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Book Review: Rural Crime And Community Safety, MaryAnn Thrush 2016 Lincoln Memorial University

Book Review: Rural Crime And Community Safety, Maryann Thrush

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Book Review: Rural Crime and Community Safety Vania Ceccato 2016 New York, NY: Routledge 394 pages $54.95 (Paperback) ISBN-10: 0415856434 ISBN: 978-0-203-72568-9 (ebook).


Book Review: Aging In Rural Places Policies, Programs, And Professional Practice, Heidi Moore 2016 Salisbury University

Book Review: Aging In Rural Places Policies, Programs, And Professional Practice, Heidi Moore

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Book Review: Aging in Rural Places Policies, Programs, and Professional Practice Kristina Hash, Elaine T. Jurkowski, & John A. Krout 2014 New York, NY: Spring Publishing Company, LLC 336 pages Softcover: $70.00 US ISBN-10: 0826198090 ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-9809-9


Teaching Macro Practice Through The Use Of Experiential Instruction And Collaboration: A Formula To Create Sustainable Community Resources, Timothy O. Davis Ph.D., Kendal L. Carswell 2016 Fort Hays State University

Teaching Macro Practice Through The Use Of Experiential Instruction And Collaboration: A Formula To Create Sustainable Community Resources, Timothy O. Davis Ph.D., Kendal L. Carswell

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

While delivering an organizations and communities class to a cohort of students in an outlying rural area, a social work program explored ways to educate students effectively while simultaneously exploring and devising strategies to fill local gaps in community services. The project utilized evidence-based learning strategies focusing on experiential instruction and collaboration with local community agencies. Using aspects of the flipped classroom as well as service learning, the course was particularly interested in engaging with community stakeholders to identify issues arising from the realities of a rural service environment. Students identified a project, worked with community partners, and delivered recommendations …


Book Review: Worlds Apart: Poverty And Politics In Rural America, Peter A. Kindle Ph.D. 2016 University of South Dakota

Book Review: Worlds Apart: Poverty And Politics In Rural America, Peter A. Kindle Ph.D.

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Book Review: Worlds Apart: Poverty and Politics in Rural America Cynthia M. Duncan 2014 New Haven: Yale University Press 304 pages Paperback: $49.95 US ISBN-10: 0300196598 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-19659-7


Book Review: Hard Living In America's Heartland: Rural Poverty In The 21st Century Midwest, Peter A. Kindle Ph.D. 2016 University of South Dakota

Book Review: Hard Living In America's Heartland: Rural Poverty In The 21st Century Midwest, Peter A. Kindle Ph.D.

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Book Review: Hard Living in America's Heartland: Rural Poverty in the 21st Century Midwest Paula W. Dáil 2015 Jefferson, NC: McFarland 266 pages Softcover: $45.00 US ISBN-10: 0786474815 ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-7481-3


Graduation Day, Ann Malaspina 2016 Murray State University

Graduation Day, Ann Malaspina

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

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Rough River, Loren Sundlee 2016 Murray State University

Rough River, Loren Sundlee

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Poem.


Searching The Site Fifty Years After The Fire, Maureen Tolman Flannery 2016 Murray State University

Searching The Site Fifty Years After The Fire, Maureen Tolman Flannery

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

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Distant Music, John Palen 2016 Murray State University

Distant Music, John Palen

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

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Traditional Lyric, Bruce Elliot Alford 2016 Murray State University

Traditional Lyric, Bruce Elliot Alford

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

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The Curative Power Of Play: The Voices Of Therapists Around The World, Nancy Riedel Bowers, Winnie Pak Wan Yeung, Anna Lee Bowers 2016 Wilfrid Laurier University

The Curative Power Of Play: The Voices Of Therapists Around The World, Nancy Riedel Bowers, Winnie Pak Wan Yeung, Anna Lee Bowers

Lyle S. Hallman Social Work Faculty Publications

It is important for all therapists to be culturally sensitive to children and their eco-systems as well as to be aware of the current trends and the changing application of play as a healing agent. The focus of this study is on the development of a current description of play by therapists from a global perspective through a thematic analysis of focus groups resulting in an explanation of how play contributes to healing and the practice of therapy. In this study, the naturalistic method of qualitative research (Bowers, 2009; Lincoln & Guba, 1985) was applied to the study of play …


