Charles Glisson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2734762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Glisson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Glisson |
| SIGNATURE | GLISSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 295 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Building Cultures and Climates for Effective Human Services
This book explains how organizational culture and climate affect the quality and outcomes of human services and describes the Availability, Responsiveness, and Continuity (ARC) model of organizational effectiveness that the authors developed for improving social service, behavioral health, health care, and other human service organizations. The authors summarize decades of practice and research experience, including organizational improvement eff…
Case Examples Illustrating the Importance of Social Contexts in Human Service Organizations
This chapter provides case examples from the authors’ work within human service organizations that illustrate the importance of addressing OSCs: including culture, climate, and worker attitudes. These examples of the influence of OSC provide the reader with an understanding of how social contexts affect human services quality and outcomes along with implications for improving them. The chapter explains the sensitivity of human service effectivene…
The Social Context of Urban Classrooms
Classrooms are unique and complex work settings in which teachers and students both participate in and contribute to classroom processes. This article describes the measurement phase of a study that examined the social ecology of urban classrooms. Informed by the dimensions and items of an established measure of organizational climate, we designed the Student Climate Survey ( n = 53 items) to assess student psychological climate in third through …
Reducing turnover is not enough
Assessing the Organizational Social Context (OSC) of child welfare systems
Organizational climate, services, and outcomes in child welfare systems
Implementation Research in Mental Health Services
Assessing the Organizational Social Context (OSC) of Mental Health Services
Assessing and Changing Organizational Culture and Climate for Effective Services
The 2007 Aaron Rosen Lecture was presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, January 12, 2007, in San Francisco, CA. The lecture begins by describing the gap between what is known about efficacious treatments and other evidence-based practices on the one hand and the services that are provided in actual community-based practice settings on the other. To address this gap, the lecture calls for the development of a …
Organizational Culture and Climate
Efforts to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices (EBPs) in children's mental health service and other human service systems have had limited success. There is evidence that this limited success is in part a function of the characteristics of the human service organizations that provide the services. Human service organizations create a social context for the services they provide, and this context affects the quality and outcomes of …
The effects of the ARC organizational intervention on caseworker turnover, climate, and culture in children's service systems
The Role of Specialty Mental Health Care in Predicting Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Out-of-Home Placements
Objective: This longitudinal, prospective study examines the role of specialty mental health care as provided by community-based, usual-care practice settings in predicting out-of-home placements among children served by a child welfare and juvenile justice system. Method: The mental health needs of 1,249 children from 22 counties in Tennessee were assessed when the children were referred for child welfare and juvenile justice, in-home, case mana…
A Cross-Ethnic Validity Study of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC)
Objective: This study examined the cross-ethnic measurement equivalence of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC) using a sample of 562 African American and 692 White children. Method: A prospective, two-panel survey design was used in this study. Baseline and 6-month follow-up data were used to conduct analyses of the reliability and validity of the SAC for each group. Results: Alpha reliabilities and test-retest reliabilities for the full …
The Validity of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC)
This study tests the validity of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC), a one-page, 48-item measure of a child's overall mental health. Designed as a rapid assessment instrument for child welfare and juvenile justice systems, the SAC measures the broadband constructs of internalizing and externalizing problems using either parents or teachers as respondents. Method: The convergent, divergent, and criterion validity of the SAC (completed by …
The Organizational Context of Children's Mental Health Services
The Shortform Assessment for Children
This study describes the design and psychometric characteristics of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC). The SAC is an efficient and easy-to-use tool for monitoring the overall mental health and psychosocial functioning of children age 5 to 18 who are served by child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The one-page 48-item instrument was developed with the support of the National Institute of Mental Health to describe internalizing (wit…
The cross‐level effects of culture and climate in human service teams
This two‐level study of child welfare and juvenile justice case management teams addresses construct, measurement, and composition issues that plague multilevel research on organizational culture and climate. Very few empirical studies have examined both culture and climate simultaneously, and none have provided evidence that culture and climate are distinct or similar constructs. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), within‐group consistency analy…
Predicting the Time Children Spend in State Custody
This exploratory study identifies factors that predict the time children spend in state custody. We follow a sample of 700 children from 28 urban and rural counties for a period of up to 3 years from the first day the children enter custody in Tennessee. We use event‐history analysis to examine the effects of child, family, and service characteristics on the probability of exiting state custody. Children with mental health problems, minority chil…
