Larry Nackerud
Biographic Data
| ID | 179030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Nackerud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Nackerud |
| SIGNATURE | NACKERUD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
U.S. social work students’ attitudes on social media as treatment modality
The present U.S.-based study adds to the ongoing discourse on the ethical use of digital technology in social work practice, made more urgent by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Following the achievement of Human Subjects approval, we obtained a stratified, random sample of 150 institutions of higher education with Council on Social Work Education-accredited undergraduate and graduate social work programs. Prior to COVID-19, we administer…
Social work & social media
The propagation of social media carries important ethical ramifications for communication norms, democracy, societal wellbeing, and individual mental health. These issues fall within the professional purview of social work. The purpose of this national survey study (N = 430) was to describe social media use, attitudes, and knowledge among social work students across the United States. To achieve this stated purpose, the authors obtained IRB Human…
Social work education and the recognition of rights in the digital tech age
The use of digital technology by law enforcement apparatuses raises important social justice implications for existing race- and economic-based disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system. The purpose of the present survey research study is to describe and ascertain statistically significant differences and non-differences between, and predictors of, U.S. social work students regarding their attitudes toward, and intersectional knowledge of, …
“Human behavior and the social media environment”
Social media has ethical implications for social work practice, and accordingly, for professional identity and social work education. In Spring 2019, we administered a 57-item survey to undergraduate and graduate social work students (N = 42) in order to ascertain attitudes about and knowledge of social media at a public university in the Southeastern United States. The purpose of the present study is to explore group differences between social w…
Social exclusion, mental health, and social well-being among African immigrants in the United States
This study examined the effects of social exclusion (socio-cultural and structural-economic exclusion) on the mental health and social well-being of African immigrants in the United States ( N = 409). We found that social exclusion increased depression and anxiety symptoms, decreased societal trust, increased subjective isolation, and increased worries about one’s safety among African immigrants. The results further indicated strong negative effe…
Social media use, attitudes, and knowledge among social work students
The propagation of social media carries potentially rich ethical implications for communication norms, societal well-being, and individual mental health (i.e., human development and behavior). These concerns fall within the professional purview of social work. The purpose of this pilot survey research study is two-fold: (1) to describe and explore variables of interest, and their ethical implications, within the data pertaining to social work stu…
The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States
Public attitudes, negative stereotypes, and stigma are essential to cultural narratives about the membership status of people with intellectual disability and people who have immigrated to the United States. With a concern for the exclusion of people from participation in democratic societies, this mixed methods study explores conceptual links between the criminalization of intellectual disability and immigration. The overlay of criminal justice …
Using Game Theory to Understand Screening for Domestic Violence Under the Tanf Family Violence Option
Universal screening for domestic violence in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is required by most states, but its implementation is questionable. This paper employs game theory to conceptualize interactions between TANF applicants and frontline eligibility caseworkers. The intended outcomes of universal screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) - granting of a good cause waiver to IPV victims - are valid only by the …
An Ecological Approach to Evaluating a System of Care Program
System of care (SOC) models in North America were developed in response to the needs of children with a severe emotional disturbance. Such children experience problems across life spheres including issues at home that put them at risk of abuse and neglect, difficulties at school including special education classification and dropping-out, and involvement with the juvenile courts. SOC evaluations and research suggests that an overreliance of evalu…
Haiti and the Earthquake
For approximately 35 seconds on January 10, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the small Caribbean nation of Haiti. This research used a preexperimental one-shot posttest to examine the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and associated trauma symptomatology from the earthquake experienced by a sample of adult Haitians who were living in temporary shelters located in “tent cities” in Port-au-Prince and a c…
Social Capital and the Integration of Zimbabwean Immigrants in the United States
Increasing diversity among contemporary immigrants to the United States requires social workers to constantly update their understanding of who constitutes the new immigrant population and what the
Ethnomedical Syndromes and Treatment-Seeking Behavior among Mayan Refugees in Chiapas, Mexico
Evaluating the Effects of an Applied Learning Exercise on Students' Interest in Social Policy
There is ample evidence that points out that the majority of social work students have little interest in social policy analysis. In this study, the impact a classroombased policy construction exercise had on the interest level in policy of a differentiated sample (N = 43) of MSW students, in which participants were enrolled in either a community- or family-practice program, was measured. Results of a paired samples t-test suggest that the exerci…
