DENISE BULLING, MA
Project Manager - Public Policy Center
121 S. 13 th Street, Ste 303
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0228
(402) 472-1509

Biography

Denise Bulling is a Senior Researcher with the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. She received her BS at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Psychology and her MA and PhD at the University of Nebraska through the College of Education and Human Sciences. She is also a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 20 years of experience as a clinician, manager, planner and trainer in emergency behavioral health.

Dr. Bulling is a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and the American Evaluation Association and is an active mental health volunteer with the American Red Cross. Her research interests include creative uses of participatory processes and qualitative designs in research and evaluation and translation of behavioral health research to practice and policy, particularly in the areas of disaster/emergency behavioral health and threat/risk assessment and management.

 

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Abdel-Monem, T., & Bulling, D. (2005). Liability of professional and volunteer mental health practitioners in the wake of disasters: A framework for further consideration. Behavioral Science and the Law, 23, 573-590.

Presentations and Publications

Bulling, D., & Abdel-Monem, T. (2006) Using evaluation to modify disaster crisis counseling outreach strategies. American Evaluation Association.

Dekraai, M., & Bulling, D. (2006). A mixed methods approach to evaluation of large scale participatory processes. Proceedings of the Participatory Approaches in Science & Technology (PATH) Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Zagurski, R., Bulling, D., & Chang, R. (2004). Nebraska psychological first aid curriculum. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Public Policy Center.

Blinn, R., Bulling, D., & Miers, D. (2003, April). Southeast Nebraska suicide prevention project. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Suicidology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Bulling, D. (2002, December). Healthy people 2010 mental health addendum: Health objectives for Lincoln and Lancaster County Nebraska. Nebraska: Lincoln/Lancaster County Health Department. Available at http://www.lincoln.ne.gov/city/health/hp2010/mental.pdf

Bulling, D., Miers, D., & Blinn, R. (2002). Suicide prevention - core curriculum. Available at http://www.nebhands.nebraska.edu/inrbehav.html