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Social Workers Addressing Student-Perpetrated Interpersonal Violence In The School Context : Awareness And Use Of Evidence-Supported Programs, Natalie Diane Cawood

Dissertations and Theses

Researchers have argued that there is a research-practice gap in the delivery of prevention and mental health services in the school setting. An extension of the work of Astor and his colleagues (Astor et al., 1997, 1998, 2000), this study addresses that gap by examining the extent to which evidence-supported school violence intervention programs (ESP) are known and used by school social workers, and the barriers that are related to the use of ESPs.

A cross-sectional, web-based survey was completed by 250 members of the School Social Work Association of America, the majority having an MSW as their highest degree. …

Procesos De Participación En La Conservación Del Recurso Hídrico Del Río Tunjuelito, De Los Y Las Habitantes Del Barrio Invasión Rincón De San José, Localidad De Bosa Bogotá D.C. Ii Ciclo 2005 I Ciclo 2006, Belkys Gómez Camacho, Nazly Lorena Guerrero Rojas, Andrea Duque Pacheco, Consuelo Peñuela Paipa

Trabajo Social

En el presente trabajo grado, se dan a conocer los procesos de participación de los y las habitantes en el Barrio Invasión Rincón de San José, en la conservación del Río Tunjuelito; producto de la interacción del equipo investigador con los habitantes, que le dio el carácter practico, en la medida que implicó realizar un proceso de acercamiento al contexto físico, ambiental y poblacional del barrio, compartir con los habitantes, para así interpretar las diversas realidades de los sujetos desde las imágenes, creencias, hábitos y costumbres frente a la conservación del río, para así llegar a comprender los procesos participativos …

Política Social En Salud Para Las Y Los Adultos Mayores. Análisis Desde La Producción Documental 1982 - 2005, Alba Rocio Grimaldos Alvarez, Marinella Angulo Angulo

Trabajo Social

Los adultos y adultas mayores son una población que viene en aumento, este fenómeno trae consigo implicaciones económicas, políticas y sociales para los países de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, lo cual ha generado un interés de los gobiernos por este grupo poblacional, para quienes es importante una vida saludable. La salud es una esfera fundamental en el bienestar integral del ser humano, es así como este estudio contempla la descripción de los planteamientos de la política social en salud para el adulto y adulta mayor del Estado Colombiano y su relación con los compromisos adquiridos en las Asambleas Mundiales de …

Percepción De La Familia Frente A La Limitación Auditiva De Los Niños As Y Jóvenes Matriculados En El Colegio La Arboleda E Inscritos En El Programa De La Gerencia Para El Desarrollo Social Del Municipio De Facatativá Cundinamarca, Cinthya Paola Montoya Pachón, Yuri Sofia Padilla Reyes, Ingrid Carolina Vanegas Caipa

Trabajo Social

La limitación auditiva ha pasado de concebirse como un problema individual para tratarse como una situación social que, en un determinado momento, compromete por igual a todos los miembros de una comunidad. Se ha avanzado considerablemente en este sentido, dándole un nuevo abordaje al tema. Por tal razón esta investigación se hace pertinente debido a que conduce a conocer la percepción de la familia frente a la limitación auditiva de los niños / as y jóvenes del Municipio de Facatativa Cundinamarca, dada las acciones que el Municipio se ha planteado en busca de la inclusión social de este grupo poblacional …

Sons Providing Care At End-Of-Life : Common Threads And Nuances, Patricia Ebert

Dissertations and Theses

Family care is common in the majority of families in the United States, the primary care providers for older adult family members most often are wives, daughters or daughters-in-law. As the proportion of the oldest old continues to expand so too will the need for family careproviders. Recent demographic changes have served to deplete the pool of available caregivers. Caregiving research has naturally evolved into investigations into the experiences of women with little attention paid to the care contributions men make.

This investigation examined the perceptions of sons who served as primary caregivers for their dying elderly parents. It was …

Intention To Leave And Organizational Commitment Among Child Welfare Workers, Shakira Alicia Kennedy

Doctoral Dissertations

Little is known about the factors that contribute to organizational commitment among child welfare workers. Yet, since the early 1960s, child welfare has been plagued with high staff turnover rates that threaten the quality and continuity of services provided to vulnerable families. Child welfare organizations must be innovative and use proven models to assist in detecting when a worker has the intention of leaving the organization. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between intention to leave and organizational commitment among child welfare workers. Data were collected on 70 child welfare workers in North Carolina. The Three-Component …

How Factors Related To Social Control Might Contribute To Juvenile Delinquency Among African American And Caucasian Females, Andridia Victoria Mapson

Doctoral Dissertations

This study examined how social control factors might contribute to delinquent behavior (status and criminal offenses) among African American and Caucasian females using Hirschi’s 1969 model of social control. Secondary data was used from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN). Data were used for African American and Caucasian girls from Wave I, resulting in a sample of 837. The results indicated that the social control variables did not decrease status offenses with the exception of involvement, which had a negative statistically significant relationship. There were no differences among the races. When looking at criminal offenses, results indicated …

Early Literacy And Children With Special Needs: An Examination Of Resources In The Home Environment, Juli Meagan Dolezal

Masters Theses

Early literacy development of young children is an area of research that is receiving increasing attention from scholars in the fields of early childhood general and special education. However, researchers in both fields have failed to examine the broad contextual features of the home environment and ways that these features may facilitate or impede literacy development. In an attempt to close the gap on research on early literacy development of young children with special needs, a measurement tool was developed for the purposes of obtaining a more holistic representation of resources available in home environments and gathering information about possible …

Psychosocial Correlates Of Methamphetamine Use, Greg Joseph Eisinger

Masters Theses

Methamphetamine (MA) abuse is a devastating problem which has been sweeping the United States from west to east and has reached epidemic proportion in many areas. Literature on the drug itself, its history, and effects are reviewed. The current project aimed to examine the psychosocial correlates of MA use using Hudson's Multi-Problem Screening Inventory (MPSI).

The MPSI was given to a control group of undergraduate social work students (n=17) and a group of past-year MA users (n=15). All participants supplied demographic information and completed a questionnaire on their MA-use habits. Differences between users and non users were examined across the …

A Study Of Political Activity Among Social Work Students, Elizabeth A. Shelton

Masters Theses

This localized study explored the level of political activity of students at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work. Students were asked to respond to several demographic questions and answer questions regarding the frequency with which they performed certain tasks of political activity. Additionally the study explored relevant literature to establish a framework of national political behavior and political behavior within the field of social work. Political behavior is most strongly predicted by the age of the student with little regard for race, gender, or religious background. Students with a higher level of family history of political interest and …

La Transición De La Secundaria A La Universidad. Cambios En La Percepción De Sí Mismos, Las Relaciones Familiares Y La Experiencia Académica De Los Y Las Estudiantes De Segundo Semestre De Trabajo Social Y Economía De La Universidad De La Salle, Bogotá, Jenny Patricia Delgado Martinez, Yenny Luz Gonzalez Martinez, Olga Del Pilar Tenjo Garzon, Ingrid Liseth Zambrano Barrera

Trabajo Social

El concepto de cambio permite en esta investigación conocer acerca del proceso de transformación y evolución que viven los y las jóvenes en su transición del entorno del colegio a el de la universidad; este proceso de transición es el ingreso por primera vez a un nuevo entorno” (Bronfenbrenner.2002:234), proceso que requiere de una adaptación entre el ambiente antiguo y el nuevo; por estos procesos de adaptación, cambio, transformación y transición que viven los y las jóvenes es por los que se busca indagar en la presente investigación, permitiendo dar a conocer cuales son los cambios más significativos que viven …

Is It Just Me? Felt Hiv -Related Stigma Among Adults With Hiv, Rebecca Gila Block

Dissertations and Theses

HIV carries a significant social stigma in the United States based on the virus being contagious, incurable, visually apparent, and still somewhat mysterious to the public. People who are HIV positive, people who love them and people who work with them may all experience HIV-related stigma. The effects of HIV-related stigma vary from individual to individual; from community to community. The magnitude of feeling stigmatized and experiencing stigmatizing behaviors such as discrimination and exclusion also vary among individuals. Individuals experience stigma differently and respond to the experience in diverse ways.

