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Title: A National Survey of Graduate Education in Psychopharmacology: Advancing the Social Work Perspective on Psychiatric Medication.
Creator: Hughes, Shannon, Narendorf, Sarah, Lacasse, Jeffrey R.
Abstract/Description: Social workers' unique skills and professional perspective can contribute to improved practices in psychopharmacology, yet it is unclear how social work programs prepare students for this area of practice. This study examined instruction of psychopharmacology through a national web-based survey of MSW program directors and instructors of psychopharmacology content (n=171). Nearly two-thirds (63.7%) reported their program integrates psychopharmacology usually into one or two existing courses,...
Show moreSocial workers' unique skills and professional perspective can contribute to improved practices in psychopharmacology, yet it is unclear how social work programs prepare students for this area of practice. This study examined instruction of psychopharmacology through a national web-based survey of MSW program directors and instructors of psychopharmacology content (n=171). Nearly two-thirds (63.7%) reported their program integrates psychopharmacology usually into one or two existing courses, while 20.5% indicated their program offers a standalone course. Lack of faculty expertise and having no room in the current curriculum structure were identified as the top barriers for programs not offering any psychopharmacology content. The profession's critical, social justice, empowerment, client-centered, systems perspective appears to ground the teaching of psychopharmacology in social work programs.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0086
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Title: Measuring the Impact of Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.
Creator: Lacasse, Jeffrey R., Schelbe, Lisa, Thyer, Bruce A.
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0085, 10.1007/s10560-015-0416-2
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Title: Antidepressants and the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: A Reflection and Update on the Discourse.
Creator: Lacasse, Jeffrey R., Leo, Jonathan
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0084
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Title: Self-Directed Care: Participants' Service Utilization and Outcomes.
Creator: Spaulding-Givens, Jennifer, Lacasse, Jeffrey R.
Abstract/Description: Objective: Self-directed care (SDC) is a mental health service delivery model in which participants budget the state dollars allotted for their care to purchase the goods and services they deem most appropriate for achieving their recovery goals. This study examines the demographic characteristics, service utilization patterns, and outcomes of individuals enrolled in the Florida Self-Directed Care (FloridaSDC) program, which is the oldest and most established SDC program in the United States...
Show moreObjective: Self-directed care (SDC) is a mental health service delivery model in which participants budget the state dollars allotted for their care to purchase the goods and services they deem most appropriate for achieving their recovery goals. This study examines the demographic characteristics, service utilization patterns, and outcomes of individuals enrolled in the Florida Self-Directed Care (FloridaSDC) program, which is the oldest and most established SDC program in the United States for individuals diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness. Methods: This is a naturalistic descriptive study in which demographic, service utilization, and outcome data (i.e., Functional Assessment Rating Scores (FARS), days in the community, days worked, monthly income, discharge status) were collected from the clinical and fiscal records of 136 FloridaSDC participants. Results: Key findings suggest that FloridaSDC participants had very little income and largely utilized their budgets to subsidize their living expenses. Though most participants did not work or earn income and very few left the program due to employment, participants' FARs scores improved modestly and nearly all participants remained in the community throughout the study period. Conclusions and Implications for Practice: Participants' service purchases were rational given the poverty in which they live, and their outcomes did not suffer when they controlled decisions regarding their service needs. These findings highlight the utility and value of the personalized budgeting and individualized planning components of self-directed care. Findings also point to the need for practitioners to implement innovative strategies to enhance participants' employment readiness and supported employment opportunities.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0029, 10.1037/prj0000103
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Title: Florida's Planning Requirements and Affordability for Low-Income Households.
Creator: Aurand, Andrew
Abstract/Description: Growth management states in the USA, such as Florida, Oregon, and Washington, require their local jurisdictions to plan for an adequate supply of housing for all current and future residents, including low-income households. This research uses regression analysis to test the relationship between the strength of local comprehensive plans toward affordable housing and subsequent changes in housing affordability for low-income households. Semi-structured interviews with local planners about...
Show moreGrowth management states in the USA, such as Florida, Oregon, and Washington, require their local jurisdictions to plan for an adequate supply of housing for all current and future residents, including low-income households. This research uses regression analysis to test the relationship between the strength of local comprehensive plans toward affordable housing and subsequent changes in housing affordability for low-income households. Semi-structured interviews with local planners about their perceptions of the efficacy of local plans provide insight into the quantitative findings. The initial plans passed after Florida's Growth Management Act were not associated with subsequent changes in housing affordability, but more recent plans were. Planners in a number of jurisdictions indicated that Florida's planning mandate increased awareness among public officials of affordable housing issues and the tools available to address them, despite the state's weak oversight.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0023, 10.1080/02673037.2014.882497
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Title: Local Environment of Neighborhood Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORC) in a Mid-Sized U.S. City.
Creator: Aurand, Andrew, Miles, Rebecca, Usher, Kareem
Abstract/Description: As the U.S. population ages, almost half of elderly householders have lived in their current home for more than twenty years and a significant majority wish to remain in their current residence or community for as long as possible as they age. Concern with how communities will cope with these trends has led to a growing interest in naturally occurring retirement communities (NORC), i.e. neighborhoods or housing complexes that house a concentration of older adults, and their potential to...
Show moreAs the U.S. population ages, almost half of elderly householders have lived in their current home for more than twenty years and a significant majority wish to remain in their current residence or community for as long as possible as they age. Concern with how communities will cope with these trends has led to a growing interest in naturally occurring retirement communities (NORC), i.e. neighborhoods or housing complexes that house a concentration of older adults, and their potential to enhance efforts to support aging-in-place. In this paper, we examine the local built and social environment of neighborhood NORCs in Tallahassee, Florida, a low-density mid-sized city. We find that a large proportion of NORCs are located in neighborhoods with an urban form, or physical design, that is presumed to be less supportive of active aging and with poor access to amenities, such as grocery stores, pharmacies, and parks. Another substantial portion of NORCs are located in neighborhoods with some aspects of a supportive urban form. We also find that NORCs are over-represented in neighborhoods featuring low residential turnover and above average homeownership rates. This suggests a potential for collective action to facilitate aging-in-place even in neighborhoods thought not to have supportive physical environments.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0026, FSU_2015fall_local
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Title: Narrating Resilience: Transforming Urban Systems Through Collaborative Storytelling.
Creator: Goldstein, Bruce Evan, Wessells, Anne, Lejano, Raul P., Butler, William
Abstract/Description: How can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems, and what role can planners play? Drawing on a new urbanist proposal in Orange County, CA, we suggest that a resilience planning strategy that ignores diverse ways of knowing can undermine the experience and shared meaning of those living in a city. We then offer two cases to suggest that resilience narratives can help bridge knowledge practices while binding people together within a partially shared...
Show moreHow can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems, and what role can planners play? Drawing on a new urbanist proposal in Orange County, CA, we suggest that a resilience planning strategy that ignores diverse ways of knowing can undermine the experience and shared meaning of those living in a city. We then offer two cases to suggest that resilience narratives can help bridge knowledge practices while binding people together within a partially shared understanding of the social and natural world, allowing for a diversity of perspectives on possible ways forward. These cases examine an informal social network that reintegrates the Los Angeles River into the life of the city, as well as the U.S. Fire Learning Network, which aims to address the root causes of the nation's wildfire crisis. In both cases, participants tie their diverse experiences into a coherent logical or temporal thread that allows them to identify their place in an alternative future and a pathway for getting there, moving beyond the goal of persistence that characterizes urban sustainability thinking. This emplotment fosters critical learning and encourages creative self-organization, facilitating coordination across sites without imposing one particular set of views and interests on everyone. We suggest that narratives are a way to express the subjective and symbolic meaning of resilience, enhancing our ability to engage multiple voices and enable self-organizing processes in order to decide what should be made resilient and for whose benefit.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0020
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Title: Non-fatal Suicide Behavior Among Women Prisoners: The Predictive Roles of Childhood Victimization, Childhood Neglect, and Childhood Positive Support.
