John S Wodarski
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 76346 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John S Wodarski |
| NOMBRES | John S |
| APELLIDO | Wodarski |
| FIRMA | WODARSKI J S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Georgia |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Voices of First Nations People
Using the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Evidence-Based Practice Kits in Social Work Education
In today's climate, it is becoming increasingly important to provide social work students with practice knowledge on research-supported social work interventions. CSWE has placed greater emphasis on using research-based knowledge to inform and guide social work practice, and the field has recognized the value of adhering to the evidence-based practice model in all facets of social work practice. It is at this juncture when social work educators a…
Understanding Suicide
Rogers, James R., & Lester, David. Understanding Suicide: Why We Don't and How We Might. Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe Publishing, (200 pp., $49.00, ISBN: 987-0-88937-359-4). I like to use three criteria
Application of E-Therapy Programs to the Social Work Practice
The many applications of the use of e-therapy in social work practice are reviewed. Salient issues regarding technological interventions, including ethical dilemmas, are elucidated. Applications discussed include the use of this evidence-based technology in treatment of substance abuse, anxiety disorders, depression, and other mental health diagnoses. Most significantly, e-therapy provides means of reaching 85% of clients who need services yet do…
Social Group Work Practice
As treatments for different client groups have evolved, group therapy has grown in popularity. Evidence-based practices have expanded their range to the treatment of different clientele and specifi
Reinforcement-Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Tuten, L. M., Jones, H. E., Schaeffer, C. M. & Stitzer, M. L. (2011). Reinforcement-based treatment for substance use disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (293 pp., $69.95
The Social Work Practice Research Conundrum
Significant research continues to evolve in social work. However, few of these efforts address the factorial complexity of the phenomena that social work addresses. This manuscript deals with those complexities in terms of homogeneous interventions for heterogeneous clients; the intricacies of human behavior change, the comparative differences between behavioral cognitive therapy and medications for clients with depression; concerns regarding the…
Evidence Based and Knowledge Based Social Work – Research Methods and Approaches in Social Work Research – Edited by Inge M. Bryderup
The Importance of Education, Understanding, and Empirical Research in Social Work
Over the past three decades, existing literature has demanded, and continues to demand, accountability in the delivery of social services through empirically based research and implementation of established norms: this is, and of itself, the true basis of social work. It is through these norms and empirically established models and theories of treatment that a social worker can really do what he/she wants to do: help the client. This article will…
Prevention of Adolescent Reoccurring Violence and Alcohol Abuse
Prevention of Adolescent Reoccurring Violence and Alcohol Abuse: A Multiple Site Evaluation" is a multiple component alcohol abuse and violent behavior prevention strategy, targeted to adolescents ages 16-21 who have high levels of anger, or who are victims/perpetrators of violence, and their families. Three community centers located in upstate New York provided group participants (N = 210) known to have conduct disorder and substance abuse histo…
Psychosocial Correlates of Methamphetamine Use
Methamphetamine (MA) abuse is a devastating problem that has been sweeping the United States from west to east and has reached epidemic proportion in many areas. Literature on the drug itself, its history, and its effects are reviewed. The current project aimed to examine the psychosocial correlates of MA use using Hudson's Multi-Problem Screening Inventory (MPSI). The MPSI was given to a control group consisting of undergraduate social work stud…
Psychosocial Factors That Contribute to HIV/Aids Risk Behaviors Among Young Black College Women
African American women are disproportionately burdened by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Though African Americans represent only 12% of the population in the United States, more than 54% of HIV-positive women in the United States are of African American descent (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2003 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Update: Critical need to pay atte…
A Differential Analysis of Criminal Behavior among African-American and Caucasian Female Juvenile Delinquents
This study examined how social control factors might contribute to criminal offenses among African-American and Caucasian adolescent females using Hirschi's 1969 model of social control. Secondary data was used from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN). Data were used for African-American and Caucasian girls from Wave I, resulting in a sample of 837. The results indicated that there was a statistically significant rel…
