Mental health and trauma
Individuals from any socio-economic background, ethnicity, race, age, or other subsets, can be impacted by mental illness. In addition to serving those with mental illness through advocacy, research and trainings, the GSSW provides education/training for social work students, religiously affiliated organizations, congregations, community programs and non-profit organizations.
Trauma response research objectives include providing leadership in the preparation of practitioners to work with trauma, crisis, and mental health both domestically and globally
- Dr. Moon: Buffering Effects of Social Support and Parental Monitoring on Suicide
- Dr. Oxhandler: Client attitudes toward integrating religion and spirituality in mental health treatment
- PhD Student Cali Werner: The Pre-Performance Ritual: A Recipe for Success or a Path to Burnout?
- Dr. Zhao: Crack Cocaine Use Among Aging Mexican American Men with Heroin Use Histories: Motivations and Polydrug Use Patterns
- Dr. Moon: The perfect storm? COVID-19 and Substance Use amongst Social Work Students in the USA
- Dr. Harris: What to Write in a Sympathy Card to Offer Meaningful Support
- Dr. Pooler and Dr. Pooler: The Impact of Assembly Trainings on Awareness of Human Trafficking among Middle School and High School Age Youth
- Drs. Parrish & Harris and PhD Student Anysley Scheffert: Factors Associated with Social Work Students' Academic Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey
- PhD Student Jennifer Hollenberger: Religious Support Moderates the Long Reach of Adverse Childhood Events on Physical Health in Middle to Late Adulthood
- Adult Clergy Sexual Abuse Advocacy & Research Collaborative: The collaborative is committed to shedding light on this pervasive and serious issue and fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and survivor-centered care within faith communities.
- Mastering Your Marriage: The TCKFF and the Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University have teamed together to create a transformative marriage enrichment program specifically targeted at the skills necessary to enrich and sustain marriages of first responders and military families.
- Service Marriage Counselor Certification Program: This program is designed to train marriage counselors and therapists in how to best serve a special population of client: veteran, active military and first responder couples.
- Social Work in Primary Care Training Program: The GSSW is focused on training the social work workforce to provide gold-standard behavioral health in primary care through two programs - a pre-graduate certificate program and a post-masters degree clinical fellowship.