Emily Adlin Bosk
Biographic Data
| ID | 239096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Adlin Bosk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily Adlin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bosk |
| SIGNATURE | BOSK E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2135-3713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Addressing Children and Families within the National Drug Control Strategy
In recognition of the potentially devastating effects on family well-being related to opioids and caregiver substance use in the United-States including increasing rates of overdose among individuals of reproductive age, opioid-related pediatric fatalities, and family disruptions, this commentary provides an expanded approach for policy frameworks to meaningfully integrate children, parents, and families. Building from the White House's 2022 Nati…
Creating a parallel process
Summing Up What Can Never be Summed Up
This special issue of “The Forum” publishes Charles L. Bosk's final work—a book proposal written for a trade audience titled—The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error. Five noted scholars Carol Heimer, Carla Keirns, Mark Neuman, Julia Szymczak, and Stefan Timmermans offer commentary. Their essays touch on common themes: Bosk's humanity, his wry sense of humor, and keen ability to highlight the absurdity of the social organization of contemporary…
That Which is Essential has been Made Invisible
An Ecological Model for High-Risk Professional Decision-Making in Mental Health
Mental health professionals are frequently presented with situations in which they must assess the risk that a client will cause harm to themselves or others. Troublingly, however, predictions of risk are remarkably inaccurate even when made by those who are highly skilled and highly trained. Consequently, many jurisdictions have moved to impose standardized decision-making tools aimed at improving outcomes. Using a decision-making ecology framew…
Working together to protect women and children from domestic violence
The Goldilocks Problem
The Structured Decision-Making Model’s risk assessment (RA) is a prominent feature of front-end child protection work. Examining how two different states have set policy to implement the RA, we analyze their distinct choices and unintended consequences. We propose that variation in implementation originates not from individual workers but from two nested sources. First, the RA embeds an implicit epistemological conflict between actuarially based …
Standardizing Biases
Racial inequality persists despite major advances in formal, legal equality. Scholars and policymakers argue that individual biases (both explicit and implicit) combine with subjective organizational decision-making practices to perpetuate racial inequality. The standardization of decision making offers a potential solution, promising to eliminate the subjectivity that biases consequential decisions. We ask, under what conditions may standardizat…
Innovations in child welfare interventions for caregivers with substance use disorders and their children
Iron Cage or Paper Cage? The Interplay of Worker Characteristics and Organizational Policy in Shaping Unequal Responses to a Standardized Decision-Making Tool
Studies are largely optimistic about the ability of standardized procedures to constrain decision-makers’ biases and produce more equitable results across fields. However, work that embraces standardization as an equalizing force stands in contrast to research on standardization and street-level bureaucrats, which asserts that standardized procedures are not self-actuating and cannot be understood apart from the environments in which they are use…
Teachers’ Perceptions of Childcare and Preschool Expulsion
Previous research outlines the correlates of childcare expulsion in the USA, yet researchers know little about how these correlates produce expulsion. This in‐depth qualitative analysis of 30 childcare providers’ accounts of expulsion finds a patterned process to expulsion: Teachers search for causes and solutions to challenging behaviours. When interventions fail, overwhelmed teachers shift their focus from ‘struggling’ children to ‘bad families…
Exploring associations between maternal adverse childhood experiences and child behavior
A Chronic Problem
Care-giver substance abuse (SA) represents one of the most common reasons for entering the child welfare system in the USA with families and children for whom substance abuse is an issue fairing worse at every stage of the child welfare process from investigation to removal to reunification. In this conceptual article, we assert that a paradigm clash between a framework for SA that understands treatment and recovery to be a linear process and a f…
Between badness and sickness
Revenue, relationships and routines
Which Patients and Where
BACKGROUND: Interhospital transfer of patients is a routine part of the care at community hospitals, but the current process may lead to suboptimal patient outcomes. A microlevel analysis of the processes of patient transfer has not earlier been carried out. RESEARCH DESIGN: We conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with care providers at 3 purposively sampled community hospitals to describe patient transfer mechanisms, focusing on perce…
Standardizing Biases
Racial inequality persists despite major advances in formal, legal equality. Scholars and policymakers argue that individual biases (both explicit and implicit) combine with subjective organizational decision-making practices to perpetuate racial inequality. The standardization of decision making offers a potential solution, promising to eliminate the subjectivity that biases consequential decisions. We ask, under what conditions may standardizat…
Innovations in child welfare interventions for caregivers with substance use disorders and their children
Iron Cage or Paper Cage? The Interplay of Worker Characteristics and Organizational Policy in Shaping Unequal Responses to a Standardized Decision-Making Tool
Studies are largely optimistic about the ability of standardized procedures to constrain decision-makers’ biases and produce more equitable results across fields. However, work that embraces standardization as an equalizing force stands in contrast to research on standardization and street-level bureaucrats, which asserts that standardized procedures are not self-actuating and cannot be understood apart from the environments in which they are use…
