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Behavioral Outcomes Of Home-Based Services For Children And Adolescents With Serious Emotional Disorders, Edwin Morris, Lourdes Suarez, John C. Reid

Journal of Family Strengths

The current study evaluates the effectiveness of an intensive home-based treatment program, Families First, on the behaviors of children and adolescents suffering from mental disorders and being at risk for out-ofi home placement. The sample included 85 youngsters and their families from a semi-rural community. The Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents-Revised (DICA-R) was administered to the children, and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) was completed by a parent at pretreatment and posttreatment. The families participated in a 4-6 week, intensive home intervention where crisis intervention, social support services, and needed psychological services were offered. The results indicated that both …

Family Preservation Journal, 1997, Volume 2, Issue 1. (Entire Issue)

Journal of Family Strengths

Entire issue (large pdf file)

Articles include:

• What's Working in Family-Based Services?--or, What's Left to Believe in During a Time of Such Doubt? Roger Friedman
• The Family Preservation Philosophy and Therapy With Lesbian Clients. Pamela de Santa
• Parenting Pioneers and Parenting Teams: Strengthening Extended Family Ties in Family Support Programs. Susan Whitelaw Downs
• Conceptual Bases of the Planning Process in Family Preservation/Family Support State Plans. June Lloyd

Family Preservation Journal, 1997, Volume 2, Issue 2. (Entire Issue)

Journal of Family Strengths

Entire issue (large pdf file)

Articles include:

• A Model for Family Preservation Case Assessment. Kam-fong Monit Cheung, Patrick Leung and Sharon Alpert
• Behavioral Outcomes of Home-Based Services for Children and Adolescents with Serious Emotional Disorders. Edwin Morris, Lourdes Suarez, John C. Reid
• A Multi-Faceted, Intensive Family Preservation Program Evaluation. Michael Raschick
• Targeting Families to Receive Intensive Family Preservation Services: Assessing the Use of Imminent Risk of Placement as a Service Criterion. Elaine Walton and Ramona W. Denby

A Model For Family Preservation Case Assessment, Kam-Fong Manit Cheung, Patrick Leung, Sharon Alpert

Journal of Family Strengths

The outcomes of family preservation practice have been researched and debated. The effectiveness of family preservation is still inconclusive and many of the findings may only be inferred to specific situations. Few studies have addressed the assessment techniques or outcome factors from a qualitative perspective. This article synthesizes current literature, research and practice, and proposes a practice framework with questioning techniques to assist practitioners in assessing the strengths and characteristics of a family, and making decisions on whether or not familybased services are appropriate for the family. Two actual cases are presented to illustrate how the worker can benefit from …

A Multi- Faceted, Intensive Family Preservation Program Evaluation, Michael Raschick

Journal of Family Strengths

This evaluation of a county intensive family preservation services (ifps) program makes several important methodological contributions to assessing post-treatment placement patterns of ifps clients. It is the first published ifps evaluation that utilizes an interval-level, overall measure of restrictiveness of placement, and one of the few that has followed placement patterns for a full two-years after treatment. The study is also a good example of complementing placement data with measures of family health and stability, and with qualitative feedback from former ifps clients. Finally, this study demonstrates the potential for doing methodologically sound evaluations of local ifps programs.

Current Resources

Journal of Family Strengths

Reviews include:

• Family Centered Services: A Handbook for Practitioners.Bonnie K. Williams (Ed.). The National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice, School of Social Work, The University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa.Reviewed by Lois Wright
• Building Skills in High-Risk Families: Strategies for the Home-Based Practitioner. Jane Peterson, Paula E. Kohrt, Linda M. Shadoin, Karen J. Authier. Boys Town, Nebraska. Boys Town Press. Reviewed by Sharon Alpert

Conceptual Bases Of The Planning Process In Family Preservation/Family Support State Plans, June Lloyd

Journal of Family Strengths

Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) intend for the Family Preservation and Support Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-66) to catalyze major reforms in state human services systems. DHHS and numerous other institutions developed conceptual and procedural guidance for the states' planning processes. Review of the planning dimensions of participation and expertise reveals that major emphases on stakeholder participation and technical planning processes obscure the need for expertise in family preservation and family support.

What's Working In Family-Based Services--Or, What's Left To Believe In During A Time Of Such Doubt?, Roger Friedman

Journal of Family Strengths

This article is a qualitative, personal report from the field, designed to highlight current developments in family-based theory and practice that bring hopefulness to workers and clients. The author, an experienced human services consultant and family therapist, draws from his recent experience in a number of states to identify exemplars of practice in the following areas: integrative theory building, functional family assessment, systems change in regard to inter-agency coordination and foster care, community building in low income neighborhoods, developing humility as helpers, and addressing issues of hope and spirituality with clients and with co-workers. Given the turbulent and hostile political …

Current Resources

Journal of Family Strengths

Reviews of:

• The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives. Richard J. Gelles. New York: Basic Books. Reviewed by Marianne Berry
• Children in Families at Risk: Maintaining the Connections. Edited by Lee Combrinck-Graham. New York: TheGuilford Press. Reviewed by Lois Wright
• Fantily-Centered Behavior Scale and User's Manual. Reva I. Allen, Christopher G. Peter, & Beverlyn F. Cay Brown. The University of Kansas. Reviewed by Miriam J. Landsman

