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Strategic Planning In Human Service Agencies, Stephen A. Webster, Mary Wylie

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Recent public policy initiatives including deinstitutionalization, deregulation, decentralization, and privatization have resulted in: (a) rapid growth in the number of private not-for-profit organizations; and, (b) competitive environments. These conditions have forced agencies to examine their planning processes to determine if agency goals are appropriate for meeting market demands. An exploratory study of 154 human service agencies examined if and how strategic planning was used to respond to these conditions. The Chief Executive Officers for those agencies reported that strategic planning was replacing incremental planning as a preferred planning model. However, the choice resulted because of pressure from outside influentials not …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 15, No. 3 (September 1988)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Table of Contents

• PROFITS, WELFARE, AND CLASS POSITION: 1965-1984 - Marcus D. Pohlmann
• BEHAVIORAL IMPACTS OF THE FEAR OF AIDS: A SOCIOLOGICAL MODEL - Raghu N. Singh, N. Prabha Unnithan, and James D. Jones
• STRATEGIC PLANNING IN HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES - Stephen A. Webster and Mary Wylie
• CHALLENGING THE PROPOSED DEREGULATION OF P.L. 94-142: A CASE STUDY OF CITIZEN ADVOCACY - James G. McCullagh
• MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT REFUSAL IN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS: A SOCIOLOGICAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS - Rudolph Alexander, Jr.
• "OUR TOWN": A CASE STUDY OF IDEOLOGY AND THE PRIVATE WELFARE SECTOR - William M. Epstein
• RECISIONS, ORGANIZATIONAL CONDITIONS AND …

Commentary, Elizabeth A. Clark

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Commentary, Carol Neel

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Commentary, Helen Solterer

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Commentary, Marshall Leicester

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Newsletter, No.6 1988

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Commentary, Linda Lomperis

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Donald R. Howard, Chaucer. His Life, His Works, His World. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987, Sheila Delany

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Bibliography, No.6 1988

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Challenging The Proposed Deregulation Of P.L. 94-142: A Case Study Of Citizen Advocacy, James G. Mccullagh

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Public Law 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, considered by many to be the most significant federal legislation for children in need of special education, was proposed for deregulation by the Reagan administration in 1982. This study examines actions taken by citizen advocates-consumer/advocacy/parent (CAP) organizations and groups, parents, and other advocates for exceptional children-who gave testimony in opposition to the proposed changes at public hearings held by the United States Department of Education in late 1982. The most controversial proposed rules were withdrawn on September 29, 1982, while the remaining proposed changes were not implemented. Citizen …

Mental Health Treatment Refusal In Correctional Institutions: A Sociological And Legal Analysis, Rudolph Alexander Jr.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Recently, the courts have recognized the right to a minimum level of mental health treatment for individuals confined in both mental and correctional institutions, utilizing a different rationale for each system. As mental health administrators in state mental hospitals accepted that they were responsible for providing an increased level of mental health services, they were disappointed that courts had subsequently ruled that individuals in state hospitals had a right to refuse treatment. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate, sociologically and legally, upon treatment refusal in the correctional system since most of the attention on treatment refusal has focused …

"Our Town": A Case Study Of Ideology And The Private Social Welfare Sector, William M. Epstein

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This case study explores the relationship between ideology and the performance of the voluntary social welfare sector in Western New York. Data were collected from the directors of 22 of the largest and most important voluntary social welfare agencies relating to their own social attitudes and those of their boards. The common expression of similar agency attitudes toward a variety of social policies were in narrow conformity with the conservative values of the current national administration. The common core of conservative values, suggesting that the agencies perform an ideological role within the community in addition to their service role, may …

Recisions, Organizational Conditions And Job Satisfaction Among Black And White Human Service Workers: A Research Note, R. L. Mcneely

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Despite the growing attention evident in the human services literature on the related topics of job satisfaction and burnout, virtually none of the empirical studies published to date have examined the possible influences of recent federal and state cutbacks in human service funding levels on the job satisfaction of human service workers. One outcome of these cutbacks has been the curtailment of services offered by county welfare departments, often achieved by reducing the number of public welfare workers through hiring freezes, attrition, layoffs, etc. The remaining public welfare workers often have then been placed in the unenviable position of trying …

Katharina M. Wilson, Ed., Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim: Rara Avis In Saxonia? Marc Publishing Co., 1987., Alexandra Hennessey Olsen

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Commentary, Elaine Hansen

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Announcements, No.6 1988

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Notes And Queries

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Newsletter, No.6 1988

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Commentary, Wendy Clein

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Commentary, Peggy Knapp

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Men In Medieval Feminism, David Wallace

