F Netting
Biographic Data
| ID | 1090404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Netting |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Netting |
| SIGNATURE | NETTING F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9898-7418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Full issue
At the time of this writing, massive wildland fires are burning in California and Oregon in the United States. The largest, the 680,000-plus-acre Dixie Fire, is burning in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Tehama, and Shasta counties in Northern California. The Dixie Fire has become the second largest fire in California's recorded history. It has leveled the town of Greenville, population about 900
Religious and Spiritual Aspects of Human Service Practice
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 2
Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences
Using Prosopography to Raise the Voices of Those Erased in Social Work History
In this article, we introduce prosopography, a valuable historical research method that can be used by feminist social work scholars. While feminists in various fields use this methodology to investigate background characteristics of women in history through collective studies of how they have established relationships and networks to influence change, our review of the literature suggests that it has been little used in social work. We provide a…
The Intersectionality of Religion and Social Welfare
Studying the intersectionality of religion and social welfare in Richmond, Virginia requires going back to the beginning of the Virginia colony. In the crucible of the colony, the religious and social welfare functions of a parish community were one and the same. However, after the Revolutionary War it was just a matter of time before the entire system was disassembled. The process of disentanglement of church and state created an identity crisis…
Voice and Community in the Corporate Academy
This article is the story of the simultaneous feminization and corporatization of universities, themes that emerged in a test of a collective biography, a qualitative research method. Organizers brought together 12 macro social work academic women across generations and, through sampling, attempted to avoid the intergenerational splitting that seems to be leaving junior faculty to be socialized by administrators while simultaneously isolating sen…
Resurrecting Nannie Minor and Orie Hatcher
In this article, we raise two feminists (Minor and Hatcher) from erasure by recognizing the importance of their roles in the development of professional social work education. First, we tell a story of how emerging semiprofessions were intertwined, only to become separate over time. Next we focus on the influence of two feminists who came from other semiprofessions than social work and were instrumental in cocreating a School of Social Work. Mino…
Owners and Pets Exercising Together
Using a prospective, randomized, single-blinded clinical design, we enrolled dog owners (DOs) and their dogs presenting to a veterinary referral hospital in a two-phase trial to determine whether veterinarian-initiated counseling increases physical activity and leads to secondary health benefits for DOs and their dogs. In Phase I, self-reported health measures, height, and weight were assessed for DOs. Body condition scores (BCS) for their dogs w…
Attachment, Social Support, and Perceived Mental Health of Adult Dog Walkers
In part of a larger pilot study of dog walking as a physical activity intervention we assessed levels of attachment, social supports, and perceived mental health of 75 dog owners, identified through a tertiary- care veterinary hospital. Owners completed the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Social Support Survey, mental health component of the Short-Form-12 (SF-12) Health Survey, and the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (LAPS). Of particular interes…
Companion Animals in Obituaries
The benefits of human–animal interaction have been discussed extensively in the literature. In this paper we take a slightly different strategy in documenting that some humans acknowledge the importance of pets by actually referring to them in human obituaries. We begin with a brief overview of the human obituary, followed by the potential for pets as fictive kin to be named as survivors in obituaries. A bi-national, exploratory, content analysis…
Challenges Faced by Staff in Faith-Related Agencies When Dedicated Volunteers Age in Place
This article is based on increasing requests we have received to help staff of faith-related agencies face challenges posed when dedicated volunteers have “aged in place” and change is needed. We begin by identifying challenges faced when dedicated volunteers “age in place” within established organizations, defining concepts such as psychological contracting and role salience that are pertinent to understanding volunteer and staff commitment. We …
Maidens Fair, Matrons Plump, Fat Cats, and Sugar Daddies
This article discusses the emergence and development of women’s fund-raising for charitable centenarian agencies in a southern city. These activities set the stage for the diversification of strategies that still have gender and racial overtones in the contemporary fund-raising activities of the city. The findings reveal that women did whatever they could legally do to raise funds and in-kind contributions. Women were active, visible agents, “pou…
Capacity Building Legacies
What strategies did early boards of managers of charitable human service agencies pursue to build capacity in a way that sustained their efforts for more than a hundred years? Using primary and secondary documents to focus on two organizations- The Male Orphan Asylum (1846) and the Protestant Episcopal Church Home (1875)-three norms emerged: run it like a business, keep it like a house, and base it in the community, along with a host of associate…
