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Office for Students with Disabilities
Jeffery Butler, Ph.D.
Learning Disability
Specialist
Office: SA114A
Phone: (323) 343-3140
FAX:
(323) 343-6429
Email: jbutler4@calstatela.edu
Biographical Information
- Born in Seneca, South Carolina on June 20,
1956. I am the fourth of four siblings: 2 sisters and one
brother.
- South Carolina State University - 1978 - B.S. Psychology
Minor: Social Work.
- Pepperdine University -1989 - M.A. Clinical Psychology
- Loyola Marymount University - 1989 - M.A. Counseling
- Alliant International University - Los Angeles Campus - 1995 -
M.A. Clinical Community Psychology
- Alliant International University - Los Angeles Campus - 1997 -
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The research for the dissertation
relates to ethnicity, diagnosis and the interplay of these two
variables upon the diagnostic process. The name of my dissertation
was entitled Factors Influencing Diagnosis of Ethnic Minority
Inpatients in Public Facilities. The purpose of my
dissertation was to determine whether DSM-III-R diagnoses differ
significantly between Black, White and Hispanic patients. This
study compared the total enumeration of the Los Angeles county’s
caseload from diverse urban gender-ethnic inpatient groups across
a one-year period from July 1, 1993 through June 30, 1994, to
examine: (1) whether there was a difference in diagnosis by
patient ethnicity among an urban inpatient population after
covarying for demographic and predictor variables and (2) whether
differences existed in terms of the diagnoses given by
diagnosticians of various ethnicity’s. Subjects were obtained from
the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Management
Information System (MIS).
- My committee members were as follows: Halford
H. Fairchild, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Black Studies at
Pitzer College; Richard Mendoza, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, Los
Angeles Campus, and Maurice Weise, M.D., Chief Psychiatrist, Los
Angeles County Department of Mental Health. My immediate plans
include writing the manuscript for publication in major journals.
My goal is to publish research and write several books about
ethnic minority mental health issues. I am also gathering research
to study the attitudes of students, faculty/staff, and clinical
supervisors toward learning disabilities. I am focusing on
students in undergraduate and graduate programs, and whether
providing accommodations for learning disabilities affects teacher
competency.
PUBLICATIONS
Factors Influencing Diagnosis of Ethnic Minority Inpatients in Public
Facilities. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. Alliant International University - Los
Angeles Campus
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