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Western News, August 11, 1988, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Salary adjustment pool set at 5.5 percent for most non-bargaining staff, Staff invited to picnic, Summer flextime to end Aug. 26, Summer enrollment up 7 percent

The Westerner Vol. 9 No. 1, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Distinguished Alumni Award winners • Legislature counts Western among 'Big 5' • Last year's major 'headlines' give us a lot to be proud of • Alumni contributions fund unique jobs • Painter/illustrator assists art students through 'living' bequest • Western is in the forefront of helping minority students • Sindecuse endowment supports numerous special activities • New dean of students named • Western meets research challenge • Wall of Distinction cites achievements of graduates • Six Nobel laureates to offer their views • The Oaklands heads improvements list • Jailed South African leader given honorary degree • Last academic …

A Preliminary Report Of Investigations At The Kline 1 Site (20sj29), St. Joseph County, Michigan, Dale W. Quattrin

Masters Theses

The Kline 1 site, located in Mendon Township, St. Joseph County, Michigan, is a multi-component site situated on the eastern shore of Portage Lake. While the projectile points recovered during surface collecting suggest interm ittent presence on this site from late Paleo-Indian to Late Woodland times, the occupation offering the most substantial cultural and subsistence data is attributed to the Late Woodland period. Radiocarbon assays received on two features gave dates of 830 + 70 B.P. and 810 + 50 B.P. calibrated to be A.D. 1215 and A.D. 1223 respectively. The importance of this site relates to its spatially intermediate …

Self-Control In Mentally Retarded Adolescents: Choice As A Function Of Amount And Delay Of Reinforcement, Steven P. Ragotzy

Dissertations

Three severely mentally retarded adolescents were studied under discrete-trial procedures in which a choice was arranged between edible reinforcers that differed in magnitude and, in some conditions, delay. In the absence of delays, the larger reinforcer was consistently chosen. All subjects directed the majority of choice responses to the smaller reinforcer when the larger reinforcer was sufficiently delayed, although the value at which this occurred differed across subjects. Under conditions where the larger reinforcer initially was sufficiently delayed to result in preference for the smaller one, progressively increasing in 5-s increments the delay to both reinforcers increased percent trials with …

Psychotherapists' Responses To Anger Manifested By Female Clients, Lisa L. Morshead

Dissertations

The responses of therapists to anger directed at them by female clients was the topic under investigation. Sixty-nine professional therapists were engaged as subjects, with each therapist reading two fictitious transcripts depicting the first portion of a therapy session. The two transcripts portrayed an angry client and a nonangry client, with client sex varied in each condition for a total of four transcripts. Each subject read both an angry and nonangry transcript of either two male or two female clients. Subjects were then asked to rate the client on competence, and interpersonal functioning, along with providing diagnostic impressions. A four …

An Evaluation Of An Intervention Program For Juvenile Probationers, Kevin I. Minor

Dissertations

Although the efficacy of correctional rehabilitation was questioned during the early 1970s, recent research has demonstrated that certain intervention programs, when implemented under appropriate conditions, are effective in reducing illegal behavior. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of a court-based intervention for juvenile probationers.

The program was developed on the basis of caseworkers' assessments of youths' problems and needs. The theoretical perspective underlying the intervention consisted of a joint combination of critical, social control, and differential association theories. A major implication of theory is that the juvenile court's capacity to facilitate informal social control should be …

Evaluation Of A Psychoeducational Curriculum For Promoting Psychological Health And Self-Esteem, Michele Susan Meola

Dissertations

This study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of a psychoeducational curriculum in psychological health skills, entitled Psychological Health and Self-Esteem (PHSE). The study evaluated PHSE which is a 10-week class offered through the Psychology Department at Michigan State University, East Lansing, and is part of the Health Promotion Program, partially funded by a Kellogg Foundation grant.

Two hundred students participated in the study, and complete data were obtained from 117, 56 of them enrolled in PHSE and 61 enrolled in a different class designated as a control group. The design of the study was a pretest-posttest quasi-experiment with a …

The Effect Of Self-Efficacy Training On The Willingness Of Preservice Teachers To Implement Social Skill Training In The Classroom, Linda J. Miller

Dissertations

Self-efficacy is the belief that one can successfully perform a behavior, and is a cognitive process theorized to play an important role in the acquisition and retention of new behavior patterns. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effectiveness of utilizing self-efficacy training procedures to influence the performance of preservice teachers, specific to social skill instruction, in their directed teaching assignments.

A modified posttest only control group design was utilized to compare the performance of three groups: (1) a treatment group exposed to self-efficacy training procedures, (2) a treatment group exposed to social skill training content information, and …