Jane F. Gilgun
Professor
Office: 267 Peters Hall
Phone: (612) 624-3643
E-mail: jgilgun@umn.edu
Mailing address: 105 Peters Hall
- Professor Gilgun's Publications, Syllabi, Handouts
- Link to Materials for the "New Strategies in the Adoption of Children with Special Needs"
- NEATS: An Assessment for Children and Their Families (Word)
- Professor Gilgun's book "Writing and Editing Books" (Word)
Degrees and Institutions
Ph.D., family studies, Syracuse University, 1983
Licentiate, family studies and sexuality, University of Louvain, 1971
M.A., English literature, University of Rhode Island, 1979
M.A., social service administration, University of Chicago, 1984.
Interest Areas
How persons overcome adversities; development of violent behaviors;
meanings of violence to perpetrators; child welfare; qualitative
research methods; cultural studies; feminist research methods and
methodologies; philosophy of science.
Current Research Projects
"The Development of Violent Behaviors," funded by the Minnesota
Agricultural Experiment Station"; principal investigator
Consultant, All Children Excel (ACE), an intervention program for children six to nine and their families, Ramsey County Human Services, St. Paul, MN; sponsor, National Institute of Justice; principal investigator
Recently Concluded Research
Research on the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse with community
partner StopItNow! Minnesota, funded by Centers for Disease Control;
principal investigator "Hennepin Country Adoption Project" with Hennepin
County Department of Human Services; principal investigator
Recent Publications
Gilgun, Jane F. (in press). Methods for enhancing theory and knowledge about problems, policies, and practice. In Katherine Briar, Joan Orme, Roy Ruckdeschel, & Ian Shaw, The Sage handbook of social work research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Gilgun, Jane F. (in press). Qualitative research and family psychology. In Mark Stanton & James Bray (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of family psychology. Oxford: UK: Blackwell.
Gilgun, Jane F., & Alankaar Sharma (2008). Child sexual abuse. In Jeffrey L. Edleson & Claire M. Renzetti (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence (pp. 122-125). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Sharma, Alankaar & Jane F. Gilgun (in press). The method to the madness: Myths and realities about perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Indian Journal of Social Work.
Gilgun, Jane F. (2008). Lived experience, reflexivity, and research on perpetrators of interpersonal violence. Qualitative Social Work, 7(2), 181-197.
Theron, Linda C. & Jane F. Gilgun (in press). Strangers, patients, monsters, jailers and children: How South African caregivers’ view their partners with manganese poisoning. South African Journal of Psychology.
Ungar, Michael, Marian Brown, Linda Liebenberg, Rasha Othman, Wai Man Kwong, Mary Armstrong, & Jane Gilgun (2007). Unique pathways to resilience across cultures. Adolescence, 42(166), 287-310
Gilgun, Jane F. (2006). The four cornerstones of qualitative research.
Qualitative Health Research, 16(3), 436-443.
Gilgun, Jane F. (2006). Children and adolescents with problematic
sexual
behaviors: Lessons from research on resilience. In Robert
Longo &
Dave Prescott (Eds.),. Current perspectives on working
with sexually
aggressive youth and youth with sexual behavior problems.
(pp.
383-394). Holyoke, MA: Neari Press.
Gilgun, Jane F. (Ed.) (2006). Writing and editing books.
Minneapolis, MN:
University of Minnesota School of Social Work.
Gilgun, J. F. (2005). The four cornerstones of evidence-based
practice
in social work. Research on Social Work Practice,
15(1), 52-61
Gilgun, J. F. (2005). Evidence-Based Practice, Descriptive Research,
and
the Resilience-Schema-Gender Brain Functioning (RSGB)
Assessment.
British Journal of Social Work, 35(6), 843-862
(invited and peer blind
reviewed).
Gilgun, J. F. (2005). Lighten up! The citation dilemma in qualitative
research. Qualitative Health Research, 15(5), 721-724.
Gilgun, J. F., & Abrams, L. S. (2005). Gendered adaptations,
resilience,
and the perpetration of violence. In M. Ungar (Ed.), Youth
resilience
around the world (pp. 57-70). Toronto: University of
Toronto Press.
Gilgun, J. F., Jones, D., & Rice, K. (2005). Emotional expressiveness
as
an indicator of progress in treatment. In M. C. Calder (Ed.),
Emerging
approaches to work with children and young people who
sexually
abuse (pp. 231-244). Dorset, England: Russell House.
Gilgun, J. F. (2005). Qualitative research and family psychology.
Journal
of Family Psychology, 19 (1), 40-50 (invited and peer
blind reviewed)
Gilgun, J. F., Jones, D., & Rice, K. (2005). Emotional expressiveness
as
an indicator of progress in treatment. In M.C. Calder (Ed.),
Emerging
approached to work with children and young people who
sexuallly
abuse. (pp.231-244). Dorset, England: Russell House.
Gilgun, J. F. (2005). "Grab" and good science: Writing up the results
of
qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research.
Gilgun, Jane F. (2004). The 4-D: Strengths-based assessments for youth who¿ve experienced adversities. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 10 (4) 51-73.
Gilgun, J. F. (2004). Fictionalizing life stories: Yukee the wine
thief.
Qualitative Inquiry, 10 (3).
Gilgun, Jane F. (2004). Qualitative methods and the development of clinical assessment tools. Qualitative Health Research, 14 (7), 1008-1019.
