Dana Dehart
Biographic Data
| ID | 4176188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Dehart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Dehart |
| SIGNATURE | DEHART D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6437-7531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
They Are Perfect Victims”—A Qualitative Study Examining Elder Care Professionals’ Perceptions of Elder Maltreatment
Many older vulnerable adults live in care facilities or are in frequent contact with healthcare professionals, which in this article means professionals specializing in elder care such as nurses, social workers, and specialized elder care ombudspersons. Healthcare professionals are in a position of authority and can strongly influence the well-being of older vulnerable adults in their care. This article examines how such healthcare professionals …
Benefits and Challenges of Telehealth Use during Covid-19: Perspectives of Patients and Providers in the Rural South
Social workers and other health care researchers have examined benefits and challenges of telehealth in rural communities before the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, experience with virtual platforms and other technologies have rapidly evolved during the pandemic. The research team interviewed 14 health care providers and 17 patients after the onset of the pandemic in a predominantly rural state to examine perceptions of telehealth. MaxQDA analytic softwa…
“The Prison System Doesn’t Make It Comfortable to Visit”: Prison Visitation From the Perspectives of People Incarcerated and Family Members
While extensive research documents the causes and impacts of incarceration, the effects on families are under discussion. Prison visitation is one mechanism to help families communicate and bond, yet the institutions and restrictive policies often create distinct barriers and stressors. This qualitative descriptive study examines experiences and perceptions of visitation through focus groups with 77 people incarcerated and interviews with 21 fami…
Development and initial validity and reliability of the Rural Practice Awareness and Skills Scale
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop and provide initial evidence of the validity and reliability of the Rural Practice Awareness and Skills Scale (RPASS). METHODS: A pool of 63 items was reviewed by an expert panel, subjected to 2 additional face validity checks, and reduced to 39 items. The scale was then completed by 333 participants, and an exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted. FINDINGS: Res…
Trauma experienced by researchers: Challenges and recommendations to support students and junior scholars
Purpose Specifically, the authors discuss three challenges that researchers—especially graduate students—often face: (1) access to adequate material and guidance for researchers; (2) the internal and external strains researchers may face, and (3) the limited conceptualization of research on sensitive topics or vulnerable populations. Although these three challenges may be present for many graduate students and junior scholars, it is important to …
Factors that influence SBIRT implementation in non-medical settings
SBIRT is an evidenced-based intervention model designed to reduce substance use. While initially used in medical settings, SBIRT implementation has evolved into non-medical settings with mixed evidence of effectiveness. This exploratory qualitative study sought to understand what factors influence implementation of SBIRT in non-medical settings. Interviews were conducted with 15 practitioners trained in SBIRT. Findings suggest that eight factors …
Threats to Online Surveys: Recognizing, Detecting, and Preventing Survey Bots
While securing data integrity has been a growing issue with online surveys for over a decade, recent cyber threats to online research, particularly survey bots, have escalated dramatically (Griffin et al., 2022; Pozzar et al., 2020; Storozuk et al., 2020). Survey bots, also known as automated form fillers, are computer programs that fill out web-based surveys with random responses (Howell, n.d.). While the exact programs and processes that bot pr…
Transition-Aged Youth Who Are Homeless and Misuse Substances: A Qualitative Study of Service Needs
This study examined the service needs of transition-aged (16-25), homeless youth via group and individual interviews with 22 human service providers and a focus group of 17 transition-aged, homeless youth who were engaged in treatment for substance misuse. Qualitative analyses examined service needs, challenges in addressing these, and intersection with youths’ pathways into and out of homelessness. Findings have implications for enhanced network…
Examining the Impact of Victimization on Girls’ Delinquency: A Study of Direct and Indirect Effects
Previous research has acknowledged that there is a relationship between victimization and later delinquency, but the specific attributes of this relationship are unclear because measures of both direct and indirect victimization are rarely explored in a single study. We included both indirect and direct victimization to examine which form of victimization was a stronger predictor of substance use, fighting, running away, and sex work among girls …
