Stephen Edward McMillin
Doctoral candidate and part-time lecturer, the University of Chicago
Click to E-mail: smcmill@uchicago.edu
Courses Taught
SSA 302 Research and Evaluation for Social Intervention
SSA 437 Health Social Work
SSA 445 Clinical Research: Using Evidence in Clinical Decision Making
Research Interests
- Evidence-based practice infrastructure and program model enhancement
- Workforce development, training, and technical assistance in health and social services
- Clinical practice and management in home- and community-based prevention services
- Political, social, and faith-based contexts for health care delivery and social work practice
Research frames used: political science; organizational and life course sociology; community, health, and developmental psychology
Recent Publications and Conference Presentations
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. (in press). Translating Social Work Research for Social Justice: Focusing Translational Research on Equity Rather Than the Market. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. (in press). Does "Evidence-Based Policy" Help Protect LGBT Rights? A View from U.S. Social Work. Social Work and Society.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. (in press). Using Catholic Social Teaching to Build Social Capital for Agency Mission and Workforce Development in Faith-Based Social Services and Beyond. Social Work and Christianity.
- Briggs, Harold E., & McMillin, Stephen Edward. (2012). Implementing Evidence Based Management and Evidence Based Practice in Community Agencies: Lessons from a Case Study. Chapter 8 in: From the Task-Centered Approach to Evidence-Based and Integrative Practice: Reflections on History and Implementation (pp. 257-291). Chicago: Lyceum Books. ISBN: 1933478993
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. (2011) Faith-Based Social Services: From Communitarian to Individualistic Values. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 46(2), 482-490. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01189.x.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. Evidence Based Balance: Increasing the Accessibility of Research Courses for Today's Students. Paper presented at the 57th Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, "Increasing Access: Confronting Disparity and Inequality," Atlanta, GA, October 27-30, 2011
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. The Right to Name Hate: Utilizing Hate Group Designations to Reframe Political Challenges to LGBT rights. Paper presented at the 107th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2, 2011.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. Using a Spiritual Capital Framework for Self-Care to Avoid Compassion Fatigue and Burnout. Paper presented at the Sixth North American Conference on Spirituality and Social Work. Washington, DC: National Catholic School of Social Service at the Catholic University of America, June 19, 2011.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. Hard Evidence for Hard Times: A Policy Analysis of the Rise of Evidence Based Practice in Evaluation of Home Visiting Programs Using Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Model. Paper presented at Evaluation 2010, the Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association, San Antonio, TX, November 13, 2010.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. Dissemination of Empirically Supported Interventions as a Matter of Social Justice: Using a Public Health Framework to Improve Social Welfare. Paper presented at the 138th Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Public Health Association, Denver, CO, November 9, 2010.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. Education or Formation? Parallels between Seminary and Social Work Graduate Education. Symposium paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research Association, “Religion in Unsettled Times,” Baltimore, MD, October 30, 2010.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. Evidence Based Balance: Teaching Research and Evaluation Courses for Sustainable Learning. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, “Promoting Sustainability in Social Work,” Portland, OR, October 14, 2010.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. Translating Social Research for Social Justice: Giving Translational Research an Equity Focus Rather than a Market Focus. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, GA, August 13, 2010.
- McMillin, Stephen Edward. Translating Research to Policy: Evaluating Home Visiting Programs for Teenage Mothers from a Transition to Adulthood Perspective. Paper presented at the 3rd National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy, Bridgewater, MA, July 21, 2010.