Creator: Tripodi, Stephen, Onifade, Eyitayo, Pettus-Davis, Carrie
Abstract/Description: Women entering prison report high rates of childhood victimization. Women in prison also report higher rates of nonfatal suicidal behavior (self-reported suicide attempts) than women in the general population and similar rates to their male counterparts despite having significantly lower suicide rates than males in the general population. Yet, there is a dearth of research that addresses the relationship between childhood victimization and suicidality for women prisoners in the United States....
Show moreWomen entering prison report high rates of childhood victimization. Women in prison also report higher rates of nonfatal suicidal behavior (self-reported suicide attempts) than women in the general population and similar rates to their male counterparts despite having significantly lower suicide rates than males in the general population. Yet, there is a dearth of research that addresses the relationship between childhood victimization and suicidality for women prisoners in the United States. The purpose of this study is (a) to assess the relationship between childhood victimization and nonfatal suicidal behavior for a random sample of women prisoners; (b) to investigate predictive differences between childhood physical victimization, childhood sexual victimization, childhood neglect, and childhood support; and (c) to determine whether women prisoners with higher frequencies of childhood victimization and neglect are more likely to have attempted suicide than women prisoners with lower frequencies. Results indicate that childhood victimization, neglect, and lack of support are all significantly associated with nonfatal suicidal behavior among women prisoners. Frequency of childhood neglect had a larger effect size than frequency of childhood physical victimization, childhood sexual victimization, and lack of support. The results of this study add to the growing body of literature on childhood victimization and suicidality in general, and nonfatal suicidal behavior for prisoner populations in particular. The article ends with a discussion on clinical implications; particularly the finding that frequency of childhood victimization, childhood neglect, and lack of childhood support matters when determining the risk of suicidality.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0007, 10.1177/0306624X12472879
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Title: Benefits and Challenges of Service-learning in Accredited Baccalaureate Social Work Programs.
Creator: Schelbe, Lisa, Petracchi, Helen E., Weaver, Addie
Abstract/Description: Service-learning is a pedagogical approach that integrates students' classroom instruction with community experiences. This paper discusses qualitative results of a national survey examining service-learning in Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited baccalaureate programs. Almost 80 percent of the 202 respondents required service-learning. Respondents reported benefits of incorporating service-learning in baccalaureate social work curriculum include assisting students in building...
Show moreService-learning is a pedagogical approach that integrates students' classroom instruction with community experiences. This paper discusses qualitative results of a national survey examining service-learning in Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited baccalaureate programs. Almost 80 percent of the 202 respondents required service-learning. Respondents reported benefits of incorporating service-learning in baccalaureate social work curriculum include assisting students in building community connections; applying theory and skills; socializing to the social work profession; and increasing self-awareness and exposure to diverse populations. Cited challenges include securing agency sites, time, and, logistics. Findings support existing research suggesting that service-learning benefits social work students.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0003, 10.1080/08841233.2014.954689
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Title: Child Maltreatment Reporting Patterns and Predictors of Substantiation: Comparing Adolescents and Younger Children.
Creator: Raissian, Kerri, Dierkhising, Carly, Mullins Geiger, Jennifer, Schelbe, Lisa
Abstract/Description: Adolescents, and especially male adolescents, make up a disproportionately smaller portion of maltreatment reports compared to younger children. This study used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to better understand the characteristics of adolescents reported to Child Protective Services (CPS), to examine if these characteristics changed over time, and to determine if certain child or CPS report characteristics predicted CPS involvement. Whereas adolescents were the...
Show moreAdolescents, and especially male adolescents, make up a disproportionately smaller portion of maltreatment reports compared to younger children. This study used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to better understand the characteristics of adolescents reported to Child Protective Services (CPS), to examine if these characteristics changed over time, and to determine if certain child or CPS report characteristics predicted CPS involvement. Whereas adolescents were the focal group, younger children were also analyzed for comparison. Between 2005 and 2010, reports of neglect and the proportion of children of Hispanic and unknown racial/ethnic origins increased. Concurrently, the proportion of cases resulting in CPS involvement declined. Although race/ethnicity predicted CPS involvement, this pattern was not consistent across all age groups or races/ethnicities. The type of alleged maltreatment did not typically predict CPS involvement; however, allegations of sexual abuse among school-age children and adolescents, particularly among girls, were more likely to result in CPS involvement. These findings can assist child welfare professionals in determining appropriate services tailored to families and developing prevention programs targeting adolescents.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0001, 10.1177/1077559513518096
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Title: Childhood Abuse and Postpartum Psychosis: Is There a Link?.
Creator: Kennedy, Stephanie, Tripodi, Stephen
Abstract/Description: Postpartum psychosis (PPP) is a serious mental health issue associated with maternal suicide and infanticide. Although a growing research base suggests that childhood abuse is predictive of psychosis, bipolar disorder, and postpartum depression, the link between abuse and PPP is less clear. Currently, prevention and treatment strategies are pharmacological and require hospitalization once symptoms arise. Unfortunately, these strategies are not ideal for affected women and their infants....
Show morePostpartum psychosis (PPP) is a serious mental health issue associated with maternal suicide and infanticide. Although a growing research base suggests that childhood abuse is predictive of psychosis, bipolar disorder, and postpartum depression, the link between abuse and PPP is less clear. Currently, prevention and treatment strategies are pharmacological and require hospitalization once symptoms arise. Unfortunately, these strategies are not ideal for affected women and their infants. Testing the relationship between experiences of childhood abuse and PPP may reveal abuse variables to be both statistically and clinically meaningful predictors of the disorder. A dose–response model suggests that women who report more severe abuse or multivictimization will be more likely to develop PPP. The authors suggest trauma screening in psychiatric, obstetrical, and community practice settings to identify women at risk for PPP and advocate for the addition of gender-responsive and trauma-focused psychotherapy to pharmacological interventions for this population.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0009, 10.1177/0886109914544719
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Title: Chronic Inflammation and Quality of Life in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Biomarkers to Predict Emotional and Relational Outcomes.
Creator: Nowakowski, Alexandra
Abstract/Description: BACKGROUND: This study explores relationships between chronic inflammation and quality of life, making a case for biopsychosocial modeling of these associations. It builds on research from social and clinical disciplines connecting chronic conditions, and inflammatory conditions specifically, to reduced quality of life. METHODS: Data from Wave I of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project are modeled using ordinal logistic and ordinary least-squares regression techniques....
Show moreBACKGROUND: This study explores relationships between chronic inflammation and quality of life, making a case for biopsychosocial modeling of these associations. It builds on research from social and clinical disciplines connecting chronic conditions, and inflammatory conditions specifically, to reduced quality of life. METHODS: Data from Wave I of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project are modeled using ordinal logistic and ordinary least-squares regression techniques. Inflammation is measured using C-reactive protein; quality of life is conceptualized as happiness with life overall as well as intimate relationships specifically. RESULTS: For most NSHAP participants, chronic inflammation significantly predicts lower odds of reporting high QoL on both emotional and relational measures. Social structural factors do not confound these associations. Inconsistent results for participants with very high (over 6 mg/L) CRP measurements suggest additional social influences. CONCLUSIONS: Findings echo strong theoretical justification for investigating relationships between CRP and QoL in greater detail. Further research should explore possible mediation of these associations by sociomedical sequelae of chronic disease as well as social relationship dynamics. Elaboration is also needed on the mechanisms by which social disadvantage may cause chronic inflammation.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_mhs-0043, 10.1186/s12955-014-0141-0
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Title: The inclusion of health in county comprehensive planning.
Creator: Park, Sang, Coutts, Christopher, Lee, Se Jin
Abstract/Description: This article explores what drives communities in United States to include health objectives in their comprehensive plans. By using a place-based approach, this model is able to take into account variables such as health status, social equity, political institutions, and built environment. The findings suggest that communities are more likely to adopt health as a goal based on their political institutional structure and environmental quality (e.g., air pollution) than based on health status...
Show moreThis article explores what drives communities in United States to include health objectives in their comprehensive plans. By using a place-based approach, this model is able to take into account variables such as health status, social equity, political institutions, and built environment. The findings suggest that communities are more likely to adopt health as a goal based on their political institutional structure and environmental quality (e.g., air pollution) than based on health status and social equity factors. Therefore, communities are responding to poor health and heightened mortality per se but rather to environmental factors that are associated with poor health outcomes.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0025
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Title: Does Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Reduce Future Physical Abuse?: A Meta-analysis.
