Jason Castillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Castillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Castillo |
| SIGNATURE | CASTILLO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0230-3294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Impact of Substance Use Disorder Training on the Knowledge-Base of Paraprofessional Substance Use Disorder Counselor Students
There is currently an insufficient number of SUDCs to meet SUD treatment needs across the United States. Substantial growth in SUDC workforce needs is also projected by 2030. Well-trained paraprofessional SUDCs can provide one approach to expanding access to SUD treatment in coming years
Professional Values, Gatekeeping, and Motivations for Seeking the MSW Degree
This research examines professional values and individuals’ decisions to pursue social work education, with gatekeeping as a mediator of this relationship. Motivations are derived from Community of Practice theory: community, domain, practice, and skills. MSW students (N=528) were recruited across the U.S. Structural equation modeling was used to test associations among motivation and values factors. The latent variable values consisted of the Pr…
Classification of Mental Health Court Participants
The aims of this study were to (a) classify the types of individuals who might be most appropriately served by a mental health court (MHC) and (2) describe the association between class membership on recidivism and MHC completion. Criminal and treatment history data for 350 MHC participants were used. Class memberships were derived using hidden Markov models. Mediation analysis was then used determine the relationship between class, successful MH…
Closing the gap in substance use disorder treatment through paraprofessional counselor training
There is currently an insufficient supply of licensed substance use disorder counselors (SUDCs) to meet demand for services and the gap between supply and demand is projected to grow. Paraprofessional SUDCs offer one path to helping close this gap. The current study presents outcomes from a paraprofessional SUDC certificate program for Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students. Student data (N = 66) were used to examine pre- to post-program changes …
The Relationship Of County-Level Characteristics On Length Of Time Clients Are In Child Protective Services
Time spent in the child welfare system changes the life trajectory of those in care. Children who spend longer in care are at greater risk for mental illness. Adoption and Safe Families Act put a limit on how long children could be in out-of-home care; 15 months out of the last 22. Researchers have studied both individual and environmental correlates of time in care. No study has explored individual and environmental predictors of time to case cl…
Op-Ed
To achieve a more just universe, the momentum and historical forces of racism, sexism, heterosexism, privilege, etc. must be met with equal and opposite forces through policies, structures, and the courageous acts and voices of many. Dr. King’s claim that “the moral universe bends toward justice” is joined with Newton’s Laws of Motion where arcs only bend through external forces. Bending the arc necessitates a large membership, including social w…
Macro Practice Supervision by Social Work Field Instructors
Although the Council on Social Work Education has identified field education and macro practice as core domains in social work education, there has been limited research examining the implementation of macro practice elements in field education settings. As part of a larger research project examining field instructors’ inclusion of macro and diversity-based content in the field practicum placement, this exploratory study focused on (a) field inst…
Esto no se lo deseo a nadie
Immigration policies and mental health
Using a legal violence framework, this paper examines the relationship between current immigration policies and the mental health of Latino immigrants in Arizona. Data were drawn from a sample of adult Latino immigrants (n = 427) living in Arizona. Results indicated that participants who reported a greater personal suffering as a consequence of current immigration policies reported significantly higher symptoms of 1) depression, 2) anxiety, and 3…
Perceptions of social work students in Mexico and the United States regarding the role of the government in addressing social issues
The purpose of this article was to examine social work students’ perceptions of the role of the government in addressing social issues among social work students from the United States and Mexico. Data were drawn from a sample of 893 social work students from universities in the United States and Mexico, in the fall of 2010. Multivariate ordinary least squares regressions indicated that compared with social work students in the United States, stu…
Increased Immigration Enforcement and Perceived Discrimination among Latino Immigrants
The purpose of this paper was to examine the impact of perceived discrimination among Latino immigrants in the context of recent immigration policies and immigration enforcement strategies. Data for this study were drawn from a pilot study (n=213) of adult Latino immigrants living in Arizona during the summer of 2014. The results of multivariate OLS linear regressions indicated greater perceived discrimination was significantly related to reporti…
The Relationship Between Disadvantaged Fathers’ Employment Stability, Workplace Flexibility, and Involvement With Their Infant Children
