John T Pardeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 4216751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John T Pardeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | John T |
| FAMILY NAME | Pardeck |
| SIGNATURE | PARDECK J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Missouri State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social work for the twenty-first century
Social Work Education in the United States
Social Work programs accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) educate students for practice at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This paper presents a critical analysis of Social Work education in the United States. The analysis suggests that graduates of social work programs do not appear to master the skills, knowledge, and values critical to effective practice and policy intervention. The implications of these findings ar…
Scholarly Productivity of Editors of Social Work and Psychology Journals
This study explored the scholarly productivity of editors of selected social work and psychology journals. Analysis indicated that editors of psychology journals had statistically significantly greater scholarly achievement than editors of social work journals. These findings suggest that scholarly achievement as measured appears to be of less importance in appointing editors to the five selected social work journals than in appointing editors to…
Social Work Admissions and Academic Accommodations for Students With Disabilities
The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) protects students with disabilities from discrimination by academic and professional programs in higher education. A student with a disability cannot be denied admission to an educational program because of his or her disability if the student is otherwise qualified. This means that a student with a disability who is qualified for an academic or professional educational program cannot be denied ad…
Children's Rights and School Violence
When children enter the United States public school system they experience a significant curtailment of their constitutional rights. A number of important court rulings are presented in this article that trace the development of children's rights within and outside the public school system. Recent cases of school violence have resulted in even greater erosion of student rights. It is argued in this article that the curtailment of student's rights…
An Exploration of the Themes and Content on Family Health in the Social Work Literature
This study is an exploratory study of the social work literature focusing on family health reported in the Social Work Abstracts from 1977 to June 1999. The findings suggest that the social work literature offers an extensive number of articles on topics related to family health. The implications of the findings for future research are offered
Family Health
The profession of social work has, since its inception, stressed the importance of the family system in practice and policy development. Even though the family has always been central to effective social work practice, the framing of the family system from a holistic health perspective is new to the field. This collection develops a family health perspective that will facilitate effective social work practice and policy development. Family health…
Disability Discrimination in Social Work Education
An overview of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is presented. The article emphasizes that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is the federal law upon which the ADA is built. A comparison of Section 504 and the ADA is presented in the paper. An analysis is offered of the case law that has emerged under Section 504 that serves as a guide to the rights and responsibilities of social work programs and faculty under the ADA. Recomme…
Rationalizing Decision-Making Through Computer Technology
As human services become more complex and multifaceted, sound decision-making guiding the service delivery process becomes critical. Administrators and others view computer technology as a means to rationalize the decision-making process at all levels of organizational life. The Management Information System (MIS) and program evaluations are viewed as technologies particularly useful for enhancing the decision-making process through computer tech…
Impact of Human Diversity Education on Social Work Students
This research explores the attitudinal change of undergraduate students in a social work program after completing a course on human diversity. A total of 153 students participated in the study. A cross-sectional pre/post survey design with non-randomized comparison groups was employed in the research. The findings suggest that a course on human diversity had a positive impact on junior level students' attitudes on the topic of diversity and that …
The Effects Of Factual Information On the Attitudes of College Students
This research explores the effect that factual information has on the attitudes of college students. The findings suggest that the exposure to factual information on the topics of white collar crime and street crime had no effect on the attitudes of students assigned to the study's experimental group. The implications of these findings for education are discussed
An Exploratory Study of Sex Differences in Orientation to Clinical Practice
Few statistically significant sex differences were found in orientation to clinical practice of a randomly selected sample of 300 licensed clinical social workers. 28 male and 69 female licensed clinical social workers had very similar attitudes, philosophies, and behaviors toward clinical practice. These findings add to the limited research available
Degreed and Nondegreed Licensed Clinical Social Workers
This exploratory study focuses on 155 randomly selected respondents who obtained a clinical license in social work with or without the Master of Social Work (MSW) degree. Ninety-seven of the respondents obtained a license with an MSW degree;fifty-eight obtained a license without the MSW degree. The two groups of respondents completed a survey instrument that explored their basic demographic characteristics, their attitudes and behaviors related t…
