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Patterns of Adolescent and Young Adult Sexual Behavior: Predictors & Consequences
While risky sexual behavior can lead to negative consequences such as sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy, sexual behavior also is a healthy part of human development. By understanding the social and ... -
Period Changes in Intergenerational Income Mobility between Welfare State Contexts in South Korea and the United States
Social mobility has stalled or declined in most advanced welfare states in an era of rising inequality, implying that socioeconomic disadvantages persist across generations and questioning the permeable class structure ... -
Photovoice: Illuminating the Impact of Inclusive Education Practices in United States Public Schools
This study explores the impacts of inclusive education practices in United States public schools from the perspective of students who receive these services. Majority of the literature on inclusive education practices is ... -
Poverty and child well-being in foster care: Exploring family stress and adolescent behavior in Washington State
Poverty defines the lives of most families in the child welfare system. Children are more likely to be removed from poorer families. In the Family Stress Model, economic stress influences child well-being in biological ... -
Predicting positive youth development outcomes using the social development model
(2000)Many researchers and practitioners in the prevention field have been advocating for a shift in focus from programs designed solely to reduce problem behaviors toward programs that focus upon enhancing youth competency and ... -
Premature termination in day treatment: a comparative study of the outcome of chronic mental patients who drop out
(1983)A study was conducted to describe the outcome of chronic mental patients who terminated prematurely from a V.A. Day Treatment Program. Forty-one Day Treatment Program (DTP) clients were categorized as either program ... -
Professionalization and social justice in social work: discourses in conflict
(2001)This dissertation seeks to explore the proposition that social work's professional discourse of social justice is an instrument of social injustice. The purpose of the dissertation is (1) to illuminate "how" social work's ... -
Psychiatric diagnoses in nonbinary compared to binary transgender adults: a retrospective analysis of medical records at an urban health system
Transgender and Non-Binary (TGNB) people across the lifespan have increased risk of mood and anxiety disorders compared to cisgender (non-transgender) people; previous research has typically grouped non-binary and binary ... -
Recreation and trauma: An exploratory study of how specialized recreation organizations address the needs of their unique clientele
This study investigates how recreation organizations impact people who have experienced traumatic events by understanding how these organizations create curriculum and determine success. This exploratory research used ... -
Refugee-driven and policy-driven resettlement: Examining resettlement geographies and service provision of Refugee Community Organizations
Refugee resettlement policy forwards its goal of socioeconomic integration through appropriate geographic placement and service provision. However, refugees and their communities, naturally, very much also determine their ... -
Relative Stability? Examining the Role of Placement with Relatives and Race/Ethnicity in Predicting Foster Care Placement Stability
Scholarship on child welfare has found placement instability to be a major risk for foster youths’ later development and well-being. However, there have been mixed findings regarding the effect of placement type (relative ... -
Risk, Resilience, and Characteristics of Fatal or Near-Fatal Intimate Partner Violence with Native Americans
Native American people are at a higher risk of experiencing lifetime violence and are twice as likely to be murdered than non-Native American individuals. This project analyzed data from medical examiner reports in Pima, ... -
School Mobility for Children in Out-of-Home Placement: Incidence, Educational Outcomes, and Tools for Mitigation
Elevated school mobility (SM) for students in foster care (i.e. out-of-home placement (OHP)) is something that has been previously noted in non-peer-reviewed literature. At some level, this trend is precisely what would ... -
Second Languages and Second-Guessing: Mental Health Providers Working in Arabic as Their Second Language
This qualitative study is focused on understanding the experiences of mental health providers in the United States who speak Arabic as a second language and work professionally in that language. We examine how mental health ... -
Sexual assault and secondary trauma experiences within the Evangelical church: A qualitative study
The beliefs and actions of the Evangelical church are particularly relevant in the midst of our current social and political landscape. This is especially true regarding beliefs around sexuality, gender, and teachings or ... -
Sexual Assault Response Teams: Exploring the discursive negotiation of power, conflict, and legitimacy in multi-professional service delivery models
(2012-09-13)To improve services for sexual assault victims, many communities have adopted coordinated models of service delivery, often called Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs). Uniting law enforcement officers, rape crisis ... -
Social Media and Youth Sociopolitical Development: Using YPAR to examine and address key tensions, conflicts and contradictions
Sociopolitical development (SPD) is an emerging set of theories for the process by which youth develop knowledge, skills, and capacity for critical social and political action. Adolescence is an important time for SPD; and ... -
Social Policy Contexts, Family Well-being, and Gender Equality from a Comparative Perspective
My dissertation focuses on the question of how family policies and market institutions matter to individual life chances and outcomes, in particular poverty and gender equality. Among a set of multiple and heterogeneous ... -
Social services in rural Alaska: an ethnography of service provision in a Yupʾik Eskimo community
(2003)This dissertation is an ethnography of the lived experience of contemporary social work in a Yup'ik (Eskimo) village. Despite efforts to increase "cultural competence," there has been little systematic investigation of the ... -
Social Support and Mental Health Service Utilization among Immigrants in the United States
Immigrants face unique challenges that reflect their exit circumstances, the migration process, and the context of reception in the United States. Stressors stemming from immigration may exacerbate underlying health or ...