In The Trenches: Traditional Healers' Understanding Of Health And Healing, Gus Hill 2016 Wilfrid Laurier University

In The Trenches: Traditional Healers' Understanding Of Health And Healing, Gus Hill

Lyle S. Hallman Social Work Faculty Publications

This study explored understandings of traditional healing from the perspectives of traditional healers and helpers. The sample of sixteen individuals was initially identified by key informants, and then the sample snowballed by word of mouth. Among the sample are healers from a variety of cultures, including Anishnaabe, Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Paiute, Inuit, Innu, and Potawatomi. Traditional Indigenous protocols were followed by the researcher during the course of the study. In-depth interviews were conducted with each participant. Interviews were audio-recorded and verbatim transcripts were analyzed qualitatively. These individuals shared their understanding of the work that they do, including ceremonies, use of …


A Case Study Of An Ethnically-Tailored Community-Based Mental Health Program: Washington Christian Counseling Institute, Gemma Imsook Sohn 2016 Liberty University

A Case Study Of An Ethnically-Tailored Community-Based Mental Health Program: Washington Christian Counseling Institute, Gemma Imsook Sohn

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Disparities in health and mental health service utilization among racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. are well documented, with many studies having identified accessibility to linguistically and culturally informed services as a key barrier to service utilization. Korean Americans in particular, being the most recent immigrant group of Asian Americans, reportedly suffer from higher rates of depression and anxiety than other Asian American groups. There is, however, some indication that Asian Americans do utilize ethnicity-specific programs at a higher rate than mainstream services when such services are made available to them. Therefore, this study seeks to investigate and explain …


Bullying In Youth, Jonathan B. Singer, Karen Slovak 2016 Loyola University Chicago

Bullying In Youth, Jonathan B. Singer, Karen Slovak

Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works

Bullying is the most common form of violence in schools and has been shown to disrupt the emotional and social development of both the targets and the perpetrators of bullying (Raskauskas & Stoltz, 2007). Bullying can be physical, verbal, relational, and direct or indirect. There are well-established age and sex trends (Olweus, 1993; Smith, Madsen, & Moody, 1999). There has been considerable research on bullying-prevention programs and scholarship on best-practice guidelines for school social workers (Dupper, 2013). An emerging concern is with the use of electronic and Internet devices in bullying, referred to as “cyberbullying.” In this article we define …


Hope Vi Data Compilation And Analysis, Taryn Gress, Seungjong Cho, Mark L. Joseph 2016 Case Western Reserve University

Hope Vi Data Compilation And Analysis, Taryn Gress, Seungjong Cho, Mark L. Joseph

Faculty Scholarship

As HUD advances its mission to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality, affordable homes for all, the promotion of mixed-income communities has become a core strategy. Across the U.S., local governments and private developers are increasingly turning to mixed-income development as an approach to deconcentrate poverty and revitalize urban neighborhoods.1 With the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, launched in 2010, the federal government has extended its commitment to supporting the mixed-income approach to public housing transformation that was first implemented through the HOPE VI initiative in the mid1990s. With the dramatic decrease in public sector funding for public housing, housing authorities …


Urban School-Based Behavioral Health Providers' Attitudes Towards Evidence Based Practices, Erik D. Maki 2016 University of Massachusetts Boston

Urban School-Based Behavioral Health Providers' Attitudes Towards Evidence Based Practices, Erik D. Maki

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

Evidence Based Practices (EBPs) in schools show promise in meeting the behavioral health needs of urban students, however there are multiple barriers to implementation. Providers’ attitudes towards EBPs may be one of these barriers. Through a cross sectional survey design, this dissertation answers four major research questions: 1) Is the EBPAS-50 an appropriate tool to use with school based behavioral health providers, 2) Do attitudes vary depending on level of experience (student vs. professional), 3) Do attitudes vary depending on a practitioners’ hire status (school-hired vs. non-school hired), and 4) Do EBPAS-50 scores predict implementation of EBPs? Participants were 160 …


