Dissertations

Graduates' Doctoral Dissertations #

Samantha Wolfe-Taylor

The e-OSCE and Social Work Education: Creating Authentic, High-impact Practice Learning Opportunities for Students

Mary Provence

How Public Libraries Respond to Crises Involving Patrons Experiencing Homelessness: Multiple Perspectives of the Role of the Public Library Social Worker

Paige Klemme

Secondary Traumatic Stress: Pervasiveness and Contributing Factors in School Personnel

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

Joe Bartholomew
Predictors of Acceptance: Exploring Healthcare-Related Master’s-Level Social Workers’ Attitudes on Alcohol Use Disorder, Opioid Use Disorder, and Medicated-Assisted Treatment

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

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

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

Virgil Gregory
Gregory Research Beliefs Scale: Factor Structure and Psychometric Characteristics

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

Betty Walton
Predictors of Improvement for Children Served in Developing Systems of Care
Monique Busch
Examining Organizational Learning for Application in Human Service Organizations

Michael Twyman
The Lived Experience of African American Grandfathers Raising their Grandchildren
Greta Yoder Slater
Firearm Suicide among Older Adults: A Sociological Autopsy

Glenna Barnes
Understanding the Social and Cultural Factors Related To African American Infant Mortality: A Phenomenological Approach
Carol Decker
Social Support, Family Environment, and Coping in Adolescents with Cancer

Marty Pentz
Cancer: The Lived Experience of the Older Adult

Celia Williamson
Entrance, Maintenance, and Exit: The Socio-Economic Influences and umulative Burdens of Female Street Prostitution
Jacqualyn Green
Factors in African American Social Work Student Persistence