Recommendations for Educational Reform in the United States
This article suggests that the United States educational system needs significant changes. The goal of the article is to present a basic educational philosophy that would facilitate this reform. Specifically, education should be viewed as not only a means to an end that teaches basic skills for employment, but also as a process that enhances social development and self-actualization. Recommendations are offered to achieve this important goal
Symbolic Violence and Social Control in the Post-Total Institution Era
Subsequent to the passage of the Community Mental Health Act in 1963, the "Total Institutions" described by Goffman have for the most part disappeared. Nonetheless, many writers charge that social control is still the primary function of mental health programs, even those that are identified as community-based. The new methods of control have not received widespread attention. In community-based programs control is operationalized in the form of …
An Empirical Validation of a Theory of Punishment
This study examined whether the traditional classification of penal-orientation—retribution, deterrence, and rehabilitation—would emerge empirically. The study sample consisted of 150 criminal justice functionaries (judges, defense counsel, prosecutors, social workers, and probation officers). Analysis indicated that the hypothesized dimensions of penal-orientation above were not supported. The new dimensions, which were empirically separable and…
The Current Political World-View, Education and Alienation
In this article, key components of the prevailing political world-view are identified. Further, the implications of this outlook for education are outlined. Most important is that these fundamental principles are identified as leading to alienation and the destruction of education. And unless this world-view is rejected, educational reform will never be successful. Intervention will consist of piecemeal reforms, while the educational system teete…
Introduction
The papers presented in this work are briefly overviewed. They focus on a variety of problems and issues facing adolescence and youth from an international perspective. © 1991, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved
Assertiveness of Social Work Students
Assertiveness of Social Work Students
A goal of social work education is to increase assertiveness in students. This study of 162 undergraduates in social work suggests their training did not accomplish this goal
The Psychological Well-Being of Undergraduate Social Work Students During Times of Economic Cutbacks
This study explores the effects of the current job market on the psychological well-being of undergraduate social work students. Psychological well-being is defined as the assertiveness, self-esteem, and depression levels of the students. The general conclusions of the study suggest that the students were not affected psychologically by current economic conditions in the social services. It is concluded that more research should be conducted on t…
Using Bibliotherapy in Clinical Practice With Children
This paper focuses on using bibliotherapy in clinical practice with children. The approach is examined and useful books for implementing bibliotherapy are presented
The Minuchin Family Stress Model
The Minuchin family stress model is presented. It is emphasized that the model is built on an ecological perspective which focuses on a systems approach for understanding the impact of stress on children and the family system. Approaches for assessing and treating the effects of marital disruption on children and families through the Minuchin family stress model are covered
The Elementary School Counselor
The elementary school years are crucial to a child's total social and emotional development. In order to facilitate the child's total development during the elementary school years, he or she must have ready access to an elementary school counselor. Elementary school children who feel comfortable with and have been in contact with a school counselor will probably not hesitate to use the services of the counselor later in their school years. It is…
The Ecological Model, Holism, and Socially Sensitive Counseling
The ecological viewpoint represents a great advance over prior models for conceptualizing social institutions, such as the family. Because this approach is holistic and non-reductionistic, socially sensitive counseling and other forms of intervention are possible. Nonetheless, due to the close association between the ecological model and systems theory, structural metaphors are employed to describe social life. As a result, if the ecological mode…
Multiple Placement of Children in Foster Family Care
Journal Article Multiple Placement of Children in Foster Family Care: An Empirical Analysis Get access John T. Pardeck, Ph.D. John T. Pardeck, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Work Arkansas State University, State University, Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 29, Issue 6, November-December 1984, Pages 506–509, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/29.6.506 Published: 01 November 1…
An Ecological Approach for Social Work Practice
The ecological approach offers a comprehensive theoretical base that social practitioners can draw upon for effective social treatment. The critical concepts of the ecological approach are presented. It is suggested that the ecological perspective can be a useful treatment strategy for improving the social functioning of the client system
An Exploration of Factors Associated With the Stability and Continuity of the Foster Care System in the United States
Foster care in the United States is viewed as a temporary service for children. However, for many children, foster care involves years of long term care. Most pro, fessionals working in the foster care system feel that the number of foster homes these children experience should be kept to a minimum. The evidence suggests that this movement from foster home to foster home has detrimental effects on the psycho-social development of the foster child…