The Relationship Between the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and Innovative Welfare Practices on a Local Level
Part of the intention of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) was to encourage the development of innovative welfare programs on a state and local level. The Act removed stringent federal regulations regarding the design and implementation of cash welfare programs. The freer programmatic environment was to assist local offices in addressing the unique needs of their particular clients as they moved …
Defining Social Work
The components of the working definition's constellation that makes up social work practice are examined. This article suggests that the working definition, as stated, is not appropriate today. It is suggested that it is not the knowledge and methods of social work practice but the values and purpose underlying social work that define it. It is emphasized that the definition of social work should be inclusive of different attitudes and opinions, …
Refugees' Responses to Mental Health Screening
For a variety of reasons related to pre- and post-migration factors, refugees experience a high rate of mental health problems. The early detection of these problems among refugees arriving in the United States benefits those individuals, the agencies that sponsor them and the communities that absorb them. The development of culturally-sensitive mental health screening instruments to identify pathology among refugees has been the focus of some re…
The Disease Model of Alcoholism
Despite the fact that the disease model of alcoholism has lost its status as paradigm in international circles, the alcoholism research and treatment community in the United States maintains steadfast allegiance to the tenets of the disease model. The disease model and the related treatment goal of abstinence continue to overwhelmingly dominate the treatment of alcoholism in the U.S. Critics have suggested that financial and political motives hav…
Evaluation of a Job-Finding Club for Tanf Recipients
Objective: The impacts of a job-finding club for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients required to work were investigated. Dependent measures included welfare recipients’ self-esteem, assertive job-hunting behavior, and perceived barriers to employment. Method: Pretest and posttest data were collected from four 2-week job-finding clubs sponsored by a welfare agency in a suburban county in Georgia. Results: Twenty-five of 40 pa…
A New Perspective on Families that Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Tanf)
A review of the scholarly literature shows that a number of analyses of welfare are mistakenly based upon the premise that the overwhelming majority of welfare recipients receive benefits because they are young single women who are undereducated and caring for a child either born out of wedlock or abandoned by divorce/separation. The term welfare can encompasses a number of social programs (e.g. Food Stamps, state general assistance programs, Med…
A Case Study of Community Collaboration
The Georgia Policy Council for Children and Families has adopted a framework for local governance and system reform. Ten counties are currently implementing the framework. This case study describes the implementation in Dawson County, Georgia. We assessed congruence between the Georgia Policy Council's framework and initiation in Dawson County. We used qualitative research methods of interviewing, document review, and observation to produce a ric…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
The nearly automatic acceptance of Cubans into the United States as political refugees for 35 years represents a contradiction which lingered in U.S. refugee policy. This article provides a description and analysis of the 1994 Cuban Balsero (rafter) Crisis that prompted a decision by the Clinton administration on May 2, 1995, to officially end the open door era for Cuban acceptance into the United States. The resulting policy change 1) terminated…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
Larry Nackerud, Alyson Springer, Christopher Larrison, Alicia Issac, The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy, The International Migration Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 176-192
The road less traveled
Social work faculty and students from a university in the southeastern US participated in a 21-day exchange program with a university in Mexico. The experience involved 10 days of language and cultural immersion, concurrent exposure to social service agencies, and an additional week of visits to regional social work campuses. Goals included developing bilingual, culturally competent social workers. Objective measures for cultural competence showe…
Evaluating the Georgia Legislative Waiver's Effectiveness in Deterring Juvenile Crime
In an effort to curb the reported increases in violent juvenile crime, the growing trend of state legislatures is the removal of crimes specified as serious from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Having been legislatively waived, these offenses are placed within the jurisdiction of the superior court, and the offender, regardless of age, is tried as an adult. This investigation reports on the deterrent effect of the Georgia legislative waiv…
Domestic Violence Gun Ban
This article analyzes the conflict between two interest groups—advocates for battered women and advocates for law enforcement personnel— that has arisen over P.L. 104-208, which prohibits those who have been convicted of domestic violence from possessing and carrying guns. The article describes the evolution of responses to domestic violence, presents a brief history of the battered women's movement, and discusses the stances of the two interest …
The road less traveled
Social work faculty and students from a university in the southeastern US participated in a 21-day exchange program with a university in Mexico. The experience involved 10 days of language and cultural immersion, concurrent exposure to social service agencies, and an additional week of visits to regional social work campuses. Goals included developing bilingual, culturally competent social workers. Objective measures for cultural competence showe…
