William J Reid
Biographic Data
| ID | 283351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William J Reid |
| GIVEN NAMES | William J |
| FAMILY NAME | Reid |
| SIGNATURE | REID W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4317-4230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Educational Supervision in Social Work: A Task-Centered Model for Field Instruction and Staff Development
This book provides a comprehensive examination of instructional supervision and introduces the Task-Centered Model for Educational Supervision (TCS). It begins by reviewing the history of educational supervision in social work and principles of effective teaching practices in the field. While theories about the principles and purposes of educational supervision abound, it has proven difficult to translate these ideas into a coherent model of supe…
Science and Social Work: A Critical Appraisal
Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It identifies the major ways in which social workers have drawn upon scientific knowledge and techniques, placing each one in historical perspective by explaining the nature of the problems it was designed to solve and the philosophical, political, and practical questions it raised. Kirk and Reid offer a…
Social Worker-Teacher Collaboration in the Classroom: Help for Elementary Students at Risk of Failure
Objective: Social worker-teacher classroom collaboration (SWTCC) is an innovative model of intervention for at-risk elementary school children in which a social worker and a teacher work together in the same classroom. The model was evaluated to determine whether or not the intervention improved attendance, classroom behavior, and grades. Method: SWTCC was implemented using social work interns in two classrooms in an urban elementary school in Al…
Knowledge for Direct Social Work Practice: An Analysis of Trends
This article reviews selected trends in the knowledge base of direct social work practice over the past quarter century: burgeoning diversity in practice approaches; new views of the client‐practitioner relationship; the development of multilevel intervention models; the emergence of family therapy approaches; increasing focus on action, meaning, and information in client helping services; and growing attention to scientifically based practice. T…
Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Following an initiative taken by the NuYeld Trust, an ad hoc steering committee consisting of the authors of this paper was convened under the auspices of the Trust in order
Social work in the press: A cross‐national study
This study examined the image of social work in newspapers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Using the LEXIS‐NEXIS database of full text articles, a sample of 20 constructed weeks were randomly drawn from 60 major dailies over a four‐and‐a‐half‐year period, yielding 399 articles in which reference was made to social work. Ratings of the image of social work were largely positive in the USA; in the UK more stories had negative than posi…
Intercountry, transracial adoption and ethnic identity: A Korean example
Intercountry, transracial adoptions, such as adoptions of Korean and Chinese children by American families, raise questions about the formation of ethnic identities of the adoptees. Such questions were addressed in a study of 40 Korean adopted children and their American parents. It was found that a high degree of involvement by children in Korean cultural activities was positively associated with scores measuring the strength of the children's K…
Task-Centered Case Management for the Elderly: Developing a Practice Model
This article describes the early development and field testing of a task-centered case manage ment modelfor social work practice with the elderly. Integrating a specific intervention protocol with the established case management core functions, the model addresses the lack of clearly defined practice guidelines for case management with elderly clients. Findings regarding the process, structure, and outcomes of implementing the model are presented…
Long-Term Trends in Clinical Social Work
In this article, I examine four interrelated trends that have emerged in clinical social work over the past half-century: the increasing variety of interventions used by clinical social workers; the emergence and solidification of short-term modalities; the development of action-oriented methods; and the growing importance of research as a basis for practice. I consider selected developments, issues, and implications relating to these trends, inc…
Intervention Design and Development: A Case Study
Approaches for systematically constructing, evaluating, improving, and disseminating human service interventions offer the potential for enhancing the effectiveness of social work practice. However, there has been little study of how such approaches actually work when carried out. This article presents a comprehensive case study of how one of them—the design and development (D&D) paradigm of Edwin J. Thomas and Jack Rothman—was applied in the dev…
Involuntary Clients in Social Work Practice: A Research-Based Approach . Andre Ivanoff , Betty J. Blythe , Tony Tripodi
Eclecticism, Empiricism, Minimalism, and Task-centered Practice: A Response to Gambrill
The Empirical Practice Movement Revisited: Reflections on the Comments of Brown and Epstein