The objective of this study was to explore felt HIV-related …

Assessment Of The Trait Hope Scale With Social Service Providers, Andrea Kelli Mccarter

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability of the Trait Hope Scale when used with a sample of socials service providers. Scale scores were collected from 104 social service providers in the southeastern region of the United States. Data was collected using self report surveys from a population of case managers in the social service field. Univariate analyses were conducted to determine the make up of the sample which was primarily white females having a graduate degree. Additionally, Bivariate analyses were used to compare the mean scores of the agency, pathway and hope scale between genders and …

Measuring Effort To Interview And Track Mothers Of Newborns, Elizabeth E. Wilson

Doctoral Dissertations

Maintaining a longitudinal sample is methodologically important to the integrity of research conclusions. The amount of effort devoted to retaining samples varies across research studies. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the effort needed to interview and track longitudinal respondents and the respondents' demographic characteristics, their collateral information, and various measures of the respondents' stability. The sample consisted of 246 mothers of newborns who were interviewed twice over 6 to 12 months as a part of the Volunteer Infant Parent Study. By using eight variables and latent class analysis, mothers of newborns were categorized into …

Running Away From An Adolescent Residential Treatment Facility: Does Adult Involvement Make A Difference?, Michael Lee Burford

Masters Theses

This paper focuses on whether running away from adolescent residential care facilities is related to having off grounds passes with an adult resource. It is hypothesized that as off grounds passes increase in frequency and duration, runaway behavior will decrease in frequency and duration. Data were collected from two hundred closed client files. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences was used for finding Spearman’s rho correlation and linear regression analysis of the variables. Results show a weak negative relationship exists between number of passes and both number of runaway occurrences and hours spent on the run. Because data are collected …

The Transtheoretical Model: A Theoretical Application To Homelessness, Richard D. Campbell

Masters Theses

Homelessness is a complex social phenomenon that requires creative and bold solutions. Regardless of how one views current methods for facilitating the movement of people out of homelessness, the literature indicates there is still room for improvement.

The Transtheoretical model, a construct for understanding the natural process of behavioral change, has never been applied to understanding or facilitating the movement of individuals out of homelessness. This study examines the phenomenon of homelessness, the Transtheoretical model, and how the model could be applied to improving our effectiveness in moving people from homelessness to “housing readiness” and stability. The study produced a …

Relación Entre El Plan De Desarrollo 2004 - 2007 Y La Prevención, Detección Y Atención De La Violencia Intrafamiliar Desde La Comisaria De Familia, Municipio De Nemocón Cundinamarca, Diana Patricia Pallares Prado, Karen Robinson Ramirez, Liliana Serrano Lemus

Trabajo Social

El trabajo que a continuación se presenta es producto de una investigación hecha como trabajo de grado para optar al titulo profesional de Trabajo Social. En el presente, se establece la relación que existente entre el Plan de Desarrollo “Con Trabajo y Honestidad Dios Premia al Hombre 2004-2007” y la Prevención, Detección y Atención de la Violencia Intrafamiliar desde la Comisaría de Familia en el Municipio de Nemocón como parte de una trabajo reflexivo que busca estudiar la inclusión de las políticas sociales en los Planes de Desarrollo municipales, a partir de las representaciones sociales de aquellos que formulan y …

Análisis Documental De Trabajo Social En El Proceso De Rehabilitación, Ana Alexandra Muñoz Sandoval, Andrea Marcela Parraga Martinez

Trabajo Social

No abstract provided.

Factores De Riesgo De Los Procesos Institucionales De Medio Cerrado Que Inciden En La Evasión Y Reincidencia De Los Y Las Jóvenes En Conflicto Con La Ley, Viviana Paola Rincon Camacho, Diana Patricia Isaza Uni

Trabajo Social

No abstract provided.

Relaciones Interpersonales Que Se Generan En La Institución Penitenciaria Y Carcelaria De Facatativá Y Su Contribución A La Construcción Del Proyecto De Vida De Los Internos, Ana Lennys Bello Bello, Sandra Milena Forero Velasquez, Andrea Del Pilar Garzon Guerrero, Lina Viviana Lopez Rodriguez

Trabajo Social

No abstract provided.

Efectos Del Conflicto Armado En La Calidad De Vida De Los Y Las Habitantes Del Municipio De Yacopí, Yury Alexandra Melo Hernández, Yuly Patricia Murillo Camargo, Gina Paola Sánchez Linarez, Gabriel Santamaría Beltrán

Trabajo Social

Ha sido común la tendencia a interpretar la realidad social de manera fragmentada; las distintas disciplinas académicas, incluyendo la profesión de Trabajo Social han sido limitadas en sus explicaciones de las sociedades actuales. No obstante el proceso investigativo permitió avanzar en la construcción de nuevos conocimientos sobre: la integralidad del concepto de calidad de vida en Yacopí como ente territorial; la caracterización del conflicto armado desde las percepciones y vivencias de los y las habitantes del municipio; y la descripción de la calidad de vida actual de la población.

