Christopher G. Hudson, Ph.D., DCSW

Professor

School of Social Work, Salem State College, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA 01945

978-542-6609

                                                                                                                                                                                

Welcome & General Comments

Here are a few publications that are either scheduled to come out, or are in process. Some that I would like to highlight are:

  • An upcoming textbook on Complex Systems and Human Behavior, is being published by Lyceum Books. Table of Contents & Preface. Target date of publication currently is January 2010. Amazon.com.
  • "Validation of a model for estimating state and local prevalence of serious mental illness" -- This will be coming out in The International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. Here here's an ABSTRACT
  • Hudson, C.G. & Chafets, J. (In press). "A comparison of mental health inpatient care under Medicaid carve-outs and HMOs". Social Work in Public Health.
  • Hudson, C.G. (2009). "Decision making in evidence-based practice: Science and art".  Smith College Studies in Social Work, 79 (2), pp. 155-174.  ABSTRACT

For anyone interested, I'm scheduled to give the following workshops:

  • Use of Small Area Estimation Methods in Community Needs Assessments, Society for Social Work Research, Annual Conference, San Francisco, Jan. 14-17, 2010.

  • With Carol Owen: Developing Creativity:  Empirical Foundations for Emerging Practice Applications, NASW Massachusetts Symposium 2010, Framingham, MA, April 15-16, 2010.

And here is some information on a few recent or ongoing projects:

  • Here's an article in the Boston Globe about my paper in the American Journal on Orthopsychiatry on "Socioeconomic status and mental illness: Tests of the social causation and selection hypotheses" (Jan. 2005):  Boston Globe article. 
  • I've been developing several proposals to conduct some studies involving the use of small area estimation procedures for the estimation of local rates of serious mental illness, in the U.S., Israel, and new Zealand, to eventually result in an edited volume on Disparities in the Geography of Mental Illness:  International Results.
  • Massachusetts NASW Salary Survey, posted on the MA NASW Website:  http://naswma.org/  .  The following is Executive Summary and introduction to the Oct. 2009 Report of the NASW Task Force on Social Work Compensation and Employment which was set up as a result of this survey and which I have been serving as chairperson for: SUMMARY.  
  • As a part of the above Task Force, we are also completing a brief survey on the costs of private practice, and gearing up for survey of practitioners for the purpose of developing a Managed Care Report Card for Massachusetts.

 

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   "Live more and more in the present, 
which is ever beautiful and stretches away 
beyond the limits of the past and the future."

Meher Baba

 

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