Cash incentives versus case management: Can money replace services in preventing school failure
Monetary incentives given to clients have the potential of providing a simpler and less-costly means of achieving behavioral change goals than traditional service programs, but the effectiveness of such payment approaches remains to be demonstrated. This article describes an experiment in which adolescent girls at risk of school failure were randomly assigned to three groups: (1) a payment program in which girls received a monetary incentive of $…
Content Analysis in Design and Development
This article presents a method of content analysis for use in the early stages of a social work developmental research undertaking. The method enables researchers to carry out a systematic but expeditious review of data from preliminary trials of an innovative practice model, to identify strengths and problems in the model, and to devise ways of improving it. The method was used in the development of an innovative case management approach to prob…
The Empirical Practice Movement
Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the empirical practice movement in social work has addressed three major goals: advancement of the use of research methods in practice as a means of facilitating assessment, guiding intervention planning, and evaluating cases; promotion of the use of interventions whose effectiveness has been demonstrated through empirical research; and creation of knowledge through studies carried out by practitioner-researcher…
Fitting the Single-System Design to Family Treatment
Applications of single-system designs (SSDs) in work with families have usually been confined to behavioral forms of intervention, to specific target problems, single family subsystems, and to academic research undertakings. There is need for designs that can encompass systems-based family approaches, a range of family variables, multiple family subsystems, and the realities of agency practice. Such designs might make use of retrospective and "na…
South Boston, My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic Neighborhood
Role-Sharing Marriage
Super Problem Solvers: A Systematic Case Study
In this single-case study, the practitioner and clients are construed as coparticipants in a problem-solving system. An inductively derived, case-specific coding scheme augmented by qualitative analysis is used to examine problem-solving and change processes. The study offers a perspective on the range, variety, and interaction of change events that occur when family members are active problem solvers. It suggests how leadership may be shared bet…
Evaluating and Intervention in Developmental Research
This article presents and illustrates a set of quantitative and qualitative procedures for evaluatin a specific intervention within a developmental research context. These procedures were used to assess the Family Problem Solving Sequence, one of the interventions tested in an ongoing developmental research project on task-centered family practice. Findings relating to characteristics of use of the intervention, its achievement of intermediate go…
Role-Sharing Marriage
Dissatisfaction with Brief Treatment
Literature regarding reactions to brief treatment suggests that many clients, often women more than men, report significant dissatisfaction, despite what appears to be positive outcome. The authors' research suggests two factors in interaction: lack of meaningful goal attainment and reaction to dependency induced by treatment. Differences between sexes seem to be primarily a result of differences in expectations
Choosing Effective Interventions
Recent evaluations of social work have provided evidence for the effectiveness of a variety of treatment methods. This development has greatly aided in the establishment of a scientific basis for the profession but has not significantly influenced the decision making of practitioners. One reason for this is the difficulty of rendering such information into a form that is useful to practitioners. This article suggests guidelines that practitioners…
Reid and Hanrahan Reply
Reid and Hanrahan Reply Get access William J. Reid, William J. Reid West Suburban Associates for Special Education, Oak Park, IllinoisSchool of Social Welfare, State University of New York, at Albany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Patricia Hanrahan Patricia Hanrahan West Suburban Associates for Special Education, Oak Park, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Go…
Intercountry, transracial adoption and ethnic identity: A Korean example
Intercountry, transracial adoptions, such as adoptions of Korean and Chinese children by American families, raise questions about the formation of ethnic identities of the adoptees. Such questions were addressed in a study of 40 Korean adopted children and their American parents. It was found that a high degree of involvement by children in Korean cultural activities was positively associated with scores measuring the strength of the children's K…
The Empirical Practice Movement
Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the empirical practice movement in social work has addressed three major goals: advancement of the use of research methods in practice as a means of facilitating assessment, guiding intervention planning, and evaluating cases; promotion of the use of interventions whose effectiveness has been demonstrated through empirical research; and creation of knowledge through studies carried out by practitioner-researcher…
Recent evaluations of social work: Grounds for optimism
Journal Article Recent evaluations of social work: grounds for optimism Get access William J. Reid, DSW, William J. Reid, DSW Professor School of Social Welfare, State University of New YorkAlbany This article was published in an earlier version: William J. Reid and Patricia Hanrahan, "The Effectiveness of Social Work: Recent Evidence," in E. Matilda Goldberg and Naomi Connelly, eds., Evaluative Research in Social Care (London, England: Heinemann…
Knowledge for Direct Social Work Practice: An Analysis of Trends
This article reviews selected trends in the knowledge base of direct social work practice over the past quarter century: burgeoning diversity in practice approaches; new views of the client‐practitioner relationship; the development of multilevel intervention models; the emergence of family therapy approaches; increasing focus on action, meaning, and information in client helping services; and growing attention to scientifically based practice. T…
Social work in the press: A cross‐national study
This study examined the image of social work in newspapers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Using the LEXIS‐NEXIS database of full text articles, a sample of 20 constructed weeks were randomly drawn from 60 major dailies over a four‐and‐a‐half‐year period, yielding 399 articles in which reference was made to social work. Ratings of the image of social work were largely positive in the USA; in the UK more stories had negative than posi…
Interagency Co-ordination in Delinquency Prevention and Control
Intervention Design and Development: A Case Study
Approaches for systematically constructing, evaluating, improving, and disseminating human service interventions offer the potential for enhancing the effectiveness of social work practice. However, there has been little study of how such approaches actually work when carried out. This article presents a comprehensive case study of how one of them—the design and development (D&D) paradigm of Edwin J. Thomas and Jack Rothman—was applied in the dev…
Choosing Effective Interventions
Recent evaluations of social work have provided evidence for the effectiveness of a variety of treatment methods. This development has greatly aided in the establishment of a scientific basis for the profession but has not significantly influenced the decision making of practitioners. One reason for this is the difficulty of rendering such information into a form that is useful to practitioners. This article suggests guidelines that practitioners…
Long-Term Trends in Clinical Social Work
In this article, I examine four interrelated trends that have emerged in clinical social work over the past half-century: the increasing variety of interventions used by clinical social workers; the emergence and solidification of short-term modalities; the development of action-oriented methods; and the growing importance of research as a basis for practice. I consider selected developments, issues, and implications relating to these trends, inc…
Task-Centered Case Management for the Elderly: Developing a Practice Model
This article describes the early development and field testing of a task-centered case manage ment modelfor social work practice with the elderly. Integrating a specific intervention protocol with the established case management core functions, the model addresses the lack of clearly defined practice guidelines for case management with elderly clients. Findings regarding the process, structure, and outcomes of implementing the model are presented…
Cash incentives versus case management: Can money replace services in preventing school failure
Monetary incentives given to clients have the potential of providing a simpler and less-costly means of achieving behavioral change goals than traditional service programs, but the effectiveness of such payment approaches remains to be demonstrated. This article describes an experiment in which adolescent girls at risk of school failure were randomly assigned to three groups: (1) a payment program in which girls received a monetary incentive of $…
The Social Agency as a Research Machine
Computerized information systems have the potential of providing ngency decision makers and other consumers with a continuing flow of data concerning clients, services, costs, ond program outcomes. Sophisticated information systems may supplant or transform much of the conventional project research carried out in social agencies. Although data produced by "one-time " projects may be more rigorous, data generated by information systems may be more…
Some Reflections on the Practice Doctorate
A doctorate is proposed that would prepare graduates for roles as practitioners and administrators in clinical social work and the social services. Emphasis would be placed on mastery of knowledge of service approaches and on learning methods of clinical research and program management rather than on the acquisition of ad- vanced treatment skills. A practicum in which students would develop and test models of intervention would be a central featu…
