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Caring And Doing For Others: Social Responsibility In The Domains Of Family, Work, And The Community. Alice S. Rossi (Ed.).
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book note for Rossi, Alice S. (Ed.), Caring and Doing for Others: Social Responsibility in the Domains of Family, Work, and the Community, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. $42.00 hardcover.
Understanding Poverty. Sheldon H. Danziger And Robert H. Haveman (Eds.).
Understanding Poverty. Sheldon H. Danziger And Robert H. Haveman (Eds.).
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book note for Sheldon H. Danziger and Robert H. Haveman (Eds.), Understanding Poverty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. $55.00 hardcover, $24.95 papercover.
Welfare Racism: Playing The Race Card Against America's Poor. Kenneth J. Neubeck And Noel Cazenave.
Welfare Racism: Playing The Race Card Against America's Poor. Kenneth J. Neubeck And Noel Cazenave.
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book note for Kenneth J. Neubeck and Noel Cazenave, Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor. New York: Routledge, 2001. $19.95 papercover.
Aboriginal Child Welfare, Deena Mandell, J. Clouston Carlson, Marshall Fine, Cindy Blackstock
Aboriginal Child Welfare, Deena Mandell, J. Clouston Carlson, Marshall Fine, Cindy Blackstock
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
As the relationships between Canada’s Aboriginal peoples and the state undergo changes, the issue of Child Welfare is in the foreground; for it is around the well being, education and care of Aboriginal children that much of the painful historical relationship between First Nations and Canadian government has been played out. In this paper we consider the major issues in Canadian Aboriginal child welfare, drawing upon an extensive review and synthesis of current theory and research. Although there is an abundance of material available concerning Aboriginal child welfare, much of it exists outside mainstream academic child welfare literature. Some of …
Understanding And Preventing Employee Turnover, C. Harvey, Carol A. Stalker
Understanding And Preventing Employee Turnover, C. Harvey, Carol A. Stalker
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
Child welfare agencies have identified worker turnover as a particularly problematic organizational issue. In children’s mental health agencies, turnover also seems to be an issue for residential care services. Do people voluntarily leave child welfare and children's mental health organizations because of the work itself, because of the workload, or because they find “success” difficult to experience? These are often given as reasons by departing employees, but to develop a comprehensive understanding why turnover takes place in these organizations, this paper looks at the research on turnover in organizations generally and in child welfare and children's mental health organizations specifically. …
Exploring The Values, The Attitudes, And The Experiences Of Mexican-Americans Toward Education, Monica Victoria Pulido
Exploring The Values, The Attitudes, And The Experiences Of Mexican-Americans Toward Education, Monica Victoria Pulido
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of the study was to examine Mexican-Americans values and attitudes toward education and further explore some of the reasons Mexican-Americans drop out of school at such high rates.
Effectiveness Of Parent Education Classes: Phenomenological Approach, Lavonna Lucille Downing
Effectiveness Of Parent Education Classes: Phenomenological Approach, Lavonna Lucille Downing
Theses Digitization Project
The effectiveness of most parent education classed is measured by changes in the child. While all programs are developed from psychological theory, and have been evaluated by research, SES and cultural aspects of the undividual have been given little attention. Since public law has recognized the incidence of child abuse and neglect, large numbers of families are required to attend parent education classes. At the same time, research indicates no particular program is more effective than another.
A Correlation Analysis Of Parental Expectations, Mentoring, And Gender Socialization On Women's Self-Efficacy, Nancy Lillian Amarin, Norina Reis
A Correlation Analysis Of Parental Expectations, Mentoring, And Gender Socialization On Women's Self-Efficacy, Nancy Lillian Amarin, Norina Reis
Theses Digitization Project
This study investigated social influences believed to have an impact on the development of women's self-efficacy. The independent variables examined included parental expectations, gender role socialization, and mentoring. A questionnaire with both ordinal and nominal questions was administered to 196 female undergraduates attending California State University, San Bernardino and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. The sample was predominantly Caucasian (35,2 percent) and Hispanic (33.7 percent), with a median age of 20. Participants answered 57 questions, consisting of demographic questions, measures of self-efficacy and three independent variables. Pearson r analysis found positive significant correlations between self-efficacy and all three variables. The …
Social Workers Attitudes And Perceptions Toward Transracial Adoption, Karla Eduviges Carranza, Nicol Alejandra Stolar
Social Workers Attitudes And Perceptions Toward Transracial Adoption, Karla Eduviges Carranza, Nicol Alejandra Stolar
Theses Digitization Project
Overall attitudes, beliefs, and values have been shown to effect how individuals evaluate and process information. This knowledge is important and relevant to the practice of social work. Social workers are expected to put their attitudes, values, and perceptions aside when working with their clients. Attitudes are effecting processing and evaluation of events, therefore, it is imortant to understand the possible implications of workers perceptions and attitudes. Highly embedded attitudes toward transracial adoption, will influenceSocial workers behavior.
