Shimon E Spiro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 193189 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Shimon E Spiro |
| NOMBRES | Shimon E |
| APELLIDO | Spiro |
| FIRMA | SPIRO S E |
| AFILIACIONES | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1962 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The contribution of replicated follow-up studies to improving transitional housing programs for youths aging out of care in Israel
Regulating social welfare services
With the ongoing privatisation and marketisation of social welfare, the regulatory functions of governments have become much more important, necessitating careful attention. Yet there is little scholarly work on the goals and nature of regulating privatised social welfare services. To fill this gap, this study examined the regulatory process used by the Israeli Youth Protection Authority (YPA) to regulate homes for at‐risk youth. Based on 24 semi…
Evaluation Capacity Building
Purpose: Growing emphasis on program and practice evaluation in social work education coalesces with a growing interest in evaluation capacity building (ECB) within the interdisciplinary field of evaluation. However, the literature on ECB, while recognizing the importance of imparting knowledge and skills to individuals, largely ignores the potential contribution of courses that are offered as part of academic degree-granting programs. Methods: T…
Predictors of Sustainability of Social Programs
This article presents the findings of a large scale study that tested a comprehensive model of predictors of three manifestations of sustainability: continuation, institutionalization, and duration. Based on the literature the predictors were arrayed in four groups: variables pertaining to the project, the auspice organization, the community, and the main funder. The total sample consisted of 197 projects. Informants were asked to fill out a deta…
Sustainability of Social Programs
The article reports on the findings of a comparative case study of six projects that operated in Israel between 1980 and 2000. The study findings identify characteristics of the programs, the host organizations, and the social and political environment, which differentiated programs that are sustained from those that are not. The findings reaffirm the importance of the human factor, namely, the commitment of the leadership of the host organizatio…
Dimensions and Correlates of Client Satisfaction
Client satisfaction surveys give clients a voice in the planning and management of services. While their use is quite widespread, they have hardly at all been used in the evaluation of shelters for homeless youths. In this article, the authors present findings of a client satisfaction survey conducted among residents of a shelter for homeless youths in Tel Aviv, Israel, shortly after their departure from the shelter. Satisfaction was affected mai…
Social work in Israel
This article employs a comparative framework in the analysis of the professional characteristics of social work in Israel. Using the attributes and the power approaches to professions, Israeli social work is analysed according to eight variables: a protected ‘trademark’, monopoly over social care and delivery of services within state welfare systems, occupational autonomy, length of training and control over training, internal differentiation by …
Where Do They Go From Here? Destinations of Youth Exciting a Shelter
Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy
The article addresses the occupational integration of immigrants from the former USSR into the economy of the city of Tel Aviv. This process is examined from a structural perspective, which focuses on the location of immigrants as a group in the restructuring economy of Israel’s main business centre. Data from labour force surveys and income surveys conducted in 1992 and 1994 by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics are used to analyse the distri…
Goal Focused Evaluation
This article revisits a longstanding controversy regarding the place of organizational goals in evaluation. While early writers saw goals as the yardstick against which outcomes are measured, others argued for a goal free evaluation. We propose a Goal Focused Evaluation, which acknowledges the problematic relationship that may exist between a program's declared and operative goals. It assumes that a comprehensive evaluation of a program's effecti…
Reactions of Practitioners to the Introduction of a Standard Instrument to Monitor Clinical Outcomes
This paper describes, step by step, the efforts made by the authors to introduce a clinical monitoring system into a marital and family counselling clinic in Tel Aviv, Israel. The monitoring system which was chosen for that purpose was the McMaster Clinical Rating Scale (MCRS). Systematic training helped the counsellors to become more receptive to the idea of monitoring, acknowledge its potential utility, and try it out. However, they failed to u…
Parental Choice and Residential Segregation
Can enhanced parental choice of schools have a moderating effect on processes of residential segregation? In this article, the declared motivation and residential distribution of parents who enrolled their children in Special Program Non-neighborhood (SPNN) schools in the metropolitan area of Tel-Aviv, Israel, are examined. Our findings lend some support to the hypothesis that enrollment in SPNN schools may serve as an alternative for residential…
