International Activities

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The Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center’s (AETC’s) mission is to ensure that physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, and other health professionals receive state-of-the-art information, training, and consultation on the prevention and treatments of HIV and AIDS.
One of several AETCs funded nationwide, the Florida/Caribbean program has an annual grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration through the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act. Following an assessment of local needs, AETC faculty design training to improve the quality of HIV care in the clinical setting. The AETC serves a region that includes Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Through the USF Center for HIV Education and Research, Dr. Knox has developed relationships with healthcare providers in several developing countries which result in our faculty providing regular clinical updates and other resources internationally.

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President of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services, a 700 member association from 23 countries devoted to comparative research and discussion of forensic issues across national boundaries (2005-2007).

Published several articles, alone and with Norm Poythress, Annette Christy, and Roger Boothroyd, in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry.

Keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.

Through the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment, an interdisciplinary group of researchers with a 9 year grant from the MacArthur Foundation to conduct research on the use of coercion and leverage in community treatment settings, work collaboratively with other scholars in Europe and Australasia.

Co-PI on a grant application that will be submitted shortly to the Australian Government Research Council titled Preventive Detention Schemes: Legal, Constitutional and Policy Issues. This is a comparative study of the use of preventive detention in Australia, the US, and Scotland. The PIs from Australia are Bernadette McSherry, a law professor at Monash University in Melbourne and Patrick Keyzer, a law professor in Syndey.

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Assessing Psychopathy in Indigenous African Tribes.  Collaborating with Prof. Dap Louw from the University of the Free State to develop techniques for assessing features of psychopathic personality that can be used with indigenous tribes in South Africa.

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Psychology of Terrorism, includes such articles for example as:
Borum, R. & Gelles, M. (2005). Al-Qaeda’s operational evolution: Behavioral and organizational perspectives. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 23, 467-483.
Borum, Randy; Fein, R.; Vossekuil, B.; Gelles, M., and Shumate, S. The role of operational research in counterterrorism. International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. in press.

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Wisconsin Quality of Life Index (W-QLI), translated into 49 languages and it is used worldwide. The international QoL Research Society makes it available to researchers and Becker and colleagues continue to gather data on QoL for persons with mental illnesses in various countries.

International Resilience Project, a multi-country initiative that is studying resilience in children and youth.  The purpose of the multiple studies that have been conducted is to understand better whether there are trans-national common risk and protective factors, and to what extent culture and environment affect those factors. http://www.resilienceproject.org/cmp_text/
Relevant Recent Publications and Presentations:

Ungar, M., Lee, A. W., Callaghan, T., & Boothroyd, R. A. (2005).
An international collaboration to study resilience in adolescents across cultures. Journal of the Social Work Research and Evaluation, 6, 5-23.

Armstrong, M. I., Stroul, B. A., & Boothroyd, R. A., (2005). “Intercepts of resilience and systems of care.” In M. Ungar (Ed.). Handbook for working with children and youth pathways to resilience across cultures and context. Chapter 24 (pp. 378-404). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.

Boothroyd, R., & Liebenberg, L. (2006, January). A Quantitative Study of Patterns of Resilience across Culturally Diverse Adolescents: Exploration of Results from the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM). Paper presented as part of a symposium to the 10th annual conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Antonio, TX.

Ungar, M., & Boothroyd, R. A. (2005, November). An International Study of Resilience: Challenges in Conceptualization and Design. Paper presented at the 19th annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, Toronto, CA.

Liebenberg, L., & Boothroyd, R. A. (2005, November). An International Study of Resilience: Quantitative Measurement Challenges. Paper presented at the 19th annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, Toronto, CA.

With Alexander Rich, completed a chapter in a medical textbook for the United Kingdom which includes a review of homelessness and alcoholism in European countries:

Clark, C. & Rich, A. (2005). The relationship between alcohol misuse and homelessness. In V. R. Preedy & R. R. Watson (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of alcohol related pathology: Volume 1 (pp. 221-239). London: Elsevier Ltd.

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Robst, J.; Polachek, S., and Turcotte, L. The effect of Medicaid coverage on medical interventions. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics; 2005; 5 pp. 255-271

Young, M.S., & Clark, C. (2006, May). First Step: A Residential Treatment Program Serving Substance-Involved Postpartum Mothers and Their Infants in Sarasota, Florida. Policy and Practice Poster presented at the 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Chen, H. J. (2005, July). Unmet health service needs in relation to trust in health care provider among different racial/ethnic groups. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Nursing Research Congress Waikoloa, HI.

Jordan, N., & & Becker, M. A. (2005, July). Societal value of atypical medications . Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Health Economics Association Barcelona, Spain.

Jordan, N., Jones, K., Chen, H. J., Boothroyd, R. A., Ramoni-Perazzi, J., & Shern, D. L. (2005, July). Implications of Medicaid behavioral managed care for social cost . Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Health Economics Association Barcelona, Spain.