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New Library Department Of Information Technology Research, Vol.13 (2) March - April 2000, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Friends Of The Library 1999 Dinner - Most Successful Ever, Vol.13 (1) January - February 2000, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Family Preservation Journal, 2000, Volume 5, Issue 1. (Entire Issue)

Journal of Family Strengths

Entire issue (large pdf file)

Articles include:

• Translating Rhetoric to Reality: The Future of Family and Children's Services. William Meezan
• Family Preservation Services under Managed Care: Current Practices and Future Directions. Melanie Pheatt, Becky Douglas, Lori Wilson, Jody Brook, and Marianne Berry
• Perceptions of Family Preservation Practitioners: A Preliminary Study Judith C. Hilbert, Alvin Sallee, and James K. Ott

Annual Report 2000, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Annual Reports: 1943 - Present

The file contains the annual report for the library from 2000

Ham-Tmc Facts And Figures 1999-2000, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Statistics

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Editorial: The Demands Of Protection, Preservation,And Permanency: Where Has Family Preservation Gone?, Sallee Alvin

Journal of Family Strengths

This Journal issue provides three important articles that will aid us in explaining what we do in service to families. We are very pleased to have the opportunity to print a major address delivered by William Meezan on "Translating Rhetoric to Reality: The Future of Family and Children's Services." The challenges of serving families under an evolution of models in Kansas is presented in "Family Preservation Services Under Managed Care: Current Practices and Future Directions" by Melanie Pheatt, Becky Douglas, Lori Wilson, Jody Brook, and Marianne Berry. What people doing the work think is addressed by the piece titled, "Perceptions …

Translating Rhetoric To Reality: The Future Of Family And Children's Services, William Meezan

Journal of Family Strengths

These remarks were first prepared by the author for the inauguration of the Marion Elizabeth Blue Endowed Professorship in Children and Families at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. They were delivered on October 5, 1999, and originally appeared as a monograph published by the University of Michigan School of Social Work in December 1999. They are reprinted here by permission.

Current Resources

Journal of Family Strengths

Reviews of:

• Children Who Could Have Been: The Legacy of Child Welfare in Wealthy America. (1999) William M. Epstein Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press Reviewed by: Leroy H Pelton
• Skills for Families Skills for Life. (1999) Linda M. Shadoin, Joni Cook-Griffin, and JaneL. Peterson. Nebraska: Boys Town Press. Reviewed by Shelley Leavitt
• Attachment Disorganization. (1999) J. and George C. Solomon, Eds. New York: The Guilford Press. Reviewed by Alice Chornesky
• Infants. Toddlers. and Families: A Framework for Support and Intervention. (1999) Martha Farrell Erickson and Karen Kurz-Riemer.New York: The Guilford Press.Reviewed by Halaevalu F. Vakalahi
• Solution-Based Casework: An Introduction …

Family Preservation Services Under Managed Care: Current Practices And Future Directions, Melanie Pheatt, Becky Douglas, Lori Wilson, Jody Brook, Marianne Berry

Journal of Family Strengths

Family preservation service agencies in the State of Kansas have undergone major changes since the implementation of a managed care model of service delivery in 1996. This qualitative study examines the successes and barriers experienced by agency directors in utilization of a managed care system. Outcome/ performance measures utilized by the State of Kansas are reviewed, and contributing factors to the successes and limitations of the program are discussed. Included in these reviews is an analysis and presentation of literature and research which has been used as support for the current program structure. Recommendations for further evolution of practice are …

Perceptions Of Family Preservation Practitioners: A Preliminary Study, Judith C. Hilbert, Alvin Sallee, James K. Ott

Journal of Family Strengths

This exploratory, qualitative study examined practitioners' perceptions about family preservation practice. Findings reveal a wide range of identified strengths as well as the limitations of such a model. Interestingly, the most frequently identified strengths were value based rather than practice based in perspective whereas limitations were practice based. Keeping families together was the most common perceived strength but concern about children's safety by keeping the family intact was a frequently reported limitation. Further, lack of support and a lack of theoretical clarity were identified as considerable limitations. Implications suggest these practitioners (mostly child welfare/mental health workers) believe in the approach …

Java-Based World Wide Web Clinical Trial Data Management, Vinod Aggarwal, Venkatesh Rudrapatna, Craig W. Johnson

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

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Beta Test Version Of Pubmed, Vol.12 (6) November - December 1999, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Library's Future Plans, Vol.12 (5) September - October 1999, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Library Celebrates 50 Years, Vol.12 (4) July - August 1999, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Third Annual Computers In Health Care Conference, Vol.12 (3) May - June 1999, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Presentation Of The Morris F Collen Award To Robert S Ledley, Dds, Naomi C. Broering

Library Staff Publications

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Introducing Medlineplus, Vol.12 (2) March - April 1999, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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The Library's New Home Page, Vol. 12 (1) Jauary - February 1999, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Measuring Consumer Satisfaction In Family Preservation Services: Identifying Instrument Domains, Stephen A. Kapp, Rebecca H. Vela

Journal of Family Strengths

Measuring consumer satisfaction in the social services has become an important source of feedback for the improvement of service delivery. Consumer satisfaction has recently been incorporated into family preservation evaluation. This article reviews instruments used to measure consumer satisfaction in family preservation services and other related areas. Trends in current practice are examined and instrument dimensions are identified. Finally, some recommendations are made about the application of consumer satisfaction measurement in family preservation services.