Evaluating the Welfare State
Evaluating the Welfare State
Evaluating the welfare state
Reactions to Rehousing
Reactions to Rehousing
The Relocation of Villagers into Public Housing
Ex Post Facto Evaluation of Neighborhood Organization Programs
Quasi-experimental designs, which are currently dominant in the methodological literature on Evaluative Research, are mostly not appropriate for the evaluation of Planned Change in the social organization of urban neighborhoods. In this paper we propose an alternative approach, based on ex-post-facto case studies. Criteria for evaluation, as well as study design and instruments, are discussed in some detail. A concise summary of one local evaluat…
Development of the "Community Work" Sequence in an Undergraduate Curriculum
Regulating social welfare services
With the ongoing privatisation and marketisation of social welfare, the regulatory functions of governments have become much more important, necessitating careful attention. Yet there is little scholarly work on the goals and nature of regulating privatised social welfare services. To fill this gap, this study examined the regulatory process used by the Israeli Youth Protection Authority (YPA) to regulate homes for at‐risk youth. Based on 24 semi…
Sustainability of Social Programs
The article reports on the findings of a comparative case study of six projects that operated in Israel between 1980 and 2000. The study findings identify characteristics of the programs, the host organizations, and the social and political environment, which differentiated programs that are sustained from those that are not. The findings reaffirm the importance of the human factor, namely, the commitment of the leadership of the host organizatio…
Predictors of Sustainability of Social Programs
This article presents the findings of a large scale study that tested a comprehensive model of predictors of three manifestations of sustainability: continuation, institutionalization, and duration. Based on the literature the predictors were arrayed in four groups: variables pertaining to the project, the auspice organization, the community, and the main funder. The total sample consisted of 197 projects. Informants were asked to fill out a deta…
Social work in Israel
This article employs a comparative framework in the analysis of the professional characteristics of social work in Israel. Using the attributes and the power approaches to professions, Israeli social work is analysed according to eight variables: a protected ‘trademark’, monopoly over social care and delivery of services within state welfare systems, occupational autonomy, length of training and control over training, internal differentiation by …
Dimensions and Correlates of Client Satisfaction
Client satisfaction surveys give clients a voice in the planning and management of services. While their use is quite widespread, they have hardly at all been used in the evaluation of shelters for homeless youths. In this article, the authors present findings of a client satisfaction survey conducted among residents of a shelter for homeless youths in Tel Aviv, Israel, shortly after their departure from the shelter. Satisfaction was affected mai…
Reactions to Rehousing
Goal Focused Evaluation
This article revisits a longstanding controversy regarding the place of organizational goals in evaluation. While early writers saw goals as the yardstick against which outcomes are measured, others argued for a goal free evaluation. We propose a Goal Focused Evaluation, which acknowledges the problematic relationship that may exist between a program's declared and operative goals. It assumes that a comprehensive evaluation of a program's effecti…
Evaluation Capacity Building
Purpose: Growing emphasis on program and practice evaluation in social work education coalesces with a growing interest in evaluation capacity building (ECB) within the interdisciplinary field of evaluation. However, the literature on ECB, while recognizing the importance of imparting knowledge and skills to individuals, largely ignores the potential contribution of courses that are offered as part of academic degree-granting programs. Methods: T…
Parental Choice and Residential Segregation
Can enhanced parental choice of schools have a moderating effect on processes of residential segregation? In this article, the declared motivation and residential distribution of parents who enrolled their children in Special Program Non-neighborhood (SPNN) schools in the metropolitan area of Tel-Aviv, Israel, are examined. Our findings lend some support to the hypothesis that enrollment in SPNN schools may serve as an alternative for residential…
Where Do They Go From Here? Destinations of Youth Exciting a Shelter
Development of the "Community Work" Sequence in an Undergraduate Curriculum
The Relocation of Villagers into Public Housing
Ex Post Facto Evaluation of Neighborhood Organization Programs
Quasi-experimental designs, which are currently dominant in the methodological literature on Evaluative Research, are mostly not appropriate for the evaluation of Planned Change in the social organization of urban neighborhoods. In this paper we propose an alternative approach, based on ex-post-facto case studies. Criteria for evaluation, as well as study design and instruments, are discussed in some detail. A concise summary of one local evaluat…