Editorial: The Impact Of Welfare Reform On Families, Alvin L. Sallee

Journal of Family Strengths

On the horizon a huge wave is building, about to crash down on the poorest most hard pressed families in our country. The impact of welfare reform on families and on those who serve them will be profound The degree to which families and workers will be adversely affected is to date not fully understood. Yet as my son concluded, "...basically, if you are on welfare you had better win the lottery or learn to swim in the treacherous waters of poverty!" (C. Sallee, personal communication, November, 1996). We are also informed by looking back at the Elizabethan Poor Laws …

Annual Report 1997, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Annual Reports: 1943 - Present

The file contains the annual report for the library from 1997.

Ms 092 Guide To Frank W. Putnam, Md Papers (1943-1955), Frank W. Putnam (1917-2006)

Manuscript Finding Aids

The Frank W. Putnam papers contains RERF board of directors correspondence and board meeting reports, budget draft proposals, electrophoresis article reprints, “Hiroshima and Nagasaki Revisited”, medical dosimetry, assembly of life sciences, advisory committee meeting, meetings and conclusion of scientific council, genetic study conference, publications, and other material related to the work of Dr. Putnam. Collection consists of 5 boxes totaling 3 cubic feet of various paper material. See more at MS 092.

Annual Report 1996, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Annual Reports: 1943 - Present

The file contains the annual report for the library from 1996.

Family Preservation Journal, Winter 1996, Volume 1. (Entire Issue)

Journal of Family Strengths

Entire issue (large pdf file)

Articles include:

• Improving Family Functioning through Family Preservation Services: Results of the Los Angeles Experiment. Family Preservation Journal. William Meezan and Jacquelyn McCroskey
• Idiographic Self-Monitoring Instruments to Empower Client Participation and Evaluate Outcome in Intensive Family Preservation Services. Barbara Peo Early
• Evaluating Family Preservation in Nevada: A University-State Agency Collaboration. Christine Bitoni and Joy Salmon
• The Family Partners Credit Card: A Token Economy System Adapted for Intensive Family Preservation Services to Enable Families to Manage Difficult Behavior of Adolescents. Jude Nichols and Barbara Peo Early
• Toward the Development of Ethical Guidelines for Family Preservation. David …

The Family Partners Credit Card: A Token Economy System Adapted For Intensive Family Preservation Services To Enable Families To Manage Difficult Behavior Of Adolescents, Jude Nichols, Barbara Peo Early

Journal of Family Strengths

Increasingly, families referred for Intensive Family Preservation Services have not experienced a crisis of maltreatment, focused on the parent; rather these families have children with chronic behavioral difficulties for which their parents lack the skills to cope. These are the same families whose children were formerly placed in residential programs. This paper presents The Family Partners Credit Card System, incorporating behavioral techniques developed to treat children in out-of-home placements into a family preservation model. Two case examples illustrate how the system has been modified to train biological or adoptive parents in parenting skills, enable them to teach their children pro-family …

Toward The Development Of Ethical Guidelines For Family Preservation, David A. Dosser Jr., Richard J. Shaffir, Michaux M. Shaffir, De Vault Clevenger, Dustin K. Jeffiries

Journal of Family Strengths

Family preservation workers need a standard set of ethical guidelines to assist them in providing their service in a proper manner. This paper describes how ethical codes have been developed for the "traditional" mental health care disciplines and why such codes are not sufficient for the type of work done in family preservation. The paper further provides examples of the types of ethical dilemmas family preservation workers encounter as well as suggestions for workers, supervisors, and agencies in dealing with such dilemmas.

Current Resources

Journal of Family Strengths

Reviews of:

• Evaluating Family-Based Services Peter J. Pecora et al. 1995 The Civil Rights of Homelwss People: Law, Social Policy, and Social Works Practice. Madeleine R. Stoner and Aldine De Gruyter. 1995
• From Case Management to Services Coordination for Children with Emotional, Behavioral, or Mental Disorders: Building on Family Strengths. Barbara Friesen & John Poertner (Eds.). Paul H. Brookes. 1995. Pat Sullivan, Director

The History Of Pathology In Texas, Marilyn Miller Baker

Texas Medical History E-Books

The History of Pathology in Texas is the study of the changes of disease in Texas from the frontier days to the 1990s. Marilyn Miller Baker wrote the book for the Texas Society of Pathologists. The book was published in 1996 with a forward by Vernie A. Stembridge, MD, the Ashbel Smith Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The book covers the story of pathology from the "performance of crude autopsies" on the frontier through the emergence of bacteriology and immunology and beyond.

Front Matter

Journal of Family Strengths

Title pages, table of contents, etc.

Dedication To Family Preservation Workers, Linda Frank

Journal of Family Strengths

Poem.

