Eileen Gambrill
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3450096 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eileen Gambrill |
| NOMBRES | Eileen |
| APELLIDO | Gambrill |
| FIRMA | GAMBRILL E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4564-0672 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 490 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1963 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
How Strategic Ignorance Contributes to Missed Opportunities to Enhance Social Justice
Research Challenges
Unmentioned challenges to conducting valuable research in social work include the politicization of education and weakened educational standards at all levels. Discovery of what helps clients requires free speech and free inquiry, always a threat to those who prefer authoritarian approaches
Twiddeling and Twaddeling in the Weeptime of Clients
How to Teach Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work
Criticism and Its Critics
The Promotion of Avoidable Ignorance in the British Journal of Social Work
The manifest purpose of professional journals is to share important knowledge. Increasing revelations of flaws in the peer-reviewed literature shows that this purpose is often not honored and that inflated claims of knowledge as well as other concerns such as misrepresentations of disliked or misunderstood views are rife. In this article, avoidable misunderstandings of science and evidence-based practice (EBP) in publications in the British Journ…
Reply to “Preparing Current and Future Practitioners to Integrate Research in Real Practice Settings” by Bruce A. Thyer
Professor Thyer addresses the vital question “How can we prepare practitioners to integrate research in practice settings?” His focus on ethical concerns due to a failure in integration and suggestion to seek legal remedies are welcome ones. Their importance is highlighted by continuing to disregard the close relationship between ethical and evidentiary concerns in everyday practice and policy
Avoidable Ignorance and the Role of Cochrane and Campbell Reviews
The Campbell and Cochrane Collaborations were created to reveal the evidentiary status of claims focusing especially on the effectiveness of specific interventions. Such reviews are constrained by the population of studies available and biases that may influence this availability such as preferred framing of problems. This highlights the importance of attending to how problems are framed and the validity of measures used in such reviews, as well …
Integrating Research and Practice
Integrating practice and research is vital in all helping professions in order to offer the most ethical, evidence-informed interventions to clients. This article describes some avoidable distractions that hinder integration, discusses controversies related to integration, and describes options for moving forward, including making wasted resources visible, use of an Environmental Deprivation Scale, and courage training
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a Major Form of Dehumanization in the Modern World
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM) is one of the most successful technologies in modern times. In spite of well-argued critiques, the DSM and the idea of “mental illness” on which it is based flourish, with ever more (mis)behaviors labeled as brain diseases. Problems in living and related distress are converted into medical problems, obscuring the role of environmental factors such as poverty and related political, s…
The Value of Ellul’s Analysis in Understanding Propaganda in the Helping Professions
This article draws on Ellul’s analysis of propaganda in understanding propaganda in the helping professions. Key in such an analysis is the interweaving of the psychological and sociological. Contrary to the discourse in mission statements of professional organizations and their codes of ethics calling for informed consent, competence of professionals and taking advantage of research findings, in everyday practice we find a variety of avoidable l…
Birds of a Feather
Applied behavior analysts have been helping people to enhance the quality of their lives for decades. Its characteristics as described by Baer, Wolf, and Risley continue to guide efforts to help clients and their significant others. Yet, this knowledge often languishes unused and unappreciated. Distortions and misrepresentations of applied behavior analysis and radical behaviorism abound. Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is contextual and concerne…
Ethical Aspects of Outcome Studies in Social, Behavioral, and Educational Interventions
The domain of outcome research is enormous and the consequences weighty. Ethical, practical, and political goals of evaluation have insured a multitude of outcome studies concerning social, behavioral, and educational interventions as well as critiques thereof and descriptions of how to conduct related research. We have a rich literature guiding the design, conduct, reporting, and dissemination of outcome studies as well as a rich literature show…
Evidence-Informed Practice
The most concerning issue affecting the quality of practices and policies in the helping professions is the play of propaganda, which misleads us regarding what is a problem, how (or if) it can be detected, its causes, and how (or if) it can be remedied. Propaganda is defined as encouraging beliefs and actions with the least thought possible. Censorship is integral to propaganda including hiding well-argued alternatives and lack of evidence for c…
Evidence-Based (Informed) Macro Practice
Evidence-informed practice and policy at the macro level offers great potential for honoring ethical guidelines to integrate practice and research, to involve clients as informed participants, to respond ethically to problems of scarce resources, to enhance social and economic justice, and to empower clients. The process and philosophy of evidence-informed practice and care as described in original sources suggest a decision-making process design…
Transparency as the Route to Evidence-Informed Professional Education
