SCHOLARSHIP

Published Manuscripts

Ordorica, C., Wijaya, C., Witzig, J., Patino, V., Angelino, R., Castillo, G., Huber, H., & Rudd, B.N. (accepted). Harnessing Implementation Science to Reform Juvenile Services: A Roadmap for Change. Journal of Applied Juvenile Justice Services. 

 

Ellis, S., Witzig, J., Basaldu, D., Rudd, B.N., Gastala, N., Tabachnick, A.R., Kang, S., Henry, Tondalaya, Stackhouse, N., & Wardle, W (2025). Implementing contingency management in family medicine: A qualitative inquiry on provider and patient preferences for a low magnitude reward program compatible with buprenorphine treatment. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 20(1), 97. doi: 10.1186/s13722-025-00621-7.

 

Rudd, B.N., Ordorica, C., Witzig, J., Parker, L., Gardella, J., Pollard, A., Anjaria, N., Eom, K., Kreimer, R., & Goldstein, N. (2024). The positive school safety program (PSSP) for school officers: Implementation processes and outcomes. Psychological Injury and Law. DOI: 10.1007/s12207-024-09511-w

 

Rudd, B.N., Witzig, J., Goff., C., Potter, E., Snyder, S., Ordorica, C., & Ivankova, N (2024). A state-wide evaluation of the implementation of evidence-based suicide prevention guidelines in juvenile detention centers. Psychiatric Services. Doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.20220490

 

Huber, H., Witzig, J., Ordorica, C., Potter, E., & Rudd, B.N. (2023). Defining, determining, and distinguishing high interparental conflict and intimate partner violence in family law cases: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives. Journal of Family Violence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00616-5 

 

Under Review

Rudd, B.N., Huber Gifford, H., Ordorica, C., Witzig, J., & Granger, M. (under review). Development of a Public Health Approach to Family Law: Findings from a County-Wide Contextual Inquiry.

 

In Prep

Witzig, J., Patino, V., Angelino, R., Ordorica, C., & Rudd, B. Best Practices for Utilizing Two Qualitative Rapid Analysis Techniques to Reduce the Research-to-Practice Gap. (In prep)

 

Symposia and Paper Presentations

Rudd, B.N., Witzig, J., Huber, H., Ordorica, C., Potter, E., & Granger, M. (2023, November). Using Qualitative Approaches to Rapidly Identify Barriers to Connecting Families to Mental Health Services from Family Law Settings. Symposium at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, Washington.

 

Ordorica, C., Castillo, G., Kang, S., Witzig, J., & Rudd, B.N. (2023, November). Leveraging Leaders in Youth Legal System Reform Efforts to Identify Implementation Strategies that Improve Culture and Climate. Symposium at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, Washington.

 

Ordorica, C., Kang, S., Castillo, G., Witzig, J., & Rudd, B.N. (2023, October). Identifying Implementation Strategies that Improve the Organizational Culture and Climate of Juvenile Services. Workshop at the National Symposium on Juvenile Services, Naperville, Illinois.

 

Rudd, B.N., Ordorica, C., & Witzig, J. (2023, October). Harnessing Implementation Science to Improve the Juvenile Justice Practice. Workshop at the National Symposium on Juvenile Services, Naperville, Illinois.

 

Ordorica, C., Rudd, B.N., Witzig, J., Stern, D., Potter, E., Parker, L., Gardella, J., Pollard, A., Kreimer, R., & Goldstein, N. (2022, September). Implementation Process and Outcomes in Philadelphia of the Trauma-Informed, Positive School Safety Program for School Officers. Symposium at the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration Conference, San Diego, California.

 

Rudd, B.N., Granger, M., Huber, H., Ordorica, C., Witzig, J., & Potter, E.N. (2022, May). Using the Tools of Implementation Science to Develop a Family Law Triage Model. Workshop at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Chicago, Illinois.

