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Associate Professor of Social Work
Expertise: domestic violence, family violence, child abuse and neglect, public school system, child welfare system outcomes, social work evaluation and practice
Bio: Melissa Jonson-Reid studies child and adolescent outcomes related to services provided in the child welfare and public school systems. She is particularly interested in the interrelationship between child abuse and neglect, exposure to community risk factors, school and child welfare service provision, and later delinquent outcomes. Jonson-Reid also has interests in the impact of cumulative family violence such as child abuse and domestic violence, interagency coordination of services, school social work services, and the integration of theory with research. She has practice experience in domestic violence counseling and school social work. As a school social worker, she had over three years of direct and administrative experience in the California public school system. Jonson-Reid continues to be active in the area of policy and professional development in school social work on regional and national levels.
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Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley
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New Injury Control Research Center
Brown Center for Violence and Injury Prevention Will Provide Research Expertise on Child Maltreatment, Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence and Suicide
Aug. 4,
2009 -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has designated the Center for Violence and Injury Prevention (CVIP) at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis as one of its newest Injury Control Research Centers (ICRC). Preventing child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, suicide and related injuries through community-based research and educational outreach is the goal of the Brown Center for Violence and Injury Prevention. The center is led by Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ph.D., associate professor at the Brown School. John Constantino, M.D., the Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Washington University School of Medicine, serves as co-director.
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Nov. 19th is World Child Abuse Prevention Day
Child welfare expert offers ways to get involved in preventing child maltreatment
Nov. 12,
2007 --
"Maltreatment in childhood is a global issue," says Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ph.D., a child welfare expert and a professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, in the U.S. there are about 3 million reports of abuse or neglect each year, and about 60 percent of such reports are deemed to meet states' criteria for investigation or assessment. Jonson-Reid offers ways to get involved in protecting children from mistreatment.
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Doing 'more good than harm'
Scathing critiques of mandated reporting laws, Child Protective Services have 'little basis in reality,' say child welfare services experts
June 19,
2007 --
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Efforts to improve Child Protective Services (CPS) would be more effective if they were based on evaluations of available data instead of assertions that are not supported by evidence, say two child welfare services experts. "While there is no doubt that the current child welfare system has flaws, we can find little empirical data supporting the scathing critiques of mandated reporting laws and CPS. We now have enough empirical evidence to scientifically evaluate many longstanding criticisms of CPS, and many of those criticisms appear to be without basis in reality," write Brett Drake, Ph.D., and Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ph.D., in an article titled "A Response to Melton Based on the Best Available Data," published in the current issue of the international journal Child Abuse & Neglect. More...
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High self-esteem less critical
Promoting students' belief in their academic abilities is key to curbing African-American high school dropout rates
April 8,
2005 --
Instead of solely fostering high schoolers' self-esteem to curb African-American dropout rates, school social workers and educators should focus on the students' academic self-beliefs, says a school social work expert. "There is little evidence showing a link between feeling good about oneself and academic achievement, particularly with African-American youths," says Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ph.D., associate professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. "School social workers need to focus on programs that promote a student's belief in their academic abilities and the importance of education, such as study skills training and mentoring."
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