In the United States, the slow pace of economic recovery and change in the workplace has created barriers for disadvantaged fathers to engage with their infant children. Using secondary data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (n = 1,548), one of a few national studies that examine disadvantaged fathers, we conducted a series of regression analyses examining the relationship between disadvantaged fathers’ employment stability, wo…
Ghanaian BSW Students' Perceptions of Poverty and Social Welfare Policies in Ghana
In August 2010, data for this exploratory study were drawn from a sample of 185 undergraduate social work students from a public university in Ghana. Ordinal logistic regressions were run to analyze the relationship between social work students' demographic variables and their perceptions toward poverty and social welfare policies in Ghana. The results of this study found that social work students' age, gender, marital status, number of children,…
Nonresident fathers' social networks
Literature and research examining nonresident fathers' involvement with their children has focused primarily on the fathers' relationship with their child's mother. Receiving limited attention in the literature has been the inclusion of examining nonresident fathers' social support networks, the function of these social networks—perceived and received social support, and how these social support networks affect nonresident fathers' involvement wi…
Fear vs. Facts
Undocumented immigration has become a contentious issue in the U.S. over the past decade. Opponents of undocumented immigration have argued that undocumented immigrants are a social and financial burden to the U.S. which has led to the passage of drastic and costly policies. This paper examined existing state and national data and found that undocumented immigrants do contribute to the economies of federal, state, and local governments through ta…
The Perception of Poverty and Social Welfare Policies among Undergraduate and Graduate Social Work Students in the United States
Despite the primary mission of the social work profession to help meet the basic human needs of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty, numerous scholars have found that social work students are distancing themselves from working with and on behalf of poor populations. Given this, this study examined undergraduate and graduate social work students' perceptions toward impoverished populations and social welfare policies in the…
Fathering
The relationship between non‐marital fathers' social networks and social capital and father involvement
Literature and research examining father involvement has focused primarily on outcomes associated with the well‐being and development of children. Receiving limited attention in this literature has been the examination of the contextual factors associated with fathers and how these factors shape fathers' involvement with their young children. Addressing this limitation, this study focuses on the intra‐ and interdependent networks non‐marital fath…
The relationship between non-resident fathers' social networks and social capital and the establishment of child support orders
Drug Resistance Strategies and Substance Use among Adolescents in Monterrey, Mexico
Culturally Specific Youth Substance Abuse Resistance Skills
This study tests the applicability among adolescents in Mexico of the keepin' it REAL (refuse, explain, avoid, and leave) strategies that are common and effective ways that U.S. youth resist substance use. Following a social learning, communication competence and ecological theory integrated approach, the study draws on self-reported questionnaire data from a non-probability sample of 327 adolescents attending two public high schools in Monterrey…
The Perception of Poverty and Social Welfare Policies among Undergraduate and Graduate Social Work Students in the United States
Despite the primary mission of the social work profession to help meet the basic human needs of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty, numerous scholars have found that social work students are distancing themselves from working with and on behalf of poor populations. Given this, this study examined undergraduate and graduate social work students' perceptions toward impoverished populations and social welfare policies in the…
Immigration policies and mental health
Using a legal violence framework, this paper examines the relationship between current immigration policies and the mental health of Latino immigrants in Arizona. Data were drawn from a sample of adult Latino immigrants (n = 427) living in Arizona. Results indicated that participants who reported a greater personal suffering as a consequence of current immigration policies reported significantly higher symptoms of 1) depression, 2) anxiety, and 3…
Fear vs. Facts
Undocumented immigration has become a contentious issue in the U.S. over the past decade. Opponents of undocumented immigration have argued that undocumented immigrants are a social and financial burden to the U.S. which has led to the passage of drastic and costly policies. This paper examined existing state and national data and found that undocumented immigrants do contribute to the economies of federal, state, and local governments through ta…
The relationship between non‐marital fathers' social networks and social capital and father involvement
