Thomas P Mcdonald
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 337207 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas P Mcdonald |
| NOMBRES | Thomas P |
| APELLIDO | Mcdonald |
| FIRMA | MCDONALD T P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2996-9918 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Randomized trial of PMTO in foster care
Randomized Study of PMTO in Foster Care
Objective: This study examined the effects of Parent Management Training, Oregon (PMTO) model on parenting effectiveness and caregiver functioning. Method: Children in foster care with emotional and behavioral problems were randomized to PMTO ( n = 461) or services as usual ( n = 457) in a nonblinded study design. Using an intent-to-treat approach, analysis of covariance models tested the intervention’s overall effect and time interactions for pa…
Changes in parenting practices during Parent Management Training Oregon model with parents of children in foster care
Assessing Risk of Placement Instability to Aid Foster Care Placement Decision Making
Placement stability is of critical importance to the well-being of children in foster care and has an impact on other key outcomes. Placement decision-making that matches children with placement resources is often cited as a practice that impacts placement stability, but little research exists to inform this practice. The focus of this research is on a child assessment tool that was developed to determine the appropriate level of care, which serv…
Randomized Trial of PMTO in Foster Care
Objective: This study tested the effectiveness of Parent Management Training, Oregon (PMTO) model on child social–emotional well-being. Methods: Using a randomized controlled design and three measures of social–emotional well-being, the study investigated effectiveness of PMTO with families of children in foster care with serious emotional disturbance (SED). Participants included children (3–16 years) and parents who were randomly assigned to PMT…
Joining formative evaluation with translational science to assess an EBI in foster care
Screening for Substance Use Disorders as a Supplement to Caseworker Assessment Among Foster Care–Involved Families
Parental substance abuse is a major factor in families experiencing foster care placement, yet little is known about the potential of screening in determining risk or identifying subpopulations for which elevated risk occurs. One Midwestern state recently implemented screening. This research uses information gathered as part of the screen's implementation to conduct a latent class analysis. The research was extended to provide a detailed examinat…
Formative Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Intervention to Reduce Long-Term Foster Care
As part of the federal Permanency Innovations Initiative, this local grantee implemented an evidence-based intervention to improve outcomes for children with serious emotional disturbance. The project approach integrates the tenets of implementation science and program evaluation. Formative evaluation used a small sample (n = 76) to assess implementation integrity and statistical association to recommend whether the intervention was ready for sum…
Cost analysis of the strengthening families program in reducing time to family reunification among substance-affected families
An analysis of the impact of the Strengthening Families Program on family reunification in child welfare
Parental Substance Abuse and Family Reunification
This study examines the reunification outcomes of 4 groups of children placed in foster care in Oklahoma: those referred due to parental alcohol-only abuse, those due to parental drug-only abuse, those with both alcohol and drug involvement, and those with neither alcohol nor drug involvement. Following bivariate analysis to examine group differences, survival analysis was utilized to predict reunification rates. Overall, differences in time to r…
Evaluating the Effects of Comprehensive Substance Abuse Intervention on Successful Reunification
Objective: This study examines permanency outcomes of families with children in foster care who participated in a comprehensive service-delivery program designed to assist families and communities in dealing with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems. Method: Survival analysis is used to measure the impact of program participation on family reunification and re-entry of children into foster care. Results: The results of this study are that, contr…
Permanency for Children in Foster Care
Child welfare professionals daily face the competing risks of balancing the needs and safety of children with different permanency outcomes (i.e., reunification, adoption, guardianship). However, research on permanency has focused on a single outcome or grouped them together under the general label of permanency. The literature suggests that there are differences in time to a particular permanency outcome and also the factors predicting these per…
What Do We Know About the Relationship between Public Welfare and Child Welfare
Child Functioning and Caregiver Well-being in Families of Children with Emotional Disorders
Researchers and practitioners concerned about children with emotional disorders and their families often try to understand the relationship between a child's condition and family functioning. Does some aspect of the caregiver affect the child's emotional and behavioral difficulties? Does the strain of caring for a child with such difficulties have an impact on parents? Does each affect the other in some reciprocal fashion? Previous research has o…
An Assessment of the Utility of the Child Behavior Checklist/4-18 for Social Work Practice
