A complete list of my publications can be found on my Curriculum Vitae posted on my Home page.
AY 2020-2022 Project Teaching Critical Thinking in Research and Statistics - Multi-site quasi-experimental study exploring use of Ennis' (1989) mixed approach to increasing students' active, open-minded thinking, a prerequisite to critical thinking. AY 2019-2020 Project Changing Student Attitudes toward Wealth and Taxes - Multi-site quasi-experimental study exploring the use of an in-class Candy and Taxes exercise to influence student attitudes toward wealth and taxes. AY 2018-2019 Projects Preparing Social Work Students to Work with Immigrants - Multi-site study exploring the change in students' attitudes toward immigrants and immigration after exposure to the rigors of the immigration process and the complexity of the naturalization examination. Effects of taking a Diversity Class - A one group, pre- and post-test study exploring the change, if any, in white students' awareness of privilege and white guilt as a result of completing an undergraduate course with a diversity emphasis. AY 2017-2018 Projects Educational Outcomes for Social Work Policy Class - Multi-site quasi-experimental study to assess student knowledge outcomes as moderated by student perception of policy and policy practice as well as moderated by instructor characteristics. AY 2016-2017 Projects Belief in a Just World: Preparing for Social and Economic Justice - Multi-site quasi-experimental study to assess the effectiveness of the use of the simulation training system StarPower in social welfare policy class to shift student attitudes toward Belief in a Just World. Program Evaluation of Carver County Mental Health and Justice Grant Program - A two-year state funded program providing mental health screening and treatment for jail inmates in Carver County conjoint with housing and job preparation training on release. AY 2015-2016 Projects Economic Survival Strategies Shared on Social Media - A content analysis of public responses to an AskReddit question, "What do insanely poor people buy that normal people know nothing about?" Characteristics of Effective Policy Instructors in Social Work - Multi-site, one group pre- and post-test assessment of changes, if any, in student attitudes toward social policy and policy practice as predicted by instructor demonstration of essential characteristics of effective college instruction. Social Work Educators' Perspectives on the BSW-MSW Research-Statistics Continuum - A national survey of social work educators on behalf of the Research Committee of the Association of Baccalaureate Program Directors. AY 2014-2015 Projects Community Poverty Survey - A project to conduct a community-wide poverty study under the auspices of the United Way of Vermillion, South Dakota, Poverty Task Force. Changing Student Perceptions of Poverty - A multi-site, pre/post assessment of changes in student attitudes toward poverty and people with low incomes as a result of taking a social policy course. | Journals Where I've Published Articles Contemporary Rural Social Work Families in Society Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work Journal of Family Social Work Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services Journal of GLBT Family Studies Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Journal of Social Services Research Journal of Social Work Education Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare Multicultural Education Journals Where I've Published Book Reviews The Advanced Generalist: Social Work Research Journal Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work American Indian Quarterly Contemporary Rural Social Work Families in Society International Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work Journal of Family & Economic Issues Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning Journal of Forensic Social Work Journal of Gerontological Social Work Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Journal of Policy Practice Journal of Progressive Human Services Journal of Rural Social Sciences Journal of Social Policy Journal of Social Work Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics Journal of Teaching in Social Work The New Social Worker Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy Perspectives on Social Work Poverty & Public Policy Research on Social Work Practice Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture Social Work & Christianity Social Work & Mental Health Sociology Research Online | Books & Chapters in Books Council on Social Work Education. Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Macro Social Work Practice. (Policy Practice Focus
Area Team), 2018. Council on Social Work Education. Curricular Guide for Economic Well-being Practice. (Economic Well-being Definition and EPAS
Crosswalk Reviewer), 2017. Financial Literacy Programs and Micro Lending Programs in the Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity, Sage (2014). Instructor's Manual and Test Bank for American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach, 2013. Social Welfare and Economics: Redefining the Welfare State in a Global Economy in Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Public Welfare, Volume 4, Social Policy and Policy Practice, 2008. Updated and reprinted in Connecting Social Welfare Policy to Fields of Practice, 2013. Is the War on Drugs Effective? in Controversial Issues in Social Policy, 2007 . Co-editor of book. Korean translation by Shinjeong Publishing, Seoul, Korea in 2008). Religion and Social Welfare Policy in American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2014. Also included in the brief edition, 2013. |