Leslie B Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 2539307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie B Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie B |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Supporting the role of community members employed as research staff
Misbehaviors of Front-Line Research Personnel and the Integrity of Community-Based Research
There has been little empirical research into misconduct and misbehavior among community research workers who recruit and collect data in vulnerable and marginalized health populations and are also members of those same communities. We conducted qualitative interviews with community research workers and traditional research assistants to understand the context and consequences of misbehaviors that pose a threat to research ethics and data integri…
Ethical Dilemmas in Evaluations Using Indigenous Research Workers
This article addresses ethical dilemmas experienced by street-level research and evaluation workers recruiting and gathering data in community-based research projects. The authors focus on a subgroup of street-level research workers, whom they call research extenders (REs), employed because they share important characteristics with the target population. Like other street-level research workers, some REs are single role (only do research work) an…
Ethics and research with undergraduates
Ethicists, researchers and policy makers have paid increasing attention to the ethical conduct of research, especially research involving human beings. Research performed with and by undergraduates poses a specific set of ethical challenges. These challenges are often overlooked by the research community because it is assumed that undergraduate student researchers do not have a significant impact on the research community and that their projects …
A family of trust
Dramatic increases in same-race adoptions of African American children have stimulated interest in the experiences of these families, including those related to disclosure. Data from interviews with 27 African American adoptive parents (7 mothers and fathers interviewed conjointly, 13 mothers interviewed alone) from 20 different families revealed the following themes: (a) efforts to prevent trauma to the child; (b) respect for the child's differe…
Client Participation
Although client participation is central to psychosocial interventions, most investigations conceptualize and measure participation in rather crude ways. This review suggests that essential elements of treatment participation are largely unknown, links between participation and outcomes are not clear, and most investigations of influences on within-treatment variations in participation are based on outdated causal models. Drawing on literature on…
Formal Adoption of the Developmentally Vulnerable African-American Child
This research presents an in-depth study of ten-year adoption outcomes for 24 developmentally vulnerable African-American infants and toddlers and their parents. Overall the families reported feeling well bonded and satisfied with their children's progress, their family life, and the adoption experience. For the most part, the children were also doing reasonably well and had quite positive self esteem. This was despite the fact that some children…
The power of the therapeutic relationship
A review of the psychotherapy research literature of the last decade shows that considerable advances of clinical significance have been made toward defining and measuring components of the treatment relationship. The relevance of the therapeutic alliance for predicting outcome in diverse models of treatment is emphasized, and the implications of the findings for clinical training, practice, and research are discussed
The Response of Social Work to the Depression . Jacob Fisher
Parenting in an Unresponsive Society
Follow-up questions
Social workers in unions
As the union membership of professional social workers continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly important to obtain empirical data about the nature and focus of this trend. This survey of eighty-four MSW union members in a large urban area revealed a belief that unionism and professionalism are compatible. MSWs also saw the union's role as focusing on narrow economic issues, a view that contrasts with the past involvement of social work uni…
Long-term follow-up as program evaluation
In the context of earlier work on the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, McCord's recent 30-year follow-up is seen as raising issues with respect to the controlled experiment as a basis for evaluation and study of psychotherapeutic effects. The follow-up's general conclusion that "treatment" produces insidious long-term side-effects is challenged, and its specific stated conclusions are deemed unwarranted by the conceptualizations and evidence pre…
"The "Case Work Notebook
Although the contemporary trend of the unionization of both professional and non-professional social service workers merits careful examination of both socio-structural and ideological dimensions, the following study is confined to a historical analysis of the professional, more specifically, casework interests of a group of professional social work unionists in the late 1930s, early 1940s. The method of content analysis is used to examine severa…
Fischer's Study of Studies
Journal Article Fischer's Study of Studies Get access Leslie B. Alexander, Leslie B. Alexander Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Bryn Mawr CollegeBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Alan Siman Alan Siman Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Bryn Mawr CollegeBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Goog…
Social Work's Freudian Deluge
One of the popular current explanations of social work's gradual disengage-ment from the poor and social reform during the past fifty years has been its so-called deep immersion in psychoanalytic theory. This essay provides a comparison of primary and secondary literature sources on social work theory and practice in the 1920s, which challenges the psychoanalytic inundation thesis. Weaknesses of this thesis in addition to historical inaccuracy ar…
Client Participation
Although client participation is central to psychosocial interventions, most investigations conceptualize and measure participation in rather crude ways. This review suggests that essential elements of treatment participation are largely unknown, links between participation and outcomes are not clear, and most investigations of influences on within-treatment variations in participation are based on outdated causal models. Drawing on literature on…
Misbehaviors of Front-Line Research Personnel and the Integrity of Community-Based Research
There has been little empirical research into misconduct and misbehavior among community research workers who recruit and collect data in vulnerable and marginalized health populations and are also members of those same communities. We conducted qualitative interviews with community research workers and traditional research assistants to understand the context and consequences of misbehaviors that pose a threat to research ethics and data integri…
Supporting the role of community members employed as research staff
Ethical Dilemmas in Evaluations Using Indigenous Research Workers
This article addresses ethical dilemmas experienced by street-level research and evaluation workers recruiting and gathering data in community-based research projects. The authors focus on a subgroup of street-level research workers, whom they call research extenders (REs), employed because they share important characteristics with the target population. Like other street-level research workers, some REs are single role (only do research work) an…