The author suggests that transparency in all venues, including social work education, practice and policy, and the conduct and reporting of related research, will be required to advance the effectiveness of professional education. Possibilities for improving the quality of professional education differ in terms of how evidence-informed practice is viewed. The process and philosophy of evidence-based practice (EBP) as described in original sources…
Evidence-Based Practice and Policy
Choices about how to view evidence-based practice (EBP) are being made by educators, practitioners, agency administrators, and staff in a variety of organizations designed to promote integration of research and practice such as clearinghouses on EBP. Choices range from narrow views of EBP such as use of empirically based guidelines and treatment manuals to the broad philosophy and evolving process of EBP, envisioned by its originators, that addre…
Decision making in child welfare
A Client-Focused Definition of Social Work Practice
The 1958 working definition of social work practice highlights past and current paradoxes, competing interests, confusions, and mystifications in social work. Outcomes are not mentioned in this definition, reflecting the lack of attention to describing variations in services and their outcomes. This, as well as not clearly distinguishing between objectives selected based on what is good for society and what is valued by individual clients, reveal…
Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of clients. The authors describe and offer counterarguments to objections to EBP. These objections could result in premature dismissal of this new form of practice and education that offers potential benefits to social work and its clients. Objections to EBP fall into six categories: (a) arguments from ignora…
The assessment and management of risk in child welfare services
Social Work
Although social work is flourishing by many outward signs, such as the increased number of schools of social work, it is argued that this growth has not honored obligations in our code of ethics, for example to inform clients, to empower them, and to offer competent services. A great disconnect continues between what we say we do and value and what we actually do. Change in this pattern will be encouraged by increased client access to information…
Risk assessment in context
Evidence-Based Practice
There is no agreement on "one way of knowing" in social work, and it is certainly not scientific reasoning that is accepted, as can be seen by examining the literature in social work on "different ways of knowing
Social Work in the 21st Century
PART ONE: THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT Demographic Changes and Their Implications - Martha N Ozawa The Future Economic Landscape - Nancy Rose The Political Context of Social Work - Michael Reisch Social Work in International Context - James Midgley Challenges and Opportunites Poverty and Postmodernity - Mark J Stern The Impact and Implications of Multiculturalism - John F Longres Nonprofit Organizations, Social Policy and Public Welfare - Eleanor L B…
Evidence-Based Practice
There is no agreement on "one way of knowing" in social work, and it is certainly not scientific reasoning that is accepted, as can be seen by examining the literature in social work on "different ways of knowing
Evidence-Based Practice and Policy
Choices about how to view evidence-based practice (EBP) are being made by educators, practitioners, agency administrators, and staff in a variety of organizations designed to promote integration of research and practice such as clearinghouses on EBP. Choices range from narrow views of EBP such as use of empirically based guidelines and treatment manuals to the broad philosophy and evolving process of EBP, envisioned by its originators, that addre…
Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of clients. The authors describe and offer counterarguments to objections to EBP. These objections could result in premature dismissal of this new form of practice and education that offers potential benefits to social work and its clients. Objections to EBP fall into six categories: (a) arguments from ignora…
Social Work
Although social work is flourishing by many outward signs, such as the increased number of schools of social work, it is argued that this growth has not honored obligations in our code of ethics, for example to inform clients, to empower them, and to offer competent services. A great disconnect continues between what we say we do and value and what we actually do. Change in this pattern will be encouraged by increased client access to information…
Risk assessment in context
Transparency as the Route to Evidence-Informed Professional Education
The author suggests that transparency in all venues, including social work education, practice and policy, and the conduct and reporting of related research, will be required to advance the effectiveness of professional education. Possibilities for improving the quality of professional education differ in terms of how evidence-informed practice is viewed. The process and philosophy of evidence-based practice (EBP) as described in original sources…
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a Major Form of Dehumanization in the Modern World
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM) is one of the most successful technologies in modern times. In spite of well-argued critiques, the DSM and the idea of “mental illness” on which it is based flourish, with ever more (mis)behaviors labeled as brain diseases. Problems in living and related distress are converted into medical problems, obscuring the role of environmental factors such as poverty and related political, s…
Facilitating Decision Making in Foster Care
Results are reported from a two-year experimental project. The major objective of the project was to increase continuity of care for children in out-of-home placement by involving natural parents in planning and decision making for them. At the end of two years, a significantly greater number of experimental than control children were out, or headed out, of foster care. A number of variables are considered, with a focus as to whether they have ut…
Decision making in child welfare
Integrating Research and Practice
