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Dean and Professor
  
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  Ph.D., Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis
  Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis
  M.A. in Political Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis
  MSW, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis
  B.S. in Social Welfare, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
UGA SSW Faculty Page
HPOG University Partnership Grant 2.0 (2016-2020)​: LUC Media Coverage HPOG University Partnership Grant 1.0 (2011-2016)
  1. Mutually Beneficial Partnerships: Lessons from Two Research/Practice Partnership Projects
  2. HPOG Partnership I: Building Pathways to a Brighter Future (Hope, Barriers, & Empowerment)
  3. HPOG Partnership II: Building Pathways to a Brighter Future (Hope - Barriers = Psychological Self-Sufficiency)
​​Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP)®
  • Evidence-informed intervention model that addresses the psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) process in workforce development.
  • PSS comprises perceived employment barriers and employment hope. They can be measured by the Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS) and the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) (see below for related publications).
  • PSS is conceptualized as a psychological capital that serves as the core skill set necessary to develop and glue together the mosaic of all human and social capital.
  • TIP program is an evidence-informed intervention model developed by Dr. Philip Hong at Loyola University Chicago based on his research findings on PSS. Its transformative leadership development curriculum empowers the participants to develop self-awareness, confidence, hope, goal-orientation, leadership, accountability, conscientiousness, and grit, it is anticipated that it improves both employment and retention outcomes. TIP program is made up of transformative 15-session employment readiness modules designed to assist low-income job seekers transition from long-term unemployment—due to welfare receipt, homelessness, substance abuse, mental health issues, prison sentencing, etc.—to employment.​
Selected Publications:
    Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) Intervention
  1. Hong, P.Y.P., Kim, S. H., Marley, J., & Park, J. H. (2021). Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for SUD recovery: A promising practice innovation to combat the opioid crisis. Social Work in Health Care, 60, 509-528.
  2. Hong, P.Y.P., Lewis, D., Park, J.H., Hong, R., & Davies, E. (2021). Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for fatherhood: An empowerment-based social work intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, 31, 826-835.
  3. Hong, P.Y.P., Choi, S., & Hong, R. (2020). A randomized controlled trial study of the Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) policy experiment in South Korea. Research on Social Work Practice, 30, 587-596. 
  4. Hong, R. & Hong, P.Y.P. (2019). Neurobiological core content in the research-supported Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) program model. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 16, 497-510.
  5. Choi, S., Hong, P.Y.P., & Kim, H. (2017). Development and evaluation of Psychological Self-Sufficiency Program in Korea: A demonstration project at the Gyonggi Regional Centers.  Journal of Korean Social Welfare Administration, 19, 179-199 [In Korean].
  6. Hong, P. Y. P. (2016). Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP): A bottom-up practice in workforce development for low-income jobseekers. Environment and Social Psychology, 1, 93-104. [ecommons]

    Psychological Self-Sufficiency
  1. Hong, P.Y.P. (2021). Health psychological self-sufficiency (Health-PSS): A social development approach to health equity. Social Development Issues, 43, 57-84.
  2. Hong, P.Y.P., Gumz, E., Choi, S., Crawley, B., & Cho, J. (2021). Centering on structural and individual employment barriers for social and human development. Social Development Issues, 43, 29-53.
  3. Hong, P.Y.P., Hong, R., Choi, S., & Hodge, D.R. (2021). Examining psychological self-sufficiency among low-income jobseekers with mental health barriers. Community Mental Health Journal, 57, 178-188.
  4. Hong, P.Y.P., Hong, R., Lewis, D., Swanson, M.V., & Smith, M.A. (2021). Hope is greater than barriers: Creating a pathway of hope for low-income families in moving out of poverty. Journal of Poverty, 25, 409-425.
  5. Hong, P.Y.P., Hong, R. & Choi, S. (2020). Validation of the Employment Hope Scale among summer youth employment program participants.  Children and Youth Services Review, 111.
  6. Hong, P.Y.P., Kim, C., Hong, R., Park, J.H., & Lewis, D. (2020). Examining psychological self-sufficiency among African-American low-income jobseekers in a health profession career pathway program. Social Work in Health Care, 59, 139-160.
  7. Lewis, D. & Hong, P.Y.P. (2020). Incapacitated fatherhood: The impact of incarceration on black father identity. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, 8, 329-348. 
  8. Hong, P.Y.P., Hong, R., Lewis, D., & Williams, D. (2020). Pathway of employment from uncovering barriers to discovering hope: Non-traditional, student-centered, relationship-based approach. Families in Society, 101, 395-408. 
  9. Hong, R., Northcut, T., Spira, M., & Hong, P.Y.P. (2019). Facilitating transformation in workforce training: Utilizing clinical theory to understand psychological self-sufficiency. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 89, 66-82.
  10. Hodge, D., Hong, P.Y.P., & Choi, S., (2019). Spirituality, employment hope, and grit: modeling the relationship among underemployed urban African Americans. Social Work Research, 43, 43-52.
  11. Hong, P.Y.P., Choi, S., & Key, W. (2018). Psychological self-sufficiency: A bottom-up theory of change in workforce development.  Social Work Research, 42, 22-32.
  12. Hong, P. Y. P., Stokar, H. & Choi, S. (2016). Psychological and economic self-sufficiency among low-income jobseekers with physical disability barriers. Environment and Social Psychology, 1, 63–73. [ecommons]
  13. Hong, P.Y.P., Hodge, D., & Choi, S. (2015). Spirituality, hope, and self-sufficiency among low-income job seekers. Social Work, 60, 155-164.
  14. Hong, P.Y.P. (2014).  Employment hope: A path to empowering disconnected workers.  In E.J. Clark & E.F. Hoffler (Eds.), Hope matters: The power of social work (pp.143-148). Washington, D.C.: NASW Press.
