Terri Combs‐orme
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4883161 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Terri Combs‐orme |
| NOMBRES | Terri |
| APELLIDO | Combs‐orme |
| FIRMA | ORME T C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Rural Appalachia
As the United States faces the repercussions of the current opioid epidemic, it is important for social workers to be able to identify risks for poor birth outcomes in infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Although some studies have identified single risk factors, no studies have tested associations between total amount of risk (that is, cumulative risk) and birth outcomes in infants with NAS. Authors examined 318 mothers who used opio…
Trauma and Gene Expression
Over 60% of trained social workers provide mental health services in their practices, and in all these settings clients are likely to have experienced trauma influencing their current circumstances, including childhood maltreatment and neglect. The 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences Study has heightened interest in the long-term effects of trauma, especially early in life. Research has shown that our experiences influence our genes’ activity thro…
Epigenetics Revisioned
The recent article by White and Wastell (2016) poses important questions for the social work profession as we move to integrate scientific knowledge about epigenetics into our knowledge base, arguing that it is too soon to adopt this knowledge and posing ethical questions. In this reply, I take an approach that is more optimistic than that of White and Wastell, emphasising the reversibility of gene expression changes and the importance of social …
Understanding human behavior
Much of our understanding of human behavior and development has a foundation in animal research. However, many social workers do not have experience in biological research methods and therefore may not understand how and why this research is employed, or how it has benefited our practice. The purpose of this manuscript is to (1) discuss the ethical issues involved in research with non-humans; (2) briefly summarize the history, benefits, and limit…
Neuroscience in the HBSE Sequence
Important findings from neuroscience research provide valuable knowledge for social work practice, and although these findings are already being incorporated into practice in many other disciplines, social work has been slow to integrate this content into foundation professional education. This article describes how one social work program incorporated this knowledge into Human Behavior in the Social Environment courses, noting both challenges an…
Foster parenting together
Foster parenting together
Early Brain Development for Social Work Practice
2013). Early Brain Development for Social Work Practice: Integrating Neuroscience with Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 640-647
Epigenetics and the Social Work Imperative
Epigenesis is the biochemical process through which some genes are expressed and others remain silent, and it reinforces and explains the powerful impact that the environment has on human development. Epigenetic effects occur not only through diet, chemical exposure, and high levels of environmental stress, but also through chronic poverty and racism. Epigenesis provides a mandate for social workers to intervene at the policy level, both for toda…
Fathers and Their Infants
Despite social work's expressed interest in families and belief in the importance of parents to children, social work researchers have done little to explore the importance of fathers in children's everyday lives. This is especially true for infants. Moreover, as more and more infants and children grow up in single-mother homes, step-families, and other family configurations, knowledge is needed about how these demographic trends affect parents' …
Resilient Parenting
Journal Article Resilient Parenting: Overcoming Poor Parental Bonding Get access Wendy J. Travis, PhD, LCSW, Wendy J. Travis, PhD, LCSW behavioral health flight commander Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, GA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Terri Combs-Orme, PhD Terri Combs-Orme, PhD professor University of Tennessee, 204 Henson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other wor…
Family Structure Effects on Parenting Stress and Practices in the African American Family
The predominant approach to African-American parenting research focuses on disadvantages associated with single parenthood to the exclusion of other issues. The current research suggests that this does not represent the diversity in family structure configurations among African-American families, nor does it give voice to the parenting resilience of single mothers. We argue that rather than marital status or family configuration, more attention n…
Detecting and Statistically Correcting Sample Selection Bias
Researchers seldom realize 100% participation for any research study. If participants and non-participants are systematically different, substantive results may be biased in unknown ways, and external or internal validity may be compromised. Typically social work researchers use bivariate tests to detect selection bias (e.g., χ2 to compare the race of participants and non-participants). Occasionally multiple regression methods are used (e.g., log…
Protecting Children from Chemical Exposure
Evidence suggests that the combinations of over 70,000 to 75,000 chemicals in air, land, water, and food to which children are exposed daily are instrumental in increasing the rates and severity of preventable childhood illness from asthma, leukemia, and other diseases. This article defines chemical contamination and reviews data regarding the ubiquity of toxic chemicals in the United States. It describes major risk pathways to fetuses and childr…
Risk for child maltreatment
Using the CBCL to determine the clinical status of children in state custody
Services for child maltreatment
Assessment of troubled families
Competent assessment is critical for effective social work intervention with dysfunctional families. Yet it is not uncommon for social workers to conduct assessments without getting the perspectives of all family members or to use methods without proven reliability and validity. In this study, we tested the utility of a package of four standardized instruments as part of assessments of 105 families who sought services in a juvenile corrections se…