Impact Of Foster Care On Hispanic/Latino Foster Mothers' Marital Relationship, Mario David Copenhaguen
Impact Of Foster Care On Hispanic/Latino Foster Mothers' Marital Relationship, Mario David Copenhaguen
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of foster care services on Hispanic/Latino foster mothers' marital relationship.
Joint Sibling Placement At San Bernardino County Department Of Children's Services, Cynthia Gonzalez, Diane Lynette Meza
Joint Sibling Placement At San Bernardino County Department Of Children's Services, Cynthia Gonzalez, Diane Lynette Meza
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study is to explore and understand the reasons why some siblings are placed together and why other siblings are separated within the foster care system.
Effect Of Recreation And Leisure On The Life Quality Of Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities, Bethany Ann Rall
Effect Of Recreation And Leisure On The Life Quality Of Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities, Bethany Ann Rall
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study is to examine improved life quality indicators of older adults with developmental disabilties who are actively participating in the Senior Facilitation Program, a program designed for seniors with developmental disabilities which allows them to make individual choices about their leisure pursuits.
Successful Outcomes Of Adult Ex-Offenders: "Catalyst To Change", Coleen Crowley-Ames, Phyllis Paulette Mcneal
Successful Outcomes Of Adult Ex-Offenders: "Catalyst To Change", Coleen Crowley-Ames, Phyllis Paulette Mcneal
Theses Digitization Project
This descriptive, statistical survey research design sought to identify factors that motivate individuals to stay crime free after serving time in prison. The purpose of this research study was to examine the factors that played a significant role in recidivism.
The Effects Of Housing On The Biological, Psychological, And Sociological Functioning Of Homeless Persons With Human Immuno Deficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, Jason Wayne Colby
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of housing services on the bio-psycho-social functioning of homeless persons with HIV/AIDS. Ideally, taking a homeless person with HIV/AIDS and returning them to a healthy state would be a goal of any social service intervention.
Spirituality And Coping With Master's Of Social Work Education, Stacey Lynn Chavez
Spirituality And Coping With Master's Of Social Work Education, Stacey Lynn Chavez
Theses Digitization Project
This study explored how students utilized spirituality as an effective coping mechanism for the stress they faced while in the Master's of Social Work program at California State University, San Bernardino. A stress and spirituality scale was used to measure each student's spirituality and perceived stress. Most students stated that spirituality and religious activity was helpful in coping with the stress of the MSW program. In addition, spirituality was found to have a strong positive impact on a person's abilities to cope with the stress of the program.
Inadequate Substance Abuse Assessment As A Contributory Factor To Child Abuse And Neglect, Gary Eugene Graves
Inadequate Substance Abuse Assessment As A Contributory Factor To Child Abuse And Neglect, Gary Eugene Graves
Theses Digitization Project
This study examined an important, yet underreported, area of family service agency assessments, the failure to adequately screen for substance abuse issues. A self-report screening instrument was used to accurately determine substance abuse frequency rates, instead of using the current clinician-directed questioning. New agency clients were randomly assigned to either the experimental group (self-report) or the control group (clinician-directed) to determine if assessment accuracy improved.
