Michael J Sheridan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 144057 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael J Sheridan |
| NOMBRES | Michael J |
| APELLIDO | Sheridan |
| FIRMA | SHERIDAN M J |
| AFILIACIONES | Catholic University of America |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2542-3347 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Insights From a CSWE Summit for Critical Conversations on Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in Social Work Education
The role of religion and spirituality within social work education has varied throughout the profession’s history, with recent research calling for increased attention to this area of diversity. In response, the Council on Social Work Education hosted and sponsored the 2021 Summit for Critical Conversations on Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in Social Work Education and Practice, with each of the coauthors serving as presenters and facilitators…
Celia Nyamweru, Some Traditions of the Akamba of Kenya
Celia Nyamweru, Some Traditions of the Akamba of Kenya (Nairobi: Old Africa Books, 2021), 258 pp., USD $13.47 (pbk), ISBN: 9798753641663
Tracing Legitimating Accounts During Times of Change
This study explores the dynamics of how organizations make appeals for legitimacy in unstable fields. Empirically, we investigate the debate surrounding U.S. Department of Agriculture organic food certification from 1990 to 2011, which took place as the field of organic food production was destabilized by the entrance of new market participants, as well as the effort by the federal government to regulate what constituted “organic” food. We argue …
Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Curriculum
While attention has been given to religion/spirituality in social work practice, only a handful of studies from various countries have examined the views of faculty. Findings from this first national, cross-sectional, online survey of Canadian social work educators teaching across the curriculum (N = 190) suggest an overall favourable view towards religion/spirituality in social work practice, and general support for including content on the topi…
Learning with the Labyrinth
Learning with the Labyrinth: Creating Reflective Space in Higher Education, by J. Sellers and B. Moss." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 36(4), pp. 479–480
Boundary Plants, the Social Production of Space, and Vegetative Agency in Agrarian Societies
Boundary plants lie at the intersections of landscape ecology, social structure, and cultural meaning-making. They typically relate resource rights to social groups and cultural identities, and make these connections meaningful and legitimate. Landscape boundaries such as hedges and fence lines are often repositories for social identities and cultural meanings, and tools for the negotiations and struggles that comprise them. This article surveys …
Caring for One's Own”
This study provides in-depth, descriptive data on the caregiving context and indicators of caregiving stress, rewards, and resources reported by 300 African-American family caregivers of elders residing in the community. Findings revealed generally high levels of caregiving intensity in terms of types of assistance given and hours of caregiving provided. On average, participants reported moderate levels of time-dependence, developmental, and fina…
Ivory
The people who now grow coffee, beans, and maize in Tanzania’s North Pare Mountains have relied on irrigation to make intensive agriculture possible despite generally low soil fertility and long dry seasons for at least several centuries (Sheridan 2002). Indigenous irrigation and intensive agricultural systems were somewhat of a rarity in pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa (Adams and Anderson 1988; Widgren and Sutton 2004), so understanding how and …
Elders Caring for Elders
The current study investigates the relationships between three indicators of religious involvement and three aspects of spiritual caregiving awards and multiple measures of caregiver stress, internal and external resources, and physical and mental health among older (60+) African American caregivers of elders. Findings show that both factors are associated with the three caregiving areas, although spiritual rewards emerged as having more linkages…
Introduction
Spiritual Activism
This final article highlights the twin perils of burnout and polarization that often occur during traditional approaches to social activism, and calls attention to an alternative approach that is emerging in the field—variously referred to as “engaged spirituality,” “sacred activism,” or “spiritual activism.” Seven key themes of this new paradigm for social change are presented: spiritual motivation for justice work, recognition of interdependenc…
Global warming and global war
Some Tanzanian farmers say that “the rain is different now” and that postcolonial leaders and development agency experts cannot “bring rain” the way that colonial chiefs once did. Government officers, expatriate administrators, and Pare farmers agree, however, that average annual rainfall has declined dramatically in recent decades – despite rainfall records that show no unambiguous trend. The impression that rainfall has declined is a consequenc…
Spirituality and Social Work
Journal Article Spirituality and Social Work Get access Spirituality and Social Work. By Beth R. Crisp. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 180pp. $99.95. Michael Sheridan Michael Sheridan The Catholic University of AmericaWashington, DC [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 53, Issue 2, Spring 2011, Pages 317–319, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csr051 Publishe…