Health Care Utilization by Children Entering Foster Care
This is a study of the referral completion status of a cohort of children entering foster care, and the ability of selected factors to explain the completion of those referrals. It was found that although the children had multiple health problems their needs continued to go unmet. Two variables that accounted for 9% of the variance in referral completion were identified. The implications of these findings are discussed and issues for additional i…
Predicting Birth Weight
This study uses the 1980 National Natality Study to examine the relative importance of sociodemographic factors, medical-risk factors, and prenatal care in predicting birth weight. Findings indicate that both sociodemographic and medical-risk factors are important in predicting birth weight, with medical risks accounting for slightly more variance (after accounting for social variables) in birth weight. Although prenatal care accounts for only 1 …
America's Health Care System
Because of the dominance of the private sector in health care in the United States, health conditions are not as susceptible to changes in public policy as they are in other Western countries. however, the elderly and young children are directly affected by the federal government's health care policies and while both groups were the focus of major changes introduced by the Reagan administration, these changes were opposed buy Congress. Neverthele…
Loglinear Analysis in Social Work Research
Loglinear analysis is a method of statistical analysis that is used when all the variables of interest are categorical. The method has had wide use in the social sciences, but has not been used extensively in social work research. Loglinear analysis has several advantages over less appropriate methods that tend to be used frequently in social work research. Among the most important of those advantages is the capability of accounting for multicoll…
Utilization of health care by foster children
Reliability and Validity of the Protective Services Questionnaire (PSQ)
A reliable and valid objective measure of child welfare knowledge would be a valuable contribution to child welfare practice and to the social work profession. The current article examines the reliability and validity of the Protective Services Questionnaire (PSQ), a putative measure of knowledge of child welfare. Results indicate that the measure is generally reliable, and in some respects its convergent validity is promising, but its factorial …
Infant Mortality and Social Work
Although it is not widely known, social workers have had a substantial part in the impressive reduction in infant mortality achieved in the United States during this century. This article reviews that contribution, noting a decline in interest in infant mortality in the profession beginning in the 1950s. Recent trends are noted that seem to suggest a renewal in the profession's interest in this important subject
Using the CBCL to determine the clinical status of children in state custody
Epigenetics and the Social Work Imperative
Epigenesis is the biochemical process through which some genes are expressed and others remain silent, and it reinforces and explains the powerful impact that the environment has on human development. Epigenetic effects occur not only through diet, chemical exposure, and high levels of environmental stress, but also through chronic poverty and racism. Epigenesis provides a mandate for social workers to intervene at the policy level, both for toda…
Services for child maltreatment
Health Care Utilization by Children Entering Foster Care
This is a study of the referral completion status of a cohort of children entering foster care, and the ability of selected factors to explain the completion of those referrals. It was found that although the children had multiple health problems their needs continued to go unmet. Two variables that accounted for 9% of the variance in referral completion were identified. The implications of these findings are discussed and issues for additional i…
Family Structure Effects on Parenting Stress and Practices in the African American Family
The predominant approach to African-American parenting research focuses on disadvantages associated with single parenthood to the exclusion of other issues. The current research suggests that this does not represent the diversity in family structure configurations among African-American families, nor does it give voice to the parenting resilience of single mothers. We argue that rather than marital status or family configuration, more attention n…
Detecting and Statistically Correcting Sample Selection Bias
Researchers seldom realize 100% participation for any research study. If participants and non-participants are systematically different, substantive results may be biased in unknown ways, and external or internal validity may be compromised. Typically social work researchers use bivariate tests to detect selection bias (e.g., χ2 to compare the race of participants and non-participants). Occasionally multiple regression methods are used (e.g., log…
Fathers and Their Infants
Despite social work's expressed interest in families and belief in the importance of parents to children, social work researchers have done little to explore the importance of fathers in children's everyday lives. This is especially true for infants. Moreover, as more and more infants and children grow up in single-mother homes, step-families, and other family configurations, knowledge is needed about how these demographic trends affect parents' …
Infant Mortality and Social Work
Although it is not widely known, social workers have had a substantial part in the impressive reduction in infant mortality achieved in the United States during this century. This article reviews that contribution, noting a decline in interest in infant mortality in the profession beginning in the 1950s. Recent trends are noted that seem to suggest a renewal in the profession's interest in this important subject
Foster parenting together
Protecting Children from Chemical Exposure
