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Caregiver coping with dementia: relationships among patient characteristics, caregiver coping styles, and consequences of caregiving
(1990)Although little is known about how the changes that accompany Alzheimer's disease (DAT) affect caregiver coping, depression, and burden, interventions focused on improving caregiver coping with DAT are strategies widely ... -
Cognitive factors in sexually aggressive children
(1996)This project explored a Social Cognitive Model applied to 6-12 year old male sexually aggressive children in Washington state care. The 37 sexually aggressive children's results on cognitive measures (Children's Knowledge ... -
Community borderlands: Exploring liminal and contradictory experiences of belonging and wellbeing
(2013-02-25)Community borderlands are spaces that are shifting, polyvocal, and multidimensional; they embody, transform, and resist systems and cultures of oppression, impacting the material realities and lived lives of their occupants ... -
Diasporic intersectionalities: Exploring South Asian women's narratives of race, ethnicity, and gender through a community-based performance project
(2013-02-25)Although South Asians constitute one of the largest, fastest growing Asian groups in the country, there is a paucity of U.S.-based social work literature about this community. Further, professional social work organizations ... -
An examination of neighborhood context and risk for youth violence
(1998)Analyses combined measures from the 1990 census for Seattle with data from the Seattle Social Development Project (SSDP), a developmental longitudinal study of health-risk behaviors among urban youths. In the first set of ... -
Identifying risk factors for homelessness among people living with HIV disease
(1996)As the HIV virus spreads into America's most economically vulnerable communities, the US faces a low-cost housing shortage that leaves more than 40% of all poor people unable to find affordable housing. It is estimated ... -
Immigrant cultural citizenship: construction of a multi-ethnic Asian American community
(2006)This dissertation examines the role of cultural citizenship in the construction of immigrant community identity. Immigrant cultural citizenship is the process by which immigrant individuals create a legitimized social space ... -
A Life Course Perspective on the Social Determinants of Multiracial American Health
(2013-02-25)Few studies provide data on the health of self-identified multiracial (two or more races) Americans. Subsequently, we know little about this population and existing health disparities. Three areas relevant to multiracial ... -
Political violence, health and resilience
(2013-02-25)In recent decades, there has been an expanded effort to examine the adverse effects of political violence on the health of civilian populations; substantial evidence now points to the effects of political violence on ... -
Residents in long-term care: a case-controlled study of individuals in nursing homes and assisted living in Washington State
(1996)The major purpose of this study was to determine some of the differences in selected variables of cost and quality of life between 86 individuals 65 years old or older, matched on a scale of functional ability, living in ... -
Risk and protective factors of problem behaviors among ethnic minority adolescents
(2001)A significant proportion of youth in the United States experience problem behaviors such as interpersonal violence, delinquency, substance use, and risky sexual behavior. These problem behaviors are highly and positively ... -
The Role of Institutions in the Transition to Adulthood and Their Impact on Pathways to Adulthood and Adult Criminal Outcomes
(2013-02-25)In today's social and economic context in the U.S., many individuals experience an extended transition to adulthood period during which they are able to delay adopting adult social roles and responsibilities, such as ... -
Same-Sex Partnerships and the Health of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Older Adults
(2013-02-25)While extensive research has examined associations between marriage, cohabitation and the health of heterosexual adults, it remains unclear whether similar patterns of health are associated with the same-sex partnerships ... -
A State Mental Health Division Office of Consumer Affairs program evaluation: stakeholder views, efficacy and desired directions
(1996)This dissertation presents the results of a comprehensive stakeholder survey regarding a consumer staffed, State Mental Health Division (MHD) Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA). Part of a larger comprehensive 3 year program ... -
Trauma and healing: the construction of meaning among survivors of the Cambodian holocaust
(1996)The purpose of this study was to examine Cambodian Holocaust survivors' experiences of trauma, suffering and adaptation, and to explore what part these personal constructions based on experience played in their healing. ... -
Untold stories: an interpretive study of older women sexually abused as children
(1996)Although nearly five million women over age 55 are estimated to have been sexually abused as children, little is known of their experience. This interpretive study attempts to understand the effects of child sexual abuse ... -
Wher is "home?" Interpretating Horn of Africa youth discourse and the politics of "displaced youth"
(2013-02-25)This dissertation is a discursive inquiry into the language Horn of Africa (HOA) youth use as they talk about their experiences. Study participants are 1.5 and second generation HOA youth, mainly from Eritrea, Ethiopia, ...