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Developing and validating a behavioral framework for dementia care partners' fall risk management
Older adults living with dementia (OLWD) experience nearly two to ten times higher fall risk than older adults without dementia. Despite this, evidence is limited concerning effective fall management strategies for them. ... -
Disability Discourse: How and when do parents talk to their children about autism?
Autistic adults live vibrant lives, yet face numerous social inequities. The negative social construction of autism likely leads to this discrimination. Positive identity development may be a protective factor for people ... -
Discourses of Bisexuality among Older Women
Purpose: Older bisexual women report differences in experiences over the life course as well as significant health disparities compared to heterosexual, lesbian, and gay counterparts. In-depth qualitative analyses are ... -
"Doctor-Prescribed and Mother-Encouraged": Interpersonal Interactions and Body Image Concerns in Higher-Weight Clients with Eating Disorders
Restrictive Eating Disorders (EDs) have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness. Among restrictive EDs, individuals can present across the weight spectrum, however those with low body weight have traditionally ... -
Effects of Childhood Adversities on Positive Adult Functioning across Racial Groups, and Examination of School Bonding as a Moderator
(2013-11-14)University of Washington Abstract Effects of Childhood Adversities on Positive Adult Functioning across Racial Groups, and Examination of School Bonding as a Moderator Ebasa Belina Sarka Chair of the Supervisory Committee: ... -
Emergent Strategies for Urgent Times: A Critical Autoethnographic Inquiry into Embodiment, Decolonization and Transformative Social Change
Staged against the backdrop of our ecological crises, this autoethnographic inquiry is, at its core, a journey of awakening. Challenging the normative divisions between knowledge-production and wisdom-generating processes ... -
Ethical Decision Making Among Social Work Students
(2012-09-13)ABSTRACT: While much literature exists on processes of social workers' ethical decision making, the literature lacks consideration of whether social workers or social work students are consistent with their ethical decisions ... -
Evaluating a Racial Equity Curriculum for Anti-Racist Organizational Change
This thesis will report on a training that used the Dismantling Racism Workbook (Brown et al., 2016) curriculum to achieve positive organizational change for racial equity in a college setting. The research question for ... -
Evaluation of an intervention for incarcerated veterans: Alternatives to Violence Project
This study examines the effects on incarcerated veterans who participate in an Alternatives to Violence Project workshop, a group-based intervention that imparts communication, teamwork, and conflict resolution skills. The ... -
Examining the Asian Gender Pay Gap in the United States: A Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition
Asians in the United States have been overlooked in issues of pay inequality and discrimination because they are often portrayed as achieving high levels of education and economic success. Although they currently have the ... -
Examining the role of place-based interventions in supporting military families: A qualitative study of family-centered therapeutic landscapes
United States military families, including active duty, Reserve and National Guard, and veteran families, continue to face challenges and risks to psycho-social health and well-being. Deployments are ongoing and represent ... -
Examining Trans Qualities of Life and Knowledge
As the social and policy landscape in the United States continues to shift, more and more trans individuals are gaining access to institutional spaces (such as healthcare systems and academia) as not only service users ... -
Experiences of Healthcare Providers of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Foster Youth
As a disproportionately overrepresented group in public child welfare, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) foster youth have unique health disparities and needs related to their marginalized identities. This ... -
Exploring Perspectives on Injured Trauma Survivor Peer Interventions at a Level I Trauma Center using Rapid Assessment Procedures
Injured trauma survivors’ perspectives on a peer-integrated intervention following traumatic injury have not been well studied. This investigation built upon and extended Rapid Assessment Procedure Informed Clinical ... -
Follow-up Difficulty and Retention: Evaluating Potential Attrition Bias in a Longitudinal Substance Abuse Treatment Study
BACKGROUND: Participant attrition threatens validity in longitudinal research. Non-random attrition creates "attrition bias," that could compromise result generalizability. This study explores the impact of attrition on a ... -
Foreclosure Counseling with Latino Households: Policy Assumptions in a Changing Demographic Landscape
Social work practice and scholarship was historically rooted in the development and analysis of policy (Rodriguez, Ostrow, & Kemp, 2016). Yet, little work has extended our knowledge base on the factors surrounding the ... -
Globally identified gaps and recommendations for assessing risk and severity of intrusive thoughts amongst postpartum women in outpatient settings: A systematic review
Background: Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are generally underdiagnosed, often due to the lack of specific maternal mental health training among non-specialty providers. There is little consensus regarding ... -
“How they look at it is not how I lived it”: How Research, Policy, and Practice Regarding Family Court Child Custody Decision-making Erase Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence
Approximately 10-15% of separating families have contested child custody arrangements that require dispute resolution (mediation and/or litigation) with 40-80% of those cases involving intimate partner violence (IPV) ... -
“I Use Because I'm in Pain”: Perspectives on Harm Reduction Services and Unmet Needs Among People Who Use Fentanyl
BackgroundDespite King County pledging over $10 million to harm reduction measures in 2021, overdose deaths in the area have steadily risen with increasing rates predominantly caused by an increase in use of illicit fentanyl, ... -
"I'm afraid I won't make it to 19": Longitudinal Development and Impact of Future Orientation on Health Risk Behaviors among African American and Latino Young Men
How young people conceptualize and cognitively represent their futures- as full of positive potential or constraints and negative possibilities--bears influence on their developmental trajectories. Future orientation is ...