Doctor of Nursing Practice, Mount St. Joseph University , 2024, Department of Nursing

Care coordination benefits patients and families (Bronstein et al., 2018). HealthVine is a Care management department in a teaching hospital in a Midwestern American City. The department provides care management and care coordination to over 100,000 pediatric patients. However, the department cannot enroll many patients into its care coordination programs. Other care coordination departments also need help with low enrollment rates. To address the low enrollment issue, HealthVine created a project team to test some interventions. The interventions included: • Creating a checklist for HealthVine team members to conduct a targeted chart review, • Creating an elevator pitch for team members to use when calling a family for enrollment and • optimizing EHR for streamlined and practical use. Upon completing the interventions, the project team collected data from a run chart, Survey Monkey, and Microsoft Forms. Enrollment rates increased from 0.72% to 3%, and staff satisfaction increased from 24% to 95%.

Committee: Kristin Clephane DNP (Advisor) Subjects: Public Health

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Dayton, 2021, Theology

I argue that Catholic social activism needs a theological reflection that centers on the use of symbols to promote social action. Using social movement theory, we can examine the role that ecclesiology, theological developments, and sacramental practice have played in guiding Catholic social action. Contrary to the common interpretation that social movements enact Catholic social teaching, I argue that by analyzing the use of religious symbols within social movements, we can see how movements adapt, develop, and enrich established doctrines and theologies. Ultimately, we will better understand the aims, purposes, and challenges of Catholic social activists. Moreover, we can re-narrate the broader theological history of U.S. Catholic social activism through the lens of these activists.

Committee: Vincent Miller (Advisor); Neomi DeAnda (Committee Member); Kevin Ahern (Committee Member); Sandra Yocum (Committee Member); Dennis Doyle (Committee Member) Subjects: Theology

Master of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1966, Graduate School

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Master of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1966, Graduate School

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Master of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1962, Graduate School

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Master of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1965, Graduate School

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Doctor of Education, Miami University, 2023, Educational Leadership

The purpose of this qualitative, narrative research study was to examine the perceptions of school social workers and their ability to serve as transformative Social Emotional Learning (SEL) leaders in public school settings. The study is significant because there is limited existing research from the perspective of a school social worker. The research applies a transformative leadership lens and transformative SEL leadership tenets to participant responses. Methods: Participants engaged in a semi-structured interview process and answered questions about school processes, procedures, and policies, which provided support or barriers to their transformative SEL work. Results: Factors influencing the SSWs' transformative leadership were identified as a) organizational structures, b) discipline policies and practices, c) communication, d) building relationships with families, e) community engagement, and f) professional identity. The identified factors demonstrate how clarity of roles and the SSW professional identity are critical to the success of their leadership practices. SSWs shared the challenges they face when helping school staff understand the SSW's role and how they are able to contribute to the school ecosystem. Participants reflected on the need to improve their capacity to serve as transformative SEL leaders. The results summarize the influencing factors and provide recommendations for further study as well as implications for school districts to limit the underutilization or undervaluing of SSWs in the public school setting.

Committee: Lucian Szlizewski (Committee Co-Chair); Stephanie Danker (Committee Member); Érica Fernández (Committee Co-Chair) Subjects: Educational Leadership; Educational Sociology; Social Work

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, 2021, Higher Education (Education)

Student mental health is a concern across all sectors of postsecondary education as today's college students are presenting to campus with higher amounts of psychopathology than ever before. In 2019, the NASPA Vice President for Student Affairs Census found that student mental health was ranked the number one issue by 750 chief student affairs professionals at both two and four-year public institutions (Anderson, 2019). Social workers are one of the largest groups of mental health professionals in the country (Council on Social Work Education, 2014), though very few social workers are employed in the college and/or university setting (Salsberg et al., 2017). This research aimed to explore the functions that persons with social work degrees are playing on college campuses and see how their social work training informs their work on campus and within student affairs roles. The study's findings show that while persons with social work degrees are employed in a variety of different roles on campuses, they have a common approach to their work. The themes noted include a holistic approach to student support, addressing basic needs concerns, supporting student mental health, and engaging in program development. Additionally, the participants noted that social work training including competency-based education, field placement requirements, and the social work code of ethics help guide in guiding their work on campus. Lastly, it was discovered that higher education does not understand the social work profession. This study considers the ways that non-counseling center staff, specifically those with social work degrees, are using their knowledge, skills, and experiences to support students outside of the traditional college counseling center environment. We have likely hit the end of the road in our ability to address student mental health issues with individual counseling. The systematic approach that is ingrained into the social work profession is necessary. The findings f (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Laura Harrison (Advisor) Subjects: Higher Education; Social Work