Team science: A qualitative study of benefits, challenges, and lessons learned
This qualitative study includes interviews with 9 team scientists to examine benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from team-based research in the social sciences. Data analyses were conducted using MaxQDA software to identify provisional and emergent themes. Benefits of team science included enhanced insights from multidisciplinary perspectives, increased scholarly productivity and impact, and mentoring of newer faculty by those with greater…
Improving the Efficacy of Administrative Data for Evaluation of Holistic Defense
A college of social work developed a partnership with a state commission on indigent defense to examine existing data-collection procedures, potential case outcomes, and practical implications of implementing holistic defense programs. The holistic defense model responds to the complex challenges of justice-system-involved defendants by providing social services in public defense offices. Using chi-square and logistic regression analyses of admin…
Treatment Access Barriers and Disparities Among Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: An Integrative Literature Review
Barriers and Facilitators to Substance Use Treatment in the Rural South: A Qualitative Study
PURPOSE: Little qualitative research has examined factors associated with care in substance abuse treatment agencies in Southeastern rural communities. This study explored client- and agency stakeholder-perceived barriers and facilitators to substance use treatment delivery in southeastern rural communities. METHODS: Group and individual interviews were conducted with 40 key stakeholders and 40 clients at 9 substance abuse agencies serving rural …
Trauma experiences and mental health among incarceratedwomen
This work provides further support for the importance of assessing trauma exposure of women in jail, especially the family context, as well as mental health. Implementation and testing of evidence-based treatment approaches that address trauma-related distress in correctional settings are warranted. (PsycINFO Database Record
Project STRONG: A Capacity-Building Intervention to Improve Grant Writing Among Substance Abuse Organizations
While grant writing is critical for substance abuse organizations in the face of limited resources and mounting accountability pressures, no capacity-building models exist for social workers to use as they aim to promote organizational capacity development in this area. This article offers a promising capacity-building model—Project STRONG—designed to improve the grant writing capacity of substance abuse organizations. Feasibility findings of an …
Poly-Victimization Among Girls in the Justice System: Trajectories of Risk and Associations to Juvenile Offending
Life History Calendars and the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire were used to collect data from 100 delinquent girls to (a) examine range and co-occurrence of different types of violence over the life span, (b) examine independent and cumulative trajectories of risk for varied types of victimization, and (c) examine the relationship of victimization to girls’ offending. Risk trajectories demonstrate critical risk periods for different forms of…
Facilitators and barriers to interagency collaboration in mother–child residential substance abuse treatment programs
A University Partnership for Victim Service Professional Development: Model Standards for Serving Victims and Survivors of Crime
This paper describes processes and products of a partnership to promote professionalization of the field of victim services. The National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium was established by the federal Office for Victims of Crime in partnership with the University of South Carolina. The Consortium reached across geographic, philosophical, and disciplinary divides to forge a common ground in professional development, including a definition a…
Childhood Instability and Girls’ Delinquency: Role of Changes in Schools, Homes, and Caregivers
Buffers’ against crime? Exploring the roles and limitations of positive relationships among women in prison
A considerable amount of research focuses on the detrimental influence that relationships pose for women offenders while relatively little attention has been given to the potential positive impact of relationships in their lives. This study investigates how women offenders’ positive relationships work as ‘buffers’ against their criminal involvement, as well as why some positive influences do not elicit long-term change in women. We examine variou…
Life History Models of Female Offending: The Roles of Serious Mental Illness and Trauma in Women’s Pathways to Jail
Our mixed-methods study advances understanding of pathways to offending for jailed women with and without mental illness. Life history interviews with 115 women from five U.S. states examined how onset of crime and delinquency varied based on mental health status and trauma exposure. Women in jails had high rates of mental health disorders, with a majority meeting lifetime diagnostic criteria for a serious mental illness (50%), posttraumatic stre…
Family Influences on Female Offenders’ Substance Use: The Role of Adverse Childhood Events among Incarcerated Women