Degreed and Nondegreed Licensed Clinical Social Workers
This exploratory study focuses on 155 randomly selected respondents who obtained a clinical license in social work with or without the Master of Social Work (MSW) degree. Ninety-seven of the respondents obtained a license with an MSW degree;fifty-eight obtained a license without the MSW degree. The two groups of respondents completed a survey instrument that explored their basic demographic characteristics, their attitudes and behaviors related t…
An Empirical Validation of a Theory of Punishment
This study examined whether the traditional classification of penal-orientation—retribution, deterrence, and rehabilitation—would emerge empirically. The study sample consisted of 150 criminal justice functionaries (judges, defense counsel, prosecutors, social workers, and probation officers). Analysis indicated that the hypothesized dimensions of penal-orientation above were not supported. The new dimensions, which were empirically separable and…
Technology and Language Use
This article shows the relationships among computerization, cognition, and language style. Specifically important is that computerization is demonstrated to shape language and cognition in a way that diminishes the role interpretation plays in knowledge acquisition. This portrayal of knowledge has significant consequences for computer mediated therapy. That is, behavior is divorced from its social or interpretive context and thus little insight i…
Planning for a National Social Policy for the Family
The American family performs two important functions for family members - providing physical care and socialization, and meeting psychological needs. Current family trends suggest that the American family may be having difficulty in carrying out these basic functions. Since the United States lacks a comprehensive family policy, it is argued that a national social policy should be created to better support the American family. A social policy is p…
Analysis of an Exploration for Training Materials in Child Welfare
Currently there is a serious gap in the child welfare system in the area of in-service training. As the child welfare system begins to fill this gap, information on what materials are available for training becomes critical. This article reports on an extensive exploration of what is currently available for training in the child welfare field. Several important findings emerged concerning the sources of materials and the lack of training material…
Veterans and Aggression
This article investigates two rival theories for explaining aggression in humans — the model which claims that exposure to aggression increases aggression in humans, versus that which maintains that exposure to aggression drains aggression in humans. The findings appear to support the first model, suggesting that exposure to aggression increases aggression levels in humans. Over the past three decades, a number of researchers have attempted to di…
A Comparison of Child Welfare Curriculum in Undergraduate and Graduate Programs of Social Work
This paper analyzes the differences in child welfare curriculum content of social work programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The findings report little discernible difference in curriculum content in the area of child welfare at either level. These results add to the continuing debate focusing on defining the differences between undergraduate and graduate social work education. A important question resulting from this study is -…
Undergraduate Education of MSWs
Undergraduate Education of MSWs: Reply Get access John T. Pardeck John T. Pardeck Arkansas State University, State University, Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 29, Issue 6, November-December 1984, Pages 556–557, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/29.6.556-a Published: 01 November 1984
Multiple Placement of Children in Foster Family Care
Journal Article Multiple Placement of Children in Foster Family Care: An Empirical Analysis Get access John T. Pardeck, Ph.D. John T. Pardeck, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Social Work Arkansas State University, State University, Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 29, Issue 6, November-December 1984, Pages 506–509, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/29.6.506 Published: 01 November 1…
An Exploration of Factors Associated With the Stability and Continuity of the Foster Care System in the United States
Foster care in the United States is viewed as a temporary service for children. However, for many children, foster care involves years of long term care. Most pro, fessionals working in the foster care system feel that the number of foster homes these children experience should be kept to a minimum. The evidence suggests that this movement from foster home to foster home has detrimental effects on the psycho-social development of the foster child…
The Impact of Day Care on the Pre-School Child
[Increasing rates of maternal employment in recent decades has created the need for expanded day-care programs for children. Presently, the impact of the day-care experience is far from clear, especially for children of pre-school age. This paper will present the research findings focusing on the impact of day-care on the pre-school chilcl's intellectual, emotional, and social development, as well as on the child's family system. The implications…
Technology and the Manufacture of Madness
Computerized Clinical Practice
Technology is inundating every aspect of modern society, and clinical practice is no exception. Computer programs are currently available that conduct intake interviews, monitor treatment plans, administer, score, and interpret clinical instruments, and conduct actual therapy sessions. A survey of these applications is provided. Technologically generated knowledge may be objective but socially insensitive, because data must be conceptualized as “…
A Critical Analysis of the Impact of Day Care on the Pre-School Child and the Family
