Department of Sociology
MH335
Salem State College
Salem, Mass 01970
Office Phone  978-542-6144

PO Box 547
Durham, New Hampshire 03824
Phone:  (603) 868-6449
FAX:   (603) 868-1726

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   Specializations: Social Pediatrics, Family Violence, Medical Sociology, and Applied Sociology

1978-1981  Ph.D. Degree in Sociology 
   Western Michigan University
   Kalamazoo, Michigan

   Dissertation:  Health Systems Agencies and Self Care Behavior

1976-1978  M.A. Degree in Sociology
   Western Michigan University
   Kalamazoo, Michigan

   Thesis:  Laetrile Use and Alternative Health Care Movements in in Cancer 

1976-1977  Specialist Degree in Alcohol and Drug Addictions
   Western Michigan University
   Kalamazoo, Michigan

1971-1974  B.A. Degree in Sociology
   Minors: Psychology, Religion 
   Indiana University
   Bloomington, Indiana

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1999.  Salem State College.  Research Aware, $4000 to conduct Electronic Handbook of  Children's Resources.

1998.  Salem State College.  Research Award, $5000 to continue work on Other People's Children project.

1997.  Salem State College.  Research Award, $4000 to study how institutions care for "other people's children".

1996.  Salem State College.  Research Award, professional development. $2500.  Salem State College.  Award support New England Undergraduate Reserarch Conference in Sociology.

1996.  Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation.  $1500 award to distribute Handbook for Homeless Services throughout the Seacoast region, and to hold a  conference for local human service, educational and political leaders.

1995.  Salem State College.  Research Award, professional development. Salem State College. Award for $2200 to support New England Undergraduate Reserarch Conference in Sociology.

1994.  New Hampshire Department of Education. Development of a resource handbook of  health, social services, and educational opportunities for homeless children and families. $5000.

1993-4. Timberlane Public Schools. Evaluation of a community-wide substance abuse prevention program. $2000.

1994.  Merrimack Public Schools. Evaluate Heterogeneity vs Homogeneity in Mathematics Education. $3000.

1993.  Crotched Mountain Foundation. Videotape of history of Crotched Mountain services.  $7000.

1993.  Piscatiqua Community Foundation, in conjunction with Odyssey House. Enumerate homeless adolescents in Seacoast New Hampshire. $5000.

1993.  Rockingham Community Action Program. Evaluate Project Goodhealth. $2000.

1992.  New Hampshire Humanities Council. Videotape project of  Homeless Families in New Hampshire, entitled, "I Want To Go Home".  $10,000.

1992.  New Hampshire State Department of Education. Concord.  Evaluation for Project Safeguard, Evaluation for Comprehensive Health Education   Program, and School District Training on Homeless Children.  $14,000.

1992.  Catholic Charities, North Suburban. Lynn, MA.  "A Needs Assessment of the North Shore Human Services". $3000.

1991.  Anderson Trust, New Hampshire Charitable Trust. Concord.  Study on community resources for high risk children. $1200.

1991.  Crotched Mountain.  Greenfield, NH. "An Evaluation of the North Country Alzheimer's Community Partnership".  $3500.

1990.  New Hampshire Department of Education. Concord. Case Profiles of Homeless Children in New Hampshire. $35,000

1988-90. National Institute of Mental Health.  Washington DC.  Post-Doctoral Research Award. $61,500.

1987.  Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI.  Doctor-Patient Negotiation Project. $3000.

1988.  Ferris State College, Big Rapids, MI.  Childhood Trauma: Causes, Coping, and Outcomes. $7500.

1986.  Michigan State College.  E. Lansing, MI.  Differences in Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical Student's Attitudes Toward Healing. $5000.

1983.  Ferris State College. Big Rapids, MI.  Holistic Health Organizations. $7500.

1981.  West Michigan Health Systems Agency.  Development of a Cardio-Vascular Disease Prevention Project for West Michigan.    $12,000.

