Doctor of Social Work Program Faculty
Arlene Weisz, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program
Research Interests: Youth dating violence; sexual assault prevention; and domestic violence, especially legal interventions, police interventions, advocacy, help-seeking, and batterer’s treatment.
Phone: (313) 577-4420
Email: aa4495@wayne.edu
Jerrold R. Brandell, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Research Interests: Analysis of process in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy; outcomes in psychoanalytically oriented treatments; comparative psychoanalytic theory; psychoanalysis and culture; and methods of dynamic supervision.
Phone: (313) 577-4447
Email: aa4537@wayne.edu
Antonio Gonzalez-Prendes, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: My research interests include the investigation of the use of cognitive-behavioral therapies with gender, racial, ethnic minorities and other historically disenfranchised populations in order to address mental health and substance abuse issues in general, and anger in particular. I am also interested in the exploration and identification of specific cognitive processes and client variables that may contribute to the onset and maintenance of anger problems. Lastly, I am interested in integrating the findings from such investigations into a cognitive theory-based conceptual model that
could provide practitioners and researchers with a more accurate understanding of the cognitive mechanisms of anger.
Phone: (313) 577-5252
Email: aa3232@wayne.edu
Faith P. Hopp, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Formal and informal care for older adults, end of life care, and chronic disease management, with a particular focus on how these issues are impacted by gender, race, and ethnicity; the use of technology in the provision of health and social services.
Phone: (313) 577-4423
Email: faithhopp@wayne.edu
Royce A. Hutson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: International Social Work (human rights, armed conflict, & trauma); poverty policy and child development; and community organization/development.
Phone: (313) 577-4444
Email: av3604@wayne.edu
Debra Hernandez Jozefowicz-Simbeni, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: School social work practice; education prevention and intervention efforts; adolescence and the transition to adulthood for at-risk; marginalized and special needs populations; homelessness; school dropout and Autism Spectrum Disorders; positive youth identity and mental health development in multiple contexts, multiple methods.
Phone: (313) 577-2262
Email: ao1615@wayne.edu
Kim Jaffe, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: Health policy, mental health, maternal and child health, intimate partner violence, racial segregation, and exploring the impact of neighborhood environment on health and mental health outcomes.
Phone: (313) 577-4418
Email: eb6983@wayne.edu
Poco Kernsmith, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: Violence in families and relationships, including child sexual abuse, sexual assault and coercion, dating and domestic violence and stalking. Includes examining gender differences in perpetration, interventions with perpetrators, and possible long-term effects on victimized children, such as eating disorders, self-injury, and perpetuation of violence in adolescence and adulthood.
Phone: (313) 577-4437
Email: ao1717@wayne.edu
Shawna J. Lee, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: Factors linked to fathers’ physical and psychological child maltreatment and use of corporal punishment; community variables related to risk for maternal child abuse and neglect; intervention to prevent child abuse and neglect; the family and work lives of low-income women.
Phone: (313) 577-4402
Email: shawnal@wayne.edu
Bart W. Miles, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Treatment of children and adolescents; at-risk urban youth and risk factors such as race/ethnicity, substance use, & mental health; homelessness/poverty, and qualitative methods (participatory action research, visual ethnography, discourse analysis, interpretive methods, and computer assisted data analysis).
Phone: (313) 577-4434
Email: ar7663@wayne.edu
Durrenda Nash Onolemhemhen, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: International social work; social development in Africa; minority aging; and women’s health.
Phone: (313) 577-0227
Email: ad9270@wayne.edu
Debra Patterson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: formal social systems’ (e.g. social services, medical and criminal justice) response to rape victims/survivors; impact of sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) programs on victim/survivors’ emotional well being, as well as prosecutorial outcomes; and the benefits and challenges of collaborative relationships among medical, social service, and criminal justice systems.
Phone: (313) 577-5942
Email: dt4578@wayne.edu
Stella M. Resko, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: Substance abuse treatment and prevention, domestic violence, adolescent dating violence, youth violence, sexual risk-taking behaviors among adolescents and adult women, community based prevention and intervention research, motivational interviewing and brief interventions.
Phone: (313) 577-4445
Email: eg2092@wayne.edu
Anna M. Santiago, PhD
Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: Social capital formation and asset building in low-income families; neighborhood effects on child and youth development; effects of housing, poverty and welfare policy on low-income or minority families; residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas; spirituality and social work; and clergy/faith community response to family violence.
Phone: (313) 577-8806
Email: ad4345@wayne.edu
Joanne Sobeck, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of Research, and Co-Chair of Community Practice and Social Action
Research Interests: Risk and protective factors in drug use and abuse, capacity-building with community-based organizations; implementation research; application of evidence based programs in community contexts and processes related to policy and program development.
Phone: (313) 577-4439
Email: ab1350@wayne.edu
Shirley Thomas, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: Social stress and stressors particularly as it relates to war veterans and African American women; sociological factors that influence social work service delivery; community based research that focuses on social work service delivery to children, their families and those that are less affluent, particularly in the area of child welfare.
Phone: (313) 577-5352
Email: sathomas@wayne.edu
Eileen Trzcinski, PhD
Professor
Research Interests: Social and family economic policy; transition to adulthood; international comparative family and social policy; determinants of happiness and life satisfaction; assimilation and immigration policy; the economic and social effects of terrorism; socio-economic determinants of maternal and infant outcomes; and the effects of parental employment on child and adolescent development.
Phone: (313) 577-4422
Email: aa2705@wayne.edu
Cheryl Waites, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Social Work and Associate Dean
Research Interests: Aging and intergenerational practice, health promotion, social justice, and best practice with African American families and communities, and social work education.
Phone: (313) 577-4401
Email: ccwaites@wayne.edu