The below is a select list of recent peer-reviewed publications submitted by the faculty of the University of Southern Maine School of Social Work.

2022

Gerstenblatt, P., Shanti, C., & Fisk, S., (2022). Community member experiences in an arts-based community-university partnership. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship.

Gerstenblatt, P., Rhodes, D., & Ivey, D., (2022) Making the case: A case study for veterinary practice from the social work perspective. People and animals: The international journal or research and practice.

Layton, D., Gerstenblatt, P., (2022). They’re just, like, there:” A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study of Student Experiences with School Resource Officers., Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22847

Shedletsky, L., Andonian, J., Bantz, D. and Gilbert, D. (2022), “Launching into Life after College”, Sengupta, E. and Blessinger, P. (Ed.) ICT and Innovation in Teaching Learning Methods in Higher Education (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Vol. 45), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 89-118. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120220000045006

Tyron, R., Gerstenblatt, P., & Bove, A. (2022). “It’s Just Flourishing Hope Everywhere”: The experiences of incarcerated men Sharing their stories. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. DOI: 10.1177/0306624X221102834

2021

Addo, R.& Gerstenblatt, P. , (2021). Housing First: A Policy Analysis of the HEARTH Act. Journal of Policy Practice and Research. 2, 90–104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42972-021-00025-2

Gerstenblatt, P. (2021). What COVID-19 has brought us to: Art, activism and changes in social work education. Qualitative Social Work 2021;20(1-2):595-603. doi:10.1177/1473325020973440

Giamportone, K.E. (2021). A journey to hospice: Reflection on one patient’s barriers to service. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2021.1977762

Kohli, H. K., Shanti, C., & Gerstenblatt, P. (2021). Asian Indian mothers’ experiences raising bicultural children: A phenomenological study. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2021.1949773

Kohli, H. K., Shanti, C., & Gerstenblatt, P., (2021). Reflections on raising bicultural children: Asian Indian mothers’ experiences. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. 

Kohli, H. K., Wampole, D., & Kohli, A. K. (2021). Impact of online education on student learning during the pandemic. Studies in Learning and Teaching Journal, 2(2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.46627/sile

Shanti, C., Gerstenblatt, P. & Fisk, S., (2021). Putting the pieces together: Critical service learning and social work education. Social Work Education. DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2021.1924663

2020

Casey, R. C., Bentley, K. J., & McDonald, S. E. (2020). Mental health difficulties of incarcerated women: The influence of violence perpetration and victimization. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health. doi: 10.1080/14999013.2020.1713258

Fineran, S., & Kohli, H. K. (2020).  Muslim refugee women’s perspectives on intimate partner violence.  Journal of Family Social Work, 23(3), 199-213 Work. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2020.1742839

Kohli, H. K., & Fineran, S. (2020). Latino fathers’ narratives on child abuse and neglect. Critical Social Work, 21(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.22329/csw.v21i2.6459 

Kohli, H. K., & Fineran, S. (2020).  “The rain grows plants, the thunder does not”: Refugee and asylee women’s narratives on child abuse and neglect.  Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 18(2), 224-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2019.163.9874

Kohli, H. K., & Fineran, S. (2020) “If they misbehaved, we took a stick to discipline them”: Refugee mothers’ struggles raising children in the United States. Journal of Child and Family Social Work, 25(2), 488-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12705

Kohli, H. K., Shanti, C., & Gerstenblatt, P., (2020). “A drumbeat underneath the child”: Asian Indian mothers’ perceptions of their multiethnic children’s lived experiences. The Journal of Business Diversity, 20(2), 111-122. https://doi.org/10.33423/jbd.v20i2.2903

Kohli, H. K., Shanti, C., & Gerstenblatt, P., (2020). “A drumbeat underneath the child”: Asian Indian mothers’ perceptions of their multiethnic children’s lived experiences. The Journal of Business Diversity, 20(2), 111-122. https://doi.org/10.33423/jbd.v20i2.2903

2019

Casey, R. C., & Bentley, K. J. (2019). Individual factors associated with women’s use of mental health services during incarceration: Anticipating programmatic needs. Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research. doi: 10.1080/23774657.2019.1623134

Casey, R. C., & Bentley, K. J. (2019). Psychotropic medication experiences of incarcerated women: A qualitative inquiry into conundrums of access and identity. Women & Criminal Justice, 29(1), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/08974454.2017.1389331

2018

Lee, A., Hae Jung, K., Faulkner, M., Gerstenblatt, P., & Travis, D. (2018). Work engagement among child care providers: Application of job demands and resources (JD-R) model. Child and Youth Care Forum

2017

Fields, N., Xu, L., Richardson, V.E., & Parekh, R., Ivey, D., Feinhals, G., & Calhoun, M. (2017). The Senior companion program plus: A culturally-tailored psychoeducational training program for senior companions. Journal of Dementia

Gerstenblatt, P., Rhodes, D., & Holst, L., (2017). Spaces in between: Text poems from community practice and research. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal.

Hohn, K., Ivey, D., McCoy, M., Ude, P., & Praetorius, R. (2017). Integrating faith and practice: A qualitative study of staff motivations. Journal of Social Work and Christianity.

Ivey, D. (2017). Feeling wanted: A film review. Journal of Social Work.

2016

Kohli, H. K., Ross, F., Kohli, A. S., & Peng, C. (2016). Universal-Diverse Orientation of Business, Education, and Social Work students.  International Journal of Management in Education, 10(2), 111-130. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMIE.2016.075554

2015

Gerstenblatt, P., (2015). Blogs as a Representation of Student Experiences in a Service Learning Course. Metropolitan Universities. Vol. 25.3

2014

Faulkner, M., Gerstenblatt, P., Lee, A., Viana, V., & Travis, D. (2014). Child care workers: Work stress and personal well-being. Journal of Early Childhood Research

Gerstenblatt, P. (2014). Community as Agency: Community Partner Experiences with Service Learning. Journal of Community Engagement.

Gerstenblatt, P., Faulkner, M., Lee, A., Thy Doan, L. & Travis, D. (2014). Not babysitting: work stress and personal well-being for family child care providers. Early Childhood Education Journal

Gerstenblatt, P., Gilbert, D.J. (2014). Framing service learning in social work: An interdisciplinary elective community development course embedded within a university-community partnership. Social Work Education: The International Journal.

Travis, D., Lee, A., Faulkner, M., Gerstenblatt, P. (2014). Cultivating a thriving childcare workforce: a theory-driven qualitative analysis. Community, Work & Family. DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2013.850402

2013

Gerstenblatt, P. (2013). Collage portraits as a method of analysis in qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods

2010

Doel, M., Shardlow, S.M., and Johnson, P. G. (2010) Contemporary Field Social Work. Integrating Field and Classroom Experience. Sage Publishers.

St. Thomas, B., and Johnson, P.G. (2007) Empowering Children Through Art and Expression: Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.