Terry Mizrahi
Biographic Data
| ID | 252387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terry Mizrahi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terry |
| FAMILY NAME | Mizrahi |
| SIGNATURE | MIZRAHI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5712-8599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 231 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Community-Led Solutions Require More Macro Social Work: Reflections on Institutional Trends from the Special Commission
The complexity of community participation: Professional perspectives on the definition and inclusion of community
This paper compares the perspectives of six professions -social workers, lawyers, nurses, physicians, psychologists and public health professionals- on ways to improve the health and social conditions of a prototypical low-income urban community. It examines how the cohort defined and deliberated on the process of involving "the community" in addressing issues facing a hypothetical neighborhood, even when the question was not part of the research…
Letter in Response to Social Activism Article
Mattock’s (2018) study, “Social Action among Social Work Practitioners: Examining the Micro–Macro Divide,” published in the January 2018 issue of this journal, focuses the social work community on identifying the impact of social work education on the way social workers view their role and agency practice. We are disturbed but not surprised with some of the findings from Mattocks’s study, while we are encouraged by others. This study found “a dow…
Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution of Reform by Gunnar Almgren
Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution of Reform by Gunnar Almgren." Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 37(5), pp. 549–550
Gender Differences and Intersectionality in Community Organizing
Little is known about perspectives and strategies of community practitioners and how gender influences organizing. Women and men community organizers were interviewed to gain perspective on the influence of gender on their respective organizing styles and approach, including perceived challenges and benefits associated with gender. Using grounded theory methodology, interview responses were analyzed and themes identified. Interesting differences …
Balancing Micro and Macro Practice: A Challenge for Social Work
The time to recalibrate the imbalance between micro and macro social work is now. There is an important initiative in progress, as we will show, to infuse the foundational macro component of our profession into the classroom and field to achieve a more equal footing with its clinical counterpart. This effort reflects and reinforces the understanding that social problems require complex and sustained intervention at all levels of social work pract…
Professional Determinants in Community Collaborations: Interdisciplinary Comparative Perspectives on Roles and Experiences Among Six Disciplines
This mixed-methodology research examines the interdisciplinary community collaborative (ICC) experiences of 50 participants from six professions: law, social work, psychology, public health, nursing, and medicine. They came together for 1 of 2 intensive days of structured dialogue and collaborative problem-solving around a common case scenario, in both mono- and multidisciplinary groups. The main purpose of this study is to explore the similariti…
Coalitions, Collaborations, and Partnerships: Interorganizational Approaches to Social Change
Education for Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration and Development: The Components of a Core Curriculum by Community Practitioners
Social workers are actively engaging in the practice of interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC) with the goal of bringing diverse groups together to improve the conditions of communities and enhance the quality of life of population groups. Yet, collaborations are challenging and require great skill and commitment. The pedagogy and the content of curricula have become a more prominent part of teaching to macro practice students and practi…
Interdisciplinary collaboration in social work education in the USA, Israel and Canada: Deans’ and directors’ perspectives
This article utilized survey research to examine where interdisciplinary collaboration is occurring and being taught in social work programs in three countries. Findings indicate that social work programs participate in high levels of interdisciplinary collaboration at the university—community level and the interdepartmental level and teach it through an array of courses
The Social Construction of Client Participation: The Evolution and Transformation of the Role of Service Recipients in Child Welfare and Mental Disabilities
This article presents a comparative analysis of client participation (CP) in child welfare and mental health and mental retardation systems. It identifies three rationales for client participation (philosophical, pragmatic, and political), along with the limitations surrounding each rationale. It uses social construction theory to examine the historical and ideological underpinnings of organized, institutionally-sanctioned client involvement insi…
Encyclopedia of Social Work
Co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work is widely considered the cornerstone of reference in its field. This new edition includes coverage of areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 publication of the 19th edition, including demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-…
Comparative Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration between Academics and Community Practitioners
This article presents the results of a series of structured dialogues on the topic of interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC), the term used to convey the complexity of bringing diverse organizations and constituencies together to produce progressive community change. Commonalities and differences between two cohorts—academics and practitioners—on core concepts needed to both teach and practice ICC are presented. These include power and s…
Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration: Perspectives of Community Practitioners on Successful Strategies