Life and Social Skills
Some abuse survivors from closed systems need to learn life and social skills not taught within traditional programs. We begin this article by reviewing categories of skills training provided by most programs. Then we list skills that the survivors may also need to develop. Next, we encourage the incorporation of the strengths perspective to help clients redefine certain skills they had developed in the past. Further, we emphasize using a non-jud…
Social Service Research
This article and each of the articles in this journal discuss general social service research applications with different populations at risk. While sharing much in common with respect to many of the technical characteristics of the research process, each of these articles was selected through a peer-review process because of its applicability to the field. Understanding phenomena requires an openness and exposure to a complex array of methods de…
Principles for Organizational Change in Human Service Agencies
Human service agencies are facing profound changes as a result of variations in current societal political, social and environmental forces. This paper provides a review of the literature on organizational change in an effort to determine which strategies are most successful in facilitating this process and achieving desired results within agencies. Models, methods and approaches are discussed. Five principles to increase success in organizationa…
A Curriculum for Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Consensus has not been reached regarding the content of human behavior in the social environment (HBSE) courses in schools of social work. Changes in the CSWE Education Policy and Accreditation Standards reflect, in part, the needs of the people social workers serve and the tools necessary to properly equip social workers in that pursuit. While considering the degree of dissension and change within the academic environment, theories of interventi…
Adolescent Preventive Health and Teams-Games-Tournaments
The problematic behaviors of teenagers and the subsequent negative consequences are extensive and well documented: unwanted pregnancy, substance abuse, violent behavior, depression, and social and psychological consequences of unemployment. In this article the authors review an approach that uses a cooperative learning, empirically-based intervention that employs peers as teachers. This intervention of choice is Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT), a p…
Adolescent Substance Use
U.S. youths continue to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs at alarmingly high rates despite a temporary downward trend in the 1980s. Among an average 500,000 individuals affected annually by substance use, youths (ages 12 to 18) rank as one of the highest groups in morbidity and mortality rates, resulting in many negative consequences. As a result the effectiveness of many prevention strategies has been called into question. This article revie…
Children's Psychological Response to Parental Victimization
This study found that African American children, 6 through 12 years of age, whose parents had been victims of community violence (i.e., gunshot or stabbing) experienced distress symptoms differently, depending on their gender. In the authors' previous work (Dulmus & Wodarski, 2000), children, age 6-12, whose parents were victims of community violence (e.g., gunshot, stabbing), and whose victimization the children did not witness, were found to be…
A Comparison of an Assessment/Information-Based Group versus an Assessment-Only Group
The use/abuse of alcohol leading to impaired driving, accidents and even fatalities is a major social concern. National data sets demonstrate that college students abuse alcohol. This research paper outlines a program designed to reduce levels of drinking and presents a format for evaluating its effectiveness. An experimental study (n = 55) was conducted to examine drinking patterns among full-time college students at four-year institutions to ob…
Behavioral Medicine Paradigm
Physical problems are often related to lifestyle and an individual's interaction with the environment (Raines & Erickson, 1997). The behavioral medicine paradigm depends upon careful analysis of all of these factors in relation to disease etiology and maintenance of health (Pinkerton. Hughes, & Wenrich, 1982). Social work is a field with unlimited job opportunities, no longer limited to mental health and case work. In terms of behavioral medicine…
Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Healing
This article discusses a biopsychosocial model that explains health as the interactions of the person's genetic and psychological make-up with the environment. Along the lines of a multi-focused theory, the psychological influences of the mind on the body are treated with a multidisciplinary approach including medicine, psychology, sociology, social work and religion. An introduction to the history of the mind/body connection is presented based o…
Social Alienation in Gay Youth
The focus of this article is twofold; first, to review known risk factors for gay youth including: substance abuse, depression, suicide, and HIV risks, secondly, to determine the impact of social support factors; specifically parental, peer and religious support factors for this population. Evidence suggests that gay and lesbian youth are at high risk for isolation and subsequent psychological damage that results from social alienation. Insight i…