Reactivity and Responsiveness in Children's Service Systems
Few studies have examined the extent to which public children's service systems respond to the mental health problems of children in state custody. This is an important issue because previous research suggests that little attention is given to children's mental health service needs when judicial and service decisions are made about children who enter state custody. The current study addresses the issue by examining the extent to which one state's…
The Effects of Organizational Climate and Interorganizational Coordination on the Quality and Outcomes of Children’s Service Systems
Factors Affecting Case Management Recommendations for Children Entering State Custody
This article examines the factors that affect the residential placement and service recommendations made by case managers for children who enter state custody. One hundred case managers in five case management units were trained to conduct and interpret psychosocial assessments for each child at intake. The case managers' use of the completed assessments in recommending residential placements and mental health services was examined for 633 childr…
Judicial and Service Decisions for Children Entering State Custody
In this article, I describe the mental health status of children in three non-mental health systems of care (child welfare, youth corrections, and education), the limited role that mental health plays in the judicial and service decisions that affect them, and the need for improved access to mental health services for children entering state custody. Although a majority of children appear to need mental health services, only 14 percent of the sam…
The State of the Art of Social Work Research
A summary is presented of the findings of a study of the social work research literature conducted for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Task Force on Social Work Research. Implications of those findings are drawn for building social work knowledge in the area of mental health. Arguments are made that building social work knowledge for effective mental health services and policies requires a focus on traditional areas of practice, re…
Toward the Development of Quantitative Methods in Social Work Research
No abstract available for this article
Bias in Social Work Intervention with Battered Women
A total of 149 social workers from 21 social service agencies responded to questions regarding a client after reading one of six possible case vignettes. The results indicate that social workers stereotype clients who have been battered. In addition, social workers are less likely to consider relocation as an option to protect the victim who is married to her attacker. Also, surprisingly, male-social workers focus on violence related concerns as …
The cross‐level effects of culture and climate in human service teams
This two‐level study of child welfare and juvenile justice case management teams addresses construct, measurement, and composition issues that plague multilevel research on organizational culture and climate. Very few empirical studies have examined both culture and climate simultaneously, and none have provided evidence that culture and climate are distinct or similar constructs. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), within‐group consistency analy…
Assessing and Changing Organizational Culture and Climate for Effective Services
The 2007 Aaron Rosen Lecture was presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, January 12, 2007, in San Francisco, CA. The lecture begins by describing the gap between what is known about efficacious treatments and other evidence-based practices on the one hand and the services that are provided in actual community-based practice settings on the other. To address this gap, the lecture calls for the development of a …
Predicting the Time Children Spend in State Custody
This exploratory study identifies factors that predict the time children spend in state custody. We follow a sample of 700 children from 28 urban and rural counties for a period of up to 3 years from the first day the children enter custody in Tennessee. We use event‐history analysis to examine the effects of child, family, and service characteristics on the probability of exiting state custody. Children with mental health problems, minority chil…
Judicial and Service Decisions for Children Entering State Custody
In this article, I describe the mental health status of children in three non-mental health systems of care (child welfare, youth corrections, and education), the limited role that mental health plays in the judicial and service decisions that affect them, and the need for improved access to mental health services for children entering state custody. Although a majority of children appear to need mental health services, only 14 percent of the sam…
Factors Affecting Case Management Recommendations for Children Entering State Custody
This article examines the factors that affect the residential placement and service recommendations made by case managers for children who enter state custody. One hundred case managers in five case management units were trained to conduct and interpret psychosocial assessments for each child at intake. The case managers' use of the completed assessments in recommending residential placements and mental health services was examined for 633 childr…
The Role of Specialty Mental Health Care in Predicting Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Out-of-Home Placements
Objective: This longitudinal, prospective study examines the role of specialty mental health care as provided by community-based, usual-care practice settings in predicting out-of-home placements among children served by a child welfare and juvenile justice system. Method: The mental health needs of 1,249 children from 22 counties in Tennessee were assessed when the children were referred for child welfare and juvenile justice, in-home, case mana…
The State of the Art of Social Work Research
A summary is presented of the findings of a study of the social work research literature conducted for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Task Force on Social Work Research. Implications of those findings are drawn for building social work knowledge in the area of mental health. Arguments are made that building social work knowledge for effective mental health services and policies requires a focus on traditional areas of practice, re…