The Status of Instrument Development in the Human-Animal Interaction Field
An overview of available instruments that assess characteristics of human–animal interactions is provided, followed by a matrix of 140 tools, what they measure, information on structure and properties, original published sources, and a citation, when available, to another study in which the tool was also used. Using Anderson's (2007) book Assessing the Human–Animal Bond: A Compendium of Actual Measures, as a baseline, we systematically searched s…
Bridging Critical Feminist Gerontology and Social Work to Interrogate the Narrative on Civic Engagement
It is important to bridge the work of feminist scholars who toil in their respective fields and are not always directly connected to one another because they publish in a plethora of different outlets. Beginning with a brief background on the emergence of critical gerontology, the work of feminist activists is briefly reviewed and the scholarship of feminist gerontologists in social work is highlighted. Using the current narrative on civic engage…
A Reflection
A brief reflection is provided on three very different articles by Thibault, Bushfield, and Monod et al. which focus on moving from variable to application. The basic paradox that emerges in attempting to intervene with elders in terms of dedicated suffering and spiritual mapping is revealed. In an evidence-based practice environment that privileges measurement and pushes toward universalism, it is critically important to recognize the uniqueness…
Abraham’s Daughter
When the name Flexner is mentioned in schools of social work, it is typically a reference to Abraham Flexner, who spoke to the National Conference on Charities and Corrections in 1915. Yet, his daughter Eleanor wrote the definitive history of the women’s rights movement in the United States, and her work was influential in the transition between first- and second-wave feminism. This article honors her legacy and recognizes its significance to the…
It Takes a Community
Although specialized formal services are becoming more prevalent in addressing the needs of the older LGBT community, little is known about informal groups that have organized to meet the needs of this population. This article presents two case examples that depict the efforts of older lesbians to meet the social and care needs of members of their communities. The concept of psychological contracting is used to analyze these experiences, and comb…
A Missing Tradition
Historical research on charitable organizations in Richmond, Virginia, reveals the roles women played in founding, managing, and developing agencies that have survived since the 1800s. Findings from an examination of the records of 24 agencies and associated secondary sources suggest that many of the ways in which women worked reflect characteristics that writers would later describe as alternative, collectivist, and feminist. Women created tradi…
Multiple Ways of Coordinating Volunteers With Differing Styles of Service
Volunteerism is changing, and traditional ways of coordinating volunteers need re-examination in order for human service programs to survive. Our practitioner/academician team has been using well-known frameworks to reveal deep-seated assumptions about how people volunteer at the dawn of the 21st century and how changes in volunteering influence the organization and coordination of those efforts. The different styles of volunteering demand that c…
Recognizing the Need for Evidence-Based Macro Practices in Organizational and Community Settings
The need for using evidence-based macro practices is examined. EBP is viewed as practitioners recognizing client values and then using the most promising research to guide programmatic, organizational, community, and policy activities to facilitate change. There are multiple ways to search for evidence. The nature of evidence in macro practice will look different depending on the practice situation. Being able to assess the situation and recogniz…
Grounded Theory
The authors examine one of the earliest systematic forms of qualitative inquiry to identify some of the boundaries needed in grounded theory designs to provide a small corner of clarity in the discourse about what is acceptable science from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) perspective. Beginning with an overview of grounded theory research as it was originally conceived and extended, the challenges for establishment of a uniform standard are …
Emergent Program Planning as Competent Practice
Built on the assumption that both rational and nonrational thought go into problem solving, but only rational approaches have been presented as appropriate technology for program development, this article offers an alterative way of designing social programs. We call this approach “emergent planning.” Our aim is to provide a conceptualization of planning processes that will be useful regardless of culture, mission or goals of the human service or…
Belief Systems in Faith-Based Human Service Programs
Using a grounded theory design and methods, 65 key informants in 15 faith-based organizations having promising programs in four urban areas were interviewed. Respondents were asked what makes their direct service programs faith-based. A story emerges, motivated by mission-driven visions tied to forces beyond local programs and steeped in deep traditions. A major implication of the findings is that in teaching people about the various practices of…
Understanding religious and spiritual aspects of human service practice
This volume focuses on the spirituality and religious belief of clients within health and human service professions. The text addresses the challenge of understanding the client's perspective, even when it involves a religious tradition unfamiliar to the practitioner.
