Letha A. Chadiha

Associate Professor of Social Work

Letha A. Chadiha

Degrees

BS, 1965, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL;
MA, Anthropology, 1970, Washington State University, Pullman;
MSW, Social Work, 1985, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
PhD, Social Work and Anthropology, 1989, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

BioSketch

Associate Professor Letha Chadiha's main research interests are family relations of African Americans. With funds received for a research planning initiative from the University's Office of the Vice President for Research, Chadiha is using qualitative data collected from caregivers, elderly persons, and agency providers to plan and implement a stress and health management program for African American caregivers living in metropolitan Detroit. She was principal investigator from 1999 to 2004 for a grant received from the National Institute on Aging and the Office for Research on Women's Health that focused on the mental health, social functioning, and service use of urban and rural African American caregivers. In another study, she developed and implemented an empowerment intervention with an urban sample of African American women caregivers. Other areas of research/scholarly interest: multicultural issues, social justice, ethnic aging, social work research, marriage relations of African American and White newlyweds, the informal post-hospital home care of African American and White elderly, family caregiving of African American women to older African Americans.

Personal Information

Email

lethac@umich.edu

Mailbox

INDI

263

Location

Room:	3692 SSWB
Phone:	(734) 763-9396
Fax:	(734) 763-3372

University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Selected Publications

Ingersoll-Dayton, B., Dunkle, R. E., Chadiha, L. A., Lawrence-Jacobson, A., Li, L., Weir, E., et al. (in press). Intergenerational ambivalence: Aging mothers whose adult daughters are mentally ill. Families in Society.

Chadiha, L. A., & Brazelton, J. (2009). Aging, physical health, and work and family role changes among African American women: Strategies for conducting life course research with African American women. In J. Jackson, C. Caldwell, & S. Sellers (Eds.), Research methodology in African American communities. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Owens-Kane, S., & Chadiha, L. A. (2008). Family caregiving to older adults. In T. Mizrahi & L. Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social work. (20th ed., pp. 191-197). New York: Oxford University Press.

Rozario, P. A., Chadiha, L. A., Proctor, E. K., & Morrow-Howell, N. (2008). Predicting the influence of social resources on African American wife and daughter caregivers' depressive symptoms. Journal of Family Issues, 29(3), 317-333.

Carrasquillo, O., & Chadiha, L. A. (Eds.). (2007). Community-based participatory research to reduce health disparities among minority elders: The resource centers for minority aging research [Special issue]. Ethnicity and Disease, 17(Suppl. 1).

Carrasquillo, O., & Chadiha, L. A. (2007). Development of community-based partnerships in minority aging research [Special supplement]. Ethnicity and Disease, 17(Supp. 1), 3-5.

Chadiha, L. A., Brown, E., & Aranda, M. (2006). Older African Americans and other Black populations. In B. Berkman & S. D'Ambruoso (Eds.), The handbook of social work in health and aging. (pp. 247-256). New York: Oxford University Press.

Chadiha, L. A. (2006). Overview: Cultural diversity and social work with older adults. In B. Berkman & S. D'Ambruoso (Eds.), The handbook of social work in health and aging (pp. 245-246). New York: Oxford University Press.

Chadiha, L. A., Miller-Cribbs, J. E., Rafferty, J., Adams, P., Pierce, R., & Kommidi, S. (2005). Urban and rural African American female caregivers' family reunion participation. In R. K. Caputo (Ed.), Challenges of aging on U.S. families: Policy and practice implications (pp. 129-146). New York: Haworth Press.

Li, H., Chadiha, L. A., & Morrow-Howell, N. (2005). Association between unmet needs for community services and caregiving strain. Families in Society, 86(1), 55-62.