Research with Purpose

Peer-reviewed articles from BUSSW faculty

Introducing “Research with Purpose”

Welcome to our new initiative, “Research with Purpose,” a compilation of recent peer-reviewed journal articles by our BUSSW faculty that they are most proud to have published.

Our goal is to increase the visibility of our faculty research within the BUSSW community and to deepen our understanding of our scholarly work – ideally helping to facilitate more academic discussion and collaboration among faculty and with our students. We hope this also helps our students become more familiar with the breadth and impact of research happening here at BUSSW.

The following list was collected from faculty responses to an inquiry asking for one or two articles of which they were most proud from the 2023-2024 academic year.

Enjoy these important contributions to social work research!

Hyeouk Chris Hahm, PhD, LCSW
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Office of Research, BUSSW

Research with Purpose: 2023–2024

Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez

• Entre madres y comadres: Trans Latina immigrants empowering women beyond marianismo

• Epistemological weaving: Writing and sense making in qualitative research with Gloria Anzaldúa

Astraea Augsberger

• Youth engagement to achieve health equity: Are health care organizations and leaders prepared?

• Trauma-Informed Photovoice for Adolescents and Young Adults with Child Welfare Involvement

Emilia Bianco

• Towards an ethics of compassionate care in accompanying human suffering: dialogic relationships and feminist activist scholarship with asylum-seeking mothers

Tom Byrne

• Impact of the monetary value of housing asssitance on adult health outcomes

• Extended foster care and homelessness: Assessing the impact of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act on rates of homelessness among youth

Mary Collins

• “Time has come again” for Career Pathways: Workforce development for youth in the U.S.

Jennifer M. Gómez

• Barriers to Formal Help-Seeking Among Black American Young Adults: Exploring the Roles of Sexual Violence Victimization, Intersectional Oppression, & Perceived Burdensomness

• “It will always feel worse because it comes with that added ‘betrayal’”: Intersectionality Praxis and Black Young Women Survivors’ Perspectives on Cultural Betrayal Trauma Theory

Judith G. Gonyea

• Historical Perspectives on Older Americans’ Voting Participation: The Effects of Individual Aging, Life Cycle, and Generational Cohort

Hyeouk Chris Hahm

• Psychological distress and heavy alcohol consumption among US young women during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Barriers and risk factors associated with non-treatment-seeking for suicidality onset during the COVID-19 pandemic among young adults

Barbara Jones

• Social workers are key to addressing social determinants of health in integrated care settings  

• Community Health Work and Social Work Collaboration: Integration in Health Care and Public Health Settings: A Conceptual Framework

Bronwyn Keefe

• Enhancing Behavioral Health Competencies for Senior Center Staff through Workforce Development and Training

• Impact of the Interprofessional Leadership in Healthcare Certificate on Health Professionals’ Collaboration and Leadership Abilities

Daniel Jacobson López

• “Take It Out on the Floor”: Experiences of Violence Among Black LGBT House and Ball Community Youth in a Rust Belt City

• Discrimination and Rejection: The Effects of Ethnic and Sexuality-Based Discrimination Against Latino Gay and Bisexual Men

Judith Scott

• What Is Supportive Parenting? Perspectives From Chinese Immigrant Caregivers With Low- Income Living in the Greater Boston Area

Renée Spencer

• Going the distance: A longitudinal qualitative study of formal youth mentoring relationship development

Wade Taylor

• Chronic pain and substance use disorders among older sexual minority men living with HIV: Implications for HIV disease management across the HIV care continuum

Peter Treitler

• Emergency Department Peer Support Program and Patient Outcomes After Opioid Overdose

Darien Alexander Williams

• Solidarity in disaster scholarship

Want to learn more?

Visit the Faculty & Research webpages on the BUSSW website to browse by faculty, areas of expertise, projects and grants, or check out our recent Research News.