Dennis Saleebey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4176169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Saleebey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Saleebey |
| SIGNATURE | SALEEBEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nature, Genetics and the Biophilia Connection: Exploring Linkages with Social Work Values and Practice
Social work’s notion of environment and its environmental responsibilities has always been narrowly defined. The profession has tended to either neglect natural environmental issues or accept shallow, ecological conceptualizations of nature as something other, quite separate from the human enterprise and/or outside the reach of social work activity. The Biophilia Hypothesis, first articulated by Harvard biologist E.O.Wilson in 1984, offers social…
Is a Critical Pedagogy for the Profession of Social Work Possible
In this essay, we address the perspective of progressive educators who maintain that academic curricula should be approached through the use of a critical pedagogy. We begin with a review of theories and methods in critical pedagogy and present a set of social and institutional issues that mediate against its use in social work education. We argue that, paradoxically, many of these obstacles in fact make the use of a critical pedagogy indispensab…
The Future of Strengths-Based Social Work
The future of strength based social work is both promising and precarious. In this article we seek to capture this uncertain state by sketching the evolution of the strengths approach and offering and offering a brief evaluation of its status today. There are any number of approaches to both theory and practice at present that profess to be strengths-based. It is imperative that we develop stable and concrete criteria for determining whether a gi…
The Diagnostic Strengths Manual
Journal Article The Diagnostic Strengths Manual? Get access Dennis Saleebey, DSW Dennis Saleebey, DSW professor School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 2001, Pages 183–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/46.2.183 Published: 01 April 2001
Power in The People: Strengths and Hope
The strengths perspective and resilience literature suggest that social workers may learn from those people who survive and in some cases flourish in the face of oppression, illness, demoralization, and abuse. Social workers need to know what steps these natural survivors have taken, what processes they have adopted, and what resources they have used. In this article, written specifically for Advances in Social Work, Dennis Saleebey discusses the…
Notes on Interpreting the Human Condition: A "Constructed" HBSE Curriculum
The objective of this paper is to challenge the assumptions of the usual approaches to the Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) curriculum, and to forward the beginning of another approach that affords itself a more critical stance toward understanding elements of our daily world and various theoretical construals of them. The basis of the critique is both constructivist and "postmodern" (see below) in that we live in a world that is h…
Theory and the Generation and Subversion of Knowledge
This essay is an argument for the refurbishing of theoretical thinking in social work. In particular, the author calls for the infusion of generative as opposed to normative theory in the profession. Only generative theory has been proven to invigorate the thinking and doing of professional social workers
Technological Fix: Altering the Consciousness of the Social Work Profession
Social work, like other professions, seeks a jolt of technology and technical sophistication into its theoretical and practical repertories. Such efforts have, thus far, ignored the considerable ethical and axiological freight that "Techne" brings with it. Ironically, many of the implicit values of techniques subvert the unique and defining values of the social work profession. This paper offers a cautionary note and a prescription for avoiding t…
Philosophical Disputes in Social Work: Social Justice Denied
The debate in the social work academy about the pertinence of empiricist/positivist modes of knowing and doing is epistemological in character. It is the argument of this essay that prior ontological questions must be answered before the profession of social work can profitably enter this debate. These questions center on the nature of social work, the symbolic and moral essence of the social work enterprise and what the profession is becoming
In Clinical Social Work Practice, Is the Body Politic
A revolution is occurring in knowledge of the biological foundations of human behavior. The social work profession has virtually ignored this fund of knowledge, to the possible detriment of practice. This article presents an argument for the inclusion of such knowledge in the pedagogy and practice of clinical social work. It indicates some of the problems in doing so and briefly illustrates how this knowledge might be used in clinical social work…
Factors Influencing the Decision of Minority Students to Attend Graduate Schools of Social Work
This study of 255 minority students enrolled in Graduate Schools of Social Work examined factors which influenced them to decide to attend these schools. The most frequently mentioned reasons were the curriculum and location of the school followed by prestige, financial incentives, emphasis on minority concerns and influence of significant others. Those schools which attracted greater numbers of minorities tended to attract them on the basis of c…
The Power of Situations: An Approach to Understanding Powerlessness and Oppression
