Jerry Floersch, Ph.D., MSW



Books

Floersch, J. (2002). Meds, money,and manners: The case management of severe mental illness. New York: Columbia University Press.

Reviews of Meds, Money, and Manners
Gjonca, A. (2005) European Journal of Public Health, 15(2): 217
Kanter, Joel (2004) Community Mental Health Journal, 40(4): 401-402.
Herrera, Rafael (2004) Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 31(1): 221-224
Rhodes, Lorna (2003) Qualitative Social Work, 2(4): 499-502.

Padgett, Deborah L. (2002) Social Service Review, 76(4): 701-703.

Longhofer, J., Kubek, P., Floersch, J. (2010). On being and having a case manager: A relational approach to recovery in mental health. New York: Columbia University Press.

Floersch, J. Longhofer, J., & Hoy, J. (under contract)
Qualitative methods for practice research. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Longhofer, J., Floersch, J., & Okpych, N. (in press). Foster youth and psychopharmacological interventions: A review of policies, guidelines, and research-to-practice complications.
Children and Youth Services Review.

Longhofer, J., & Floersch, J. (2010). Desire and disappointment: Adolescent psychotropic treatment and adherence. Anthropology & Medicine, 17(2), 159-172.

Munson, M.R., Floersch J., & Townsend, L. (2010). Are health beliefs related to adherence among adolescents with mood disorders
? Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 37(5), 408-416.

Tracy, E. M., Munson, M.R., Peterson, L.T., & Floersch, J. (2010). Social support: A mixed blessing for women in substance abuse treatment.
Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 10 (3), 257-282.

Barker, S., & Floersch, J. (2010). Practitioners' understandings of spirituality: Implications for social work education. Journal of Social Work Education, 46(3),

Floersch, J. Longhofer, J., Kranke, D., & Townsend, L. (2010). Integrating thematic, grounded theory, and narrative analysis: A case study of adolescent psychotropic treatment. Qualitative Social Work, 9 (3),

Kranke, D., Floersch, J., Townsend, L., & Munson, M. (2010) Stigma experience among adolescents taking psychiatric medication.
Children and Youth Services Review, 32(4), 496-505.

Lisa Townsend, Floersch, J. and Findling, R. L. (2010). The conceptual adequacy of the drug attitude inventory for measuring youth attitudes toward psychotropic medications: A mixed methods evaluation.
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 4 (1), 32-55.

Floersch, J., Townsend, L., Longhofer, J., Munson, M., Winbush, V., Kranke, D., Faber, R., Thomas, J., Jenkins, J.H., & Findling, R. (2009). Adolescent experience of psychotropic treatment.
Transcultural Psychiatry, 46(1), 157-179.

Munson, M. R., Floersch, J., & Townsend, L. (2009). Attitudes toward mental health services and illness perceptions among adolescents with mood disorders. Child Adolescent Social Work Journal, 26: 447–466.

Townsend, L., Floersch, J., & Findling, R. (2009). Adolescent attitudes toward psychiatric medication: The utility of the Drug Attitude Inventory.
Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 50 (12), 1523-1531.

Kranke, D., & Floersch, J.  (2009).  Mental health stigma in schools: Interventions for school social workers. 
School Social Work Journal, 34(1), 28-42.

Buchbinder, M., Longhofer, J., Barrett, T. Lawson, P., & Floersch, J. (2006). Ethnographic approaches to child care research: A review of the literature.
Journal of Early Childhood Research, 4(1), 45-63.

Jenkins, J. J., Straus, M. E.,  Miller, D. Carpenter, E.,  Floersch, J. & Sajatovic, M. (2005). Subjective experience of recovery from schizophrenia-related disorders and atypical antipsychotic medications. International Journal of Psychiatry, 51(3), 211-227.

Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. (2004). The phenomenological practice gap: Practice guidelines, evaluation, and clinical judgment. Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice, 3 (4), 483-486.

Floersch J. (2004). A method for investigating practitioner use of theory in practice. Qualitative Social Work, 3(2), 161-177.

Floersch, J. (2003). The subjective experience of youth psychotropic treatment. Social Work in Mental Health, 1(4), 51-69.

Longhofer, J., Floersch, J. & Jenkins, J. (2003). Medication effect interpretation and the social grid of management.
Social Work in Mental Health, 1(4), 71-89.

Longhofer, J., Floersch, J., & Jenkins, J. (2003). The social grid of community medication management.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 73(1), 24-34.

Floersch, J. (2000). Reading the case record: The oral and written narratives of social workers. Social Service Review, 74 (2), 169-191.

Floersch, J., Longhofer, J., & Latta, K. (1997). Writing culture into genes: Biological reductionism in a study of manic depression.
Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 21, 137-159.

Floersch, J. & Longhofer J. (1997). The imagined death: Looking to the past for relief from the present.
Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 35 (3), 243-260.

Latta, K., Longhofer, J., Kusnetsky, L., & Floersch. J. (1995). Domestic education and the politics of positivism: Rethinking the history of home economics.
Culture and Agriculture, 51\52, 23-27.

Kusnetsky, L., Longhofer, J., Latta, K., & Floersch, J. (1994). In search of the climax community: The Amish and sustainability.
Culture and Agriculture, 50, 12-15.

Longhofer, J., & Floersch, J. (1993). African drumming and psychiatric rehabilitation.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 16(4), 3-10.

Longhofer, J., & Floersch, J. (1992). Old age and inheritance in two social formations: The Alexanderwohl mennonites in Russia and the United States.
Journal of Aging Studies, 6 (2), 93-112.
Longhofer, J., & Floersch, J. (1980). Dying or living?: The double bind.
Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry, 4(2), 119-136.

Book Chapters

Floersch, J. (2010). A method for investigating practitioner use of theory in practice. This article (first published in 2004—see above) was selected to be reprinted in an new methodology volume, “Realist Methodology”, edited by Wendy Olsen (Manchester University), which will be published by SAGE Publications in March 2010, as part of SAGE Benchmarks of Social Research Methods.

Floersch, J., Longhofer, J., & Nordquest, M. (2008). Ethnography. In M. Gray & S. Webb (Eds.), Thinking about social work: Theories and methods for practice (pp. 152-160). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Floersch, J. (2004). Ethnography: A case study of invented clinical knowledge. In D. K. Padgett (Ed.),
The Qualitative Research Experience (pp. 76-96). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.

Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. (2004). Psychodynamic case management. In J. Brandell Psychodynamic Social Work: A Transactional Approach (pp. 350-370). New York: Columbia University Press.

Floersch, J. (2003).  The subjective experience of youth psychotropic experience. In K. J. Bentley (Ed.) Psychiatric medication issues for social workers, counselors, and psychologists (pp. 51-69). Binghamton, NY: Haworth Social Work Practice Press.
Longhofer, J., Floersch, J. and Jenkins, J. (2003). Medication effect interpretation and the social grid of management. In K. J. Bentley (Ed.),
Psychiatric medication issues for social workers, counselors, and psychologists (pp. 71-89).  Binghamton, NY: Haworth Social Work Practice Press.