Comorbid Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
Literature concerning assessment and treatment of comorbid substance abuse and mental illness is reviewed. Currently, comorbidity is under-diagnosed and dually diagnosed clients are under-served. Those clients, who are so diagnosed, are most often offered dichotomous parallel or serial interventions. However, research suggests that an integrated approach is preferable. Enhanced training of mental health and substance abuse professionals is urgent…
Maltreatment and the School-Age Child
Studies of the impact of abuse or neglect on children have focused largely on maltreated infants, toddlers, or preschool children and on single subsystems of development. In the study described in this article, 139 school-age and adolescent children who had been physically abused, who had been neglected, and who had no prior history of maltreatment participated in a multimodal, multisource assessment. The authors used parent and child interviews,…
Social Alienation in Gay Youth
The focus of this article is twofold; first, to review known risk factors for gay youth including: substance abuse, depression, suicide, and HIV risks, secondly, to determine the impact of social support factors; specifically parental, peer and religious support factors for this population. Evidence suggests that gay and lesbian youth are at high risk for isolation and subsequent psychological damage that results from social alienation. Insight i…
The consequences of physical abuse and neglect on the school age child
Effective Interventions to Ameliorate the Incidence of Child Maltreatment
The effectiveness of interventions currently utilized with abusive and neglectful families still is largely in question. Recent evidence often suggests that intervention generally is unsuccessful However, this review of the literature shows that certain interventions have been found effective in treating physical abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse. Interventions appear most successful when more than one is provided to a family and when intervention…
The Social Work Practice Research Conundrum
Significant research continues to evolve in social work. However, few of these efforts address the factorial complexity of the phenomena that social work addresses. This manuscript deals with those complexities in terms of homogeneous interventions for heterogeneous clients; the intricacies of human behavior change, the comparative differences between behavioral cognitive therapy and medications for clients with depression; concerns regarding the…
A Curriculum for Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Consensus has not been reached regarding the content of human behavior in the social environment (HBSE) courses in schools of social work. Changes in the CSWE Education Policy and Accreditation Standards reflect, in part, the needs of the people social workers serve and the tools necessary to properly equip social workers in that pursuit. While considering the degree of dissension and change within the academic environment, theories of interventi…
Adolescent Substance Use
U.S. youths continue to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs at alarmingly high rates despite a temporary downward trend in the 1980s. Among an average 500,000 individuals affected annually by substance use, youths (ages 12 to 18) rank as one of the highest groups in morbidity and mortality rates, resulting in many negative consequences. As a result the effectiveness of many prevention strategies has been called into question. This article revie…
Promoting Research Productivity Among University Faculty
This article presents data from the evaluation of a multicomponent intervention to change the research productivity at 1 of the 50 largest universities in the country. The components include development of a more adequate information exchange system, a systematic approach to securing funds, grants seminars, indirect cost returns, unplanned research expenditures, and other support activities. The creation and maintenance of a positive culture for …
Work and Welfare
Policy development and research trends—as they relate to work, welfare, and AFDC—are reviewed in this article. The authors examine the persistence over time of the values of capitalism, liberalism, and positivism, which have resulted in the work ethic and influenced the nature of AFDC. They outline a research agenda to counter the influence of these values and further the development of a child support system more relevant to the present needs of…
Human Behavior Theory
This manuscript addresses emerging trends and issues in human behavior theory with special reference to the relevance of these trends to social work practice. Specific items addressed are: gender and ethnic racial variables, biological variables, life span development, cognitive variables, learning theory, group level variables, exchange theory, macro level variables and the labeling and perceptual process
The relationship between social support and health status of elderly people