The objective of this article was to analyze the structure of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), which is often used to measure children’s emotional and behavioral problems. Considering its potential uses in social work, we logically deduced the optimal format for each use. Confirmatory factor analysis of the CBCL problem scales was the method conducted. Three alternative models were also proposed and tested. Data analyzed were parent responses…
Predicting Placement in Foster Care
In this paper we explore the use of neural network analysis (NNA) as an alternative to logistic regression to predict which children with a founded (indicated) child abuse/neglect report will be subsequently placed in foster care. The main advantages of NNA are that it is a nonparametric technique requiring no assumptions of normality that can readily accommodate both linear and nonlinear relationships and interactions without prior specification…
Adoption trends in Kansas
Child welfare outcomes revisited
Predicting caregiver stress
The family caregiving process for children with severe emotional disorders is conceptualized from an ecological perspective and examined in light of outcomes for caregivers. This study of 259 families assessed the relative importance, individually and in combination, of various clusters of caregiver, child, family, and environmental characteristics and responses as predictors of caregiver stress. Findings raise questions about current practice an…
Children who wait
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Family Preservation Services for the Families of Drug-Exposed Infants
Twenty-seven families of drug-exposed infants were followed during their participation in a community-based program designed to enhance child well-being and prevent out-of-home placement. The program consisted of multiple components including social work home visits, nursing services, early childhood education, support groups, and parent/child interaction groups. Results indicated that the program was partially successful. In particular, particip…
Predictors of economic status of Southeast Asian refugees
Predictors of the economic status of Southeast Asian refugees in California were investigated using data from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing Public Use Microdata Sample, which is a 1 percent stratified random sample of California residents. Three indicators of economic status were examined: employment status, public assistance use, and household income. A regression model consisting of 18 independent variables yielded a 20 percent impr…
The effects of variations in AFDC and medicaid eligibility on prenatal care use
A Review of Risk Factors Assessed in Child Protective Services
Evaluating the likelihood of future maltreatment is a critical component of decision making in the child protective service process. A relatively recent phenomenon is the use of formal risk-assessment instruments for the collection of specific, generally quantifiable, data to help in this assessment. We compare the risk variables assessed in eight instruments currently employed and include results from a literature review to determine the empiric…
Permanency for Children in Foster Care
Child welfare professionals daily face the competing risks of balancing the needs and safety of children with different permanency outcomes (i.e., reunification, adoption, guardianship). However, research on permanency has focused on a single outcome or grouped them together under the general label of permanency. The literature suggests that there are differences in time to a particular permanency outcome and also the factors predicting these per…
Evaluating the Effects of Comprehensive Substance Abuse Intervention on Successful Reunification
Objective: This study examines permanency outcomes of families with children in foster care who participated in a comprehensive service-delivery program designed to assist families and communities in dealing with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems. Method: Survival analysis is used to measure the impact of program participation on family reunification and re-entry of children into foster care. Results: The results of this study are that, contr…
Predictors of prenatal care utilization
An analysis of the impact of the Strengthening Families Program on family reunification in child welfare
Child Functioning and Caregiver Well-being in Families of Children with Emotional Disorders
Researchers and practitioners concerned about children with emotional disorders and their families often try to understand the relationship between a child's condition and family functioning. Does some aspect of the caregiver affect the child's emotional and behavioral difficulties? Does the strain of caring for a child with such difficulties have an impact on parents? Does each affect the other in some reciprocal fashion? Previous research has o…
Child welfare outcomes revisited
Children who wait
Assessing the role of agency services in reducing adoption disruptions
Child welfare standards for success
Formative Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Intervention to Reduce Long-Term Foster Care
As part of the federal Permanency Innovations Initiative, this local grantee implemented an evidence-based intervention to improve outcomes for children with serious emotional disturbance. The project approach integrates the tenets of implementation science and program evaluation. Formative evaluation used a small sample (n = 76) to assess implementation integrity and statistical association to recommend whether the intervention was ready for sum…
Randomized Study of PMTO in Foster Care
Objective: This study examined the effects of Parent Management Training, Oregon (PMTO) model on parenting effectiveness and caregiver functioning. Method: Children in foster care with emotional and behavioral problems were randomized to PMTO ( n = 461) or services as usual ( n = 457) in a nonblinded study design. Using an intent-to-treat approach, analysis of covariance models tested the intervention’s overall effect and time interactions for pa…