Reducing turnover is not enough
The Shortform Assessment for Children
This study describes the design and psychometric characteristics of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC). The SAC is an efficient and easy-to-use tool for monitoring the overall mental health and psychosocial functioning of children age 5 to 18 who are served by child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The one-page 48-item instrument was developed with the support of the National Institute of Mental Health to describe internalizing (wit…
Research Teaching in Social Work Doctoral Programs
A controversy exists among educators and practitioners over the current role of research and the scientific imperative in social work. To establish the extent to which social work doctoral program graduates are being trained as social science researchers, the required research methodology courses in thirty-three doctoral programs are evaluated. The knowledge necessary for pursuing independent social research is divided into eight essential areas …
Bias in Social Work Intervention with Battered Women
A total of 149 social workers from 21 social service agencies responded to questions regarding a client after reading one of six possible case vignettes. The results indicate that social workers stereotype clients who have been battered. In addition, social workers are less likely to consider relocation as an option to protect the victim who is married to her attacker. Also, surprisingly, male-social workers focus on violence related concerns as …
The Social Context of Urban Classrooms
Classrooms are unique and complex work settings in which teachers and students both participate in and contribute to classroom processes. This article describes the measurement phase of a study that examined the social ecology of urban classrooms. Informed by the dimensions and items of an established measure of organizational climate, we designed the Student Climate Survey ( n = 53 items) to assess student psychological climate in third through …
A Cross-Ethnic Validity Study of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC)
Objective: This study examined the cross-ethnic measurement equivalence of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC) using a sample of 562 African American and 692 White children. Method: A prospective, two-panel survey design was used in this study. Baseline and 6-month follow-up data were used to conduct analyses of the reliability and validity of the SAC for each group. Results: Alpha reliabilities and test-retest reliabilities for the full …
Reactivity and Responsiveness in Children's Service Systems
Few studies have examined the extent to which public children's service systems respond to the mental health problems of children in state custody. This is an important issue because previous research suggests that little attention is given to children's mental health service needs when judicial and service decisions are made about children who enter state custody. The current study addresses the issue by examining the extent to which one state's…
The Accountability Controversy
The Effect of Separation on Marital Satisfaction, Depression, and Self-Esteem
The marital dissatisfaction, depression, and self-esteem problems of 37 wives of naval personnel assigned to 4 submarines, who were each separated from their spouses for 14 weeks, were monitored biweekly, beginning 5 weeks before separation until 5 weeks following reunion. Hypothesized quadratic trends, as well as higher order trends, were found to be significant for each of the dependent variables. It was concluded that time-dependent fluctuatio…
Research Teaching in Social Work Doctoral Programs
A controversy exists among educators and practitioners over the current role of research and the scientific imperative in social work. To establish the extent to which social work doctoral program graduates are being trained as social science researchers, the required research methodology courses in thirty-three doctoral programs are evaluated. The knowledge necessary for pursuing independent social research is divided into eight essential areas …
The Effects of Physical Attractiveness on Clinical Judgments
Seventy-two social workers were the subjects in a study investigating the effects of two client characteristics, physical attractiveness and verbal expressiveness, upon the clinical perceptions of the social worker. Subjects completed questionnaires containing vignettes experimentally manipulating the two client characteristics. Subjects were randomly assigned one of the vignettes and completed two separate rating scales. The data analysis reveal…
In Defense of Statistical Tests of Significance
Charles Cowger's recent recommendation that statistical tests of significance be deemphasized or omitted from social work research is shown to be unwarranted on the basis of the arguments he presents. Four errors in Cowger's position are identified and the value of statistical tests of significance for social work research is established in terms of the unique evidence they provide the researcher. It is suggested that the misuse and misinterpreta…
Author's Reply
Bias in Social Work Intervention with Battered Women
A total of 149 social workers from 21 social service agencies responded to questions regarding a client after reading one of six possible case vignettes. The results indicate that social workers stereotype clients who have been battered. In addition, social workers are less likely to consider relocation as an option to protect the victim who is married to her attacker. Also, surprisingly, male-social workers focus on violence related concerns as …
Toward the Development of Quantitative Methods in Social Work Research
No abstract available for this article
The State of the Art of Social Work Research
A summary is presented of the findings of a study of the social work research literature conducted for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Task Force on Social Work Research. Implications of those findings are drawn for building social work knowledge in the area of mental health. Arguments are made that building social work knowledge for effective mental health services and policies requires a focus on traditional areas of practice, re…