Literature and research examining father involvement has focused primarily on outcomes associated with the well‐being and development of children. Receiving limited attention in this literature has been the examination of the contextual factors associated with fathers and how these factors shape fathers' involvement with their young children. Addressing this limitation, this study focuses on the intra‐ and interdependent networks non‐marital fath…
The relationship between non-resident fathers' social networks and social capital and the establishment of child support orders
Esto no se lo deseo a nadie
Increased Immigration Enforcement and Perceived Discrimination among Latino Immigrants
The purpose of this paper was to examine the impact of perceived discrimination among Latino immigrants in the context of recent immigration policies and immigration enforcement strategies. Data for this study were drawn from a pilot study (n=213) of adult Latino immigrants living in Arizona during the summer of 2014. The results of multivariate OLS linear regressions indicated greater perceived discrimination was significantly related to reporti…
The Relationship Between Disadvantaged Fathers’ Employment Stability, Workplace Flexibility, and Involvement With Their Infant Children
In the United States, the slow pace of economic recovery and change in the workplace has created barriers for disadvantaged fathers to engage with their infant children. Using secondary data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (n = 1,548), one of a few national studies that examine disadvantaged fathers, we conducted a series of regression analyses examining the relationship between disadvantaged fathers’ employment stability, wo…
Culturally Specific Youth Substance Abuse Resistance Skills
This study tests the applicability among adolescents in Mexico of the keepin' it REAL (refuse, explain, avoid, and leave) strategies that are common and effective ways that U.S. youth resist substance use. Following a social learning, communication competence and ecological theory integrated approach, the study draws on self-reported questionnaire data from a non-probability sample of 327 adolescents attending two public high schools in Monterrey…
Culturally Specific Youth Substance Abuse Resistance Skills
This study tests the applicability among adolescents in Mexico of the keepin' it REAL (refuse, explain, avoid, and leave) strategies that are common and effective ways that U.S. youth resist substance use. Following a social learning, communication competence and ecological theory integrated approach, the study draws on self-reported questionnaire data from a non-probability sample of 327 adolescents attending two public high schools in Monterrey…
Drug Resistance Strategies and Substance Use among Adolescents in Monterrey, Mexico
The relationship between non-resident fathers' social networks and social capital and the establishment of child support orders
Fathering
The relationship between non‐marital fathers' social networks and social capital and father involvement
Literature and research examining father involvement has focused primarily on outcomes associated with the well‐being and development of children. Receiving limited attention in this literature has been the examination of the contextual factors associated with fathers and how these factors shape fathers' involvement with their young children. Addressing this limitation, this study focuses on the intra‐ and interdependent networks non‐marital fath…
Nonresident fathers' social networks
Literature and research examining nonresident fathers' involvement with their children has focused primarily on the fathers' relationship with their child's mother. Receiving limited attention in the literature has been the inclusion of examining nonresident fathers' social support networks, the function of these social networks—perceived and received social support, and how these social support networks affect nonresident fathers' involvement wi…
Fear vs. Facts
Undocumented immigration has become a contentious issue in the U.S. over the past decade. Opponents of undocumented immigration have argued that undocumented immigrants are a social and financial burden to the U.S. which has led to the passage of drastic and costly policies. This paper examined existing state and national data and found that undocumented immigrants do contribute to the economies of federal, state, and local governments through ta…
The Perception of Poverty and Social Welfare Policies among Undergraduate and Graduate Social Work Students in the United States
Despite the primary mission of the social work profession to help meet the basic human needs of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty, numerous scholars have found that social work students are distancing themselves from working with and on behalf of poor populations. Given this, this study examined undergraduate and graduate social work students' perceptions toward impoverished populations and social welfare policies in the…
The Relationship Between Disadvantaged Fathers’ Employment Stability, Workplace Flexibility, and Involvement With Their Infant Children
In the United States, the slow pace of economic recovery and change in the workplace has created barriers for disadvantaged fathers to engage with their infant children. Using secondary data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (n = 1,548), one of a few national studies that examine disadvantaged fathers, we conducted a series of regression analyses examining the relationship between disadvantaged fathers’ employment stability, wo…
Ghanaian BSW Students' Perceptions of Poverty and Social Welfare Policies in Ghana