Creator: Kennedy, Stephanie, Kim, Johnny S., Tripodi, Stephen, Brown, Samantha, Gowdy, Grace
Abstract/Description: Objective: To use meta-analytic techniques to evaluating the effectiveness of parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) at reducing future physical abuse among physically abusive families. Methods: A systematic search identified six eligible studies. Outcomes of interest were physical abuse recurrence, child abuse potential, and parenting stress.
Results: Parents receiving PCIT had significantly fewer physical abuse recurrences and significantly greater reductions on the Parenting Stress Index...

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Objective: To use meta-analytic techniques to evaluating the effectiveness of parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) at reducing future physical abuse among physically abusive families. Methods: A systematic search identified six eligible studies. Outcomes of interest were physical abuse recurrence, child abuse potential, and parenting stress.
Results: Parents receiving PCIT had significantly fewer physical abuse recurrences and significantly greater reductions on the Parenting Stress Index than parents in comparison groups. Reductions in child abuse potential were nonsignificant, although 95% confidence intervals suggest clinically meaningful treatment effects. The studies examining physical abuse recurrence had a medium treatment effect (g = 0.52), while results from pooled effect size estimates for child abuse potential (g = 0.31) and parenting stress (g = 0.35) were small.
Conclusions: PCIT appears to be effective at reducing physical abuse recurrence and parenting stress for physically abusive families, with the largest treatment effects seen on long-term physical abuse recurrence. Applications to social work practice are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0008, 10.1177/1049731514543024
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Title: A Research and Class Model for Future Library Instruction in Higher Education.
Creator: Kinsley, Kirsten, Hill, Leslie, Maier-Katkin, Daniel
Abstract/Description: Purpose
– The purpose of this article was to describe a university library instruction and research model that represents a collaborative effort between faculty, libraries, and the campus reading writing center. It uses rigorous research methods to measure whether the classroom intervention impacts student perceptions and success outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – Longitudinal, mixed-methods approach that attempts to measure the outcome of an experimental class that uses precision (exact...
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– The purpose of this article was to describe a university library instruction and research model that represents a collaborative effort between faculty, libraries, and the campus reading writing center. It uses rigorous research methods to measure whether the classroom intervention impacts student perceptions and success outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – Longitudinal, mixed-methods approach that attempts to measure the outcome of an experimental class that uses precision (exact) matching to control for extraneous variables that impact student success and a survey to measure student perceptions. Findings – Librarians can benefit by collaborating with faculty to learn more rigorous research methods. Precision (exact) matching a control group with an experimental group is time-intensive, but easily replicated. Preliminary results are very promising for both the precision matching and the survey data. It appears that students are able to learn critical thinking, research and writing skills from the collaboration between discipline-specific faculty, librarians and reading writing center tutors. Research limitations/implications – Precision (exact) matching a control group with an experimental group is time-intensive. Thus, the results need to be viewed cautiously due to the small sample size. Practical implications – Combining efforts to conduct collaborative research and instruction between libraries and faculty can provide resources for applications of the model with other disciplines. Originality/value – The library-intensive freshman writing seminar is a unique approach to student learning and an easy way for the library to be actively integrated in other disciplines. The precision matching technique is a methodologically rigorous research design that easy to replicate in other locations and with other disciplines.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_library_faculty_publications-0016, 10.1108/NLW-05-2014-0057
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Title: Racial Disparities in Urologist Visits Among Elderly Men with Prostate Cancer: A Cohort Analysis of Patient-Related and County of Residence-Related Factors.
Creator: Onukwugha, Eberechukwu, Osteen, Philip, Jayasekera, Jinani, Mullins, C. Daniel, Mair, Christine A., Hussain, Arif
Abstract/Description: Introduction: Factors contributing to the lower likelihood of urologist follow up among African American (AA) men diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa) may not be strictly patient-related. We investigated the relationship between crime, poverty, poor housing, among others, and post-diagnosis urologist visits among AA and white men. Methods: We utilized linked cancer registry and Medicare claims data from 1999-2007 for men diagnosed with stage I-III PCa. The USA Counties and County Business...
Show moreIntroduction: Factors contributing to the lower likelihood of urologist follow up among African American (AA) men diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa) may not be strictly patient-related. We investigated the relationship between crime, poverty, poor housing, among others, and post-diagnosis urologist visits among AA and white men. Methods: We utilized linked cancer registry and Medicare claims data from 1999-2007 for men diagnosed with stage I-III PCa. The USA Counties and County Business Patterns datasets provided county-level data. Variance-components models reported percent of variation attributed to county of residence. Post-diagnosis urologist visits for AA and white men were investigated using regression models. Results: We identified 65,635 patients: 87% were non-Hispanic white and 9.3% were non-Hispanic AA. Sixteen percent of men diagnosed with stage I-III PCa did not visit a urologist within one year following diagnosis: 22% among AA and 15% among white men. County of residence accounted for 10% of the variation in the visit outcome: 13% for AA and 10% for white men. AA men were more likely to live in counties ranked highest in terms of poverty, occupied housing units with no telephone, and crime. AA men were less likely to see a urologist (OR = 0.65, 0.6 – 0.71; RR=0.94, 0.92 – 0.95). The sign and magnitude of the coefficients for the county-level measures differed across race-specific regression models of urologist visits. Conclusion: Among older men diagnosed with stage I-III PCa, the social environment contributes to some of the disparities in post-diagnosis urologist visits between AA and white men.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0028, 10.1002/cncr.28894
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Supervised Visitation and Family Financial Well-Being: Broadening Access to Community Services for Low-Income Parents in the Court System.

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Oehme, Karen, Stern, Mark

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This article describes a federally funded pilot program designed to connect low-income families at supervised visitation (SV) programs to other community resources to improve their economic well-being. The pilot program established additional community connections for families in both urban and rural communities. We describe outcomes that suggest that many SV clients can benefit when SV programs are engaged with multiple community service partnerships. We also recommend that judges refer...
Show moreThis article describes a federally funded pilot program designed to connect low-income families at supervised visitation (SV) programs to other community resources to improve their economic well-being. The pilot program established additional community connections for families in both urban and rural communities. We describe outcomes that suggest that many SV clients can benefit when SV programs are engaged with multiple community service partnerships. We also recommend that judges refer families primarily to those supervised visitation programs that can connect low-income families to additional resources to help address their problems and improve their economic self-sufficiency. Key Points for the Family Court Community:

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2014

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FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0020, 10.1111/fcre.12091

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Title: Suicide Prevention in Social Work Education: How Prepared Are Social Work Students?.
Creator: Osteen, Philip, Jacobson, Jodi M., Sharpe, Tanya L.
Abstract/Description: The prevalence of suicide suggests social workers will encounter clients at risk for suicide, but research shows social workers receive little to no training on suicide and suicide prevention and feel unprepared to work effectively with clients at risk. Baseline results from a randomized intervention study of the Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR; Quinnett, 1995) suicide prevention gatekeeper training with 73 advanced MSW student interns show suicide knowledge was average, attitudes about...
Show moreThe prevalence of suicide suggests social workers will encounter clients at risk for suicide, but research shows social workers receive little to no training on suicide and suicide prevention and feel unprepared to work effectively with clients at risk. Baseline results from a randomized intervention study of the Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR; Quinnett, 1995) suicide prevention gatekeeper training with 73 advanced MSW student interns show suicide knowledge was average, attitudes about suicide prevention were generally neutral, and use of suicide prevention practice skills was low. These results indicate an opportunity for enhancing student outcomes through training and inform social work education regarding necessary preparation for student interns and new graduates to identify and respond effectively to client suicide risk.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0026, 10.1080/10437797.2014.885272
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Title: The Limits of Evidence Based Medicine and Its Application to Mental Health Evidence-Based Practice. (Part One).
Creator: Gomory, Tomi
Abstract/Description: The present article outlines the major limitations of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and through a close review demonstrates that the three component EBM process model is a pseudo-scientific tool. Its "objective" component is the collection, systematic analysis, and listing of "effective" treatments applying a research hierarchy from most rigorous (systematic reviews of randomized control trials) to least rigorous (expert opinion). Its two subjective components are the clinical judgment of...