Collaboration Between Victim Services and Faith Organizations: Benefits, Challenges, and Recommendations
Although many crime victims seek support from members of the faith community, faith leaders may feel unsure of their abilities to assist. This paper describes findings from a descriptive needs assessment that preceded a national project to link faith-based organizations and victim service programs in five high-crime neighborhoods. Approximately 90 participants were interviewed, including faith leaders, victim service providers, and other professi…
Does Context Matter in Determining Psychological Abuse? Effects of Pattern, Harm, Relationship, and Norms
Pathways to Prison: Impact of Victimization in the Lives of Incarcerated Women
This study examines ways in which victimization may contribute to criminal involvement among incarcerated women. The authors conduct interviews with 60 women in a maximum-security prison to gather each woman's perspective on psychological, physical, and sexual victimization in her life. Qualitative analyses indicate ways that victimization relates directly to women's crimes as well as influences health, psychosocial functioning, or systemic invol…
Life History Models of Female Offending: The Roles of Serious Mental Illness and Trauma in Women’s Pathways to Jail
Our mixed-methods study advances understanding of pathways to offending for jailed women with and without mental illness. Life history interviews with 115 women from five U.S. states examined how onset of crime and delinquency varied based on mental health status and trauma exposure. Women in jails had high rates of mental health disorders, with a majority meeting lifetime diagnostic criteria for a serious mental illness (50%), posttraumatic stre…
Pathways to Prison: Impact of Victimization in the Lives of Incarcerated Women
This study examines ways in which victimization may contribute to criminal involvement among incarcerated women. The authors conduct interviews with 60 women in a maximum-security prison to gather each woman's perspective on psychological, physical, and sexual victimization in her life. Qualitative analyses indicate ways that victimization relates directly to women's crimes as well as influences health, psychosocial functioning, or systemic invol…
Trying to practice safer sex: Development of the sexual risks scale
Psychometric techniques were used for the development of a theoretically‐based measure of constructs related to safer sexual activity. A pilot study and two studies using college student samples were conducted to derive, retain, and validate scale items. The final 38‐item scale is comprised of subscales measuring attitudes about safer sex, normative beliefs, intention to try to practice safer sex, expectations about the feasibility of safer sexua…
Predictors of Attrition in a Treatment Program for Battering Men
Buffers’ against crime? Exploring the roles and limitations of positive relationships among women in prison
A considerable amount of research focuses on the detrimental influence that relationships pose for women offenders while relatively little attention has been given to the potential positive impact of relationships in their lives. This study investigates how women offenders’ positive relationships work as ‘buffers’ against their criminal involvement, as well as why some positive influences do not elicit long-term change in women. We examine variou…
Family Influences on Female Offenders’ Substance Use: The Role of Adverse Childhood Events among Incarcerated Women
Does Context Matter in Determining Psychological Abuse? Effects of Pattern, Harm, Relationship, and Norms
Threats to Online Surveys: Recognizing, Detecting, and Preventing Survey Bots
While securing data integrity has been a growing issue with online surveys for over a decade, recent cyber threats to online research, particularly survey bots, have escalated dramatically (Griffin et al., 2022; Pozzar et al., 2020; Storozuk et al., 2020). Survey bots, also known as automated form fillers, are computer programs that fill out web-based surveys with random responses (Howell, n.d.). While the exact programs and processes that bot pr…
Team science: A qualitative study of benefits, challenges, and lessons learned
This qualitative study includes interviews with 9 team scientists to examine benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from team-based research in the social sciences. Data analyses were conducted using MaxQDA software to identify provisional and emergent themes. Benefits of team science included enhanced insights from multidisciplinary perspectives, increased scholarly productivity and impact, and mentoring of newer faculty by those with greater…
Facilitators and barriers to interagency collaboration in mother–child residential substance abuse treatment programs
The Serial Murderer's Motivations: An Interdisciplinary Review
A serial killer is defined as an individual who murders two or more victims over an extended period of time, ranging from days to years, with the crimes often being sexually motivated. Although there is a growing popular emphasis on the phenomenon, there is a paucity of rigorous research in the area. The present article reviews existing motivational theories of serial murder and proposes additional explications from a range of disciplines. Sugges…
