School of Social Work

536 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167
jerry.floersch@gmail.com

Education

1998 Ph.D., University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration (SSA).
1977 M.S.W., University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare.
1976 B.S.W., Washburn University, Social Work.

Academic/Research Appointments

2009 Associate Professor, Rutgers School of Social Work
2005-2009 Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, MSASS
1999-2005 Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS).
1998 Visiting Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of North Texas.
1996 Lecturer. University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Sociology.
1990-1992 Lecturer. University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Sociology.
1984-1985 Lecturer. University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Sociology.
1983-1984 Lecturer. Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, Kansas.
1979-1981 Research Assistant. Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas. National Institute of Aging Research Project. Co-Principal Investigators: Dr. Michael Crawford and Dr. John Janzen.

Fellowships, Awards, and Scholarships

2004 CWRU, Glennan Fellows Award (university wide teaching and scholarship award)
2002 Outstanding Teacher Award, Alumni Association, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
1997 Sara Jane Lind Dissertation Award.
1994-1996 Scholarship and Stipend, University of Chicago.
1986 Johnson County Mental Health Board Personal Dedication Award.
1980 The Newberry Library Summer Research Institute Fellow. Chicago, Illinois.

Funded Research

2008-2010 J. Floersch, Principal Investigator. “College Student Use of Mental Health Services and Psychiatric Medication.” CWRU Presidential Research Initiative award. Co- investigators, Eileen Anderson-Fye, (anthropology) and Jes Sellers (University Counseling Center). ($75,000). For video description, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66YNn_gK5Rc

2007-2008 J. Floersch. Principal Investigator. MSASS Podcast Project. Mandel Foundation Grant. ($15,000). For description, see
http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2007/12/13/saspodcasts
To access the podcasts, go to, http://blog.case.edu/msasspodcastproject/index.html

2004-2009 J. Floersch, Principal Investigator. "Youth Subjective Experience of Psychotropic Treatment." NIMH (KO8) Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award, (MH068584-01A1) May 2004. ($696,566).

2006-2008 J. Hoy, & Jerry Floersch. “Outcomes & Incomes: Measuring Mental Health Recovery in a Medical Model World.” Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH) Dissertation Grant Award ($11,144). Dissertation Chair, Jerry Floersch.


2000-2003 J. Floersch, Principal Investigator. Ohio Department of Mental Health. “Recovery Training Implementation Study.” Grant # 021150. ($120,000). Final Report submitted February 14th, 2004.

Books

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

Reviews of Meds, Money, and Manners
Gjonca, A. (2005) European Journal of Public Health, 15(2): 217
Kanter, Joel (2004) Community Mental Health Journal, 40(4): 401-402.
Herrera, Rafael (2004) Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 31(1): 221-224
Rhodes, Lorna (2003) Qualitative Social Work, 2(4): 499-502.
Padgett, Deborah L. (2002) Social Service Review, 76(4): 701-703.

Longhofer, J., Kubek, P., Floersch, J. (in press, April 2010 distribution date). On having and being a case manager: Relational case management. New York: Columbia University Press.

Floersch, J. Longhofer, J., & Hoy, J. (under contract) Qualitative methods for practice research. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Munson, M.R., Floersch, J., & Townsend, L. (in press) Attitudes toward mental health services and illness perceptions among adolescents with mood disorders. Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal.

Floersch, J. Longhofer, J., Kranke, D., & Townsend, L. (in press). Integrating thematic, grounded theory, and narrative analysis: A case study of adolescent psychotropic treatment. Qualitative Social Work.

Kranke, D., & Floersch, J.  (in press).  Mental health stigma in schools: Interventions for school social workers.  School Social Work Journal.

Townsend, L., Floersch, J., & Findling, R.L.  (in press) Adolescent attitudes toward psychiatric medication: The utility of the drug attitude inventory. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Floersch, J., Townsend, L., Longhofer, J., Munson, M., Winbush, V., Kranke, D., Faber, R., Thomas, J., Jenkins, J.H., & Findling, R. (2009). Adolescent experience of psychotropic treatment. Transcultural Psychiatry, 46(1), 157-179.

Buchbinder, M., Longhofer, J., Barrett, T. Lawson, P., & Floersch, J. (2006). Ethnographic approaches to child care research: A review of the literature. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 4(1), 45-63.