Student Perceptions Of Services For Veterans And Military Personnel, Philip Parsons 2016 Western Kentucky University

Student Perceptions Of Services For Veterans And Military Personnel, Philip Parsons

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Many Veterans are returning from the War on Terror and making their way to universities. Due to the many aspects of war and military life many maybe, or are experiencing some level of mental health issue/s. As more Veterans make this transition, resources may not be available for them to be successful in the classroom (Whitley, Tschudi, & Gieber, 2013). After reviewing the literature, a suitable instrument to measure these variables was not available. The researcher developed a survey and sampled students of one Midwestern public university. The variables included basic demographic questions and perceptions of Veterans and the services …


Mexican American Adolescent Couples' Vulnerability For Observed Negativity And Physical Violence: Pregnancy And Acculturation Mismatch, Lela Rankin Williams, Heidi Adams Rueda 2016 Arizona State University

Mexican American Adolescent Couples' Vulnerability For Observed Negativity And Physical Violence: Pregnancy And Acculturation Mismatch, Lela Rankin Williams, Heidi Adams Rueda

Social Work Faculty Publications

Stress and vulnerability for dating violence may be heightened among acculturating Mexican American (MA) adolescents, and MA adolescent parents, because of differing cultural values and norms within romantic relationships. We hypothesized, in a sample of MA heterosexual couples (N = 30, 15–17 years), that: 1) within-couple level acculturation discrepancies, and pregnancy/parenting, would predict physical violence perpetration, and 2) that this association would have an indirect effect through couple-level negativity during an observed dyadic video-taped discussion of conflict. Using a path model we found that pregnant/parenting adolescents (B = .37, SE = .16, p = .002), and couples with …


Identifying Ancient Settlement Patterns Through Lidar In The Mosquitia Region Of Honduras, Christopher T. Fisher, Juan Carlos Fernández-Diaz, Anna S. Cohen, Oscar Neil Cruz, Alicia M. Gonzáles, Stephen J. Leisz, Florencia Pezzutti, Ramesh Shrestha, William Carter 2016 Colorado State University

Identifying Ancient Settlement Patterns Through Lidar In The Mosquitia Region Of Honduras, Christopher T. Fisher, Juan Carlos Fernández-Diaz, Anna S. Cohen, Oscar Neil Cruz, Alicia M. Gonzáles, Stephen J. Leisz, Florencia Pezzutti, Ramesh Shrestha, William Carter

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

The Mosquitia ecosystem of Honduras occupies the fulcrum between the American continents and as such constitutes a critical region for understanding past patterns of socio-political development and interaction. Heavy vegetation, rugged topography, and remoteness have limited scientific investigation. This paper presents prehistoric patterns of settlement and landuse for a critical valley within the Mosquitia derived from airborne LiDAR scanning and field investigation. We show that (i) though today the valley is a wilderness it was densely inhabited in the past; (ii) that this population was organized into a three-tiered system composed of 19 settlements dominated by a city; and, (iii) …


Racial Inequality And The Implementation Of Emergency Management Laws In Economically Distressed Urban Areas, Shawna J. Lee, Amy Krings, Sara Rose, Krista Dover, Jessica Ayoub, Fatima Salman 2016 The University Of Michigan

Racial Inequality And The Implementation Of Emergency Management Laws In Economically Distressed Urban Areas, Shawna J. Lee, Amy Krings, Sara Rose, Krista Dover, Jessica Ayoub, Fatima Salman

Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works

This study examines the use of emergency management laws as a policy response to fiscal emergencies in urban areas. Focusing on one Midwestern Rust Belt state, we use a mixed methods approach – integrating chronology of legislative history, analysis of Census data, and an ethnographic case study – to examine the dynamics of emer- gency management laws from a social justice perspective. Analysis of Census data showed that emergency man- agement policies disproportionately affected African Americans and poor families. Analysis indicated that in one state, 51% of African American residents and 16.6% of Hispanic or Latinos residents had lived in …


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