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Ph.D. Dissertations

(Completed as of August 2009)

Adams, Kathleen (1996): Oldest Old African-American Women and Help with Activities of Daily Living

Al-Kandari, Hayfaa (2006): Parenting Stressors, Need for Services, and Care giving Self Efficacy Among Mothers of Children With Mild Intellectual Development Disabilities in Kuwait: Assessing Impact Between Variables

Barresi, Joseph (2007): A Contemporary Understanding of Informal Caregiving: Gay Males Who Care for their Partners with AIDS

Bartolomeo, Frank (2007): Group work with Adolescents in Therapeutic Schools: Negotiating Group Purpose with Involuntary Clients

Belkin-Martinez, Dawn (2009): Se Se Puede! Latino Immigrants, Community Organizing, and Empowerment!

Billingham, Stephanie (1995): Friendships of College Women with Eating Problems

Booth, Sara Smyth (2009): Experiences of Parenting a Child with Aspergers Syndrome: The Diagnostic Journey

Bourdon, Gail (1999): Reclaiming and Constructing Identities: The Journey Out of Homelessness for Persons With Mental Illness

Brahms, Thomas (1991): Health Beliefs and Compliance with Out-Patient Alcohol Treatment Services in a Group Model HMO

Brenner, Mark (1997): To Hear and to Respond: The Influence of Zen Buddhist Meditation on the Practice of Clinical Social Work

Brooks, Frank (2006): Transgender Behavior in Boys: The Social Work Response

Cantor, Deborah (2001): Sources of Generativity in Older Women: A Life-Span Developmental Perspective

Carbonell, Dina (1996): Young People at Risk for Depression Who Have Positive Adjustment

Carpenter, Margaret (1996): Job Satisfaction and Well-Being for Social Workers

Clivio, Barbara (1989): Social Support within Low-Income Women's Friendship Networks

Cohen, Elaine (1991): Self-perceived Unpopularity in Children and Adolescents: Its Antecedents, Characteristics, and Relationship to Later Maladjustment

Cohen-Konrad, Shelly (2003): Transitional Experiences for Mothers Whose Children Acquire Unexpected Disabilities: A Phenomenological Perspective

Cope, Ruth (1991): The Career Development of the Group Therapist

Dorr, Carol (1992): Understanding Male Capacity for Intimacy

Duffy, Trudy (2002): Social Workers’ Exercise of Authority in Court-Mandated Groups: Definitions and Frames of Meaning

Eliot, Alexandra (1988): Disorders of Consumption — A Follow-up Study of the Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders Clinic

Fleming, Ronald (1997): Extended Residential Care as a Treatment for Urban, Chronic, Recidivist Alcoholics: A Descriptive Study of the Patients and Treatment Outcome

Flash, Dorothy (2007): Low-income Mothers of Children with Physical Disabilities: Interactions with Human Service Providers

Flynn, Madge (1999): Trauma, Extremely Stressful Life Events and Future Orientation in a Community Population of Older Adolescents

Friedman, Arthur (1997): Prevalence and Correlates of Suicidal Ideation and Self-Reported Attempts in an Adolescent Community Population

Gadsden, Ellarwee (2003): Searching for the Factors that Contribute to the Continued AIDS Risk of Minority Women in Substance Abuse Treatment: A Challenge for Social Work in the New Millennium

Garland, Susan C. (1995): Assessing the Client Perspective on Quality of Life among Chronically Mentally Ill

Gentlewarrior, Sabrina (1997): Symptoms of Trauma in Middle-aged and Older Female Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: An Ecological Examination of Risk and Protective Factors

Geraty, Thomas (1991): Risk and Mediating Factors Affecting Psychosocial Functioning of Gay Caregivers/Survivors of Partners with AIDS

Gere, Susan (1999): Integrating Clinical, Personal and Academic Knowledge: Faculty Reflections on Training Trauma Survivors for the Mental health Professions

Gianino, Mark (2005): Adaptation and Transformation: The Transition to Adoptive Parenthood for Gay Male Couples

Gordon, Clarice (1998): Parents’ Participation in Elementary Special Education for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Green, Patricia (2003): Oldest Old Women Tell us How They Manage Their Lives

Hall, Mary (1997): Determinants of Change in Day Treatment with Low Income Pregnant and Post Partum Women

Haskell, Susan (2005): Sex-Role Stereotypes and Social Workers’ Judgments of Mental Health

Healy, Tara (1996): Social Workers Ethical Tensions in Support of Frail Elders Autonomy

