Alan S York

Biographic Data

ID4100122
NAMEAlan S York
GIVEN NAMESAlan S
FAMILY NAMEYork
SIGNATUREYORK A S
AFFILIATIONSBar-Ilan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS41
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX4

  • Youth volunteering for youth: Who are they serving? How are they being served

    Open AccessDebbie Haski‐leventhal, Debbie Haski-Leventhal et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2008Cited by: 9References: 35

  • Leadership competence and political control: The influential factors

    Open AccessHaya Itzhaky, Andrew York et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2003Cited by: 16References: 36

    This study considers the impact of social support upon the psychological empowerment of community activists. Although it has been clearly shown that the human and personal resources that individual activists bring to their voluntary activity and the inputs of the agencies and associations in which they are active both contribute to the activists' empowerment, little research has considered the effect of the support given by family, friends, and s…

  • Sociopolitical control and empowerment: An extended replication

    Open AccessHaya Itzhaky, Andrew York et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2000References: 13

    Although much of the empowerment research and literature deals with the individual in his immediate environment, there is clearly a branch that focusses more on the wider community and sociopolitical empowerment. Zimmerman and Zahniser (1991) developed an integrative measure of sociopolitical control containing two indices—Leadership Competence and Political Control, and they reported three tests of their measure. This study reports the use of th…

  • Can Community Activists Be Taught Their Job

    Andrew York, Alan S York et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Practice1997Cited by: 4References: 9

    This is a report of the second and final stage of a research project evaluating courses for community activists in Israel. We compared 286 graduates of Schools for Community Activists, of whom 198 were still active in their communities and 98 were not, with 138 activists and 131 non-active residents of the same neighbourhoods who had never participated in courses for activists. We noted no significant socio-economic or demographic differences bet…

  • Neighbourhood Committee Roles and the Sense of Community

    Haya Itzhaky, Andrew York et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Practice1996Cited by: 1

    In this study of 93 members of neighbourhood committees, from 31 urban, mainly lower-class neighbourhoods in the greater Tel-Aviv area, the roles played by neighbourhood representative organizations, as seen by organization activists, are examined. These roles are divided into expressive and instrumental, and, following Wandersman (1981), their correlations are examined with environmental factors and personal and participational variables of the …

  • The autonomous apartment block: Israeli house committees

    Open AccessHaya Itzhaky, Andrew York et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Work1995References: 3

  • Different Types of Client Participation and the Effects on Community-Social Work Intervention

    Haya Itzhaky, Andrew York et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Service Research1994Cited by: 6

    The study described here tries lo test empirically the assumption that client participation in community-social work intervention leads to improved outputs. Two hundred senior community centre staff were asked about their practices and means of client participation. and about the outputs of the community centres: intrinsic, press outputs, extrinsic, goal attainment outputs and economic outputs. It was found that most of the measures of client par…

  • Schools for community activists: A report of the first decade's experience

    Open AccessAndrew York, Alan S York et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology1993References: 7

    This article describes “schools for community activists” held in Israel since 1980 and briefly summarizes a study of 1,070 graduates of these courses. The aims, structure, content, and organization of the courses are described and placed within the context of the limited professional literature on the subject.

  • Client Participation and the Effectiveness of Community Social Work Intervention

    Open AccessHaya Itzhaky, Andrew York et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice1991Cited by: 5References: 4

    Client participation is a central value of social work, and it is generally assumed that inter vention involving clients will be more effective than that in which they are not involved. This article presents a study in which this assumption was tested empirically by questioning 200 senior workers in Israeli community centers as to the techniques of client participation they used in their work and the outputs in their centers. The assumption that …