Eugenia L Weiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5454990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugenia L Weiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugenia L |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiss |
| SIGNATURE | WEISS E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3437-0320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A blended immersion course: Advancing practice for social work students working with military members, veterans, and their families
This paper presents a specialization blended immersion course in social work with military, veterans, and their families that includes a 3-unit elective course for Master of Social Work (MSW) students incorporating a virtual (i.e. synchronous) class component and an eight-day visit to the Washington DC area. Data collection from over 60 students over a four-year period was collected, and mixed methods analysis indicated success in knowledge acqui…
Societal Perceptions and Developmental Assets of Latina Youth From Low-Income Schools: Implications for Social Work Prevention Efforts
Ensuring healthy development for youth is one of the Grand Challenges of the social work profession. This Grand Challenge seeks to reduce behavioral health problems in youth through prevention efforts. This paper presents a mixed-methods study of sixty Latina adolescents from low-income schools to better understand their perceptions of what it is like to be a girl in U.S. society and explore their strengths through their developmental assets. Und…
A Special Issue on Contemporary Veteran Voices: A Literary Exposition of the Human Experience in Military Service and War
An introduction to the special issue by the guest editors. Includes an in memoriam to one of the guest editors, explains the rationale behind the special issue, and describes each piece in the issue
Job satisfaction indicators for tenure and non-tenure track social work faculty: Similar but not equal
Despite sharing similar job responsibilities, two distinctly different career pathways exist within the social work professorate in the United States: tenure-track and non-tenure track. Tenure track faculty generally hold an indefinite appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances. Non-tenure track faculty generally hold contingent appointments with few protections. To expand understanding about difference…
‘Emotional preparedness’: A nuanced approach to disaster readiness among social workers
Social work providers are at risk of experiencing lower morale during disasters because of added emotional stressors, yet, dissemination of factors that impact a social worker’s ability to manage emotions during disasters is scant. In the disaster literature, no single term adequately encompasses the myriad components of addressing a provider’s own emotional needs before disaster strikes. The authors propose how ‘emotional preparedness’ is differ…
Military Culture and Cultural Competence in Public Health: U.S. Veterans and Sars-CoV-2 Vaccine Uptake
As part of the U.S. effort to encourage vaccination for SARS-CoV-2, scholars have emphasized the importance of culture and identity in vaccine uptake decisions. The culture and identity of military service are poorly understood in the context of understanding Veterans’ acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines. In analyzing data from semi-structured interviews with Veterans in homeless transitional housing, this article examines their willingness to get va…
Everyone's War Becomes My War: The Far-Reaching Impact of the Invasion of Ukraine
The invasion of Ukraine has been difficult to watch for individuals around the world. Feelings of disbelief and helplessness arise as violent images of murdered children, bombed apartment buildings and shelters, and fleeing families waiting in freezing temperatures at border crossings flash across our screens. This is especially challenging for survivors of World War II (WWII) and their descendants, particularly Holocaust survivors of Eastern Eur…
Teaching advanced qualitative analytic skills through song lyrics
Pop culture sources are effective tools in teaching content to Master of Social Work (MSW) students because they allow students to demonstrate sophisticated understanding of complex social issues and make the class assignments more enjoyable. Recently, first-year MSW students’ knowledge and motivation to engage in research were enhanced from a learning activity that used song lyrics to teach beginning qualitative analytic methods. As a result of …
Job satisfaction: A positive attribute of work-family integration for female social work faculty
Academic literature exploring the experiences and needs among women in the social work professorate has yet to explore the ways in which work-life and family-life are compatible, including work-life enrichment and job satisfaction. To remedy this empirical gap, the current descriptive exploratory study of 504 female tenure-track social work academics investigates components essential to job satisfaction, which are also important to work-life enri…
Parental Involvement and Perceptions of School Climate in California
Parental involvement plays a significant role in students’ social and academic outcomes. Nevertheless, systemic ways of gathering parental views have not been used or highlighted in the policy arena or the literature. Using data from the first major statewide survey of parents in California, drawn from the California School Parent Survey ( N = 15,829), this study examined parental perceptions of school climate, school problems, and school encoura…
Social Workers Being Effective in Disaster Settings
Research about social workers' impact during disasters is not widely recognized. Among the various roles social workers play during disasters are to handle asurge of clients and to support peers and leaders in their respective departments by filling in gaps in services. Dissemination of social workers' best practice approaches during actual disasters is important because their collective contributions facilitate their own resilience and improve t…
Military Veterans Serving as Volunteers: What Social Workers Need to Know
The transition from military service to civilian life can present challenges for some U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in terms of losing a common military identity, having difficulties in developing new social support systems, finding meaningful employment post military service, and being at risk for mental health concerns and suicide (Reger et al., 2015). In fact, suicide has become the second leading cause of death among military personnel (…
Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Women's Lives in Modern Times
"It was a warm fall evening in Beijing when the idea for this book was born. Three social work academics, one Chinese and two Americans, discussed the state of the world for women in the 21st century and the longing for a text that could describe the struggles, and the successes of women in the fight for equity and safety throughout the world, on the table of Beijing style hotpot. As professors and feminist researchers, three of us share some sim…
Innovative Strategies for Building Community Among Faculty Who Teach in Virtual Environments
A previous qualitative study (Schwartz, Wiley, & Kaplan, 2016) described the faculty experiences and reflections of delivering Master of Social Work (MSW) education via a virtual platform at the University of Southern California, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work during its initial years of operation. Thematic analysis revealed a need for community building amongst geographically diverse faculty. Given social work's emphasis on the person…
A Call to the Helping Disciplines to Deconstruct Diversity and Race: An Essay on the Social Constructions of the “Other”
Destigmatizing Experiences of Combat Veterans Engaged in Civilian Disaster Relief: Implications for Community Transition
Combat veterans possess some attributes of differentness that may cause others in society to create stigmatized perceptions of them and devalue their skills. Direct interaction/contact allows targeted individuals-in this case, combat veterans-to demonstrate their value by dispelling negative attitudes or beliefs others may have of them. A previous study reported that the disaster relief setting facilitates contact among combat veterans and non-mi…
Can Health Care Reform End Stigma Toward Mental Illness
This article addresses the destigmatization of mental health through health care reform by incorporating antistigma efforts—a destaining of mental illness—through prevention and early intervention in community-based programs that would be mandated and funded through the auspices of Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mental health care policies under the ACA and the Mental Health Parity Act are briefly described, following a def…
Handbook of military social work
An Ecosystemic Perspective in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders in Veterans
This article reviews the prevalence of co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders (SUDs) in the veteran population. Recommendations regarding how to better understand, engage, and retain veterans with PTSD/SUDs in treatment are presented through an ecological perspective that takes into account the multiple systems and worldviews, including culture, ethnicity, family, and military culture, that are transacting w…
Parental Involvement and Perceptions of School Climate in California
Parental involvement plays a significant role in students’ social and academic outcomes. Nevertheless, systemic ways of gathering parental views have not been used or highlighted in the policy arena or the literature. Using data from the first major statewide survey of parents in California, drawn from the California School Parent Survey ( N = 15,829), this study examined parental perceptions of school climate, school problems, and school encoura…
Can Health Care Reform End Stigma Toward Mental Illness
This article addresses the destigmatization of mental health through health care reform by incorporating antistigma efforts—a destaining of mental illness—through prevention and early intervention in community-based programs that would be mandated and funded through the auspices of Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mental health care policies under the ACA and the Mental Health Parity Act are briefly described, following a def…
An Ecosystemic Perspective in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders in Veterans
This article reviews the prevalence of co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders (SUDs) in the veteran population. Recommendations regarding how to better understand, engage, and retain veterans with PTSD/SUDs in treatment are presented through an ecological perspective that takes into account the multiple systems and worldviews, including culture, ethnicity, family, and military culture, that are transacting w…
Handbook of military social work
Can Health Care Reform End Stigma Toward Mental Illness
This article addresses the destigmatization of mental health through health care reform by incorporating antistigma efforts—a destaining of mental illness—through prevention and early intervention in community-based programs that would be mandated and funded through the auspices of Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mental health care policies under the ACA and the Mental Health Parity Act are briefly described, following a def…
Destigmatizing Experiences of Combat Veterans Engaged in Civilian Disaster Relief: Implications for Community Transition
Combat veterans possess some attributes of differentness that may cause others in society to create stigmatized perceptions of them and devalue their skills. Direct interaction/contact allows targeted individuals-in this case, combat veterans-to demonstrate their value by dispelling negative attitudes or beliefs others may have of them. A previous study reported that the disaster relief setting facilitates contact among combat veterans and non-mi…
A Call to the Helping Disciplines to Deconstruct Diversity and Race: An Essay on the Social Constructions of the “Other”
Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Women's Lives in Modern Times
"It was a warm fall evening in Beijing when the idea for this book was born. Three social work academics, one Chinese and two Americans, discussed the state of the world for women in the 21st century and the longing for a text that could describe the struggles, and the successes of women in the fight for equity and safety throughout the world, on the table of Beijing style hotpot. As professors and feminist researchers, three of us share some sim…
Innovative Strategies for Building Community Among Faculty Who Teach in Virtual Environments
A previous qualitative study (Schwartz, Wiley, & Kaplan, 2016) described the faculty experiences and reflections of delivering Master of Social Work (MSW) education via a virtual platform at the University of Southern California, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work during its initial years of operation. Thematic analysis revealed a need for community building amongst geographically diverse faculty. Given social work's emphasis on the person…
