JERRY FLOERSCH

Vita

Jerry Floersch
Associate Professor
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7164
Phone: 216-368-5598
Fax: 216-368-8670
E-mail: jef11@po.case.edu

Books

Longhofer, J.,  Floersch, J., Kubek, P. & Oswald, L. (under contract ). "Reflective Case Management" New York: Columbia University Press.

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

Peer-reviewed Articles

Floersch, J. Townsend, L., Longhofer, J.Munson, M., Winbush, V., Kranke, D., Faber, R., Thomas, J., Jenkins, J. JH., Findling, R. L. (2008 in press).  " Adolescent Experience of Psychotropic Treatment." Transcultural Psychiatry.  

Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. (2004).  " The phenomenological practice gap: The role of qualitative research in studies of practice guidelines, evaluation, and clinical judgement. "  Qualitative Social Work 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 reductioism 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, 119-136.

Invited Book Chapters

Floersch, J., Longhofer, J., & Nordquest-Schwallie, M.  (in press). Ethnography and Social Work, edited by Mel Gray, in Thinking about social work: Theories and methods for practice. Oxford University Press.

Floersch, J. (2004). "Ethnography:  A case study of invented clinical knowledge," edited by Deborah K. Padgett, in The Qualitative Research Experience. Pp. 76-96. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.

Floersch, J. & Longhofer, J.   (2004).  " Psychodynamic Case Management "  edited by Jerrold Brandell, in Psychodynamic social work. New York: Columbia University Press.

Floersch, J. (2004).  "The subjective experience of youth psychotropic experience." edited by Kia J. Bentley, in 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. (2004). "Medication effect interpretation and the social grid of management." edited by Kia J. Bentley, in Psychiatric medication issues for social workers, counselors, and psychologists. Pp. 71-89.  Binghamton, NY: Haworth Social Work Practice Press

Published Research Reports

Floersch, J. & Oswald, L. (2004) " Recovery Problem-solving and Caregiving Relationships ."  New Research in Mental Health, 2002-2004 Biennium, Vol. 16. Columbus, OH: Ohio Department of Mental Health.

Floersch, J. & Oswald, L. (2002) "Recovery case management."   New Research in Mental Health, 2000-2001 Biennium, Vol. 15: 43-48.  Columbus, OH:Ohio Department of Mental Health.

Floersch, J. (2004)  " Final Report: Recovery Implementation Study." Ohio Department of  Mental  Health.  Grant # 021150.

Review Essays

Floersch, J. (2008) .   Encyclopedia of Social Work. Use of Theory in Practice. (in press) Oxford University Press.

Floersch,  J.  (2007) .  Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addictions and Belonging in America, 32(4): 740-745.

Floersch,  J. (2004).  Qualitative Social Work. Qualitative Methods for Studying Poverty, 4(1): 112-113.

Longhofer, J. & Floersch J.  (2004).  Qualitative Social Work . "The phenomenological practice gap: The role of qualitative research  in studies of practice guidelines, evaluation, and clinical judgement."  3(4): 483-486.

Floersch, J. (2004).  Living Outside Mental Illness: Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia, by Larry Davidson.  Social Service Review 78 (2): 327-30.

Floersch, J. (2000). Reading Foucault for Social Work, by Adrienne S. Chambon, Allan Irving, and Laura Epstein. Social Service Review 74 (1), 142-145.

Floersch, J. (1999). Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work, by Leslie Margolin. American Journal of Sociology 104 (4), 1216-1218.

Floersch, J. (1999). Good Intentions Overruled: A Critique of Empowerment in the Routine Organization of Mental Health Services, by Elizabeth Townsend. Social Service Review 73 (2), 270-273.

Floersch, J. (1999). Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records an the Professionalization of Social Work, by Karen Tice. Social Service Review 73 (4), 594-597.

Research Grants

2008-2010.  Floersch, J. Principal Investigator. CWRU Presidential Research Initiative Award. Co-investigators, Eileen Anderson-Fye (Anthropology) and Jes Sellers (University Counseling Center).  "College Student Experience of Mental Health Service Use and Psychiatric Medication." (awarded, $75,000).

2004-2009. Floersch, J. Principal Investigator. NIMH (KO8)PA-00-003 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award, Dr. Janis H. Jenkins, Professor Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University (Anthropology Mentor), Dr. Robert Findling, Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University (Psychopharmacology Mentor). See abstract, "Youth Subjective Experience of Psychotropic Treatment."   (awarded, $696,566).

2004-2005. Floersch, J. Glennan Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University. " Internet Library of Practice and Research Concepts."  (awarded, $6,500).

2000-2003. Floersch, J. Principal Investigator . Ohio Department of Mental Health. (awarded, $120,000). Recovery  Implementation Training Study .

Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships

Professional Licensure

Licensed Master Social Worker, Kansas (1981-2000)
Licensed Independent Social Worker, Ohio (2002-present)

Practice Experience

Social Work Practice (Post Master's Degree)

Social Work Practice (Pre Master's Degree)

Research Positions

Teaching

Organized Conference Panels

Paper Presentations   

Professional Associations, Memberships and Journal positions

Society for Social Work and Research

Committee and Service Responsibilities