Category: Social Work

January 30, 2013

VIDEO: W. Bradford Wilcox on Gender and Parenthood

In the following video, W. Bradford Wilcox, the co-editor with Kathleen Kovner Kline of Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives, discusses the different ways in which fathers and mothers parent. While recognizing that a variety of familial structures...

December 19, 2012

The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo Selected as Best Book of 2012

Writing for The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen named The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper , by Carmeta Albarus and Jonathan H. Mack, as one of The Best 2012 Books About Justice. Here’s what Andrew Cohen wrote about the...

October 5, 2012

Carmeta Albarus on Her Relationship with Lee Boyd Malvo

“My reasons for taking on this project include the fact that the journey that led Malvo to this place is one that begs for understanding.”—Carmeta Albarus We conclude our week-long focus on The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C....

October 4, 2012

Jonathan Mack on Lee Boyd Malvo

We continue our week-long feature on The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper with an interview with Jonathan H. Mack, Psy.D. Mack is a forensic psychologist and in the book he identifies and analyzes the underlying clinical psychological...

October 3, 2012

Interview with Carmeta Albarus, Author of "The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper"

The following is an interview with Carmeta Albarus, author of The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper. Albarus, a social worker, was instructed by the court to uncover any information that might help mitigate the death sentence the...

October 2, 2012

Book Giveaway: The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: D.C. Sniper

“The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo offers the unabashed truth about children who face emotional and psychological scars resulting from feelings of rejection, abandonment, and other trauma by being left home by parents who immigrated overseas.” — Geneive Brown Metzger...

April 18, 2012

Nicholas Teich Explains Transgender 101 on the Huffington Post

In an article and slideshow posted today on the Huffington Post, Nicholas Teich, author of Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue, explained the story behind Transgender 101 and lays out “15 essential things to know” about what “transgender” really means.

January 31, 2012

The Lives of Transgender People reviewed in Inside Higher Ed

While reading Genny Beemyn and Susan Rankin’s The Lives of Transgender People for his review of the book in Inside Higher Ed, Scott McLemee was struck by some of the rather dispiriting findings in the book. Beemyn and Rankin’s book...

January 25, 2012

Interview with Joshua Miller, author of "Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters"

Joshua Miller, author of Psychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters, was recently interviewed as part of the Living Proof Podcast Series. Here is a description of the series from “Living Proof”: Dr. Joshua Miller discusses the many types of...

November 3, 2011

Interview with David Celani, author of Leaving Home: The Art of Separating From Your Difficult Family

The following is a Q&A with David Celani, author of Leaving Home: The Art of Separating From Your Difficult Family. (You can download this book, rent it, or purchase individual chapters via Columbia University Press Online Access) Question: Your book...

October 26, 2011

Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett Dispel Myths About Girls and Boys

On their website, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett, authors of The Truth About Boys and Girls: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children, challenge some myths concerning the ways in which girls and boys learn: Myth: Girls’ and boys’ brains are...

October 13, 2011

Avidan Milevsky on Sibling Relationships

The following is a video with Avidan Milevsky, author of the recently published Sibling Relationships in Childhood and Adolescence.