Six focus groups were convened to collect data on successful interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC) strategies. Participants came from a variety of disciplines but shared the common identification of having worked in similar communities. Participant assignment to one of six groups was designed to insure diversity by gender and race or ethnicity. They discussed four questions received in advance. Prior consented tape-recorded sessions wer…
Women’s Ways of Organizing: Strengths and Struggles of Women Activists Over Time
This article presents a longitudinal qualitative study of the strengths and struggles of a diverse group of 27 women organizers in 1989 and 2003. It highlights the resilience of their core biography, as well as individual and collective differences based on changing context, careers, and aging over 13 years. On the basis of these women’s perspectives, the article examines an analytic document, A Framework for Feminist Organizing, that was produce…
Towards Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration and Development: Knowledge and Experience from Israel and the USA
This article looks at the conceptualization and practice of interdisciplinary community collaboration and development (ICCD) in Israel and the US. It is based on the work of two interdisciplinary professional groups which were initiated by social workers—one in Israel and one in the US. This article presents a mapping of key issues and concepts, including distinguishing between mono-, multi-, and inter-, trans-disciplinary and inter-perspectives.…
Perspectives from Women Organizers: Views on Gender, Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation
This paper compares the perspectives of a diverse group of women in relation to their views about the impact of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation on their organizing and feminism. It uses data from a group of women organizers who first came together in 1989, and who were interviewed in 2002 as part of this follow-up study. The study found both commonalities and differences in comparing white women with women of color. While all the wome…
Coalitions as Social Change Agents
Are Movements for Social and Economic Justice Growing: Reports on Protest and Social Action in the United States and Israel
The Status of Community Organizing in 2001: Community Practice Context, Complexities, Contradictions, and Contributions
As social work begins its second century, it has a “back to the community” ring to it. Community practice in myriad forms is commanding a greater space and place in social work education and practice, not only as a major area of specialization but also in the generalist BSW and MSW curricula. Community practice is also growing because of special interest groups such as the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration and the r…
The Verne Weed Living Archive for Progressive Social Work
Effect of a Changing Health Care Environment on Social Work Leaders: Obstacles and Opportunities in Hospital Social Work
The health care system is undergoing dramatic change in auspice, structure, and services delivery in response to an emphasis on market-driven, cost-containment strategies. Consequently, many hospital social work directors either have lost some of their administrative responsibilities or have expanded their span of control beyond social work services. This article examines the responses of social work administrators to the breadth of changes occur…
Complexities of Coalition Building: Leaders' Successes, Strategies, Struggles, and Solutions
Government and private funding initiatives are promoting coalitions, collaborations, and other interorganizational approaches to address complex community, social services, and health issues. Social work organizers and administrators are increasingly leading coalitions themselves or representing their organizations in collaborative planning and problem solving, often without understanding how to manage the complexities involved in interorganizati…
Career Paths of Health Workers: The Impact of a Pre-Social Work Course on Professional Development
This article presents an evaluation of an innovative, three-year graduate program to prepare workers from educationally disadvan-taged backgrounds for professional careers in social work in an urban health care system. It analyzes the contributions to the Social Work Health Careers Opportunity Program (SWHCOP) of a course designed to provide: an overview of health care issues and policies; beginning knowledge, values and skills for social work pr…
Where Have All the Organizers Gone: The Career Paths of Community Organizing Social Work Alumni
In this era of fiscal constraint and political conservatism, it is essential that graduate schools of social work recruit and prepare professional practitioners skilled in organizing and planning to play a role in improving the social conditions of functional and geographic communities. To develop a strategy for the future, an urban graduate school with a 25-year history of educating social workers with a community organization specialization stu…
Complexities of Coalition Building: Leaders' Successes, Strategies, Struggles, and Solutions
Government and private funding initiatives are promoting coalitions, collaborations, and other interorganizational approaches to address complex community, social services, and health issues. Social work organizers and administrators are increasingly leading coalitions themselves or representing their organizations in collaborative planning and problem solving, often without understanding how to manage the complexities involved in interorganizati…
Balancing Micro and Macro Practice: A Challenge for Social Work
The time to recalibrate the imbalance between micro and macro social work is now. There is an important initiative in progress, as we will show, to infuse the foundational macro component of our profession into the classroom and field to achieve a more equal footing with its clinical counterpart. This effort reflects and reinforces the understanding that social problems require complex and sustained intervention at all levels of social work pract…
Managing medical mistakes: Ideology, insularity and accountability among internists-in-training
Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration: Perspectives of Community Practitioners on Successful Strategies
Six focus groups were convened to collect data on successful interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC) strategies. Participants came from a variety of disciplines but shared the common identification of having worked in similar communities. Participant assignment to one of six groups was designed to insure diversity by gender and race or ethnicity. They discussed four questions received in advance. Prior consented tape-recorded sessions wer…