1979.  Western Michigan Universtiy.  Kalamazoo. MI Self Care as a medical innovation. $3000.

1979.  Kent-Ionia Substance Abuse Coordinating Agency.  Evaluation of Substance Abuse Programs. $1000.

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Vissing, Y. (under name Hannah West).  Threads.  Book in submission.

Vissing, Y.  Childless Mothers.  Book in submission.

Vissing, Y.  "Homelessness in Middle School Students."  Chapter in James Wright's 2000 book on Educating Homeless Students.  Sage Publishers.

Vissing, Y.  "Heroic Students" in Cultural Diversity in Education,  Sage, 1998.

Vissing, Y and Joseph Diament. "Counting Homeless Adolescents".  Social Work. 1996.

Vissing, Y. and J. Diament.  "Homeless Youth in My Community?" International Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness. 1997. 

Hafferty, F., J. Salloway, and Y. Vissing.  "Professional Roles and Health Behavior" in David Gochman's forthcoming book on Professional Behavior in Medicine.  1996.

Vissing, Y.M. and W. Baily. "Parent-to-Child Verbal Aggression" in Dudly Cahn and Sally Lloyd's forthcoming book, Communication and Family Violence. 1996. Sage Publications.

Vissing, Y.M.  Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Homeless Children in Small Town America.  University of Kentucky Press. Lexington, KY. 1996.

Vissing, Y.M, Dorothy Schroepfer and Fred Bloise.  "Homeless Students, Heroic Sudents".  Phi Delta Kappa.  March 1994. 535-539.

Vissing, Y.M., J.C. Salloway and D. Siress. "Training for expertise vs training for trust: Issues in educational gerontology". Educational Gerontology. 1994.

Vissing, Y.M., J.C. Salloway and D. Siress. "Organization of Alzheimer's Services for Rural Areas".  Educational Gerontology. 1994.

Vissing, YM. "Homeless Children Having Children". New England Journal of Public Policy, special issue on homelessness. Summer 1992.

Hudson, C., Salloway, J. and Vissing, Y. "The Impact of State Administrative Practices on Community Mental Health". Journal of Mental Health Administration. 1992. 19, 6, 417-436.

Vissing, Y.M. and M.A. Straus. "Verbal Aggression by Parents and Psycho-Social Problems of Children". Child Abuse and Neglect. 1991. 15,223-38.

Vissing, Yvonne and David Kallen. "The Clinical Sociologist in Medical Settings" in Handbook of Clinical Sociology. Howard Rebach and John Bruhn, eds. Plenum Publishing Co. 1991.

Vissing, Y.M.  "Holistic Health in Michigan:  Organizational Structure and Personal Perspectives".  Journal of Holistic Nursing, Fall 1987.

Vissing, Y.M.  "Self Care as Family Primary Health Care"  Special Issue, Marriage and Family Review. vol. 11, no. 3/4. 1987.

Vissing, Y.M.  "Getting Rid of Patients" Humanity and Society.  volume 10, number 4, 485-487.  November 1986.

Vissing, Y.M.  "Primary Health Care in the Third World". Contemporary Sociology. May 1986.
 

Vissing, Y.M.  "Holistic Health Associations:  Philosophy and Goals".  Journal of Holistic Nursing.  May 1985.

Vissing, Y.M. and M.A. Burke. "Nursing Professionals and the Art of Visualization".  Journal of Psychosocial Medicine and Mental Health.  Volume 22, number 1: 29-34.  January 1984.

Vissing, Y.M. and J.C. Petersen.  "Taking Laetrile:  Conversion to Medical Deviance."  Journal of the American Cancer Society, CA.  November, 1981.

Wagenfeld, M.O.,Vissing, Y.M., J.C. Petersen, and G.E. Markle.  "Notes from the Cancer Underground:  Health Attitudes and Practices of Participants in the Laetrile Underground".  Social Science and Medicine.  volume 24, number 8, 1979.