Evidence suggests that the combinations of over 70,000 to 75,000 chemicals in air, land, water, and food to which children are exposed daily are instrumental in increasing the rates and severity of preventable childhood illness from asthma, leukemia, and other diseases. This article defines chemical contamination and reviews data regarding the ubiquity of toxic chemicals in the United States. It describes major risk pathways to fetuses and childr…
Understanding human behavior
Much of our understanding of human behavior and development has a foundation in animal research. However, many social workers do not have experience in biological research methods and therefore may not understand how and why this research is employed, or how it has benefited our practice. The purpose of this manuscript is to (1) discuss the ethical issues involved in research with non-humans; (2) briefly summarize the history, benefits, and limit…
Foster parenting together
Utilization of health care by foster children
Neuroscience in the HBSE Sequence
Important findings from neuroscience research provide valuable knowledge for social work practice, and although these findings are already being incorporated into practice in many other disciplines, social work has been slow to integrate this content into foundation professional education. This article describes how one social work program incorporated this knowledge into Human Behavior in the Social Environment courses, noting both challenges an…
Early Brain Development for Social Work Practice
2013). Early Brain Development for Social Work Practice: Integrating Neuroscience with Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 640-647
Resilient Parenting
Journal Article Resilient Parenting: Overcoming Poor Parental Bonding Get access Wendy J. Travis, PhD, LCSW, Wendy J. Travis, PhD, LCSW behavioral health flight commander Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, GA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Terri Combs-Orme, PhD Terri Combs-Orme, PhD professor University of Tennessee, 204 Henson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other wor…
Risk for child maltreatment
Predicting Birth Weight
This study uses the 1980 National Natality Study to examine the relative importance of sociodemographic factors, medical-risk factors, and prenatal care in predicting birth weight. Findings indicate that both sociodemographic and medical-risk factors are important in predicting birth weight, with medical risks accounting for slightly more variance (after accounting for social variables) in birth weight. Although prenatal care accounts for only 1 …
Differential mortality among alcoholics by sample site
In a sample of 1,289 alcoholics from four clinical sites, the overall mortality rate after five to eight years of observation was 22.0 per cent, 3.1 times the expected rate. Patients from the medical and surgical services of a general hospital suffered 4.0 times the rate of expected mortality and died most often of medical causes associated with alcoholism. Patients of the public alcoholism ward had a mortality rate 3.3 times the expected rate an…
Differential mortality among alcoholics by sample site
In a sample of 1,289 alcoholics from four clinical sites, the overall mortality rate after five to eight years of observation was 22.0 per cent, 3.1 times the expected rate. Patients from the medical and surgical services of a general hospital suffered 4.0 times the rate of expected mortality and died most often of medical causes associated with alcoholism. Patients of the public alcoholism ward had a mortality rate 3.3 times the expected rate an…
The Application of Labeling Theory to Alcoholism
As applied to alcoholism, the labeling theory of deviance contends that being labeled by others as an alcoholic results in the acceptance of self-labels, and a self-fulfilling prophecy of alcoholic behavior. This theory was tested in a sample of treated alcoholics who varied in the numbers of alcoholic labels they acknowledged from family members and others. These alcoholics were questioned five to eight years following admission to a treatment f…
Infant Mortality
Despite a clear mandate and pressing social need, the social work profession has not adopted infant mortality as a clear priority in the 1980's. This failure to claim infant mortality as a professional priority occures in spite of evidence that the factors responsible for infant deaths may be especially appropriate for social work interventions. Social work has an important role in the reduction of preventable infant deaths, and many individual s…
Infant Mortality and Social Work
Although it is not widely known, social workers have had a substantial part in the impressive reduction in infant mortality achieved in the United States during this century. This article reviews that contribution, noting a decline in interest in infant mortality in the profession beginning in the 1950s. Recent trends are noted that seem to suggest a renewal in the profession's interest in this important subject
Utilization of health care by foster children
Reliability and Validity of the Protective Services Questionnaire (PSQ)
A reliable and valid objective measure of child welfare knowledge would be a valuable contribution to child welfare practice and to the social work profession. The current article examines the reliability and validity of the Protective Services Questionnaire (PSQ), a putative measure of knowledge of child welfare. Results indicate that the measure is generally reliable, and in some respects its convergent validity is promising, but its factorial …
America's Health Care System
Because of the dominance of the private sector in health care in the United States, health conditions are not as susceptible to changes in public policy as they are in other Western countries. however, the elderly and young children are directly affected by the federal government's health care policies and while both groups were the focus of major changes introduced by the Reagan administration, these changes were opposed buy Congress. Neverthele…
Loglinear Analysis in Social Work Research