Journal Article The relationship between social support and health status of elderly people: Does social support slow down physical and functional deterioration? Get access Namkee G. Choi, Namkee G. Choi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John S. Wodarski John S. Wodarski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 20, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 52–63,…
Social Learning Theory
Social work education thoroughly grounded in contemporary social learning theory would provide a comprehensive approach to understanding human behavior, teaching social work practice, conducting social work research, analyzing and developing social welfare policy, and guiding the field practicum. At present, the role of social learning theory in social work education is grossly underused. This article describes how social learning principles can …
Psychosocial Factors That Contribute to HIV/Aids Risk Behaviors Among Young Black College Women
African American women are disproportionately burdened by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Though African Americans represent only 12% of the population in the United States, more than 54% of HIV-positive women in the United States are of African American descent (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2003 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Update: Critical need to pay atte…
Differential uses for BSW and MSW educated social workers in child welfare services
Prevention of Adolescent Reoccurring Violence and Alcohol Abuse
Prevention of Adolescent Reoccurring Violence and Alcohol Abuse: A Multiple Site Evaluation" is a multiple component alcohol abuse and violent behavior prevention strategy, targeted to adolescents ages 16-21 who have high levels of anger, or who are victims/perpetrators of violence, and their families. Three community centers located in upstate New York provided group participants (N = 210) known to have conduct disorder and substance abuse histo…
Principles for Organizational Change in Human Service Agencies
Human service agencies are facing profound changes as a result of variations in current societal political, social and environmental forces. This paper provides a review of the literature on organizational change in an effort to determine which strategies are most successful in facilitating this process and achieving desired results within agencies. Models, methods and approaches are discussed. Five principles to increase success in organizationa…
Guidelines for Building Research Centers in Schools of Social Work
The last decade has witnessed growing efforts among schools of social work to improve their stature through research productivity. Research centers play a significant role in this quest through the provision of the following: a personalized approach to securing funding, grants seminars, grant and management critiques, a personalized system of networking, and provision of other types of support. Guidelines for the initiation and management of soci…
Teaching Adolescents About Alcohol and Driving
Previously reported data have demonstrated the effectiveness of the Teams, Games, Tournaments (TGT) alcohol education program. This article presents a 2-year follow-up of the effects of the TGT program as compared to the traditional instruction and no-instruction control groups. Follow-up data indicate that the TGT students maintained previous positive changes. Applications of this primary prevention program to social work practice are discussed
Reagan's AFDC Policy Changes
The authors present a study of 207 employed AFDC recipients whose benefits were terminated or reduced by 1981 federal policy changes. Findings report respondents' source of income, household characteristics, employment history, expense patterns, child care, coping and social support strategies, health and health care, and psychosocial outlook on life. The article concludes with the implications of the data on past and for future policy decisions …
Procedures for the Maintenance and Generalization of Achieved Behavioral Change
Procedures for the maintenance and generalization of achieved behavioral change in anti-social adolescents are reviewed. A review of follow-up studies which provides the rationale for the incorporation of such procedures in practice is initially elaborated. Specific items discussed are possible avenues to the maintenance and generalization of behavior: social networks, peers, and parents; training socially relevant behaviors; changing the conditi…
Bureaucratic constraints and methodological adaptations in community‐based research
Using the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Evidence-Based Practice Kits in Social Work Education
In today's climate, it is becoming increasingly important to provide social work students with practice knowledge on research-supported social work interventions. CSWE has placed greater emphasis on using research-based knowledge to inform and guide social work practice, and the field has recognized the value of adhering to the evidence-based practice model in all facets of social work practice. It is at this juncture when social work educators a…
Application of E-Therapy Programs to the Social Work Practice