Influencing Social Policy in a Time of Devolution
Journal Article Influencing Social Policy in a Time of Devolution: Upholding Social Work's Great Tradition Get access Robert L. Schneider, DSW, ACSW, Robert L. Schneider, DSW, ACSW professor School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1001 West Franklin Street, Box 842027, Richmond, VA 23284-2027; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar F. Ellen Netting, PhD F. E…
The Status of Instrument Development in the Human-Animal Interaction Field
An overview of available instruments that assess characteristics of human–animal interactions is provided, followed by a matrix of 140 tools, what they measure, information on structure and properties, original published sources, and a citation, when available, to another study in which the tool was also used. Using Anderson's (2007) book Assessing the Human–Animal Bond: A Compendium of Actual Measures, as a baseline, we systematically searched s…
Grounded Theory
The authors examine one of the earliest systematic forms of qualitative inquiry to identify some of the boundaries needed in grounded theory designs to provide a small corner of clarity in the discourse about what is acceptable science from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) perspective. Beginning with an overview of grounded theory research as it was originally conceived and extended, the challenges for establishment of a uniform standard are …
Multiple Ways of Coordinating Volunteers With Differing Styles of Service
Volunteerism is changing, and traditional ways of coordinating volunteers need re-examination in order for human service programs to survive. Our practitioner/academician team has been using well-known frameworks to reveal deep-seated assumptions about how people volunteer at the dawn of the 21st century and how changes in volunteering influence the organization and coordination of those efforts. The different styles of volunteering demand that c…
The Human-Animal Bond
Journal Article The Human-Animal Bond: Implications for Practice Get access F. Ellen Netting, F. Ellen Netting F. Ellen Netting, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287. Cindy C. Wilson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Uniformed Services, Department of Family Practice, University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. John C. New, DVM, MPH, is Associate Professor, Department of Environmental P…
The Pet Attitude Inventory
The role of pets in the lives of people has received much attention, however these studies have suffered through the lack of a measurement tool that could be used to evaluate pet ownership characteristics (demographics, attitudes towards ownership, attachment levels) consistently in any setting. Five possible instruments are described: (1) Bustad's Pets and Personal History Questionnaire; (2) the Ory/Goldberg Pet Inventory Assessment; (3) Lago et…
Bridging Critical Feminist Gerontology and Social Work to Interrogate the Narrative on Civic Engagement
It is important to bridge the work of feminist scholars who toil in their respective fields and are not always directly connected to one another because they publish in a plethora of different outlets. Beginning with a brief background on the emergence of critical gerontology, the work of feminist activists is briefly reviewed and the scholarship of feminist gerontologists in social work is highlighted. Using the current narrative on civic engage…
Church-Related Agencies and Social Welfare
Church-related social service agencies are those that publicly acknowledge a relationship to a religious group. These agencies are quite diverse, and even those within one religious group often vary in their perception of their denominational affiliation, the emphasis they place on their religious connection, and their definition of their role in the social service community. Selected findings from an exploratory study of three groups of Protesta…
Secular and Religious Funding of Church-Related Agencies
As government is looking to the voluntary sector to fill in gaps left by social welfare cutbacks, there is limited research on how dependent church-related agencies are on government funds. Selected findings are reported from a study of three groups of Protestant social service agencies. Government fees and grants comprise approximately half of combined agency budgets for each denomination and have increased in both dollar and percentage amounts …
Companion Animals in Obituaries
The benefits of human–animal interaction have been discussed extensively in the literature. In this paper we take a slightly different strategy in documenting that some humans acknowledge the importance of pets by actually referring to them in human obituaries. We begin with a brief overview of the human obituary, followed by the potential for pets as fictive kin to be named as survivors in obituaries. A bi-national, exploratory, content analysis…
Subjugated Knowledge in Gender-Integrated Social Work Education
If social work education is truly committed to social justice and self-determination, it will have to liberate the knowledge of groups with which it works. To do so, it is necessary to recognize the unique role of practitioners in discovering and interpreting subjugated knowledge, which requires that academicians, practitioners, and consumers of services have opportunities to dialogue. Four strategies for freeing subjugated knowledge are proposed…
It Takes a Community
Although specialized formal services are becoming more prevalent in addressing the needs of the older LGBT community, little is known about informal groups that have organized to meet the needs of this population. This article presents two case examples that depict the efforts of older lesbians to meet the social and care needs of members of their communities. The concept of psychological contracting is used to analyze these experiences, and comb…
