trainee research projects

A. Research Projects in Progress

EVE GARROW

-Organizational factors in HIV test counseling

-Toward effective management of permanent supportive housing for homeless individuals with disabilities

FELICIA DE LA GARZA MERCER

-Relationship Functioning & Immune Health in HIV+ Latinas: A longitudinal analysis

HARMONY RHOADES

-Detectable HIV Viral Load Associated with Sexual Risk Behavior: An Analysis of Social Vulnerabilities

- The Role of Strategy and Structure in Organizational Performance: A Study of HIV Testing Organizations

KIYOMI TSUYUKI

- Dual Protection, Partner HIV Seroconcordance and Fertility Among Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Brazil

- Relationship Type and Dual Protection in a National Sample of Brazil

RACHEL L. KAPLAN

- Living with HIV/AIDS in Lebanon: Women's Perceptions of Meaning

B. RECENT PH.D. DISSERTATIONS COMPLETED

DALLAS SWENDEMAN

“Structure and Agency in HIV Prevention: Multi-Level Approaches to Program Planning, Research, and Evaluation” (Community Health Sciences, 2008)

ELLEN S. HENDRIKSEN

“Start Safe, Stay Safe: Condom Use at Sexual Debut, Condom Use Consistency, and Longitudinal Markers of Sexual Risk." (Psychology, 2008)

EVE GARROW

“Receipt of, Reliance on, and Growth of Government Revenue among Nonprofit Human Service Organizations: What Organizational Factors Determine the Distribution of Government Funds?” (Social Welfare, 2008)

TYPHANYE V. PENNIMAN

“The Impact of Family Functioning on Depression and Medication Adherence Among Mothers Infected with HIV” (Community Health Sciences, 2009)

C. RECENT TRAINEE PUBLICATIONS

EVE GARROW

Garrow, E. & Hasenfeld, H. Theoretical approaches to human service organizations. In Yeheskel Hasenfeld (ed.). Human Services as Complex Organizations, 2^{nd Edition}^{(Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, forthcoming
2009).}

Hasenfeld, Y. & Garrow, E. The Welfare State, the non-profit sector and
the politics of care. In B. Gidron and L. Salamon (eds.). Toward a Three-Sector Society? (Springer, forthcoming 2009).

FELICIA DE LA GARZA MERCER

Williams, K.J., De la Garza-Mercer, F., & Christensen, A. (2009). Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy. In Franklin, C. (eds.). Social Workers’ Desk Reference, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press.

De la Garza-Mercer, F., & Abramson, P. Childhood Masturbation. In Shweder, Richard A., Thomas R. Bidell, Anne C. Dailey, Suzanne D. Dixon, Peggy J. Miller, and John Modell, eds., The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2009).

De la Garza-Mercer, F. (2008). Relationship Functioning & Immune Health in HIV Latinas. UCLA Center for the Study of Women Thinking Gender Papers. Paper TG08_DelaGarza. http://repositories.cdlib.org/csw/thinkinggender/TG08_DelaGarza

Doss, B., De la Garza Mercer, F. & Christensen, A. (2008). Marital dyads. In Hersen, M. Rosqvist, J. (eds.). Handbook of Assessment, Conceptualization, and Treatment, Volume 1-Adults. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

GABRIEL N. STOVER

Brooks R, Lee J, Stover GN, & Barkely T. (In press) “Condom attitudes, perceived vulnerability and sexual risk behaviors of young Latino urban street gang members: Implications for HIV prevention.” Special Supplement of AIDS Education and Prevention.

Stover GN, Lightfoot M, Jiang L. Peer and Parental Influence on Problem Behaviors in a Sample of High-Risk Adolescents. (In revisions: Family Relations)

Stover, GN. Social Conditions and Health. Am J Public Health 2009 Aug;99(8):1355.

RACHEL L. KAPLAN

Chibber KS, Kaplan RL, Padian NS, Anderson SJ, Ling P, Acharya N, Van Dyke C, Krishnan S. A Common Pathway toward Women's Health. Global Public Health. January 2008;3(1):26-38.

D. RECENT PRESENTATIONS

2009 CHIPTS CONFERENCE "HIV RESEARCH: THE NEXT GENERATION”:

EVE GARROW, Organizational Determinants of HIV Counseling

FELICIA DE LA GARZA MERCER, Romantic Relationships and CD4 count in HIV-positive Latina and African American Women: How do quality and conflict affect immune health over time?

GABRIEL N. STOVER, Peer and Parental Influence on Problem Behaviors in a Sample of Delinquent Youth

HARMONY RHOADES, The Role of Decision Strategy and Structure in Organizational Performance: A study of HIV testing organizations

KIYOMI TSUYUKI, Dual Protection, Seroconcordance and Fertility: Examining contextual factors among women living with HIV/AIDS in Brazil

RACHEL L. KAPLAN, Knowledge and Attitudes toward HIV/AIDS: Preliminary findings from Yemini youth

OTHER CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

EVE GARROW

Garrow, E. (2009, January 17). “Fields, language, and symbolic power: using the praxeology of Pierre Bourdieu to understand the transformation of a social enterprise. “ Paper presented at the 13th annual conference of the Society for Social Work and Research. New Orleans, LA.

Garrow, E. (2009, April 4). “The meaning of work: how institutional logics shape the practices of front line human service providers and the services that are delivered to clients.” Paper presented at the 6th annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference. Los Angeles, CA.

GABRIEL N. STOVER

Stover, G.N., Brooks, R. Lee, S.J. and Barkely, T. (2008, November 8). “HIV Testing, Perceived Vulnerability and Predictors of HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors of Latino and African American Young Adult Male Gang Members.” Paper presented at the 19th annual meeting of the California Sociological Association. Riverside, CA.

KIYOMI TSUYUKI

Tsuyuki, K., Barbosa, R.M., Pinho A.A. (2009, November 9). "Dual Protection among Women Living with HIV/AIDS (WLWHA) in Brazil: Examining contextual factors." Paper selected for presentation at the 137th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Philadelphia, PA.

RACHEL L. KAPLAN

“HIV-Related Knowledge and AIDS-Stigma among College Students in Yemen”: Paper accepted for the annual Midwest Sociological Society meeting in Des Moines, April 2-5, 2009.