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Introduction
Assistant Professor at MacEwan University, Canada, with a clinical social work background in geriatric mental health, geriatric residential care, and home health care. Research interests span disability, health and mental health, residential care living, gerontological social work education, teaching and learning scholarship, program evaluation, and inter-professional collaboration.
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July 2017 - July 2017
September 2012 - July 2016
January 2012 - March 2016
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Although interprofessional collaboration is a common expectation in social work employment, interprofessional education has not been a robust feature of baccalaureate social work preparation in Canada. There is also a dearth of research on the topic. These gaps are problematic because social workers with baccalaureate degrees are often employed in...
The growing aging population in Canada has multi-faceted psycho-social needs. Social workers are well-positioned to address these needs, despite many challenges. This paper reports findings from the World Café at the Gerontology Symposium in Alberta, Canada, held in 2018. The goal was to learn from social work practitioners, researchers, and educat...
This paper explores the prospects of combining Grounded Theory (GT) and Action Research (AR) methodologies to spark further methodological discussion. GT and AR methodologies are sometimes used together in the same study without a discussion of their methodological compatibility. However, different iterations of GT and various forms of AR may infor...
This study explored the barriers that regulated nurse professionals encountered in recognizing and assessing geriatric depression in residential care facilities in the Canadian province of Alberta. The study used a convergent parallel mixed-methods design, including a cross-sectional survey (N = 635) and qualitative interviews (N = 14) with regulat...
While the nature of the formal transition to adulthood has changed over the past decade, it continues to be premised on the notion of achieving independence. Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), however, may never reach full independence in their adult years, instead more so achieving interdependence. Consequently, their transit...
Although geriatric depression is a prevalent, serious, and under-recognized mental health condition in residential care facilities, there is a dearth of related research in Canada. This exploratory mixed methods study examines the perspectives and practices of regulated nurse professionals on assessment of geriatric depression in residential care f...
Mentorship has been proposed as a key process for preparing doctoral students as effective educators. However, few models have been described in-depth. To address this challenge, four social work doctoral graduates and one senior faculty member shared their insights drawing on their study on collaborative teaching mentorship, reflecting on their me...
This paper aims to present a thematic analysis investigating the experiences and reflections of doctoral students in social work at a Canadian university who were mentored in the development of teaching expertise, including course design, delivery and evaluation, by a senior faculty member. Recommendations to others who are considering engaging in...
The World Café (TWC), used as an effective conversational tool around the world, shares several tenets with other participatory approaches to learning and development. It has not been critiqued, however, for its insufficient attention to reflexivity, power differentials, and structural inequalities within its process, specifically in relation to TW...
Our design-based research project used constructivist grounded theory methodology to determine if specific pedagogies used in an online gerontological social work course stimulated learners " critical reflection and reflexivity. The purpose of our study was to describe the learning that occurred in response to an instructional design based on socia...
Social work students and faculty are increasingly embracing online education and collaborative teaching. Yet models to support these activities have not been adequately developed. This paper describes how a team of instructors developed, delivered, and evaluated an undergraduate gerontological social work course using a collaborative online teachin...
Abstract Studies in residential care facilities suggest that routine screening can assist in the early detection of geriatric depression. However, the effectiveness of screening instruments in residential care in the US and Canada has not been adequately evaluated. We conducted a systematic narrative review of the English-language literature publis...
In the field of prejudice and discrimination studies, an emphasis has been on racism and sexism, with comparatively little attention to understanding of ageism. This fact is alarming, particularly in the context of the growing population of older adults around the globe. This article provides a review of evidence of ageism among members of helping...
Triangulation has been increasingly used in gerontological research. It is unknown, however, whether this approach has been implemented by emergent scholars in the field. The goal of this article is to provide review of Canadian doctoral dissertations in the field of aging with the following questions in mind: Is triangulation common in doctoral di...
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five
Approaches (3rd ed.) is an informative, engaging and user-friendly book by Creswell (2012) that is focused on practical application of qualitative research methods in social inquiry. Creswell provided a useful comparison of the five types of qualitative inquiry (narrative, phenomenology,...
This study evaluated the implementation of the Work Accident Insurance program in Israel during 1999-2002 as it applied to the non-Palestinian migrant workers, suffering from work-related injuries. Eleven semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted between 2001-2002 with managerial staff at the National Insurance Institute and members of...
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I am conducting a mixed methods study, convergent design, that contains both quantitative survey data and qualitative data from semi-structured interviews. I wonder if MAXQDA software could be useful in data analyses, particularly in helping to corroborate the qualitative and quantitative findings? I would appreciate any suggestions, comments and information. Thank you!
I am conducting my doctoral dissertation mixed methods study (convergent design) and wonder if the QDA Miner is a good tool to analyse qualitative data from semi-structured interviews? I also wonder if this software can be instrumental in comparing quantitative survey data (compatibility with SPSS?) and qualitative data? I would appreciate if you share your observations, comments and suggestions. Thank you!
