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UMB PhD Program Selected Student Dissertations

Aging  |  Child Welfare/Family & Children  |  Employee Assistance Programs  |  Health  |  International 

Management and Community Organization  |  Mental Health  |  Policy  |  Substance Abuse

Aging

Depressive Symptoms:  Depletion or Developmental Change?   Kathryn Adams

The Effects of Stress, Role Ambiguity and Social Support on Burnout Among Home Health Aides: Toward the Prevention of Maltreatment of the Frail Elderly   Catherine J. Tompkins

Late Life Suicidal Behavior: Complexity, Descriptors, Levels of Risk   Donna Meisel-Weinreich

Older Women: The Influences of Race, Health Status, and Social Network Involvement on Use of Community Services   Barbara A. Soniat

Child Welfare/ Family and Children

An Exploratory Study of Family Structure and Drug Trafficking Among 11-17 Year Old Public Housing Residents   Joshua Okundaye

The Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment Recurrences   Diane DePanfilis

Predicting Drift in Foster Care   Carol Pearson

Proprietary Firms as Vendors of Public Child Welfare Services   Catherine E. Born

A Qualitative Study of Parenting by Incest Survivors   Daryl O'Brien

Employee Assistance Programs

Employee Attitudes Toward Corporate Drug Testing Policies and Practices   Michelle Jones

Factors Affecting Outcomes in Employee Assistance Programs   Ann Nail Turner

Status of a Moderator of Job Satisfaction and Role Ambiguity:  A Study of the Army Behavioral Science Specialist   Jesse J. Harris

Health

Breast Cancer Experience Among Puerto Rican Women: A Qualitative Study   Ana Maritza Martinez

Experiences of African American Families at an AIDS Bereavement Camp   Susan McFeaters

Illness Behavior in Midlife Women   Carole Cox

Predictors of Successful Rehabilitation of Persons Living with Disabilities   Debbie Hu

International

Education Attainment, Modernization and Fertility Reduction:  An Analysis of Family Planning Policy in India   Kul Bhushan Suri

Pakistan's Zakat and Ushr System:  An Islamic Public Welfare System in a Developing Country   Grace C. Clark

Professional Occupational Adjustment of Libyans Educated in United States Universities   Ibraham E. El-Sharif

A Study of Factors that Contribute to the Discrepancy Between the High Number of Women Receiving College Education and the Low Number of Women Participating in the Labor Force in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia   Rogayah Samergandi

Mental Health

A Descriptive Analysis of Suicide Among Blacks in Maryland from 1974-1980   Dwight E. Miles

Forgiveness and Psychotherapy   Ann M. Stipe

Health Beliefs and Medication Compliance Among Outpatients with Schizophrenia   Gerard R. Kelly

Perspectives Among Mental Health Providers Regarding Rehospitalization of the Chronically Mentally Ill   Denise Anderson

Social Exchange Patterns in the Psychiatric Foster Home   Larry W. Whorley

Policy

Historical Analysis of the Implementation of Federal Policy: A Case Study of Accessing Title IV-E Funds to Support Social Work Education   Joan Levy Zlotnik

The Social Construction of Public Welfare:  A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Child-Abuse and Neglect Legislation   Jean Louis Marchand

Welfare Recidivism:  When Getting A Job May Not Be Enough   Deborah Mathews

Management and Community Organization

Help-Seeking and Receiving in Urban Ethnic Neighborhoods   David E. Biegel

Interorganizational Service Delivery Systems:  A Process Model   Catherine Alter

Sociometric Analysis of Inter-Organizational Relations:  An Exploratory Study of Factors which Enhance or Hinder Cooperation Ronald   Ira Weiner

Substance Abuse

The Impact of Addiction Treatment on the Lives of Women with Young Children   Jane Cibel Baxter

Phenomenology of Relapse and Life Experience Among Female Opiate Addicts   Catherine McAlpine

Predictors of Drug Abuse Among a Group of Urban Black Male Adolescents   Elaine M. Johnson

Social Drift Among Primary Alcohol Abusers   Daniel Tovar

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