The many applications of the use of e-therapy in social work practice are reviewed. Salient issues regarding technological interventions, including ethical dilemmas, are elucidated. Applications discussed include the use of this evidence-based technology in treatment of substance abuse, anxiety disorders, depression, and other mental health diagnoses. Most significantly, e-therapy provides means of reaching 85% of clients who need services yet do…
Adolescent Preventive Health and Teams-Games-Tournaments
The problematic behaviors of teenagers and the subsequent negative consequences are extensive and well documented: unwanted pregnancy, substance abuse, violent behavior, depression, and social and psychological consequences of unemployment. In this article the authors review an approach that uses a cooperative learning, empirically-based intervention that employs peers as teachers. This intervention of choice is Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT), a p…
Children's Psychological Response to Parental Victimization
This study found that African American children, 6 through 12 years of age, whose parents had been victims of community violence (i.e., gunshot or stabbing) experienced distress symptoms differently, depending on their gender. In the authors' previous work (Dulmus & Wodarski, 2000), children, age 6-12, whose parents were victims of community violence (e.g., gunshot, stabbing), and whose victimization the children did not witness, were found to be…
Delinquency Theories, Group Composition, Treatment Locus, and a Service-Research Model for 'Traditional' Social Work Agencies
Rehabilitative endeavors within correctional institutions have failed because of overpopulation, high costs, labelling and stigmatization of inmates, low transferability of treatment changes to the outside community, and deviant peer group composition. Community treatment programs have fared little better because they also entail client stigmatization and typically are conducted within the context of deviant peer groups. Consequently, in order to…
The Research Practicum
Bureaucratic constraints and methodological adaptations in community‐based research
The Application of Various Behaviour Modification Techniques To Social Work Practice
Client Costs and Early Discontinuance from a Community-Based Treatment Program
In social work circles client withdrawal from a treatment program commonly has been labeled as "discontinuance". Discontinuance rates have been inordinately high for both casework and group work endeavors, ranging in some instances to 59Z of all clients following the first interview (Aronson and Overall, 1966; Empey and Erickson, 1972; Goldstein, Heller, and Sechrest, 1966; Levinger, 1960; Overall and Aronson, 1963). Discontinuance represents an …
The Application of Cognitive Behaviour Modification Techniques to Social Work Practice
Antisocial children in a summer camp environment
Issues in Evaluative Research
Various issues in evaluative research are reviewed according to their relevance for the evaluation of social work practice. Specific items discussed are: plausible studies, what should be changed and why, the change agent, criteria for positive assessment, traditional research designs, time-series designs, organizational aspects of research, researchers vs clinicians, researcher's distance from populations served, incentives for research, and the…
Inter-agency referrals and the establishment of a community-based treatment program
Based upon a treatment program involving the referral of more than 400 "antisocial" children to a community agency, common problems associated with inter-agency referral processes are discussed. The efficacy of selected inter-agency referral processes (computation, bargaining, judgment, and inspiration) are examined. Causes of misreferrals also are discussed. These include those generated separately by the host agency and by the donor agency and …
Integrating Antisocial Children into Prosocial Groups at Summer Camp
This manuscript reviews the results of a three-year project involving the integration of twenty-nine antisocial children, as defined by professionals using a variety of measures, into a summer camp primarily composed of prosocial children. Each year a selected number of children was integrated into prosocial groups. Behavioral measurements were derived for all three years and for both antisocial and prosocial children. These yielded mean proporti…
The Application of Behavior Modification Technology to the Alleviation of Selected Social Problems
The application of behavior modification technology to the alleviation of various social problems is reviewed. Specific items discussed are: energy consumption, pollution control, token economies, architectural control of behavior, welfare, worker performance, social action, crime, and social integration. Where relevant, specific studies are summarized. Future developments and implications for social work practice are reviewed briefly
Requisites for the Establishment, Implementation, and Evaluation of Social Work Treatment Programs for Anti-Social Children
Requisites for the establishment, implementation and evaluation of social work treatment programs for anti-social children are reviewed. Specific items discussed are: how does one ascertain the level at which change efforts should be directed, i.e., individual, group, organizational, or societal; what is the appropriate context for behavioral change; who should act as the change agent; what characteristics should the worker possess; what are the …