Changes in parenting practices during Parent Management Training Oregon model with parents of children in foster care
Assessing Risk of Placement Instability to Aid Foster Care Placement Decision Making
Placement stability is of critical importance to the well-being of children in foster care and has an impact on other key outcomes. Placement decision-making that matches children with placement resources is often cited as a practice that impacts placement stability, but little research exists to inform this practice. The focus of this research is on a child assessment tool that was developed to determine the appropriate level of care, which serv…
Joining formative evaluation with translational science to assess an EBI in foster care
Randomized trial of PMTO in foster care
Randomized Trial of PMTO in Foster Care
Objective: This study tested the effectiveness of Parent Management Training, Oregon (PMTO) model on child social–emotional well-being. Methods: Using a randomized controlled design and three measures of social–emotional well-being, the study investigated effectiveness of PMTO with families of children in foster care with serious emotional disturbance (SED). Participants included children (3–16 years) and parents who were randomly assigned to PMT…
Cost analysis of the strengthening families program in reducing time to family reunification among substance-affected families
Adoption trends in Kansas
The effects of variations in AFDC and medicaid eligibility on prenatal care use
Screening for Substance Use Disorders as a Supplement to Caseworker Assessment Among Foster Care–Involved Families
Parental substance abuse is a major factor in families experiencing foster care placement, yet little is known about the potential of screening in determining risk or identifying subpopulations for which elevated risk occurs. One Midwestern state recently implemented screening. This research uses information gathered as part of the screen's implementation to conduct a latent class analysis. The research was extended to provide a detailed examinat…
What Do We Know About the Relationship between Public Welfare and Child Welfare
Predicting Placement in Foster Care
In this paper we explore the use of neural network analysis (NNA) as an alternative to logistic regression to predict which children with a founded (indicated) child abuse/neglect report will be subsequently placed in foster care. The main advantages of NNA are that it is a nonparametric technique requiring no assumptions of normality that can readily accommodate both linear and nonlinear relationships and interactions without prior specification…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Family Preservation Services for the Families of Drug-Exposed Infants
Twenty-seven families of drug-exposed infants were followed during their participation in a community-based program designed to enhance child well-being and prevent out-of-home placement. The program consisted of multiple components including social work home visits, nursing services, early childhood education, support groups, and parent/child interaction groups. Results indicated that the program was partially successful. In particular, particip…
Absent Father's Ability to Pay More Child Support
No abstract available for this article
Impact of Separation on Community Social Service Utilization
This experiment indicates that AFDC recipients who received public welfare social services under the format of separation of services from financial aid are more likely than recipients in the combined condition to use social services from other agencies in the community. A manipulation designed to impact service utilization by providing greater information about these services had no effect. An earlier report indicated a decline in recipients' us…
Impact of Separation on Community Social Service Utilization
This experiment indicates that AFDC recipients who received public welfare social services under the format of separation of services from financial aid are more likely than recipients in the combined condition to use social services from other agencies in the community. A manipulation designed to impact service utilization by providing greater information about these services had no effect. An earlier report indicated a decline in recipients' us…
Predictors of prenatal care utilization
Child welfare standards for success
Absent Father's Ability to Pay More Child Support
No abstract available for this article
A Review of Risk Factors Assessed in Child Protective Services
Evaluating the likelihood of future maltreatment is a critical component of decision making in the child protective service process. A relatively recent phenomenon is the use of formal risk-assessment instruments for the collection of specific, generally quantifiable, data to help in this assessment. We compare the risk variables assessed in eight instruments currently employed and include results from a literature review to determine the empiric…
Assessing the role of agency services in reducing adoption disruptions
The effects of variations in AFDC and medicaid eligibility on prenatal care use
Predictors of economic status of Southeast Asian refugees
Predictors of the economic status of Southeast Asian refugees in California were investigated using data from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing Public Use Microdata Sample, which is a 1 percent stratified random sample of California residents. Three indicators of economic status were examined: employment status, public assistance use, and household income. A regression model consisting of 18 independent variables yielded a 20 percent impr…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Family Preservation Services for the Families of Drug-Exposed Infants
