“What we need to do better. . . and what geospatial technologies can help us to understand better are the interactions between individuals and their context and some of the nuances to those relationships. . . that could help to not only drive what...
“Certainly, there is a lot of work that looks at each of these issues on their own, so the studies about child welfare or about homelessness or about educational difficulties. There is even a fair amount of work that looks at issues from the...
“[S]chools of social work don't emphasize perinatal mood disorder as much anymore, and social workers are the leading group providing therapeutic care in the United States. So I would ask [that] schools of social work begin to focus on that again.”
“I think it's so important to see that, [regarding] our childhood environment, we have a mechanism within our genetics to adapt to our environment within our lifetime. If you have an environment that says this is the way to thrive in this...
“I believe, as a researcher, as a practitioner, and as a professor, . . . now it is more important than ever to really understand that we have a responsibility to our clients and to our field to be engaged in these policy levels–in policy...
“We often are underestimating our clients’ ability to use technology and their access to technology.”
“So psychological [self-sufficiency] is less about just somebody's mindset or their internal motivation alone, but is largely this process of how one would become empowered over time and throughout the whole life course to reach goals as a piece of...
“[W]e know from the research that LGBTQ youth, as a population, really experience disproportionate risks to their well-being. So, for example, they frequently experience family and peer rejection, discrimination, bullying and harassment, and many...
“[W]e wanted to look at how. . . attitudes about LGBT people differ between teachers at rural middle and high schools compared to those teaching at an urban middle and high school setting. We also wanted to look at how. . . the teacher’s observances...
“Gentrification can be thought of as a form of community loss.”
