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Professor of Social Work
Expertise: AIDS prevention, community health, diabetes, evaluation of interventions, family, health behaviors, health care
Bio: The focus of Wendy Auslander's work is health care/health behaviors, evaluation of interventions, AIDS prevention among teenagers, minority health and health promotion, family functioning, and chronic illness.
The National Institutes of Health has funded several of her research projects on lifestyle change and health promotion for African-American women, coping for juveniles with diabetes and their families, AIDS prevention among teens, and smoking cessation among African Americans. She is a recipient of the Social Service Project Award sponsored by Eli Lilly and Co. and the American Association of Diabetes Educators. She has chaired the grants review committee of the St. Louis AIDS Foundation, and served on the board of directors of the American Diabetes Association, St. Louis Affiliate. Recent articles published in several journals cover family stress and resources, problems in financing care of AIDS patients, AIDS prevention in at-risk adolescents, community organization, and health promotion in minority neighborhoods.
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Education:
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B.S. at Cornell University
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M.S.W. in Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis
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Ph.D. at Thomas Jefferson Medical College
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November is Diabetes Awareness Month
Examining and identifying psychosocial barriers to type 2 diabetes management among adolescents key to reducing risk of complications
Nov. 13,
2007 --
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Reports in pediatric clinics across the country indicate dramatic increases in type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents, particularly among minority populations. According to the CDC, youths with type 2 diabetes have poorer glycemic control, and may therefore be at higher risk for disease-related complications. "We know very little about the psychosocial and family problems and barriers to diabetes management among adolescents with type 2 diabetes," says Wendy Auslander, Ph.D., professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis. She is conducting a first of its kind study to identify these issues.
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Poverty plays a role
High rate of depression found in African-American women at risk for type 2 diabetes
Dec. 19,
2003 --
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| Photo by David Kilper/WUSTL Photo |
| Wendy F. Auslander, Ph.D. (left), works with St. Louis-area peer counselors in the "Eat Well, Live Well" program she pioneered with colleagues at the School of Medicine. |
As the cases of type 2 diabetes in African-American women increase at an epidemic rate, researchers are examining risk factors involved with this disease in order to create programs that will hopefully slow this growing problem. According to a recent study at the George Warren Brown (GWB) School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, African-American women at risk for type 2 diabetes experience long periods of depression due, in part, to a lack of economic and social resources. "At the beginning of our study, 40 percent of our sample of African-American women at risk for type 2 diabetes reported clinically significant depression," says Wendy Auslander, Ph.D., professor at GWB and co-author of the study. "Unlike their nondepressed peers, these women reported fewer economic assets and greater economic distress. Issues such as unemployment, low self-esteem and a low appraisal of their economic situation contributed to their depression."
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Teens in foster care
Foster youth desire college, study shows, but face roadblocks to learning
Oct. 2,
2003 --
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| Foster care teens have a desire to attend college, study shows. |
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A solid education is considered the foundation for a productive future, but for teens in foster care, education beyond high school is rarely a reality. In fact, a Westat study found that only 44 percent of 18-year-olds leaving the independent living program of the foster care system completed high school. But despite common thought, this dismal percentage is not due to a lack of educational aspirations among teens in foster care. According to a recent study at the George Warren Brown (GWB) School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, a surprisingly high percentage — 70 percent — of teens in the foster care system have a desire to attend college.
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