Gary B Melton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4115158 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gary B Melton |
| NOMBRES | Gary B |
| APELLIDO | Melton |
| FIRMA | MELTON G B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5506-0439 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Addressing mental health challenges facing the “Next America”
Provides an editorial addressing future mental health challenges. The articles in this issue highlight the need to create environments conducive to promoting the well-being of future generations. The articles build on symposia held by the American Orthopsychiatric Association in 2015, which focused on the effects on well-being of changing sociodemographics and labor market trends. Included in these pages are articles that lay out some of the chal…
Hospitality
Hospitality is an ancient moral practice that was deeply embedded in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Hospitality requires acceptance of, service to, and respect for people who lack a place in the community. The contemporary importance of this practice reflects the social disconnection and economic disadvantage of many young parents and the high frequency of separation of young people, including many young parents, from their communities. …
Editing on the edge in Denver, New Orleans, and Williamston—and soon in Dallas and Lincoln, too
This editorial provides a farewell from the coeditors of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Milt Shore
This editorial pays tribute to former editor, Milton F. Shore, who has for many years been one of Ortho's most dedicated members
A swan song (or a fanfare)
S everal years ago, Prof. Randy Pausch, a young superstar in computer science, gave a much-discussed lecture at Carnegie Mellon. In an address that was advertised as his last, Pausch entertained a packed hall with his stories about his fulfillment of some rather spectacular childhood dreams (e.g., experiencing zero gravity; becoming an Imagineer for Disney). A leader in the creation of virtual realities (the stuff of which movie special effects a…
Some old, some new
Angels (and neighbors) watching over us
M ore than 8 years ago, my daughter Jennifer and my son-in-law Tom were married in the small-town Methodist church that had been the focal point of much of my childhood in Granite Quarry, North Carolina. About 75 years earlier, Jennifer’s greatgreat-grandfather had served as the minister in the little stone church. By coincidence, Jennifer’s wedding occurred on the same day as the observance of the town’s centennial, and her great-grandfather’s s…
It’s all about relationships! The psychology of human rights
H aving spent more than a few hours in law school faculty lounges over the years, I suspect that there are few settings (Irish pubs reputedly among them) in which good-natured banter is more frequent or apparently mundane discourse is more atmospheric. Probably by both personal inclination and professional socialization, lawyers like to argue, and law professors are especially adept in such verbal jousting. Moreover, their already formidable fore…
Innovations, respect, and personal renewal
Keeping the doors to the community open
Polls show that Americans of all races now believe that social class and national origin are more potent bases for discrimination than race. However, this assessment is rendered more complicated by (a) the high rate of exclusion of people on the basis of behavioral characteristics and (b) the strikingly disparate impact of such decisions on people of color. America’s high rates of (a) incarceration in the criminal and juvenile justice system, (b)…
How can government protect mental health amid a disaster
Toward a Science of Community Intervention
Most programs for preventing child maltreatment have relied largely or exclusively on individual- and family-level interventions. However, the absence of community-level strategies conflicts with a growing body of research showing the importance of community factors in the prevalence of child abuse and neglect. Parents trying to cope with dangerous community conditions may become too punitive or, conversely, insufficiently watchful. In short, par…
Transformative Change
Descriptive qualitative case studies were conducted to examine the evolution of special events in a large-scale program in South Carolina to prevent child abuse and neglect. For these analyses, narrative project logs were reviewed from 3 selected project communities, and emerging themes and topics were identified. The development and use of special events to promote project goals varied in each of the 3 different types of community contexts. Resu…
Community Life, Public Health, and Children's Safety
As the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect recognized in the early 1990s, the challenges posed by (a) the ongoing crisis in the child protection system and (b) the generational decline in social capital are intertwined. This issue of Family and Community Health, 31.2, discusses the conceptualization, implementation, and effects of Strong Communities for Children, the first large-scale application of the board's vision for a neighborhood-…
From Safe Sanctuaries to Strong Communities
In both popular and professional discourse, religious institutions are often perceived as sources of risk to children either as places where children are unusually vulnerable to abuse or as belief systems that sometimes result in mistreatment of children. However, religious institutions can be leading resources in the development of community-wide safety nets for children. In one such initiative (Strong Communities for Children, a large-scale ini…
Between Neighborliness and Volunteerism
The Strong Communities initiative in the Upstate region of South Carolina strives to strengthen the community and prevent child maltreatment through the enhancement of neighborliness and volunteerism. During the first 5 years of the initiative, more than 4,500 volunteers contributed their time. Strong Communities has nurtured neighborly volunteers-residents whose community service could be characterized as being between formal agency-based volunt…
Strong Communities
Detailed information about what actually happened in large-scale efforts to transform communities is sparse. Using biweekly reports of the Strong Communities initiative's outreach workers' activities over a 3.5-year period, this article examines the characteristics of individuals whom the outreach workers were able to involve in the project, the degree of involvement that various community sectors (eg, fire, police, churches, civic groups) have h…
I Can Conquer a Mountain”