Social exclusion, mental health, and social well-being among African immigrants in the United States
This study examined the effects of social exclusion (socio-cultural and structural-economic exclusion) on the mental health and social well-being of African immigrants in the United States ( N = 409). We found that social exclusion increased depression and anxiety symptoms, decreased societal trust, increased subjective isolation, and increased worries about one’s safety among African immigrants. The results further indicated strong negative effe…
Refugees' Responses to Mental Health Screening
For a variety of reasons related to pre- and post-migration factors, refugees experience a high rate of mental health problems. The early detection of these problems among refugees arriving in the United States benefits those individuals, the agencies that sponsor them and the communities that absorb them. The development of culturally-sensitive mental health screening instruments to identify pathology among refugees has been the focus of some re…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
The nearly automatic acceptance of Cubans into the United States as political refugees for 35 years represents a contradiction which lingered in U.S. refugee policy. This article provides a description and analysis of the 1994 Cuban Balsero (rafter) Crisis that prompted a decision by the Clinton administration on May 2, 1995, to officially end the open door era for Cuban acceptance into the United States. The resulting policy change 1) terminated…
Evaluating the Georgia Legislative Waiver's Effectiveness in Deterring Juvenile Crime
In an effort to curb the reported increases in violent juvenile crime, the growing trend of state legislatures is the removal of crimes specified as serious from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Having been legislatively waived, these offenses are placed within the jurisdiction of the superior court, and the offender, regardless of age, is tried as an adult. This investigation reports on the deterrent effect of the Georgia legislative waiv…
Social Capital and the Integration of Zimbabwean Immigrants in the United States
Increasing diversity among contemporary immigrants to the United States requires social workers to constantly update their understanding of who constitutes the new immigrant population and what the
Evaluation of a Job-Finding Club for Tanf Recipients
Objective: The impacts of a job-finding club for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients required to work were investigated. Dependent measures included welfare recipients’ self-esteem, assertive job-hunting behavior, and perceived barriers to employment. Method: Pretest and posttest data were collected from four 2-week job-finding clubs sponsored by a welfare agency in a suburban county in Georgia. Results: Twenty-five of 40 pa…
Defining Social Work
The components of the working definition's constellation that makes up social work practice are examined. This article suggests that the working definition, as stated, is not appropriate today. It is suggested that it is not the knowledge and methods of social work practice but the values and purpose underlying social work that define it. It is emphasized that the definition of social work should be inclusive of different attitudes and opinions, …
A New Perspective on Families that Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Tanf)
A review of the scholarly literature shows that a number of analyses of welfare are mistakenly based upon the premise that the overwhelming majority of welfare recipients receive benefits because they are young single women who are undereducated and caring for a child either born out of wedlock or abandoned by divorce/separation. The term welfare can encompasses a number of social programs (e.g. Food Stamps, state general assistance programs, Med…
An Ecological Approach to Evaluating a System of Care Program
System of care (SOC) models in North America were developed in response to the needs of children with a severe emotional disturbance. Such children experience problems across life spheres including issues at home that put them at risk of abuse and neglect, difficulties at school including special education classification and dropping-out, and involvement with the juvenile courts. SOC evaluations and research suggests that an overreliance of evalu…
Haiti and the Earthquake
For approximately 35 seconds on January 10, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the small Caribbean nation of Haiti. This research used a preexperimental one-shot posttest to examine the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and associated trauma symptomatology from the earthquake experienced by a sample of adult Haitians who were living in temporary shelters located in “tent cities” in Port-au-Prince and a c…
Evaluating the Effects of an Applied Learning Exercise on Students' Interest in Social Policy
There is ample evidence that points out that the majority of social work students have little interest in social policy analysis. In this study, the impact a classroombased policy construction exercise had on the interest level in policy of a differentiated sample (N = 43) of MSW students, in which participants were enrolled in either a community- or family-practice program, was measured. Results of a paired samples t-test suggest that the exerci…
The Relationship Between the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and Innovative Welfare Practices on a Local Level
Part of the intention of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) was to encourage the development of innovative welfare programs on a state and local level. The Act removed stringent federal regulations regarding the design and implementation of cash welfare programs. The freer programmatic environment was to assist local offices in addressing the unique needs of their particular clients as they moved …
The Disease Model of Alcoholism