Reactions to Rehousing
Reactions to Rehousing
Evaluating the welfare state
Evaluating the Welfare State
Evaluating the Welfare State
Parental Choice and Residential Segregation
Can enhanced parental choice of schools have a moderating effect on processes of residential segregation? In this article, the declared motivation and residential distribution of parents who enrolled their children in Special Program Non-neighborhood (SPNN) schools in the metropolitan area of Tel-Aviv, Israel, are examined. Our findings lend some support to the hypothesis that enrollment in SPNN schools may serve as an alternative for residential…
Reactions of Practitioners to the Introduction of a Standard Instrument to Monitor Clinical Outcomes
This paper describes, step by step, the efforts made by the authors to introduce a clinical monitoring system into a marital and family counselling clinic in Tel Aviv, Israel. The monitoring system which was chosen for that purpose was the McMaster Clinical Rating Scale (MCRS). Systematic training helped the counsellors to become more receptive to the idea of monitoring, acknowledge its potential utility, and try it out. However, they failed to u…
Goal Focused Evaluation
This article revisits a longstanding controversy regarding the place of organizational goals in evaluation. While early writers saw goals as the yardstick against which outcomes are measured, others argued for a goal free evaluation. We propose a Goal Focused Evaluation, which acknowledges the problematic relationship that may exist between a program's declared and operative goals. It assumes that a comprehensive evaluation of a program's effecti…
Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy
The article addresses the occupational integration of immigrants from the former USSR into the economy of the city of Tel Aviv. This process is examined from a structural perspective, which focuses on the location of immigrants as a group in the restructuring economy of Israel’s main business centre. Data from labour force surveys and income surveys conducted in 1992 and 1994 by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics are used to analyse the distri…
Where Do They Go From Here? Destinations of Youth Exciting a Shelter
Social work in Israel
This article employs a comparative framework in the analysis of the professional characteristics of social work in Israel. Using the attributes and the power approaches to professions, Israeli social work is analysed according to eight variables: a protected ‘trademark’, monopoly over social care and delivery of services within state welfare systems, occupational autonomy, length of training and control over training, internal differentiation by …
Sustainability of Social Programs
The article reports on the findings of a comparative case study of six projects that operated in Israel between 1980 and 2000. The study findings identify characteristics of the programs, the host organizations, and the social and political environment, which differentiated programs that are sustained from those that are not. The findings reaffirm the importance of the human factor, namely, the commitment of the leadership of the host organizatio…
Dimensions and Correlates of Client Satisfaction
Client satisfaction surveys give clients a voice in the planning and management of services. While their use is quite widespread, they have hardly at all been used in the evaluation of shelters for homeless youths. In this article, the authors present findings of a client satisfaction survey conducted among residents of a shelter for homeless youths in Tel Aviv, Israel, shortly after their departure from the shelter. Satisfaction was affected mai…
Predictors of Sustainability of Social Programs
This article presents the findings of a large scale study that tested a comprehensive model of predictors of three manifestations of sustainability: continuation, institutionalization, and duration. Based on the literature the predictors were arrayed in four groups: variables pertaining to the project, the auspice organization, the community, and the main funder. The total sample consisted of 197 projects. Informants were asked to fill out a deta…
Evaluation Capacity Building
Purpose: Growing emphasis on program and practice evaluation in social work education coalesces with a growing interest in evaluation capacity building (ECB) within the interdisciplinary field of evaluation. However, the literature on ECB, while recognizing the importance of imparting knowledge and skills to individuals, largely ignores the potential contribution of courses that are offered as part of academic degree-granting programs. Methods: T…
Regulating social welfare services
With the ongoing privatisation and marketisation of social welfare, the regulatory functions of governments have become much more important, necessitating careful attention. Yet there is little scholarly work on the goals and nature of regulating privatised social welfare services. To fill this gap, this study examined the regulatory process used by the Israeli Youth Protection Authority (YPA) to regulate homes for at‐risk youth. Based on 24 semi…
The contribution of replicated follow-up studies to improving transitional housing programs for youths aging out of care in Israel
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