Positions

Publications

Academic Article

Year Title
2019 Community mental health center staff attitudes about employment for persons with serious mental illness..  Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.  42:32-40. 2019
2019 Health, Health Behaviors, and Health Care Utilization Among Adults with Serious Psychological Distress Who Receive Federal Housing Assistance..  Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research.  1-21. 2019
2018 Striving to Work.  Social Indicators Research.  139:541-558. 2018
2018 The relationship between employment and health and health care among working-age adults with and without disabilities in the United States..  Disability and Rehabilitation.  1-9. 2018
2018 Personal and Organizational Determinants of Job Satisfaction for Workers With Disabilities.  Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin.  003435521877027-003435521877027. 2018
2018 Health and Health Services Access Among Adults With Disabilities Who Receive Federal Housing Assistance.  Housing Policy Debate.  28:248-266. 2018
2017 Food Insecurity Across the Adult Life Span for Persons With Disabilities.  Journal of Disability Policy Studies.  28:109-118. 2017
2017 The association of food insecurity with health outcomes for adults with disabilities..  Disability and Health Journal.  10:286-293. 2017
2017 Income Poverty and Multiple Deprivations in a High-Income Country: The Case of the United States.  Social Science Quarterly.  98:37-56. 2017
2017 Income poverty and multiple deprivations in a high-income country: The case of the United States.  Social Science Quarterly.  98:37-56. 2017
2017 Measuring Disability.  Cityscape (Washington, D.C.).  19:257-265. 2017
2017 Variations in social capital among vocational rehabilitation applicants.  Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.  46:187-194. 2017
2016 Using Sensory, Functional, and Activity Limitation Data to Estimate Employment Outcomes for Working-Age Persons With Disabilities in the United States.  Journal of Disability Policy Studies.  27:131-137. 2016
2016 Food Insecurity Among Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the United States: Evidence From the National Health Interview Survey..  American Journal on Mental Retardation American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.  121:520-532. 2016
2016 Community and social participation among adults with mobility impairments: A mixed methods study..  Disability and Health Journal.  9:682-691. 2016
2016 Trips to medical care among persons with disabilities: Evidence from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey..  Disability and Health Journal.  9:539-543. 2016
2016 Food security among young adults with disabilities in the United States: Findings from the National Health Interview Survey..  Disability and Health Journal.  9:298-305. 2016
2015 Individual Characteristics and the Disability Employment Gap.  Journal of Disability Policy Studies.  26:80-88. 2015
2015 People with disabilities in the United States..  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.  96:771-774. 2015
2015 More Likely to Be Poor Whatever the Measure: Working-Age Persons with Disabilities in the United States.  Social Science Quarterly.  96:273-296. 2015
2015 Social capital, employment and labor force participation among persons with disabilities.  Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.  43:17-31. 2015
2014 Participation in Safety-Net Programs and the Utilization of Employment Services Among Working-Age Persons With Disabilities.  Journal of Disability Policy Studies.  25:91-105. 2014
2012 Outcomes of a Family-Centered Transition Process for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders.  Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities.  27:42-50. 2012
2011 Performance-based contracting within a state substance abuse treatment system: a preliminary exploration of differences in client access and client outcomes..  Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research.  38:383-397. 2011
2010 EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACCESS AND RETENTION AMONG SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT ADMISSIONS.  Journal of Drug Issues.  40:553-576. 2010
2009 Social construction of disability and substance abuse within public disability benefit systems..  International Journal of Drug Policy.  20:418-423. 2009
2008 Prescription drug abuse among persons with disabilities.  Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.  29:105-115. 2008
2007 Estimating the Prevalence of Substance Use, Abuse, and Dependence Among Social Security Disability Benefit Recipients.  Journal of Disability Policy Studies.  18:148-159. 2007
2007 Substance abuse treatment participation and employment outcomes for public disability beneficiaries with substance use disorders..  Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research.  34:290-308. 2007
2007 Ticket-to-Work project: Evaluation of an assertive outreach campaign to increase ticket assignment and use of the One-Stop system by SSA beneficiaries in an urban county in New Jersey.  Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.  26:79-88. 2007
2006 How management matters: Street-level bureaucrats and welfare reform..  American Review of Public Administration.  36:117-119. 2006
2006 Developing a screening tool to predict disability program participation.  Journal of Rehabilitation.  72:21-31. 2006
2006 Re-entry to recovery: A promising return-to-work approach for certain offenders with mental illness.  Criminal Justice Policy Review.  17:302-313. 2006
2004 Informing the development of employment programs for persons with disabilities: A case study analysis of the definitions, uses and implications of the idea of suitable employment.  Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.  21:137-147. 2004
2004 The Early Intervention Project.  Journal of Disability Policy Studies.  15:159-167. 2004
Career self-management through job crafting for individuals with disabilities: A mixed methods study
State and local determinants of employment outcomes among individuals with disabilities.  Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 

Education And Training

  • B.A. Criminal Justice/Safety, University of Delaware
  • B.A. Psychology, University of Delaware
  • M.A. Public Administration, University of Delaware
  • Ph.D. Resource Planning/Dev, Rutgers University

    • Full Name

  • Debra Brucker

    • Mailing Address

  • University of New Hampshire

    Institute on Disability

    10 West Edge Drive, Suite 101

    Durham, NH  03824

    United States