In August 2010, data for this exploratory study were drawn from a sample of 185 undergraduate social work students from a public university in Ghana. Ordinal logistic regressions were run to analyze the relationship between social work students' demographic variables and their perceptions toward poverty and social welfare policies in Ghana. The results of this study found that social work students' age, gender, marital status, number of children,…
Increased Immigration Enforcement and Perceived Discrimination among Latino Immigrants
The purpose of this paper was to examine the impact of perceived discrimination among Latino immigrants in the context of recent immigration policies and immigration enforcement strategies. Data for this study were drawn from a pilot study (n=213) of adult Latino immigrants living in Arizona during the summer of 2014. The results of multivariate OLS linear regressions indicated greater perceived discrimination was significantly related to reporti…
Perceptions of social work students in Mexico and the United States regarding the role of the government in addressing social issues
The purpose of this article was to examine social work students’ perceptions of the role of the government in addressing social issues among social work students from the United States and Mexico. Data were drawn from a sample of 893 social work students from universities in the United States and Mexico, in the fall of 2010. Multivariate ordinary least squares regressions indicated that compared with social work students in the United States, stu…
Immigration policies and mental health
Using a legal violence framework, this paper examines the relationship between current immigration policies and the mental health of Latino immigrants in Arizona. Data were drawn from a sample of adult Latino immigrants (n = 427) living in Arizona. Results indicated that participants who reported a greater personal suffering as a consequence of current immigration policies reported significantly higher symptoms of 1) depression, 2) anxiety, and 3…
Op-Ed
To achieve a more just universe, the momentum and historical forces of racism, sexism, heterosexism, privilege, etc. must be met with equal and opposite forces through policies, structures, and the courageous acts and voices of many. Dr. King’s claim that “the moral universe bends toward justice” is joined with Newton’s Laws of Motion where arcs only bend through external forces. Bending the arc necessitates a large membership, including social w…
Macro Practice Supervision by Social Work Field Instructors
Although the Council on Social Work Education has identified field education and macro practice as core domains in social work education, there has been limited research examining the implementation of macro practice elements in field education settings. As part of a larger research project examining field instructors’ inclusion of macro and diversity-based content in the field practicum placement, this exploratory study focused on (a) field inst…
Esto no se lo deseo a nadie
Professional Values, Gatekeeping, and Motivations for Seeking the MSW Degree
This research examines professional values and individuals’ decisions to pursue social work education, with gatekeeping as a mediator of this relationship. Motivations are derived from Community of Practice theory: community, domain, practice, and skills. MSW students (N=528) were recruited across the U.S. Structural equation modeling was used to test associations among motivation and values factors. The latent variable values consisted of the Pr…
Classification of Mental Health Court Participants
The aims of this study were to (a) classify the types of individuals who might be most appropriately served by a mental health court (MHC) and (2) describe the association between class membership on recidivism and MHC completion. Criminal and treatment history data for 350 MHC participants were used. Class memberships were derived using hidden Markov models. Mediation analysis was then used determine the relationship between class, successful MH…
Closing the gap in substance use disorder treatment through paraprofessional counselor training
There is currently an insufficient supply of licensed substance use disorder counselors (SUDCs) to meet demand for services and the gap between supply and demand is projected to grow. Paraprofessional SUDCs offer one path to helping close this gap. The current study presents outcomes from a paraprofessional SUDC certificate program for Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students. Student data (N = 66) were used to examine pre- to post-program changes …
The Relationship Of County-Level Characteristics On Length Of Time Clients Are In Child Protective Services
Time spent in the child welfare system changes the life trajectory of those in care. Children who spend longer in care are at greater risk for mental illness. Adoption and Safe Families Act put a limit on how long children could be in out-of-home care; 15 months out of the last 22. Researchers have studied both individual and environmental correlates of time in care. No study has explored individual and environmental predictors of time to case cl…
The Impact of Substance Use Disorder Training on the Knowledge-Base of Paraprofessional Substance Use Disorder Counselor Students
There is currently an insufficient number of SUDCs to meet SUD treatment needs across the United States. Substantial growth in SUDC workforce needs is also projected by 2030. Well-trained paraprofessional SUDCs can provide one approach to expanding access to SUD treatment in coming years
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