Getting rid of patients: Contradictions in the Socialisation of Internists to the Doctor-Patient Relationship
This article examines the impact of the professional socialisation of internists on the doctor-patient relationship. Utilising observation and interviews, the study found that the world of house staff (interns and residents) was defined by a paradoxical perspective on patients - characterised as a'Get Rid of Patients'(GROP) orientation. This perspective was shaped by the poor conditions of public institutions, administrative mandates, demographic…
The Status of Community Organizing in 2001: Community Practice Context, Complexities, Contradictions, and Contributions
As social work begins its second century, it has a “back to the community” ring to it. Community practice in myriad forms is commanding a greater space and place in social work education and practice, not only as a major area of specialization but also in the generalist BSW and MSW curricula. Community practice is also growing because of special interest groups such as the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration and the r…
Towards Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration and Development: Knowledge and Experience from Israel and the USA
This article looks at the conceptualization and practice of interdisciplinary community collaboration and development (ICCD) in Israel and the US. It is based on the work of two interdisciplinary professional groups which were initiated by social workers—one in Israel and one in the US. This article presents a mapping of key issues and concepts, including distinguishing between mono-, multi-, and inter-, trans-disciplinary and inter-perspectives.…
Gender Differences and Intersectionality in Community Organizing
Little is known about perspectives and strategies of community practitioners and how gender influences organizing. Women and men community organizers were interviewed to gain perspective on the influence of gender on their respective organizing styles and approach, including perceived challenges and benefits associated with gender. Using grounded theory methodology, interview responses were analyzed and themes identified. Interesting differences …
Where Have All the Organizers Gone: The Career Paths of Community Organizing Social Work Alumni
In this era of fiscal constraint and political conservatism, it is essential that graduate schools of social work recruit and prepare professional practitioners skilled in organizing and planning to play a role in improving the social conditions of functional and geographic communities. To develop a strategy for the future, an urban graduate school with a 25-year history of educating social workers with a community organization specialization stu…
Women’s Ways of Organizing: Strengths and Struggles of Women Activists Over Time
This article presents a longitudinal qualitative study of the strengths and struggles of a diverse group of 27 women organizers in 1989 and 2003. It highlights the resilience of their core biography, as well as individual and collective differences based on changing context, careers, and aging over 13 years. On the basis of these women’s perspectives, the article examines an analytic document, A Framework for Feminist Organizing, that was produce…
Coping with Patients: Subcultural Adjustments to the Conditions of Work among Internists-in-Training
Interns and residents in internal medicine use a variety of strategies to distance themselves physically and emotionally from their patients. These strategies include avoidance of patients, narrowing of doctor-patient interaction, and treating patients as non-persons, These subcultural adjustments enable doctors to cope with heavy case loads and other demands of graduate medical training. The stress of the work situation leads interns and residen…
Interdisciplinary collaboration in social work education in the USA, Israel and Canada: Deans’ and directors’ perspectives
This article utilized survey research to examine where interdisciplinary collaboration is occurring and being taught in social work programs in three countries. Findings indicate that social work programs participate in high levels of interdisciplinary collaboration at the university—community level and the interdepartmental level and teach it through an array of courses
A Whole Lot of Organizing Going On: The Status and Needs of Organizers in Community-Based Organizations
This article presents the results of a study to assess the status and needs of grantees of a major foundation in New York City, with respect to their experiences with and opportunities for community organizing. Little is known about the present capacity of geographic and functional community-based organizations to organize, and the extent to which they use different organizing approaches. This study begins to narrow that information gap. The Foun…
Perspectives from Women Organizers: Views on Gender, Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation
This paper compares the perspectives of a diverse group of women in relation to their views about the impact of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation on their organizing and feminism. It uses data from a group of women organizers who first came together in 1989, and who were interviewed in 2002 as part of this follow-up study. The study found both commonalities and differences in comparing white women with women of color. While all the wome…
Effect of a Changing Health Care Environment on Social Work Leaders: Obstacles and Opportunities in Hospital Social Work
The health care system is undergoing dramatic change in auspice, structure, and services delivery in response to an emphasis on market-driven, cost-containment strategies. Consequently, many hospital social work directors either have lost some of their administrative responsibilities or have expanded their span of control beyond social work services. This article examines the responses of social work administrators to the breadth of changes occur…
Professional Determinants in Community Collaborations: Interdisciplinary Comparative Perspectives on Roles and Experiences Among Six Disciplines