Show moreThe present article outlines the major limitations of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and through a close review demonstrates that the three component EBM process model is a pseudo-scientific tool. Its "objective" component is the collection, systematic analysis, and listing of "effective" treatments applying a research hierarchy from most rigorous (systematic reviews of randomized control trials) to least rigorous (expert opinion). Its two subjective components are the clinical judgment of helping professionals about which "evidence-based" treatment to select and the specific and unique relevant personal preferences of the potential recipients regarding treatment. This procedural mishmash provides no more rigor in choosing "best practice" than has been provided by good clinical practitioners in the past since both turn out to be subjective and authority based. The article also discusses EBM's further methodological dilution in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) endorsed Evidence Based Mental Health Practice (EBP) movement. In EBP the allegedly rigorous EBM protocol is altered. Instead of systematic expert protocol driven EBM reviews of randomized controlled trials, NIMH sanctioned expert consensus panels decide "evidence-based practices." This further problematizes the development of best practices in mental health by converting it to a political process. The article concludes with some observations on these issues. In a second article (part two) forthcoming, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is examined as an example of an EBP that fails as a scientifically effective treatment despite its EBP certification and general popularity among practitioners.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0031
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Title: The Limits of Evidence Based Medicine and Its Application to Mental Health Evidence-Based Practice. (Part Two): Assertive Community Treatment assertively reviewed.
Creator: Gomory, Tomi
Abstract/Description: This article is the second of two published in EHPP, the first appeared in the current spring 2013 volume. The first article argued the very serious limitations of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and its very popular mental health offshoot Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)(Gomory, in press). The present article is meant to be a consolidation and update of a 1999 analysis of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), the best "validated" mental health EBP according the National Institute of Mental Health ...
Show moreThis article is the second of two published in EHPP, the first appeared in the current spring 2013 volume. The first article argued the very serious limitations of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and its very popular mental health offshoot Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)(Gomory, in press). The present article is meant to be a consolidation and update of a 1999 analysis of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), the best "validated" mental health EBP according the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and academic researchers. The present analysis reconfirms the failure of ACT as a treatment modality and a platform for successfully reducing hospitalization its touted consistent effect accept when ACT can apply administrative coercion to keep its clients out of the hospital or quickly discharge them. When ACT fails to have such administrative coercive control it does no better than other community mental health delivery systems. The use of ACT coercion begun over forty-years ago, the article further argues, set the table for conventionalizing psychiatric coercion as evidence-based best practice.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0033
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Title: Madness or Mental Illness?: Revisiting Historians of Psychiatry.
Creator: Gomory, Tomi, Cohen, David, Kirk, Stuart A.
Abstract/Description: Is madness medical disease, problems in living, or social labeling of deviance? Does the word merely refer to behavior peculiar enough to be disturbing? Are the mad mad because of mental, physical, or environmental vulnerabilities? No one knows the answers to these questions because there is no scientific validation for any theory or specific causes of madness. Nonetheless, a view of madness as medical/bodily disease has been receiving concrete and rhetorical support from the government...
Show moreIs madness medical disease, problems in living, or social labeling of deviance? Does the word merely refer to behavior peculiar enough to be disturbing? Are the mad mad because of mental, physical, or environmental vulnerabilities? No one knows the answers to these questions because there is no scientific validation for any theory or specific causes of madness. Nonetheless, a view of madness as medical/bodily disease has been receiving concrete and rhetorical support from the government mental health bureaucracy, Big Pharma, mental health lobby groups, the organized profession of psychiatry, hundreds of thousands of providers of mental health services and countless books and articles. This article explores the role that medicalized language and its use by seven noted historians of psychiatry (Norman Dain, Albert Deutsch, Gerald Grob, Roy Porter, Charles Rosenberg, Andrew Scull, and Edward Shorter) might have played in shaping the contemporary view of madness as mental illness. The evidence we uncover suggests that historical "facts" about madness, much as psychiatric "facts" supporting the disease model, are shaped by belief, bias, error or ambiguous rhetoric rather than the facts of the matter.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0041, 10.1007/s12144-013-9168-3
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Title: Histories of Childhood Victimization and Subsequent Mental Health Problems, Substance Use, and Sexual Victimization for a Sample of Incarcerated Women in the US.
Creator: Tripodi, Stephen, Pettus-Davis, Carrie
Abstract/Description: Women are entering US prisons at nearly double the rate of men and are the fastest growing prison population. Current extant literature focuses on the prevalence of the incarceration of women, but few studies exist that emphasize the different trajectories to prison. For example, women prisoners have greater experiences of prior victimization, more reports of mental illness, and higher rates of illicit substance use. The purpose of this study was to understand the prevalence of childhood...
Show moreWomen are entering US prisons at nearly double the rate of men and are the fastest growing prison population. Current extant literature focuses on the prevalence of the incarceration of women, but few studies exist that emphasize the different trajectories to prison. For example, women prisoners have greater experiences of prior victimization, more reports of mental illness, and higher rates of illicit substance use. The purpose of this study was to understand the prevalence of childhood victimization and its association with adult mental health problems, substance abuse disorders, and further sexual victimization. The research team interviewed a random sample of 125 women prisoners soon to be released from prison to gather information on their childhood physical and sexual victimization, mental health and substance abuse problems as an adult, and sexual victimization in the year preceding incarceration. Results indicate that women prisoners in this sample, who were both physically and sexually victimized as children, were more likely to be hospitalized as an adult for a psychological or emotional problem. Women who were sexually victimized or both physically and sexually victimized were more likely to attempt suicide. Women who experienced physical victimization as children and women who were both physically and sexually victimized were more likely to have a substance use disorder and women who were sexually abused as children or both physically and sexually victimized were more likely to be sexually abused in the year preceding prison. This article ends with a discussion about prisons' role in providing treatment for women prisoners and basing this treatment on women's trajectories to prison, which disproportionately include childhood victimization and subsequent mental health and substance use problems.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0011, 10.1016/j.ijlp.2012.11.005
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Title: Motivations, Values, and Conflict Resolution: Students' Integration of Personal and Professional Identities.
Creator: Osteen, Philip
Abstract/Description: Edicts within the Council on Social Work Education's 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards address the importance of understanding the intersection of personal and professional values. Twenty MSW students, chosen on the basis of diverse cultural and personal characteristics, were interviewed about their motivations for pursuing a MSW degree and their personal and professional values. Thematic analysis yielded an emergent model relating the intersection of multiple forms of...
Show moreEdicts within the Council on Social Work Education's 2008 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards address the importance of understanding the intersection of personal and professional values. Twenty MSW students, chosen on the basis of diverse cultural and personal characteristics, were interviewed about their motivations for pursuing a MSW degree and their personal and professional values. Thematic analysis yielded an emergent model relating the intersection of multiple forms of motivation, encountering and resolving value conflicts, and integrating personal and professional identities. Implications for education and practice are (1) the intersection of personal and professional identities should be explicit components of curriculum; (2) strategies for managing value conflicts should be an integral part of the curriculum; and (3) the relationship between identity integration and practice needs to be delineated.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0025
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Title: Multicultural Curriculum and MSW Students' Attitudes about Race and Diversity.
Creator: Osteen, Philip, Vanidestine, Todd, Sharpe, Tanya L.
Abstract/Description: Methods of incorporating culturally competent practice and social justice curricula often are addressed in a required course or across courses using an infusion model. This research explored multicultural curricula and MSW students' attitudes about race and diversity. Data were collected from 297 MSW students enrolled at two universities. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed significant differences between students in programs with required multicultural coursework and those utilizing...
Show moreMethods of incorporating culturally competent practice and social justice curricula often are addressed in a required course or across courses using an infusion model. This research explored multicultural curricula and MSW students' attitudes about race and diversity. Data were collected from 297 MSW students enrolled at two universities. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed significant differences between students in programs with required multicultural coursework and those utilizing an infusion model, with respect to attitudes toward African Americans but not on measures of diversity or social equality and justice. The results indicate the differential outcomes based on curriculum models and support the need for further research in this area.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0027, 10.1080/08841233.2013.775211
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Title: Coercion: The Only Constant In Psychiatric Practice?.