Procedures for the Maintenance and Generalization of Achieved Behavioral Change
Procedures for the maintenance and generalization of achieved behavioral change in anti-social adolescents are reviewed. A review of follow-up studies which provides the rationale for the incorporation of such procedures in practice is initially elaborated. Specific items discussed are possible avenues to the maintenance and generalization of behavior: social networks, peers, and parents; training socially relevant behaviors; changing the conditi…
Deinstitutionalization
The manuscript reviews the social, legal, and political background of the deinstitutionalization movement, reviews successful programs for deinstitutionalized chronic mental patients in the major problem areas of socialization skills training, supportive living, interventions with families, vocational rehabilitation, and medication monitoring. Problems which prevent the successful replication of these programs in rural areas, such as differing ch…
Variables Influencing Publication in the Field of Social Work
The manuscript presents a descriptive summary of variables influencing professional publication in four major journals: Social Work, Social Service Review, Social Casework and Clinical Social Work Journal. Data were drawn from a random sampling of the years 1960 to 1976. The following descriptive variables were analyzed: degree, sex, occupation, organizational affiliation, and geographic location of author; topic of article; and single VS multipl…
Establishing and Maintaining a Research Center
The manuscript elaborates the historical sequence of events and decisions involved in the establishment and maintenance of a research center in a school of social work. Functions of the research center in the school of social work are reviewed in terms of securing grants, research consultation for faculty and students, curriculum offerings and research opportunities for students and faculty. Requisites of maintaining the center are discussed. Spe…
Clinical Practice and the Social Learning Paradigm
If personality theories no longer provide satisfactory frame-works for conceptualizing clinical social work, where can practitioners turn for useful substitutes? The author proposes that the behavioral exchange model in learning theory offers the unique advantage of focusing on the reciprocal influence of both worker and client
The St. Louis Conundrum
Work and Welfare
Policy development and research trends—as they relate to work, welfare, and AFDC—are reviewed in this article. The authors examine the persistence over time of the values of capitalism, liberalism, and positivism, which have resulted in the work ethic and influenced the nature of AFDC. They outline a research agenda to counter the influence of these values and further the development of a child support system more relevant to the present needs of…
Assessing Social Agency Functions
The assessment of general agency functions is the focus of this manuscript. Initially inventories that may be utilized in the assessment of the relevance and quality of services provided are reviewed. Next, cost benefit analysis is addressed in terms of helping social workers estimate the cost of services provided. The manuscript concludes with a discussion of the issues involved in general agency assessment
Reagan's AFDC Policy Changes
The authors present a study of 207 employed AFDC recipients whose benefits were terminated or reduced by 1981 federal policy changes. Findings report respondents' source of income, household characteristics, employment history, expense patterns, child care, coping and social support strategies, health and health care, and psychosocial outlook on life. The article concludes with the implications of the data on past and for future policy decisions …
Adolescent Suicide
Journal Article Adolescent Suicide: A Review of Influences and the Means for Prevention Get access John S. Wodarski, John S. Wodarski John S. Wodarski, PhD, is Director, Research Center, and Professor, School of Social Work, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. Pamela Harris is Research Assistant, Research Center, School of Social Work, University of Georgia. Preparation of this article was supported through the Office of the Vice President f…
Evaluating a Social Learning Approach to Teaching Adolescents About Alcohol and Driving
The variables influencing adolcscent drinking and its consequences are reviewed. A unique educational technique, "Teams-Games-Tournaments," is described in relation to its utility for teaching adolescents about alcohol use and misuse. The implementation and components of the evaluation of the comprehensive program are detailed
Aftercare Treatment for Schizophrenics Living at Home
The authors review aftercare for schizophrenic individuals who have been discharged as a result of deinstitutionalization. The article focuses on the nature of the problems caused by deinstitutionalization, the professional response, various aftercare milieus, family treatment modalities, and the clinical process. Psychoeducational interventions and professionally guided self-help groups are recommended for the parents and spouses of schizophreni…
Teenage parents on welfare
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