La Calidad De Vida Como Objeto De Conocimiento De Trabajos De Grado En Cinco Unidades Académicas De Trabajo Social Bogotá 2000 - 2004, Bibiana Marcela Mora Saldaña, Catalina Oñate Caicedo, Yakeline Velandia González

Trabajo Social

No abstract provided.

Calidad De Vida De Las Mujeres Mayores De 40 Años En Situación De Prostitución En La Localidad 14 De Los Mártires, Diana Carolina Melo Patiño, Maria Aidé Aguirre Forero, Pilar López Correa

Trabajo Social

La prostitución es uno de los fenómenos que está afectando la calidad de vida tanto de hombres y mujeres que lo ejercen, es notorio que existe una descomposición social que ha hecho que se generen problemáticas, que inciden en que este fenómeno vaya de aumento en aumento, debido a que la situación económica como es el caso del desempleo, la negación de oportunidades laborales y el bajo nivel de estudio, son factores que contribuyen a que los seres humanos ingresen al mercado del sexo con el ánimo de conseguir recursos para la subsistencia de sí mismos/as y de sus familias. …

How Youth In Transitional Housing Perceive The Independent Living Program And Aftercare Services At Cameron Hill, Savannah Vankummer, Richard Vela

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to explore how emancipated youth, who are clients of the aftercare ILP (Independent Living Program) and transitional housing program with Cameron Hill, evaluate those services.

The Relationship Between Meaning In Life And Depression In Young Adult, Sarah Lynn Tuttle

Theses Digitization Project

The study was designed to explore and describe the relationship between young adults' sense of meaning and purpose in life and the experience of depression. The relationship between the existential constructs of meaning and purpose in life, assessed using Reker's (1992) Life Attitude Profile - Revised (LAP-R) instrument, and depression, assessed using Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI), was explored in young adults.

Foster Care Adolescents And Higher Education, Mary Ann Holmes

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Independent Living Program in San Bernardino and Riverside counties to transition foster care youth to independence of the social services system. The study provided a compilation of services and resources available through Cameron Hill Aftercare Services in San Bernardino for emancipated foster youth to assist with the successful transition toward independence as well as access to higher education and stability in housing and employment.

Impaired Mental Functioning As A Factor In Adult Protective Services Reporting, Valerie Jean Hentzschel

Theses Digitization Project

This study looked at the extent to which an elder's impaired mental functioning (IMF) is a factor in Adult Protective Services (APS). The design was a quantitative exploratory study utilizing a content analysis of 50 APS case files from San Bernardino County's Department of Aging and Adult Services.

An Evaluation Of Client Satisfaction With The Services Provided By A Community-Based Mental Health Agency, Sheri-Lyn Kaye Fahlgren Romero, Sarah Elisabeth Hayes

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to explore parent satisfaction with the services provided to their child by West End Family Counseling Services located in San Bernardino, California. It is hoped that the information obtained will enhance the quality of mental health offered for children and make others aware of the importance of intervention and prevention early in a child's life.

Impact Of Parental Visitation On The Behavior Of Foster Children, Tricia Lynn Haggerty

Theses Digitization Project

This study employed a behavioral symptom checklist filled out by foster parents to examine the impact of biological parents' visits on the behavior of children in foster care. It includes recommendations on educating both foster and birth parents' regarding the effect of these visits.

African American Caregiver Burden: Stress Factors And Utilization Of Services, Lorna Jean Levias

Theses Digitization Project

The project attempted to understand what factors create the highest levels of stress for African-American caregivers. Quantitative data was gathered from a self-administered questionnaire given to caregivers that attend Inland Caregiver Resource Center and take their loved ones to a Davita Dialysis center in the Riverside area. Participants were asked to complete the Caregiver Burden Scale (CBS) and additional questions regarding demographics and community services known and used by the caregiver. The findings indicated that the age of the patient receiving care and the lack of attendance at any type of support group were the two elements which markedly contributed …