Melissa Floyd Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Floyd Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa Floyd |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Screening and Access to Services for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses in Jails
Professional Dissonance
Social workers in mental health face a complex climate where they encounter value-laden intervention choices daily. Examples of these choices may include deciding to initiate treatment in spite of a client's wishes to the contrary, making a decision to break confidentiality, feeling pressured to diagnose a client with a reimbursable condition despite a treatment philosophy that may be to the contrary, or feeling the need to "pick and choose" ther…
A Family Perspective for Substance Abuse
This paper calls for researchers and treatment providers to increase their recognition of the role that family and family functioning has for understanding the incidence and impact of substance abuse. Substance abuse is identified as a family problem by exploring its occurrence within families as well as its impact on marital relationship, family violence, and child abuse and neglect. The impact of substance abuse on the roles of spouses and pare…
Operationalizing Diversity Issues in Lead Safety Education
Immigrant children, especially those in large urban areas and those living in lower-income housing built before 1978 can be affected by lead paint and lead dust (HAFA, 2003). Additionally, some children may have been exposed in their home countries, especially when those countries do not have the same types of lead use restriction policies (Haslam, 2003). Because of the high risk for lead paint poisoning in the growing immigrant population in Gui…
Professional Dissonance
Social Workers and Involuntary Treatment in Mental Health
Involuntary treatment is often a reality in mental health social work. The current research examined 330 mental health social workers' involvement in and opinions about involuntary treatment as part of their primary job functions. Varieties of involuntary intervention and typical frequency were investigated. The most often cited areas of involuntary treatment proved to be mandated outpatient counseling and emergency hospitalization. In general, p…
Professional Dissonance
Social workers in mental health face a complex climate where they encounter value-laden intervention choices daily. Examples of these choices may include deciding to initiate treatment in spite of a client's wishes to the contrary, making a decision to break confidentiality, feeling pressured to diagnose a client with a reimbursable condition despite a treatment philosophy that may be to the contrary, or feeling the need to "pick and choose" ther…
Professional Dissonance
Screening and Access to Services for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses in Jails
Social Workers and Involuntary Treatment in Mental Health
Involuntary treatment is often a reality in mental health social work. The current research examined 330 mental health social workers' involvement in and opinions about involuntary treatment as part of their primary job functions. Varieties of involuntary intervention and typical frequency were investigated. The most often cited areas of involuntary treatment proved to be mandated outpatient counseling and emergency hospitalization. In general, p…
Professional Dissonance
Social Workers and Involuntary Treatment in Mental Health
Involuntary treatment is often a reality in mental health social work. The current research examined 330 mental health social workers' involvement in and opinions about involuntary treatment as part of their primary job functions. Varieties of involuntary intervention and typical frequency were investigated. The most often cited areas of involuntary treatment proved to be mandated outpatient counseling and emergency hospitalization. In general, p…
A Family Perspective for Substance Abuse
This paper calls for researchers and treatment providers to increase their recognition of the role that family and family functioning has for understanding the incidence and impact of substance abuse. Substance abuse is identified as a family problem by exploring its occurrence within families as well as its impact on marital relationship, family violence, and child abuse and neglect. The impact of substance abuse on the roles of spouses and pare…
Operationalizing Diversity Issues in Lead Safety Education
Immigrant children, especially those in large urban areas and those living in lower-income housing built before 1978 can be affected by lead paint and lead dust (HAFA, 2003). Additionally, some children may have been exposed in their home countries, especially when those countries do not have the same types of lead use restriction policies (Haslam, 2003). Because of the high risk for lead paint poisoning in the growing immigrant population in Gui…
Professional Dissonance
Social workers in mental health face a complex climate where they encounter value-laden intervention choices daily. Examples of these choices may include deciding to initiate treatment in spite of a client's wishes to the contrary, making a decision to break confidentiality, feeling pressured to diagnose a client with a reimbursable condition despite a treatment philosophy that may be to the contrary, or feeling the need to "pick and choose" ther…
Screening and Access to Services for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses in Jails
Psychiatry (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Cognitive dissonance (2 works) · Mental illness (2 works) · Operationalization (2 works)