This mixed-methodology research examines the interdisciplinary community collaborative (ICC) experiences of 50 participants from six professions: law, social work, psychology, public health, nursing, and medicine. They came together for 1 of 2 intensive days of structured dialogue and collaborative problem-solving around a common case scenario, in both mono- and multidisciplinary groups. The main purpose of this study is to explore the similariti…
Comparative Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration between Academics and Community Practitioners
This article presents the results of a series of structured dialogues on the topic of interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC), the term used to convey the complexity of bringing diverse organizations and constituencies together to produce progressive community change. Commonalities and differences between two cohorts—academics and practitioners—on core concepts needed to both teach and practice ICC are presented. These include power and s…
The complexity of community participation: Professional perspectives on the definition and inclusion of community
This paper compares the perspectives of six professions -social workers, lawyers, nurses, physicians, psychologists and public health professionals- on ways to improve the health and social conditions of a prototypical low-income urban community. It examines how the cohort defined and deliberated on the process of involving "the community" in addressing issues facing a hypothetical neighborhood, even when the question was not part of the research…
Education for Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration and Development: The Components of a Core Curriculum by Community Practitioners
Social workers are actively engaging in the practice of interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC) with the goal of bringing diverse groups together to improve the conditions of communities and enhance the quality of life of population groups. Yet, collaborations are challenging and require great skill and commitment. The pedagogy and the content of curricula have become a more prominent part of teaching to macro practice students and practi…
The Social Construction of Client Participation: The Evolution and Transformation of the Role of Service Recipients in Child Welfare and Mental Disabilities
This article presents a comparative analysis of client participation (CP) in child welfare and mental health and mental retardation systems. It identifies three rationales for client participation (philosophical, pragmatic, and political), along with the limitations surrounding each rationale. It uses social construction theory to examine the historical and ideological underpinnings of organized, institutionally-sanctioned client involvement insi…
Are Movements for Social and Economic Justice Growing: Reports on Protest and Social Action in the United States and Israel
Managing medical mistakes: Ideology, insularity and accountability among internists-in-training
Coping with Patients: Subcultural Adjustments to the Conditions of Work among Internists-in-Training
Interns and residents in internal medicine use a variety of strategies to distance themselves physically and emotionally from their patients. These strategies include avoidance of patients, narrowing of doctor-patient interaction, and treating patients as non-persons, These subcultural adjustments enable doctors to cope with heavy case loads and other demands of graduate medical training. The stress of the work situation leads interns and residen…
Getting rid of patients: Contradictions in the Socialisation of Internists to the Doctor-Patient Relationship
This article examines the impact of the professional socialisation of internists on the doctor-patient relationship. Utilising observation and interviews, the study found that the world of house staff (interns and residents) was defined by a paradoxical perspective on patients - characterised as a'Get Rid of Patients'(GROP) orientation. This perspective was shaped by the poor conditions of public institutions, administrative mandates, demographic…
Sociological Approaches to Health and Medicine
Getting Rid of Patients: Contradictions in the Socialization of Physicians
Sociologist Mizrahi's research was designed to identify the roles that internalized value systems and situational adaptation play in the socialization of physicians. She used questionnaires, observations, and in-depth interviews with internists in a large Southern medical center (SAMS) over a three-year period with a follow-up five years later. The results of this interesting, provocative study indicate that a multitude of factorsthe structure of…
Medical Education: Yesterday's Reforms, Today's Problems
Book reviewed in this article: Learning to Heal: The Development of American Medical Education. By Kenneth M. Ludmerer Getting Rid of Patients: Contradictions in the Socialization of Physicians. By Terry Mizrahi
The Verne Weed Living Archive for Progressive Social Work
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Managed Care and Managed Competition: A Primer for Social Work
Journal Article Managed Care and Managed Competition: A Primer for Social Work Get access Terry Mizrahi Terry Mizrahi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Health & Social Work, Volume 18, Issue 2, May 1993, Pages 86–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/18.2.86 Published: 01 May 1993
The Incompetent Doctor: Behind Closed Doors
The issues - why they are important making mistakes - how doctors think about this friendly efforts - informal mechanisms frustration mounts - requiring the skill of a politician and tact of a diplomat behind closed doors - how effective are informal mechanisms? empirical research on medical mishaps and mistakes - challenges to professional norms coming changes - will they make a difference
A Whole Lot of Organizing Going On: The Status and Needs of Organizers in Community-Based Organizations
This article presents the results of a study to assess the status and needs of grantees of a major foundation in New York City, with respect to their experiences with and opportunities for community organizing. Little is known about the present capacity of geographic and functional community-based organizations to organize, and the extent to which they use different organizing approaches. This study begins to narrow that information gap. The Foun…
Where Have All the Organizers Gone: The Career Paths of Community Organizing Social Work Alumni
