Howard J Doueck
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard J Doueck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Doueck |
| SIGNATURE | DOUECK H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Child Well-Being Scales as a Predictor of Casework Activity and Services in Child Protection
This study examined the use of the Child Well-Being Scales (CWBS) as an aid to structured decision making in a child protection agency in Ontario, Canada. A total of 337 closed case records from a large multi-service agency in Ontario, Canada, were reviewed and abstracted by trained coders in order to determine whether or not the scales, completed by intake workers, were predictive of the subsequent decisions and activities of family service work…
Transitional Services for Youth With Developmental Disabilities
This study evaluates the impact of a college-based dormitory program on transitioning youth with intellectual disabilities. A qualitative study, with interviews at pre and post, was conducted to evaluate the program's impact. Data were collected with semistructured interviews from young adults with intellectual disabilities who participated in a college-based residential program and their parents or guardians. Three general themes emerged from th…
Child Maltreatment and the Justice System
Objectives: Characteristics of the child victim, perpetrator, and maltreatment incident were used to examine predictors of court involvement in cases of serious child maltreatment. Method: Cases were drawn from those reported to: child protective services (n = 225), sheriff's office ( n = 225), prosecutor's office ( n = 60), and dependency court ( n = 65). Logistic regression was used to calculate predicted probabilities of criminal court involve…
Ecological factors and screening in child protective services
Meeting the Needs of the Gay and Lesbian Community
Gay and lesbian people experience many life circumstances differently as compared with those of their heterosexual counterparts. This premise extends to the seeking, accessing, and utilization of human services by members of the gay and lesbian community. A review of the empirical literature indicates that gay and lesbian consumers of mental and physical health services oftentimes encounter obstacles when seeking care, whether for themselves or t…
The Child -Centered Social Worker and the Sexually Abused Child
The prosecution of child sexual abuse cases continues to be an area in which there is a strain between the judicial system and the social work profession; the former is predominately interested in the conviction of the accused and the later is primarily interested in the protection of the child's emotional well-being. In an effort to assist the sexually abused child throughout the court process, the authors propose the concept of a child-centered…
Rush to judgment
Two hundred and ninety-three randomly selected cases from a child protection service agency in a large western New York county were examined to test the hypothesis that sexual abuse allegations are investigated and processed more intensively than cases alleging other types of maltreatment. Contrary to the hypothesis, allegations of sexual abuse were substantiated at a lower rate, not investigated more intensively, and not offered more services th…
Effects of legally mandated child-abuse reports on the therapeutic relationship
In a national survey of 907 licensed psychologists regarding mandated reporting of child maltreatment, predictors of outcome included: therapeutic alliance; role strain; therapist explicitness; family vs. individual treatment; and whether or not the client was the perpetrator. Therapists were asked to describe a case involving reporting, its impact on treatment, informed consent procedures, as well as their own attitudes and beliefs. Implications…
African-American families and child protection
Implications of the Pre/Post/Then Design for Evaluating Social Group Work
Pre/post designs that rely on self-report measures are potentially contaminated by response shift bias, a change in respondents' understanding of the phenomena being measured between the pre- and posttests. Retrospective pretests, or then tests, have been shown to be useful in identifying response shifts. Pre/post/then designs are highly utilitarian designs that have the potential of providing more accurate assessments of respondent change. This …
Risk Assessment Implementation and Legal Liability in CPS Practice
The development of structured risk assessment models for use by child protective services workers is a relatively recent phenomenon. This paper explores some of the legal issues inherent in the implementation of such models
Teaching Practice Evaluation to Field Instructors
Field instructors tend to be inadequately trained in the use of single-systems designs to evaluate practice. This paper presents the results from a survey of 22 field instructors affiliated with a B.S.W. program. The instructors were divided into 3 groups for comparison: instructors who participated in three hours of specialized training designed to increase their knowledge of single-systems technology, nonparticipant instructors who reported a p…
Changing Teaching Practices in Mainstream Classrooms to Improve Bonding and Behavior of Low Achievers
This paper reports the effects of a package of instructional methods on the academic achievement, behavior, and social bonding of seventh grade students who were low achievers in math. Proactive classroom management, interactive teaching, and cooperative learning methods were included. Low achievers in experimental classrooms showed more favorable attitudes toward math, more bonding to school, greater expectations for continuing schooling, and le…
Changing Teaching Practices in Mainstream Classrooms to Improve Bonding and Behavior of Low Achievers
This paper reports the effects of a package of instructional methods on the academic achievement, behavior, and social bonding of seventh grade students who were low achievers in math. Proactive classroom management, interactive teaching, and cooperative learning methods were included. Low achievers in experimental classrooms showed more favorable attitudes toward math, more bonding to school, greater expectations for continuing schooling, and le…
Ecological factors and screening in child protective services
African-American families and child protection
Child Maltreatment and the Justice System
Objectives: Characteristics of the child victim, perpetrator, and maltreatment incident were used to examine predictors of court involvement in cases of serious child maltreatment. Method: Cases were drawn from those reported to: child protective services (n = 225), sheriff's office ( n = 225), prosecutor's office ( n = 60), and dependency court ( n = 65). Logistic regression was used to calculate predicted probabilities of criminal court involve…
Meeting the Needs of the Gay and Lesbian Community
Gay and lesbian people experience many life circumstances differently as compared with those of their heterosexual counterparts. This premise extends to the seeking, accessing, and utilization of human services by members of the gay and lesbian community. A review of the empirical literature indicates that gay and lesbian consumers of mental and physical health services oftentimes encounter obstacles when seeking care, whether for themselves or t…