Current Resources

Journal of Family Strengths

Reviews include:

• The Managed Care Answer Book for Mental Health Professionals. ( 1997) Gayle McCracken Tuttle and Dianne Rush Woods. Bristol, P A: Brunner/Mazel, Inc. Reviewed by Patricia Newlin
• Somebody Else's Children: and the Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families. (1996) John Hubner and Jill Wolfson. New York: Three Rivers Press. Reviewed by John Nasuti
• Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Foster Care-A Research Synthesis. (1996) Thomas P. McDonald, Reva I. Allen, Alex Westerfield, and Irving Piliavin. Washington, D.C.: CWLA Press. Reviewed by Anthony N. Ma/uccio

Gsbs News, Winter 1999-2000, Graduate School Of Biomedical Sciences, University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston/M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

GSBS News

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Behavior Problems Of Maltreated Children Receiving In-Home Child Welfare Services, Ferol Mennen, William Meezan, Gino Aisenberg, Jacquelyn Mccroskey

Journal of Family Strengths

This study evaluates the level of behavior problems in a previously little studied group—children with founded cases of abuse and neglect receiving child welfare services in their own homes. A sample of 149 maltreated children, living at home, were evaluated on the CBCL as they entered a service program to which they were referred by a large public child protective service system. These children were found to have elevated levels of behavior problems, with 43.6% scoring in the problematic range, a rate similar to children entering foster care. Practice and policy implications of these findings are discussed and highlighted.

What Have We Learned From Articles Published In The Family Preservation Journal?, Michael J. Holosko, D. Ann Holosko

Journal of Family Strengths

This exploratory descriptive study presents a content analyses of all (N=22) Family Preservation Journal (FPJ) articles published from its inception (1995) until today. Three raters independently used an analysis template to ascertain trends from these articles and assessed information about their purposes, methods, and findings/ implications. The main findings were less than half of the articles were deemed as 'research'; few used standardized or outcome measures; none compared family preservation to another method; descriptive knowledge was more likely to be generated; and the articles were primarily targeted to practitioners and other researchers. Given the relatively short history ofFPJ, the majority …

Intensive In-Home Family-Based Services: Reactions From Consumers And Providers, Elaine Walton, Alfred C. Dodini

Journal of Family Strengths

An intensive family preservation program was examined through interviews with 31 families who received the services and four caseworkers who provided the services. The primary finding from interviews with both care givers and caseworkers was that a positive therapeutic relationship between the worker and the client family contributes most to the success of the program. Workers who provided the services stressed the need for making concrete services available as well as clinical intervention and skills training, and they were adamant about screening families for appropriateness before including them in an intensive, inhome program.

Family Preservation Journal, 1999, Volume 4, Issue 1. (Entire Issue), Family Preservation Journal

Journal of Family Strengths

Entire issue (large pdf file)

Articles include:

• What Have We Learned from Articles Published in the Family Preservation Journal? Michael J. Holosko, and D. ann Holosko
• Family Reunion services: An Examination of a Process Used to Successfully Reunite Families. Lois Pierce and Vince Geremia
• A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Evaluating Family Preservation Programs. Cynthia A. Ford, and Felix A. Okojie
• Ordinary Families -- Extraordinary Care Giving. John P. Ronnau

Family Preservation Journal, 1999, Volume 4, Issue 2. (Entire Issue)

Journal of Family Strengths

Entire issue (large pdf file)

Articles include:

• Behavior Problems of Maltreated Children Receiving In-Home Child Welfare Services. Ferol Mennen, William Meezan, Gino Aisenberg, and Jacquelyn McCroskey
• Measuring Consumer Satisfaction in Family Preservation Services: Identifying Instrument Domains. Stephen A. Kapp and Rebecca H Vela
• Intensive In-Home Family-Based Services: Reactions from Consumers and Providers Elaine Walton, and Alfred C. Dodini Coordination of Family Preservation Services in a Rural Community: A Case Study. Richard Freer and Kathleen Wells
• The Effectiveness of Court Mandated Intervention Versus Voluntary Services in Child Protective Services: Abbreviated Version. Loring Jones, Irene Becker, and Krista F alk

The Effectiveness Of Court Mandated Intervention Versus Voluntary Services In Child Protective Services:, Loring Jones, Irene Becker, Krista Falk

Journal of Family Strengths

The general objective of this research was to compare the relative effectiveness of court mandated services versus a voluntary service plan in preventing in child maltreatment recidivism. Four-thirty-two children were selected at random from among children in a large California County who were receiving in-home services under a court mandate or a voluntary plan. Protective services files of study children were reviewed to derive study data.

Type of plan did not make a difference on case outcome. Children were more likely to remain in the home at the end of the service delivery period in families that received voluntary plans. …

Coordination Of Family Preservation Services In A Rural Community: A Case Study, Richard Freer, Kathleen Wells

Journal of Family Strengths

Family preservation programs designed to prevent the out-of-home placement of children depend on the coordination of services from multiple agencies. Little is known regarding how coordination occurs. This case study examined this issue. Information was sought from all workers who provided services to each of five families and 'from families' case records. Thirty-one workers were interviewed with a semi-structured interview schedule containing rating scales and questions with open-ended response formats. Case records were reviewed with a case record review form. Analyses of data revealed the following. Services were coordinated to a moderate degree but that coordination deteriorated over time. Workers …

Annual Report 1999, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Annual Reports: 1943 - Present

The file contains the annual report for the library from 1999.

A Multi-Dimensional Approach To Evaluating Family Preservation Programs, Cynthia A. Ford, Felix A. Okojie

Journal of Family Strengths

The current study evaluates the effectiveness of family preservation programs funded by the Mississippi Department of Human Services. This venture encompassed scrutiny and assessment of improvements in child functioning, positive changes in parental functioning and family functioning and the decrease in foster care placement. Further, this evaluation assessed client and staff satisfaction. It also included an assessment of the perceived impact this program had on the community. Results indicate that the family preservation programs were effective in improving the self-esteem of participants, family cohesion, and adaptability. There were no significant changes in child placement, teen births, or abuse rates. Client …