Timely Assets
Ethical Issues in the Use of Spiritually Based Interventions in Social Work Practice
This article provides a review of the literature regarding social workers' use of spiritually based interventions, factors predictive of such use, research on ethical issues, and findings related to educational preparation for spiritually sensitive practice. Results show that both social work practitioners and students are utilizing a substantial number of spiritually based interventions, that workers' personal spirituality is influential in inte…
The Environmental and Social History of African Sacred Groves
Sacred groves figure prominently in efforts to create community-based conservation in Africa. Although they are often conceptualized in functionalist terms as relics of climax forest and peak cultural florescence, attention to the intersections of ecological and social dynamics offers a framework for understanding African sacred groves that avoids assumptions of steady states of habitat and culture. This article, based on a case study from the No…
Introduction
In the autumn of 2004, a remarkable gathering of 102 scholars took place at St Antony's College, Oxford: they had come for an interdisciplinary symposium on 'Trees, rain, and politics in Africa: the dynamics and politics of climatic and environmental change'. Symposium papers were grouped into panels that focused on either particular resources (such as trees and water) or particular aspects of social relationships (such as politics and discourses…
The Ecology of Fencing
In the autumn of 2004, a remarkable gathering of 102 scholars took place at St Antony's College, Oxford: they had come for an interdisciplinary symposium on 'Trees, rain, and politics in Africa: the dynamics and politics of climatic and environmental change'. Symposium papers were grouped into panels that focused on either particular resources (such as trees and water) or particular aspects of social relationships (such as politics and discourses…
The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Working with Children and Adolescents
This national study examined social workers' attitudes and behaviors about religion and spirituality in practice with children and adolescents. The majority of respondents regarded religion and spirituality as relevant to this population and used a wide variety of spiritually-based interventions. Respondents also reported a somewhat frequent identification of spiritual and religious abuse and neglect of youth. However, the vast majority reported …
A Revised Emotional Intelligence Scale
The original Emotional Intelligence Scale of Fukunishi utilized 65 items measuring 3 basic dimensions: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and situational. 170 psychiatric outpatients (84 men and 86 women) completed the inventory. The mean age of the sample was 41.1 yr. (SD= 12.4). Compared with the 65-item scale, factor re-analysis yielded a new 34-item solution with significant correlations for the Intrapsychic (.97) and Interpersonal dimensions (.96…
Beyond Territory and Scarcity
Beyond Territory and Scarcity: Exploring Conflicts over Natural Resource Management. Quentin Gausset, Michael A. Whyte, and Torben Birch-Thomsen, eds. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2005. 218 pp
Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa (review)
Reviewed by: Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa Michael J. Sheridan Widgren, Mats, and John E. G. Sutton, eds. 2004. Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa. Oxford and Athens, Ohio: James Currey and Ohio University Press. 160 pp., $44.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). This book pursues issues outlined in the journal Azania in 1989 (also edited by John Sutton). The Azania collection reframed studies of intensive agriculture i…
Predicting the Use of Spiritually-Derived Interventions in Social Work Practice
Although research has grown considerably on spirituality and social work practice in recent years, there has been little investigation of what practitioners actually do with their clients and what influences their practice behaviors. Current findings from a random sample of 204 licensed clinical social workers indicate considerable focus on religion and spirituality in both assessment and intervention, with over two-thirds of the sample reporting…
Attribution of Cause by Patients with Depression, Anxiety, and Alexithymia
This study evaluated the relationship between the personality construct of alexithymia and the attribution of depression to biological, psychological, sociocultural, and external stress. When alexithymia was considered as a continuous variable, there was a significant correlation between a higher score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale and a greater belief in psychological causes for their psychiatric disorder. The other factors also had positive …
Social Justice Counseling
"Social Justice Counseling: The Next Steps Beyond Multiculturalism, by R. C.-Y. Chung and F. P. Bemak." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 35(4), pp. 412–413
An Irrigation Intake Is like a Uterus
This case study of intensive agriculture in precolonial Tanzania argues that irrigation existed under conditions of low population density because a regional exchange network created incentives for farmers to invest in their land. This economic context cannot, however, explain specific strategies for accumulating wealth in a 19th-century African society. Descriptions of how precolonial farmers managed labor, land, and water show that production w…