Maternal employment has increased dramatically over the last two decades. The result of this increase in the number of working mothers is the expanded use of day care programs for children. Examined in this paper are research findings on the impact of day-care on the child and the family. The implications of these findings for policy development are discussed. Currently in the United States, over 50 percent of mothers work outside the home; this …
Introduction to Thematic Special Issue
Currently technology is proliferating at a rate never before imagined. As a result, every facet of society has changed because of technological developments, including the delivery of social services. Although there is much debate over whether or not these changes are good or bad, they cannot be denied (Murphy and Pardeck, forthcoming). In fact, Jacques Ellul ( 1964: 127) has referred to modern society as a technological civilization. What he mea…
Use of Computer Technology by Social Workers
The Ecological Model, Holism, and Socially Sensitive Counseling
The ecological viewpoint represents a great advance over prior models for conceptualizing social institutions, such as the family. Because this approach is holistic and non-reductionistic, socially sensitive counseling and other forms of intervention are possible. Nonetheless, due to the close association between the ecological model and systems theory, structural metaphors are employed to describe social life. As a result, if the ecological mode…
Helping Children Adjust to Adoption through the Bibliotherapeutic Approach
Bibliotherapy is an emerging treatment approach that literally means treating through books. Both professionals and non‐professionals have found bibliotherapy to be a useful treatment technique. As a helping strategy, it has proved useful for working with development, adjustment, and complex clinical problems
"Technology in Clinical Practice and the "Technological Ethic
Computers are being introduced into practically every area of clinical practice. The use of this technology by practitioners has not gone unchallenged. Specifically, new ethical problems are thought to be associated with using computers to make clinical assessments. Logistical and procedural difficulties, however, have been the primary focus of concern. In this paper the critique of computerized evaluation is expanded, with attention directed to …
An Ecological Approach for Social Work Practice
The ecological approach offers a comprehensive theoretical base that social practitioners can draw upon for effective social treatment. The critical concepts of the ecological approach are presented. It is suggested that the ecological perspective can be a useful treatment strategy for improving the social functioning of the client system
Technology and Human Productivity
The editors have assembled a collection of original essays offering a holistic view of how technology shapes the modern world. Consideration is given to several major issues, such as the dehumanizing effects of technology, which tends to objectify social life; the emphasis on productivity and the accumulation of material goods; and the intricacies involved in creating a responsible technology that would establish more socially sensitive principle…
Technology and Language Use
This article shows the relationships among computerization, cognition, and language style. Specifically important is that computerization is demonstrated to shape language and cognition in a way that diminishes the role interpretation plays in knowledge acquisition. This portrayal of knowledge has significant consequences for computer mediated therapy. That is, behavior is divorced from its social or interpretive context and thus little insight i…
The Minuchin Family Stress Model
The Minuchin family stress model is presented. It is emphasized that the model is built on an ecological perspective which focuses on a systems approach for understanding the impact of stress on children and the family system. Approaches for assessing and treating the effects of marital disruption on children and families through the Minuchin family stress model are covered
The Elementary School Counselor
The elementary school years are crucial to a child's total social and emotional development. In order to facilitate the child's total development during the elementary school years, he or she must have ready access to an elementary school counselor. Elementary school children who feel comfortable with and have been in contact with a school counselor will probably not hesitate to use the services of the counselor later in their school years. It is…
The Psychological Well-Being of Undergraduate Social Work Students During Times of Economic Cutbacks
This study explores the effects of the current job market on the psychological well-being of undergraduate social work students. Psychological well-being is defined as the assertiveness, self-esteem, and depression levels of the students. The general conclusions of the study suggest that the students were not affected psychologically by current economic conditions in the social services. It is concluded that more research should be conducted on t…
Using Bibliotherapy in Clinical Practice With Children
This paper focuses on using bibliotherapy in clinical practice with children. The approach is examined and useful books for implementing bibliotherapy are presented
The Current Political World-View, Education and Alienation
In this article, key components of the prevailing political world-view are identified. Further, the implications of this outlook for education are outlined. Most important is that these fundamental principles are identified as leading to alienation and the destruction of education. And unless this world-view is rejected, educational reform will never be successful. Intervention will consist of piecemeal reforms, while the educational system teete…
Introduction
The papers presented in this work are briefly overviewed. They focus on a variety of problems and issues facing adolescence and youth from an international perspective. © 1991, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved
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