Improving Family Functioning Through Family Preservation Services: Results Of The Los Angeles Experiment, William Meezan, Jacquelyn Mccroskey

Journal of Family Strengths

This article describes a study of the outcomes of home-based family preservation services for abusive and neglectful families in Los Angeles County. It focuses on changes in family functioning during the 3 month service period and one year after case closing. Families known to the public child welfare agency were referred to the project based on caseworker judgement of the need for services rather than on the criteria of imminent risk of placement. Two hundred forty families were randomly assigned to either the service group receiving family preservation services from two non-profit agencies or to the comparison group receiving regular …

Evaluating Family Preservation In Nevada: A University-State Agency Collaboration, Christine Bitonti, Joy Salmon

Journal of Family Strengths

In this paper, concepts from the emerging family-centered paradigm in child welfare and mental health are applied to evaluative research in family preservation: the ecological perspective, enhancement of competence, a consumer orientation, and collaborative relationships. The experience of family preservation research collaborators from the School of Social Work at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services illustrate these concepts. The researchers apply the theory of isomorphism to the research endeavor to produce eight principles of effective research partnerships derived from family-centered concepts and their own experiences.

Idiographic Self-Monitoring Instruments To Empower Client Participation And Evaluate Outcome In Intensive Family Preservation Services, Barbara Peo Early

Journal of Family Strengths

Intensive Family Preservation Services seek to reflect the values of focusing on client strengths and viewing clients as colleagues. To promote those values, Intensive Family Preservation Programs should include a systematic form of client self monitoring in their packages of outcome measures. This paper presents a model of idiographic self-monitoring used in time series, single system research design developed for Family Partners, a family preservation program of the School for Contemporary Education in Annandale, Virginia. The evaluation model provides a means of empowering client families to utilize their strengths and promote their status as colleague in determining their own goals, …

Citation Analysis Of Faculty Publication: Beyond Science Citation Index And Social Science Citation Index, K. L. Reed

Library Staff Publications

When evaluated for promotion or tenure, faculty members are increasingly judged more on the quality than on the quantity of their scholarly publications. As a result, they want help from librarians in locating all citations to their published works for documentation in their curriculum vitae. Citation analysis using Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index provides a logical starting point in measuring quality, but the limitations of these sources leave a void in coverage of citations to an author's work. This article discusses alternative and additional methods of locating citations to published works.

Ms 089 Guide To Robert K. Blair, Md Papers (1944-1983), James V. Neel (1915-2000)

Manuscript Finding Aids

The James V. Neel papers contains incoming and outgoing Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission communication and correspondence, Japan lectures, Nagasaki study of Metal Ret. Children, ABCC memoranda and reports, various conference information, genetics and vital statistics, congenital and/or hereditary abnormalities in Japanese and Caucasians, quarterly reports submitted from Japan, monthly reports, genetics and research information, Kitamura program, consultants correspondence, staff correspondence, photocopy of manuscript, and other prints and photos related to the work and research of Dr. James V. Neel. See more informaon at MS 089.

Ms211: Working Notes From First Trip To Kazakhstan, Armin Weinberg

Works on Radiation Effects: 1990-2020

Includes great material & notes eg, "ADW and CL returned to Semipalatinsk with BT’s car and driver. Unfortunately while returning they hit a patch of ice and ended up in a snowy ditch. Fortunately this occurred near one of the few villages along the way and a passing truck was able to pull them out. The good reflexes and driving skills of the driver kept them from overturning. ML and MR hired a car and driver from Kuchartov and returned later after completing the hospital survey" I (ADW) gave the drive $100 for pulling us out it was below zero …

Family Preservation And Support: Past, Present, And Future, Katharine Hooper-Briar, Anne Broussard, John Ronnau, Alvin L. Sallee

Journal of Family Strengths

As the family preservation and support movement evolves rapidly, this article overviews the past, present and future of this approach to policy and services. Building upon several decades of practice experience and research, and now federally funded, program designers are searching for ways to implement system wide change with an array of services all from a family focus, and strengths perspective. Critical issues facing the movement are discussed and a set of benchmarks to judge our future success is presented.

Annual Report 1994-1995, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Annual Reports: 1943 - Present

The file contains the annual report for the library from 1994-1995.

Current Resources

Journal of Family Strengths

Reviews of:

• Kaplan, L., & Girard, J. L. (1994). Strengthening high-risk families: A handbook for practitioners. New York: Lexington. Reviewed by June Lloyd
• Schuerman, J.R., Rzepnicki, T. L., & Littell, J. H. (1994). Putting families first: An experiment in family preservation. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Reviewed by Anthony Maluccio and Kristine Nelson
• Behavioral Sciences Institute, HOMEBUILDERS Training Division. (1992). Skills for Family and Community Living. Federal Way, WA: Author. Reviewed by Pat Sandau-Beckler

Editorial, John Ronnau, Alvin L. Sallee

Journal of Family Strengths

After 20 years of development, research and practice, it is time to begin a journal for family preservation and support. There are many exciting opportunities and issues for consumers and practitioners, as well! Last year most states became deeply invested in new collaboration activities across agency lines and with consumers. This is the "high" in which this journal was conceptualized. The need for a family preservation journal has also been made clear by the new Congress which wants to provide orphanages, or the Administration which has proposed residential group homes as the ultimate punishment for children who's parents fail to …