Gilgun, J. F. (2004). Deductive qualitative analysis and family
theory-
building. In V. Bengston, P. Dillworth Anderson, K. Allen, A.
Acock, &
D. Klein (Eds.). Sourcebook of Family Theory and Methods.
Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage
Gilgun, J. F. (2004). A strengths-based approach to child and family
assessment. In D. Catheral (Ed.), Handbook of stress,
trauma and
the family (pp. 307-324). New York: Taylor Francis.
Gilgun, J. F. (2004). The assessment of child and family strengths. In D. Catherall (Ed.), Handbook of stress, trauma and the family. New York: Taylor Francis.
Dolo, E. & Gilgun, J. F. (2002). Gender-linked status changes among
Liberian refugees in the United States. Social Work
Research and
Evaluation, 3 (3), 209-220.
Gilgun, J. F. (2002). Social work and the assessment of the potential
for
violence. In T. Ngoh Tiong & I. Dodds (Eds.). Social work
around the
world II. (pp. 58-74). Berne, Switzerland: International
Federation of
Social Workers.
Gilgun, J. F. & Abrams, L. (2002). Commentary on Denzin: The nature
and usefulness of qualitative social work research.
Qualitative Social
Work, 1 (1), 39-55.
Gilgun, J. F. (2002). Completing the circle: American Indian Medicine
Wheels and the promotion of resilience in children and youth
in care.
Journal of Human Behavior and the Social Environment,
6 (2), 65-84.
Gilgun, J. F. (2002). Conjectures and refutations: Governmental
funding
and qualitative research. Qualitative Social Work, 1
(3), 359-375.
Gilgun, J. F. (2001). Grounded theory, other inductive methods, and
social work. In B. Thyer (Ed.). Handbook of social work
research pp
345-364. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Gilgun, J. F., Klein, C. & Pranis, K. (2000). The significance of
resources
in models of risk. Journal of Interpersonal Violence,
14, 627-646.
Gilgun, J. F. (1999). An ecosystemic approach to assessment. In B. G. Compton & B. Galaway (Eds.). Social work processes (6th Ed., pp. 66-82). Chicago: Dorsey. Reprinted in The Training Manual of the Mississippi Department of Public Welfare, developed by the School of Social Work, University of Southern Mississippi.
Gilgun, J. F. (1999). CASPARS: Clinical assessment instruments that
measure strengths and risks in children and families. In M.
C. Calder
(Ed.). Working with young people who sexually abuse: New
pieces of
the jigsaw puzzle. Dorset, England: Russell House.
Gilgun, J. F. (1999). Mapping resilience as process among adults
maltreated in childhood. In H. McCubbin, E. A. Thompson, A.
I.
Thompson, & J. A. Futrell (Eds.), The dynamics of
resilient families
pp. 41-70. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Gilgun, J. F. (1999). Methodological pluralism and qualitative family
research. In S. Steinmetz, M. Sussman, & G. Peterson (Eds.),
Handbook of marriage and the family (2nd Ed., pp.
219-261). New
York: Plenum.
Gilgun, J. F. (1999) CASPARS: New tools for assessing client risks
and
strengths. Families in Society, 80, 450-459.
Gilgun, J. F., Keskinen, S., Marti, D. J. & Rice, K. (1999). Clinical
applications of the CASPARS instruments: Boys who act out
sexually.
Families in Society, 80 629-641.
Gilgun, J. F. (1999). Fingernails painted red: A feminist, semiotic analysis of "hot" text. Qualitative Inquiry, 5, 181-207.
Gilgun, J. F., & McLeod, L. (1999). Gendering violence. Studies in Symbolic Interactionism, 22, 167-193.
Gilgun, J. F. (1998).
Lemons
or lemonade? An anger workbook for kids.
Minneapolis, MN: L. E. Bell Press.
Gilgun, J. F. (1998).
Lemons
or lemonade: An anger workbook for teens.
Minneapolis, MN: L. E. Bell Press.
Gilgun, J. F. (1998). Clinical instruments for assessing client
assets and
risks. The Medical Journal of Allina, 7, 31-33.
Gilgun, J. F. (1997). Thorns have roses: Overcoming the effects of
childhood abuse and neglect (Rev. Ed.). Minneapolis, MN:
University
of Minnesota Early Childhood Studies Program.
Gilgun, J. F. (1997). Case study designs. In R. Grinnell (Ed.),
Social work
research and evaluation (5th ed., pp. 298-312). Itasca,
IL: Peacock.
Gilgun, Jane F., & Sussman, M. B. (Eds.). (1996). The methods and
methodologies of qualitative family research. Special
issue of
Marriage and Family Review, 41 (1-2).
Gilgun, J. F. (1996). Human development and adversity in ecological
perspective, Part 2: Three patterns. Families in Society,
77, 459-
576.
Gilgun, J. F. (1996). Human development and adversity in ecological
perspective, Part 1: A conceptual framework. Families in
Society, 77,
395-402.
Gilgun, J. F. (1995). We shared something special: The moral
discourse
of incest perpetrators. Journal of Marriage and the Family,
57, 265-
281.
Gilgun, J. F. (1994). Hand into glove: Grounded theory and social
work
practice research. In W. Reid & E. Sherman (Eds.),
Qualitative
methods and social work practice research pp. 115-125.
New York:
Columbia University Press.
Gilgun, J. F. (1994). A case for case studies in social work
research.
Social Work, 39, 371-380.
Gilgun, J. F., Daly, K. & Handel, G. (1992). Qualitative methods
in family
research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.