Social Workers Being Effective in Disaster Settings
Research about social workers' impact during disasters is not widely recognized. Among the various roles social workers play during disasters are to handle asurge of clients and to support peers and leaders in their respective departments by filling in gaps in services. Dissemination of social workers' best practice approaches during actual disasters is important because their collective contributions facilitate their own resilience and improve t…
Military Veterans Serving as Volunteers: What Social Workers Need to Know
The transition from military service to civilian life can present challenges for some U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in terms of losing a common military identity, having difficulties in developing new social support systems, finding meaningful employment post military service, and being at risk for mental health concerns and suicide (Reger et al., 2015). In fact, suicide has become the second leading cause of death among military personnel (…
Teaching advanced qualitative analytic skills through song lyrics
Pop culture sources are effective tools in teaching content to Master of Social Work (MSW) students because they allow students to demonstrate sophisticated understanding of complex social issues and make the class assignments more enjoyable. Recently, first-year MSW students’ knowledge and motivation to engage in research were enhanced from a learning activity that used song lyrics to teach beginning qualitative analytic methods. As a result of …
Job satisfaction: A positive attribute of work-family integration for female social work faculty
Academic literature exploring the experiences and needs among women in the social work professorate has yet to explore the ways in which work-life and family-life are compatible, including work-life enrichment and job satisfaction. To remedy this empirical gap, the current descriptive exploratory study of 504 female tenure-track social work academics investigates components essential to job satisfaction, which are also important to work-life enri…
Parental Involvement and Perceptions of School Climate in California
Parental involvement plays a significant role in students’ social and academic outcomes. Nevertheless, systemic ways of gathering parental views have not been used or highlighted in the policy arena or the literature. Using data from the first major statewide survey of parents in California, drawn from the California School Parent Survey ( N = 15,829), this study examined parental perceptions of school climate, school problems, and school encoura…
Job satisfaction indicators for tenure and non-tenure track social work faculty: Similar but not equal
Despite sharing similar job responsibilities, two distinctly different career pathways exist within the social work professorate in the United States: tenure-track and non-tenure track. Tenure track faculty generally hold an indefinite appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances. Non-tenure track faculty generally hold contingent appointments with few protections. To expand understanding about difference…
‘Emotional preparedness’: A nuanced approach to disaster readiness among social workers
Social work providers are at risk of experiencing lower morale during disasters because of added emotional stressors, yet, dissemination of factors that impact a social worker’s ability to manage emotions during disasters is scant. In the disaster literature, no single term adequately encompasses the myriad components of addressing a provider’s own emotional needs before disaster strikes. The authors propose how ‘emotional preparedness’ is differ…
Military Culture and Cultural Competence in Public Health: U.S. Veterans and Sars-CoV-2 Vaccine Uptake
As part of the U.S. effort to encourage vaccination for SARS-CoV-2, scholars have emphasized the importance of culture and identity in vaccine uptake decisions. The culture and identity of military service are poorly understood in the context of understanding Veterans’ acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines. In analyzing data from semi-structured interviews with Veterans in homeless transitional housing, this article examines their willingness to get va…
Everyone's War Becomes My War: The Far-Reaching Impact of the Invasion of Ukraine
The invasion of Ukraine has been difficult to watch for individuals around the world. Feelings of disbelief and helplessness arise as violent images of murdered children, bombed apartment buildings and shelters, and fleeing families waiting in freezing temperatures at border crossings flash across our screens. This is especially challenging for survivors of World War II (WWII) and their descendants, particularly Holocaust survivors of Eastern Eur…
A Special Issue on Contemporary Veteran Voices: A Literary Exposition of the Human Experience in Military Service and War
An introduction to the special issue by the guest editors. Includes an in memoriam to one of the guest editors, explains the rationale behind the special issue, and describes each piece in the issue
A blended immersion course: Advancing practice for social work students working with military members, veterans, and their families
This paper presents a specialization blended immersion course in social work with military, veterans, and their families that includes a 3-unit elective course for Master of Social Work (MSW) students incorporating a virtual (i.e. synchronous) class component and an eight-day visit to the Washington DC area. Data collection from over 60 students over a four-year period was collected, and mixed methods analysis indicated success in knowledge acqui…
Societal Perceptions and Developmental Assets of Latina Youth From Low-Income Schools: Implications for Social Work Prevention Efforts
Ensuring healthy development for youth is one of the Grand Challenges of the social work profession. This Grand Challenge seeks to reduce behavioral health problems in youth through prevention efforts. This paper presents a mixed-methods study of sixty Latina adolescents from low-income schools to better understand their perceptions of what it is like to be a girl in U.S. society and explore their strengths through their developmental assets. Und…
Psychology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Social Work (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (5 works)