Angela R Ausbrooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 4176060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela R Ausbrooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela R |
| FAMILY NAME | Ausbrooks |
| SIGNATURE | AUSBROOKS A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A User-Friendly Introduction to RQDA for Qualitative Research
This article introduces an open-source software package —R for Qualitative Data Analysis (RQDA). RQDA is an R package for analysis of text-formatted data, which is compatible across operating platforms. It is user-friendly and seamlessly integrates with R, which makes it possible to conduct statistical analyses on qualitative coding. Alternative qualitative software packages are often prohibitively expensive. Thus, many researchers choose to manu…
Gay and Lesbian Family Building
In this article the authors explore transracial adoption in concert with gay and lesbian parenting and family building. Analyzing the transracial adoption knowledge base, gay and lesbian fostering/adoption trends, and research findings, the authors present areas that suggest gay and lesbian families may be better prepared than heterosexual individuals to parent children of color. Gay and lesbian parents may be more sensitive to and capable of cre…
Why Child Welfare Supervisors Stay
Research focusing on retention of child protection employees, primarily caseworkers, indicates that high turnover rates in child welfare agencies are a consequence of high levels of stress. A qualitative study was conducted utilizing a strengths perspective to explore the reasons that 50 child welfare supervisors remain employed, specifically whether retention was related to resilience or other personal characteristics. This article is excerpted …
Legislative Advocacy for and by Youth Transitioning From Foster Care
Children and youth in foster care experience loss, trauma, and sometimes multiple placements while in foster care. These experiences can contribute to the development of antisocial or delinquent behaviors, thus impacting personal relationships, problem-solving, and coping abilities, and increasing the risk of becoming involved in the juvenile or adult criminal system. Involvement in the criminal justice system, and a subsequent criminal record, c…
Now You See It, Now You Don't
Classroom incivility is identified as a concern in the higher education literature; however, the extent to which these concerns apply to social work education has not been empirically addressed. This initial, exploratory study examined the perceptions of classroom behaviors in a small convenience sample of faculty and students in one social work program. Quantitative results indicated that faculty tended to perceive incivility as generally less s…
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Gay and Lesbian Family Building
In this article the authors explore transracial adoption in concert with gay and lesbian parenting and family building. Analyzing the transracial adoption knowledge base, gay and lesbian fostering/adoption trends, and research findings, the authors present areas that suggest gay and lesbian families may be better prepared than heterosexual individuals to parent children of color. Gay and lesbian parents may be more sensitive to and capable of cre…
Why Child Welfare Supervisors Stay
Research focusing on retention of child protection employees, primarily caseworkers, indicates that high turnover rates in child welfare agencies are a consequence of high levels of stress. A qualitative study was conducted utilizing a strengths perspective to explore the reasons that 50 child welfare supervisors remain employed, specifically whether retention was related to resilience or other personal characteristics. This article is excerpted …
Legislative Advocacy for and by Youth Transitioning From Foster Care
Children and youth in foster care experience loss, trauma, and sometimes multiple placements while in foster care. These experiences can contribute to the development of antisocial or delinquent behaviors, thus impacting personal relationships, problem-solving, and coping abilities, and increasing the risk of becoming involved in the juvenile or adult criminal system. Involvement in the criminal justice system, and a subsequent criminal record, c…
Now You See It, Now You Don't
Classroom incivility is identified as a concern in the higher education literature; however, the extent to which these concerns apply to social work education has not been empirically addressed. This initial, exploratory study examined the perceptions of classroom behaviors in a small convenience sample of faculty and students in one social work program. Quantitative results indicated that faculty tended to perceive incivility as generally less s…
A User-Friendly Introduction to RQDA for Qualitative Research
This article introduces an open-source software package —R for Qualitative Data Analysis (RQDA). RQDA is an R package for analysis of text-formatted data, which is compatible across operating platforms. It is user-friendly and seamlessly integrates with R, which makes it possible to conduct statistical analyses on qualitative coding. Alternative qualitative software packages are often prohibitively expensive. Thus, many researchers choose to manu…
Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (2 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Coping (psychology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)