Much of the difficulty people have in organizing, directing, and coping with their lives is, perhaps, directly traceable to their lack of awareness of, and erroneous assumptions about, the interactional contexts in which they seem or feel powerless. This is especially true, but not exclusively so, of the poor and ethnic, sexual, and political minorities. To the extent that powerlessness exists and is implicated in the various miseries of existenc…
Pigeons, People, and Paradise: Skinnerian Technology and the Coming of the Welfare Society
Many utopian visions have become clouded for lack of a technology with which to convert socioethical prescriptions into policy and program. The Welfare Society as utopia is in similar jeopardy. However, there does exist a technology which, used judicially and experimentally, could be translated into principles and practices designed to achieve the goals of the Welfare Society. That technology is the radical behaviorist technology of B. F. Skinner…
Power in The People: Strengths and Hope
The strengths perspective and resilience literature suggest that social workers may learn from those people who survive and in some cases flourish in the face of oppression, illness, demoralization, and abuse. Social workers need to know what steps these natural survivors have taken, what processes they have adopted, and what resources they have used. In this article, written specifically for Advances in Social Work, Dennis Saleebey discusses the…
The Future of Strengths-Based Social Work
The future of strength based social work is both promising and precarious. In this article we seek to capture this uncertain state by sketching the evolution of the strengths approach and offering and offering a brief evaluation of its status today. There are any number of approaches to both theory and practice at present that profess to be strengths-based. It is imperative that we develop stable and concrete criteria for determining whether a gi…
The Diagnostic Strengths Manual
Journal Article The Diagnostic Strengths Manual? Get access Dennis Saleebey, DSW Dennis Saleebey, DSW professor School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 2001, Pages 183–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/46.2.183 Published: 01 April 2001
Is a Critical Pedagogy for the Profession of Social Work Possible
In this essay, we address the perspective of progressive educators who maintain that academic curricula should be approached through the use of a critical pedagogy. We begin with a review of theories and methods in critical pedagogy and present a set of social and institutional issues that mediate against its use in social work education. We argue that, paradoxically, many of these obstacles in fact make the use of a critical pedagogy indispensab…
Nature, Genetics and the Biophilia Connection: Exploring Linkages with Social Work Values and Practice
Social work’s notion of environment and its environmental responsibilities has always been narrowly defined. The profession has tended to either neglect natural environmental issues or accept shallow, ecological conceptualizations of nature as something other, quite separate from the human enterprise and/or outside the reach of social work activity. The Biophilia Hypothesis, first articulated by Harvard biologist E.O.Wilson in 1984, offers social…
Theory and the Generation and Subversion of Knowledge
This essay is an argument for the refurbishing of theoretical thinking in social work. In particular, the author calls for the infusion of generative as opposed to normative theory in the profession. Only generative theory has been proven to invigorate the thinking and doing of professional social workers
Technological Fix: Altering the Consciousness of the Social Work Profession
Social work, like other professions, seeks a jolt of technology and technical sophistication into its theoretical and practical repertories. Such efforts have, thus far, ignored the considerable ethical and axiological freight that "Techne" brings with it. Ironically, many of the implicit values of techniques subvert the unique and defining values of the social work profession. This paper offers a cautionary note and a prescription for avoiding t…
In Clinical Social Work Practice, Is the Body Politic
A revolution is occurring in knowledge of the biological foundations of human behavior. The social work profession has virtually ignored this fund of knowledge, to the possible detriment of practice. This article presents an argument for the inclusion of such knowledge in the pedagogy and practice of clinical social work. It indicates some of the problems in doing so and briefly illustrates how this knowledge might be used in clinical social work…
The Power of Situations: An Approach to Understanding Powerlessness and Oppression
Much of the difficulty people have in organizing, directing, and coping with their lives is, perhaps, directly traceable to their lack of awareness of, and erroneous assumptions about, the interactional contexts in which they seem or feel powerless. This is especially true, but not exclusively so, of the poor and ethnic, sexual, and political minorities. To the extent that powerlessness exists and is implicated in the various miseries of existenc…
Pigeons, People, and Paradise: Skinnerian Technology and the Coming of the Welfare Society
Many utopian visions have become clouded for lack of a technology with which to convert socioethical prescriptions into policy and program. The Welfare Society as utopia is in similar jeopardy. However, there does exist a technology which, used judicially and experimentally, could be translated into principles and practices designed to achieve the goals of the Welfare Society. That technology is the radical behaviorist technology of B. F. Skinner…
Factors Influencing the Decision of Minority Students to Attend Graduate Schools of Social Work
