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Lauri Goldkind

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Selling Your Soul On The Information Superhighway: Consenting To Services In Direct To Consumer Tele-Mental Health, Lauri Goldkind, Lea Wolf Nov 2019

Selling Your Soul On The Information Superhighway: Consenting To Services In Direct To Consumer Tele-Mental Health, Lauri Goldkind, Lea Wolf

Lauri Goldkind

 Direct to consumer tele-mental health services--therapy delivered by video conference, email and text message--is a burgeoning model of service delivery. The practice of on-demand digital psychotherapy presents ethical questions, as new economic models, service delivery systems, and therapeutic models are introduced. Virtual therapy, now offered on a subscription basis by third-party providers, requires users to accept Terms of Service (ToS) agreements in order to access services. This article describes the results of a survey in which participants (n = 579) were asked to compare the values of the Human Rights Framework to the language of one tele-mental health platform’s …

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We Could Be Unicorns Human Services Leaders Moving From Managing Programs To Managing Information Ecosystems.Pdf, Lauri Goldkind, John Mcnutt Sep 2019

We Could Be Unicorns Human Services Leaders Moving From Managing Programs To Managing Information Ecosystems.Pdf, Lauri Goldkind, John Mcnutt

Lauri Goldkind

The availability and accessibility of all kinds of data are changing the landscape of funding, service delivery, and program planning in the human services. For human service organizations to succeed in a quickly changing data landscape, new skills will be required of leaders as well as line staff. This commentary describes the information ecosystem, skills, and training needs of those wishing to thrive in this new world and closes with questions to consider for faculty, students, and administrators in the human services sector.

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Small Data Big Justice The Intersection Of Data Science Social Good And Social Services(2).Pdf, Lauri Goldkind Dec 2018

Small Data Big Justice The Intersection Of Data Science Social Good And Social Services(2).Pdf, Lauri Goldkind

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Vampires In The Technological Mist The Sharing Economy Employment And The Quest For Economic Justice And Fairness In A Digital Future.Pdf, Lauri Goldkind, John G. Mcnutt Aug 2018

Vampires In The Technological Mist The Sharing Economy Employment And The Quest For Economic Justice And Fairness In A Digital Future.Pdf, Lauri Goldkind, John G. Mcnutt

Lauri Goldkind

The gig economy, the sharing economy, or collaborative consumption; these are all synonyms for a technologically enhanced mechanisms for linking independent contractors with consumers for the purposes for exchanging goods and services. This business model has proliferated exponentially in the last decade and has been touted as offering freedom and increased autonomy for workers. However, as yet it seems to have had a vampire-like effect, sucking resources and protections out of the economic eco-system while only benefiting a very small group of technology platform developers and their shareholders. This new business model has given rise to ethical and moral dilemmas …

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Late Adapters? How Social Workers Acquire Knowledge And Skills About Technology Tools, Lauri Goldkind, Lea Wolf, Jamie Jones Sep 2016

Late Adapters? How Social Workers Acquire Knowledge And Skills About Technology Tools, Lauri Goldkind, Lea Wolf, Jamie Jones

Lauri Goldkind

Little is understood about the scope of information and communication technology (ICT) use in practice for agency- based social work professionals, and still less is known about how such practitioners acquire and avail themselves of opportunities to learn about ICT tools. This study asked a sample of social work field supervisors (n = 371) to describe their personal and professional ICT use, to rank the technological sophistication of their agency, to describe the barriers and facilitators to ICT use in their organizations and to operationalize environmental opportunities for acquiring new skills and knowledge. The authors examine factors that may influence …

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Digital Native Meet Friendly Visitor A Flexner Inspired Call To Digital Action.Pdf, Lauri Goldkind Dec 2015

Digital Native Meet Friendly Visitor A Flexner Inspired Call To Digital Action.Pdf, Lauri Goldkind

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Leaning Out: Exploring Organizational Advocacy Activities From An Open Systems Perspective, Lauri Goldkind Dec 2014

Leaning Out: Exploring Organizational Advocacy Activities From An Open Systems Perspective, Lauri Goldkind

Lauri Goldkind

This article explores the effect of organizational culture on engagement with advocacy activities, both traditional and electronic. The Competing Values Framework offers a model for understanding how organizations’ culture influences behavior. Using a sample of nonprofit providers from across the country, the author hypothesized that organizations that use electronic advocacy tools are more involved with advocacy activities of all types. A paper and pencil survey was used to collect data on organizational culture, advocacy tools and techniques, perceived effectiveness of the advocacy tools, policy goals, organizational sustainability goals as well as barriers and facilitators of electronic advocacy. The study used …

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Technology In Environment Approach - Social Work.Pdf, Lauri Goldkind, Lea Wolf Dec 2013

Technology In Environment Approach - Social Work.Pdf, Lauri Goldkind, Lea Wolf

Lauri Goldkind

human experience is mediated with and by technology. Social work offers a panoramic perspective on individuals and issues, insisting on the importance of the ecology of interaction between person and environment. Given this historic strength, social workers cannot ignore the explosive growth and pervasive impact of technology or fail to recognize its role in shaping culture. Beyond its capacity to enhance what we offer to our clients, technology is a prompt, a demand to re-imagine our core values in the context of a changing social space and to develop a mechanics of practice that is amenable to rapid evolution. With …

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