|
 Dr. Linner Ward Griffin is the Associate Vice
Chancellor for Academic Affairs at East Carolina University (ECU),
where her primary responsibilities lie in the area of Academic
Programs. Dr. Griffin also has served the university as the Director of
the School of Communication in the College of Fine Arts and
Communication and as the Dean of the School of Social Work and Criminal
Justice Studies. She is the Associate Director for Educational Programs
in the Center on Aging at ECU. As such, she is the academic advisor for
students from various academic units in the university who pursue the
Graduate Certificate in Gerontology or choose the undergraduate minor
in gerontology. She developed and/or has taught introductory courses in
gerontology, perspectives on death and dying, group counseling for the
aged, and readings classes in gerontology. Dr. Griffin's gerontological
research and publications are in the areas of elder abuse/elder
maltreatment and adult protective services. She also has conducted
research studies and is published in the area of organ transplantation.
A professor in the School of Social Work in the
College of Human Ecology , Dr. Griffin has more than twenty years'
experience in social work practice with individuals, families, and
groups in health, mental health, and geriatric settings. She has
presented training about elder abuse/elder maltreatment among African
Americans and about adult protective services in Korea , Japan , and
Puerto Rico, and in 43 of the 50 states in the United States . She is a
member of the Steering Committee of the Institute on Domestic Violence
in the African American Community, which is located at the University
of Minnesota.
Dr. Griffin is a member of statewide task forces on
aging service programming rural interdisciplinary health care, mental
health planning, and public health service delivery in North Carolina .
She is a founding member of the UNC Institute on Aging, the North
Carolina Gerontology Consortium, and also serves on several statewide
inter-university planning boards.
Dr. Griffin received her BA from the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro and her MSW from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill . She earned her doctorate from the University
of Houston.
Several of her most recent publications include:
| Bunch, S.G., Eastman, B.J. & Griffin,
L.W. (In Press) Examining the Perceptions of Grandparents Who Parent in
Formal and Kinship Care. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social
Environment, 15 (4). |
| Williams, O.J., Griffin , L.W., Davis , Y., and
Bennett, L. (2006). Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse, and Child Welfare: A
Need for Collaborative Culturally Competent Service Delivery. In R. McRoy (Ed.)
Child Survivors of Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse. Washington , DC : NASW
Press. |
| Griffin , L.W. (1999). Elder Maltreatment in the
African American Community: You Just Don't Hit Your Momma!!!. In T. Tatara (Ed.)
Understanding Elder Abuse in Minority Populations , (pp. 27-48). Philadelphia ,
PA : Taylor and Francis, Inc. |
| Griffin , L.W. (1999). Understanding Elder Abuse.
In R.L. Hampton (Ed.) Family Violence, 2 nd Ed ., (pp. 260-287). Thousand Oaks ,
CA : Sage. |
| Griffin , L.W. & Wilson, K. (1999). Rural Elders'
Perceptions of Poverty. Journal of Gerontological Social Work , 26, (1), 28-40. |
| Griffin , L.W., Williams, O.J., Reed, J.G. (1998).
Abuse of African American Elders. In R.K. Bergen (Ed.) Issues of Intimate
Violence , (pp. 267-284). |
| Mitchell, J., Matthews, H. & Griffin, L.W. (1997).
Health and Community-Based Service: Differences between elderly African
Americans and Whites. Research on Aging , 19 (2), 199-211. |
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