Invisible Lives: A Qualitative Study Of 61 Parents Receiving Child Protective Services (Summary Report), Sarah Maiter
Invisible Lives: A Qualitative Study Of 61 Parents Receiving Child Protective Services (Summary Report), Sarah Maiter
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
Involvement with child protective services (CPS) may be expected to be a stressful experience for parents. Usually their involvement is involuntary, initiated because someone believes they are not caring adequately for their children: this tells them that the community, or someone in the community, does not approve of them as parents. As families who become involved with CPS tend to be economically deprived and socially marginalized, they may view agency intervention as one more signs that they are not accepted by their community; moreover it brings the fear of losing their children, perhaps forever. In this context, it is especially …
Siege And Response: Families’ Everyday Lives And Experiences With Children’S Residential Mental Health Services (Summary Report), Gary Cameron, Catherine De Boer, Karen Frensch, Gerald R. Adams
Siege And Response: Families’ Everyday Lives And Experiences With Children’S Residential Mental Health Services (Summary Report), Gary Cameron, Catherine De Boer, Karen Frensch, Gerald R. Adams
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
Our purpose in interviewing families who had a child placed in residential children’s mental health treatment was to provide insight into the lives and service experiences of these families as they struggle to care for their child and find appropriate services. As we endeavored to code, categorize, and make sense of the information shared with us by families several other more pointed purposes emerged as integral to our efforts. More specifically we became interested in understanding the functioning of children requiring residential mental health treatment before, during, and after treatment with the aim to comment on general patterns of change …
Mothers’ Everyday Realities And Child Placement Experiences (Summary Report), Nancy Colleen Freymond
Mothers’ Everyday Realities And Child Placement Experiences (Summary Report), Nancy Colleen Freymond
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
Placing a child in substitute care is one of the most challenging aspects of child welfare work. In situations of apprehension, child welfare workers may be required to make quick decisions about child placement sometimes with very limited information. This paper is based on interviews with mothers whose children were placed in substitute care. Mothers’ daily lives, including the nature of adversity in their lives, will be discussed. Mothers’ response to adversity and how they are impacted both positively and negatively by child welfare interventions will also be explored. Their experiences of placement reveals there is a disconnection between the …
Marital Satisfaction Among Adult Children Of Divorce: The Connection To Poor Conflict Resolution Skills, Deanna Michelle Graham
Marital Satisfaction Among Adult Children Of Divorce: The Connection To Poor Conflict Resolution Skills, Deanna Michelle Graham
Theses Digitization Project
The focus of this study is on marital satisfaction among adult children of divorce and how they address conflict in their marriage.
Nsucommuniversity Link - January 2003, Nova Southeastern University
Nsucommuniversity Link - January 2003, Nova Southeastern University
NSU Digital: Communiversity
No abstract provided.
Cache Countycommunity Survey Of Future Landfill Alternatives, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith, A. Caplan, T. Jones, T. Grijalva
Cache Countycommunity Survey Of Future Landfill Alternatives, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith, A. Caplan, T. Jones, T. Grijalva
Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications
State University in the spring of 2003. The purpose of this survey was to gather scientific information regarding the concerns, perceptions, and preferences of Cache County adults related to various future landfill siting options. The survey was conducted at the request of local officials, the Countywide Service District, and various advisory committees established to make recommendations on a future Cache County landfill site.
Cache County, Utah Agricultural Landevaluation And Site Assessment Handbook, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith, G. Busch
Cache County, Utah Agricultural Landevaluation And Site Assessment Handbook, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith, G. Busch
Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications
Urban encroachment on farmland has serious implications for the farm sector. As the county’s economic base and population has grown, important agricultural lands have been converted to urban uses. Since 1986, Cache County has lost 8,884 acres of prime and statewide important farmland - nearly 14 square miles - to urban development. The current rate of development is consuming over 600 acres of prime and statewide important farmland each year. As we plan for the future and the most cost efficient means for housing this population growth, it is important to note two things: 1) Housing is most affordable in …
A Workplace Study Of Four Southern-Ontario Children’S Aid Societies (Summary Report), Cheryl Harvey, Deena Mandell, Carol A. Stalker, Karen Frensch
A Workplace Study Of Four Southern-Ontario Children’S Aid Societies (Summary Report), Cheryl Harvey, Deena Mandell, Carol A. Stalker, Karen Frensch
Partnerships for Children and Families Project
