Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Through stories, tellers convey their stance towards what they are reporting. However, given a general interactional preference for recipients to adopt an affiliative stance towards the telling, tellers generally monitor recipients for whether or not they are both a) aligning with the telling activity and b) affiliating with the content of the telling. Conversely, recipients can be observed to display alignment and afffiliation. This paper examines the interactional resources through which participants in story tellings accomplish the respective monitoring and displaying of alignment and stance during story tellings. The primary finding of this paper is that whereas vocal continuers convey alignment with the activity in progress, nods are calibrated to convey preliminary affiliation with the teller and his/her stance towards what he/she is telling about. Nods then can be conceptualized as a “servo mechanism” that works to bring the telling in “on target” achieving recipient affiliation at story completion.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The Route 222 Corridor Anti-Gang Violence Initiative is comprised of three key components: Law Enforcement, Prevention and Re-entry. This paper focuses on the unique challenges faced by the project’s re-entry case managers – the human service professionals charged with identifying gang affiliated inmates preparing to be released from county prisons and coordinating their successful reintegration back into the community. Presenters will discuss the challenges faced as they work to establish a rapport with this inmate population and their families, while coordinating their efforts with law enforcement and prevention providers.

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: Background: Changes in pharmacy education have prompted pharmacy schools to develop ties with ever-increasing numbers of pharmacy practice sites. Many posit that such affiliations foster development of expanded or innovative pharmacy services in these sites. Involvement in public health activities is one current target for expansion of pharmacy activity. We examine whether community pharmacies affiliated with schools of pharmacy are more likely than unaffiliated pharmacies to be active in immunization delivery and in health emergency preparedness activities.
Methods: Telephone interviews were completed with key informants in 1760 of 2550 (69%) community pharmacies randomly sampled from 17 states. Data gathered included 1) whether the pharmacy provides in-house immunization services and, if not, whether there are plans to do so, 2) whether pharmacy staff participate in health emergency preparedness (at local, regional, state and/or national levels) and, if not, whether there are plans to become involved, and 3) whether the pharmacy is affiliated with a school/college of pharmacy. Data analysis used chi-square and logistic regression techniques.
Results: School-affiliated community pharmacies were more likely than others to: 1) offer in-house immunization services (p=0.005), 2) plan to offer in-house immunization services, if they currently did not (p=0.000), 3) participate in health emergency preparedness activities (p=0.02), and 4) plan to participate in health emergency preparedness activities, if they currently did not (p=0.005).
Conclusion: Research is needed into processes giving rise to these results (e.g., site selection, socialization). Results have encouraging implications about the ability of pharmacy curricula to attain CAPE competencies in public health.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Theory serves different roles in the psychosocial and biophysical sciences. In the latter, it makes predictions that are tested through controlled experiment and utilized in technologies. In the psychosocial domain, this is not possible due to the inherent reframability of intentional realities. Humans predict others' behavior not through theory, but through (1) innate heuristics, employed unconsciously, (2) others' past behavior, (3) categorizing, and (4) overall experience. In clinical practice, predictive skill is improved by consensual categorical criteria and experience. Psychosocial theories are added on after predictions are already made, creating an illusion of being predictive, which reflects the illusion that consciousness is causal. They evolved as shared self-deceptions that promote in-group cooperation where interests otherwise conflict. Examples include consciousness itself, religions, political ideologies, and psychotherapeutic systems. Psychosocial theories serve to promote affiliative bonding, and to limit technological options in favor of social grounding. They are better tested not through unfalsifiable pseudo-predictions, but through the social consequences of believing and practicing them. Pilot data will illustrate this methodology within the domain of comparative psychotherapy, in order to illustrate its potential utility for studying the political ideologies and religions that elude traditional science.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Evaluation of young adults' attitudes in 2 middle Georgia institutions of their perceived homosexual's rights. Significant differences were found by gender and partisan membership. Religious affiliation did not produce as many significant differences