of organizational culture on mental
health service engagement of transition age youth. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research. (published
online first, May 8, 2014) DOI: 10.1007/s11414-014-9406-y.
Munson, M. R., Cole, A., Jaccard, J., Kranke, D., Farkas, K., & Frese, F. (2014). Just Do You: An engagement
intervention for young adults utilizing recovery role models. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 1-22.
Lee, B., Cole, A., & Munson, M. R. (2014). Navigating family roles and relationships: System youth in the transition
years. Child and Family Social Work. DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12160.
Munson, M. R., Brown, S., Spencer, R., Tracy, E., & Edguer, M. (in press). Supportive relationships during the transition
to adulthood among former system youth. Journal of Adolescent Research.
Tran Smith, B., Padgett, D. K., Brown, M., & Henwood, B. F. (2015). Rebuilding lives and identities: The role of place in
mental health recovery. Health & Place, 33, 109-117.
Siegel, J. P. (2015). Emotional regulation in adolescent substance use disorders: Rethinking risk. Journal of Child &
Adolescent Substance Abuse, 24(2), 67-79.
Siegel, J. P. (2014). The mindful couple. Journal of Clinical Social Work, 42(3), 282-287.
Siegel, J. P. (2015). Object relations couple therapy. In A. S. Gurman, J. Lebow, & D. Snyder (Eds.), The Clinical
Handbook of Couple Therapy. New York, NY: Guilford.
Stanhope, V., Videka, L., Thorning, H., & McKay, M. (in press). Moving toward integrated health: An opportunity for
social work. Social Work in Health Care.
Wiechelt, S. & Straussner, S. L. A. (Eds). (in press). Examining the Relationship between Trauma and Addiction.
Oxfordshire, England: Taylor & Francis.
Einstein, S., Straussner, S. L. A., Johnson, T. P., & Gartside, W. (in press). Evidence-informed, evidence not used: A
pilot study of a sustained flawed process and unfinished business. Substance Use and Misuse.
Straussner, S. L. A. (Ed). (2014). Clinical Work with Substance Abusing Clients (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Straussner, S. L. A. & Donath, R. (in press). Growing up in crisis: Children and teens with substance-abusing parents.
In N. B. Webb (Ed.), Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents in Crisis: Treatments for Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma
(4th ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Straussner, S. L. A. & Fewell, C. H. (in press). Children of alcohol and other drug abusing parents. In A. Reupert, D.
Maybery, J. Nicholson, M. Seeman, & M. Göpfert (Eds). Parental Psychiatric Disorders: Distressed Parents and Their
Families (3rd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Straussner, S. L. A. (2014). Assessment and treatment of clients with substance use disorders: An overview. In S.
Straussner (Ed.). Clinical Work with Substance Abusing Clients (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Straussner, S. L. A. (2014). Practice and policy issues: The changing landscape. In S. Straussner (Ed.). Clinical Work
with Substance Abusing Clients (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Straussner, S. L. A. & Schiff, M. Co-editors. (2014). Clinical Social Work Journal, 42(4). Special issue on “Trauma
Through the Life Cycle.”
Straussner, S. L. A. & Calnan, A. (2014). Trauma through the life cycle. Clinical Social Work Journal, 42(4), 323-335.
Straussner, S. L. A. (2014). The DSM–5 diagnostic criteria: What’s new? Journal of Social Work Practice in the
Addictions, 13(4), 448-453.
Tosone, C., Bauwens, J., & Glassman, M. (2014). Measuring shared trauma and professional postttraumatic growth: A
preliminary study. Research on Social Work Practice. DOI: 10.1177/1049731514549814
Bragin, M., Tosone, C., Ihrig, E., Mollere, V., Niazi, A., & Mayel, E. (2014). Building culturally relevant social work for
children in the midst of armed conflict: Applying the DACUM method in Afghanistan. International Social Work. DOI:
10.1177/0020872814527631
McTighe, J. & Tosone, C. (in press). Narratives and meaning making among Manhattan social workers in the wake of
September 11, 2001. Social Work in Mental Health.
