Social work - Seattle: Recent submissions
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“Wherever I Go, I Have It Inside of Me”: Indigenous Cultural Dance as a Transformative Place of Health and Prevention for Members of an Urban Danza Mexica Community
(2019)Background and Purpose: In 2012 the U.S. Census Bureau used “Mexican American Indian” (MAI) as a new category to describe people with ancestry from Indigenous groups of Mexico. This census category comprises the fourth ... -
The Relationship between Racism-Related Stress and Binge Eating among Black Female Students in Graduate and Professional Programs of Study: Examining the Role of Depression as a Mediator
Anti-Black racism is a social toxin that not only violently affects people’s individual and collective access to resources, but significantly impacts the quality of life of those who are targeted, including the onset and ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Population-Based Study of Child Maltreatment-Related Hospitalizations and Child Protection Responses
Despite the breadth of the identified impacts and costs of child maltreatment, a primary challenge in our understanding of child maltreatment is that we still do not have solid numbers of children who experience it. Further, ... -
Micro, Mezzo & Macro Levels of Implementation: An Examination of Minnesota’s Cultural and Ethnic Minority Infrastructure Grant Program
Using Minnesota’s Cultural and Ethnic Minority Infrastructure Grant (CEMIG) program as a case study, this dissertation, using a multi-paper format, analyzes how race, ethnicity, and culture interact with large-scale, ... -
On the Cusp: Pathways to Employment, Education, and Disability in First-Episode Psychosis (FEP)
Poverty is a persistent problem in serious mental illness (SMI) with adult unemployment rates consistently hovering around 80%. A psychiatric paradigm shift toward early intervention for first-episode psychosis (FEP) has ... -
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 ... -
The (Inter)Professional Identity of Hospital Social Workers: Integration and Operationalization of Profession-Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Values with Boundary-Spanning Competencies
Purpose: This dissertation examines the professional identity narratives of hospital social workers in a way that is conceptually grounded and relevant to efforts to engage with interprofessional collaborative practice. ... -
Assessing the Impact of Community-Based Universal Prevention on Adolescent Gang Association: An Examination of the Effects of Communities That Care
Despite the severe consequences of adolescent gang involvement, both for youth and their communities, little is known about how to effectively prevent it. Communities That Care (CTC), a community-based universal prevention ... -
“Whoever I Find Myself To Be”: Past, Present, and Future Selves of Bisexual Emerging Adult Men and Trans Masculine Individuals
The Institute of Medicine (2011) has recognized LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) adults as an understudied and underserved population at-risk of poor physical and mental health outcomes, such as high rates ... -
Understanding Race Differences in Academic Outcomes, School Climate and Social Emotional Learning to Promote Racial Equity and Policy Reform
This dissertation investigated relationships between school climate, social emotional learning (SEL) and racial equity in academic outcomes to understand the role that school climate and SEL can play in the promotion of ... -
CHILDHOOD STRESSORS AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES: AN EXPANDED ASSESSMENT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES USING LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS
American Indians experience morbidity and premature mortality at disproportionate and increasing rates compared to other Americans. Type 2 diabetes and behavioral health challenges are major contributors to American Indian ... -
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 ... -
Understanding the Implementation of Diversionary Juvenile Justice Programs: An Examination of Organizational and Political Processes
Little research has been conducted to identify the structures of juvenile diversion programs. Research on juvenile diversion programs tends to focus on program evaluation or effectiveness more than on the structure of ... -
Analyzing Psychosocial Services Available to Cancer Patients Within the WWAMI Region
Psychosocial services are of critical importance for cancer patients upon diagnosis, through treatment and after treatment ends. This study was conducted using a quantitative, interview-based survey and secondary quantitative ... -
Mexican Immigrants Under the 45th U.S. Presidency Impacts of Heightened Immigration Enforcement and Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric
The lives of various immigrant populations in the United States have been placed under a powerful microscope with the existing executive administration. Its focus on immigrants from Mexico, in particular, began during the ... -
Community-based Approach to Ending Human Trafficking: The Effectiveness of “My Right My Future” in Addressing Child Labor and Trafficking in Ghana, West Africa
There are 152 million children in the world who victims of child labor; while 73 million are involved in hazardous labor. Almost half of child labor (72.1 million) is found in Africa. 1 in 5 children in Africa (19.6%) is ... -
An Examination of Neighborhood Contexts and Substance Use Across the Life Course
Substance use and abuse takes a substantial toll on the health and well-being of youth and adults in America each year. For the past three decades, prevention scientists have sought to identify and understand the range of ...