WIN, Work, and Welfare
A follow-up study found that the majority of former WIN participants were still on welfare after being out of the program an average of eighteen months. Many held low-wage jobs and were receiving supplementary assistance. Ninety percent of the sample had employment histories prior to their WIN experience. Women, who were more likely than men to have received education and job training while in WIN, were also more likely to obtain jobs at higher s…
AFDC Mothers View the Work Incentive Program
Although they felt some pressure to participate, most of the AFDC mothers studied viewed the Work Incentive Program as an opportunity for self-advancement. Consistent with the findings of other studies and with WIN statistics, few of these women obtained jobs through the program. This study documents an infrequently considered consequence of WIN's failure to deliver jobs-the frustration of the women's own aspirations
Implications of research for the goals of casework
Social Worker-Teacher Collaboration in the Classroom: Help for Elementary Students at Risk of Failure
Objective: Social worker-teacher classroom collaboration (SWTCC) is an innovative model of intervention for at-risk elementary school children in which a social worker and a teacher work together in the same classroom. The model was evaluated to determine whether or not the intervention improved attendance, classroom behavior, and grades. Method: SWTCC was implemented using social work interns in two classrooms in an urban elementary school in Al…
Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Following an initiative taken by the NuYeld Trust, an ad hoc steering committee consisting of the authors of this paper was convened under the auspices of the Trust in order
Dissatisfaction with Brief Treatment
Literature regarding reactions to brief treatment suggests that many clients, often women more than men, report significant dissatisfaction, despite what appears to be positive outcome. The authors' research suggests two factors in interaction: lack of meaningful goal attainment and reaction to dependency induced by treatment. Differences between sexes seem to be primarily a result of differences in expectations
Reid and Hanrahan Reply
Reid and Hanrahan Reply Get access William J. Reid, William J. Reid West Suburban Associates for Special Education, Oak Park, IllinoisSchool of Social Welfare, State University of New York, at Albany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Patricia Hanrahan Patricia Hanrahan West Suburban Associates for Special Education, Oak Park, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Go…
The Model Development Dissertation
This paper presents a proposal for a new type of social work doctoral dissertation-the model development dissertation (MDD). The MDD is designed to further the development of a practice model through a process of model construction, testing, and revision. In carrying out the dissertation, the student integrates the roles of researcher and model builder. In contrast to conventional dissertations, the main end-product of the MDD is not a set of fin…
Interagency Co-ordination in Delinquency Prevention and Control
Client Reactions to Advice
The Client'S Reaction to the Amount of Advice Given by his Caseworker was Investigated as Part of a Study of Casework Services in a Family Agency. Through Analysis of Their Inter- Views, Caseworkers Were Classified as High, Moderate, and Low Users of Advice. A Substantial Proportion of the Low Users' Clients Said They had Received too Little Advice, Whereas Such Complaints Were Voiced by only a Small Minority of Cuents Treated by high and Moderat…
Implications of research for the goals of casework
Theory Building: A Practical Guide to the Construction and Testing of Theoretical Models . Robert Dubin
AFDC Mothers View the Work Incentive Program
Although they felt some pressure to participate, most of the AFDC mothers studied viewed the Work Incentive Program as an opportunity for self-advancement. Consistent with the findings of other studies and with WIN statistics, few of these women obtained jobs through the program. This study documents an infrequently considered consequence of WIN's failure to deliver jobs-the frustration of the women's own aspirations
Family and Community Functioning: A Manual of Measurement for Social Work Practice and Policy . Ludwig L. Geismar
Task-Centered Casework
WIN, Work, and Welfare
A follow-up study found that the majority of former WIN participants were still on welfare after being out of the program an average of eighteen months. Many held low-wage jobs and were receiving supplementary assistance. Ninety percent of the sample had employment histories prior to their WIN experience. Women, who were more likely than men to have received education and job training while in WIN, were also more likely to obtain jobs at higher s…
Measuring agency investment in community mental health
Handbook of Evaluation Research . Marcia Guttentag , Elmer Struening
The Social Agency as a Research Machine
Computerized information systems have the potential of providing ngency decision makers and other consumers with a continuing flow of data concerning clients, services, costs, ond program outcomes. Sophisticated information systems may supplant or transform much of the conventional project research carried out in social agencies. Although data produced by "one-time " projects may be more rigorous, data generated by information systems may be more…
