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USC social work and business professor Michalle Mor Barak has won the 2007 George Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management, making her the first USC author to earn the prestigious honor. She received the accolade for Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace (Sage Publications), which judges deemed this year's most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management.
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The USC School of Social Work welcomed two new professors to its faculty this semester.
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All too often, depression in cancer patients is regarded as an expected reaction by health care providers – and even by the patients themselves. This can lead to depression among cancer patients being accepted instead of treated.
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SPECIAL ISSUE: TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS
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Deadline for submission: March 31, 2008
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Latinos' preferred language may be more important than ethnicity in their use of mental health services. An examination of the usage of publicly sponsored mental health services by Spanish-speaking Latinos in San Diego revealed significant differences from use patterns by either English-speaking Latinos or Caucasians.
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Professor Ron Astor, who holds joint appointments in the USC School of Social Work and USC Rossier School of Education, has won the 2007 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). School Violence in Context: Neighborhood, Family, School and Gender, published by Oxford University Press, was co-authored with Professor Rami Benbenishty of Hebrew University.
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Iris Chi, the Chinese-American Golden Age Association/Frances Wu Chair for the Chinese Elderly at the USC School of Social Work, is part of an inter-school collaboration that has been awarded $15,000 for research on the aging population in China from the USC U.S.-China Institute. The grant will be used to expand existing research on the needs of the elderly population in China and to explore their impact on Chinese society as a whole.
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If the 2,000-mile region along the U.S.-Mexico border were a state, it would rank 12th nationally in AIDS cases per capita, says Helen Land, a University of Southern California associate professor in the School of Social Work.
This hidden population, isolated from their families and living with one of the most misunderstood and stigmatizing diseases of this era, is chronicled in "Outreach and Care Approaches to HIV/AIDS Along the U.S.-Mexico Border" (Haworth), a collection of articles which Land co-edited.
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The USC School of Social Work is the nation's first school of social work to provide leadership in developing a clinical and translational research institute anticipated to join a national consortium supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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Kristin Ferguson, assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, is part of an international interdisciplinary research collaborative that was recently awarded a $125,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Higher Education for Development. This three-year project focuses on strengthening the research capacity of professionals in Nairobi and Eldoret, Kenya, who work with vulnerable children.