Education

Ph.D.    1997 : Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

M.A.    1994 : Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

Major:  Developmental Psychology

B.A.     1989 : The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Major:  Psychology

General Experience:

1999-present: Project Director of Street Teens Assessment and Risk Reduction Study, NIAAA Grant (AA#####-##) awarded

                       to Peggy Peterson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

1997-present: Project Director of Seattle Homeless Adolescent Research and Evaluation Program,

                      NIAAA Grant (AA10253-05) awarded to Ana Mari Cauce, University of Washington,   Seattle, WA.

1997-1998:    Post-Doctoral Trainee, NIAAA Training Grant (5-T32-AA07455) awarded to G. Alan

                       Marlatt, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

1992-1996:    Teaching Assistant, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.

1994-1995:    Visiting Graduate Student at Hebrew University, Mount Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel.

1991-1992:    Research Assistant, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.

Research Experience:

Project Director: Street Teens Assessment and Risk Reduction Study

        1997-present: Supervised by Peggy Peterson, Ph.D.

        Efficacy study of Motivational Enhancement Interviewing with substance abusing street youth in Seattle. The study particularly focuses on the effects of intervention on youths’ substance use, service utilization, peer group involvement, and goals development, and other related factors. Responsible for all daily operations of the study including the management of an interviewing team (approximately six people), community liason, data organization, analysis, presentation, and publication.

Project Director: Seattle Homeless Adolescent Research and Evaluation Program

        1997-present: Supervised by Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D.

        Ethnographic examination of Seattle street youth, particularly focusing on youths substance use, physical and sexual abuse of the youth, mental health, peer group involvement, and family background. Responsible for data organization, analysis, presentation, and publication. Supervise lab assistants.

Project Director: King County Job Initiative: Evaluation component.

        1997-present: Supervised by Ana Mari Cauce, Ph.D.

        Examined the effectiveness of a County funded project to bring low-income livable wage jobs to low SES individuals. Responsible for all facets of evaluation including client and case manager interviews, data organization and analysis, interim and final report development, and maintenance of relationships with King County Department of Public Health. Supervise staff of interviewers and assistant.

Doctoral Dissertation: Childrens Moral Reasoning about Reactions to Varying Levels of Physical Aggression: The Effect of Informational Assumptions on Judgments of Self Defense

        1996-present: Supervised by Harry Hoemann, Ph.D.

        Examined rural children's reasoning about self-defense. Responsible for project design, data collection and analyses (i.e., MANOVA and loglinear), communications with school systems, conference presentations, and publications. Supervised research assistants. Research conducted in partial fulfillment of Ph.D.

Independent Study: Childrens Moral Reasoning about Reactions to Varying Levels of Physical Aggression: A cross-cultural examination.

        1996 -present: Supervised by Clifford Mynatt, Ph.D.

        Examined Jewish-American children's reasoning about self-defense to complete a cross-cultural sample in conjunction with interviews with Jewish-Israeli children. Responsible for project design, data collection and analyses (i.e., MANOVA and loglinear), communications with school systems, conference presentations, and publications.

Social Cognition Research Group: Chance Attributions to Social Events, Bowling Green State University

        1995 -present: Supervised by Clifford Mynatt, Ph.D.

        Assisted in developing research projects to study the impact of chance on individuals judgments about various events. Responsible for data collection and analyses (i.e., multiple regression), conference presentations, and publications. Supervised research assistants.

Visiting Graduate Student at Hebrew University, Mount Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel

        1994 - 1995: Supervised by Charles Greenbaum, Ph.D. & Clifford Mynatt, Ph.D.

        Examined kibbutznik and city childrens judgments of self-defense to varying levels of physical threat. Responsible for project design, data collection and analyses (i.e., MANOVA and loglinear), communication with school systems and kibbutzim youth directors, conference presentations, and publications. Supervised research assistants. Research conducted in partial fulfillment of Ph.D.

Independent Study: Attributions of anti-Semitism: A policy capturing study

        1994: Supervised by Clifford Mynatt, Ph.D.

        Examined cues hypothesized to be important to Jewish and non-Jewish adolescents and adults when making a judgment that someone is anti-Semitic. Responsible for project design, data collection and analyses (i.e., multiple regression), conference abstracts and presentations.

Masters Thesis: Children's conceptions regarding control of personal possessions.

        1992-1994: Supervised by Marie Tisak, Ph.D.

        Examined children's reasoning about personal possessions. Responsible for project design, data collection and analyses (i.e., MANOVA and loglinear), communications with school systems, conference presentations, and publications. Supervised research assistants. Research conducted in partial fulfillment of Ph.D.

Social Reasoning and Development Research Group, Bowling Green State University

        1991 - 1993: Supervised by Marie Tisak, Ph.D.

        Examined children's reasoning about authority concepts across different contexts, and children's reasoning about lying. Responsible for project design and data collection. Supervised research assistants.

Knowledgeable in the following statistical models and packages

MANOVA                                     Factor Analysis

Loglinear                                         Latent Variable Analysis

Multiple Regression                         SAS

Rasch model                                   Lisrel

Hierachical Regression                    SPSS

Item Response Theory                     JMP

Structural Equation Modeling           BMDP

 

Papers

Cauce, A.M., Paradise, M., Ginzler, J.A., Embry, L., Morgan, C., Lohr, Y., &Wagner, V. (2000). The characteristics and mental health of homeless adolescents: Age and gender differences. The Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 8 (4).