  15. Hong, P.Y.P., Polanin, J.R., Key, W., & Choi, S. (2014). Development of the Perceived Employment Barrier Scale (PEBS): Measuring psychological self-sufficiency. Journal of Community Psychology, 42, 689-706.
  16. Hong, P.Y.P., Lewis, D., & Choi, S. (2014). Employment hope as an empowerment pathway to self-sufficiency among ex-offenders. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 53, 317-333.
  17. Hong, P.Y.P., Choi, S., & Polanin, J.R. (2014). A multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis of the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14).  Journal of Social Service Research, 40, 339-352.
  18. Hong, P.Y.P. (2013). Toward a client-centered benchmark for self-sufficiency: Evaluating the ‘process’ of becoming job ready. Journal of Community Practice, 21, 356–378 [ecommons].
  19. Hong, P.Y.P. & Choi, S. (2013). The employment hope scale: Measuring an empowerment pathway to employment success. International Journal of Psychology Research, 8, 173-189.  [ecommons].
  20. Hong, P.Y.P., Polanin, J.R., & Pigott, T.D. (2012). Validation of the employment hope scale: Measuring psychological self-sufficiency among low-income jobseekers. Research on Social Work Practice, 22, 323-332 [ecommons] [Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse].
  21. Harvey, V., Hong, P.Y.P., & Kwaza, K. (2010). Shared reflections: The challenges of client empowerment in workforce development. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 16, 70-78.
  22. Hong, P.Y.P., Sheriff, A., & Naeger, S. (2009). A bottom-up definition of self-sufficiency: Voices from low-income jobseekers. Qualitative Social Work, 8, 357-376 [ecommons].
    Poverty and Social Exclusion
  1. Key, W., Park, J.H., & Hong, P.Y.P. (2020). The significance of grit from social support and health determinants. Social Work & Social Sciences Review, 20, 47-62.
  2. Wesley, B.C., Pryce, J., Barry, J., & Hong, P.Y.P. (2020). Steadfast benevolence: A new framework for understanding important adult-youth relationships for adolescents in care. Children and Youth Services Review, 118. 
  3. Hodge, D. R., Zidan, T., Husain, A., & Hong, P.Y.P. (2016). Correlates of self-rated health among Muslims in the United States. Families in Society, 96, 284-291. 
  4. Lee, Y., Hong, P.Y.P., & Harm, Y. (2014). Poverty among Korean immigrant older adults: Examining the effects of SAsocial exclusion.  Journal of Social Service Research, 40, 385-401.
  5. Kim, C., Hong, P.Y.P., Treering, D., & Sim, K. (2012). The changing map of characteristics and service needs among Korean American immigrants in Chicago: A GIS-based exploratory study.  Journal of Poverty, 16, 48-71.
  6. Boddie, S.C., Hong, P.Y.P., & Im, H. (2011). Korean-American churches as partners in community development.  Journal of Social Work and Christianity, 38, 395-416.
  7. Tyuse, S., Hong, P.Y.P., & Stretch, J. (2010). Evaluation of an intensive in-home family treatment (IFT) program to prevent out-of-home placement.  Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 7, 200-218.  
  8. Hong, P.Y.P. (2008). Glocalizing structural poverty: Reclaiming hope for children and families. Illinois Child Welfare, 4, 23–38.
  9. Hong, P.Y.P. & Pandey, S. (2008). Differential effects of human capital on the poor and the near poor: Evidence of social exclusion. Journal of Poverty, 12, 456–480.
  10. Hong, P.Y.P. & Wernet, S.P. (2007). Structural reinterpretation of poverty by examining working poverty: Implications for community and policy practice.Families in Society, 88, 361-373.
  11. Hong, P.Y.P. & Pandey, S. (2007). Human capital as structural vulnerability of U.S. poverty. Equal Opportunities International, 26, 18-43.
    Comparative Social Welfare / International Social Work
  1. Kim, Y.K., Jun, J.Y., Song, I.H., & Hong, P.Y.P. (2021). Factors associated with employment hope among North Korean defectors in South Korea. International Migration, 59, 180-196. 
  2. Hong, P.Y.P., Song, I., Choi, S., & Park, J.H. (2018). Comparison of perceived employment barriers among low-income jobseekers in the United States and South Korea. International Social Work, 61, 23-39.
  3. Hong, P.Y.P., Song, I., Choi, S., & Park, J.H. (2016). A cross-national validation of the Employment Hope Scale in the U.S. and South Korea. Social Work Research, 40, 41-51.
  4. Hong, P.Y.P. & Song, I. (2010). Glocalization of social work practice: Global and local responses to globalization. International Social Work, 53, 656-670.
  5. Hong, P.Y.P., Singh, S., & Ramic, J. (2009). Impoverishment effects of development projects on involuntarily displaced populations. Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 25, 221-238.
  6. Hong, P.Y.P. (2008). Reunification of Korea: A social development approach to resolving the Korean conflict. Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 24, 65-81.
  7. Hong, P.Y.P. (2006). A cross-national comparison of welfare effort in an age of welfare state retrenchment. Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 22, 125-142.  
    Social Work Education
  1. Kilbane, T., Pryce, J., & Hong, P.Y.P. (2014). A case-based collaborative learning model for teaching advocacy.  Social Work Education, 33, 1054-1069.
  2. Kilbane, T., Pryce, J., & Hong, P.Y.P. (2013). Advocacy Week: A model to prepare clinical social workers for lobby day. Journal of Social Work Education, 49, 173–179.
  3. Hong, P.Y.P. & Hodge, D. (2009). Understanding social justice in social work: A content analysis of course syllabi. Families in Society, 90, 212-219.