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Center for Public Partnerships & Research Scholarly Works [22]
This collection contains publications by researchers and faculty affiliated with the Center for Public Partnerships & Research.
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Involvement in the criminal justice system among attendees of an urban mental health center
(BMC, 2015-02-25)Background Incarceration rates for people with serious mental illnesses are higher than the general population. However, research has been limited in regards to patterns of incarcerations for patients treated in public ... -
Kansas Infant-Toddler Services (Part C): Needs Assessment 2019
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MCH 2025 Title V Needs Assessment: Priorities and Action Plan 2021-2025
(Kansas Department of Health and Environment, 2021)Enacted by Congress in 1935, Title V of the Social Security Act committed federal support to states to ensure adequate health services for maternal and child health populations, including an emphasis on Children with ... -
Trends in Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Utilization and Location from 2008 to 2017
(Psychiatry Online, 2022-09-01)Objective: Little is known about recent trends in treatment for alcohol use disorder. The authors used national data to examine treatment trends among individuals with alcohol use disorder. Methods: A sample of ... -
Triadic Interactions in MIECHV: Relations to Home Visit Quality
(Springer, 2018-06-12)Objectives This study was conducted to look inside home visits to examine active intervention ingredients used and their relations with ratings of home visit quality. In particular, triadic interactions that engage the ... -
Recruitment and Retention of School Mental Health Providers: Strategies and Key Resources
(Southeast Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (Southeast MHTTC), 2021-06-08)This report describes organizational and policy strategies to improve recruitment and retention of school mental health providers. Additionally, it identifies resources developed by reputable organizations to facilitate ... -
Effects of extreme weather events on child mood and behavior
(Wiley, 2021-03-15)Extreme weather events (EWEs) are increasing in frequency and severity as the planet continues to become warmer. Resulting disasters have the potential to wreak havoc on the economy, infrastructure, family unit, and human ... -
Reasoning Exercises in Assisted Living: a cluster randomized trial to improve reasoning and everyday problem solving
(Dove Medical Press, 2014-06-25)Purpose of the study Assisted living (AL) residents are at risk for cognitive and functional declines that eventually reduce their ability to care for themselves, thereby triggering nursing home placement. In developing ... -
Empowerment and Self-Efficacy in the Lives of Four Emerging Bilingual Assistants in an Additive Bilingual Program
(2008)This research presents an ethnographic understanding of the personal and professional lives of four emerging bilingual assistants (EBAs) who designed and implemented an additive bilingual program in preschool classrooms. ... -
Translating Evidence-Based Policy to Practice: A Multilevel Partnership Using the Interactive Systems Framework
(Alliance for Children and Families, 2013)Despite increases in federal allocations, little is known about how to ensure successful implementation of evidence-based programs. This descriptive case study using the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and ... -
The Costs of Doing Two Things at Once for Young and Older Adults: Talking while Walking, Finger Tapping, and Ignoring Speech or Noise
(American Psychological Association, 2003-06)Young and older adults provided language samples in response to questions while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise. The language samples were scored on 3 dimensions: fluency, complexity, and content. The ... -
Revealing language deficits following stroke: the cost of doing two things at once
(Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press), 2006-01)The costs of doing two things were assessed for a group of healthy older adults and older adults who were tested at least 6 months after a stroke. A baseline language sample was compared to language samples collected while ... -
Automatic measurement of propositional idea density from part-of-speech tagging
(Springer, 2008-05)The Computerized Propositional Idea Density Rater (CPIDR, pronounced “spider”) is a computer program that determines the propositional idea density (P-density) of an English text automatically on the basis of partof-speech ... -
Aging and the vulnerability of speech to dual task demands
(American Psychological Association, 2010-12)Tracking a digital pursuit rotor task was used to measure dual task costs of language production by young and older adults. Tracking performance by both groups was affected by dual task demands: time on target declined and ... -
Tracking Talking: Dual Task Costs of Planning and Producing Speech for Young versus Older Adults
(Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press), 2011-05)A digital pursuit rotor was used to monitor speech planning and production costs by time-locking tracking performance to the auditory wave form produced as young and older adults were describing someone they admire. The ... -
Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to Resist
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Indefinitely Repeated Games: A Response to Carroll
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Revolution vs. Devolution in Kansas: Teaching in a Conservative Climate
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Stereotype traits of older adults generated by young, middle-aged, and older Chinese participants
(Baywood Publishing Company, 2002)This study examined stereotype traits of older adults elicited from 40 young (M age = 19.6), 40 middle-aged (M = 36.8), and 40 older Chinese adults (M = 64.7). Trait lists were compared across age groups and to traits ...