This study of 255 minority students enrolled in Graduate Schools of Social Work examined factors which influenced them to decide to attend these schools. The most frequently mentioned reasons were the curriculum and location of the school followed by prestige, financial incentives, emphasis on minority concerns and influence of significant others. Those schools which attracted greater numbers of minorities tended to attract them on the basis of c…
The Power of Situations: An Approach to Understanding Powerlessness and Oppression
Much of the difficulty people have in organizing, directing, and coping with their lives is, perhaps, directly traceable to their lack of awareness of, and erroneous assumptions about, the interactional contexts in which they seem or feel powerless. This is especially true, but not exclusively so, of the poor and ethnic, sexual, and political minorities. To the extent that powerlessness exists and is implicated in the various miseries of existenc…
In Clinical Social Work Practice, Is the Body Politic
A revolution is occurring in knowledge of the biological foundations of human behavior. The social work profession has virtually ignored this fund of knowledge, to the possible detriment of practice. This article presents an argument for the inclusion of such knowledge in the pedagogy and practice of clinical social work. It indicates some of the problems in doing so and briefly illustrates how this knowledge might be used in clinical social work…
Philosophical Disputes in Social Work: Social Justice Denied
The debate in the social work academy about the pertinence of empiricist/positivist modes of knowing and doing is epistemological in character. It is the argument of this essay that prior ontological questions must be answered before the profession of social work can profitably enter this debate. These questions center on the nature of social work, the symbolic and moral essence of the social work enterprise and what the profession is becoming
Technological Fix: Altering the Consciousness of the Social Work Profession
Social work, like other professions, seeks a jolt of technology and technical sophistication into its theoretical and practical repertories. Such efforts have, thus far, ignored the considerable ethical and axiological freight that "Techne" brings with it. Ironically, many of the implicit values of techniques subvert the unique and defining values of the social work profession. This paper offers a cautionary note and a prescription for avoiding t…
Theory and the Generation and Subversion of Knowledge
This essay is an argument for the refurbishing of theoretical thinking in social work. In particular, the author calls for the infusion of generative as opposed to normative theory in the profession. Only generative theory has been proven to invigorate the thinking and doing of professional social workers
Notes on Interpreting the Human Condition: A "Constructed" HBSE Curriculum
The objective of this paper is to challenge the assumptions of the usual approaches to the Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) curriculum, and to forward the beginning of another approach that affords itself a more critical stance toward understanding elements of our daily world and various theoretical construals of them. The basis of the critique is both constructivist and "postmodern" (see below) in that we live in a world that is h…
Power in The People: Strengths and Hope
The strengths perspective and resilience literature suggest that social workers may learn from those people who survive and in some cases flourish in the face of oppression, illness, demoralization, and abuse. Social workers need to know what steps these natural survivors have taken, what processes they have adopted, and what resources they have used. In this article, written specifically for Advances in Social Work, Dennis Saleebey discusses the…
The Diagnostic Strengths Manual
Journal Article The Diagnostic Strengths Manual? Get access Dennis Saleebey, DSW Dennis Saleebey, DSW professor School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 2001, Pages 183–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/46.2.183 Published: 01 April 2001
Is a Critical Pedagogy for the Profession of Social Work Possible
In this essay, we address the perspective of progressive educators who maintain that academic curricula should be approached through the use of a critical pedagogy. We begin with a review of theories and methods in critical pedagogy and present a set of social and institutional issues that mediate against its use in social work education. We argue that, paradoxically, many of these obstacles in fact make the use of a critical pedagogy indispensab…
The Future of Strengths-Based Social Work
The future of strength based social work is both promising and precarious. In this article we seek to capture this uncertain state by sketching the evolution of the strengths approach and offering and offering a brief evaluation of its status today. There are any number of approaches to both theory and practice at present that profess to be strengths-based. It is imperative that we develop stable and concrete criteria for determining whether a gi…
Nature, Genetics and the Biophilia Connection: Exploring Linkages with Social Work Values and Practice
Social work’s notion of environment and its environmental responsibilities has always been narrowly defined. The profession has tended to either neglect natural environmental issues or accept shallow, ecological conceptualizations of nature as something other, quite separate from the human enterprise and/or outside the reach of social work activity. The Biophilia Hypothesis, first articulated by Harvard biologist E.O.Wilson in 1984, offers social…
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