In this era of fiscal constraint and political conservatism, it is essential that graduate schools of social work recruit and prepare professional practitioners skilled in organizing and planning to play a role in improving the social conditions of functional and geographic communities. To develop a strategy for the future, an urban graduate school with a 25-year history of educating social workers with a community organization specialization stu…
Career Paths of Health Workers: The Impact of a Pre-Social Work Course on Professional Development
This article presents an evaluation of an innovative, three-year graduate program to prepare workers from educationally disadvan-taged backgrounds for professional careers in social work in an urban health care system. It analyzes the contributions to the Social Work Health Careers Opportunity Program (SWHCOP) of a course designed to provide: an overview of health care issues and policies; beginning knowledge, values and skills for social work pr…
The Status of Community Organizing in 2001: Community Practice Context, Complexities, Contradictions, and Contributions
As social work begins its second century, it has a “back to the community” ring to it. Community practice in myriad forms is commanding a greater space and place in social work education and practice, not only as a major area of specialization but also in the generalist BSW and MSW curricula. Community practice is also growing because of special interest groups such as the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration and the r…
The Verne Weed Living Archive for Progressive Social Work
Effect of a Changing Health Care Environment on Social Work Leaders: Obstacles and Opportunities in Hospital Social Work
The health care system is undergoing dramatic change in auspice, structure, and services delivery in response to an emphasis on market-driven, cost-containment strategies. Consequently, many hospital social work directors either have lost some of their administrative responsibilities or have expanded their span of control beyond social work services. This article examines the responses of social work administrators to the breadth of changes occur…
Complexities of Coalition Building: Leaders' Successes, Strategies, Struggles, and Solutions
Government and private funding initiatives are promoting coalitions, collaborations, and other interorganizational approaches to address complex community, social services, and health issues. Social work organizers and administrators are increasingly leading coalitions themselves or representing their organizations in collaborative planning and problem solving, often without understanding how to manage the complexities involved in interorganizati…
Are Movements for Social and Economic Justice Growing: Reports on Protest and Social Action in the United States and Israel
Coalitions as Social Change Agents
Perspectives from Women Organizers: Views on Gender, Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation
This paper compares the perspectives of a diverse group of women in relation to their views about the impact of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation on their organizing and feminism. It uses data from a group of women organizers who first came together in 1989, and who were interviewed in 2002 as part of this follow-up study. The study found both commonalities and differences in comparing white women with women of color. While all the wome…
Women’s Ways of Organizing: Strengths and Struggles of Women Activists Over Time
This article presents a longitudinal qualitative study of the strengths and struggles of a diverse group of 27 women organizers in 1989 and 2003. It highlights the resilience of their core biography, as well as individual and collective differences based on changing context, careers, and aging over 13 years. On the basis of these women’s perspectives, the article examines an analytic document, A Framework for Feminist Organizing, that was produce…
Towards Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration and Development: Knowledge and Experience from Israel and the USA
This article looks at the conceptualization and practice of interdisciplinary community collaboration and development (ICCD) in Israel and the US. It is based on the work of two interdisciplinary professional groups which were initiated by social workers—one in Israel and one in the US. This article presents a mapping of key issues and concepts, including distinguishing between mono-, multi-, and inter-, trans-disciplinary and inter-perspectives.…
Encyclopedia of Social Work
Co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work is widely considered the cornerstone of reference in its field. This new edition includes coverage of areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 publication of the 19th edition, including demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-…
Comparative Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration between Academics and Community Practitioners
This article presents the results of a series of structured dialogues on the topic of interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC), the term used to convey the complexity of bringing diverse organizations and constituencies together to produce progressive community change. Commonalities and differences between two cohorts—academics and practitioners—on core concepts needed to both teach and practice ICC are presented. These include power and s…
Interdisciplinary Community Collaboration: Perspectives of Community Practitioners on Successful Strategies
Six focus groups were convened to collect data on successful interdisciplinary community collaboration (ICC) strategies. Participants came from a variety of disciplines but shared the common identification of having worked in similar communities. Participant assignment to one of six groups was designed to insure diversity by gender and race or ethnicity. They discussed four questions received in advance. Prior consented tape-recorded sessions wer…
The Social Construction of Client Participation: The Evolution and Transformation of the Role of Service Recipients in Child Welfare and Mental Disabilities
This article presents a comparative analysis of client participation (CP) in child welfare and mental health and mental retardation systems. It identifies three rationales for client participation (philosophical, pragmatic, and political), along with the limitations surrounding each rationale. It uses social construction theory to examine the historical and ideological underpinnings of organized, institutionally-sanctioned client involvement insi…
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