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Alcohol abuse is often considered a young person's rite of passage and part of the maturing process. Indeed, the developmental periods when alcohol misuse and abuse are highest are those of adolescence and early adulthood. The focus for...
This study offers a useful step toward conceptualizing and understanding control-motivated IPV as a device to control partners within specific motivating and facilitating contexts. The research literature suggests that desire for control...
This study examines the predictive validity of the ASAM PPC-2R utilized within the state of Florida for the placement of substance abuse clients receiving treatment. Archival data collected by the Florida Department of Children and...
The presence of sexual prejudice in social work remains an ongoing issue as the literature in this substantive area documents its presence among both practicing social workers as well as social work students. Institutionalized...
The Effects of Degree Type, the Integration Process, and External Factors on Degree Completion for Mothers in College: A Comparison Study of Single Mother and Married Mother College Students
The National Center for Education Statistics reports that single mother college students are nearly three times as likely to drop out of college during their first year of study compared to single females without children. Qualitative...
Older adults with advanced metastatic lung cancer are faced with both poor prognosis and options for cancer-directed therapies very late into their disease trajectory. This trend of increasing chemotherapy close to death in older cancer...
This descriptive, nonexperimental, cross-sectional, in vivo study examined factors influencing decisions about life-sustaining treatment decisions (CPR, mechanical ventilation, tube feeding, and hemodialysis), and perceptions of the...
Assessment is the key to identification of appropriate support and intervention in family health care. Current reviews of assessment tools and practice are being utilized in health prevention and intervention programs. The family, its...
Despite the growing interest and research on sexual violence, the topic of elder sexual abuse has received minimal attention in the literature. The data used in this study are from reports of substantiated elder abuse in Wisconsin...
The Voices of African Descent Bisexual Women: Experiences Related to Identity and Disclosure in Social Support Networks and Health Care Settings in the United States and United Kingdom
The overall focus of this study is the wellbeing of African descent bisexual women (ABW), within three interrelated main areas of inquiry: social support, health care, and resources for resilience. Due to the history of the dispersal of...
Financial management literature suggests that individuals manage money entering the household in a variety of ways which may be shaped by family composition. This dissertation addresses the influences of marital status, children and...
This study examines adoptive adolescents and their relationships with their adoptive parents. The adolescents in this study were adopted from the child welfare system and therefore experienced various stressors throughout their lifetime...
Background: Individuals living in rural areas may experience challenges in accessing affordable and appropriate medical care and support, often resulting in declines in health related quality of life. This is especially true for...
Lack of health insurance is a significant public health concern in the U.S. Currently more than 45 million Americans do not have any health insurance, and many more are underinsured. Public policy approaches that seek to improve access...
The current study sought to examine inter-rater agreement between patients and their peer caregiver's assessments of patient quality of life (QoL) and to identify which caregiver service provision characteristics were associated with...
A Study of the Pre-Adoption Functioning and Post-Adoption Adjustment of Children Who Have Been Prenatally Exposed to Alcohol, Tobacco and/or Other Drugs
Despite passage of the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act, children prenatally exposed to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) continue to languish in the child welfare system, partly because of misinformation and uncertainty...
Objective: Research with children has been hindered by the lack of standardized assessment instruments that address child emotional and behavioral problems. Very few self-report instruments have been developed focusing on harmful...
Criminological and sociological theories suggest that peers play a significant role in reinforcing delinquent behavior. Numerous studies discuss the negative impact of peer influence variables. Unfortunately, little attention is provided...
This study is an examination of country level factors associated with governmental violation of the integrity of the body and security of the person, which includes arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial killing. Two instruments...
Loneliness in older adults is a problem. Loneliness negatively impacts the physical, mental and social health of an individual leading to problems including increased risk of poor health, cognitive decline, and death. As older adults...
Background and Purpose. For many individuals experiencing homelessness, formal employment is paramount to housing stability. Women represent one of the fastest growing segments of the homeless population; however, there are no recent...
An Examination of the Relationship Between Resilience and Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Social Work Students at Florida State University
Resilience has been defined to include the recovery from traumatic experiences (Block & Block, 1980, and Bonanno (2005), but this assumption had not been empirically tested until now. By using the Ego-Resiliency Scale (Klohnen, 1996), ...
Capacity to Consent to Sexual Activity Among Residents of Long-Term Mental Health Treatment Programs: Perspectives of Clients, Staff, and Administrators
People receiving residential mental health treatment are legally entitled to exercise their rights and freedoms to the extent that is safe and that does not interfere with recovery (Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990; Ford, Rosenberg, ...
Contemporary study of trauma is only a few decades old, and a framework for conceptualization and measurement of trauma in children has developed even more recently. One of the most under-studied populations of children with regard to...