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1985, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1979, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1975, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2016, Sociology

For decades the study of unemployment has been dominated by psychologists and economists and has largely been overlooked by sociologists. When the world economy entered a period of prolonged economic decline in the fall of 2007, this began to change. During this period many workers found themselves facing extreme economic hardship as they were involuntarily unemployed for extended periods of time. Yet even as the Great Recession forced sociologists to rediscover the topic of unemployment, most of this research followed the traditions set forth by economists and psychologists by focusing on macro-level factors associated with the decline or the psychological responses of unemployed workers. While this research is important, it provides little insight into the lived experiences of unemployed workers and their families. In the following paper I begin addressing this gap by utilizing qualitative methods to explore the lived experiences of unemployed and underemployed workers during two of the most devastating economic collapses in U.S. history: the Great Depression and the Great Recession. Data on the experiences of workers during the Great Recession come from eighty-four semi-structured interviews with displaced workers in Columbus, OH conducted between 2012 and 2013. In contrast, the experiences of unemployed workers during the Great Depression are explored using research conducted by E. Wight Bakke and his team during the 1930s. The current analysis focuses primarily on the material responses of workers during both periods. Material responses are conceptualized as the strategies individuals and families employ in order to maintain their standard of living in the face of economic hardship. Given the substantial technological, industrial, and institutional changes that have occurred since the start of the Great Depression, one would expect there to be significant differences in the material responses of workers during both periods. Yet, the current analysis discovers t (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Steven Lopez (Advisor); Rachel Dwyer (Committee Member); Vincent Roscigno (Committee Member) Subjects: Social Research; Sociology

Psy. D., Antioch University, 2013, Antioch New England: Clinical Psychology

This dissertation examines how the class background of social workers and doctoral level psychologists influences negative countertransference towards working with the poor in an outreach setting. A literature review explores countertransference from a psychoanalytic stance and showcases the development of the two disciplines, psychology and social work, and how class has directly or implicitly been a factor. Finally, the review discusses outreach therapy, its advantages and limitations, and how doing this work can impact clinicians. Participants for the study were master's level clinicians, current and former predoctoral psychology interns, postdoctoral fellows, and other doctoral level clinicians who were currently or formerly practicing outreach therapy. Participants completed two measures that were developed by the principal investigator. The first measure asked participants to identify with one of four possible social class descriptions. The second measure was a series of 10 vignettes portraying potential countertransference scenarios. Participants were to select from three possible "emotional blends" of negative countertransference and then rank the intensity (1-5) of that particular emotional blend. The study had 27 participants varying in age, gender and ethnicity. Chi-square analyses between education level and social class, education level and countertransference, and social class and countertransference, all were not significant. Descriptive statistics outlined the frequencies of emotional blend responses for each vignette, as well as levels of intensity for each emotional blend and respective vignette. Means and standard deviations indicated differences between social classes and the average level of intensity that was experienced. T-tests indicated that there were significant differences between master's and doctoral level clinicians regarding emotional blends. The research implies that there are relationships between education level and social class an (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Roger Peterson Ph.D., ABPP (Committee Chair); Kathy McMahon Psy.D. (Committee Member); Barbara Belcher-Timme Psy.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Clinical Psychology

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2007, Political Science

This study identifies that after 1997 financial crisis Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore experienced different shifts in their structure of provision of social security benefits. The shifts vary on two important dimensions of social security provisions: the benefit level and the political control of the state over the private sector. In Indonesia there was a shift that eroded benefit level and strengthened the state's political control over the private sector. In the Philippines there was a shift that improved benefit level and weakened state control over the private sector. Meanwhile in Singapore the shift improved benefit level yet at the expense of deeper penetration of state control over the private sector. What explains the variation in the shifts in the dimensions of social security provisions in Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore after crisis? Such variation cannot be explained with the usual explanatory variables: fiscal constraints at the national level, the ranking of economies in the global competition, or the intervention of international financial institutions. This economic context after financial crisis only affect the degree of dramaticness of change proposed for the social security reform. Once the reform proposal is advanced, however, it was domestic politics that matter more. The output is influenced by a compromise-building among employers, workers, state leaders and bureaucrats. More specifically, the reform outputs differ by the variation of the expectations of employers and workers on the conduciveness of the overall economy and the degree of relative intensity of symbiosis between bureaucrats of social security agencies and state leaders (low or relatively less political in leadership and management and high or relatively highly political in leadership and management). This study demonstrates the critical importance of social security reform to market governance. Beyond earlier study of market governance, which identifies the pre (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: William Liddle (Advisor) Subjects: Political Science, General

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Bowling Green State University, 2008, Leadership Studies