Boundary Plants, the Social Production of Space, and Vegetative Agency in Agrarian Societies
Boundary plants lie at the intersections of landscape ecology, social structure, and cultural meaning-making. They typically relate resource rights to social groups and cultural identities, and make these connections meaningful and legitimate. Landscape boundaries such as hedges and fence lines are often repositories for social identities and cultural meanings, and tools for the negotiations and struggles that comprise them. This article surveys …
Measuring ethnicity
Measuring ethnicity in any society is a challenge. Given world immigration patterns, many countries face a growing dilemma in determining the cultural antecedents of their populations. A further complication is the reality that such determination occurs within the political and nationalistic settings where ethnic-cultural groups may be potent forces in their own right. As societies mature and evolve, there is an increasing tendency for population…
The Environmental and Social History of African Sacred Groves
Sacred groves figure prominently in efforts to create community-based conservation in Africa. Although they are often conceptualized in functionalist terms as relics of climax forest and peak cultural florescence, attention to the intersections of ecological and social dynamics offers a framework for understanding African sacred groves that avoids assumptions of steady states of habitat and culture. This article, based on a case study from the No…
The Environmental Consequences of Independence and Socialism in North Pare, Tanzania, 1961–88
This article draws on archival sources and oral histories to describe changing post-colonial land management in the North Pare Mountains of Tanzania. The independent state transformed colonial institutions but did not maintain colonial common property regimes for water source, irrigation and forest management. Farmers responded by encroaching upon and dividing the commons. After 1967, Tanzania's socialist policies affected environmental condition…
Global warming and global war
Some Tanzanian farmers say that “the rain is different now” and that postcolonial leaders and development agency experts cannot “bring rain” the way that colonial chiefs once did. Government officers, expatriate administrators, and Pare farmers agree, however, that average annual rainfall has declined dramatically in recent decades – despite rainfall records that show no unambiguous trend. The impression that rainfall has declined is a consequenc…
Beyond Territory and Scarcity
Beyond Territory and Scarcity: Exploring Conflicts over Natural Resource Management. Quentin Gausset, Michael A. Whyte, and Torben Birch-Thomsen, eds. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2005. 218 pp
Representing environments in flux
The dominant view in the ecology and anthropology of the 1950s saw populations harmoniously interacting in self‐regulating systems; climax forests and stable societies were the ruling hypotheses. Now, however, ecology and social sciences are investigating nature and culture in flux. The flux paradigms of nature and culture describe a human–ecological relationship that is non‐equilibrial, historically contingent and constantly negotiated at both m…
The Ecology of Fencing
In the autumn of 2004, a remarkable gathering of 102 scholars took place at St Antony's College, Oxford: they had come for an interdisciplinary symposium on 'Trees, rain, and politics in Africa: the dynamics and politics of climatic and environmental change'. Symposium papers were grouped into panels that focused on either particular resources (such as trees and water) or particular aspects of social relationships (such as politics and discourses…
Family Dynamics and Individual Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics
This study investigates differences in family dynamics and individual characteristics among: (a) adult children of alcoholics receiving professional and self-help recovery services; (b) adult children of alcoholics not receiving such recovery services; and (c) adults from families where there was an absence of substance abuse, domestic violence, incest, and chronic psychiatric or physical problems. Using discriminant analysis, two family variable…
Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Curriculum
While attention has been given to religion/spirituality in social work practice, only a handful of studies from various countries have examined the views of faculty. Findings from this first national, cross-sectional, online survey of Canadian social work educators teaching across the curriculum (N = 190) suggest an overall favourable view towards religion/spirituality in social work practice, and general support for including content on the topi…
Defining Spiritually Sensitive Social Work Practice
Journal Article Defining Spiritually Sensitive Social Work Practice: An Essay Review of Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice: The Heart of Helping Get access Michael J. Sheridan, PhD Michael J. Sheridan, PhD associate 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…
Practitioners’ Personal and Professional Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Religion and Spirituality
This article presents findings from a study that examined the attitudes and behaviors toward religion and spirituality held by 328 randomly selected Virginia licensed clinical social workers, psychologists, and professional counselors. Significant differences were found among the three groups, with social workers generally holding a middle position in comparison with psychologists and professional counselors. As a whole, respondents were found to…