Despite the fact that the disease model of alcoholism has lost its status as paradigm in international circles, the alcoholism research and treatment community in the United States maintains steadfast allegiance to the tenets of the disease model. The disease model and the related treatment goal of abstinence continue to overwhelmingly dominate the treatment of alcoholism in the U.S. Critics have suggested that financial and political motives hav…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
Larry Nackerud, Alyson Springer, Christopher Larrison, Alicia Issac, The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy, The International Migration Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 176-192
Domestic Violence Gun Ban
This article analyzes the conflict between two interest groups—advocates for battered women and advocates for law enforcement personnel— that has arisen over P.L. 104-208, which prohibits those who have been convicted of domestic violence from possessing and carrying guns. The article describes the evolution of responses to domestic violence, presents a brief history of the battered women's movement, and discusses the stances of the two interest …
The Central American Refugee Issue in Brownsville, Texas
Evaluating the Georgia Legislative Waiver's Effectiveness in Deterring Juvenile Crime
In an effort to curb the reported increases in violent juvenile crime, the growing trend of state legislatures is the removal of crimes specified as serious from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Having been legislatively waived, these offenses are placed within the jurisdiction of the superior court, and the offender, regardless of age, is tried as an adult. This investigation reports on the deterrent effect of the Georgia legislative waiv…
Domestic Violence Gun Ban
This article analyzes the conflict between two interest groups—advocates for battered women and advocates for law enforcement personnel— that has arisen over P.L. 104-208, which prohibits those who have been convicted of domestic violence from possessing and carrying guns. The article describes the evolution of responses to domestic violence, presents a brief history of the battered women's movement, and discusses the stances of the two interest …
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
The nearly automatic acceptance of Cubans into the United States as political refugees for 35 years represents a contradiction which lingered in U.S. refugee policy. This article provides a description and analysis of the 1994 Cuban Balsero (rafter) Crisis that prompted a decision by the Clinton administration on May 2, 1995, to officially end the open door era for Cuban acceptance into the United States. The resulting policy change 1) terminated…
The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy
Larry Nackerud, Alyson Springer, Christopher Larrison, Alicia Issac, The End of the Cuban Contradiction in U.S. Refugee Policy, The International Migration Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 176-192
The road less traveled
Social work faculty and students from a university in the southeastern US participated in a 21-day exchange program with a university in Mexico. The experience involved 10 days of language and cultural immersion, concurrent exposure to social service agencies, and an additional week of visits to regional social work campuses. Goals included developing bilingual, culturally competent social workers. Objective measures for cultural competence showe…
A Case Study of Community Collaboration
The Georgia Policy Council for Children and Families has adopted a framework for local governance and system reform. Ten counties are currently implementing the framework. This case study describes the implementation in Dawson County, Georgia. We assessed congruence between the Georgia Policy Council's framework and initiation in Dawson County. We used qualitative research methods of interviewing, document review, and observation to produce a ric…
Evaluation of a Job-Finding Club for Tanf Recipients
Objective: The impacts of a job-finding club for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients required to work were investigated. Dependent measures included welfare recipients’ self-esteem, assertive job-hunting behavior, and perceived barriers to employment. Method: Pretest and posttest data were collected from four 2-week job-finding clubs sponsored by a welfare agency in a suburban county in Georgia. Results: Twenty-five of 40 pa…
A New Perspective on Families that Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Tanf)
A review of the scholarly literature shows that a number of analyses of welfare are mistakenly based upon the premise that the overwhelming majority of welfare recipients receive benefits because they are young single women who are undereducated and caring for a child either born out of wedlock or abandoned by divorce/separation. The term welfare can encompasses a number of social programs (e.g. Food Stamps, state general assistance programs, Med…
The Disease Model of Alcoholism
Despite the fact that the disease model of alcoholism has lost its status as paradigm in international circles, the alcoholism research and treatment community in the United States maintains steadfast allegiance to the tenets of the disease model. The disease model and the related treatment goal of abstinence continue to overwhelmingly dominate the treatment of alcoholism in the U.S. Critics have suggested that financial and political motives hav…
Defining Social Work
The components of the working definition's constellation that makes up social work practice are examined. This article suggests that the working definition, as stated, is not appropriate today. It is suggested that it is not the knowledge and methods of social work practice but the values and purpose underlying social work that define it. It is emphasized that the definition of social work should be inclusive of different attitudes and opinions, …
Refugees' Responses to Mental Health Screening
For a variety of reasons related to pre- and post-migration factors, refugees experience a high rate of mental health problems. The early detection of these problems among refugees arriving in the United States benefits those individuals, the agencies that sponsor them and the communities that absorb them. The development of culturally-sensitive mental health screening instruments to identify pathology among refugees has been the focus of some re…
