Betsy S Vourlekis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4176049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Betsy S Vourlekis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Betsy S |
| FAMILY NAME | Vourlekis |
| SIGNATURE | VOURLEKIS B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Building the Profession's Research Infrastructure
Beginning in 1988, the social work profession undertook a twenty-five year endeavor to enhance its research capacity and to assure greater representation of social work research needs, priorities and findings at the federal level, where major policy initiatives take place. Described here are some of the key processes, highlighting the efforts to achieve professional solidarity, and the interventions, by social workers, federal 'insiders' and outs…
Integrating Mental Health Screening and Abnormal Cancer Screening Follow-Up: An Intervention to Reach Low-Income Women
The Rise of Social Work in Public Mental Health through Aftercare of People with Serious Mental Illness
In the early years of the 20th century, social work's practice boundaries expanded to include direct work with people with the most serious mental illnesses through the function of aftercare. Using complementary and mutually reinforcing efforts to promote social reform in the care of people with mental illness and then to provide that care directly, the young social work profession established its presence in the emerging public mental health fie…
Testing the Reliability and Validity of an Interviewing Skills Evaluation Tool for Use in Practicum
This study investigated the reliability and validity of a rating checklist for student process-recorded interviews in an effort to provide field education with an empirically sound feedback and evaluation tool. A stratified, nonproportional sample of practitioner-field instructors (n = 57) from B.S.W., first- and second-year M.S.W. field programs at three universities evaluated process-recorded interviews of their own students, as well as anonymo…
Evaluating the Interrater Reliability of Process Recordings
Process recording is a commonly used tool in social work field practica. However, there is no empirically validated evaluation instrument available to guide practitioners, field instructors, or students in a systematic assessment of such reconstructed interviews. This study investigated the interrater reliability of a rating checklist for process-recorded interviews. Seven experienced field instructors rated single process recordings from 10 stud…
A Field Project: Single-Subject Design in a Public Social Service Agency
A field teaching project in Single-Subject Design was undertaken with graduate social work students in a public social service agency to learn more about the utility and "goodness-of-fit" of the research model in this setting. Students were taught SSD and assisted with implementation in their cases. These students, and a comparable comparison group, were pre- and posttested on their learning. The students also evaluated their experience with SSD …
The Rise of Social Work in Public Mental Health through Aftercare of People with Serious Mental Illness
In the early years of the 20th century, social work's practice boundaries expanded to include direct work with people with the most serious mental illnesses through the function of aftercare. Using complementary and mutually reinforcing efforts to promote social reform in the care of people with mental illness and then to provide that care directly, the young social work profession established its presence in the emerging public mental health fie…
Testing the Reliability and Validity of an Interviewing Skills Evaluation Tool for Use in Practicum
This study investigated the reliability and validity of a rating checklist for student process-recorded interviews in an effort to provide field education with an empirically sound feedback and evaluation tool. A stratified, nonproportional sample of practitioner-field instructors (n = 57) from B.S.W., first- and second-year M.S.W. field programs at three universities evaluated process-recorded interviews of their own students, as well as anonymo…
Integrating Mental Health Screening and Abnormal Cancer Screening Follow-Up: An Intervention to Reach Low-Income Women
Evaluating the Interrater Reliability of Process Recordings
Process recording is a commonly used tool in social work field practica. However, there is no empirically validated evaluation instrument available to guide practitioners, field instructors, or students in a systematic assessment of such reconstructed interviews. This study investigated the interrater reliability of a rating checklist for process-recorded interviews. Seven experienced field instructors rated single process recordings from 10 stud…
A Field Project: Single-Subject Design in a Public Social Service Agency
A field teaching project in Single-Subject Design was undertaken with graduate social work students in a public social service agency to learn more about the utility and "goodness-of-fit" of the research model in this setting. Students were taught SSD and assisted with implementation in their cases. These students, and a comparable comparison group, were pre- and posttested on their learning. The students also evaluated their experience with SSD …
Evaluating the Interrater Reliability of Process Recordings
Process recording is a commonly used tool in social work field practica. However, there is no empirically validated evaluation instrument available to guide practitioners, field instructors, or students in a systematic assessment of such reconstructed interviews. This study investigated the interrater reliability of a rating checklist for process-recorded interviews. Seven experienced field instructors rated single process recordings from 10 stud…
Testing the Reliability and Validity of an Interviewing Skills Evaluation Tool for Use in Practicum
This study investigated the reliability and validity of a rating checklist for student process-recorded interviews in an effort to provide field education with an empirically sound feedback and evaluation tool. A stratified, nonproportional sample of practitioner-field instructors (n = 57) from B.S.W., first- and second-year M.S.W. field programs at three universities evaluated process-recorded interviews of their own students, as well as anonymo…
The Rise of Social Work in Public Mental Health through Aftercare of People with Serious Mental Illness
In the early years of the 20th century, social work's practice boundaries expanded to include direct work with people with the most serious mental illnesses through the function of aftercare. Using complementary and mutually reinforcing efforts to promote social reform in the care of people with mental illness and then to provide that care directly, the young social work profession established its presence in the emerging public mental health fie…
Integrating Mental Health Screening and Abnormal Cancer Screening Follow-Up: An Intervention to Reach Low-Income Women
Building the Profession's Research Infrastructure
Beginning in 1988, the social work profession undertook a twenty-five year endeavor to enhance its research capacity and to assure greater representation of social work research needs, priorities and findings at the federal level, where major policy initiatives take place. Described here are some of the key processes, highlighting the efforts to achieve professional solidarity, and the interventions, by social workers, federal 'insiders' and outs…
Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Medical education (3 works) · Social Work (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works) · Checklist (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)