David Wilkerson

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Digital Hybrid Psychoeducation: Model Development and Case Demonstrations

Professor Wilkerson's research focuses on the uses of technology to advance social work practice and education. In the area of practice, he's interested in ways to improve the delivery of online support as an aspect of psychoeducation. He also works on the delivery of online mental health services through rural public libraries and looks for methods to best infuse digital practice into the social work curriculum.

In 2016, Dr. Wilkerson's interest in tele-practice led him to become a member of a multidisciplinary team that researches social media technology for support and self-management of caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The team developed a web app and has published two articles from its pilot study in 2017 and 2018 on the uses of Facebook for joining social and support networks through Friendsourcing and Social Micro-volunteering. This work has resulted in an emerging international reputation and in 2019, he became the PI for a transnational research study that planned to replicate the Friendsourcing social media intervention for 80 Irish caregivers. The transnational project included collaboration with the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland and Care Alliance, Ireland. Related published telehealth research in 2020 included a design for online psychoeducation intervention for parent management training to enhance the delivery of peer support and the development of mutual aid. The online intervention is currently being redeveloped through a collaboration with eDesign and Learning Services/UITS for delivery through IU Expand and it will become an arm of a Telehealth School Safety Project that is in development with other IUSSW researchers. Other publications in this area in 2020 included his work on a Telepractice CE program that had international impact in response to COVID-19 and a perspective on the issue of balancing caregiver rights for privacy and their right to online support.

Professor Wilkerson's translation of research into better mental health interventions is another excellent example of how IUPUI's faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEACH INTO PRACTICE.

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    Analysis of Social Work Theory Progression Published in 2004
    (IUPUI, 2007-04-30) Decker, Valerie D.; Suman, Philip D.; Burge, Barb J.; Deka, Ankita; Harris, Melanie; Hymans, Dwight J.; Marcussen, Michael; Pittman, Donna; Wilkerson, David A.; Daley, James G.
    The authors reviewed 67 articles that discussed and/or tested human behavior theories from social work journals published in 2004 in order to assess the level and quality of theory progression. The articles were further sorted into Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) Foundation Curriculum content areas of HBSE, practice, policy, field education, values & ethics, diversity, populations-at-risk/social and economic justice, and research for purposes of categorization. Results indicated that HBSE and practice were by far the largest group of articles reviewed.Also found was that social work has a limited amount of theory discussion in the content areas of field, values and ethics, diversity, and populations-at-risk/social and economic justice. Thirty-three articles were found to demonstrate theory progression, eight articles presented new/emerging theories, and 26 articles discussed or critiqued theories without presenting evidence of theory progression.