Twenty-seven families of drug-exposed infants were followed during their participation in a community-based program designed to enhance child well-being and prevent out-of-home placement. The program consisted of multiple components including social work home visits, nursing services, early childhood education, support groups, and parent/child interaction groups. Results indicated that the program was partially successful. In particular, particip…
Children who wait
Predicting caregiver stress
The family caregiving process for children with severe emotional disorders is conceptualized from an ecological perspective and examined in light of outcomes for caregivers. This study of 259 families assessed the relative importance, individually and in combination, of various clusters of caregiver, child, family, and environmental characteristics and responses as predictors of caregiver stress. Findings raise questions about current practice an…
Adoption trends in Kansas
Child welfare outcomes revisited
An Assessment of the Utility of the Child Behavior Checklist/4-18 for Social Work Practice
The objective of this article was to analyze the structure of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), which is often used to measure children’s emotional and behavioral problems. Considering its potential uses in social work, we logically deduced the optimal format for each use. Confirmatory factor analysis of the CBCL problem scales was the method conducted. Three alternative models were also proposed and tested. Data analyzed were parent responses…
Predicting Placement in Foster Care
In this paper we explore the use of neural network analysis (NNA) as an alternative to logistic regression to predict which children with a founded (indicated) child abuse/neglect report will be subsequently placed in foster care. The main advantages of NNA are that it is a nonparametric technique requiring no assumptions of normality that can readily accommodate both linear and nonlinear relationships and interactions without prior specification…
Child Functioning and Caregiver Well-being in Families of Children with Emotional Disorders
Researchers and practitioners concerned about children with emotional disorders and their families often try to understand the relationship between a child's condition and family functioning. Does some aspect of the caregiver affect the child's emotional and behavioral difficulties? Does the strain of caring for a child with such difficulties have an impact on parents? Does each affect the other in some reciprocal fashion? Previous research has o…
What Do We Know About the Relationship between Public Welfare and Child Welfare
Evaluating the Effects of Comprehensive Substance Abuse Intervention on Successful Reunification
Objective: This study examines permanency outcomes of families with children in foster care who participated in a comprehensive service-delivery program designed to assist families and communities in dealing with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems. Method: Survival analysis is used to measure the impact of program participation on family reunification and re-entry of children into foster care. Results: The results of this study are that, contr…
Permanency for Children in Foster Care
Child welfare professionals daily face the competing risks of balancing the needs and safety of children with different permanency outcomes (i.e., reunification, adoption, guardianship). However, research on permanency has focused on a single outcome or grouped them together under the general label of permanency. The literature suggests that there are differences in time to a particular permanency outcome and also the factors predicting these per…
Parental Substance Abuse and Family Reunification
This study examines the reunification outcomes of 4 groups of children placed in foster care in Oklahoma: those referred due to parental alcohol-only abuse, those due to parental drug-only abuse, those with both alcohol and drug involvement, and those with neither alcohol nor drug involvement. Following bivariate analysis to examine group differences, survival analysis was utilized to predict reunification rates. Overall, differences in time to r…
An analysis of the impact of the Strengthening Families Program on family reunification in child welfare
Cost analysis of the strengthening families program in reducing time to family reunification among substance-affected families
Screening for Substance Use Disorders as a Supplement to Caseworker Assessment Among Foster Care–Involved Families
Parental substance abuse is a major factor in families experiencing foster care placement, yet little is known about the potential of screening in determining risk or identifying subpopulations for which elevated risk occurs. One Midwestern state recently implemented screening. This research uses information gathered as part of the screen's implementation to conduct a latent class analysis. The research was extended to provide a detailed examinat…
Formative Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Intervention to Reduce Long-Term Foster Care
As part of the federal Permanency Innovations Initiative, this local grantee implemented an evidence-based intervention to improve outcomes for children with serious emotional disturbance. The project approach integrates the tenets of implementation science and program evaluation. Formative evaluation used a small sample (n = 76) to assess implementation integrity and statistical association to recommend whether the intervention was ready for sum…
Joining formative evaluation with translational science to assess an EBI in foster care
Psychology (25 obras) · Medicine (20 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (17 obras) · Nursing (14 obras) · Foster care (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Welfare (11 obras) · Clinical Psychology (10 obras) · Developmental psychology (10 obras) · Economics (10 obras)