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Watkins is the Director of the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Since its establishment in 2008, the Curtis Center has been a catalyst for social change in underserved communities, all the while shaping the careers of budding scholars dedicated to ameliorating health and social disparities.
Muñoz has authored more than 125 peer-reviewed journal articles [4] and has been cited over 20,000 times. His research works span smoking cessation, depression prevention, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and evidence-based internet intervention, with a particular focus on mental health of Latinos, and low-income minorities. [18]
Further research on the mental health disparities among sex and gender is needed in order to gain a deeper knowledge of the predictors of mental health and the possible differences in treatments. Adult women are at a high risk of experiencing mental health disorders during their pregnancy, however, most physicians do not address this until the ...
The study by Srole, Langer, Micheal, Opler, and Rennie, known as the Midtown Manhattan Study, has become a quintessential study in mental health. [2] The main focus of the research was to "uncover [the] unknown portion of mental illness which is submerged in the community and thus hidden from sociological and psychiatric investigators alike". [9]
The importance of obtaining information from multiple perspectives has been demonstrated by meta-analytic findings of substantial disparities between ratings of children’s problems by mothers, fathers, teachers, mental health workers, observers, and children themselves (Achenbach, McConaughy, & Howell, 1987).
Michael Anthony Lindsey is an American scholar, college administrator and researcher in social work and public health who specializes in child and adolescent mental health, and has conducted key research about Black teenage suicide in the United States and related behaviors in adolescents. [1]
Karen Bullock is an American medical sociologist, clinical social worker, and an academic research scholar. She is the Ahearn Endowed Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work. [1] Bullock is most known for her work on health equity and health disparities.
Brady Thomas West is an American statistician, academic and author. He is a research professor in the Survey Methodology Program (SMP) at the Survey Research Center (SRC) in the Institute for Social Research (ISR), and a research professor in the Department of Biostatistics within the School of Public Health, [1] both at the University of ...