A Missing Tradition
Historical research on charitable organizations in Richmond, Virginia, reveals the roles women played in founding, managing, and developing agencies that have survived since the 1800s. Findings from an examination of the records of 24 agencies and associated secondary sources suggest that many of the ways in which women worked reflect characteristics that writers would later describe as alternative, collectivist, and feminist. Women created tradi…
Voice and Community in the Corporate Academy
This article is the story of the simultaneous feminization and corporatization of universities, themes that emerged in a test of a collective biography, a qualitative research method. Organizers brought together 12 macro social work academic women across generations and, through sampling, attempted to avoid the intergenerational splitting that seems to be leaving junior faculty to be socialized by administrators while simultaneously isolating sen…
Future of Macro Social Work
Macro social work is social work. History tells us that the profession was birthed from diverse traditions were grounded in different assumptions, spurring different ways of knowing and doing. This versatility is a hallmark of the field and it will serve macro social work well into the future. A profession that seeks to sustain, advocate and change, with the intent of increasing quality of life, will always need practitioners who can recognize di…
Using Prosopography to Raise the Voices of Those Erased in Social Work History
In this article, we introduce prosopography, a valuable historical research method that can be used by feminist social work scholars. While feminists in various fields use this methodology to investigate background characteristics of women in history through collective studies of how they have established relationships and networks to influence change, our review of the literature suggests that it has been little used in social work. We provide a…
Attachment, Social Support, and Perceived Mental Health of Adult Dog Walkers
In part of a larger pilot study of dog walking as a physical activity intervention we assessed levels of attachment, social supports, and perceived mental health of 75 dog owners, identified through a tertiary- care veterinary hospital. Owners completed the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Social Support Survey, mental health component of the Short-Form-12 (SF-12) Health Survey, and the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (LAPS). Of particular interes…
Maidens Fair, Matrons Plump, Fat Cats, and Sugar Daddies
This article discusses the emergence and development of women’s fund-raising for charitable centenarian agencies in a southern city. These activities set the stage for the diversification of strategies that still have gender and racial overtones in the contemporary fund-raising activities of the city. The findings reveal that women did whatever they could legally do to raise funds and in-kind contributions. Women were active, visible agents, “pou…
Lady Boards of Managers
Three traditions of women’s organizations emerged in the 1800s: benevolence, reform, and rights. This article focuses primarily on women who founded the forerunners of today’s nonprofit health and human service agencies. Using Richmond, Virginia, as an example, it draws from historical documents, as well as the literature, to reframe the importance of what Lady Boards of Managers did in shaping the governance and administration of early human ser…
Pastors, parishioners, and pets
The Intersectionality of Religion and Social Welfare
Studying the intersectionality of religion and social welfare in Richmond, Virginia requires going back to the beginning of the Virginia colony. In the crucible of the colony, the religious and social welfare functions of a parish community were one and the same. However, after the Revolutionary War it was just a matter of time before the entire system was disassembled. The process of disentanglement of church and state created an identity crisis…
Resurrecting Nannie Minor and Orie Hatcher
In this article, we raise two feminists (Minor and Hatcher) from erasure by recognizing the importance of their roles in the development of professional social work education. First, we tell a story of how emerging semiprofessions were intertwined, only to become separate over time. Next we focus on the influence of two feminists who came from other semiprofessions than social work and were instrumental in cocreating a School of Social Work. Mino…
Owners and Pets Exercising Together
Using a prospective, randomized, single-blinded clinical design, we enrolled dog owners (DOs) and their dogs presenting to a veterinary referral hospital in a two-phase trial to determine whether veterinarian-initiated counseling increases physical activity and leads to secondary health benefits for DOs and their dogs. In Phase I, self-reported health measures, height, and weight were assessed for DOs. Body condition scores (BCS) for their dogs w…
Capacity Building Legacies
What strategies did early boards of managers of charitable human service agencies pursue to build capacity in a way that sustained their efforts for more than a hundred years? Using primary and secondary documents to focus on two organizations- The Male Orphan Asylum (1846) and the Protestant Episcopal Church Home (1875)-three norms emerged: run it like a business, keep it like a house, and base it in the community, along with a host of associate…
Recognizing the Need for Evidence-Based Macro Practices in Organizational and Community Settings