Revenue, relationships and routines
Between badness and sickness
Exploring associations between maternal adverse childhood experiences and child behavior
The Goldilocks Problem
The Structured Decision-Making Model’s risk assessment (RA) is a prominent feature of front-end child protection work. Examining how two different states have set policy to implement the RA, we analyze their distinct choices and unintended consequences. We propose that variation in implementation originates not from individual workers but from two nested sources. First, the RA embeds an implicit epistemological conflict between actuarially based …
A Chronic Problem
Care-giver substance abuse (SA) represents one of the most common reasons for entering the child welfare system in the USA with families and children for whom substance abuse is an issue fairing worse at every stage of the child welfare process from investigation to removal to reunification. In this conceptual article, we assert that a paradigm clash between a framework for SA that understands treatment and recovery to be a linear process and a f…
Which Patients and Where
BACKGROUND: Interhospital transfer of patients is a routine part of the care at community hospitals, but the current process may lead to suboptimal patient outcomes. A microlevel analysis of the processes of patient transfer has not earlier been carried out. RESEARCH DESIGN: We conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with care providers at 3 purposively sampled community hospitals to describe patient transfer mechanisms, focusing on perce…
Revenue, relationships and routines
Between badness and sickness
A Chronic Problem
Care-giver substance abuse (SA) represents one of the most common reasons for entering the child welfare system in the USA with families and children for whom substance abuse is an issue fairing worse at every stage of the child welfare process from investigation to removal to reunification. In this conceptual article, we assert that a paradigm clash between a framework for SA that understands treatment and recovery to be a linear process and a f…
Teachers’ Perceptions of Childcare and Preschool Expulsion
Previous research outlines the correlates of childcare expulsion in the USA, yet researchers know little about how these correlates produce expulsion. This in‐depth qualitative analysis of 30 childcare providers’ accounts of expulsion finds a patterned process to expulsion: Teachers search for causes and solutions to challenging behaviours. When interventions fail, overwhelmed teachers shift their focus from ‘struggling’ children to ‘bad families…
Exploring associations between maternal adverse childhood experiences and child behavior
Innovations in child welfare interventions for caregivers with substance use disorders and their children
Iron Cage or Paper Cage? The Interplay of Worker Characteristics and Organizational Policy in Shaping Unequal Responses to a Standardized Decision-Making Tool
Studies are largely optimistic about the ability of standardized procedures to constrain decision-makers’ biases and produce more equitable results across fields. However, work that embraces standardization as an equalizing force stands in contrast to research on standardization and street-level bureaucrats, which asserts that standardized procedures are not self-actuating and cannot be understood apart from the environments in which they are use…
Working together to protect women and children from domestic violence
The Goldilocks Problem
The Structured Decision-Making Model’s risk assessment (RA) is a prominent feature of front-end child protection work. Examining how two different states have set policy to implement the RA, we analyze their distinct choices and unintended consequences. We propose that variation in implementation originates not from individual workers but from two nested sources. First, the RA embeds an implicit epistemological conflict between actuarially based …
Standardizing Biases
Racial inequality persists despite major advances in formal, legal equality. Scholars and policymakers argue that individual biases (both explicit and implicit) combine with subjective organizational decision-making practices to perpetuate racial inequality. The standardization of decision making offers a potential solution, promising to eliminate the subjectivity that biases consequential decisions. We ask, under what conditions may standardizat…
That Which is Essential has been Made Invisible
An Ecological Model for High-Risk Professional Decision-Making in Mental Health
Mental health professionals are frequently presented with situations in which they must assess the risk that a client will cause harm to themselves or others. Troublingly, however, predictions of risk are remarkably inaccurate even when made by those who are highly skilled and highly trained. Consequently, many jurisdictions have moved to impose standardized decision-making tools aimed at improving outcomes. Using a decision-making ecology framew…
Creating a parallel process
Summing Up What Can Never be Summed Up
This special issue of “The Forum” publishes Charles L. Bosk's final work—a book proposal written for a trade audience titled—The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error. Five noted scholars Carol Heimer, Carla Keirns, Mark Neuman, Julia Szymczak, and Stefan Timmermans offer commentary. Their essays touch on common themes: Bosk's humanity, his wry sense of humor, and keen ability to highlight the absurdity of the social organization of contemporary…
Addressing Children and Families within the National Drug Control Strategy
In recognition of the potentially devastating effects on family well-being related to opioids and caregiver substance use in the United-States including increasing rates of overdose among individuals of reproductive age, opioid-related pediatric fatalities, and family disruptions, this commentary provides an expanded approach for policy frameworks to meaningfully integrate children, parents, and families. Building from the White House's 2022 Nati…
Psychology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works)