Creator: Gomory, Tomi, Cohen, David, Kirk, Stuart A.
Abstract/Description: In the Western world, since at least the 15th century, state-sanctioned force has been employed to control those who disturb others by their violent or existentially destabilizing behaviors such as threatening or inflicting self-harm. Coercing the mad into madhouses, separating and detaining them from the rest of society, and forcing them to comply with their keepers' wishes, occurred before physicians became involved in theorizing about the meaning or origins of madness, and it continues to...
Show moreIn the Western world, since at least the 15th century, state-sanctioned force has been employed to control those who disturb others by their violent or existentially destabilizing behaviors such as threatening or inflicting self-harm. Coercing the mad into madhouses, separating and detaining them from the rest of society, and forcing them to comply with their keepers' wishes, occurred before physicians became involved in theorizing about the meaning or origins of madness, and it continues to distinguish psychiatric practice to this day. It is widely recognized that the mad used to be confined, beaten, tied, shocked or whirled into submission, but it seems less appreciated today by scholars, practitioners, and the general public that the physical control of "dangerous" mental patients remains a central function, and perhaps the only constant function, of public mental health systems.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0042
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Title: Collaboration at Arm's Length: Navigating Agency Engagement in Landscape Scale Ecological Restoration Collaboratives.
Creator: Butler, William
Abstract/Description: In 2010, the USDA Forest Service (USFS) created the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to fund implementation of landscape scale ecological restoration strategies. The program requires landscape projects to engage in collaboration throughout implementation over a ten-year period. A central tension in the program is the extent to which the USFS can engage in the collaborative process while retaining authority for management decisions on USFS lands and adhering to...
Show moreIn 2010, the USDA Forest Service (USFS) created the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to fund implementation of landscape scale ecological restoration strategies. The program requires landscape projects to engage in collaboration throughout implementation over a ten-year period. A central tension in the program is the extent to which the USFS can engage in the collaborative process while retaining authority for management decisions on USFS lands and adhering to statutory guidance on collaboration. Drawing on comparative research of the first ten projects enrolled in the CFLRP, this paper describes how USFS personnel navigated this tension and played roles in each collaborative categorized as leadership, membership, involvement and intermittence. It concludes by suggesting that agency staff engage in collaborative dialogue on substantive issues while operating from an "arm's length" posture procedurally. This approach can minimize time and energy spent dealing with procedural concerns while allowing agency employees and collaborators to share knowledge, information, ideas and perspectives to make better informed decisions as they undertake landscape scale ecological restoration work.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0019, 10.5849/jof.13-027
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Title: The extent and context of human health considerations in London's spatial development and climate action strategy.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher, Berke, Timothy
Abstract/Description: The protection of human health is among the original justifications for urban planning, but it is under-examined as one of the myriad benefits of planning for climate change. A conceptual content analysis of the spatial development strategy and climate action plans of London, UK, was performed to reveal how health was portrayed in climate change adaptation goals and actions. There were a total of 176 instances of the keyword 'health' in The London Plan and 124 instances in The Climate Change...
Show moreThe protection of human health is among the original justifications for urban planning, but it is under-examined as one of the myriad benefits of planning for climate change. A conceptual content analysis of the spatial development strategy and climate action plans of London, UK, was performed to reveal how health was portrayed in climate change adaptation goals and actions. There were a total of 176 instances of the keyword 'health' in The London Plan and 124 instances in The Climate Change Adaptation Strategy with weighted percentages of coverage of 0.19% and 0.45% respectively. The most salient conclusions from this analysis are that stated threats to health are truly localized, policies that address health acknowledge both adaptation and mitigation, and health inequalities and creating an environment supportive of health are the most salient cross-cutting issues.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0018, 10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000152
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Title: Does Sprawl Induce Affordable Housing?.
Creator: Aurand, Andrew
Abstract/Description: The costs of sprawl are well-documented, but there are fewer studies of its potential benefits. One such benefit is argued to be the facilitation of the filtering process, resulting in a greater quantity of affordable and available housing for low-income households. While metropolitan area data indicate a positive correlation between sprawl and the supply of affordable housing for poor households, regression analysis does not provide evidence for this hypothesis, after controlling for other...
Show moreThe costs of sprawl are well-documented, but there are fewer studies of its potential benefits. One such benefit is argued to be the facilitation of the filtering process, resulting in a greater quantity of affordable and available housing for low-income households. While metropolitan area data indicate a positive correlation between sprawl and the supply of affordable housing for poor households, regression analysis does not provide evidence for this hypothesis, after controlling for other metropolitan characteristics. The results put into question the argument that sprawl expands housing opportunities for households of all incomes, specifically those who are the poorest.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0022, 10.1111/grow.12024
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Title: County-Level Effects of Green Space Access on Physical Activity.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher, Chapin, Timothy, Horner, Mark, Taylor, Crystal
Abstract/Description: Background: Parks and other forms of green space are among the key environmental supports for recreational physical activity. Measurements of green space access have provided mixed results as to the influence of green space access on physical activity. Methods: This cross-sectional study uses a geographical information system (GIS) to examine the relationships between the amount of and distance to green space and county-level (n = 67) moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in the...
Show moreBackground: Parks and other forms of green space are among the key environmental supports for recreational physical activity. Measurements of green space access have provided mixed results as to the influence of green space access on physical activity. Methods: This cross-sectional study uses a geographical information system (GIS) to examine the relationships between the amount of and distance to green space and county-level (n = 67) moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in the state of Florida. Results: The gross amount of green space in a county (P < .05) and the amount of green space within defined distances of where people live (1/4 mile, P < .01; 1/2 mile, P < .05; 1 mile, P < .01) were positively associated with self-reported levels of MVPA. Distance to the nearest green space and the amount of green space furthest from where people live (10 miles) were not significantly associated with MVPA. All measures were weighted by the population living in census tracts. Conclusions: The results suggest that there is an association between the accessibility created by having more green space closer to home and MVPA, but this holds only for areas up to and including 1 mile from home.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0010
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Title: The Relationship Between Childhood Abuse and Psychosis for Women Prisoners: Assessing the Importance of Frequency and Type of Victimization.
Creator: Kennedy, Stephanie, Tripodi, Stephen, Pettus-Davis, Carrie
Abstract/Description: This study examines the relationship between childhood victimization and self- reported current symptoms of psychosis in an incarcerated female population in the United States. Participants are 159 randomly selected women incarcerated in two North Carolina state prisons. Participants completed a battery of self-report measures to assess childhood victimization and current and lifetime experience of audio/visual hallucinations and delusions. In accordance with the dose–response model, we...
Show moreThis study examines the relationship between childhood victimization and self- reported current symptoms of psychosis in an incarcerated female population in the United States. Participants are 159 randomly selected women incarcerated in two North Carolina state prisons. Participants completed a battery of self-report measures to assess childhood victimization and current and lifetime experience of audio/visual hallucinations and delusions. In accordance with the dose–response model, we hypothesized a predictive relationship between severity, frequency, and type of victimization and psychosis for this sample of women prisoners. Results indicate that women who experienced multi-victim- ization were 2.4 times more likely to report current symptoms of psychosis than other women prisoners who experienced only physical or sexual victimization in childhood. Likewise, a one-unit increase in frequency of childhood victimization was associated with a 3.2 % increased likelihood of having reported symptoms of current psychosis. These results provide support for the dose–response model hypothesis that multi-victimization is an important predictor of psychosis for the women prisoner population. Results indicate that adjusting prison-based mental health services to address the relationship of childhood victimization and symptoms of psychosis may be a key factor in improving outcomes among this population.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0005, 10.1007/s11126-013-9258-2
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Title: To What Extent is Criminal Justice Content Specifically Addressed in MSW Programs in the United States?.
Creator: Epperson, Matthew, Roberts, Leslie, Ivanoff, André Marie, Tripodi, Stephen, Gilmer, Christy
Abstract/Description: This study examined the extent to which criminal justice content is addressed in all CSWE-accredited MSW programs in the United States (N = 192). Criminal justice content was measured in three areas: (1) dual or joint degree programs, (2) concentrations or specializations, and (3) coursework. Excluding social work and law classes, 22% of all MSW programs offered a course specific to criminal justice. Nine programs (5%) offered a concentration or specialization in criminal justice. Only 1% of...