Children’s Aid Societies have experienced extensive change since the implementation of recent child welfare reforms in Ontario. Agencies are facing a number of challenges including recruiting and retaining staff, high workloads, extensive requirements for documentation and administration, and less time to serve families and children. This paper explores employee experiences as service providers in child welfare. A survey was distributed to employees of four Children’s Aid Societies and employees participated in a series of focus groups. The paper discusses how workplace experiences contribute to job satisfaction, to stress and burnout, and to staff turnover. Actions organizations can take to improve …
Intimate Partner Abuse Could We Have Known? A Qualitative Analysis Of Data From Women Who Survived An Attempted Homicide By An Intimate Partner, Christina Nicolaidis, Maryann Curry, Yvonne Ulrich, Phyllis Sharps, Judith Mcfarlane, Doris Campbell, Faye Gary, Kathryn Laughon, Nancy Glass, Jacquelyn Campbell
Intimate Partner Abuse Could We Have Known? A Qualitative Analysis Of Data From Women Who Survived An Attempted Homicide By An Intimate Partner, Christina Nicolaidis, Maryann Curry, Yvonne Ulrich, Phyllis Sharps, Judith Mcfarlane, Doris Campbell, Faye Gary, Kathryn Laughon, Nancy Glass, Jacquelyn Campbell
School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations
OBJECTIVE: To examine in-depth the lives of women whose partners attempted to kill them, and to identify patterns that may aid in the clinician’s ability to predict, prevent, or counsel about femicide or attempted femicide. DESIGN: Qualitative analysis of 30 in-depth interviews. SETTING: Six U.S. cities. PARTICIPANTS: Thirty women, aged 17–54 years, who survived an attempted homicide by an intimate partner. RESULTS: All but 2 of the participants had previously experienced physical violence, controlling behavior, or both from the partner who attempted to kill them. The intensity of the violence, control, and threats varied greatly, as did the number of …
What Is Treatment? : Understandings And Responses Of Workers To Child Sex Offenders, Casey Eyden
What Is Treatment? : Understandings And Responses Of Workers To Child Sex Offenders, Casey Eyden
Theses : Honours
With the field of sex offender treatment is in its infancy, there is a tack of clarity concerning nearly all aspects of offending behaviour, from theoretical frameworks that explain why the offending occurs, to the effectiveness of different treatment techniques. This study sought to gain insight into workers' understandings of the phenomenon of child sexual offending, and how these understandings informed their responses to child sex offender treatment. Locating the 'sense making' of workers within the context of a four dimensional systematic integration model; personal, professional, organisational and social influences and impacts were also explored. Currently practicing with child sex …
"Active Living": Transforming The Organization Of Retirement And Housing In The U.S., Paul C. Luken, Suzanne Vaughan
"Active Living": Transforming The Organization Of Retirement And Housing In The U.S., Paul C. Luken, Suzanne Vaughan
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
We examine the transformation of the social institutions of retirement and housing in the US in the latter part of the 20th century. Using institutional ethnography we explicate a woman's experience relocating to an age segregated community. Her relocation is predicated upon ideological practices that reconceptualize retirement as "active living" and the construction of a setting in which retirees engage in this new lifestyle. We demonstrate the textual mediation of this ideological and organizational reformation through an examination of an advertising campaign undertaken by the Del Webb Development Corporation in the marketing of Sun City, Arizona. The advertising texts provide …
Head Start, Other Preschool Programs, & Life Success In A Youth Cohort, Richard K. Caputo
Head Start, Other Preschool Programs, & Life Success In A Youth Cohort, Richard K. Caputo
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This study assesses the effects of Head Start and other preschool programs on five life success measures in a U.S. cohort of youth (N = 5,621). The life success indices are average annual income-to-poverty ratios, economic mobility, and number of years the youth lived in families whose incomes fell below official poverty thresholds, received Food Stamps, and received TANF/AFDC. Controlling for a variety of background and other factors in separate regression models for each life success measure, results show that youth who participated in preschool programs other than Head Start had higher average annual income-to-poverty ratios than nonpreschoolers. Bivariate findings …
Early Education Experiences & School-To-Work Program Participation, Richard K. Caputo
Early Education Experiences & School-To-Work Program Participation, Richard K. Caputo
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This study assesses the effects of Head Start participation and demonstrated academic ability during elementary school on School-to-Work (STW) program participation. The study sample comes from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort and comprises 4,370 adolescents who reported grades they received while in the 8th grade and whether or not they ever repeated a grade in grammar school. Findings indicate that STW programs attract disproportionate numbers of students with histories of marginal demonstrated academic ability. This is so because STW programs are also more likely to attract Head Starters. Demonstrated academic ability varies by race/ethnicity and sex, with …
From Social Work To Human Services, David Stoesz
From Social Work To Human Services, David Stoesz
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Social work has forfeited its professional mandate and should be replaced by "human services." In three traditional areas of responsibility-child welfare, public welfare, and mental health-social work has failed to meet its societal obligation. Meanwhile the profession has used postmodern thought to justify a focus on internal constituency groups. A template for professional education in human services is proposed.