J Fred Springer
Biographic Data
| ID | 244409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Fred Springer |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Fred |
| FAMILY NAME | Springer |
| SIGNATURE | SPRINGER J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Quality of Provider–Participant Relationships and Enhancement of Adolescent Social Skills
The Sess multisite collaborative research initiative: Establishing common ground
Multidisciplinary intervention approaches are needed for meeting service needs for families in which substance abuse and mental health disorders may be interfering with child‐rearing. Experiences from the Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) initiative, a 12‐site national collaborative investigation of integrating behavioural health services in early childhood and primary health care service settings for children aged 0–5 years and their families…
Family Protection and Prevention of Alcohol Use Among Hispanic Youth at High Risk
Research regarding prevention strategies for Hispanic youth stress the importance of family interventions because of the particular importance of family as a protective factor within the Hispanic community. Starting in 1995, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention conducted the National Cross-Site Evaluation of High Risk Youth Programs, a 5-year drug and alcohol prevention study with a sample of approximately 10,500 youth, including nearly 3,00…
Characteristics of Effective Substance Abuse Prevention Programs for High-Risk Youth
Effectiveness of Culturally Specific Approaches to Substance Abuse Prevention: Findings from CSAP's National Cross-Site Evaluation of High Risk Youth Programs
This study assesses the degree to which culturally specific interventions enhance substance abuse prevention effectiveness for targeted cultural groups. A large and diverse (African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian) sample of 10,500 youth across 48 programs was obtained. Youth participating in culturally specific programming showed greater program satisfaction and felt programs were more personally meaningful than youth in non-cultu…
Prevention Programming for African American Youth: A Review of Strategies in CSAP’s National Cross-Site Evaluation of High-Risk Youth Programs
The purpose of this paper is to add to the knowledge base on prevention programming by explicating the characteristics of 12 programs (out of 47) serving African American youth funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). Findings show that African American youth exhibit lower use rates than most other ethnic and racial groups, but by the time they reach ages 16 to 18, use is prevalent. Data on correlations of risk and protective f…
Informing the next generation of prevention programs: CSAP's cross-site evaluation of the 1994–95 high-risk youth grantees
With more than 400 projects funded since its initiation, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) High-Risk Youth Demonstration Program (HRY) is a prime example of federally sponsored demonstrations for generating and disseminating policy and program lessons in the area of substance abuse prevention. The HRY demonstration has provided strong support for both local and cross-site …
Family interventions and adolescent resiliency: The Southwest Texas State High‐Risk Youth Program
Family interventions and adolescent resiliency: The Southwest Texas State High-Risk Youth Program
The emergence of social ecology as an orienting perspective in prevention has reinforced attention to the family as a critical influence on adolescent risk and protection. The Southwest Texas High-Risk Youth Program (SWTHRY) addressed the neglect of family as a prevention focus by providing in-home sessions for high-risk families that sought to strengthen family cohesion and adaptability, and thereby promote adolescent resiliency. Based on pre- a…
Success and Failure in Public Sector Consulting: The Consuming Slide
The responsibility for improved public sector utilization of research and recommendations by outside consultants has traditionally been placed squarely on consultants themselves. Case analyses of three consulting episodes in state government supports an alternative perspective: responsibility for improving utilization of consulting services must lie equally with contracting agencies—the consuming side. Fragmented and shifting managerial attention…
Policy Analysis and Organizational Decisions: Toward a Conceptual Revision
Field observation of practicing policy analysts, and review of a growing revisionist literature that examines policy analysis as currently practiced and utilized, produces three themes that diverge from traditional conceptualizations of rational decision-making. These themes suggest that the utilization of policy analysis can best be understood and facilitated by (a) analyzing the organizational structures and procedures facilitating or impeding …
Plea Bargaining as a Game: An Empirical Analysis of Negotiated Sentencing Decisions
Current studies of courtroom decisionmaking emphasize contextual variation and the interaction of large numbers of variables In explaining decision outcomes. However, theory suggests that courtroom decisions may be dominated by simple “rules of thumb” that allow decisionmakers to cope with scarcity of time and resources. Following this approach, a parslmonious model of plea bargaining as a two‐person game is developed and hypotheses are derived. …
Modernization and sex roles: The status of women in the Thai bureaucracy
The Impact of Informal Relations on Organizational Rewards: Comparing Bureaucracies in Southeast Asia
Forty years ago, Chester Barnard noted that there are informal organizations related to formal organizations everywhere.' Relying upon empirical confirmation from the Hawthorne experiments, administrative theorists were gradually turning from scientific management to the study of personal interaction and unofficial bondings within formal organizations. Aptly termed natural organizations by Victor Thompson, informal organizations were typically se…
Evaluating development programs: Administrative self-assessment in four Asian nations
Administrative Implications of Development Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Programs in Asia
Observation and Theory in Development Administration
