Ruth Dean

Biographic Data

ID4001636
NAMERuth Dean
GIVEN NAMESRuth
FAMILY NAMEDean
SIGNATUREDEAN R
AFFILIATIONSSimmons University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS80
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX3

  • The Power Dynamics of Supervision

    Phillipe Copeland, Ruth Dean et al.ARTICLESmith College Studies in Social…2011Cited by: 3References: 2

    Supervision is an activity filled with ethical dilemmas related to the power held by the supervisor, a power that should be exercised with care. This article explores some of these dilemmas through the analysis of supervision vignettes viewed from the perspective of social constructionism, in particular, from the insights of French philosopher Michel Foucault. It concludes with suggestions to exercise supervisory power ethically

  • Teaching contemporary psychodynamic theory for contemporary social work practice

    Ruth Dean, Ruth Grossman DeanARTICLESmith College Studies in Social…2002Cited by: 2References: 1

    Psychodynaniic theories, once an essential part of social work education but recently neglected, have been reinvigorated in recent years through contributions from social constructionism, infant research, and intersub‐jectivity. These theories, with their emphasis on multiple perspectives, context, and collaborative relationships allow for important considerations of diversity as well as clients’ strengths and resilience, and can serve as formats…

  • The Myth of Cross-Cultural Competence

    Open AccessRuth Dean, Ruth G DeanARTICLEFamilies in Society The Journal…2001Cited by: 58

    Cross-cultural competence has become a byword in social work. In a postmodern world in which culture is seen as individually and socially constructed, evolving, emergent, and occurring in language (Laird, 1998), becoming "culturally competent" is a challenging prospect. How do we become competent at something that is continually changing and how do we develop a focus that includes ourselves as having differences, beliefs, and biases that are inev…

  • Teaching a Constructivist Approach to Clinical Practice

    Ruth Dean, Ruth Grossman DeanARTICLEJournal of Teaching in Social Work1994Cited by: 9

    Constructivism and social constructionism provide the philosophical underpinning of an approach to practice teaching that emphasizes the ways knowledge derives from individually and socially constructed experience. Constructivist practices such as generating multiple ideas through questioning or collaborating with clients in the co-construction of meaning and the creation of alternative narratives are taught through an experiental format. The exe…

  • Constructivism

    Ruth Dean, Ruth Grossman DeanARTICLESmith College Studies in Social…1993Cited by: 6References: 7

    Constructivism, a view that we cannot know reality apart from our constructions of it, along with social constructionism, a belief that knowledge is socially, historically, and culturally situated, form the basis of a new approach to clinical practice. In the explication of this perspective, assessment is defined as a collaborative inquiry. Multiple theoretical perspectives are used as viable alternative explanations, with no single perspective p…

  • Teaching Clinical Theory and Practice Through a Constructivist Lens

    Ruth Dean, Ruth Grossman Dean et al.ARTICLEJournal of Teaching in Social Work1992Cited by: 2

    Constructivism is the view that knowledge is created by the individual's interaction with the environment. This perspective informs our teaching of social work practice and theory. We attent to "constructive activity" on three levelss: the clients' meaning-making, the clinician's formal and implicit theories, and the collaborative process of problem construction and resolution. This approach is illustrated through the presentation of experiential…

  • Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America

    Astrik L Gabriel, Astrik Gabriel et al.ARTICLESpeculum1976