Charlotte G Hudson
Biographic Data
| ID | 202014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte G Hudson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte G |
| FAMILY NAME | Hudson |
| SIGNATURE | HUDSON C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Salem State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2153-9948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Benchmarks for Needed Psychiatric Beds for the United States
The ideal balanced mental health service system presupposes that planners can determine the need for various required services. The history of deinstitutionalization has shown that one of the most difficult such determinations involves the number of needed psychiatric beds for various localities. Historically, such assessments have been made on the basis of waiting and vacancy lists, expert estimates, or social indicator approaches that do not ta…
The Nexus of Social Progress and Economic Inequality
In its extended history, social progress has become a metanarrative of the western world, one that has been both extolled and more recently pervasively dismissed. This review examines this history, including efforts to resurrect the concept, both through global research and within social work. Specifically, the advancement of social progress is incorporated as a central rationale of the Grand Challenges for Social Work. The problems inherent in t…
The impact of geographic isolation on mental disability in the United States
Geographic isolation has long been hypothesized to have a role in the origins and development of mental disabilities. A considerable body of research has established such a correlation. However, study designs have limited researchers' ability to establish a causal connection and rule out rival hypotheses. This study, therefore, aims to assess the strength of the geographic isolation - mental disability relationship and to disentangle it from alte…
Deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals and rates of psychiatric disability
Behavioral Mental Health
Proliferation in the use of the terminology around behavioral mental health suggests, on one hand, an emerging field of service that integrates psychiatric, substance abuse, and related services. On the other hand, this development also raises questions about the coherence of this approach. This review explores the history, definitional issues, current trends, and available data on the impact of this field. It considers a variety of critiques of …
Disparities in the geography of serious mental illness in Israel
Patterns of Residential Mobility of People with Schizophrenia
This study tests the geographic drift hypothesis that the negative SES-MI correlation results from individuals first developing conditions such as schizophrenia and then moving frequently because of their disability to low income and urban areas, and to neighborhoods with high concentrations of SMI persons. This is a secondary analysis of hospital records of 1,667,956 individuals in Massachusetts, USA, between 1994 and 2000. It employs a longitud…
The geography of adult homelessness in the US
Decision Making in Evidence‐Based Practice
In this article the author reviews problems in the implementation of evidence‐based practices (EBP) and concludes that these derive not only from numerous practical concerns, but also from fundamental epistemological issues. These include an antiquated understanding of the scientific method, involving types of naive inductivism and rationalism. The central argument of this article is that recent developments in the field of naturalistic decision …
Socioeconomic Status and Mental Illness
This study tests several hypotheses about the underlying causal structure of the inverse correlation between socioeconomic status (SES) and mental illness.It does this through the analysis of a longitudinal statewide database on acute psychiatric hospitalization in Massachusetts for the fiscal years 1994 -2000 as well as supplemental census data.The modeling strategy used techniques of structural equation modeling and found that SES impacted dire…
The Dynamics of Self-Organization
The following reviews the promises and limitations for social work of self-organization theory, an integral part of the emerging field of complex systems. Self-organization refers to the capacity of many systems to spontaneously develop novel forms of organization with little external interference. The primary focus of the review involves what the author contends are several neglected dimensions of higher level self-organizing systems, specifical…
Changing Patterns of Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization under a Public Managed Care Program
This study evaluates changes in patterns of acute psychiatric hospitalization under Massachusetts' Medicaid-funded Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MMHSA) carve-out program. The data consists of the Case Mix Database, for FY 1996 and FY 1997, compiled by the state's Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, on all acute hospital episodes in the state. Key comparisons involve hospital utilization during the nine months preceding the 1996 imple…
From Social Darwinism to Self‐Organization
This article reviews the impact of evolutionary thought on social change theory. It argues that social Darwinist assumptions underlie many of the efforts to understand social change. Partly for this reason, social change theory has languished in recent years. Recently, however, nonequilibrium theories have generated a new interest in the notion of emergence, specifically, self‐organization. Theories of self‐organization are now being used by post…
Estimating Homeless Populations through Structural Equation Modeling
This article overviews the results from a test of a model of homeless populations throughout the 3,141 counties of the United States. The data were extracted from the 1990 Census, a Census Bureau survey of its enumerators at completion of the census, and other governmental sources. The model was tested using the generally weighted least squares algorithm, as implemented under the Extended LISREL model. It was found that urbanization, servicetizat…
The Performance of State Community Mental Health Systems
The study develops and tests a path model of the performance of state community mental health systems. It reports a secondary analysis of data from several recently completed studies. The final model, which accounts for over half of the variation in rated performance, replicates earlier findings, which reveal a minimal role for spending, and identifies centralization in state human service agencies as having major importance in determining perfor…
Recent Advances in Alcoholism Diagnosis and Treatment Assessment Research