Tuchman, E. (2015). Women’s injection drug practices in their own words: A qualitative study. Harm Reduction
Journal, 12(6), 1-8.
Rajendran, K., Smith, B. D., & Videka, L. (2015). Association with caregiver social support, permanency, and wellbeing of children in child welfare. Children and Youth Services Review, 48, 150-158. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.
childyouth.2014.12.012
Corrigan, M. J., Videka, L., Loneck, B., Newman, L. J., & Rajendran, K. (2014). Characteristics of student assistance
and prevention counseling programs in response to environmental impacts. Journal of Child and Adolescent
Substance Abuse, 23(6), 407-413. DOI: 10.1080/1067828X.2014.928141
Wakefield, J. C. (2015). Psychological justice: DSM-5, false positive diagnosis, and fair equality of opportunity. Public
Affairs Quarterly, 29(1), 32-75.
Wakefield, J. C. (2015). Symptom data reanalysis disconfirms Parker et al.’s claim that latent class analysis identifies
melancholic depression [Letter to the editor]. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. (published online first, March 7, 2015)
DOI: 10.1111/acps.12413
Wakefield, J. C. (2015). The harmful dysfunction model of alcohol use disorder: Revised criteria to improve the
validity of diagnosis and prevalence estimates. Addiction. (published online first, January 26, 2015) DOI: 10.1111/
add.12859
Wakefield, J. C. (2015). DSM-5, psychiatric epidemiology, and the false positives problem. Epidemiology and
Psychiatric Science, 13, 1-9.
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Wakefield, J. C. (2015). The loss of grief: Science and pseudoscience in the debate over DSM-5’s elimination of the
bereavement exclusion. In S. Demazeaux & P. Singy (Eds.), The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on
the Psychiatric Bible (157-178). New York, NY: Springer.
Wakefield, J. C. (2014). The biostatistical theory versus the harmful dysfunction analysis, part 1: Is part-dysfunction
sufficient for medical disorder? Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 39(6), 648-682.
Wakefield, J. C. (in press). Castel on obsession: Social construction, biological design, and mental disorder.
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology.
Wakefield, J. C. (2014). DSM-5 changes and controversies: The headline news, part 1. Intersections 2014: NASW
Specialty Practice Section, 12-15.
Wakefield, J. C. (in press). Mental disorder as harmful dysfunction. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine.
Wakefield, J. C. & Horwitz, A. V. (in press). Psychiatry’s continuing expansion of depressive disorder. In S. Demazeux
& J. C. Wakefield (Eds.), Distinguishing Sadness from Depression: Psychiatric Diagnosis of Depressive Disorder
Reconsidered. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Science. History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences Series.
Wakefield, J. C. & Horwitz, A. V. (in press). Afterword to the Italian edition of The Loss of Sadness. In A. V. Horwitz &
J. C. Wakefield (Eds.), La perdita della tristezza: Come la psichiatria ha trasformato il normale dolore in un disturbo
depressive. Rome, Italy: L’Asino D’oro Edizione.
Horwitz, A. V., Wakefield, J. C., & Lorenzo-Luaces, L. (in press). History of depression. In R. J. DeRubeis & D. R.
Strunk (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Depression. New York, NY: Oxford Press.
Wakefield, J. C. (in press). The concepts of biological function and dysfunction: Toward a conceptual foundation
for evolutionary psychopathology. In D. Buss (Ed.), Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (2nd ed.). New York, NY:
Oxford Press.
Wakefield, J. C. & Schmitz, M. F. (2014). Uncomplicated depression is normal sadness, not depressive disorder:
Further evidence from the NESARC. World Psychiatry, 13(3), 317-319.
Wakefield, J. C. & Schmitz, M. F. (2014). How many people have alcohol use disorders?: Using the harmful
dysfunction analysis to reconcile prevalence estimates in two community surveys. Frontiers in Psychiatry: Addictive
Disorders and Behavioral Self-Control, 5(10). DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00010
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