Prof. Howard K. Butcher
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P rof. Howard Butcher, RN; PhD, PMHCNS-BC is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa College of Nursing, a (2002-2004) John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Scholar, and has been on the Executive Board at the Center for Nursing Effectiveness and Classification at the Unive. He earned a BS degree in biology from Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania, a BSN from Thomas Jefferson University, a MScN in psychiatric/mental nursing from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in nursing science from the University of South Carolina. He has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters and a co-editor of four books. He has presented over 100 papers at major international, national, and regional conferences. Howard’s areas of research include: the experience of Alzheimer disease family caregiving; testing written emotional expression as a meaning-making intervention for reducing depression, caregiver burden, and promoting health in family caregivers; and the identification and treatment of dispiritedness in later life. He completed a three year funded study from the National Institute of Health to test the effect of written emotional expression on caregiver burden outcomes in Alzheimer Disease family caregivers. Howard also has expertise in qualitative research methods including phenomenology and hermeneutics and teaches the PhD course on Qualitative research. He is certified as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and use is skilled in using narrative approaches to psychotherapy. He currently teaches the psychiatric/mental health theory courses in the University of Iowa College of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program and teaches the Psychology of Aging course for the Aging Studies Program. In 1996, he was awarded the University Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at Pacific Lutheran University and in 1999 was awarded the Rose and George Doval Award for Excellence in Nursing Education from New York University. In 2009, he was awarded the Collegiate Teaching Award at the University of Iowa. He is married to a nurse, who is also on faculty of the University of Iowa College of Nursing, and they have a nine year-old daughter. This presentation stems from his interest in depression and mild, minor, or what may be considered, subthreshold syndromes of depression. The phenomenon of dispiritedness captures the more existential features of depression such as the loss of meaning, vitality, and purpose.
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