Measuring ethnicity
Measuring ethnicity in any society is a challenge. Given world immigration patterns, many countries face a growing dilemma in determining the cultural antecedents of their populations. A further complication is the reality that such determination occurs within the political and nationalistic settings where ethnic-cultural groups may be potent forces in their own right. As societies mature and evolve, there is an increasing tendency for population…
Family Dynamics and Individual Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics
This study investigates differences in family dynamics and individual characteristics among: (a) adult children of alcoholics receiving professional and self-help recovery services; (b) adult children of alcoholics not receiving such recovery services; and (c) adults from families where there was an absence of substance abuse, domestic violence, incest, and chronic psychiatric or physical problems. Using discriminant analysis, two family variable…
Inclusion of Content on Religion and Spirituality in the Social Work Curriculum
Recently, there have been calls to re-examine the need for instruction on religion and spirituality in the social work curriculum. This study investigated the views of 280 full-time social work educators from 25 schools of social work on including such content in social work programs. Results showed that the majority (82.5%) supported inclusion of a specialized course, primarily as an elective. A positive attitude toward religion and spirituality…
The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Education and Practice
This study investigated 208 students from two schools of social work on their views and experiences with religion and spirituality in education and practice. Results revealed a generally favorable stance toward the role of religion and spirituality in social work practice and relatively high endorsement and utilization of spiritually oriented interventions with clients. These findings are striking given that the majority of respondents reported l…
Comparison of 26-Item and 20-Item Versions of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale for Psychiatric Outpatients
This study compared the 20-item revised Toronto Alexithymia Scale with the 26-item version for 257 psychiatric outpatients. Scores on the 20-item version significantly correlated with those on the 26-item inventory even when controlled for depressed mood. Furthermore, the 20-item scale showed greater internal consistency. Factor analysis for both versions indicated three subfactors but the factors in the TAS-20 accounted for greater common varian…
Psychometric Properties of the Illness Attitudes Scale in Psychiatric Patients
This study assessed the factorial structure of the 29-item Illness Attitudes Scale in a population of 82 psychiatric patients hospitalized for gastrointestinal complaints. Factor analysis yielded three factors of the Illness Attitudes Scale in these patients, which have been interpreted Health Anxiety, Illness Behavior, and Health Habits. The internal consistency of these factors, estimated by Cronbach alpha, were .86, .80, and .58, respectively.…
Validity and Reliability of the Japanese Version of the Emotional Intelligence Scale Among College Students and Psychiatric Outpatients
Association of Emotional Intelligence with Alexithymic Characteristics
We examined the association of emotional intelligence and alexithymic characteristics as the personality trait in cohorts of 267 college students and 398 psychiatric outpatients. Score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale were significantly correlated with those on the Emotional Intelligence Scale, suggesting that alexithymic characteristics are related to lower emotional intelligence. In conclusion, these data suggest that emotional intelligence ove…
Defining Spiritually Sensitive Social Work Practice
Journal Article Defining Spiritually Sensitive Social Work Practice: An Essay Review of Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice: The Heart of Helping Get access Michael J. Sheridan, PhD Michael J. Sheridan, PhD associate 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…
An Irrigation Intake Is like a Uterus
This case study of intensive agriculture in precolonial Tanzania argues that irrigation existed under conditions of low population density because a regional exchange network created incentives for farmers to invest in their land. This economic context cannot, however, explain specific strategies for accumulating wealth in a 19th-century African society. Descriptions of how precolonial farmers managed labor, land, and water show that production w…
Representing environments in flux
The dominant view in the ecology and anthropology of the 1950s saw populations harmoniously interacting in self‐regulating systems; climax forests and stable societies were the ruling hypotheses. Now, however, ecology and social sciences are investigating nature and culture in flux. The flux paradigms of nature and culture describe a human–ecological relationship that is non‐equilibrial, historically contingent and constantly negotiated at both m…
Predicting the Use of Spiritually-Derived Interventions in Social Work Practice
Although research has grown considerably on spirituality and social work practice in recent years, there has been little investigation of what practitioners actually do with their clients and what influences their practice behaviors. Current findings from a random sample of 204 licensed clinical social workers indicate considerable focus on religion and spirituality in both assessment and intervention, with over two-thirds of the sample reporting…