Trying to practice safer sex: Development of the sexual risks scale
Psychometric techniques were used for the development of a theoretically‐based measure of constructs related to safer sexual activity. A pilot study and two studies using college student samples were conducted to derive, retain, and validate scale items. The final 38‐item scale is comprised of subscales measuring attitudes about safer sex, normative beliefs, intention to try to practice safer sex, expectations about the feasibility of safer sexua…
Predictors of Attrition in a Treatment Program for Battering Men
Pathways to Prison: Impact of Victimization in the Lives of Incarcerated Women
This study examines ways in which victimization may contribute to criminal involvement among incarcerated women. The authors conduct interviews with 60 women in a maximum-security prison to gather each woman's perspective on psychological, physical, and sexual victimization in her life. Qualitative analyses indicate ways that victimization relates directly to women's crimes as well as influences health, psychosocial functioning, or systemic invol…
Collaboration Between Victim Services and Faith Organizations: Benefits, Challenges, and Recommendations
Although many crime victims seek support from members of the faith community, faith leaders may feel unsure of their abilities to assist. This paper describes findings from a descriptive needs assessment that preceded a national project to link faith-based organizations and victim service programs in five high-crime neighborhoods. Approximately 90 participants were interviewed, including faith leaders, victim service providers, and other professi…
Does Context Matter in Determining Psychological Abuse? Effects of Pattern, Harm, Relationship, and Norms
Family Influences on Female Offenders’ Substance Use: The Role of Adverse Childhood Events among Incarcerated Women
Childhood Instability and Girls’ Delinquency: Role of Changes in Schools, Homes, and Caregivers
Buffers’ against crime? Exploring the roles and limitations of positive relationships among women in prison
A considerable amount of research focuses on the detrimental influence that relationships pose for women offenders while relatively little attention has been given to the potential positive impact of relationships in their lives. This study investigates how women offenders’ positive relationships work as ‘buffers’ against their criminal involvement, as well as why some positive influences do not elicit long-term change in women. We examine variou…
Life History Models of Female Offending: The Roles of Serious Mental Illness and Trauma in Women’s Pathways to Jail
Our mixed-methods study advances understanding of pathways to offending for jailed women with and without mental illness. Life history interviews with 115 women from five U.S. states examined how onset of crime and delinquency varied based on mental health status and trauma exposure. Women in jails had high rates of mental health disorders, with a majority meeting lifetime diagnostic criteria for a serious mental illness (50%), posttraumatic stre…
A University Partnership for Victim Service Professional Development: Model Standards for Serving Victims and Survivors of Crime
This paper describes processes and products of a partnership to promote professionalization of the field of victim services. The National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium was established by the federal Office for Victims of Crime in partnership with the University of South Carolina. The Consortium reached across geographic, philosophical, and disciplinary divides to forge a common ground in professional development, including a definition a…
Poly-Victimization Among Girls in the Justice System: Trajectories of Risk and Associations to Juvenile Offending
Life History Calendars and the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire were used to collect data from 100 delinquent girls to (a) examine range and co-occurrence of different types of violence over the life span, (b) examine independent and cumulative trajectories of risk for varied types of victimization, and (c) examine the relationship of victimization to girls’ offending. Risk trajectories demonstrate critical risk periods for different forms of…
Facilitators and barriers to interagency collaboration in mother–child residential substance abuse treatment programs
Treatment Access Barriers and Disparities Among Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: An Integrative Literature Review
Barriers and Facilitators to Substance Use Treatment in the Rural South: A Qualitative Study
PURPOSE: Little qualitative research has examined factors associated with care in substance abuse treatment agencies in Southeastern rural communities. This study explored client- and agency stakeholder-perceived barriers and facilitators to substance use treatment delivery in southeastern rural communities. METHODS: Group and individual interviews were conducted with 40 key stakeholders and 40 clients at 9 substance abuse agencies serving rural …
Trauma experiences and mental health among incarceratedwomen
