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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

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

  1. Grace Yi
    Using Technology to Enhance the Well-Being of Caregivers of Persons with Dementia: Implications for Social Work Practice and Policy
  2. Christine Bishop
    The Experiences of Latino Adolescent Mentees Growing-Up with a Single Mother and Mentoring Program Development: A Narrative Analysis Study
  3. Sara Makki Alamdari
    Resilience-Related Outcomes Among War-Affected Arab Refugees in the U.S.
  4. Lisa McConnell Lewis
    Deliberate Self-Harm in Young Children
  5. Wafa Alhajri
    Women’s Perspectives on Social Change in Saudi Arabia
  6. Pinkie Evans
    The Intersections of Military Family Culture and Black Family Culture: Challenges and Benefits of Being a Black Daughter in a Military Family
  7. Drew Winters
    Social Cognitive and Affective Neural Substrates of Adolescent Transdiagnostic Symptoms
  8. Matthew Walsh
    Examining Collaboration Within Child Welfare Multidisciplinary Teams: How Home-Based Therapists Respond to Conflict

  1. Richard Brandon Friedman
    The Impact of Sexual Identity Development on the Sexual Health of Youth Formerly in the Foster Care System
  2. Kristin Trainor
    Prenatal Substance Misuse: Exploring Healthcare Providers’ Attitudes and Perceptions
  3. Evan Harris
    Sex-Based Employment Protections for Transgender Individuals: A Study of Title VII Legal Cases in the Sixth Circuit
  4. I-Hsuan Lin
    Work-Family Conflict and Gender Equality: Theory Development, Responses of Policy Regimes, and Immigrants’ Experiences

  1. Taekyung Park  
    Perspectives of transformational leadership by child welfare workers : impacts on turnover intention
  2. Hyemin Son  
    Established multicultural families’ work and life : the impact of employment and perceived Korean husbands’ practical support on migrant wives’ life satisfaction
  3. Sheila Dennis
    Applied Educational Neuroscience in Elementary Classrooms: A Grounded Theory Study

  1. Jangmin Kim 
    Building Transformative School-Community Collaboration: A Critical Paradigm
  2. Lalit Khandare   
    Domestic Violence and Empowerment: A National Study of Scheduled Caste Women in India
  3. Haiping Chen    
    Developing the Organizational Competencies to Promote American Elders’ Civic Engagement
  4. Steven Hyer       
    The Impact of Combat Deployment Experiences on Intimate Partner Violence in the Air Force
  5. 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

  1. Matt Moore
    Taking a Time-Out to Ensure Well-Being: Social Work Involvement in College Sports 
  2. Rob Richardson
    Education on the Edge:  Underprepared Students in BSW Programs
  3. Kori Bloomquist
    “A Piece of You is Gone:”  Foster Parent Experiences of Pre-adoptive Placement Disruption
  4. Gail Augustine
    An Examination of Attrition Factors for Underrepresented Minority Undergraduate Students: Phenomenological Perspectives of Successful Students and Graduates
  5. Susan Larimer
    From testing the water to riding the waves: New master of social work graduates’ journey from student to professional
  6. Victoria Hanson
    The Meaning of Successful Aging Among Older Adults with Long-Term Disabilities
  7. Jennifer Anderson
    Scaffolding in Interprofessional Education: Implications for Social Work Education
  8. Kyle McGregor
    New Approaches to Research with Vulnerable Populations: Interdisciplinary Application of a Framework for Vulnerability and Adolescent Capacity to Consent

  1. Leila Wood
    Domestic Violence Advocacy

  2. Jennifer Wright Berryman
    The Influence of Decision-Making Preferences on Medication Adherence for Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Primary Health Care 

  3. 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
  4. Govind Dhaske
    The Lived Experience of Rural Women Affected with Matted Hair in Southwestern India
  5. Amy Murphy-Nugen
    From Homeownership to Foreclosure: Exploring the Meanings Homeowners’ Associate with the Lived Experience of Foreclosure

  1. Barb Burdge
    A Phenomenology of Transgenderism as a Valued Life Experience Among Transgender Adults in the Midwestern United States
  2. Janell Horton
    Exploring the Cultural Experiences of Family Case Managers: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
  3. Zulkipli Lessy
    Philanthropic Zakat for Empowering Indonesian’s Poor: A Qualitative Study of Recipient Experiences at Rumah Zakat
  4. Sung-Ju Kim
    The Impact of Federal Government Expenditures on State Government Expenditures and Philanthropic Giving to Human Services Organizations (HSOs): 2005-2006

  1. Ankita Deka
    Racial Disparities in Self-Reported Health and Health Care Utilization:  Does Primary Care Matter?
  2. Jieru Bai
    Development and Validation of the Acculturative Stress Scale for Chinese College Students in the United States (ASSCS)

  1. James Brown
    Trajectories of Parents’ Experiences in Discovering, Reporting, and Living with the Aftermath of Middle School Bullying
  2. Beth Muehlhausen
    Dual Degree Programs in Social Work and Divinity:  Graduates’ Experiences
  3. 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

  1. Delthea Hill
    African American Heterosexual Women Facing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Giving Voice to Sexual Decision-Making
  2. Daniel Navarro
    Cross- Border Fathering: The Lived Experience of Mexican Immigrant Fathers
  3. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty
    Impact of Social Bonding on Chronic Truancy: Perceptions of Middle School Principals

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

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

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

Marty Pentz
Cancer: The Lived Experience of the Older Adult

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