Chien-jen Chiang

Assistant Professor

Office: 2143 Pleasant Hall
Phone: 225 578-6829
Email: chiang@lsu.edu

Education 

MSW, School of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 2003
PhD, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019

 

 

Brief Biography

Dr. Chiang’s primary interest is in improving outcomes for children who have experienced maltreatment or related adversities through intervention and policy innovation. Within this broader goal, he has a particular interest in the understanding and prevention of neglect. His work prior to the PhD program in Taiwan included assisting government agencies with trying to implement Structured Decision Making throughout their child protection system and he has worked with research teams on three early childhood intervention studies. He is committed to developing empirical evidence that can improve the welfare of children who are at risk for or have experienced child abuse and neglect. Recently, he graduated from the Brown School of Social Work in Washington Universes in St. Louis and his dissertation is centered around better understanding child neglect in terms of epidemiology, intervention, policy, and practice.

Selected Publications

Jonson-Reid, M., & Chiang, C. (2019). Problems in Understanding Program Efficacy in Child Welfare. In Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children (pp. 349-377). Springer, Cham.

Jonson-Reid, M., Chiang, C., Kohl, P., Drake, B., Brown, D., Guo, S., ... & McBride, T. (2019). Repeat reports among cases reported for child neglect: A scoping review. Child abuse & neglect, 92, 43-65.

Chiang, C., Jonson-Reid, M., Kim. H., Drake. B., Pons. L., Kohl. P., Constantino. J., & Auslander. W., (2018) Service Engagement and Retention: Lessons from the Early Childhood Connections Program Children and Youth Services Review, 88, 114-127. DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.028

Selected Presentations

Chiang, C., Chen, Y., & Jonson-Reid, M. (2018, January). An Exploratory Investigation of Applying Social Control Theory in Taiwanese Adolescents’ Delinquent Behaviors: Do Gender and Developmental Stage Matter? Oral presentation at the meeting of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work & Research Conference (SSWR), Washington D. C.

Chiang, C., & Jonson-Reid, M, (2018, January). Caregivers’ Health Concerns and the Recurrence of Child Maltreatment Reports. Oral presentation at the meeting of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work & Research Conference (SSWR), Washington D. C.

Chen, Y., & Chiang, C. (2018, January). Delinquent Behaviors Among Taiwanese Adolescents: Patterns Identification, Gender/Age Differences, and Correlation with Well-Being. Poster presentation accepted at the meeting of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work & Research Conference (SSWR), Washington D. C.

Chiang, C., Cheng, S., & Chen, Y. (2017, January). Does Bonding with a Father or Mother Matter for Adolescents? Measures on Their Delinquency Behavior. Poster presentation accepted at the meeting of the 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work & Research Conference (SSWR), New Orleans, Louisiana.

Chiang, C., Kim, H., & Jonson-Reid, M. (2017, January). Service Engagement and Retention of Participants: Lessons from the Early Childhood Connections Program. Oral presentation at the meeting of the 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work & Research Conference (SSWR), New Orleans, Louisiana.

Cheng, S., & Chiang, C., Child Maltreatment Fatalities and Neighborhood Poverty: A GIS Analysis presented at 2017, Presented in the Research Without Walls Student Research Symposium at the Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Chiang, C. Child Maltreatment and Risk Factors in the Community: A GIS Analysis presented at 2016, Presented in the Research Without Walls Student Research Symposium at the Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Awards

• Taiwan Ministry of Education Fellow, 2014-2019
• Excellence in Doctoral Research Award, 2017
• Cheng, S., & Chiang, C., Child Maltreatment Fatalities and Neighborhood Poverty: A GIS Analysis presented at 2017, Research Without Walls Student Research Symposium