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Social Welfare: Recent submissions
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Health and Employment for Adults with Serious Mental Illness: An Examination of Physical Health Conditions, Healthcare Utilization, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Employment
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Mounting chronic condition rates, elevated healthcare spending, and increased attention to the importance of structural and social health determinants, have magnified attention to disparities in health and healthcare in ... -
Coming Up Short: Family Composition, Income, and Household Savings
(University of Chicago Press, 2017)Objective: Existing research on savings and liquid-asset accumulation is largely quantitative and focuses on descriptions of how income inequality leads to the ability or inability to save. What has been left out of this ... -
The Potential for Savings Accounts to Protect Young-Adult Households from Unsecured Debt in Periods of Macroeconomic Stability and Decline
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-03)The effects of different types of debt can vary widely: some debt is considered productive by advancing financial health, while other debt can be unproductive, pushing financial health out of reach. A savings account may ... -
Financial Capability, Money Management, and Developmental Resources for Young Children in Low-Income Families
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The financial and social vulnerability of low-income families with young children requires a thoughtful and multidimensional response. Much of the research in this area has been undertaken with insufficient attention to ... -
The Associations of Race/Ethnicity and Suicidal Ideation among College Students: A Latent Class Analysis Examining Precipitating Events and Disclosure Patterns
(Wiley, 2014-08)The aim of this paper was to examine precipitating events for suicidal ideation and how these experiences relate to disclosure in a diverse sample of college students. Among non-Hispanic White students, relationship/academic ... -
Measuring Shared Decision Making in Psychiatric Care
(American Psychiatric Publishing, 2012-08)OBJECTIVE: Shared decision making is widely recognized to facilitate effective health care; tools are needed to measure the level of shared decision making in psychiatric practice. METHODS: A coding scheme assessing shared ... -
Factors Influencing Mental Health Service Utilization by Children with Serious Emotional and Behavioral Disturbance: Results from the LAMS Study
(American Psychiatric Publishing, 2011-06)OBJECTIVE: To describe service utilization of a cohort of children with emotional and behavioral disorders who visited outpatient mental health clinics in four Midwest cities. METHOD: Data come from the Longitudinal ... -
Advances in fidelity measurement for mental health services research
(American Psychiatric Publishing, 2012-08)OBJECTIVE: Mental health intervention research requires clear and accurate specification of treatment conditions in intervention studies. Measures are increasingly available for community-based interventions for persons ... -
Predictors of Shared Decision Making and Level of Agreement between Consumers and Providers in Psychiatric Care
(Springer Verlag, 2014-05)The purpose of this study was to quantitatively examine elements of shared decision making (SDM), and to establish empirical evidence for factors correlated with SDM and the level of agreement between consumer and provider ... -
Inadequate child supervision: The role of alcohol outlet density, parent drinking behaviors, and social support
(Elsevier, 2014-08-01)Supervisory neglect, or the failure of a caregiver to appropriately supervise a child, is one of the predominant types of neglectful behaviors, with alcohol use being considered a key antecedent to inadequate supervision ... -
Predictors and Moderators in the Randomized Trial of Multi-Family Psychoeducational Psychotherapy for Childhood Mood Disorders
(Taylor and Francis, 2014)OBJECTIVE: This study investigated predictors and moderators of mood symptoms in the randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Multi-Family Psychoeducational Psychotherapy (MF-PEP) for childhood mood disorders. METHOD: Based ... -
Scaling Up a Multifaceted Violence Prevention Package: County-Level Impact of the North Carolina Youth Violence Prevention Center
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-01-26)OBJECTIVE: Multifaceted approaches to youth-violence prevention package evidence-based programs into initiatives that yield large-scale impact. This study assessed the impact of a package of evidence-based violence prevention ... -
Core Domains of Shared Decision-Making During Psychiatric Visits: Scientific and Preference-Based Discussions
(Springer Verlag, 2014-02-06)Shared decision-making (SDM) is imperative to person-centered care, yet little is known about what aspects of SDM are targeted during psychiatric visits. This secondary data analysis (191 psychiatric visits with 11 providers, ... -
Building Family Strengths Through Successful Parental Involvement Strategies: A Case Study with Latino Immigrant Families and Elementary School Staff
(Texas Medical Center Library, 2014-12-31)Latino immigrant families often face significant barriers in becoming involved in their children’s education due to common cultural biases and misunderstandings and language barriers. Moreover, limited evidence suggests ... -
Exploring the Ecological Association Between Crime and Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
(Alcohol Research Documentation, 2012-07)OBJECTIVE: Routine activities theory purports that crime occurs in places with a suitable target, motivated offender, and lack of guardianship. Medical marijuana dispensaries may be places that satisfy these conditions, ... -
Associations between Financial Inclusion, Liquid Assets, Income Shocks, and Later Housing Instability in Households Headed by a Single Mother
(University of Kansas, 2016-01-01)Single mothers negotiate the competing demands of family life and the formal market economy on an unequal playing field. As a result, they are disproportionately represented among households in extreme poverty and have ... -
Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Promoting Resilience in Disadvantaged Children
(University of Chicago Press, 1998-09)This article addresses the emergence of a resilience‐based prevention practice perspective that focuses on positively affecting the development of disadvantaged, at‐risk children. Significant progress has been made in ... -
Demographic, Psychological, and School Environment Correlates of Bullying Victimization and School Hassles in Rural Youth
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)Little is known about bullying in rural areas. The participants in this study included 3,610 racially diverse youth (average age = 12.8) from 28 rural schools who completed the School Success Profile-Plus. Binary logistic ... -
Reconceptualizing social work’s person-in-environment perspective : explorations in radical environmental thought
(University of Kansas, 1997)