Integrating practice and research is vital in all helping professions in order to offer the most ethical, evidence-informed interventions to clients. This article describes some avoidable distractions that hinder integration, discusses controversies related to integration, and describes options for moving forward, including making wasted resources visible, use of an Environmental Deprivation Scale, and courage training
Evidence-Informed Practice
The most concerning issue affecting the quality of practices and policies in the helping professions is the play of propaganda, which misleads us regarding what is a problem, how (or if) it can be detected, its causes, and how (or if) it can be remedied. Propaganda is defined as encouraging beliefs and actions with the least thought possible. Censorship is integral to propaganda including hiding well-argued alternatives and lack of evidence for c…
How Strategic Ignorance Contributes to Missed Opportunities to Enhance Social Justice
The Promotion of Avoidable Ignorance in the British Journal of Social Work
The manifest purpose of professional journals is to share important knowledge. Increasing revelations of flaws in the peer-reviewed literature shows that this purpose is often not honored and that inflated claims of knowledge as well as other concerns such as misrepresentations of disliked or misunderstood views are rife. In this article, avoidable misunderstandings of science and evidence-based practice (EBP) in publications in the British Journ…
A Client-Focused Definition of Social Work Practice
The 1958 working definition of social work practice highlights past and current paradoxes, competing interests, confusions, and mystifications in social work. Outcomes are not mentioned in this definition, reflecting the lack of attention to describing variations in services and their outcomes. This, as well as not clearly distinguishing between objectives selected based on what is good for society and what is valued by individual clients, reveal…
Behavioral Social Work
In the past 3 decades, the development and application of behavioral methods within social work has greatly expanded. This article provides an overview of behavioral social work
Social Work Research
Priorities for social work research are suggested and obstacles discussed Clarifying the goals of research is suggested as a first step. Success in helping clients prevent or resolve real-life problems is suggested as a key purpose ofknowledge development in professions such as social work Priorities identified include diffusion of successful programs, developing effective education programs, intervention research (especially programmatic researc…
What's in a Name? Task-Centered, Empirical, and Behavioral Practice
Williams Reid's recent book Task Strategies provides an opportunity to review the relationship among task-centered, behavioral, and empirical practice. As noted in this book, task-centered practice has drawn ever more heavily on behavioral methods. Similarities and differences between task-centered and behavioral practice are discussed. It is suggested that the kind of empirical practice described in this book may decrease potential success, for …
Mentor Relationships Among Women in Academe
Although it is generally acknowledged that mentor relationships facilitate professional development and advance careers, little is known about the influence of gender on the nature and pattern of these relationships, especially for women in academe. On the basis of material in the literature and of their own and others' personal experiences, the authors discuss characteristics and stages of mentor relationships, resources exchanged by protegees a…
Permanency planning for children
Ethical Aspects of Outcome Studies in Social, Behavioral, and Educational Interventions
The domain of outcome research is enormous and the consequences weighty. Ethical, practical, and political goals of evaluation have insured a multitude of outcome studies concerning social, behavioral, and educational interventions as well as critiques thereof and descriptions of how to conduct related research. We have a rich literature guiding the design, conduct, reporting, and dissemination of outcome studies as well as a rich literature show…
Evidence-Based (Informed) Macro Practice
Evidence-informed practice and policy at the macro level offers great potential for honoring ethical guidelines to integrate practice and research, to involve clients as informed participants, to respond ethically to problems of scarce resources, to enhance social and economic justice, and to empower clients. The process and philosophy of evidence-informed practice and care as described in original sources suggest a decision-making process design…
A Measure of Critical Thinking About Practice
This article describes a measure that assesses ability to think critically about whether to adopt a treatment method. The measure is called PRIDE1 (Principles of Reasoning, Inference, Decision-Making and Evaluation). PRIDE1 takes about 80 minutes to administer an emotional audiovisual argument and to obtain written responses. Scoring each response takes expertenced raters from 2 to 10 minutes. Pearson's r interrater reliability on 5 trials range …
Who's Losing
Who's Losing? Get access June Gary Hopps, June Gary Hopps Editor-in-Chief Social Work Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Eileen Gambrill Eileen Gambrill Editor-in-Chief Social Work Research & Abstracts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 33, Issue 5, September-October 1988, Pages 387–388, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/33.5.387 Published: 01 S…
Criteria Used to Define and Evaluate Socially competent Behavior Among Women
Criteria used to evaluate socially competent behavior of women are described and critiqued. Many definitions of social competence do not employ a process view of social behavior in which individual goals and values as well as specific verbal and nonverbal behaviors are considered. This may result in the imposition of artificial goals on consumers of assertion and social skills training programs and the neglect of individual goals. The relationshi…
Role of behavior modification in community mental health
Post Hospitalized Disabled Children
The Convergence of the Interactionist and Behavioral Approaches to Deviance
