Faculty Profiles

Lee, S.-Y., & Choi, M. (2025). Changes in Aggressive Behaviors over Time in Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences: Focusing on the Role of School Connectedness. Social Sciences, 14, 385. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14060385

Choi, M. J., Trahan, M. H., & Kim, J. (2025). The actor-partner interdependence effects of harsh parenting and coparenting on parenting engagement. Families in Society. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894251321867

Hong, J. S., & Choi, M. (n.d.). Child maltreatment in immigrant families. In Violence and trauma without borders: Perspectives of immigrants, migrants, and refugees post-migration. Palgrave Macmillan.

Jenkins, L., Ryan, S. D., LaBrenz, C. A., Wildberger, M. S., Choi, M., & Kim, J. (2025). Shifting systems: child welfare practitioners’ adaptation to changing policies. Child Welfare, 102(4), 1–28.

Hong, J. S., Choi, M., Gomez, A., Padilla, Y., & Espelage, D. (2024). How receiving welfare assistance could be linked to children’s bullying victimization: Exploring the potential pathways. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 42, 371–384. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2663

Seng, T., Lee, E., & Choi, M. (2024). Examining the protective impact of peer relationships on negative self-esteem among high-risk adolescents: The interplay of gender and ethnicity. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-024-00978-9

Choi, M. J., Kim, J., LaBrenz, C., Ryan, S., Wildberger, M. S., Jenkins, L., & Mullan, S. (n.d.). Informational justice, job autonomy, and child welfare workers’ intention to stay. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1086/733495

Choi, M. J., Lee, S., Kim, J., & Lee, J. (2024). The interaction of race/ethnicity and school-connectedness in presenting internalizing and externalizing behaviors among adolescents. Children and Youth Services Review, 161, 107605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107605

Choi, S., Choi, M., Shamrova, D. P., Hong, J. Y., Kim, Y. J., & Mullan, S. (2024). Challenges and coping strategies of families with young children amid hurricanes: A qualitative inquiry. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 1–16.

Choi, M. J., Hong, J., Travis, R., & Kim, J. (2023). Effects of school environment on depression among Black and White adolescents. Journal of Community Psychology, 51(3), 1181–1200. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22969

Labrenz, C. A., Sieger, M. L., Choi, M. J., Eugene, D. R., Findley, E., Robinson, E. D., & Baiden, P. (2023). Family support services and reunification across diverse racial/ethnic groups: A survival analysis utilizing administrative child welfare data. Children and Youth Services Review, 150, 107024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107024

Hong, J. S., Choi, M. J., Wade, R., O’Donnell, L., & Johns, S. (2023). Racial/ethnic differences in parenting behaviors as protective factors in adolescent internalizing problems. Journal of General Psychology, 150(4), 467–484. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2022.2152414

LaBrenz, C., Jenkins, L., Choi, M., Kim, J., Ryan, S., & Wildberger, M. S. (2023). Sinking or swimming: perspectives of the children without placement crisis. Journal of Public Child Welfare. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2023.2237421

Trahan, M. H., Kim, J., & Choi, M. (2023). Co-parenting: mediating the relationship between harsh parenting and parent engagement using actor-partner interdependence mediation model. Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody & Child Development, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/26904586.2023.2269916

Kim, J., Choi, M., & Pierce, B. (2023). Organizational justice and secondary traumatic stress among child welfare workers: The moderated mediation model. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001632

Washburn, M., LaBrenz, C., Crutchfield, J., Jenkins, L., Choi, M., & Ryan, S. (2023). Promoting equity in child welfare through culturally responsive workforce development: A pilot study. Child Welfare, 101.

Lee, J., Donlan, W., Jang, D.-H., Kim, J., Henderson-Posther, M., & Choi, M. (2022). Addressing depression among workfare program participants in South Korea. Social Work Practice & Research, 19(3), 5–34. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.38082/SWPR.2022.19.03.5

LaBrenz, C., Kim, Y., Baiden, P., Shipe, S., Littleton, T., Choi, M. J., & Bai, R. (2022). State child maltreatment policies and disparities in substantiation: A study of state-administered child welfare systems in the U.S. Child Maltreatment. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595221143136

Lee, J., Choi, M. J., Holland, M. M., Radey, M., & Tripodi, S. J. (2022). Childhood bullying victimization, substance use and criminal activity among adolescents: a multilevel growth model study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), 770. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010770

Lee, J., Hong, J. S., Choi, M. J., & Lee, J. (2022). Testing pathways linking socioeconomic status, academic performance, and cyberbullying victimization to adolescent internalizing symptoms in South Korea. School Mental Health, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-022-09532-3

LaBrenz, C. A., Kim, J., Harris, M. S., Crutchfield, J., Choi, M., Robinson, E. D., … Ryan, S. D. (2022). Racial matching in foster care placements and subsequent placement stability: A national study. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 39, 583–594. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-022-00831-x

Choi, M. J., Kim, J., Jang, D., Lee, J., & Lee, V. (2021). The pathways from socioeconomic deprivation to parenting stress: testing a Family Stress Model in Korean low-income families. Social Work Practice & Research, 18(3), 93–120.