Jenkins, J. J., Straus, M. E.,  Miller, D. Carpenter, E.,  Floersch, J. & Sajatovic, M. (2005). Subjective experience of recovery from schizophrenia-related disorders and atypical antipsychotic medications. International Journal of Psychiatry, 51(3), 211-227.

Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. (2004). The phenomenological practice gap: Practice guidelines, evaluation, and clinical judgment. Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice, 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 reductionism 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(2), 119-136.

Book Chapters

Floersch, J., Longhofer, J., & Nordquest, M. (2009). Ethnography. In M. Gray & S. Webb (Eds.), Thinking about social work: Theories and methods for practice (pp. 152-160). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Floersch, J. (2004). Ethnography: A case study of invented clinical knowledge. In D. K. Padgett (Ed.), The Qualitative Research Experience (pp. 76-96). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.

Longhofer, J. & Floersch, J. (2004). Psychodynamic case management. In J. Brandell Psychodynamic Social Work: A Transactional Approach (pp. 350-370). New York: Columbia University Press.

Floersch, J. (2003).  The subjective experience of youth psychotropic experience. In K. J. Bentley (Ed.) 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. (2003). Medication effect interpretation and the social grid of management. In K. J. Bentley (Ed.), Psychiatric medication issues for social workers, counselors, and psychologists (pp. 71-89).  Binghamton, NY: Haworth Social Work Practice Press.

Invited Commentaries and Book Review Essays (sole author)

2008. Encyclopedia of Social Work. “Use of theory in practice.” Oxford University Press.

2007. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. “Of others inside: Insanity, addictions and belonging in America, 32(4): 740-745.

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

2004. Social Service Review. “Living outside mental illness: Qualitative studies of recovery of schizophrenia,” by Larry Davidson. 78 (2): 327-30.

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

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

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

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


Peer-Reviewed Articles Under Review

Munson, M., Floersch, J., & Townsend, L. (submitted Feb. 09) “Are health beliefs related to adherence among adolescents with mood disorders? Journal of Health Psychology

Townsend, L., Floersch, J. & Findling, R.L. (in progress, submission April 09) “The factor structure and conceptual adequacy of the adolescent drug attitude inventory: A mixed method evaluation.” Journal of Mixed Methods Research

Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts in Preparation

Floersch, J. & Longhofer, J. “Youth and psychiatric medication: Desire and disappointment.” Invited article for special issue in Anthropology & Medicine.

Anderson-Fye, Eileen, & Floersch, J. “I want to feel normal…but not neutral”: College students’ experiences of psychiatric medication usage and desire for the “just right” amount of emotion.” Invited article for Ethos.

Townsend, L., Floersch, J., Kranke, D., Munson, M., & Findling, R.L. Racial differences in transmission of health beliefs: Family attitudes toward pharmacotherapy for mental health concerns, Intended for Children and Youth Services Review or American Journal of Public Health.

Townsend, L., Floersch, J., Kranke, D., Winbush, V., Munson, M., & Findling, R.L.
Parenting adolescents who take psychiatric medications: Medication management, adherence to treatment, and youth perception of medication effectiveness, Intended for Family Relations.

Kranke, D., & Floersch, J. First person accounts of adolescent mental health stigma, Intended for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.

Kranke, D., Floersch, J., & Townsend, L. Stigma experience among adolescents prescribed psychiatric medications, Intended for Children and Youth Services Review.

Townsend, L., Floersch, J.E., Kranke, D., & Findling, R.L., Parent attitudes toward psychiatric medication: Having an adolescent with a mental illness, Intended for Families in Society.

Kranke, D., & Floersch, J. Comparison of stigma experience among adolescents in traditional schools with students in segregated schools, Intended for Children & Schools.

Published Research Reports

2009. Hoy, J., & Floersch, J. “Outcomes & Incomes: Measuring Mental Health Recovery in a Medical Model World.” New Research in Mental Health, Volume 18.

2005. Floersch, J. “Recovery problem-solving and Caregiver Relationships.” New Research in Mental Health, Ohio Department of Mental Health, Volume 16.