The development of sound empirical theory has been a major, and elusive, objective for students of comparative administration. It is suggested that the lack of progress toward this goal can be partly attributed to the "complexity" of the empirical phenomena (the "operational space") encompassed by the field. A review of the literature reveals that most existing studies are limited in their coverage of this "space." Those which analyze explanatory…
Legislatures and Divided Societies: The Malaysian Parliament and Multi-Ethnicity
The applicability of the consociational democracy model to ethnically-divided Malaysia is examined by an analysis of the backgrounds, attitudes, and behavior of a sample of Members of Parliament. Though there is an irreducible minimum of intercommunal conflict in Malaysia, many important issues are found to cross communal boundaries. Interelite bargaining among communal parties, characteristic of consociational democracy, is increasingly challeng…
Empirical Theory and Development Administration: Prologues and Promise
Policy Analysis and Organizational Decisions: Toward a Conceptual Revision
Field observation of practicing policy analysts, and review of a growing revisionist literature that examines policy analysis as currently practiced and utilized, produces three themes that diverge from traditional conceptualizations of rational decision-making. These themes suggest that the utilization of policy analysis can best be understood and facilitated by (a) analyzing the organizational structures and procedures facilitating or impeding …
Effectiveness of Culturally Specific Approaches to Substance Abuse Prevention: Findings from CSAP's National Cross-Site Evaluation of High Risk Youth Programs
This study assesses the degree to which culturally specific interventions enhance substance abuse prevention effectiveness for targeted cultural groups. A large and diverse (African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian) sample of 10,500 youth across 48 programs was obtained. Youth participating in culturally specific programming showed greater program satisfaction and felt programs were more personally meaningful than youth in non-cultu…
Family Protection and Prevention of Alcohol Use Among Hispanic Youth at High Risk
Research regarding prevention strategies for Hispanic youth stress the importance of family interventions because of the particular importance of family as a protective factor within the Hispanic community. Starting in 1995, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention conducted the National Cross-Site Evaluation of High Risk Youth Programs, a 5-year drug and alcohol prevention study with a sample of approximately 10,500 youth, including nearly 3,00…
Legislatures and Divided Societies: The Malaysian Parliament and Multi-Ethnicity
The applicability of the consociational democracy model to ethnically-divided Malaysia is examined by an analysis of the backgrounds, attitudes, and behavior of a sample of Members of Parliament. Though there is an irreducible minimum of intercommunal conflict in Malaysia, many important issues are found to cross communal boundaries. Interelite bargaining among communal parties, characteristic of consociational democracy, is increasingly challeng…
The Sess multisite collaborative research initiative: Establishing common ground
Multidisciplinary intervention approaches are needed for meeting service needs for families in which substance abuse and mental health disorders may be interfering with child‐rearing. Experiences from the Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) initiative, a 12‐site national collaborative investigation of integrating behavioural health services in early childhood and primary health care service settings for children aged 0–5 years and their families…
Success and Failure in Public Sector Consulting: The Consuming Slide
The responsibility for improved public sector utilization of research and recommendations by outside consultants has traditionally been placed squarely on consultants themselves. Case analyses of three consulting episodes in state government supports an alternative perspective: responsibility for improving utilization of consulting services must lie equally with contracting agencies—the consuming side. Fragmented and shifting managerial attention…
Plea Bargaining as a Game: An Empirical Analysis of Negotiated Sentencing Decisions
Current studies of courtroom decisionmaking emphasize contextual variation and the interaction of large numbers of variables In explaining decision outcomes. However, theory suggests that courtroom decisions may be dominated by simple “rules of thumb” that allow decisionmakers to cope with scarcity of time and resources. Following this approach, a parslmonious model of plea bargaining as a two‐person game is developed and hypotheses are derived. …
Administrative Implications of Development Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Programs in Asia
Observation and Theory in Development Administration
The development of sound empirical theory has been a major, and elusive, objective for students of comparative administration. It is suggested that the lack of progress toward this goal can be partly attributed to the "complexity" of the empirical phenomena (the "operational space") encompassed by the field. A review of the literature reveals that most existing studies are limited in their coverage of this "space." Those which analyze explanatory…
Empirical Theory and Development Administration: Prologues and Promise
Observation and Theory in Development Administration
The development of sound empirical theory has been a major, and elusive, objective for students of comparative administration. It is suggested that the lack of progress toward this goal can be partly attributed to the "complexity" of the empirical phenomena (the "operational space") encompassed by the field. A review of the literature reveals that most existing studies are limited in their coverage of this "space." Those which analyze explanatory…
Legislatures and Divided Societies: The Malaysian Parliament and Multi-Ethnicity
