Social work PhD dissertation titles 2010-2016

  • 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
  • Methamphetamine-involved parenting and the risk of child maltreatment: Family experiences and the child welfare response
  • Systemic Change in a Community-Based HIV/AIDS Organization: A Case Study Examining the Response to Affordable Care Act Reforms
  • Mother America: Cold War Maternalism and the Institutionalization of Intercountry Adoption from Postwar South Korea, 1953-1961
  • "Teeter-Tottering Between Hope and Despair": Fathers' Resilience in the Face of Advanced Cancer
  • The Resettlement of the Karen in Minnesota
  • An Exploration of Alcohol Use in Karen Refugee Communities in the Context of Conflict-Related Displacement
  • Experiencing Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Misuse Disorders: The Voices of Rural Older Adults
  • Financial Self-Efficacy Scale: Development and Validation of a Measurement Tool
  • Predicting Vocational Rehabilitation Employment Outcomes for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Frontline Youth Work with Street Children and Youth in Nepal: Edge Work, Boundary Work, Hard Work
  • The Lived Experience of Self-Compassion in Social Workers
  • From Investigating to Engaging Families: Examining the Impact and Implementation of Family Assessment Response on Racial Equity in Child Welfare
  • Effects of Child Exposure to Domestic Violence on the Child-Parent Relationship Based on the Child's Ambivalence toward the Parents
  • Cervical Cancer Screening Behavior of Hmong Women: A Social Network Analysis
  • Can I Get A Witness? African American Mothers, Parenting Networks, and Attachment
  • Wellness in the Midst of Disease: A Narrative Analysis of Growing Up with Rheumatic Conditions