Phillip Dybicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4176150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip Dybicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip |
| FAMILY NAME | Dybicz |
| SIGNATURE | DYBICZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keimyung University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6190-0457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The unfulfilled promise of scientific inquiry in advancing social work knowledge and practice
This article seeks to critique scientific inquiry’s uncontested position as the sole method in which to advance social work research and knowledge generation. Through making a comparison to the field of medicine and the tremendous advances achieved in the past 100+ years by its use of scientific inquiry, the question is posed as to why social work’s embrace of scientific inquiry during this time span has not yielded equivalent spectacular advance…
An introduction to the postmodern paradigm via contrast to the modern paradigm
Since the late 1980s, a number of innovative practice approaches have appeared on the social work scene informed by postmodern thought. Yet the esoteric nature of postmodern theories often creates difficulties in accessibility for social work students and practitioners, which commonly result in the misapplication and misunderstanding of key elements to these approaches. To remedy this situation, this paper offers an introduction to the fundamenta…
Phenomenology and HBSE
A number of postmodern practitioners have turned to theorists such as Foucault, Derrida, and Wittgenstein to inform their intervention efforts. Yet it may be difficult for the average practitioner, or educator teaching HBSE, to make the connection between these theorists and human behavior. Phenomenology, as a theory of ontology, serves as afundamental theory of the postmodern paradigm. As such, phenomenological concepts such as existence and ess…
Client Goals and Dreams
This article examines how knowledge gathering is organized when interviewing a client and designing a treatment plan. When the focus of social work practice is upon adaptation (e.g., achieving a goodness-of-fit), knowledge gathering is organized by the presenting problem or need and the social worker's expertise on human functioning. When the focus of social work practice is upon identity formation (as advocated by postmodern approaches), knowled…
The Ethic of Care
This article examines the dynamic between expressions of care--that is, simple acts of kindness and consideration that make up friendly relations--and professional expertise. During the 20th century, social work based its expertise on a solid scientific foundation. Within the embrace of scientific expertise, expressions of care are assigned the vital, but limited, role of ameliorating the sterile application of scientific knowledge, mainly throug…
The Dialectic Method
This paper introduces Hans-Georg Gadamer's dialectic method and elaborates upon its application to social work inquiry. Its strengths lie in its ability to uncover social constructed truths, to explain human behavior in a non-deterministic manner that emphasizes personal agency and empowerment, and to foster a consciousness-raising process that leads to praxis. This makes it ideally suited for knowledge gathering by practitioners in the field who…
Mimesis
This article elaborates mimesis as a theory of causality used to explain human behavior. Drawing parallels to social constructionism's critique of positivism and naturalism, mimesis is offered as a theory of causality explaining human behavior that contests the current dominance of Newton's theory of causality as cause and effect. The contestation of Newton's theory takes place within the specific dimension of explaining human behavior. Working c…
Confronting Oppression not Enhancing Functioning
This article represents a philosophical hermeneutic endeavor to explore the meaning of oppression as it expresses itself within social work practices based in both modern and postmodern thought. Practices based within the Modern Discourse, drawing from an authority base of scientific expertise, exhibit a disconnect between the goal of enhancing functioning and social work values and concerns such as confronting oppression; this disconnect must be…
The Role of Science in Postmodern Practice
Postmodern thought offers a critique to the heavily science-based approaches of the modernist discourse. Such critiques however tend to obscure the role that science has to play in postmodern practices. The current scientific-based modernist approaches faced this similar challenge when they arose in the early 1900s. In the 1800s, social agents did not base their interventions upon scientific authority, but rather, moral authority. While scientifi…
Interventions for street children
Three perspectives concerning interventions for street children are examined: consumers, professional wisdom and research. Most professional literature to date has concentrated solely on describing this population. Consequently, the knowledge base on intervention strategies for street children remains at a nascent stage of development. French Cet article examine trois perspectives concernant les interventions auprè s des enfants de la rue: les us…
Ethical Consumption Within Critical Social Policy
While today's economy operates on a global scale, political policies regulating the economy remain national in scope. This disjuncture in the political economy has spawned many labor abuses. This author believes that the principle of ethical consumption offers a way to surmount the most daunting barrier to change that exists today: national sovereignty. A U.S. law requiring all products to be labeled with a rating scale (e.g., A to F) that reflec…
Exploitation-The Invisible Hand Guided by a Blind Eye
Economics is alone among the social science disciplines in failing to have a sound theory to explain behaviors when people do not act according to their self-interest, that is, with compassion. This has resulted in a fundamental flaw in economic thought. As economies have grown in scale and complexity, there has been a corresponding distancing between consumers and producers. This flaw has revealed itself through a lack of economic structures whi…
The Place of Historical Research in Social Work
This study addresses the incidence, persistence, decline, and marginalization of historical research in social work by examining one indicator of that research, social work dissertations. This study reveals that despite the dominance of other research methods, historical research was a legitimate method for doctoral research in social work, but its use has declined over time. Before World War II historical dissertations were common. Through the 1…
Interventions for street children
Three perspectives concerning interventions for street children are examined: consumers, professional wisdom and research. Most professional literature to date has concentrated solely on describing this population. Consequently, the knowledge base on intervention strategies for street children remains at a nascent stage of development. French Cet article examine trois perspectives concernant les interventions auprè s des enfants de la rue: les us…
