A5080709559- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Community Health and Development
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Indian History and Philosophy
- Cognitive and psychological constructs research
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Child and Animal Learning Development
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2001-2024
University of Illinois Chicago
2015-2024
Northeastern Illinois University
2018
University of Illinois System
2011
Columbia University
1988-1997
Walden University
1996-1997
University School
1992
Decolonizing social work requires becoming genuine, returning to one’s cultural roots for direction. Decolonization entails resistance work’s ‘West the Rest’ movement, which seeks ‘internationalize’ and ‘standardize’ profession. For be useful in Africa, reorientation of its methods toward facilitating holistic indigenous intervention is mandatory. This conceptual article analyzes literature on decolonization, methodology, stressing that decolonization challenging dominant models practice...
Youth violence is widely recognized as a critical problem in the United States, and many approaches to prevention intervention have been developed recent years. Although children are safer school than anywhere else, remains serious concern, schools proven be among most accessible nexuses for efforts. Analyses by U.S. surgeon general other scholars indicate that effective sustainable programs focus on culture or climate. The emerging evidence suggests constructing cultures incompatible with...
Issues like police-community relations, violence—from neighborhood to global levels, economic inequality, and climate change have been only minimally addressed within behavior analysis, despite the oft repeated mantra that they are all at root behavioral. Disciplines determine scope of their interests; analysis behavioral systems long claimed least potential expertise in changing not individual behavior, but also collective interlocking functioning larger institutions systems. In this paper...