This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the 2012 Presidential Primaries. In this presentation, the author uses his background in rhetoric and debate, as well as his interests in ideological criticism, and the politics of representation to comment on the candidates' rhetoric.

Poster presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on problem-solving abilities and feelings of control.

This paper discusses research on negotiating in the 21st century.

Presentation for the 2006 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on personal, family, and school issues that grandparents experience as primary caregivers for grandchildren.

This paper discusses research into grandparents raising children with disabilities.

This book chapter discusses different media texts targeted at a different audience, magazines written for an audience of teenaged girls, which also work to naturalize male sexuality as aggressive and predatory. The authors study advice columns and articles in these magazines that depict teenaged boys as sexually forceful and emotionally stunted, and that encourage girl readers to expect and enable such behaviors.

Article on a national survey of the social work role in pain management with hospice caregivers.

Article on exploring interpersonal communication in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings.

Article on a study of information flow in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings.

Article on the backstage communication in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings and what families and patients don't hear.

Article on a case study detailing caregiver involvement in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings.

Article on the role of the hospice medical director as observed in interdisciplinary team case reviews.

Article on caregiver perceptions, pain talk by hospice interdisciplinary teams, and barriers to pain management.

Article discussing a qualitative study to evaluate an intervention (ACTIVE) that utilized videophone technology to include patients and/or their family caregivers in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings.

Article describing family caregiver and hospice team communication and the ACTive intervention in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings.

Article on a new paradigm for comprehensive hospice quality care and Assessing Caregivers for Team Interventions (ACT).

Article on examining technical quality and content and video-mediated communication in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings.

Article on the use of videophones for patient and family participation in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings.

Article on a pilot study to improve pain management and caregiver participation in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings via videophone technology.

Article on a systematic review of the evidence base for telehospice.

Article on an opportunity for hospice social workers to better meet caregiver needs and problem solving interventions.

Article on the use of videophones to deliver a cognitive-behavioural therapy to hospice caregivers.

Article on family perspectives on the hospice experience in adult family homes.

Article on caregiver concerns during hospice care and reciprocal suffering.