Evaluating the Effects of an Applied Learning Exercise on Students' Interest in Social Policy
There is ample evidence that points out that the majority of social work students have little interest in social policy analysis. In this study, the impact a classroombased policy construction exercise had on the interest level in policy of a differentiated sample (N = 43) of MSW students, in which participants were enrolled in either a community- or family-practice program, was measured. Results of a paired samples t-test suggest that the exerci…
The Relationship Between the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and Innovative Welfare Practices on a Local Level
Part of the intention of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) was to encourage the development of innovative welfare programs on a state and local level. The Act removed stringent federal regulations regarding the design and implementation of cash welfare programs. The freer programmatic environment was to assist local offices in addressing the unique needs of their particular clients as they moved …
Ethnomedical Syndromes and Treatment-Seeking Behavior among Mayan Refugees in Chiapas, Mexico
Social Capital and the Integration of Zimbabwean Immigrants in the United States
Increasing diversity among contemporary immigrants to the United States requires social workers to constantly update their understanding of who constitutes the new immigrant population and what the
An Ecological Approach to Evaluating a System of Care Program
System of care (SOC) models in North America were developed in response to the needs of children with a severe emotional disturbance. Such children experience problems across life spheres including issues at home that put them at risk of abuse and neglect, difficulties at school including special education classification and dropping-out, and involvement with the juvenile courts. SOC evaluations and research suggests that an overreliance of evalu…
Haiti and the Earthquake
For approximately 35 seconds on January 10, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the small Caribbean nation of Haiti. This research used a preexperimental one-shot posttest to examine the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and associated trauma symptomatology from the earthquake experienced by a sample of adult Haitians who were living in temporary shelters located in “tent cities” in Port-au-Prince and a c…
Using Game Theory to Understand Screening for Domestic Violence Under the Tanf Family Violence Option
Universal screening for domestic violence in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is required by most states, but its implementation is questionable. This paper employs game theory to conceptualize interactions between TANF applicants and frontline eligibility caseworkers. The intended outcomes of universal screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) - granting of a good cause waiver to IPV victims - are valid only by the …
Social media use, attitudes, and knowledge among social work students
The propagation of social media carries potentially rich ethical implications for communication norms, societal well-being, and individual mental health (i.e., human development and behavior). These concerns fall within the professional purview of social work. The purpose of this pilot survey research study is two-fold: (1) to describe and explore variables of interest, and their ethical implications, within the data pertaining to social work stu…
The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States
Public attitudes, negative stereotypes, and stigma are essential to cultural narratives about the membership status of people with intellectual disability and people who have immigrated to the United States. With a concern for the exclusion of people from participation in democratic societies, this mixed methods study explores conceptual links between the criminalization of intellectual disability and immigration. The overlay of criminal justice …
“Human behavior and the social media environment”
Social media has ethical implications for social work practice, and accordingly, for professional identity and social work education. In Spring 2019, we administered a 57-item survey to undergraduate and graduate social work students (N = 42) in order to ascertain attitudes about and knowledge of social media at a public university in the Southeastern United States. The purpose of the present study is to explore group differences between social w…
Social exclusion, mental health, and social well-being among African immigrants in the United States
This study examined the effects of social exclusion (socio-cultural and structural-economic exclusion) on the mental health and social well-being of African immigrants in the United States ( N = 409). We found that social exclusion increased depression and anxiety symptoms, decreased societal trust, increased subjective isolation, and increased worries about one’s safety among African immigrants. The results further indicated strong negative effe…
Social work education and the recognition of rights in the digital tech age
The use of digital technology by law enforcement apparatuses raises important social justice implications for existing race- and economic-based disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system. The purpose of the present survey research study is to describe and ascertain statistically significant differences and non-differences between, and predictors of, U.S. social work students regarding their attitudes toward, and intersectional knowledge of, …
U.S. social work students’ attitudes on social media as treatment modality
The present U.S.-based study adds to the ongoing discourse on the ethical use of digital technology in social work practice, made more urgent by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Following the achievement of Human Subjects approval, we obtained a stratified, random sample of 150 institutions of higher education with Council on Social Work Education-accredited undergraduate and graduate social work programs. Prior to COVID-19, we administer…
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