Cochran, B.N., Stewart, A., Ginzler, J.A., Cauce, A.M. (2001). Challenges faced by homeless sexual minorities: Comparison of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered homeless adolescents with their heterosexual counterparts. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Ginzler, J.A., Cochran, B.N., Domenech Rodríguez, M., Cauce, A.M., Whitbeck, L. (2001) Sequential Progression of Substance Use Among Homeless Adolescents: An Empirical Investigation of the Gateway Theory. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Wert, S., Ginzler, J.A., Paradise, M., Cauce A. M. (2001). The Effects Of Child Abuse On Adolescents’ Capacity For Caring Within A Sample Of Homeless Adolescents. Manuscript submitted for publication.

 Chapters

Paradise, M., Cauce, A. M., Ginzler, J., Wert, S., Wruck, K., & Brooker, M (in press) The role of relationships in developmental trajectories of homeless and runaway youth. In B.R. Sarason, & S.W. Duck (Eds.), Personal Relationships: Implications for Clinical and Community Psychology. New York: Wiley.

Ginzler, J.A. & Cauce, A.M. (2000). Homelessness: The people, potential causes, and possible solutions. In A. Kazdin (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association Press.

Papers in preparation

Ginzler, J.A., Cauce, A.M. (2000). Substance use in street youth: a descriptive analysis. Manuscript in preparation.

Ginzler, J.A., Cauce, A.M., Domenech Rodriguez, M. (2000). Changes in mental health characteristics and subsistence strategies in street youth: Comparisons between case management as usual and intensive case management. Manuscript in preparation.

Conference Presentations

Cauce, A.M., Ginzler, J.A. (1999, September). Life Perspective Data from the Seattle Homeless Adolescent Research and Evaluation Project, Kuaui, HA.

Ginzler, J.A., Cauce, A.M. (1999, May). Understanding Street Youth, Substance Use, and Innovative Treatments. Presentation at National Health Care for the Homeless Conference, Washington, D.C.

Ginzler, J.A., Peterson, P. (1999, April). Understanding Substance Use & Abuse in Street Youth. Presentation at Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.

Ginzler, J.A. (1998, October). What Harm Reduction Offers When Traditional Approaches Fail: Substance Abuse in Street Youth. Presentation at the Second National Harm Reduction Conference; Cleveland, OH.

Ginzler, J.A. (1997, November). Judging Self-Defense: A cross-cultural examination of childrens conceptions of reactions to threat. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education; Atlanta, GA.

Ginzler, J.A. (1997, April). Judging self-defense: Childrens conceptions about acceptable inflictions of harm: a cross-cultural comparison. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development; Washington, D.C.

Ginzler, J.A. (1996, June). Judging self-defense: Childrens conceptions about victims reaction to varying levels of threat. Paper presented at the Annual Symposium for the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Ginzler, J.A., Tisak, M.S. (1994, April). Control of possessions: Childrens conceptions of events involving personal property. Poster session presented at the biennial Conference on Human Development; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Tisak, M.S., Crane-Ross, D., Ginzler, J.A. (1993, March). Childrens conceptions of authority in different contexts: Mothers versus teachers. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development; New Orleans, Louisiana.

Teaching Experience:

Courses Taught:

Adolescence [graduate summer course for Master of Arts, Teaching program], University of Alaska, Fairbanks

·          1998 Team taught course with one other colleague. Together we were equally responsible for all facets of lecturing, exercises, review sessions, exam development, and evaluating student performance.

Instructor for Introductory Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

·          1994Responsible for all facets of lecturing, exercises, review sessions, exam development, and evaluating student performance.

 

Teaching Assistantships:

Basic Quantitative Methodology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

·          1996 : Instructed by Z. Michael Nagy, Ph.D.

Honors Introductory Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

·          1996 : Instructed by Pietro Badia, Ph.D.

Experimental Methodology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

·          1996 : Instructed by Pietro Badia, Ph.D.

·          1995 : Instructed by Z. Michael Nagy, Ph.D.

 Advanced Quantitative Methods, Measurement and Testing [Two course series : Graduate Level] , Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

·          1993 - 1994 : Instructed by John Tisak, Ph.D.

Introductory Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

·          1993 Summer: Instructed by William O’Brien, Ph.D.

·          1993 Summer: Instructed by Donald Ragusa, Ph.D.

·          1993 Spring: Instructed by Andrea Wagonblast, Ph.D.

Quantitative Methods to Testing and Measurement, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

·          1992 : Instructed by Marie Tisak, Ph.D.

Developmental Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

·          1991 : Instructed by Marie Tisak, Ph.D.

Capable of teaching the following courses

Addictive Behaviors seminar*§                       *Graduate level

Adolescent Developmental Psychology*             §Specialty seminar

Basic Quantitative Methodology   

Child Developmental Psychology*

Cognitive Development

Development of Social Reasoning and Morality *§

Research Design and Methodology

Introductory Psychology

Lifespan Developmental Psychology*

Social Psychology

Social Cognition

Professional Memberships

American Psychological Association - (since 1993)

American Psychological Society - (since 1993)

Consortium on Children in War and Community Violence (1995 - present)

Jean Piaget Society - (since 1994)

Society for Research in Adolescence - (since 1998)

Society for Research in Child Development - (since 1993)