Implications of the Pre/Post/Then Design for Evaluating Social Group Work
Pre/post designs that rely on self-report measures are potentially contaminated by response shift bias, a change in respondents' understanding of the phenomena being measured between the pre- and posttests. Retrospective pretests, or then tests, have been shown to be useful in identifying response shifts. Pre/post/then designs are highly utilitarian designs that have the potential of providing more accurate assessments of respondent change. This …
Transitional Services for Youth With Developmental Disabilities
This study evaluates the impact of a college-based dormitory program on transitioning youth with intellectual disabilities. A qualitative study, with interviews at pre and post, was conducted to evaluate the program's impact. Data were collected with semistructured interviews from young adults with intellectual disabilities who participated in a college-based residential program and their parents or guardians. Three general themes emerged from th…
The Child -Centered Social Worker and the Sexually Abused Child
The prosecution of child sexual abuse cases continues to be an area in which there is a strain between the judicial system and the social work profession; the former is predominately interested in the conviction of the accused and the later is primarily interested in the protection of the child's emotional well-being. In an effort to assist the sexually abused child throughout the court process, the authors propose the concept of a child-centered…
Changing Teaching Practices in Mainstream Classrooms to Improve Bonding and Behavior of Low Achievers
This paper reports the effects of a package of instructional methods on the academic achievement, behavior, and social bonding of seventh grade students who were low achievers in math. Proactive classroom management, interactive teaching, and cooperative learning methods were included. Low achievers in experimental classrooms showed more favorable attitudes toward math, more bonding to school, greater expectations for continuing schooling, and le…
Teaching Practice Evaluation to Field Instructors
Field instructors tend to be inadequately trained in the use of single-systems designs to evaluate practice. This paper presents the results from a survey of 22 field instructors affiliated with a B.S.W. program. The instructors were divided into 3 groups for comparison: instructors who participated in three hours of specialized training designed to increase their knowledge of single-systems technology, nonparticipant instructors who reported a p…
Risk Assessment Implementation and Legal Liability in CPS Practice
The development of structured risk assessment models for use by child protective services workers is a relatively recent phenomenon. This paper explores some of the legal issues inherent in the implementation of such models
Implications of the Pre/Post/Then Design for Evaluating Social Group Work
Pre/post designs that rely on self-report measures are potentially contaminated by response shift bias, a change in respondents' understanding of the phenomena being measured between the pre- and posttests. Retrospective pretests, or then tests, have been shown to be useful in identifying response shifts. Pre/post/then designs are highly utilitarian designs that have the potential of providing more accurate assessments of respondent change. This …
African-American families and child protection
Effects of legally mandated child-abuse reports on the therapeutic relationship
In a national survey of 907 licensed psychologists regarding mandated reporting of child maltreatment, predictors of outcome included: therapeutic alliance; role strain; therapist explicitness; family vs. individual treatment; and whether or not the client was the perpetrator. Therapists were asked to describe a case involving reporting, its impact on treatment, informed consent procedures, as well as their own attitudes and beliefs. Implications…
Rush to judgment
Two hundred and ninety-three randomly selected cases from a child protection service agency in a large western New York county were examined to test the hypothesis that sexual abuse allegations are investigated and processed more intensively than cases alleging other types of maltreatment. Contrary to the hypothesis, allegations of sexual abuse were substantiated at a lower rate, not investigated more intensively, and not offered more services th…
Meeting the Needs of the Gay and Lesbian Community
Gay and lesbian people experience many life circumstances differently as compared with those of their heterosexual counterparts. This premise extends to the seeking, accessing, and utilization of human services by members of the gay and lesbian community. A review of the empirical literature indicates that gay and lesbian consumers of mental and physical health services oftentimes encounter obstacles when seeking care, whether for themselves or t…
The Child -Centered Social Worker and the Sexually Abused Child
The prosecution of child sexual abuse cases continues to be an area in which there is a strain between the judicial system and the social work profession; the former is predominately interested in the conviction of the accused and the later is primarily interested in the protection of the child's emotional well-being. In an effort to assist the sexually abused child throughout the court process, the authors propose the concept of a child-centered…
Ecological factors and screening in child protective services
Child Maltreatment and the Justice System
Objectives: Characteristics of the child victim, perpetrator, and maltreatment incident were used to examine predictors of court involvement in cases of serious child maltreatment. Method: Cases were drawn from those reported to: child protective services (n = 225), sheriff's office ( n = 225), prosecutor's office ( n = 60), and dependency court ( n = 65). Logistic regression was used to calculate predicted probabilities of criminal court involve…
Transitional Services for Youth With Developmental Disabilities
This study evaluates the impact of a college-based dormitory program on transitioning youth with intellectual disabilities. A qualitative study, with interviews at pre and post, was conducted to evaluate the program's impact. Data were collected with semistructured interviews from young adults with intellectual disabilities who participated in a college-based residential program and their parents or guardians. Three general themes emerged from th…
Child Well-Being Scales as a Predictor of Casework Activity and Services in Child Protection
This study examined the use of the Child Well-Being Scales (CWBS) as an aid to structured decision making in a child protection agency in Ontario, Canada. A total of 337 closed case records from a large multi-service agency in Ontario, Canada, were reviewed and abstracted by trained coders in order to determine whether or not the scales, completed by intake workers, were predictive of the subsequent decisions and activities of family service work…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Child abuse (4 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (4 works) · Medical emergency (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)