Formal Adoption of the Developmentally Vulnerable African-American Child
This research presents an in-depth study of ten-year adoption outcomes for 24 developmentally vulnerable African-American infants and toddlers and their parents. Overall the families reported feeling well bonded and satisfied with their children's progress, their family life, and the adoption experience. For the most part, the children were also doing reasonably well and had quite positive self esteem. This was despite the fact that some children…
Social workers in unions
As the union membership of professional social workers continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly important to obtain empirical data about the nature and focus of this trend. This survey of eighty-four MSW union members in a large urban area revealed a belief that unionism and professionalism are compatible. MSWs also saw the union's role as focusing on narrow economic issues, a view that contrasts with the past involvement of social work uni…
Social Work's Freudian Deluge
One of the popular current explanations of social work's gradual disengage-ment from the poor and social reform during the past fifty years has been its so-called deep immersion in psychoanalytic theory. This essay provides a comparison of primary and secondary literature sources on social work theory and practice in the 1920s, which challenges the psychoanalytic inundation thesis. Weaknesses of this thesis in addition to historical inaccuracy ar…
Social Work's Freudian Deluge
One of the popular current explanations of social work's gradual disengage-ment from the poor and social reform during the past fifty years has been its so-called deep immersion in psychoanalytic theory. This essay provides a comparison of primary and secondary literature sources on social work theory and practice in the 1920s, which challenges the psychoanalytic inundation thesis. Weaknesses of this thesis in addition to historical inaccuracy ar…
Fischer's Study of Studies
Journal Article Fischer's Study of Studies Get access Leslie B. Alexander, Leslie B. Alexander Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Bryn Mawr CollegeBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Alan Siman Alan Siman Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Bryn Mawr CollegeBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Goog…
"The "Case Work Notebook
Although the contemporary trend of the unionization of both professional and non-professional social service workers merits careful examination of both socio-structural and ideological dimensions, the following study is confined to a historical analysis of the professional, more specifically, casework interests of a group of professional social work unionists in the late 1930s, early 1940s. The method of content analysis is used to examine severa…
Social workers in unions
As the union membership of professional social workers continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly important to obtain empirical data about the nature and focus of this trend. This survey of eighty-four MSW union members in a large urban area revealed a belief that unionism and professionalism are compatible. MSWs also saw the union's role as focusing on narrow economic issues, a view that contrasts with the past involvement of social work uni…
Long-term follow-up as program evaluation
In the context of earlier work on the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, McCord's recent 30-year follow-up is seen as raising issues with respect to the controlled experiment as a basis for evaluation and study of psychotherapeutic effects. The follow-up's general conclusion that "treatment" produces insidious long-term side-effects is challenged, and its specific stated conclusions are deemed unwarranted by the conceptualizations and evidence pre…
The Response of Social Work to the Depression . Jacob Fisher
Parenting in an Unresponsive Society
Follow-up questions
The power of the therapeutic relationship
A review of the psychotherapy research literature of the last decade shows that considerable advances of clinical significance have been made toward defining and measuring components of the treatment relationship. The relevance of the therapeutic alliance for predicting outcome in diverse models of treatment is emphasized, and the implications of the findings for clinical training, practice, and research are discussed
Formal Adoption of the Developmentally Vulnerable African-American Child
This research presents an in-depth study of ten-year adoption outcomes for 24 developmentally vulnerable African-American infants and toddlers and their parents. Overall the families reported feeling well bonded and satisfied with their children's progress, their family life, and the adoption experience. For the most part, the children were also doing reasonably well and had quite positive self esteem. This was despite the fact that some children…
Client Participation
Although client participation is central to psychosocial interventions, most investigations conceptualize and measure participation in rather crude ways. This review suggests that essential elements of treatment participation are largely unknown, links between participation and outcomes are not clear, and most investigations of influences on within-treatment variations in participation are based on outdated causal models. Drawing on literature on…
A family of trust
Dramatic increases in same-race adoptions of African American children have stimulated interest in the experiences of these families, including those related to disclosure. Data from interviews with 27 African American adoptive parents (7 mothers and fathers interviewed conjointly, 13 mothers interviewed alone) from 20 different families revealed the following themes: (a) efforts to prevent trauma to the child; (b) respect for the child's differe…
Ethics and research with undergraduates
Ethicists, researchers and policy makers have paid increasing attention to the ethical conduct of research, especially research involving human beings. Research performed with and by undergraduates poses a specific set of ethical challenges. These challenges are often overlooked by the research community because it is assumed that undergraduate student researchers do not have a significant impact on the research community and that their projects …
Ethical Dilemmas in Evaluations Using Indigenous Research Workers
This article addresses ethical dilemmas experienced by street-level research and evaluation workers recruiting and gathering data in community-based research projects. The authors focus on a subgroup of street-level research workers, whom they call research extenders (REs), employed because they share important characteristics with the target population. Like other street-level research workers, some REs are single role (only do research work) an…
Misbehaviors of Front-Line Research Personnel and the Integrity of Community-Based Research
There has been little empirical research into misconduct and misbehavior among community research workers who recruit and collect data in vulnerable and marginalized health populations and are also members of those same communities. We conducted qualitative interviews with community research workers and traditional research assistants to understand the context and consequences of misbehaviors that pose a threat to research ethics and data integri…
Supporting the role of community members employed as research staff
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