Dissertations 2001-2002

“Economic Survival Strategies of New York City Families: The Financial Impact of Benefits and Services.”
Ellen E. Amstutz
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Irwin Garfinkel

“Who Supports Children in the U.S.?”
John Keeble Bainbridge
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Irwin Garfinkel

“Economic Analyses of Child Abuse and Neglect.”
Lawrence M. Berger
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Jane Waldfogel

“The DSM Diagnosis of Conduct Disorder and Externalizing Behaviors of Children and Adolescents in Residential Treatment.”
Mark Cameron
February, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Neil Guterman

“The Effects of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity on Predicting Health Care Service Utilization by Older Americans.”
Li-Mei Chen
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Ada Mui

“The Experiences in a Jail Diversion Program
of Women Clients Who Have Severe and Persistent Mental Illness and a History
of Substance Abuse.”
Samuel Leslie Cotton
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Barbara Simon

“Childhood Sexual Abuse and Partner Violence among Women in Methadone Treatment: Mediating and Causal Effects of Mental Health and Substance Use Factors.”
Malitta Victoria Engstrom
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Nabila El-Bassel

“Asian-American Adolescents' Health Risk Behaviors: Socio-Cultural Risk and Parental Protective Factors.”
Hyeouk C. Hahm
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Neil Guterman

“Predictors of Black and Hispanic Women’s Involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous.”
Rachelle Ellan Kammer
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Nabila El-Bassel

“The Negative Effects of Incarceration
on Fathers in Fragile Families.”
Charles Edward Lewis, Jr.
February, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Irwin Garfinkel

“What Will Happen When Our Parents Are Gone? Present and Future Roles of Adult Siblings of Persons with Mental Illness in Instrumental Caregiving.”
Steven P. Lohrer
October, 2001
Sponsor: Professor Ellen Lukens

“Contextual Influences on Involvement of Urban Children and Families in School-based Mental Health Prevention Services.”
Cynthia J. Lynn
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Mary McKay

“Evaluating the Effect of Drug Treatment on Coping Resources among Homeless Men.”
Barris Philip Malcolm
February, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Steven Schinke

“Predictors of HIV Testing in Low-Income Women of Color: Identifying Their Motivations and Beliefs in Fighting the Virus.”
Catherine K. Medina
May, 2002
Sponsor: Professor Nabila El-Bassel