Utilization and Costs of Outpatient Social Work Services Among Patients with Combat-Related Polytrauma at the James A. Haley Hospital Between 2007 and June 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine outpatient social work service utilization and associated costs among patients with combat-related polytrauma who received services at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital...
Haslam's (2003) folk psychiatry model asserts that laypersons use three modes of thought (explanatory modes) in explaining the behavior of individuals identified as having mental illness: moralizing, which attributes a reason (motive) -...
Purpose: Decision-making among child welfare professionals is complex, influencing both children and their families. Research has highlighted income and race as factors influencing decisions. However, limited research has focused on...
Psychosocial Predictors of Adherence and Long-Term Health and Medical Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Organ Transplantation: Use of Clinical Data-Mining from a Social Work Perspective
Background and Purpose: Social workers perform important roles within organ transplant services, especially in pediatrics where the parents and extended family are intimately involved. The role of social work in the area of organ...
The concept of civic-efficacy, as well as its role in post-school outcomes for high school students with disabilities is explored. Service-learning is introduced as a possible intervention for improving the civic-efficacy of high school...
ABSTRACT Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between self-reported school referrals and health behaviors among high school students in a suburban public high school with positive and negative health...
Adoption has changed dramatically in the United States. Recent federal legislation, such as the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, has opened the doorway to an unprecedented increase in the number of foster children eligible for...
Following the 2007 death of Baby Peter, the British Government commissioned an inquiry and subsequent report that recommended comprehensive reforms to social work practice and education. Successful educational reform has been linked to...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is estimated to affect over 1.3 million women a year and costs society more than $5.8 billion annually (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003). Extensive evidence indicates that men and women...
According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics (2008), The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well being and help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular...
In recent years there has been a growing interest regarding the integration of evidence-based practice into social work curricula and practice (Howard, McMillen, & Pollio, 2003; Thyer, 2004). However, there has also been a growing...
Extending the human life span has long been a desire of human beings. It seems the wish has been actualized. However, simply living a long life does not always seem to be a blessing. Older adults report a lower level of psychological...
The Trauma Resilience Scale for Children (TRS-C) was created to be a developmentally appropriate, psychometrically valid, reliable and unbiased measure of the major protective factors associated with children's resilience following...
Patient-Level Demographic and Clinical Variables Associated with Sustained Antipsychotic Polypharmacy: A Naturalistic Study of State Hospital Inpatients
In the pharmacological treatment of psychotic disorders, evidence-based treatment recommendations suggest the prescription of one antipsychotic (monotherapy) where possible. The simultaneous co-prescription of multiple antipsychotics, ...
Although abortion remains legal and available to women, access to services is limited by restrictive policies such as parental consent and notification laws, mandatory delay requirements, insurance regulations/bans, and postviability...
Over the past four decades, the rate of incarcerated for US women has increased more than 700%. Although the rate of incarceration for US men has also increased dramatically, incarcerated women differ from their male counterparts in...
Objective: Homelessness can have a deleterious impact on educational opportunities for children. The US government has enacted the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVA) to combat the challenges that children experiencing...
Often considered the greatest of losses, a parent is never prepared for the death of a child. In addition to the unimaginable loss, there are practical issues that must be addressed, such as dealing with the belongings of the child. A...
This study explored the phenomenon of occupationally related stress exposures and stress reactions in the emergency medical services. While the emergency services are nearly ubiquitous in the United States, very little exploration has...
This dissertation explored the associations between the degree of congruence between therapist and client perceptions about specific sources of power in individual therapy and the quality of the therapeutic relationship. Power bases were...
A Multi-Level, Longitudinal Study of the Strain Reducing Effects of Group Efficacy, Group Cohesion, and Leader Behaviors on Military Personnel Performing Peacekeeping Operations
The current study examined the longitudinal moderating effects of organizational social phenomenon (viz, leader behaviors, cohesion, and collective efficacy) on the relationship between stressors associated with military peacekeeping...
Obesity and associated chronic conditions are endemic among the American population with rates disproportionately high among ethnic minorities and the economically disadvantaged. If current trends continue, every adult in the United...
According to objectification theory, western culture is saturated with dominant views of heterosexuality as well as the overt sexualization of the female body. As such, women are acculturated to internalize sexually objectifying...
In this dissertation, the author proposes a definition for rights-based practice in social work as practice that sees through a human rights lens, employs human rights methods, and aims towards human rights goals. Beyond the definition, ...
Promoting physical activity is consistent with many models and perspectives on social work, such as the empowerment perspective, self-efficacy theory, resilience, the strengths perspective, good health, hardiness, and self-determination, ...
Florida Self-Directed Care (FloridaSDC) is a state-funded mental health services program for adults diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI), who rely upon public assistance to access mental health services. Self...
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