Written by: Samantha Everton, Innovation & Research Communications Contributor

University of Utah faculty members Dena Ned, Caren Frost, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Nicholas Wolfinger, and Patricia Kerig have all authored or co-authored books centered on marriage and children during their careers. Each author has worked tirelessly to compile their research and concentrate it into text, and the University of Utah celebrates all of their efforts to document and share their work with the world.

Contemporary Issues in Child Welfare: American Indian and Canadian Aboriginal Contexts

Contemporary Issues in Child Welfare: American Indian and Canadian Aboriginal Contexts, co-edited by Dena Ned and Caren Frost, from the College of Social Work at the University of Utah. The book raises awareness about the issues Native families and their communities face in the 21^st century.

“We thought this would be a good way to highlight the needs of families and children from American Indian and Canadian Aboriginal populations,” Ned and Frost shared. “These systems emerged through colonial governance structures that continue to assert state control over Indigenous children, families, and Tribal Nations today.”

The book examines the spectrum of child welfare policies and data impacting Native children and their families in the United States and Canada, and it reframes Indigenous child welfare and highlights Indigenous-led solutions to these complex problems.

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Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda

Edited by University of Utah Family & Consumer Studies Professors Lori Kowaleski-Jones and Nicholas Wolfinger, Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda explores issues related to fragile families and marriages from many different perspectives. Professors Kowaleski-Jones and Nicholas Wolfinger remarked that in producing this book, there was much collaboration among the faculty at the U and many other professionals. Both editors hosted a conference with primarily Utah-based family scholars, whose presentations grew into academic papers, which were eventually published into Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda.

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence: A Developmental Psychopathy Perspective

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective, written by psychology professor Patricia Kerig, serves as an authoritative and practical guide to understanding the diagnosis in PTSD in childhood and adolescence. The book presents summaries of available research on PTSD in young people and presents discussions on the expression of PTSD in various developmental periods, and how symptoms of other emotional disorders overlap with PTSD in childhood and adolescence.

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All of these authors have dedicated countless hours of research, collaboration, and work to these books, and the University of Utah celebrates their successful efforts to accumulate their studies into texts that demonstrate and expand the impact that each author has had in their field.

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