The Ethic of Care
This article examines the dynamic between expressions of care--that is, simple acts of kindness and consideration that make up friendly relations--and professional expertise. During the 20th century, social work based its expertise on a solid scientific foundation. Within the embrace of scientific expertise, expressions of care are assigned the vital, but limited, role of ameliorating the sterile application of scientific knowledge, mainly throug…
The Place of Historical Research in Social Work
This study addresses the incidence, persistence, decline, and marginalization of historical research in social work by examining one indicator of that research, social work dissertations. This study reveals that despite the dominance of other research methods, historical research was a legitimate method for doctoral research in social work, but its use has declined over time. Before World War II historical dissertations were common. Through the 1…
Exploitation-The Invisible Hand Guided by a Blind Eye
Economics is alone among the social science disciplines in failing to have a sound theory to explain behaviors when people do not act according to their self-interest, that is, with compassion. This has resulted in a fundamental flaw in economic thought. As economies have grown in scale and complexity, there has been a corresponding distancing between consumers and producers. This flaw has revealed itself through a lack of economic structures whi…
Ethical Consumption Within Critical Social Policy
While today's economy operates on a global scale, political policies regulating the economy remain national in scope. This disjuncture in the political economy has spawned many labor abuses. This author believes that the principle of ethical consumption offers a way to surmount the most daunting barrier to change that exists today: national sovereignty. A U.S. law requiring all products to be labeled with a rating scale (e.g., A to F) that reflec…
Interventions for street children
Three perspectives concerning interventions for street children are examined: consumers, professional wisdom and research. Most professional literature to date has concentrated solely on describing this population. Consequently, the knowledge base on intervention strategies for street children remains at a nascent stage of development. French Cet article examine trois perspectives concernant les interventions auprè s des enfants de la rue: les us…
Mimesis
This article elaborates mimesis as a theory of causality used to explain human behavior. Drawing parallels to social constructionism's critique of positivism and naturalism, mimesis is offered as a theory of causality explaining human behavior that contests the current dominance of Newton's theory of causality as cause and effect. The contestation of Newton's theory takes place within the specific dimension of explaining human behavior. Working c…
Confronting Oppression not Enhancing Functioning
This article represents a philosophical hermeneutic endeavor to explore the meaning of oppression as it expresses itself within social work practices based in both modern and postmodern thought. Practices based within the Modern Discourse, drawing from an authority base of scientific expertise, exhibit a disconnect between the goal of enhancing functioning and social work values and concerns such as confronting oppression; this disconnect must be…
The Role of Science in Postmodern Practice
Postmodern thought offers a critique to the heavily science-based approaches of the modernist discourse. Such critiques however tend to obscure the role that science has to play in postmodern practices. The current scientific-based modernist approaches faced this similar challenge when they arose in the early 1900s. In the 1800s, social agents did not base their interventions upon scientific authority, but rather, moral authority. While scientifi…
The Dialectic Method
This paper introduces Hans-Georg Gadamer's dialectic method and elaborates upon its application to social work inquiry. Its strengths lie in its ability to uncover social constructed truths, to explain human behavior in a non-deterministic manner that emphasizes personal agency and empowerment, and to foster a consciousness-raising process that leads to praxis. This makes it ideally suited for knowledge gathering by practitioners in the field who…
The Ethic of Care
This article examines the dynamic between expressions of care--that is, simple acts of kindness and consideration that make up friendly relations--and professional expertise. During the 20th century, social work based its expertise on a solid scientific foundation. Within the embrace of scientific expertise, expressions of care are assigned the vital, but limited, role of ameliorating the sterile application of scientific knowledge, mainly throug…
Phenomenology and HBSE
A number of postmodern practitioners have turned to theorists such as Foucault, Derrida, and Wittgenstein to inform their intervention efforts. Yet it may be difficult for the average practitioner, or educator teaching HBSE, to make the connection between these theorists and human behavior. Phenomenology, as a theory of ontology, serves as afundamental theory of the postmodern paradigm. As such, phenomenological concepts such as existence and ess…
Client Goals and Dreams
This article examines how knowledge gathering is organized when interviewing a client and designing a treatment plan. When the focus of social work practice is upon adaptation (e.g., achieving a goodness-of-fit), knowledge gathering is organized by the presenting problem or need and the social worker's expertise on human functioning. When the focus of social work practice is upon identity formation (as advocated by postmodern approaches), knowled…
The unfulfilled promise of scientific inquiry in advancing social work knowledge and practice
This article seeks to critique scientific inquiry’s uncontested position as the sole method in which to advance social work research and knowledge generation. Through making a comparison to the field of medicine and the tremendous advances achieved in the past 100+ years by its use of scientific inquiry, the question is posed as to why social work’s embrace of scientific inquiry during this time span has not yielded equivalent spectacular advance…
An introduction to the postmodern paradigm via contrast to the modern paradigm
Since the late 1980s, a number of innovative practice approaches have appeared on the social work scene informed by postmodern thought. Yet the esoteric nature of postmodern theories often creates difficulties in accessibility for social work students and practitioners, which commonly result in the misapplication and misunderstanding of key elements to these approaches. To remedy this situation, this paper offers an introduction to the fundamenta…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Postmodernism (8 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (8 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (7 works) · Social Work (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Social science (6 works)