Dissertations
Graduates' Doctoral Dissertations #
Danny Carroll
Leaving Hate: Social Work and the Journey out of Far-Right Extremism
Minyoung Lim
The Experience of Burmese Refugee Students in Higher Education: Blooming out of Concrete
Marcia French
Post Liver Transplant Patient Outcomes and Survival: Impact of Demographics and Psychosocial Factors
Dolapo Adeniji
The Influence of Social Isolation and Other Risk Factors on Older African Immigrants’ Emotional Well-Being
Stephanie Rudd
Oppression in Social Work Education: How Do Oppression and Privilege Impact Social Work Educators’ Pedagogy?
Stephanie Q. Quiring
Living with Serious Mental Illness, Police Encounters, and Relationships of Power: A Critical Phenomenological Study
M. Killian Kinney
Learning to Thrive in a Binary World: Understanding the Gendered Experiences of Nonbinary Individuals and Ways to Bolster Wellbeing
- Grace Yi
Using Technology to Enhance the Well-Being of Caregivers of Persons with Dementia: Implications for Social Work Practice and Policy - Christine Bishop
The Experiences of Latino Adolescent Mentees Growing-Up with a Single Mother and Mentoring Program Development: A Narrative Analysis Study - Sara Makki Alamdari
Resilience-Related Outcomes Among War-Affected Arab Refugees in the U.S. - Lisa McConnell Lewis
Deliberate Self-Harm in Young Children - Wafa Alhajri
Women’s Perspectives on Social Change in Saudi Arabia - Pinkie Evans
The Intersections of Military Family Culture and Black Family Culture: Challenges and Benefits of Being a Black Daughter in a Military Family - Drew Winters
Social Cognitive and Affective Neural Substrates of Adolescent Transdiagnostic Symptoms - Matthew Walsh
Examining Collaboration Within Child Welfare Multidisciplinary Teams: How Home-Based Therapists Respond to Conflict
- Richard Brandon Friedman
The Impact of Sexual Identity Development on the Sexual Health of Youth Formerly in the Foster Care System - Kristin Trainor
Prenatal Substance Misuse: Exploring Healthcare Providers’ Attitudes and Perceptions - Evan Harris
Sex-Based Employment Protections for Transgender Individuals: A Study of Title VII Legal Cases in the Sixth Circuit - I-Hsuan Lin
Work-Family Conflict and Gender Equality: Theory Development, Responses of Policy Regimes, and Immigrants’ Experiences
- Taekyung Park
Perspectives of transformational leadership by child welfare workers : impacts on turnover intention - Hyemin Son
Established multicultural families’ work and life : the impact of employment and perceived Korean husbands’ practical support on migrant wives’ life satisfaction - Sheila Dennis
Applied Educational Neuroscience in Elementary Classrooms: A Grounded Theory Study
- Jangmin Kim
Building Transformative School-Community Collaboration: A Critical Paradigm - Lalit Khandare
Domestic Violence and Empowerment: A National Study of Scheduled Caste Women in India - Haiping Chen
Developing the Organizational Competencies to Promote American Elders’ Civic Engagement - Steven Hyer
The Impact of Combat Deployment Experiences on Intimate Partner Violence in the Air Force - Aaron Willis
Using Marion County, Indiana Coroner Records and Deputy Field Officer Reports to Understand Heroin and Prescription Painkiller Overdoses
Isaac Karikari
Child Labor: A Critical Discourse Analysis
- Matt Moore
Taking a Time-Out to Ensure Well-Being: Social Work Involvement in College Sports - Rob Richardson
Education on the Edge: Underprepared Students in BSW Programs - Kori Bloomquist
“A Piece of You is Gone:” Foster Parent Experiences of Pre-adoptive Placement Disruption - Gail Augustine
An Examination of Attrition Factors for Underrepresented Minority Undergraduate Students: Phenomenological Perspectives of Successful Students and Graduates - Susan Larimer
From testing the water to riding the waves: New master of social work graduates’ journey from student to professional - Victoria Hanson
The Meaning of Successful Aging Among Older Adults with Long-Term Disabilities - Jennifer Anderson
Scaffolding in Interprofessional Education: Implications for Social Work Education - Kyle McGregor
New Approaches to Research with Vulnerable Populations: Interdisciplinary Application of a Framework for Vulnerability and Adolescent Capacity to Consent
- Leila Wood
Domestic Violence Advocacy
- Jennifer Wright Berryman
The Influence of Decision-Making Preferences on Medication Adherence for Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Primary Health Care
- David Wilkerson
Integrating Individual and Social Learning Strategies in a Small-Group Model for Online Psycho-Educational Intervention: A Mixed Methods Study of a Parent-Management Training Program - Govind Dhaske
The Lived Experience of Rural Women Affected with Matted Hair in Southwestern India - Amy Murphy-Nugen
From Homeownership to Foreclosure: Exploring the Meanings Homeowners’ Associate with the Lived Experience of Foreclosure
- Barb Burdge
A Phenomenology of Transgenderism as a Valued Life Experience Among Transgender Adults in the Midwestern United States - Janell Horton
Exploring the Cultural Experiences of Family Case Managers: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Zulkipli Lessy
Philanthropic Zakat for Empowering Indonesian’s Poor: A Qualitative Study of Recipient Experiences at Rumah Zakat - Sung-Ju Kim
The Impact of Federal Government Expenditures on State Government Expenditures and Philanthropic Giving to Human Services Organizations (HSOs): 2005-2006
- James Brown
Trajectories of Parents’ Experiences in Discovering, Reporting, and Living with the Aftermath of Middle School Bullying - Beth Muehlhausen
Dual Degree Programs in Social Work and Divinity: Graduates’ Experiences - Jaylene Schaefer
Child Abuse Prevention by Home Visitors: A Study of Outstanding Home Visitors using Mixed Methods
- Delthea Hill
African American Heterosexual Women Facing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Giving Voice to Sexual Decision-Making - Daniel Navarro
Cross- Border Fathering: The Lived Experience of Mexican Immigrant Fathers - Carolyn Gentle-Genitty
Impact of Social Bonding on Chronic Truancy: Perceptions of Middle School Principals
- Michael Twyman
The Lived Experience of African American Grandfathers Raising their Grandchildren - Greta Yoder Slater
Firearm Suicide among Older Adults: A Sociological Autopsy
Marty Pentz
Cancer: The Lived Experience of the Older Adult