Eli Teram
Biographic Data
| ID | 129497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eli Teram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eli |
| FAMILY NAME | Teram |
| SIGNATURE | TERAM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Balancing Methodological Rigor and the Needs of Research Participants: A Debate on Alternative Approaches to Sensitive Research
Despite growing consideration of the needs of research participants in studies related to sensitive issues, discussions of alternative ways to design sensitive research are scarce. Structured as an exchange between two researchers who used different approaches in their studies with childhood sexual abuse survivors, in this article, we seek to advance understanding of methodological and ethical issues in designing sensitive research. The first per…
Overt and Covert Ways of Responding to Moral Injustices in Social Work Practice: Heroes and Mild-Mannered Social Work Bipeds
This article explores overt and covert actions taken by social workers against perceived moral injustices in their work organisations. Covert and overt actions are defined and examples of these actions from a research study of social work ethics are presented. The paper argues that both covert and overt actions ought to be considered heroic in light of what appears to be timidity on the part of many social workers to act against perceived moral i…
The Case for Integrating Grounded Theory and Participatory Action Research: Empowering Clients to Inform Professional Practice
Grounded theory and participatory action research methods are distinct approaches to qualitative inquiry. Although grounded theory has been conceptualized in constructivist terms, it has elements of positivist thinking with an image of neutral search for objective truth through rigorous data collection and analysis. Participatory action research is based on a critique of this image and calls for more inclusive research processes. It questions the…
Drifting Toward Mental Health: High-Risk Adolescents and the Process of Empowerment
Interviews with 41 high-risk adolescents explained the link between the process of empowerment and mental health. Participants in this study demonstrated how aspects of power that enhance the construction of health-promoting identities form a base for personal and social resilience in youth. Without knowledge of postmodern theory, participants articulated the interdependence between their well-being and their capacity to influence the social disc…
Facilitating Effective Relationships Between Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Health Care Professionals
Clients in psychotherapy related to childhood sexual abuse often consult a variety of health care professionals, including physical therapists, massage therapists, and chiropractors. On the basis of interviews with 27 women survivors of childhood sexual abuse, this article offers suggestions for facilitating the relationships between survivors and physical therapists. Awareness of the difficulties that many survivors face when receiving therapy i…
A Case Against Making the Control of Clients a Negotiable Contingency for Interdisciplinary Teams
Most discussions of interdisciplinary teams assume that cross-functional teams are desirable. Critical analyses of the fundamental contradictions inherent in bringing together professionals with diverse ideologies, interests, contingencies, and technologies are rare. Even less common are discussions of the negative consequences of these contradictions for clients. Based on observations in an institution for youth-in-trouble, this paper argues tha…
Normal Bad Boys: Public Policies, Institutions, and the Politics of Client Recruitment
Rains and Teram trace the history, impact, and subversion of public policies affecting the disposition of delinquent, neglected, and emotionally disturbed anglophone youth in Montreal. They examine these policies through study of the more than eighty-year history of The Boys' Farm, now known as Shawbridge Youth Centres, and the strategies it used to control admissions in the face of changing relations with other organizations in Montreal's delinq…
Strategies to Address the Bureaucratic Disentitlement of Clients from Cultural Minority Groups
Based on studies conducted in Ontario and experience from Alberta, this paper describes the politics of bureaucratic disentitlement with respect to the delivery of social services to new Canadians. Interorganizational theory is applied to explain the dynamics that sustain service delivery strategies which have been consistently recognized as inappropriate. This discussion provides a base for rejecting strategies that delegate service delivery to …
Interdisciplinary Teams and the Control of Clients: A Sociotechnical Perspective
The literature on interdisciplinary teams discusses the relations between professionals independently of issues related to client processing. With a sociotechnical perspective, this paper examines how interdisciplinary work may well generate increased opportunities for unwarranted client control. A case example from the services for the mentally handicapped demonstrates how team members from vocational and residential programs "pool" control mech…
The protection of children's rights as ceremony and myth
From self-managed hearts to collective action: Dealing with incompatible demands in the child welfare system
The case for government involvement in the management of cutbacks by public service organizations
The literature on cutback management does not address the role of government in inducing creative strategies to deal with retrenchment. As this paper argues, government should not limit itself to economizing but should also provide administrative leadership, especially with respect to developing interorganizational cooperation and evaluating effectiveness. Interorganizational theory and research suggest that organizations are reluctant to interac…
Overt and Covert Ways of Responding to Moral Injustices in Social Work Practice: Heroes and Mild-Mannered Social Work Bipeds
This article explores overt and covert actions taken by social workers against perceived moral injustices in their work organisations. Covert and overt actions are defined and examples of these actions from a research study of social work ethics are presented. The paper argues that both covert and overt actions ought to be considered heroic in light of what appears to be timidity on the part of many social workers to act against perceived moral i…
Drifting Toward Mental Health: High-Risk Adolescents and the Process of Empowerment
Interviews with 41 high-risk adolescents explained the link between the process of empowerment and mental health. Participants in this study demonstrated how aspects of power that enhance the construction of health-promoting identities form a base for personal and social resilience in youth. Without knowledge of postmodern theory, participants articulated the interdependence between their well-being and their capacity to influence the social disc…
Balancing Methodological Rigor and the Needs of Research Participants: A Debate on Alternative Approaches to Sensitive Research
Despite growing consideration of the needs of research participants in studies related to sensitive issues, discussions of alternative ways to design sensitive research are scarce. Structured as an exchange between two researchers who used different approaches in their studies with childhood sexual abuse survivors, in this article, we seek to advance understanding of methodological and ethical issues in designing sensitive research. The first per…
Interdisciplinary Teams and the Control of Clients: A Sociotechnical Perspective