2003. Floersch, J. & Oswald, L. “Recovery Case Management.” New Research in Mental Health, Ohio Department of Mental Health, Volume 15, pp. 43-48.


Qualitative Methods Workshops

2008. Floersch, J. & Townsend, L. “How to Conduct Qualitative Research in Mixed-Method Research.”Institute for Advanced Social Work Research (IASWR) Summer Methods Workshops. June 9-10. For workshop agenda and evaluation see,
http://msass.case.edu/faculty/jfloersch/Workshop.html

2009. Floersch, J. Introduction to Atlas.ti and Qualitative Research. University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, Doctoral Program. (February).


Organized Conference Sessions

2001. J. Floersch. “Mental Health and the Role of Media.” 25th International Cleveland Film Society Mental Health Forum (March), sponsored by the Woodruff Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.

1999. J. Floersch. “The Use of Social Work Case Records to Write History: A Methodological Inquiry.” Social Science History Association, Ft. Worth, Tx. (Nov. 1999)

Peer-reviewed and Invited Presentations

2009. Floersch, J. “Out of the Clinic and into the Medicine Cabinet: Social Work in a Psychopharmacological Environment.” Special Symposium, “Off the Couch and Out of the Clinic: Innovations in Research on the Therapeutic Relationship in Community-Based Settings,” sponsored by the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, in honor of SSA’s Centennial celebration. Society for Social Work Research, annual meetings, January.

2009. Kranke, D., Floersch, J. & Townsend, L. “Stigma Experience Among Adolescents Prescribed Psychiatric Medications.” Oral Presentation. Society for Social Work Research.

2009. Floersch, J. & Kranke, D. “Adolescent Gender Differences in Psychotropic Treatment Experience.” Oral Presentation. Society for Social Work Research.

2009. Townsend, L., Floersch, J., Kranke, D., Findling, R. “Ethnicity Differences in Family Attitudes toward Psychiatric Medication.” Poster Presentation. Society for Social Work Research.

2009. Tracy, E., Munson, M, Peterson, L., & Floersch, J. “Views of Social Support: Perspectives of Women in Substance Abuse Treatment.” Poster Presentation. Society for Social Work Research.

2008. Floersch, J. & Anderson-Fye, E. “College Student Use of Psychiatric Medication.” Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada.

2008. Floersch, J. “Out of Clinic and into the Medicine Cabinet: Social Work in a Psychopharmacological Environment.” New Directions in Policy-Relevant Research on Adolescence: Perspectives from Psychological Anthropology. Sponsored by Schubert Center for Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University.

2008. Floersch, J. “Thematic, Grounded Theory, and Narrative Methods.” (November) Day PhD. Seminar lecture series, University of Chicago, SSA.

2008. Floersch, J. (November) “Social Work in a Psychopharmacological Environment.” Denver University School of Social Work.

2008. Floersch, J. “Adolescent Understanding of Psychiatric Medication Compliance.” Oral Presentation. November, Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association.

2008. Townsend, L., Floersch, J., & Findling, R. “The Drug Attitude Inventory in Adolescents: Factor Structure and Association with Adherence.” Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) in Chicago, IL, October 28-November 2.

2008. Floersch, J. "The Psychosocial and Sociocultural Dimensions of Prescribing Psychiatric Medication to Adolescents." CWRU Center for Policy Studies.

2008. Floersch, J. & Longhofer, J. “The Therapist and Psychotropic Treatment for Adolescents: Toward a Collaboration with Families and Providers.” Jewish Family Services, Akron, Ohio.

2007. Floersch, J., Townsend, L., Munson, M., Kranke, D., Winbush, V., Jenkins, J.H., & Findling, R. “Adolescent Experience of Psychotropic Treatment.” 54th annual meetings of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Oral presentation.

2007. Floersch, J. “Use of grounded theory to study adolescent experience of psychiatric medication.” University of Oslo, Section of Medical Anthropology, Institute of Social Medicine. (August)

2007. Floersch, J. “Adolescent subjective experience of psychotropic treatment.” Advanced Summer Institute, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, conference on Psychopharmacology in a Globalizing World: The Social Lives of Psychiatric Medication.