LaBrenz, C. A., Chakravarty, S., Marian, M. H., Choi, M., Kim, J., Crutchfield, J., & Bai, R. (2021). Child and state factors in positive permanency: A multi-level survival analysis. Journal of Public Child Welfare. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2021.2004967

Hong, J. S., Choi, M. J., Kim, I., Algood, C., Espelage, D., & Rose, C. (2021). Caregiver’s difficulty paying child’s healthcare bills and bullying victimization of adolescents with physical disabilities. Research in Nursing & Health, 44(4), 653–663.

Choi, M., Kim, J., Roper, A., LaBrenz, C. A., & Boyd, R. (2021). Racial disparities in assignment to Alternative Response. Children and Youth Services Review, 125(105988). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.105988

Hong, J. S., Choi, M. J., Kim, I., Barnes, S., Mountain, S., & Voisin, D. R. (2021). Identifying protective buffers of the association between peer victimization and internalizing symptoms of African American adolescents in four Chicago’s southside neighborhoods. School Mental Health, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-021-09433-x

LaBrenz, C. A., Findley, E., Graaf, G., Baiden, P., Kim, J., Choi, M., & Chakravarty, S. (2021). Racial/ethnic disproportionality in reunification across U.S child welfare systems. Child Abuse & Neglect, (114).

Kim, J., Choi, M. J., LaBrenz, C. A., Harris, M. H., Boyd, R., & Pierce, B. (2021). Model fidelity and child well-being in Family Team Conference: The interaction effect of racial matching and child race. British Journal of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab027

Choi, M. J., Koo, J., & Fortune, A. E. (2020). Predictors of job satisfaction among new MSWs: The role of organizational factors. Journal of Social Service Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2020.1830920

Kim, J., Choi, M., Trahan, M. H., Bellamy, J. L., & Pierce, B. (2020). Does parent engagement enhance children’s emotional well-being in Family Team Conference? Not a panacea for families with intimate partner violence. Children and Youth Services Review, 105479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105479

Lee, E., Kramer, C., Choi, M., Pestine-Stevens, A., & Huang, Y. (2020). The cumulative effect of prior maltreatment on emotional and physical health of children in informal kinship care. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 41(4), 299–307. https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0000000000000769

Lee, J., Choi, M., Thornberg, R., & Hong, J. S. (2020). Exploring gender differences in the association between bullying involvement and alcohol and marijuana use among U.S. adolescents in 6th to 10th grade. Substance Use and Misuse, 55(8), 1203–1213. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2020.1725054

Choi, M., Stover, C. S., & Aeppel, P. (2019). Child welfare training approaches and association with certification success. Child Welfare, 97(4), 23–44.

Salloum, A., Choi, M., & Stover, C. S. (2019). Exploratory study on the role of Trauma-Informed self-care on child welfare workers’ mental health. Children and Youth Services Review, 101, 299–306.

Stover, C. S., Choi, M., & Mayes, L. C. (2018). The moderating role of attachment on the association between childhood maltreatment and adolescent dating violence. Children and Youth Services Review, 94, 679–688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.09.011

Salloum, A., Choi, M., & Stover, C. S. (2018). Development of a Trauma-informed Self-care measure with child welfare workers. Children and Youth Services Review, 93, 108–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.07.008.

Lee, J., & Choi, M. (2018). Childhood shadows: psychological distress of childhood maltreatment among Asian-American women. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(9), 2954–2965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1114-4

Lee, E., Choi, M., Lee, Y., & Kramer, C. (2017). Placement stability of children in informal kinship care: age, poverty, and involvement in the child welfare system. Child Welfare, 95(3), 87–110.

Choi, M. (2017). The effects of economic hardships on the out-of-home placement decision for the maltreated children. Children and Youth Services Review, 81(1), 40–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.06.070

Lee, E., Choi, M., & Clarkson-Henderix, M. (2016). Examining needs of informal kinship families: validating the Family Needs Scale. Children and Youth Services Review, 62, 97–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.01.021

Choi, M., Urbanski, P., Fortune, A. E., & Rogers, C. (2015). Early Career Patterns for Social Work Graduates. Journal of Social Work Education, 51(3), 475–493. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2015.1043198