Show moreThis study examined the extent to which criminal justice content is addressed in all CSWE-accredited MSW programs in the United States (N = 192). Criminal justice content was measured in three areas: (1) dual or joint degree programs, (2) concentrations or specializations, and (3) coursework. Excluding social work and law classes, 22% of all MSW programs offered a course specific to criminal justice. Nine programs (5%) offered a concentration or specialization in criminal justice. Only 1% of MSW programs offered all three areas of criminal justice content. These findings indicate that opportunities for MSW students to explore interests in criminal justice are quite limited. Implications for the influence of the social work profession on criminal justice policy and practice are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0006, 10.1080/10437797.2013.755384
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Title: Alcohol Abuse, PTSD, and Officer-Committed Domestic Violence.
Creator: Oehme, Karen, Donnelly, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), Martin, Annelise
Abstract/Description: In a unique prevention project in a large US state, researchers explored how alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates influence rates of self-reported domestic violence committed by law enforcement officers. Survey methodology with a cross-sectional design was used, and multiple measures and instruments were analyzed. Because of the novel nature of the online curriculum and resources, there was no comparison group. A strong association—not a cause/effect relationship—was...
Show moreIn a unique prevention project in a large US state, researchers explored how alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates influence rates of self-reported domestic violence committed by law enforcement officers. Survey methodology with a cross-sectional design was used, and multiple measures and instruments were analyzed. Because of the novel nature of the online curriculum and resources, there was no comparison group. A strong association—not a cause/effect relationship—was found: officers who had PTSD were four times more likely to report using physical violence, officers who had hazardous drinking were four times more likely to report violence, and dependent drinkers were eight times more likely to report being physically violent with an intimate partner. The findings suggest new opportunities for agency action and have resulted in new recommendations for training and policies to help support healthier law enforcement officers. No previous study has explored the link between PTSD, alcohol use, and domestic violence within this population.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0021, 10.1093/police/pas023
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Title: Influential Publications in Social Work Discourse: The 100 Most Highly Cited Articles in Disciplinary Journals: 2000-2009.
Creator: Hodge, David R., Lacasse, Jeffrey R., Benson, Odessa
Abstract/Description: Examinations of highly cited articles are common in professions such as medicine as a way to enhance professional self-reflection. Yet, little research has examined influential articles in social work. In light of the emergence of a distinct disciplinary knowledge base over the past few decades, this study identifies the 100 most cited articles in disciplinary social work journals (N = 79) published during 2000-2009. Analysis revealed twelve citation classics spanning a relatively diverse...
Show moreExaminations of highly cited articles are common in professions such as medicine as a way to enhance professional self-reflection. Yet, little research has examined influential articles in social work. In light of the emergence of a distinct disciplinary knowledge base over the past few decades, this study identifies the 100 most cited articles in disciplinary social work journals (N = 79) published during 2000-2009. Analysis revealed twelve citation classics spanning a relatively diverse array of subjects. Among the various topics that appeared among the 100 most cited articles, the results suggest that evidence-based practice/social work research plays a particularly important role in professional discourse. Also notable is the fact that some two-thirds of the most highly cited articles were published in just four journals.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0039
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Title: Neighborhood urban form, social environment, and depression.
Creator: Miles, Rebecca, Coutts, Christopher, Mohamadi, Asal
Abstract/Description: We examined whether neighborhood urban form, along with the social environment, was associated with depressive symptoms in a sample of Miami residents. Using a validated measure of depressive symptoms, we found that living in neighborhoods with higher housing density was associated with fewer symptoms. A larger acreage of green spaces was also linked to fewer depressive symptoms but did not reach significance in the full model. Our results suggest that how residents use the environment...
Show moreWe examined whether neighborhood urban form, along with the social environment, was associated with depressive symptoms in a sample of Miami residents. Using a validated measure of depressive symptoms, we found that living in neighborhoods with higher housing density was associated with fewer symptoms. A larger acreage of green spaces was also linked to fewer depressive symptoms but did not reach significance in the full model. Our results suggest that how residents use the environment matters. Living in neighborhoods with a higher density of auto commuters relative to land area, an indicator of chronic noise exposure, was associated with more symptoms.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0011, FSU_2015fall_neighbor
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Title: Welcoming Animals Back to the City: Navigating the Tensions of Urban Livestock through Municipal Ordinances.
Creator: Butler, William
Abstract/Description: Since the Industrial Revolution, livestock has been driven out of urban and semi-urban areas in the United States. Recently, calls for localizing the food system have led to a rise in urban agriculture, and livestock is finding its way back into the city. The return of livestock to urban areas is rife with tensions, including concerns about public health and challenges to dominant perspectives about the separation of urban from rural life. Through an analysis of municipal codes, this paper...
Show moreSince the Industrial Revolution, livestock has been driven out of urban and semi-urban areas in the United States. Recently, calls for localizing the food system have led to a rise in urban agriculture, and livestock is finding its way back into the city. The return of livestock to urban areas is rife with tensions, including concerns about public health and challenges to dominant perspectives about the separation of urban from rural life. Through an analysis of municipal codes, this paper identifies how some communities have navigated challenges associated with welcoming livestock back into the city. Specifically, the paper analyzes how codes regulate livestock through prohibitions of certain types of animals, zoning to establish where in the municipality livestock can be kept, site-level restrictions that define property characteristics required to keep productive animals, and requirements for managing livestock and their accessory structures on the property. The analysis demonstrates that no two municipalities approach the urban livestock question in the same way; however, each seeks to place limits on raising livestock in urban areas through some combination of regulatory land use tools. The paper concludes with a broader discussion of how the regulations address key tensions associated with our understanding of the urban-rural divide and competing claims on public health.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0021
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Title: Correctional Officers and Domestic Violence: Experiences and Attitudes.
Creator: Valentine, Colby Lynne, Oehme, Karen, Martin, Annelise
Abstract/Description: This article presents the first statewide data regarding correctional officers' attitudes about and personal experiences with domestic violence. Online surveys were administered to Florida correctional officers asking a series of questions, including their beliefs and attitudes about the prevalence of domestic violence among colleagues, and their childhood and adult experiences with domestic violence. Results from 710 officers revealed that 33 % of respondents knew about correctional officers...
Show moreThis article presents the first statewide data regarding correctional officers' attitudes about and personal experiences with domestic violence. Online surveys were administered to Florida correctional officers asking a series of questions, including their beliefs and attitudes about the prevalence of domestic violence among colleagues, and their childhood and adult experiences with domestic violence. Results from 710 officers revealed that 33 % of respondents knew about correctional officers who had committed unreported domestic violence; 30 % reported that they had directly experienced domestic violence as children; and over 11 % reported that they had been physically violent with an intimate partner. Multivariate statistics showed that age, race, and childhood experiences with domestic violence were significantly related to correctional officers reporting being physically abusive to an intimate partner or family member. These and other findings highlight the need for increased agency prevention efforts and research on the phenomenon of correctional officer-involved domestic violence.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0022, 10.1007/s10896-012-9448-y
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Title: Creating connected open space in Florida: The influence on human use for recreation.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher
Abstract/Description: This exploratory study examined the Florida Communities Trust (FCT) open space acquisition program for its ability to connect recreational open spaces and the influence this connectivity had on public use for physical activity. The methods included an examination of all FCT proposals submitted from 2001 to 2006 (n = 617) and a survey (n = 45) of Lafayette Heritage Trail park users in Tallahassee, Florida. Lafayette Heritage Trail is an FCT-funded park serving as a vital link in a local open...
Show moreThis exploratory study examined the Florida Communities Trust (FCT) open space acquisition program for its ability to connect recreational open spaces and the influence this connectivity had on public use for physical activity. The methods included an examination of all FCT proposals submitted from 2001 to 2006 (n = 617) and a survey (n = 45) of Lafayette Heritage Trail park users in Tallahassee, Florida. Lafayette Heritage Trail is an FCT-funded park serving as a vital link in a local open space system. The analysis revealed that, although there are relatively few questions in the FCT application instrument pertaining to connectivity, it has been relatively successful in extending and connecting open space. The analysis also revealed that patrons of Lafayette Heritage Trail were not only aware of the park's connectivity but also attributed it to their increased use of the space.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0001
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Title: Effects of Personality Disorder and Impulsivity on Emotional Adaptations in Prison Among Women Offenders.