This work provides further support for the importance of assessing trauma exposure of women in jail, especially the family context, as well as mental health. Implementation and testing of evidence-based treatment approaches that address trauma-related distress in correctional settings are warranted. (PsycINFO Database Record
Project STRONG: A Capacity-Building Intervention to Improve Grant Writing Among Substance Abuse Organizations
While grant writing is critical for substance abuse organizations in the face of limited resources and mounting accountability pressures, no capacity-building models exist for social workers to use as they aim to promote organizational capacity development in this area. This article offers a promising capacity-building model—Project STRONG—designed to improve the grant writing capacity of substance abuse organizations. Feasibility findings of an …
Team science: A qualitative study of benefits, challenges, and lessons learned
This qualitative study includes interviews with 9 team scientists to examine benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from team-based research in the social sciences. Data analyses were conducted using MaxQDA software to identify provisional and emergent themes. Benefits of team science included enhanced insights from multidisciplinary perspectives, increased scholarly productivity and impact, and mentoring of newer faculty by those with greater…
Improving the Efficacy of Administrative Data for Evaluation of Holistic Defense
A college of social work developed a partnership with a state commission on indigent defense to examine existing data-collection procedures, potential case outcomes, and practical implications of implementing holistic defense programs. The holistic defense model responds to the complex challenges of justice-system-involved defendants by providing social services in public defense offices. Using chi-square and logistic regression analyses of admin…
Examining the Impact of Victimization on Girls’ Delinquency: A Study of Direct and Indirect Effects
Previous research has acknowledged that there is a relationship between victimization and later delinquency, but the specific attributes of this relationship are unclear because measures of both direct and indirect victimization are rarely explored in a single study. We included both indirect and direct victimization to examine which form of victimization was a stronger predictor of substance use, fighting, running away, and sex work among girls …
Transition-Aged Youth Who Are Homeless and Misuse Substances: A Qualitative Study of Service Needs
This study examined the service needs of transition-aged (16-25), homeless youth via group and individual interviews with 22 human service providers and a focus group of 17 transition-aged, homeless youth who were engaged in treatment for substance misuse. Qualitative analyses examined service needs, challenges in addressing these, and intersection with youths’ pathways into and out of homelessness. Findings have implications for enhanced network…
“The Prison System Doesn’t Make It Comfortable to Visit”: Prison Visitation From the Perspectives of People Incarcerated and Family Members
While extensive research documents the causes and impacts of incarceration, the effects on families are under discussion. Prison visitation is one mechanism to help families communicate and bond, yet the institutions and restrictive policies often create distinct barriers and stressors. This qualitative descriptive study examines experiences and perceptions of visitation through focus groups with 77 people incarcerated and interviews with 21 fami…
Development and initial validity and reliability of the Rural Practice Awareness and Skills Scale
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop and provide initial evidence of the validity and reliability of the Rural Practice Awareness and Skills Scale (RPASS). METHODS: A pool of 63 items was reviewed by an expert panel, subjected to 2 additional face validity checks, and reduced to 39 items. The scale was then completed by 333 participants, and an exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted. FINDINGS: Res…
Trauma experienced by researchers: Challenges and recommendations to support students and junior scholars
Purpose Specifically, the authors discuss three challenges that researchers—especially graduate students—often face: (1) access to adequate material and guidance for researchers; (2) the internal and external strains researchers may face, and (3) the limited conceptualization of research on sensitive topics or vulnerable populations. Although these three challenges may be present for many graduate students and junior scholars, it is important to …
Factors that influence SBIRT implementation in non-medical settings
SBIRT is an evidenced-based intervention model designed to reduce substance use. While initially used in medical settings, SBIRT implementation has evolved into non-medical settings with mixed evidence of effectiveness. This exploratory qualitative study sought to understand what factors influence implementation of SBIRT in non-medical settings. Interviews were conducted with 15 practitioners trained in SBIRT. Findings suggest that eight factors …
Psychology (25 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (9 works) · Poison control (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Public relations (8 works)