The Strong Communities initiative in the Upstate region of South Carolina relies on expansion and utilization of social capital as the principal strategy in preventing child maltreatment. The 44 volunteers (out of more than 4,500) whom outreach staff identified as most central to mobilization of the community were interviewed about their background, motivation, and experience in the initiative. These exceptionally productive volunteers were less …
Beyond Balancing
Discussions of children's rights often are framed in terms of balancing—balancing parents' and children's rights, balancing rights to autonomy and protection, balancing rights and responsibilities. By its nature, such a comparative inquiry pulls for relativist reasoning, but such an approach undermines the universalism that is at the root of the concept of human rights. Like the international human rights instruments that preceded it, the Convent…
Mandated reporting
Building Humane Communities Respectful of Children
The greatest promise of international human rights law is in stimulating thoughtful self-examination by those who strive to do what is right. Perhaps more than any other instrument, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC; 1989) offers the opportunity to use a global moral consensus to transform life at the neighborhood level in order to promote "the full and harmonious development of...[the child's] personality" (CRC, 1989, preamble). The…
Mental health and social justice
If the American Orthopsychiatric Association is to prosper, it must follow a vision grounded in its historic concern with social justice, relevant to contemporary concerns, and pursued through the expertise of its members. Such a vision may lie in a 3-part agenda: (a) a psychologically-minded analysis of, and advocacy for, human rights: (b) attention to mental health concerns in the work of the Washington Group of international agencies; and (c) …
Parents and children
Multisystemic therapy with violent and chronic juvenile offenders and their families
The child's right to a family environment
Avoiding heterosexist bias in psychological research
Socialization in the global community
The overriding concern in the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is dignity. Such a value is consistent with both evolving international law on human rights and the developing psychological perspective on jurisprudence. Respect for the dignity of children is consonant with pro
Building Humane Communities Respectful of Children
The greatest promise of international human rights law is in stimulating thoughtful self-examination by those who strive to do what is right. Perhaps more than any other instrument, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC; 1989) offers the opportunity to use a global moral consensus to transform life at the neighborhood level in order to promote "the full and harmonious development of...[the child's] personality" (CRC, 1989, preamble). The…
Beyond Balancing
Discussions of children's rights often are framed in terms of balancing—balancing parents' and children's rights, balancing rights to autonomy and protection, balancing rights and responsibilities. By its nature, such a comparative inquiry pulls for relativist reasoning, but such an approach undermines the universalism that is at the root of the concept of human rights. Like the international human rights instruments that preceded it, the Convent…
Ethical Judgments Amid Uncertainty
Parents and children
Psychologists' involvement in cases of child maltreatment
Doing Justice and Doing Good
The primary role of mental health professionals in cases of child abuse should be to treat the victims and the offenders. Currently, however, mental health professionals are often involved in the investigation and adjudication of child sexual abuse claims. This article discusses the conceptual and practical conflicts this involvement creates with the mental health professional's therapeutic role. The author concludes that mental health profession…
Child Witnesses and the First Amendment
There have been a number of recent proposals for procedural reforms to protect child victims in their role as witnesses. The Supreme Court's decision in Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court suggests both the constitutional limits of these reforms and some circumstances in which social‐science evidence in unlikely to be given weight by the judiciary. Globe is particularly interesting with respect to the latter issue because its judgment appeared …
More on mainstreaming
Children’s rights
This paper argues that the assumption that parents and children have coextensive interests is sometimes erroneous. It is suggested that children's participation in decisions concerning them is ethically and legally permitted, or even demanded, in some situations. Initial research on children's concepts of their rights and their perception of their quality of life is reviewed
Toward "personhood" for adolescents
Toward "personhood" for adolescents
Child Witnesses and the First Amendment
There have been a number of recent proposals for procedural reforms to protect child victims in their role as witnesses. The Supreme Court's decision in Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court suggests both the constitutional limits of these reforms and some circumstances in which social‐science evidence in unlikely to be given weight by the judiciary. Globe is particularly interesting with respect to the latter issue because its judgment appeared …
Populism, school prayer, and the courts
Popular majorities often believe that their values should be taught in the schools. A paradox of educational purpose arises when liberal democratic ideals require that such values not be taught
Psychologists as law professors
The clashing of symbols
Empirical studies of ethical issues in research
Legal regulation of adolescent abortion
Adolescent abortion
Child protection and society
Legal regulation of adolescent abortion
Empirical studies of ethical issues in research
Psychologists as law professors
The clashing of symbols
Adolescent abortion
Child protection and society
Bringing psychology to the legal system
Bringing psychology to the legal system
Fear, prejudice, and neglect
The Adolescent Dilemma
This reference book provides information on the family planning rights of minors in eleven countries in North America and Western Europe. The Adolescent Dilemma covers a minor's legal rights to abortion services and birth control. In addition, this comprehensive resource discusses sex education, sexual behavior, and the nature and extent of contraceptive practices. The introduction presents a framework for discussing minors' rights and the conclu…
Adolescent Abortion
Community consultation in socially sensitive research
Ethical and legal issues in Aids-related practice
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