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The University of Connecticut
School of Social Work
1798 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
Tel:
(860) 570-9172
E-mail:
lirio.negroni-rodriguez@uconn.edu
Area of Speciality:
Individual and Family Therapy,
Mental Health Services to Latino Children, Adolescents and Their Families, Particularl Abused Children and Adolescents,
Provision of Culturally Competent Services
Issues, Problems, and Needs of Puerto Rican Women
Biographical Note:
Dr. Lirio Negroni-Rodriguez , Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Puerto Rican/Latino Studies Project in Social Work. Her publications and research efforts focus on Latinas and the areas of mental health, child abuse and child discipline, substance abuse prevention from a family perspective, and supports systems and use of health care services particularly among Latina elders. Her professional presentations most frequently address issues of cultural competence and social work practice and direct practice with Latino/a individuals and families. Another area of interest is the advisement and recruitment of Latino/a students.
For 13 years and before entering academia Dr. Negroni was a clinical social worker and supervisor in Puerto Rico and Massachusetts . Her community and outreach service on behalf of Latinos/as in the U.S. goes as far as 1985 when she moved to U.S. and engaged in different community organizing and education efforts. She is co-founder of grassroots groups such as Latinos Unidos ( Worcester , MA ) and the Hispanic Association for Preventive Medicine ( Springfield , MA ). For four years she was the coordinator and moderator of Salud Al Dia a weekly radio show that provided health and mental health education to the Latino/a community. Between 1999 and 2005 she was a speaker at the Hablando en Serio (WPPRX 1120 AM) radio show educating the community on child and adult mental health and family relationships. She has been a consultant to different community groups and agencies on issues that relate to Latinos/as. Her professional presentations focus on culturally competent social work practice, needs and accomplishments of Latinas in the U.S. , and more recently on advisement and recruitment of Latino/a students and community-university partnerships on behalf of Latinos/as. Since 1998 Dr. Negroni has been involved in the movement to rescue, clean and develop Vieques, Puerto Rico . She has been a member of the TODO Connecticut for Vieques committee, coordinator of different consciousness-raising events at the school of social work and participant in different local social actions activities. She helped in the development of a travel and study course to Puerto Rico that includes three to four days in Vieques. Between 1998 and 2000 and from 2002 to 2004 Dr. Negroni was chair of the School of Social Work Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Project. She is currently a member of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Board of Directors representing the Puerto Rican constituency. In 2004 she was appointed to the CSWE Latino Task Force with the command to develop recommendations to enhance the recruitment and retention of Latino/a students and faculty members in social work programs in the United States.
Current Research/Selected Publications:
Negroni-Rodríguez, L. K ., Dicks, B. & Morales, J. (2006) Cultural Considerations in Advising Latino/a Students. Journal on Teaching in Social Work, 6 (1/2), 201-221.
Negroni-Rodríguez, L. K. & De La Cruz-Quiroz, G. (2006). Multicultural Welfare Practice with Latino Children, Youth and their Families (pp. 196-237). In N. A. Cohen, T. V. Tran and S. Y. Rhee (eds.). Multicultural Approaches in Caring for Children, Youth and their Families. California : Allyn and Bacon, Inc.
Negroni-Rodríguez, L. K . & Bloom, M. (August, 2005). Primary prevention in Caribbean societies: Towards a strength-oriented mental health model . The Caribbean Journal of Social Work, 4 (1), 75-87.
Negroni-Rodríguez, L. K . & Bloom, M. (2004). The use of natural support networks in the promotion of mental health among Caribbean women. Journal of Social Work Research and Evaluation, 5 (1), 31-40.
Negroni-Rodríguez, L. K . (2003). Puerto Rican abusive and non-abusive mothers' beliefs about appropriate and inappropriate child discipline. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 12 (4), 65-90.
Negroni-Rodríguez, L. K . (Fall, 2002). Violencia infantil: Algunas contradicciones a la entrada del nuevo milenio [Child violence: Some contradictions at the beginning of the new millennium]. Social Perspectives, 4 (1), 9-25.
Negroni-Rodríguez, L. K . & Morales, J. (2001). Individual and family assessment skills with Latino/Hispanic-Americans. In R. Fong and S. Furuto (Eds.), Cultural competent social work practice: Practice skills, interventions, and evaluation . Massachusetts : Allyn and Bacon.
Vecchiolla, F. J., Lesser, J. G., Roy, A. W., Wronka, J., Walsh-Burke, K., Gianesin, J., Foster, D. & Negroni, L. K . (2001). Advanced generalist practice: A framework for social work practice in the twenty-first century. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 21 (3-4), 91-104.
Negroni-Rodríguez, L. K . (1998 ). Puerto Rican mothers' beliefs and attitudes about child discipline and child abuse; their expectations and attributions of children (Doctoral dissertation, Boston College ). Dissertation Abstracts #9905884.
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