Creator: Mahmood, Senik, Tripodi, Stephen, Vaughn, Michael G., Bender, Kimberly, Schwartz, Rachel
Abstract/Description: The present study sought to better understand the influence of personality disorders and impulsivity on women's ability to adapt to incarceration. We analyzed the influence of personality disorders as screened with the Structured Clinical Interview for Personality Disorders, and impulsivity as assessed with the Barratt Impulsivity Scale on depression and anxiety, sleeping problems, and feeling afraid of being attacked in prison among a large sample of women incarcerated in a Virginia prison....
Show moreThe present study sought to better understand the influence of personality disorders and impulsivity on women's ability to adapt to incarceration. We analyzed the influence of personality disorders as screened with the Structured Clinical Interview for Personality Disorders, and impulsivity as assessed with the Barratt Impulsivity Scale on depression and anxiety, sleeping problems, and feeling afraid of being attacked in prison among a large sample of women incarcerated in a Virginia prison. Results from regression models indicated that schizotypal, borderline, avoidant and dependent personality disorders and cognitive impulsivity were significant predictors of symptoms of anxiety and depression net of demographic covariates. Women possessing a diagnosis of paranoid personality disorder were at increased odds of having difficulty sleeping in prison and borderline, dependent, and paranoid personality disorder were at increased odds of experiencing fear in prison. Women who had been in prison before were significantly less likely to experience these problems. Implications of study findings for policies and practices involving women offenders are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0017, 10.1007/s11126-012-9215-5
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Title: Green Infrastructure and Public Health in the Florida Communities Trust Public Land Acquisition Program.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher
Abstract/Description: The Florida Communities Trust (FCT) program provides grants to local governments to preserve open space. In doing so, this program plays an important role in supporting public health. A total of 617 FCT applications submitted between 2001-2006 were examined to determine in what ways the FCT is supporting public health. Results revealed that the FCT is supporting health most notably through the provision of park and greenway settings for physical activity and the protection of water quality....
Show moreThe Florida Communities Trust (FCT) program provides grants to local governments to preserve open space. In doing so, this program plays an important role in supporting public health. A total of 617 FCT applications submitted between 2001-2006 were examined to determine in what ways the FCT is supporting public health. Results revealed that the FCT is supporting health most notably through the provision of park and greenway settings for physical activity and the protection of water quality. These findings are important because they reveal that programs such as the FCT have a latent ability to support public health. Making the important social benefit of public health more explicit can provide further justification for public land acquisition.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0009, 10.1080/02697459.2010.511017
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Title: Greenways as green magnets: The relationship between the race of greenway users and race in proximal neighborhoods.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher, Miles, Rebecca
Abstract/Description: Although advances have been made in research examining race and the use of public parks, there has been little attention paid to urban greenways. Using Geographic Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, this exploratory study examines whether the racial composition of neighborhoods surrounding two urban greenways in Michigan acts as a barrier to trail use or whether these urban greenways operate as "green magnets" facilitating links between neighborhoods...
Show moreAlthough advances have been made in research examining race and the use of public parks, there has been little attention paid to urban greenways. Using Geographic Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, this exploratory study examines whether the racial composition of neighborhoods surrounding two urban greenways in Michigan acts as a barrier to trail use or whether these urban greenways operate as "green magnets" facilitating links between neighborhoods of varied racial composition. The results of this study revealed that the racial composition of the neighborhoods greenway users passed through did not predict the race of users on a given segment. These findings suggest that greenways might facilitate racial comingling in urban public space.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0013, FSU_2015fall_greenways
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Title: Evaluating the Productivity of Social Work Scholars Using the H-index.
Creator: Lacasse, Jeffrey R., Hodge, David R., Bean, Kristen
Abstract/Description: Objectives: This article reports the first estimated h-index values for social work faculty. Methods: Multiple raters blindly assessed two samples of faculty (1) tenure-track faculty at institutions listed in the U.S. News and World Report top 10 (n=337) and (2) tenure track editorial board members of 5 highly ranked social work journals (n=215). Results: Intraclass correlation coefficients for h-index values among the multiple raters ranged from .83 to .92, indicating good reliability. For...
Show moreObjectives: This article reports the first estimated h-index values for social work faculty. Methods: Multiple raters blindly assessed two samples of faculty (1) tenure-track faculty at institutions listed in the U.S. News and World Report top 10 (n=337) and (2) tenure track editorial board members of 5 highly ranked social work journals (n=215). Results: Intraclass correlation coefficients for h-index values among the multiple raters ranged from .83 to .92, indicating good reliability. For faculty at top 10 institutions, mean estimated h-index values were 3.97 (SD=2.87) for assistant professors; 8.59 (SD=3.72) for associate professors; and 16.14 (SD=8.35) for full professors. Values for editorial board members were generally similar. Conclusions: These are the first such published data; further research is needed.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0040, 10.1177/1049731511405069
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Title: Evaluating Journal Quality: Is the H-index a Better Measure than Impact Factors?.
Creator: Hodge, David R., Lacasse, Jeffrey R.
Abstract/Description: Objectives: This study evaluates the utility of a new measure—the h-index—that may provide a more valid approach to evaluating journal quality in the social work profession. Methods: H-index values are compared with Thomson ISI five-year impact factors and expert opinion. Results: As hypothesized, the h-index correlates highly with ISI five-year impact factors; but exhibits closer agreement with expert opinion, particularly with high familiarity disciplinary journals. Conclusions: This...
Show moreObjectives: This study evaluates the utility of a new measure—the h-index—that may provide a more valid approach to evaluating journal quality in the social work profession. Methods: H-index values are compared with Thomson ISI five-year impact factors and expert opinion. Results: As hypothesized, the h-index correlates highly with ISI five-year impact factors; but exhibits closer agreement with expert opinion, particularly with high familiarity disciplinary journals. Conclusions: This evidence of convergent and discriminatory validity suggests that the h-index may have some utility in assessing social work journals. Notable advantages of the h-index include its compatibility with the profession's applied research culture and its ability to be used with essentially all journals in which social workers publish.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0038
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Title: Rater Wealth Predicts Perceptions of Outgroup Competence.
Creator: Chan, Wayne, McCrae, Robert R., Rogers, Darrin, Weimer, Amy, Greenberg, David, Terracciano, Antonio
Abstract/Description: National income has a pervasive influence on the perception of ingroup stereotypes, with high status and wealthy targets perceived as more competent. In two studies we investigated the degree to which economic wealth of raters related to perceptions of outgroup competence. Raters' economic wealth predicted trait ratings when 1) raters in 48 other cultures rated Americans' competence and 2) Mexican Americans rated Anglo Americans' competence. Rater wealth also predicted ratings of...
Show moreNational income has a pervasive influence on the perception of ingroup stereotypes, with high status and wealthy targets perceived as more competent. In two studies we investigated the degree to which economic wealth of raters related to perceptions of outgroup competence. Raters' economic wealth predicted trait ratings when 1) raters in 48 other cultures rated Americans' competence and 2) Mexican Americans rated Anglo Americans' competence. Rater wealth also predicted ratings of interpersonal warmth on the culture level. In conclusion, raters' economic wealth, either nationally or individually, is significantly associated with perception of outgroup members, supporting the notion that ingroup conditions or stereotypes function as frames of reference in evaluating outgroup traits.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0012, 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.08.001
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Title: Community Built Environment Factors and Mobility Around Senior Wellness Centers: The Concept of "Safe Senior Zones".
Creator: Shendell, Derek, Johnson, Matthew, Sanders, Danna, Nowakowski, Alexandra, Yang, Jianhua, Jeffries, Carla, Weisman, Janet, Moulding, Megan
Abstract/Description: The authors investigated built environment (BE) factors in urban neighborhoods in DeKalb County, Georgia. Each volunteering, consenting senior was placed into one of two groups: walking tours outside, then discussions (n=37); and focus group discussions indoors about photographs of BE conditions potentially influencing mobility (n=43). The authors sought to identify BE factors-both real and perceived by participating seniors-related to their ability to walk around senior wellness centers in a...