 

Goff, C.N., Snyder, S., Potter, E.N., Witzig, J., Ordorica, C., & Rudd, B.N. (2021, November 18–21). Implementation and quality of suicide prevention guidelines in juvenile detention: A qualitative inquiry with juvenile detention directors. In B. N. Rudd (Chair), Protecting the most vulnerable: Suicide prevention in the justice system [Symposium]. 55th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (Virtual).

 

Sternberg, C., & Witzig, J. (2018, April). My Home Is Someone’s Workplace. Paper presented at the 2018 Beck Research Initiative Conference, Chicago, IL. 

 

Witzig, J. (2018, April). Beyond Identity: Grounding Feminist Organizing in Shared Experience. Paper presented at the 2018 Queertopia Conference, Chicago, IL. 

 

Witzig, J. (April, 2017). The “Femme Phenomenon”: (Mis)using Terminology to Locate the Genderqueer Self. Paper presented at the 2017 Northwestern Engendering Change Conference, Chicago, IL. 

 

Witzig, J. (2016, May). The Role of Gender Essentialist Rhetoric in Rape Apologism. Poster presented at the 2016 Knox College Research Symposium, Galesburg, IL. 

 

Poster Presentations

Rudd, B.N., Witzig, J., Job, G., Stern, D.H., & Frimpong, N. (2025). A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Fit of the Zero Suicide Model for Juvenile Detention. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, National Harbor, MD. 

 

Kang, S., Patino, V., Angelino, R., Witzig, J., Castillo, G., Ordorica, C., Huber, H., & Rudd, B.N. (2023, November). Comparisons of Novel and Traditional Qualitative Analytic Approaches to Identifying Implementation Determinants. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, Washington.

 

Angelino, R., Patino, V., Witzig, J., Ordorica, C., Rudd, B., (2023, October). A Guide to Using the EPIS Framework for Thematic Analysis. Poster presented at the University of Illinois’ Department of Psychiatry Research Forum.

 

Patino, V., Angelino, R., Witzig, J., Wilson, K.J., Castillo, G., Ordorica, C., Huber, H., Kang, S., & Rudd, B.N. (2022, November). Protocol and Preliminary Analyses: Comparing Two Qualitative Approaches to Identifying Implementation Determinants. Poster presentation at the University of Illinois' Department of Psychiatry Research Forum.

 

Rudd, B.N., Witzig, J., Huber., H., Ordorica, C., Potter., E., & Granger., M (2022, September). Bringing Implementation Research to Family Law through Legal-Academic Partnership: Results from a Contextual Inquiry of one County Court System. Poster presentation a the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration Conference, San Diego, California.

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Huber, H., Witzig, J., Ordorica, C., Potter, E., & Rudd, B.N. (2022, September). Family Law Stakeholder Perspectives on Conflict and Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Study to Inform Evidence Based Practice Implementation. Poster to be presented at the 6th annual Society for Implementation Research Collaboration conference, San Diego, California.

 

Huber, H.M., Potter, E.N., Ordorica, C.M., Witzig, J., Liu, L., & †Rudd, B.N. (2021, October 13). Defining and distinguishing high conflict and intimate partner violence in family law cases [Poster presentation]. 12th Annual Department of Psychiatry Research Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Virtual).

 

Stasik-O’Brien, S.M., Schmidt, J., & Witzig, J. (2015, May). Transdiagnostic Risk Factors for Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. Poster presented at the 2016 Association for Psychological Science Conference, Chicago, IL. 

 

Other Selected Publications

Witzig, J. (2024, June 20). In Defense of Survivors Who Ask Questions About Abolition. Retrieved from https://zivw9.medium.com/in-defense-of-survivors-who-ask-questions-about-abolition-032c52aa2663 

 

Witzig, J. (2023, April 24). A Nuanced View of Trauma and Queerness. Retrieved from https://zivw9.medium.com/a-nuanced-view-of-trauma-and-queerness-1714f7986113 

 

Witzig, J. (2023, April 11). The Myth of Meaningful Gender Difference in the Human Brain. Retrieved from https://zivw9.medium.com/the-myth-of-meaningful-gender-difference-in-the-human-brain-be67f3ce797a