This article reviews recent advances in knowledge regarding the diagnosis and evaluation of treatments for alcoholism. These include changes in the definition and measurement of alcoholism, controlled drinking versus abstinence as treatment goals, the efficacy of various treatments, and the growing evidence concerning the salience of environmental factors in the recovery process from alcoholism. Finally, we discuss the implications of these advan…
The Social Class and Mental Illness Correlation
Ongoing efforts to unravel the causal issues involved in the correlation between socioeconomic status and mental illness suggest that the hypothesis of a recursive or interactive relationship may be the most tenable, at least with the psychoses. Implications of this research are explored, with particular attention paid to the mental health costs of economic policies, the principles with which states allocate mental health resources, and the use o…
Status and Participation in Six-Person Groups
Journal Article Status and Participation in Six-Person Groups: A Test of Skvoretz's Comparative Status Model Get access Lynn Smith-Lovin, Lynn Smith-Lovin University of South Carolina Address correspondence to Lynn Smith-Lovin, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John V. Skvoretz, John V. Skvoretz University of South Carolina Search for…
State Mental Health Spending Under the Adamha Block Grant
The study investigates changes in state mental health spending under the Alcohol. Drug Abuse, and Mental Health (ADAMHA) block grant. A central issue has been whether state policy makers would decide to compensate for Federal cutbacks, or would follow suit and cutback their own spending. Budgetary data were collected and analyzed with multivariate statistical procedures. The findings indicate that the mental health block grant has had a stimulati…
Status and Participation in Six-Person Groups
Journal Article Status and Participation in Six-Person Groups: A Test of Skvoretz's Comparative Status Model Get access Lynn Smith-Lovin, Lynn Smith-Lovin University of South Carolina Address correspondence to Lynn Smith-Lovin, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John V. Skvoretz, John V. Skvoretz University of South Carolina Search for…
From Social Darwinism to Self‐Organization
This article reviews the impact of evolutionary thought on social change theory. It argues that social Darwinist assumptions underlie many of the efforts to understand social change. Partly for this reason, social change theory has languished in recent years. Recently, however, nonequilibrium theories have generated a new interest in the notion of emergence, specifically, self‐organization. Theories of self‐organization are now being used by post…
The geography of adult homelessness in the US
Decision Making in Evidence‐Based Practice
In this article the author reviews problems in the implementation of evidence‐based practices (EBP) and concludes that these derive not only from numerous practical concerns, but also from fundamental epistemological issues. These include an antiquated understanding of the scientific method, involving types of naive inductivism and rationalism. The central argument of this article is that recent developments in the field of naturalistic decision …
The Dynamics of Self-Organization
The following reviews the promises and limitations for social work of self-organization theory, an integral part of the emerging field of complex systems. Self-organization refers to the capacity of many systems to spontaneously develop novel forms of organization with little external interference. The primary focus of the review involves what the author contends are several neglected dimensions of higher level self-organizing systems, specifical…
Deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals and rates of psychiatric disability
The Performance of State Community Mental Health Systems
The study develops and tests a path model of the performance of state community mental health systems. It reports a secondary analysis of data from several recently completed studies. The final model, which accounts for over half of the variation in rated performance, replicates earlier findings, which reveal a minimal role for spending, and identifies centralization in state human service agencies as having major importance in determining perfor…
The Social Class and Mental Illness Correlation
Ongoing efforts to unravel the causal issues involved in the correlation between socioeconomic status and mental illness suggest that the hypothesis of a recursive or interactive relationship may be the most tenable, at least with the psychoses. Implications of this research are explored, with particular attention paid to the mental health costs of economic policies, the principles with which states allocate mental health resources, and the use o…
Changing Patterns of Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization under a Public Managed Care Program
This study evaluates changes in patterns of acute psychiatric hospitalization under Massachusetts' Medicaid-funded Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MMHSA) carve-out program. The data consists of the Case Mix Database, for FY 1996 and FY 1997, compiled by the state's Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, on all acute hospital episodes in the state. Key comparisons involve hospital utilization during the nine months preceding the 1996 imple…
State Mental Health Spending Under the Adamha Block Grant
The study investigates changes in state mental health spending under the Alcohol. Drug Abuse, and Mental Health (ADAMHA) block grant. A central issue has been whether state policy makers would decide to compensate for Federal cutbacks, or would follow suit and cutback their own spending. Budgetary data were collected and analyzed with multivariate statistical procedures. The findings indicate that the mental health block grant has had a stimulati…
Status and Participation in Six-Person Groups
Journal Article Status and Participation in Six-Person Groups: A Test of Skvoretz's Comparative Status Model Get access Lynn Smith-Lovin, Lynn Smith-Lovin University of South Carolina Address correspondence to Lynn Smith-Lovin, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John V. Skvoretz, John V. Skvoretz University of South Carolina Search for…
The Social Class and Mental Illness Correlation
Ongoing efforts to unravel the causal issues involved in the correlation between socioeconomic status and mental illness suggest that the hypothesis of a recursive or interactive relationship may be the most tenable, at least with the psychoses. Implications of this research are explored, with particular attention paid to the mental health costs of economic policies, the principles with which states allocate mental health resources, and the use o…
Recent Advances in Alcoholism Diagnosis and Treatment Assessment Research