Judicial and Service Decisions for Children Entering State Custody
In this article, I describe the mental health status of children in three non-mental health systems of care (child welfare, youth corrections, and education), the limited role that mental health plays in the judicial and service decisions that affect them, and the need for improved access to mental health services for children entering state custody. Although a majority of children appear to need mental health services, only 14 percent of the sam…
The Effects of Organizational Climate and Interorganizational Coordination on the Quality and Outcomes of Children’s Service Systems
Factors Affecting Case Management Recommendations for Children Entering State Custody
This article examines the factors that affect the residential placement and service recommendations made by case managers for children who enter state custody. One hundred case managers in five case management units were trained to conduct and interpret psychosocial assessments for each child at intake. The case managers' use of the completed assessments in recommending residential placements and mental health services was examined for 633 childr…
Reactivity and Responsiveness in Children's Service Systems
Few studies have examined the extent to which public children's service systems respond to the mental health problems of children in state custody. This is an important issue because previous research suggests that little attention is given to children's mental health service needs when judicial and service decisions are made about children who enter state custody. The current study addresses the issue by examining the extent to which one state's…
Predicting the Time Children Spend in State Custody
This exploratory study identifies factors that predict the time children spend in state custody. We follow a sample of 700 children from 28 urban and rural counties for a period of up to 3 years from the first day the children enter custody in Tennessee. We use event‐history analysis to examine the effects of child, family, and service characteristics on the probability of exiting state custody. Children with mental health problems, minority chil…
The Organizational Context of Children's Mental Health Services
The Shortform Assessment for Children
This study describes the design and psychometric characteristics of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC). The SAC is an efficient and easy-to-use tool for monitoring the overall mental health and psychosocial functioning of children age 5 to 18 who are served by child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The one-page 48-item instrument was developed with the support of the National Institute of Mental Health to describe internalizing (wit…
The cross‐level effects of culture and climate in human service teams
This two‐level study of child welfare and juvenile justice case management teams addresses construct, measurement, and composition issues that plague multilevel research on organizational culture and climate. Very few empirical studies have examined both culture and climate simultaneously, and none have provided evidence that culture and climate are distinct or similar constructs. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), within‐group consistency analy…
The Validity of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC)
This study tests the validity of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC), a one-page, 48-item measure of a child's overall mental health. Designed as a rapid assessment instrument for child welfare and juvenile justice systems, the SAC measures the broadband constructs of internalizing and externalizing problems using either parents or teachers as respondents. Method: The convergent, divergent, and criterion validity of the SAC (completed by …
A Cross-Ethnic Validity Study of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC)
Objective: This study examined the cross-ethnic measurement equivalence of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC) using a sample of 562 African American and 692 White children. Method: A prospective, two-panel survey design was used in this study. Baseline and 6-month follow-up data were used to conduct analyses of the reliability and validity of the SAC for each group. Results: Alpha reliabilities and test-retest reliabilities for the full …
Organizational Culture and Climate
Efforts to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices (EBPs) in children's mental health service and other human service systems have had limited success. There is evidence that this limited success is in part a function of the characteristics of the human service organizations that provide the services. Human service organizations create a social context for the services they provide, and this context affects the quality and outcomes of …
The effects of the ARC organizational intervention on caseworker turnover, climate, and culture in children's service systems
The Role of Specialty Mental Health Care in Predicting Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Out-of-Home Placements
Objective: This longitudinal, prospective study examines the role of specialty mental health care as provided by community-based, usual-care practice settings in predicting out-of-home placements among children served by a child welfare and juvenile justice system. Method: The mental health needs of 1,249 children from 22 counties in Tennessee were assessed when the children were referred for child welfare and juvenile justice, in-home, case mana…
Assessing and Changing Organizational Culture and Climate for Effective Services
The 2007 Aaron Rosen Lecture was presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, January 12, 2007, in San Francisco, CA. The lecture begins by describing the gap between what is known about efficacious treatments and other evidence-based practices on the one hand and the services that are provided in actual community-based practice settings on the other. To address this gap, the lecture calls for the development of a …
Assessing the Organizational Social Context (OSC) of Mental Health Services
Implementation Research in Mental Health Services
Psychology (28 works) · Political science (18 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Mental health (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (10 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (10 works) · Business (9 works)