The need for using evidence-based macro practices is examined. EBP is viewed as practitioners recognizing client values and then using the most promising research to guide programmatic, organizational, community, and policy activities to facilitate change. There are multiple ways to search for evidence. The nature of evidence in macro practice will look different depending on the practice situation. Being able to assess the situation and recogniz…
Secular and Religious Funding of Church-Related Agencies
As government is looking to the voluntary sector to fill in gaps left by social welfare cutbacks, there is limited research on how dependent church-related agencies are on government funds. Selected findings are reported from a study of three groups of Protestant social service agencies. Government fees and grants comprise approximately half of combined agency budgets for each denomination and have increased in both dollar and percentage amounts …
Church-Related Agencies and Social Welfare
Church-related social service agencies are those that publicly acknowledge a relationship to a religious group. These agencies are quite diverse, and even those within one religious group often vary in their perception of their denominational affiliation, the emphasis they place on their religious connection, and their definition of their role in the social service community. Selected findings from an exploratory study of three groups of Protesta…
Pastors, parishioners, and pets
Ethical Issues in Volunteer Management and Accountability
Ethical Issues in Volunteer Management and Accountability F. Ellen Netting F. Ellen Netting F. Ellen Netting, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at an NASW Professional Symposium, “The People, Yes!” Chicago, Ill., November 8, 1985. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 3…
The Human-Animal Bond
Journal Article The Human-Animal Bond: Implications for Practice Get access F. Ellen Netting, F. Ellen Netting F. Ellen Netting, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287. Cindy C. Wilson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Uniformed Services, Department of Family Practice, University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. John C. New, DVM, MPH, is Associate Professor, Department of Environmental P…
The Pet Attitude Inventory
The role of pets in the lives of people has received much attention, however these studies have suffered through the lack of a measurement tool that could be used to evaluate pet ownership characteristics (demographics, attitudes towards ownership, attachment levels) consistently in any setting. Five possible instruments are described: (1) Bustad's Pets and Personal History Questionnaire; (2) the Ory/Goldberg Pet Inventory Assessment; (3) Lago et…
Integrating Content on Organized Religion into Macropractice Courses
This paper examines organized religion as a driving force within the social welfare state and looks at religious organizations as human service providers. Following a brief historical overview, the contemporary significance of organized religion for special population groups is discussed. Information is presented on religious institutions, religiously affiliated organizations, and religious congregations for incorporation into existing courses in…
Older Women in Continuing Care Retirement Communities
A typical resident in an independent living unit within a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) is an 82- year-old white female who is widowed, divorced, or has never been married. This article provides an overview of the changing CCRC industry and the long-term care decision making that occurs within these communities. Implications are presented for professionals who work with older women
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The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program and Complaints of Abuse and Neglect
This historical summary demonstrates that concern about elder abuse and neglect in long-term care facilities has played a vital role in the development and expansion of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program (LTCOP). Some 15 years after the Older Americans Act mandated ombudsman services in all nursing homes, the 1989-1990 state LTCOP reports were analyzed for information about abuse and neglect of elders in nursing homes nationwide. Following a br…
The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993
The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 sets new directions for the way government conducts its business with regard to all programs. Because Congress intends to base budget decisions on agencies' reports of performance in achieving outcomes, the GPRA will affect the operations of social services programs. This article outlines the intent and content of the GPRA. It frames the act within the context of the current debates over r…
To Empower with Meaningful Data
This is the story of how a research team formed an alliance with state long-term care ombudsmen to develop a national database of resident complaints. Beginning with background information on problem identification and analysis, the article focuses on lessons learned in building alliances between practitioners and researchers, in recognizing individual site needs, in advocating for credible dissemination of findings, and in acknowledging philosop…
Termination
This article identifies the ways in which macro practitioners manage and respond to termination issues in organization and community arenas. To conceptualize and partialize problems related to termination, the authors developed a typology in which the purposes, roles, and tasks related to macro termination situations are identified and grouped by three levels of practice: The Technical; The Managerial; and The Institutional. Within each part of t…
Teaching Students About Collaborative Approaches to Organizational Change