Loglinear analysis is a method of statistical analysis that is used when all the variables of interest are categorical. The method has had wide use in the social sciences, but has not been used extensively in social work research. Loglinear analysis has several advantages over less appropriate methods that tend to be used frequently in social work research. Among the most important of those advantages is the capability of accounting for multicoll…
Predicting Birth Weight
This study uses the 1980 National Natality Study to examine the relative importance of sociodemographic factors, medical-risk factors, and prenatal care in predicting birth weight. Findings indicate that both sociodemographic and medical-risk factors are important in predicting birth weight, with medical risks accounting for slightly more variance (after accounting for social variables) in birth weight. Although prenatal care accounts for only 1 …
Health Care Utilization by Children Entering Foster Care
This is a study of the referral completion status of a cohort of children entering foster care, and the ability of selected factors to explain the completion of those referrals. It was found that although the children had multiple health problems their needs continued to go unmet. Two variables that accounted for 9% of the variance in referral completion were identified. The implications of these findings are discussed and issues for additional i…
Assessment of troubled families
Competent assessment is critical for effective social work intervention with dysfunctional families. Yet it is not uncommon for social workers to conduct assessments without getting the perspectives of all family members or to use methods without proven reliability and validity. In this study, we tested the utility of a package of four standardized instruments as part of assessments of 105 families who sought services in a juvenile corrections se…
Services for child maltreatment
Risk for child maltreatment
Using the CBCL to determine the clinical status of children in state custody
Protecting Children from Chemical Exposure
Evidence suggests that the combinations of over 70,000 to 75,000 chemicals in air, land, water, and food to which children are exposed daily are instrumental in increasing the rates and severity of preventable childhood illness from asthma, leukemia, and other diseases. This article defines chemical contamination and reviews data regarding the ubiquity of toxic chemicals in the United States. It describes major risk pathways to fetuses and childr…
Detecting and Statistically Correcting Sample Selection Bias
Researchers seldom realize 100% participation for any research study. If participants and non-participants are systematically different, substantive results may be biased in unknown ways, and external or internal validity may be compromised. Typically social work researchers use bivariate tests to detect selection bias (e.g., χ2 to compare the race of participants and non-participants). Occasionally multiple regression methods are used (e.g., log…
Family Structure Effects on Parenting Stress and Practices in the African American Family
The predominant approach to African-American parenting research focuses on disadvantages associated with single parenthood to the exclusion of other issues. The current research suggests that this does not represent the diversity in family structure configurations among African-American families, nor does it give voice to the parenting resilience of single mothers. We argue that rather than marital status or family configuration, more attention n…
Resilient Parenting
Journal Article Resilient Parenting: Overcoming Poor Parental Bonding Get access Wendy J. Travis, PhD, LCSW, Wendy J. Travis, PhD, LCSW behavioral health flight commander Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, GA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Terri Combs-Orme, PhD Terri Combs-Orme, PhD professor University of Tennessee, 204 Henson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other wor…
Fathers and Their Infants
Despite social work's expressed interest in families and belief in the importance of parents to children, social work researchers have done little to explore the importance of fathers in children's everyday lives. This is especially true for infants. Moreover, as more and more infants and children grow up in single-mother homes, step-families, and other family configurations, knowledge is needed about how these demographic trends affect parents' …
Epigenetics and the Social Work Imperative
Epigenesis is the biochemical process through which some genes are expressed and others remain silent, and it reinforces and explains the powerful impact that the environment has on human development. Epigenetic effects occur not only through diet, chemical exposure, and high levels of environmental stress, but also through chronic poverty and racism. Epigenesis provides a mandate for social workers to intervene at the policy level, both for toda…
Early Brain Development for Social Work Practice
2013). Early Brain Development for Social Work Practice: Integrating Neuroscience with Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 640-647
Foster parenting together
Foster parenting together
Neuroscience in the HBSE Sequence
Important findings from neuroscience research provide valuable knowledge for social work practice, and although these findings are already being incorporated into practice in many other disciplines, social work has been slow to integrate this content into foundation professional education. This article describes how one social work program incorporated this knowledge into Human Behavior in the Social Environment courses, noting both challenges an…
Epigenetics Revisioned
The recent article by White and Wastell (2016) poses important questions for the social work profession as we move to integrate scientific knowledge about epigenetics into our knowledge base, arguing that it is too soon to adopt this knowledge and posing ethical questions. In this reply, I take an approach that is more optimistic than that of White and Wastell, emphasising the reversibility of gene expression changes and the importance of social …
Psychology (22 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Social Work (9 obras) · Psychiatry (8 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (7 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 obras) · Nursing (6 obras)