Recent Dissertation Titles

  • Omayeletumbulo [wisdom sayings] as a Pathway to School Engagement for Young Mothers in Rural Namibia
  • County Exemption from Social Work Licensure in Minnesota: Understanding the Past and Present to Affect the Future
  • Animal-Assisted Interactions for College Student Mental Health and a Conceptual Model of Practice
  • Environmental Effects on Cognitive Health in Older Adults: Insights for Long-Term Care Services
  • “This is how we show up for our relatives”: Understanding How Indigenous Relative Caregivers Embody Traditional Kinship to Resist the Colonial Child Welfare System
  • Perceived Discrimination and Depressive Symptom Trajectories of Middle-aged and Older Adults with Chronic Diseases
  • Student Stories of Resilience After Campus Sexual Assault
  • How do Contextual Factors and Family Support Influence Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse During Forensic Interviews and Service Outcomes in Child Protection Cases?
  • Making Sense of Poverty in Child Welfare: A Grounded Theory Informed Study of Public and Tribal Child Welfare Workers' Poverty Constructions, Perceptions of Causes, and Praxis
  • Neighborhood Social Capital and the Health and Health Risk Behavior of Adolescent Immigrants and Non-Immigrants
  • Discharge Planning with Older Adults in Minnesota Hospitals
  • A Qualitative Study Exploring Early Childhood Interventionists' Experiences of Ongoing Participation in a Reflective Consultation Program
  • Differential Item Functioning and Measurement Invariance of Self- and Proxy-Reports: An Evaluation of Objective Quality of Life Measures for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
  • Latino Students' Expectations of School Success: Do School Supports Matter?
  • Disconnected Marriage, Connected Internet: Exploring the Relationship between Problematic Internet Use, Acculturative Stress, and Marital Intimacy among Korean Married Couples in the United States
  • Exploring the Relationships Between Supports and Depression Among Elderly Caregivers Raising Children Orphaned by AIDS in Rural Namibia
  • An Exploration of the Relationship Between Children in Treatment Foster Care and Their Foster Caregivers
  • Adoptive Parent Perspectives on Placing an Intercountry Adopted Child with Disabilities in Out of Home Care
  • Examining the Relationship: Fathers' Parenting Support and Parenting Stress on Family Violence