This article explores the implications of teaching students about collaborative practice in organizations and how collaboration in making changes requires finding and developing alternative models to traditional approaches. It discusses the limits of models of planned change that are taught in organizational practice, identifies the underlying assumptions of collaborative approaches to change, and proposes a beginning framework for teaching stude…
Influencing Social Policy in a Time of Devolution
Journal Article Influencing Social Policy in a Time of Devolution: Upholding Social Work's Great Tradition Get access Robert L. Schneider, DSW, ACSW, Robert L. Schneider, DSW, ACSW professor School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1001 West Franklin Street, Box 842027, Richmond, VA 23284-2027; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar F. Ellen Netting, PhD F. E…
Subjugated Knowledge in Gender-Integrated Social Work Education
If social work education is truly committed to social justice and self-determination, it will have to liberate the knowledge of groups with which it works. To do so, it is necessary to recognize the unique role of practitioners in discovering and interpreting subjugated knowledge, which requires that academicians, practitioners, and consumers of services have opportunities to dialogue. Four strategies for freeing subjugated knowledge are proposed…
Mixing and Phasing of Roles Among Volunteers, Staff, and Participants in Faith-Based Programs
In this grounded theory research project, face-to-face interviews were conducted with program participants, board members, administrators, coordinators, and collaborators in 15 faith-based programs. Findings concerning the roles played by participants, volunteers, and paid staff reveal the wearing of multiple hats, facilitated by a tendency toward cross-training, role diffusion, and doing what is needed. Boundaries created by roles appear to be l…
Lady Boards of Managers
Three traditions of women’s organizations emerged in the 1800s: benevolence, reform, and rights. This article focuses primarily on women who founded the forerunners of today’s nonprofit health and human service agencies. Using Richmond, Virginia, as an example, it draws from historical documents, as well as the literature, to reframe the importance of what Lady Boards of Managers did in shaping the governance and administration of early human ser…
Future of Macro Social Work
Macro social work is social work. History tells us that the profession was birthed from diverse traditions were grounded in different assumptions, spurring different ways of knowing and doing. This versatility is a hallmark of the field and it will serve macro social work well into the future. A profession that seeks to sustain, advocate and change, with the intent of increasing quality of life, will always need practitioners who can recognize di…
Belief Systems in Faith-Based Human Service Programs
Using a grounded theory design and methods, 65 key informants in 15 faith-based organizations having promising programs in four urban areas were interviewed. Respondents were asked what makes their direct service programs faith-based. A story emerges, motivated by mission-driven visions tied to forces beyond local programs and steeped in deep traditions. A major implication of the findings is that in teaching people about the various practices of…
Emergent Program Planning as Competent Practice
Built on the assumption that both rational and nonrational thought go into problem solving, but only rational approaches have been presented as appropriate technology for program development, this article offers an alterative way of designing social programs. We call this approach “emergent planning.” Our aim is to provide a conceptualization of planning processes that will be useful regardless of culture, mission or goals of the human service or…
Recognizing the Need for Evidence-Based Macro Practices in Organizational and Community Settings
The need for using evidence-based macro practices is examined. EBP is viewed as practitioners recognizing client values and then using the most promising research to guide programmatic, organizational, community, and policy activities to facilitate change. There are multiple ways to search for evidence. The nature of evidence in macro practice will look different depending on the practice situation. Being able to assess the situation and recogniz…
Grounded Theory
The authors examine one of the earliest systematic forms of qualitative inquiry to identify some of the boundaries needed in grounded theory designs to provide a small corner of clarity in the discourse about what is acceptable science from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) perspective. Beginning with an overview of grounded theory research as it was originally conceived and extended, the challenges for establishment of a uniform standard are …
It Takes a Community
Although specialized formal services are becoming more prevalent in addressing the needs of the older LGBT community, little is known about informal groups that have organized to meet the needs of this population. This article presents two case examples that depict the efforts of older lesbians to meet the social and care needs of members of their communities. The concept of psychological contracting is used to analyze these experiences, and comb…
A Missing Tradition
Historical research on charitable organizations in Richmond, Virginia, reveals the roles women played in founding, managing, and developing agencies that have survived since the 1800s. Findings from an examination of the records of 24 agencies and associated secondary sources suggest that many of the ways in which women worked reflect characteristics that writers would later describe as alternative, collectivist, and feminist. Women created tradi…
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