The purpose of the present study was to explore relationships between personality and engagement among human services professionals and paraprofessionals. In particular, the present study investigated relationships between the five factor model of personality (FFM) and William Kahn's model of employee engagement encompassing physical (energy, effort), emotional (enthusiasm, pride), and cognitive (concentration, focus) components. The independent variables were five personality traits: need for stability (tolerance to stress, tendency to worry), extraversion (sociability, enthusiasm, energy), originality (imagination, complexity, tolerance to “newness”), accommodation (service orientation, comfort with “not having one's way”), and consolidation (focus, concentration, discipline). These traits were measured by the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile™ or WPB5 (Howard and Howard, 2001). The dependent variable was employee engagement as measured by Bruce Rich's (2006) Job Engagement Survey (JES).The present study sought to answer the following four questions: a) What is the strength and direction of the relationships between the five factors of personality and employee engagement, b) what is the combination of personality trait scores that best predicts engagement, c) what are the differences in employee engagement across the personalities of employees in the three organizations, and d) what are the differences in employee engagement across the personalities and between the paraprofessionals and professionals. A single survey combining the WPB5 and the JES questions was electronically mailed to 890 human services professionals employed by three social services agencies in the Midwest of the United States. A total of 420 surveys were returned, with an overall response rate of 47 percent. The results of the present study suggested that two personality traits are significant predictors of engagement: extraversion and consolidation. These two traits were also positively correlate (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Patrick Pauken (Advisor); Janet Hartley (Committee Member); Gregg Brownell (Committee Member); Craig Mertler (Committee Member); Lillian Schumacher (Committee Member) Subjects: Business Community; Business Education; Education; Management; Personality; Psychology; Social Work

Master of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1967, Graduate School

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Master of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1965, Graduate School

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Master of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1968, Graduate School

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Doctor of Healthcare Administration (D.H.A.), Franklin University, 2024, Health Programs

Thousands of teenagers and young adults are confirmed victims, and many more are at risk of maltreatment and neglect. Foster care is a temporary solution by providing 24/7 care for these victims in kinship and non-kinship foster boarding homes. The study examined child welfare social workers in New York State in the child welfare field on their experiences that impact the delivery of quality healthcare and mental health services for teenagers and young adults in foster care. The qualitative study aimed to explore the experiences of child welfare caseworkers in New York's child welfare system regarding providing psychological and medical services to teenagers and young adults. By conducting interviews with professionals from various child welfare non-profit organizations, the research aimed to identify common themes and subthemes that impact the delivery of quality healthcare and mental health services to this vulnerable population. The researcher interviewed 15 child welfare caseworkers who coordinated providing needed psychological and medical services for teenagers (ages 13-19) and young adults (ages 20-21) in the state of New York's child welfare system. The Zoom media platform was utilized while all security protocols were followed by the researcher. The interviews were recorded and transcribed. The interview transcriptions were coded using ATLAS.ti to assist in identifying common themes and subthemes pertaining to the key issues affecting child welfare caseworkers and the delivery of psychological and physical medical services to teenagers and young adults.

Committee: David Meckstroth (Committee Chair); Karen Lankisch (Committee Member); Courtney McKim (Committee Member) Subjects: Families and Family Life; Health; Health Care; Health Care Management; Mental Health; Social Work

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, 2023, English (Rhetoric and Writing) PhD

This dissertation examined media rhetoric in the Los Angeles Times about 51 murdered marginalized women in the “Southside Slayer” serial killer cases. The “Southside Slayer” was five different Black men who did not fit the profile of a serial killer and were able to continue murdering women from 1983 to 2007. The victims and/or killers were all associated at one point with the “Southside Slayer” moniker and/or task force, even though some of the killers were later given different nicknames in the press. The goal of this study was to identify harmful narratives against marginalized women victims, and how they were perpetuated through the Los Angeles Times. Through qualitative archival research and a feminist social constructionist lens, language and word/phrase choices in 126 articles from the Los Angeles Times dating from 1985 to 2020 were examined for the use of synecdoche, derogatory language, and negatively connotative language when referring to the fifty-one women. In addition, use of the victims' names, use of the killers' names, and use of killer-friendly language were examined. Using critical discourse analysis and grounded theory, harmful narratives and dehumanization of the women were perpetuated through the underuse of victims' names combined with overused combinations of synecdoche, derogatory, and/or negatively connotative words/phrases. Digital media of today was also examined, and perpetuation or disruption of the harmful narratives and dehumanization varied.

Committee: Lee Nickoson Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Christopher Ward Ph.D. (Other); Radhika Gajjala Ph.D. (Committee Member); Chad Iwertz-Duffy Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Composition; Journalism; Mass Communications; Mass Media; Rhetoric; Social Structure; Womens Studies