Show moreThe authors investigated built environment (BE) factors in urban neighborhoods in DeKalb County, Georgia. Each volunteering, consenting senior was placed into one of two groups: walking tours outside, then discussions (n=37); and focus group discussions indoors about photographs of BE conditions potentially influencing mobility (n=43). The authors sought to identify BE factors-both real and perceived by participating seniors-related to their ability to walk around senior wellness centers in a healthy and safe manner. The authors focused specifically on available literature and pilot study data for their concept of "safe senior zones" around senior wellness centers serving urban communities in this article. They also characterized their study population regarding sociodemographic variables and doctor-diagnosed chronic diseases, and types of walking aids reported used to help prevent falls. Their results can inform future applied practice and research on traffic-related exposures and BE factors concerning seniors, and support policy and planning to benefit community environmental public health.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_mhs-0042
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Title: Why Youth Leave Care: Understandings of Adulthood and Transition Successes and Challenge Among Youth Aging Out of Child Welfare.
Creator: Goodkind, Sarah, Schelbe, Lisa, Shook, Jeffrey J.
Abstract/Description: Child welfare policies and practices are changing to allow more youth to remain in care beyond age 18. Yet, the majority of youth do not stay. Given recent evidence suggesting that remaining in care may be beneficial, there is a need to understand why youth leave. Using data gathered from in-depth interviews with young people aging out of care, this paper explores this question, relating it to youths' understandings of adulthood and the successes and challenges they face during their...
Show moreChild welfare policies and practices are changing to allow more youth to remain in care beyond age 18. Yet, the majority of youth do not stay. Given recent evidence suggesting that remaining in care may be beneficial, there is a need to understand why youth leave. Using data gathered from in-depth interviews with young people aging out of care, this paper explores this question, relating it to youths' understandings of adulthood and the successes and challenges they face during their transitions. We find that youth leave care because of misunderstanding and misinformation about the requirements for remaining in care, as well as because of a desire for autonomy and independence. Specifically, many youth equated adulthood with independence, and thus felt that they needed to leave care to achieve adulthood. Unfortunately, these efforts to be independent often hinder youths' development of supportive relationships, which they reported to be one of the greatest challenges in their transitions. Based on these findings, we conclude by challenging the conflation of adulthood and independence, as well as of childhood and dependence, calling for connected autonomy as a goal for child welfare involved young people of all ages.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0002, 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.01.010
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Title: Policy Analysis of Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.
Creator: Schelbe, Lisa
Abstract/Description: Youth "age out" of the child welfare when they are no longer eligible for services due to their age. These youth often face hardships across multiple domains of their lives. Recent evidence shows youth remaining in care beyond age 18 fare better than those who exit care at age 18. With the passage of recent federal legislation, states have more opportunities for federal funding to extend services to youths "aging out." This article explores the issue of youths aging out of the child welfare...
Show moreYouth "age out" of the child welfare when they are no longer eligible for services due to their age. These youth often face hardships across multiple domains of their lives. Recent evidence shows youth remaining in care beyond age 18 fare better than those who exit care at age 18. With the passage of recent federal legislation, states have more opportunities for federal funding to extend services to youths "aging out." This article explores the issue of youths aging out of the child welfare system and analyzes the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0004, 10.1080/10911359.2011.580246
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Title: A Practical Plan for Prevention and Intervention: Florida's New Model Policy on Officer-Involved Domestic Violence.
Creator: Oehme, Karen, Martin, Annelise
Abstract/Description: This article describes the development and innovative dissemination of Florida's new Model Policy on officer-involved domestic violence and explains its expanded focus on training, employee assistance programs, and victims, as well as its application to a much broader group of officers than any other related policy in the USA. The article also presents data from research surveys taken by the first group of officers who viewed the Model Policy online. An analysis of the data reflects the...
Show moreThis article describes the development and innovative dissemination of Florida's new Model Policy on officer-involved domestic violence and explains its expanded focus on training, employee assistance programs, and victims, as well as its application to a much broader group of officers than any other related policy in the USA. The article also presents data from research surveys taken by the first group of officers who viewed the Model Policy online. An analysis of the data reflects the promise of the Model Policy's potential impact and the broader impact of the Law Enforcement Families Partnership.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0023, 10.1080/1478601X.2011.626152
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Title: Projecting Landscapes of Death.
Creator: Coutts, Christopher, Basmajian, Carlton, Chapin, Timothy
Abstract/Description: Planning for the disposal of the dead is often overlooked as a planning function, but the permanence of allocating land to cemetery use makes it critical to long range land use planning. There is very little contemporary guidance for planners on the variables which should be considered when projecting the land use needs of the dead. In this paper we illustrate the complexities of projecting landscapes of death, and we present of formula to capture this complexity and calculate future spatial...
Show morePlanning for the disposal of the dead is often overlooked as a planning function, but the permanence of allocating land to cemetery use makes it critical to long range land use planning. There is very little contemporary guidance for planners on the variables which should be considered when projecting the land use needs of the dead. In this paper we illustrate the complexities of projecting landscapes of death, and we present of formula to capture this complexity and calculate future spatial needs for cemeteries. We then apply this method to the case of Palm Beach County, Florida, a county of over a million residents, many of whom are elderly, that could experience a shortage of cemetery lands in the coming decades. This paper raises important issues when planning for the land use needs of the dead including burial migration and problems in estimating existing capacity. This work demonstrates that planners need to take a more active role in planning for the dead, especially given the lack of information on interment capacity in most locations in the country.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0002, 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.05.005
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Title: Rater Wealth Predicts Perceptions of Outgroup Competence.
Creator: Chan, Wayne, McCrae, Robert R., Rogers, Darrin, Weimer, Amy, Greenberg, David, Terracciano, Antonio
Abstract/Description: National income has a pervasive influence on the perception of ingroup stereotypes, with high status and wealthy targets perceived as more competent. In two studies we investigated the degree to which economic wealth of raters related to perceptions of outgroup competence. Raters' economic wealth predicted trait ratings when 1) raters in 48 other cultures rated Americans' competence and 2) Mexican Americans rated Anglo Americans' competence. Rater wealth also predicted ratings of...
Show moreNational income has a pervasive influence on the perception of ingroup stereotypes, with high status and wealthy targets perceived as more competent. In two studies we investigated the degree to which economic wealth of raters related to perceptions of outgroup competence. Raters' economic wealth predicted trait ratings when 1) raters in 48 other cultures rated Americans' competence and 2) Mexican Americans rated Anglo Americans' competence. Rater wealth also predicted ratings of interpersonal warmth on the culture level. In conclusion, raters' economic wealth, either nationally or individually, is significantly associated with perception of outgroup members, supporting the notion that ingroup conditions or stereotypes function as frames of reference in evaluating outgroup traits.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_geriatrics_faculty_publications-0012, 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.08.001
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Title: Protecting Lives, Careers, and Public Confidence: Florida's Efforts to Prevent Officer-Involved Domestic Violence.
Creator: Oehme, Karen, Siebert, Darcy Clay, Siebert, Carl, Stern, Nat, Valentine, Colby Lynne, Donnelly, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne)
Abstract/Description: Florida's innovative Law Enforcement Families Partnership (LEFP) was created to reduce and prevent officer-involved domestic violence in the state. Administered by the Institute for Family Violence Studies at Florida State University and supported by the criminal justice and victim's advocacy communities, the LEFP is the first statewide project of its kind. It includes several components, the cornerstone of which is an online curriculum that teaches officers about the dynamics and...
Show moreFlorida's innovative Law Enforcement Families Partnership (LEFP) was created to reduce and prevent officer-involved domestic violence in the state. Administered by the Institute for Family Violence Studies at Florida State University and supported by the criminal justice and victim's advocacy communities, the LEFP is the first statewide project of its kind. It includes several components, the cornerstone of which is an online curriculum that teaches officers about the dynamics and consequences of domestic violence perpetrated by officers. This article describes the project and early data from the surveys attached to the curriculum.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_csw_faculty_publications-0024, 10.1111/j.1744-1617.2010.01355.x
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