Howley, Denise (2001): Female Juvenile Sexual Abusers

Huse, Mary L. (1989): A Study of Adult Adoptees Who Request Background Information

Irvin, Elizabeth (1995): The Social Correlates of Addiction Among Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill Adults

Jones, Anne (2002): Reflections on Practice with Stepfamilies: A Qualitative Case Vignette Study

Jungreis, Katherine (1993): Mental Illness and the Family in Later Life: The Mothers' Perspective

Kalman, David (1995): A Longitudinal Study of the Psychosocial Risk Factors Associated with Adolescent Alcohol Abuse: A Family Systems Perspective

Kennedy, Dannielle (1993): Ego Development, Gender Identity Development and Eating Disorder Symptomatology in Two Matched Cohorts: College-Aged Daughters and Their Middle-Aged Mothers

Kitaj, Karma (1991): Well-Being and Functioning of Adult Daughters of Alcoholic Fathers

Krug, Stefan (1994): The Moral Ecology of Public Sector Social Work Practice: An Exploration of the Moral Experience of Social Workers in a Protective Service Agency

Lazar, Bonnie (1995): The Pull of Tradition: A Grounded Theory of Television Violence, Children, and Social Work

Leavitt, Rebecca (1989): Married Women Returning to College — A Study of their Personal and Family Adjustments and the Coping Strategies that Assist Them

Leeman, Dana (2004): Child Survivors of the Shoah: Narratives of Lives Well Lived

Levine, James (1997): Factors Associated with the Assessment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Among Boys

Lewis, Charles (2008): Single Black Women’s Transitions from Welfare Dependence

Liatsos, Kenna (2003): Silent Grief: Adults Recall Their Early Childhood Memory of the Death of a Sibling

Liechty, Jeanne (2005): Exploring “Use of Self” : From Definitional Challenges to Identifying Best Practices

Lochiatto, Phyllis (1988): Child Mental Health Clinicians in Massachusetts: Are They an "Endangered Species"?

Lorenzo, May (1988): Social Support Networks of Chinese-American Chronic Psychiatric Patients

Lucas, Janel (2001): African-American Women in Social Work: Explorations Regarding “Goodness-of-Fit”

McCaffery, Regina (1994): Crisis and Adaptation: Mothers of Incest Victims

McDowell, Theodora (1995): Clients' and Clinicians' Experiences of Empathy

Melikian, Karen (1997): The Phenomenology of Decision-Making in a Child Welfare Setting

Moorhead, Deborah (2000): Early Risk Factors for Eating Problems and Eating Disorders at Age Twenty-five

Nava, Anna (2000): The Experience of Portuguese and Brazilian Immigrant Women in the United States

Nesto, Barbara (1990): Low-Income Single Mothers in the Post Separation/Divorce Period

Ochoa, Nelson (2009) El sufrimiento de los Colombianos en Nueva Inglaterra: Como salen adelante (Suffering of Colombians in New England: How they Cope)

Ohringer, Robin (1987) Mid-Life Mothers: A Study of Career Mothers Who Have Their First Child at 35 or Older

Ostis, Constance (2002): Social Support and Treatment for Nonabusing Parents of Abused and Abusing Children: Evaluation of a Metaphor-Enhanced Psychoeducational Group Curriculum

Ostrower, Emily (1992): The Influence of a Dropout Prevention Program Upon the Characteristics, Experiences, and Performance of Academically At-Risk Youth

Paradis, Bruce (1990): Psychosocial Implications of Positive HIV Test Results for Gay Men

Pill, Cynthia (1987): Stepfamily Cohesion, Adaptability, and Coping Styles

Salvatore, Maggie (1992): Women after War - Vietnam Experiences and Post Traumatic Stress: Contribution to Social Adjustment Problems of Red Cross Workers and Military Nurses

Sherry, Mollie K. (2009): Youth, urban, unwed fathers: Depressive symptoms, problem behaviors, and psychosocial correlates,

Steinberg, Mark (1992): The Informal Helping Process in Young Adult Marriage: The Male Perspective

Trum, Linda (1993): Appraisal and Health: An Examination of the Hardiness Construct

Urdang, Esther (1995): Self Perceptions of the Beginning Field Instructor: The Experience of Supervising a Social Work Intern

Van Noppen, Barbara (2003): Functioning in Adults with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Family Responses: A Transactional Perspective

Wharff, Elizabeth (1996): A Study of Decision-Making Criteria in Child Sexual Abuse Evaluations

Whitman-Raymond, Lee (2005): Helpful and Unhelpful Interactions Between Professionals and Parents of Children with Cognitive Challenges: a Developmental Perspective

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