The literature on interdisciplinary teams discusses the relations between professionals independently of issues related to client processing. With a sociotechnical perspective, this paper examines how interdisciplinary work may well generate increased opportunities for unwarranted client control. A case example from the services for the mentally handicapped demonstrates how team members from vocational and residential programs "pool" control mech…
The protection of children's rights as ceremony and myth
Facilitating Effective Relationships Between Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Health Care Professionals
Clients in psychotherapy related to childhood sexual abuse often consult a variety of health care professionals, including physical therapists, massage therapists, and chiropractors. On the basis of interviews with 27 women survivors of childhood sexual abuse, this article offers suggestions for facilitating the relationships between survivors and physical therapists. Awareness of the difficulties that many survivors face when receiving therapy i…
A Case Against Making the Control of Clients a Negotiable Contingency for Interdisciplinary Teams
Most discussions of interdisciplinary teams assume that cross-functional teams are desirable. Critical analyses of the fundamental contradictions inherent in bringing together professionals with diverse ideologies, interests, contingencies, and technologies are rare. Even less common are discussions of the negative consequences of these contradictions for clients. Based on observations in an institution for youth-in-trouble, this paper argues tha…
The case for government involvement in the management of cutbacks by public service organizations
The literature on cutback management does not address the role of government in inducing creative strategies to deal with retrenchment. As this paper argues, government should not limit itself to economizing but should also provide administrative leadership, especially with respect to developing interorganizational cooperation and evaluating effectiveness. Interorganizational theory and research suggest that organizations are reluctant to interac…
The protection of children's rights as ceremony and myth
From self-managed hearts to collective action: Dealing with incompatible demands in the child welfare system
The case for government involvement in the management of cutbacks by public service organizations
The literature on cutback management does not address the role of government in inducing creative strategies to deal with retrenchment. As this paper argues, government should not limit itself to economizing but should also provide administrative leadership, especially with respect to developing interorganizational cooperation and evaluating effectiveness. Interorganizational theory and research suggest that organizations are reluctant to interac…
Interdisciplinary Teams and the Control of Clients: A Sociotechnical Perspective
The literature on interdisciplinary teams discusses the relations between professionals independently of issues related to client processing. With a sociotechnical perspective, this paper examines how interdisciplinary work may well generate increased opportunities for unwarranted client control. A case example from the services for the mentally handicapped demonstrates how team members from vocational and residential programs "pool" control mech…
Strategies to Address the Bureaucratic Disentitlement of Clients from Cultural Minority Groups
Based on studies conducted in Ontario and experience from Alberta, this paper describes the politics of bureaucratic disentitlement with respect to the delivery of social services to new Canadians. Interorganizational theory is applied to explain the dynamics that sustain service delivery strategies which have been consistently recognized as inappropriate. This discussion provides a base for rejecting strategies that delegate service delivery to …
Normal Bad Boys: Public Policies, Institutions, and the Politics of Client Recruitment
Rains and Teram trace the history, impact, and subversion of public policies affecting the disposition of delinquent, neglected, and emotionally disturbed anglophone youth in Montreal. They examine these policies through study of the more than eighty-year history of The Boys' Farm, now known as Shawbridge Youth Centres, and the strategies it used to control admissions in the face of changing relations with other organizations in Montreal's delinq…
Facilitating Effective Relationships Between Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Health Care Professionals
Clients in psychotherapy related to childhood sexual abuse often consult a variety of health care professionals, including physical therapists, massage therapists, and chiropractors. On the basis of interviews with 27 women survivors of childhood sexual abuse, this article offers suggestions for facilitating the relationships between survivors and physical therapists. Awareness of the difficulties that many survivors face when receiving therapy i…
A Case Against Making the Control of Clients a Negotiable Contingency for Interdisciplinary Teams
Most discussions of interdisciplinary teams assume that cross-functional teams are desirable. Critical analyses of the fundamental contradictions inherent in bringing together professionals with diverse ideologies, interests, contingencies, and technologies are rare. Even less common are discussions of the negative consequences of these contradictions for clients. Based on observations in an institution for youth-in-trouble, this paper argues tha…
Drifting Toward Mental Health: High-Risk Adolescents and the Process of Empowerment
Interviews with 41 high-risk adolescents explained the link between the process of empowerment and mental health. Participants in this study demonstrated how aspects of power that enhance the construction of health-promoting identities form a base for personal and social resilience in youth. Without knowledge of postmodern theory, participants articulated the interdependence between their well-being and their capacity to influence the social disc…
The Case for Integrating Grounded Theory and Participatory Action Research: Empowering Clients to Inform Professional Practice
Grounded theory and participatory action research methods are distinct approaches to qualitative inquiry. Although grounded theory has been conceptualized in constructivist terms, it has elements of positivist thinking with an image of neutral search for objective truth through rigorous data collection and analysis. Participatory action research is based on a critique of this image and calls for more inclusive research processes. It questions the…
Overt and Covert Ways of Responding to Moral Injustices in Social Work Practice: Heroes and Mild-Mannered Social Work Bipeds
This article explores overt and covert actions taken by social workers against perceived moral injustices in their work organisations. Covert and overt actions are defined and examples of these actions from a research study of social work ethics are presented. The paper argues that both covert and overt actions ought to be considered heroic in light of what appears to be timidity on the part of many social workers to act against perceived moral i…
Balancing Methodological Rigor and the Needs of Research Participants: A Debate on Alternative Approaches to Sensitive Research
Despite growing consideration of the needs of research participants in studies related to sensitive issues, discussions of alternative ways to design sensitive research are scarce. Structured as an exchange between two researchers who used different approaches in their studies with childhood sexual abuse survivors, in this article, we seek to advance understanding of methodological and ethical issues in designing sensitive research. The first per…
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