The applicability of the consociational democracy model to ethnically-divided Malaysia is examined by an analysis of the backgrounds, attitudes, and behavior of a sample of Members of Parliament. Though there is an irreducible minimum of intercommunal conflict in Malaysia, many important issues are found to cross communal boundaries. Interelite bargaining among communal parties, characteristic of consociational democracy, is increasingly challeng…
Evaluating development programs: Administrative self-assessment in four Asian nations
Administrative Implications of Development Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Programs in Asia
The Impact of Informal Relations on Organizational Rewards: Comparing Bureaucracies in Southeast Asia
Forty years ago, Chester Barnard noted that there are informal organizations related to formal organizations everywhere.' Relying upon empirical confirmation from the Hawthorne experiments, administrative theorists were gradually turning from scientific management to the study of personal interaction and unofficial bondings within formal organizations. Aptly termed natural organizations by Victor Thompson, informal organizations were typically se…
Modernization and sex roles: The status of women in the Thai bureaucracy
Plea Bargaining as a Game: An Empirical Analysis of Negotiated Sentencing Decisions
Current studies of courtroom decisionmaking emphasize contextual variation and the interaction of large numbers of variables In explaining decision outcomes. However, theory suggests that courtroom decisions may be dominated by simple “rules of thumb” that allow decisionmakers to cope with scarcity of time and resources. Following this approach, a parslmonious model of plea bargaining as a two‐person game is developed and hypotheses are derived. …
Policy Analysis and Organizational Decisions: Toward a Conceptual Revision
Field observation of practicing policy analysts, and review of a growing revisionist literature that examines policy analysis as currently practiced and utilized, produces three themes that diverge from traditional conceptualizations of rational decision-making. These themes suggest that the utilization of policy analysis can best be understood and facilitated by (a) analyzing the organizational structures and procedures facilitating or impeding …
Success and Failure in Public Sector Consulting: The Consuming Slide
The responsibility for improved public sector utilization of research and recommendations by outside consultants has traditionally been placed squarely on consultants themselves. Case analyses of three consulting episodes in state government supports an alternative perspective: responsibility for improving utilization of consulting services must lie equally with contracting agencies—the consuming side. Fragmented and shifting managerial attention…
Informing the next generation of prevention programs: CSAP's cross-site evaluation of the 1994–95 high-risk youth grantees
With more than 400 projects funded since its initiation, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) High-Risk Youth Demonstration Program (HRY) is a prime example of federally sponsored demonstrations for generating and disseminating policy and program lessons in the area of substance abuse prevention. The HRY demonstration has provided strong support for both local and cross-site …
Family interventions and adolescent resiliency: The Southwest Texas State High‐Risk Youth Program
Family interventions and adolescent resiliency: The Southwest Texas State High-Risk Youth Program
The emergence of social ecology as an orienting perspective in prevention has reinforced attention to the family as a critical influence on adolescent risk and protection. The Southwest Texas High-Risk Youth Program (SWTHRY) addressed the neglect of family as a prevention focus by providing in-home sessions for high-risk families that sought to strengthen family cohesion and adaptability, and thereby promote adolescent resiliency. Based on pre- a…
Prevention Programming for African American Youth: A Review of Strategies in CSAP’s National Cross-Site Evaluation of High-Risk Youth Programs
The purpose of this paper is to add to the knowledge base on prevention programming by explicating the characteristics of 12 programs (out of 47) serving African American youth funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). Findings show that African American youth exhibit lower use rates than most other ethnic and racial groups, but by the time they reach ages 16 to 18, use is prevalent. Data on correlations of risk and protective f…
Characteristics of Effective Substance Abuse Prevention Programs for High-Risk Youth
Effectiveness of Culturally Specific Approaches to Substance Abuse Prevention: Findings from CSAP's National Cross-Site Evaluation of High Risk Youth Programs
This study assesses the degree to which culturally specific interventions enhance substance abuse prevention effectiveness for targeted cultural groups. A large and diverse (African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian) sample of 10,500 youth across 48 programs was obtained. Youth participating in culturally specific programming showed greater program satisfaction and felt programs were more personally meaningful than youth in non-cultu…
The Sess multisite collaborative research initiative: Establishing common ground
Multidisciplinary intervention approaches are needed for meeting service needs for families in which substance abuse and mental health disorders may be interfering with child‐rearing. Experiences from the Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) initiative, a 12‐site national collaborative investigation of integrating behavioural health services in early childhood and primary health care service settings for children aged 0–5 years and their families…
Family Protection and Prevention of Alcohol Use Among Hispanic Youth at High Risk
Research regarding prevention strategies for Hispanic youth stress the importance of family interventions because of the particular importance of family as a protective factor within the Hispanic community. Starting in 1995, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention conducted the National Cross-Site Evaluation of High Risk Youth Programs, a 5-year drug and alcohol prevention study with a sample of approximately 10,500 youth, including nearly 3,00…
Quality of Provider–Participant Relationships and Enhancement of Adolescent Social Skills
Political science (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Substance abuse (6 works)