This article reviews recent advances in knowledge regarding the diagnosis and evaluation of treatments for alcoholism. These include changes in the definition and measurement of alcoholism, controlled drinking versus abstinence as treatment goals, the efficacy of various treatments, and the growing evidence concerning the salience of environmental factors in the recovery process from alcoholism. Finally, we discuss the implications of these advan…
The Performance of State Community Mental Health Systems
The study develops and tests a path model of the performance of state community mental health systems. It reports a secondary analysis of data from several recently completed studies. The final model, which accounts for over half of the variation in rated performance, replicates earlier findings, which reveal a minimal role for spending, and identifies centralization in state human service agencies as having major importance in determining perfor…
Estimating Homeless Populations through Structural Equation Modeling
This article overviews the results from a test of a model of homeless populations throughout the 3,141 counties of the United States. The data were extracted from the 1990 Census, a Census Bureau survey of its enumerators at completion of the census, and other governmental sources. The model was tested using the generally weighted least squares algorithm, as implemented under the Extended LISREL model. It was found that urbanization, servicetizat…
From Social Darwinism to Self‐Organization
This article reviews the impact of evolutionary thought on social change theory. It argues that social Darwinist assumptions underlie many of the efforts to understand social change. Partly for this reason, social change theory has languished in recent years. Recently, however, nonequilibrium theories have generated a new interest in the notion of emergence, specifically, self‐organization. Theories of self‐organization are now being used by post…
Changing Patterns of Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization under a Public Managed Care Program
This study evaluates changes in patterns of acute psychiatric hospitalization under Massachusetts' Medicaid-funded Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MMHSA) carve-out program. The data consists of the Case Mix Database, for FY 1996 and FY 1997, compiled by the state's Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, on all acute hospital episodes in the state. Key comparisons involve hospital utilization during the nine months preceding the 1996 imple…
Socioeconomic Status and Mental Illness
This study tests several hypotheses about the underlying causal structure of the inverse correlation between socioeconomic status (SES) and mental illness.It does this through the analysis of a longitudinal statewide database on acute psychiatric hospitalization in Massachusetts for the fiscal years 1994 -2000 as well as supplemental census data.The modeling strategy used techniques of structural equation modeling and found that SES impacted dire…
The Dynamics of Self-Organization
The following reviews the promises and limitations for social work of self-organization theory, an integral part of the emerging field of complex systems. Self-organization refers to the capacity of many systems to spontaneously develop novel forms of organization with little external interference. The primary focus of the review involves what the author contends are several neglected dimensions of higher level self-organizing systems, specifical…
Decision Making in Evidence‐Based Practice
In this article the author reviews problems in the implementation of evidence‐based practices (EBP) and concludes that these derive not only from numerous practical concerns, but also from fundamental epistemological issues. These include an antiquated understanding of the scientific method, involving types of naive inductivism and rationalism. The central argument of this article is that recent developments in the field of naturalistic decision …
The geography of adult homelessness in the US
Disparities in the geography of serious mental illness in Israel
Patterns of Residential Mobility of People with Schizophrenia
This study tests the geographic drift hypothesis that the negative SES-MI correlation results from individuals first developing conditions such as schizophrenia and then moving frequently because of their disability to low income and urban areas, and to neighborhoods with high concentrations of SMI persons. This is a secondary analysis of hospital records of 1,667,956 individuals in Massachusetts, USA, between 1994 and 2000. It employs a longitud…
Behavioral Mental Health
Proliferation in the use of the terminology around behavioral mental health suggests, on one hand, an emerging field of service that integrates psychiatric, substance abuse, and related services. On the other hand, this development also raises questions about the coherence of this approach. This review explores the history, definitional issues, current trends, and available data on the impact of this field. It considers a variety of critiques of …
The impact of geographic isolation on mental disability in the United States
Geographic isolation has long been hypothesized to have a role in the origins and development of mental disabilities. A considerable body of research has established such a correlation. However, study designs have limited researchers' ability to establish a causal connection and rule out rival hypotheses. This study, therefore, aims to assess the strength of the geographic isolation - mental disability relationship and to disentangle it from alte…
Deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals and rates of psychiatric disability
The Nexus of Social Progress and Economic Inequality
In its extended history, social progress has become a metanarrative of the western world, one that has been both extolled and more recently pervasively dismissed. This review examines this history, including efforts to resurrect the concept, both through global research and within social work. Specifically, the advancement of social progress is incorporated as a central rationale of the Grand Challenges for Social Work. The problems inherent in t…
Benchmarks for Needed Psychiatric Beds for the United States
The ideal balanced mental health service system presupposes that planners can determine the need for various required services. The history of deinstitutionalization has shown that one of the most difficult such determinations involves the number of needed psychiatric beds for various localities. Historically, such assessments have been made on the basis of waiting and vacancy lists, expert estimates, or social indicator approaches that do not ta…
Psychology (11 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Demography (7 works) · Demography (7 works) · Economics (7 works)