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Research on adolescent substance abuse treatment effectiveness has grown in quantity, as evidenced by several review articles (Deas & Thomas, 2001; Muck, Zempolich, Titus, Fishman, Godley, & Schwebel, 2001; Williams & Chang, 2000). The...
In this paper, I attempt to identify the factors that lead some post-foster youth to successfully enter college. I decided to conduct this research in an effort to understand how to create educational equality for post-foster youth, who...
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 examines the relationship between childhood victimization and self- reported current symptoms of psychosis in an incarcerated female population in the United States. Participants are 159 randomly selected women incarcerated in...
Adolescents, and especially male adolescents, make up a disproportionately smaller portion of maltreatment reports compared to younger children. This study used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to better...
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...
This article explores the association between employment and recidivism for parolees released from Texas prisons. Along with determining whether obtaining employment on release from prison is associated with decreased odds of...
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...
This study investigated the effectiveness of providing a Gottman-based group therapy using art-based interventions to adjudicated male adolescents ages 14-18. The group provided structured interventions based on Gottman's Sound...
Background. In recent years, the veracity of scientific findings has come under intense scrutiny in what has been called the “replication crisis” (sometimes called the “reproducibility crisis” or “crisis of confidence”). This crisis is...
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...
Women entering prison report high rates of childhood victimization. Women in prison also report higher rates of nonfatal suicidal behavior (self-reported suicide attempts) than women in the general population and similar rates to their...
This study explored the extent to which differences in social capital among family structures predicted academic improvement in young children using data from the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, (ECLS)...
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...
This study examined those early literacy skills and their relation to parent involvement. Two groups were chosen for the study, an intervention group and a comparison group. The intervention group, composed of three child care centers, ...
This project is focused on improving Environmental Education in Tallahassee, specifically in regards to the Food and Agriculture System. This paper draws on research about environmental education practices as well as issues within the...
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...
Child welfare policies and practices are changing to allow more youth to remain in care beyond age 18. Yet, the majority of youth do not stay. Given recent evidence suggesting that remaining in care may be beneficial, there is a need to...
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 purpose of this study was to examine 9-13 year old children's reasons and motivations for participation in physical activity. Child's activity level, age, gender, race, parental education level, and perceived child weight were...
The present study sought to better understand the influence of personality disorders and impulsivity on women's ability to adapt to incarceration. We analyzed the influence of personality disorders as screened with the Structured...
Objective: This meta-analytic review assesses the effectiveness of substance abuse interventions to reduce adolescent cannabis use. Method: A systematic search identified 15 randomized controlled evaluations of interventions to reduce...
In the U.S., the education of children living in poverty has a history riddled with confounding challenges many of which are linked to a lack of fundamental resources and supports not only in the home but also in schools and within the...
Using family stress theory, the influences of parenting daily hassles, family coping, sibling warmth, parenting stress, and sense of coherence were examined for their predictive qualities in determining quality of life for mothers of...
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...
The prevalence of suicide suggests social workers will encounter clients at risk for suicide, but research shows social workers receive little to no training on suicide and suicide prevention and feel unprepared to work effectively 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...
This research study sought to understand parents? use of intuition in their parenting and how its use affects their sense of competence as a parent. Systems Theory and Phenomenology provided the foundation for this study. Metaphors were...
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...
Past research indicates that the quantity and quality of resources available for immigrants in a destination city have serious implications for an immigrant's overall success. Previous research though, has failed to look at resources for...
Edicts within the Council on Social Work Education's 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards address the importance of understanding the intersection of personal and professional values. Twenty MSW students, chosen on the...
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...
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...
Postpartum psychosis (PPP) is a serious mental health issue associated with maternal suicide and infanticide. Although a growing research base suggests that childhood abuse is predictive of psychosis, bipolar disorder, and postpartum...
This article describes a federally funded pilot program designed to connect low-income families at supervised visitation (SV) programs to other community resources to improve their economic well-being. The pilot program established...
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...
There are currently over 500, 000 children in foster care in the United States. Foster care places them at a high risk for immediate and long term psycho-social-educational problems. In an effort to prevent some of the immediate behavior...
In a unique prevention project in a large US state, researchers explored how alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates influence rates of self-reported domestic violence committed by law enforcement officers. Survey...
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