Vissing, Y.M.  "Folklore and Sociology of Steamboat Workers on the Ohio River".  Waterways Journal.  October 21, P 42-46. 1978.

Vissing, Y.M.  "What do the Schools want in Substance Abuse Education and Prevention?"  Journal of Drug Education.  Volume 8, number 4, 1978.
 

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Vissing, YM and Ellen Pulsifer: Math Education:  An Evaluation of Homogeneity and Hetrogeneity in the Merrimack Public Schools.  1994.

Vissing, YM and J. Diament.  Enumeration of Homeless Adolescents in the Seacoast.  Prepared for the Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation. 1993.

Vissing, YM.  An Evaluation of the Training of Trainers' #2 Program. Prepared for the New Hampshire State Department of Education. 1993.

Vissing, YM.  Project Safeguard: An Evaluation. Prepared for the New Hampshire State Department of Education and Merrimack Public Schools. 1992.

Vissing, Y.M. A Needs Assessment of the North Shore Human Services. Report prepared for Catholic Charities, North Suburban. 1992.

Vissing, YM.  Final Report for the North Country Alzheimer's Partnership.  Crotched Mountain Foundation. 1991.

Vissing, Y.M. Homelessness in New Hampshire. A Report to the State of New Hampshire, Department of Education.  January, 1991.

Vissing, Y.M., Whit, W. and Kallen, D. Sociology of Food and Society: Conference Proceedings.  Publication of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Ferris State University Press. 1988.

Vissing, YM. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Western Michigan.  Prepared for the West Michigan Health Systems Agencies.
 

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Vissing, YM.  Homeless Children and Community Involvement.  New Hampshire Bar Association's annual meeting.  Bedford, NH. October. 1996.

Vissing, YM.  Research Issues in the Study of  Homeless Children and Families. Ohio Rural Homeless Conference.  Columbus, Ohio. 1995.

Vissing, YM , JC Salloway, D Sciress, and C Hudson. Care and Case Management:  Definitions of Service Distinctions.  Canadian Health Care Annual Meeting. Toronto, Oct. 1994.

Vissing, YM., JC Salloway and D Sciress. "Training Gerontologists for Rural Areas".  Prepared for the Association for Gerontology in Health Education. Louisville, KY. March 1993. 

Vissing, YM. "Evaluating HIV-AIDS education programs". Prepared for the Southeastern Regional Educational Service Center. Manchester, NH. February 1993.

Vissing, YM.  "Institutionalized Abuse of Children." Prepared for the International Conference on Child Protection. Montreal, Canada.  October 1992.

Vissing, Y., Salloway, J. and Siress, D. "Organization of Alzheimer's Services in Rural Areas'.  American Geriatric Society meetings. Lexington, KY. August 1992.

Vissing, Y.M., Salloway, J. C. and Chris Hudson. "Rural-Urban Issues in the Mental Health of Families and Children". American Sociological Association. August 1991.

Vissing, Y.M. and D. Schroepfer.  "Homeless Children in Small Towns".  Child Welfare League of America North Atlantic Regional Conference.  June 1991.

Vissing, Y.M.  "Family Homelessness in New Hampshire".  Presented to the New Hampshire State Department of Education.  Feb. 8, 1991.

Vissing, Y.M., Salloway, J. C. and Chris Hudson. "Rural-Urban Issues in the Mental Health of Families and Children". International Sociology Meetings, Madrid, Spain, August 1990.

Vissing, Y.M. "Preliminary Findings of School and Student Problems Due to Homelessness". New Hampshire - Vermont State Education Departments. June 3-4, 1990.

Vissing, Y.M. "The Community Health Physician and Role as Child Abuse Protection Advocate". Boston University School of Medicine. January 11, 1990.

Vissing, Y.M. and M.A. Straus "Verbal Aggression by Parents and Psycho-Social Problems of Children". Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco, CA. August 1989.

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