This paper compares two theoretical perspectives on deviance, the behavioral and interactionist. Although these two perspectives arise from separate disciplines and intellectual traditions, we will argue that their approaches to the study of deviance in general and to mental illness in particular share many basic similarities, as well as some important differences, and that an analysis of each helps us understand the limitations and strengths of …
Social Service Delivery
Role of behavior modification in community mental health
Contracts and Outcome in Foster Care
Journal Article Contracts and Outcome in Foster Care Get access Theodore J. Stein, DSW, Theodore J. Stein, DSW is Lecturer in Social Welfare and Alameda Project Director School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.University of California, Berkeley, Children's Homes Society, Oakland, California. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Eileen D. Gambrill, Ph.D., Eileen D. Gambrill, Ph.D. Ass…
Facilitating Decision Making in Foster Care
Results are reported from a two-year experimental project. The major objective of the project was to increase continuity of care for children in out-of-home placement by involving natural parents in planning and decision making for them. At the end of two years, a significantly greater number of experimental than control children were out, or headed out, of foster care. A number of variables are considered, with a focus as to whether they have ut…
Resources on foster care and adoption in Britain
New developments in foster care and adoption
Working with biological parents
Permanency planning for children
Arranging effective training
Permanency planning for children
Criteria Used to Define and Evaluate Socially competent Behavior Among Women
Criteria used to evaluate socially competent behavior of women are described and critiqued. Many definitions of social competence do not employ a process view of social behavior in which individual goals and values as well as specific verbal and nonverbal behaviors are considered. This may result in the imposition of artificial goals on consumers of assertion and social skills training programs and the neglect of individual goals. The relationshi…
Mentor Relationships Among Women in Academe
Although it is generally acknowledged that mentor relationships facilitate professional development and advance careers, little is known about the influence of gender on the nature and pattern of these relationships, especially for women in academe. On the basis of material in the literature and of their own and others' personal experiences, the authors discuss characteristics and stages of mentor relationships, resources exchanged by protegees a…
Who's Losing
Who's Losing? Get access June Gary Hopps, June Gary Hopps Editor-in-Chief Social Work Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Eileen Gambrill Eileen Gambrill Editor-in-Chief Social Work Research & Abstracts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 33, Issue 5, September-October 1988, Pages 387–388, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/33.5.387 Published: 01 S…
Neighbors
The Least Detrimental Alternative
Social Work Research
Priorities for social work research are suggested and obstacles discussed Clarifying the goals of research is suggested as a first step. Success in helping clients prevent or resolve real-life problems is suggested as a key purpose ofknowledge development in professions such as social work Priorities identified include diffusion of successful programs, developing effective education programs, intervention research (especially programmatic researc…
The problem with neighbors
Using data from a random telephone survey, this paper explores the nature of annoyances between neighbors. Neighbor annoyances were both pervasive (90% of the respondents reported that they experienced at least one annoyance in the last 3 years) and varied (averaging 2.5 different types per respondent). The estimated percentage of life stress attributable to neighbor annoyances was only 8.5%. However, for a small minority (6%), annoyance with nei…
What's in a Name? Task-Centered, Empirical, and Behavioral Practice
Williams Reid's recent book Task Strategies provides an opportunity to review the relationship among task-centered, behavioral, and empirical practice. As noted in this book, task-centered practice has drawn ever more heavily on behavioral methods. Similarities and differences between task-centered and behavioral practice are discussed. It is suggested that the kind of empirical practice described in this book may decrease potential success, for …
Less marketing and more scholarship
Misunderstandings of the relative merits of qualitative and quantitative research have been encouraged by an either—or framing of the domain. Seven interrelated reasons for this either—oring are suggested, including focusing on method rather than purpose, different beliefs about how and if knowledge can be acquired, confusing the creation of ideas with their testing, misunderstandings of science, cognitive biases, a marketing rather than scholarl…
Behavioral Social Work
In the past 3 decades, the development and application of behavioral methods within social work has greatly expanded. This article provides an overview of behavioral social work
A Measure of Critical Thinking About Practice
This article describes a measure that assesses ability to think critically about whether to adopt a treatment method. The measure is called PRIDE1 (Principles of Reasoning, Inference, Decision-Making and Evaluation). PRIDE1 takes about 80 minutes to administer an emotional audiovisual argument and to obtain written responses. Scoring each response takes expertenced raters from 2 to 10 minutes. Pearson's r interrater reliability on 5 trials range …
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Social Work in the 21st Century
PART ONE: THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT Demographic Changes and Their Implications - Martha N Ozawa The Future Economic Landscape - Nancy Rose The Political Context of Social Work - Michael Reisch Social Work in International Context - James Midgley Challenges and Opportunites Poverty and Postmodernity - Mark J Stern The Impact and Implications of Multiculturalism - John F Longres Nonprofit Organizations, Social Policy and Public Welfare - Eleanor L B…
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