2007. Townsend, L., & Floersch J. “Parental attitudes toward adolescent psychotropic treatment.” Society for Social Work Research. San Francisco

2007. J. Floersch. “Adolescent Subjective Experience of Psychotropic Treatment.” Society for Social Work Research. San Francisco

2006. J. Floersch. “Youth Subjective Experience of Psychotropic Treatment.” Grand Rounds. MetroHealth Hospitals, Cleveland Ohio.

2005. J. Floersch. “Using Supervision in Work Settings to Implement Recovery.” Roads to Recovery Conference, sponsored by Cuyahoga County Community Mental Health Board, Cleveland, Ohio. (October).

2005. J. Floersch. “Youth Subjective Experience of Psychotropic Treatment.” Grand Rounds. University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio (July)

2005. J. Floersch. “Mapping Adolescent Psychotropic Treatment.” Columbia University, School of Medicine, Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

2005. J. Floersch. “Social Work as Qualitative Inquiry: Praxis, Paradox, and Parable.” 1st International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 5-7. University of Illinois.

2005. J. Floersch. “Recovery from the Point of View of a Son.” Building Better Tomorrow: At the Crossroads of Recovery from Mental Illness. May 12th. Sponsored by Ohio Department of Mental Health and Adult Recovery Network of Ohio.

2005. J. Floersch. “K awards for building a research career.” Society for Social Work Research, Miami.

2005. J. Floersch. “A Qualitative Study of Mental Health Recovery, Problem-solving and Caregiving Relationships.” Society for Social Work Research, Miami Florida.

2003. J. Floersch. "Realizing the Promise of Community Support Services in the Idea of Mental Health Recovery." Sponsored by the Ohio Department of Mental Health, Office of Program Evaluation and Research, Research Results Briefing, Knowledge to Enhance Quality in Challenging Times. (November)

2003. J. Floersch. “Realizing the Promise of Recovery in Practice.” In recognition of May: National Mental Health Month. Sponsored by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Cuyahoga County Mental Health Board.

2003. J. Floersch. “Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology: Developmental Issues Affecting Medication Management in the Community.” The First National Internet Conference on Social Work & Psychopharmacology, sponsored by the Ittleson Foundation and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work.

2003. J. Floersch. Meet the Authors. Council on Social Work Education, APM Meeting. February 27th-March 2nd.

2002. J. Floersch. “Invented Clinical Knowledge.” The Everyday Practice of Case Management with Severe Mental Illness.” Keynote Speaker, Field Forum Spring Symposium, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.

2002. J. Floersch, “Recovery Implementation Training Study: Preliminary Findings,” Ohio Department of Mental Health, Recovery From Concepts to Practice: Practicum in Local Systems, September.

• J. Floersch. “Qualitative Methods and Case Records.” Smith College for Social Work, Northampton, MA. Invited presentation. Graduate Studies Seminar Lecture.

• J. Floersch. “A Comparative Study of Social Worker’s Oral and Written Narratives,”

Committee and Service Responsibilities

Case Western Reserve University

• CWRU GLBT Task Force, co-chair, 2007-present
• CWRU, President’s Vice President for Diversity, Hiring Committee (2007- present)
• CWRU Provost University Steering Committee on Strategic Planning (2007 to present)
• Faculty Senate Library Committee (2000-to present)
• Faculty Senate (2003-2006)

• Chair, Curriculum Committee, (2007-2009).
• Steering Committee, (2005-2008).
• Program Chair, Mental Health Concentration (1999 to 2002; and 2003--2007)
• Lead Instructor, Human Behavior over the Life Span (2000 to present)
• E-Talk Committee Chair (2004)
• MSW Curriculum Committee (2001 to present)
• Steering Committee (2005--)
• Work & Environment Committee (2000 to 2002)
• Library Committee (2000 to 2002)
• Foundation Committee (2000 to present)
• Faculty, Field, and Student advisory Committee (1999 to present)
• Ph.D. Executive Committee (2000 to 2002)
• Faculty Advisor, Gay and Lesbian Student Group (1999 to present)
• Faculty Advisor, CommUnity Student Council

• Cuyahoga Community Mental Health Board, Steering Committee, Recovery Training Implementation. (2000- to present)
• Cuyahoga Community Mental Health Board, Cultural Diversity Partnership Group. (1999 to present)

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