Attribution of Cause by Patients with Depression, Anxiety, and Alexithymia
This study evaluated the relationship between the personality construct of alexithymia and the attribution of depression to biological, psychological, sociocultural, and external stress. When alexithymia was considered as a continuous variable, there was a significant correlation between a higher score on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale and a greater belief in psychological causes for their psychiatric disorder. The other factors also had positive …
The Environmental Consequences of Independence and Socialism in North Pare, Tanzania, 1961–88
This article draws on archival sources and oral histories to describe changing post-colonial land management in the North Pare Mountains of Tanzania. The independent state transformed colonial institutions but did not maintain colonial common property regimes for water source, irrigation and forest management. Farmers responded by encroaching upon and dividing the commons. After 1967, Tanzania's socialist policies affected environmental condition…
Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa (review)
Reviewed by: Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa Michael J. Sheridan Widgren, Mats, and John E. G. Sutton, eds. 2004. Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa. Oxford and Athens, Ohio: James Currey and Ohio University Press. 160 pp., $44.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). This book pursues issues outlined in the journal Azania in 1989 (also edited by John Sutton). The Azania collection reframed studies of intensive agriculture i…
A Revised Emotional Intelligence Scale
The original Emotional Intelligence Scale of Fukunishi utilized 65 items measuring 3 basic dimensions: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and situational. 170 psychiatric outpatients (84 men and 86 women) completed the inventory. The mean age of the sample was 41.1 yr. (SD= 12.4). Compared with the 65-item scale, factor re-analysis yielded a new 34-item solution with significant correlations for the Intrapsychic (.97) and Interpersonal dimensions (.96…
Beyond Territory and Scarcity
Beyond Territory and Scarcity: Exploring Conflicts over Natural Resource Management. Quentin Gausset, Michael A. Whyte, and Torben Birch-Thomsen, eds. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2005. 218 pp
The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Working with Children and Adolescents
This national study examined social workers' attitudes and behaviors about religion and spirituality in practice with children and adolescents. The majority of respondents regarded religion and spirituality as relevant to this population and used a wide variety of spiritually-based interventions. Respondents also reported a somewhat frequent identification of spiritual and religious abuse and neglect of youth. However, the vast majority reported …
Introduction
In the autumn of 2004, a remarkable gathering of 102 scholars took place at St Antony's College, Oxford: they had come for an interdisciplinary symposium on 'Trees, rain, and politics in Africa: the dynamics and politics of climatic and environmental change'. Symposium papers were grouped into panels that focused on either particular resources (such as trees and water) or particular aspects of social relationships (such as politics and discourses…
The Ecology of Fencing
In the autumn of 2004, a remarkable gathering of 102 scholars took place at St Antony's College, Oxford: they had come for an interdisciplinary symposium on 'Trees, rain, and politics in Africa: the dynamics and politics of climatic and environmental change'. Symposium papers were grouped into panels that focused on either particular resources (such as trees and water) or particular aspects of social relationships (such as politics and discourses…
Ethical Issues in the Use of Spiritually Based Interventions in Social Work Practice
This article provides a review of the literature regarding social workers' use of spiritually based interventions, factors predictive of such use, research on ethical issues, and findings related to educational preparation for spiritually sensitive practice. Results show that both social work practitioners and students are utilizing a substantial number of spiritually based interventions, that workers' personal spirituality is influential in inte…
The Environmental and Social History of African Sacred Groves
Sacred groves figure prominently in efforts to create community-based conservation in Africa. Although they are often conceptualized in functionalist terms as relics of climax forest and peak cultural florescence, attention to the intersections of ecological and social dynamics offers a framework for understanding African sacred groves that avoids assumptions of steady states of habitat and culture. This article, based on a case study from the No…
Timely Assets
Spirituality and Social Work
Journal Article Spirituality and Social Work Get access Spirituality and Social Work. By Beth R. Crisp. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 180pp. $99.95. Michael Sheridan Michael Sheridan The Catholic University of AmericaWashington, DC [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 53, Issue 2, Spring 2011, Pages 317–319, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csr051 Publishe…
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