Some Reflections on the Practice Doctorate
A doctorate is proposed that would prepare graduates for roles as practitioners and administrators in clinical social work and the social services. Emphasis would be placed on mastery of knowledge of service approaches and on learning methods of clinical research and program management rather than on the acquisition of ad- vanced treatment skills. A practicum in which students would develop and test models of intervention would be a central featu…
The Model Development Dissertation
This paper presents a proposal for a new type of social work doctoral dissertation-the model development dissertation (MDD). The MDD is designed to further the development of a practice model through a process of model construction, testing, and revision. In carrying out the dissertation, the student integrates the roles of researcher and model builder. In contrast to conventional dissertations, the main end-product of the MDD is not a set of fin…
Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change: An Empirical Analysis . Sol L. Garfield , Allen E. Bergin
Recent evaluations of social work: Grounds for optimism
Journal Article Recent evaluations of social work: grounds for optimism Get access William J. Reid, DSW, William J. Reid, DSW Professor School of Social Welfare, State University of New YorkAlbany This article was published in an earlier version: William J. Reid and Patricia Hanrahan, "The Effectiveness of Social Work: Recent Evidence," in E. Matilda Goldberg and Naomi Connelly, eds., Evaluative Research in Social Care (London, England: Heinemann…
Reid and Hanrahan Reply
Reid and Hanrahan Reply Get access William J. Reid, William J. Reid West Suburban Associates for Special Education, Oak Park, IllinoisSchool of Social Welfare, State University of New York, at Albany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Patricia Hanrahan Patricia Hanrahan West Suburban Associates for Special Education, Oak Park, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Go…
Choosing Effective Interventions
Recent evaluations of social work have provided evidence for the effectiveness of a variety of treatment methods. This development has greatly aided in the establishment of a scientific basis for the profession but has not significantly influenced the decision making of practitioners. One reason for this is the difficulty of rendering such information into a form that is useful to practitioners. This article suggests guidelines that practitioners…
Dissatisfaction with Brief Treatment
Literature regarding reactions to brief treatment suggests that many clients, often women more than men, report significant dissatisfaction, despite what appears to be positive outcome. The authors' research suggests two factors in interaction: lack of meaningful goal attainment and reaction to dependency induced by treatment. Differences between sexes seem to be primarily a result of differences in expectations
Evaluating and Intervention in Developmental Research
This article presents and illustrates a set of quantitative and qualitative procedures for evaluatin a specific intervention within a developmental research context. These procedures were used to assess the Family Problem Solving Sequence, one of the interventions tested in an ongoing developmental research project on task-centered family practice. Findings relating to characteristics of use of the intervention, its achievement of intermediate go…
Role-Sharing Marriage
Role-Sharing Marriage
Super Problem Solvers: A Systematic Case Study
In this single-case study, the practitioner and clients are construed as coparticipants in a problem-solving system. An inductively derived, case-specific coding scheme augmented by qualitative analysis is used to examine problem-solving and change processes. The study offers a perspective on the range, variety, and interaction of change events that occur when family members are active problem solvers. It suggests how leadership may be shared bet…
South Boston, My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic Neighborhood
Fitting the Single-System Design to Family Treatment
Applications of single-system designs (SSDs) in work with families have usually been confined to behavioral forms of intervention, to specific target problems, single family subsystems, and to academic research undertakings. There is need for designs that can encompass systems-based family approaches, a range of family variables, multiple family subsystems, and the realities of agency practice. Such designs might make use of retrospective and "na…
Cash incentives versus case management: Can money replace services in preventing school failure
Monetary incentives given to clients have the potential of providing a simpler and less-costly means of achieving behavioral change goals than traditional service programs, but the effectiveness of such payment approaches remains to be demonstrated. This article describes an experiment in which adolescent girls at risk of school failure were randomly assigned to three groups: (1) a payment program in which girls received a monetary incentive of $…
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