AASWSW Fellows Nomination form

Label / Value
Candidate's Name / Anita P. Barbee, PhD, MSSW
Candidate's Title / Professor & Distinguished University Scholar
Associate Editor, Journal of Personal Relationships and Training Associate Editor, Journal of Development in Human Services
Advisory Board Member, International Institute for Human Service Workforce Research and Development
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Public Child Welfare and Loss and Trauma
Editorial Board Member, Annual Editions: Human Sexuality
Candidate's Department / Kent School of Social Work
Candidate's Institution / University of Louisville
Candidate's Street Address 1 / 2217 S 3rd Street
Candidate's Street Address 2
Candidate's City / Louisville
Candidate's State / KY
Candidate's ZIP Code / 40292
Candidate's Phone Number / Office: (502) 852-0416
Fax: (502) 852-0422
Candidate's Email Address /
Gender / Female
Will This Candidate Contribute to Diversity in the Academy in Some Way (e.g., Race/Ethnicity, Age, Disability Status)? (Up To 50 Words, If Applicable) / White, female, 55+ years old
Past and Potential Impact of Nominee: (500 Word Maximum) / Dr. Anita P. Barbee has over 120 publications and has given 275 presentations at professional conferences. She received a Dissertation Award in 1989 and the Gerald Miller Early Career Award in 1997 from the International Association of Relationship Researchers (IARR); she is a Fellow in APA’s Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), and received the NSDTA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 for her work in child welfare training and evaluation.
She has two major lines of research. One line focuses on child welfare system reform with an emphasis on the role employee selection, training, supervision and organizational structure, policy and dynamics have on practice and outcomes for families and children. The other focuses on interpersonal relationship formation and maintenance, as well as the impact of relationship education on improving communication, and conflict resolution, and reducing violent and risky sexual behavior.
Dr. Barbee, in collaboration with her colleagues, has brought in over $24 million in extramural funding to the University and most recently a $4.8M grant from the U.S. DHHS, Office for Adolescent Health to conduct a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) comparing a) a typical comprehensive sex education curriculum to a curriculum that introduces healthy sex behavior in the context of developing other healthy relationship skills to a control group.
Selected Publications
(5 to 10 Most Significant) / Dr. Barbee is Associate Editor for the journals Personal Relationships and Training and Development in Human Services, and sits on four other editorial boards, including the Journal of Public Child Welfare and Loss and Trauma and reviews for several dozen Psychology, Communication and Social Work journals.
Langley, C., Barbee, A. P., Antle, B., Christensen, D., Archuleta, A., Sar, B. K., & ... Borders, K. (2015). Enhancement of Reducing the Risk for the 21st century: Improvement to a curriculum developed to prevent teen pregnancy and STI transmission. American Journal Of Sexuality Education, 10(1), 40-69. doi:10.1080/15546128.2015.1010029
vanZyl, M. A., Barbee, A. P., Cunningham, M. R., Antle, B. F., Christensen, D. N., & Boamah, D. (2014). Components of the Solution-Based Casework Child Welfare Practice Model That Predict Positive Child Outcomes. Journal Of Public Child Welfare, 8(4), 433-465. doi:10.1080/15548732.2014.939252
Barbee, A. P., Antle, B. F., Sullivan, D. J., Dryden, A. A., & Henry, K. (2012). Twenty-Five Years of the Children's Bureau Investment in Social Work Education. Journal Of Public Child Welfare, 6(4), 376-389. doi:10.1080/15548732.2012.705237
Barbee, A. P., Cunningham, M., Winstead, B.A., and Druen, P. B. (2010). Effects of Gender Role Expectations on the Social Support Process. Journal of Social Issues, 49(3), 175– 190. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1993.tb01175.x
Cunningham, M., Roberts, A., Barbee, A.P., and Wu, C. (1995). Their Ideas of Beauty Are, on the Whole, the Same as Ours: Consistency and Variability in the Cross-Cultural Perception of Female Physical Attractiveness, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68(2), 261-279. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.68.2.261
Sprecher, S., Barbee, A. P., and Schwartz, P. (1994). Was it good for you, too?: Gender differences in first sexual intercourse experiences. The Journal of Sex Research, 32(1), 3-15. doi: 10.1080/00224499509551769
Cunningham, M., Barbee, A.P., and Pike, C. (1990).What Do Women Want? Facialmetric Assessment of Multiple Motives in the Perception of Male Facial Physical Attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59(1), 61-72. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.59.1.61
Barbee, A. P., Gulley, M. R., & Cunningham, M. R. (1990). Support seeking in personal relationships. Journal Of Social And Personal Relationships, 7(4), 531-540. doi:10.1177/0265407590074009
Sponsor Name / Richard Barth
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Sponsor Affiliation / Dean and Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work, and President, American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
Date of Nomination / July 1, 2016
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