Doctoral Candidate
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Madonna Cadiz, LCSW is a Doctoral Candidate of Social Welfare at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. Previously, she held research positions at the Program for Torture Victims and the Suicide Prevention Center at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services. In these roles, she contributed to quantitative and qualitative research projects aimed at evaluating client functioning and program efficacy. Currently, her research seeks to expand knowledge on how individuals in immigrant families interact with sociocultural contextual factors, and how these processes relate to mental health and family dynamics. Furthermore, her work aims to center community members’ voices to better understand their own definitions and conceptualizations of mental health diagnoses and symptoms, as well as to identify potentially meaningful interventions that may promote positive mental health among individuals and communities served by social workers.
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Survivance to Thrivance: Pilipinx Peoples and Epistemologies’ Intervention for Social Work Praxis
Saturday, October 26, 2024
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT