Deena Mandell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4005590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deena Mandell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deena |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandell |
| SIGNATURE | MANDELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Writing for Publication
The authors describe a for-credit course for Social Work PhD students called Writing for Publication and report on a study evaluating its success in supporting students to develop and submit a paper for publication in a refereed journal. The literature-informed course design, taught in collaboration with the university’s Writing Centre, includes didactic elements and a peer editing component. Seventeen of the 22 students who had taken the course …
Sinking, swimming and sailing
The authors conducted a mixed‐method study after a previous study of child welfare employees revealed a subgroup exhibiting surprisingly high levels of both emotional exhaustion (EE) and job satisfaction (JS). This subgroup included direct service workers, supervisors and managers. As these findings appeared to conflict with previous studies, we re‐reviewed the literature and undertook the current study to account for the co‐existence of EE and J…
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Maslach Burnout Inventory
Although the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is widely used to assess burnout in human service workers, doubt has been cast on the usefulness of the conceptualization on which it is based and the independence of its subscales. A confirmatory factor analysis using the methodology employed in a previous study of child welfare workers revealed that the final model had only a minimally adequate fit and the constructs of emotional exhaustion and deper…
Aboriginal Child Welfare
As the relationships between Canadaâ s Aboriginal peoples and the state undergo changes, the issue of Child Welfare is in the foreground; for it is around the well being, education and care of Aboriginal children that much of the painful historical relationship between First Nations and Canadian government has been played out. In this paper we consider the major issues in Canadian Aboriginal child welfare, drawing upon an extensive review and syn…
Child welfare workers who are exhausted yet satisfied with their jobs
In response to a study of Canadian child welfare workers that unexpectedly found participants scoring high on a measure of emotional exhaustion (burnout) and, at the same time, high on overall job satisfaction, this paper reviews research that has investigated these constructs in the social work literature as well as in selected studies from sociology, social psychology, management and women’s studies. The review reveals that some previous studie…
Deadbeat Dads
The .deadbeat dad. is a common figure in today's news media. As an experienced social worker, family therapist and mediator, Deena Mandell is intimate with legal and institutional discourses on the topic, but also with the lived reality of those involved in support conflict. In Deadbeat Dads, she addresses the question: .Why hasn't child support enforcement solved the problem of non-payment?. Non-payment of child support is all-too-easily categor…
Fathers Who Don't Pay Child Support
In dealing with separating and divorced families where child support is not being paid, clinicians, lawyers, mediators and judges are often at a loss as to how they may intervene successfully. Although popular beliefs abound regarding motivation for non-pay- ment, we still have a poor understanding of the ways in which fathers rationalize a position of partial or non-payment The justifications giv- en, both in literature and in clinical practice,…
Stepfamilies
As clinical understanding of the characteristics of stepfamilies grows, new methods are being sought for assisting them in the adaptational process. The pilot project presented her includes all members of the reconstituted family in a short-term group program. The distinguishing aspect of this model is the separate but concurrent group session conducted for parents/stepparents and for their children, culminating in a final intergenerational group…
Child welfare workers who are exhausted yet satisfied with their jobs
In response to a study of Canadian child welfare workers that unexpectedly found participants scoring high on a measure of emotional exhaustion (burnout) and, at the same time, high on overall job satisfaction, this paper reviews research that has investigated these constructs in the social work literature as well as in selected studies from sociology, social psychology, management and women’s studies. The review reveals that some previous studie…
Sinking, swimming and sailing
The authors conducted a mixed‐method study after a previous study of child welfare employees revealed a subgroup exhibiting surprisingly high levels of both emotional exhaustion (EE) and job satisfaction (JS). This subgroup included direct service workers, supervisors and managers. As these findings appeared to conflict with previous studies, we re‐reviewed the literature and undertook the current study to account for the co‐existence of EE and J…
Stepfamilies
As clinical understanding of the characteristics of stepfamilies grows, new methods are being sought for assisting them in the adaptational process. The pilot project presented her includes all members of the reconstituted family in a short-term group program. The distinguishing aspect of this model is the separate but concurrent group session conducted for parents/stepparents and for their children, culminating in a final intergenerational group…
Fathers Who Don't Pay Child Support
In dealing with separating and divorced families where child support is not being paid, clinicians, lawyers, mediators and judges are often at a loss as to how they may intervene successfully. Although popular beliefs abound regarding motivation for non-pay- ment, we still have a poor understanding of the ways in which fathers rationalize a position of partial or non-payment The justifications giv- en, both in literature and in clinical practice,…
Deadbeat Dads
The .deadbeat dad. is a common figure in today's news media. As an experienced social worker, family therapist and mediator, Deena Mandell is intimate with legal and institutional discourses on the topic, but also with the lived reality of those involved in support conflict. In Deadbeat Dads, she addresses the question: .Why hasn't child support enforcement solved the problem of non-payment?. Non-payment of child support is all-too-easily categor…
Aboriginal Child Welfare
As the relationships between Canadaâ s Aboriginal peoples and the state undergo changes, the issue of Child Welfare is in the foreground; for it is around the well being, education and care of Aboriginal children that much of the painful historical relationship between First Nations and Canadian government has been played out. In this paper we consider the major issues in Canadian Aboriginal child welfare, drawing upon an extensive review and syn…
Child welfare workers who are exhausted yet satisfied with their jobs
In response to a study of Canadian child welfare workers that unexpectedly found participants scoring high on a measure of emotional exhaustion (burnout) and, at the same time, high on overall job satisfaction, this paper reviews research that has investigated these constructs in the social work literature as well as in selected studies from sociology, social psychology, management and women’s studies. The review reveals that some previous studie…
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Maslach Burnout Inventory
Although the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is widely used to assess burnout in human service workers, doubt has been cast on the usefulness of the conceptualization on which it is based and the independence of its subscales. A confirmatory factor analysis using the methodology employed in a previous study of child welfare workers revealed that the final model had only a minimally adequate fit and the constructs of emotional exhaustion and deper…
Sinking, swimming and sailing
The authors conducted a mixed‐method study after a previous study of child welfare employees revealed a subgroup exhibiting surprisingly high levels of both emotional exhaustion (EE) and job satisfaction (JS). This subgroup included direct service workers, supervisors and managers. As these findings appeared to conflict with previous studies, we re‐reviewed the literature and undertook the current study to account for the co‐existence of EE and J…
Writing for Publication
The authors describe a for-credit course for Social Work PhD students called Writing for Publication and report on a study evaluating its success in supporting students to develop and submit a paper for publication in a refereed journal. The literature-informed course design, taught in collaboration with the university’s Writing Centre, includes didactic elements and a peer editing component. Seventeen of the 22 students who had taken the course …
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Burnout (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Emotional exhaustion (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Work (3 works)