Irwin Epstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4228916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irwin Epstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Epstein |
| SIGNATURE | EPSTEIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3671-8359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Who Benefits More From IBMS or Qigong? Clinical Data-Mining RCT Data
Purpose: A recent three-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) with depressed Hong Kong adults demonstrated the comparable effectiveness of integrative Body-Mind-Spirt (IBMS) and Qigong interventions in relieving sleep disturbance and depression, but not which is best for whom? Guided by concept and theory-based hypotheses, clinical data-mining (CDM), the RCT data answers the more clinically relevant question: who responds best to which interventi…
Practice research: A “virtue friendship” with ever-changing definitions
Inspired by the writings of Aristotle as interpreted by the living philosopher Alexander Nehamas on the nature of friendship, this paper conceptualises practice research in social work as a “virtue friendship”. In so doing, it considers the fate of Clinical Data-Mining as a practice research methodology. It concludes with a recommendation that we ask Cicero’s ever-relevant question “Cui Bono?” in assessing practice research’s contribution to soci…
My Love Affair with Practice-Research: A “Virtue Friendship” Based on Methodological Pluralism
One Last Fandango Professor Por Favor ? The Potential Contribution of Clinical Data-Mining to Randomized Clinical Trials
Clinical Data Mining in an Allied Health Organisation: A Real World Experience
Dialogues and debates in practice research
The Hong Kong Statement on Practice Research 2017: Contexts and Challenges of the Far East
This statement on social work practice research highlights the contributions of scholars, practitioners, and conference participants in the Fourth International Conference on Practice Research (ICPR) in 2017, hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in May 2017. It focuses on the contexts and challenges of carrying out practice research in the Far East and beyond as well as raises pertinent questions about the development of practice resear…
Looking Backwards to Look Forward: A Foreword
Introduction to the Third International Conference on Practice Research, New York, 2014
The New York Statement on the Evolving Definition of Practice Research Designed for Continuing Dialogue: A Bulletin From the 3rd International Conference on Practice Research (2014)
This Statement on Practice Research is a work in progress. It emerges out of deliberations from three international conferences on defining and operationalizing practice research. It seeks to capture both a process and outcome in which practitioners, researchers, service users, and educators collectively engage in a negotiated process of inquiry. One of the goals of this form of research is to place equal emphasis on improving practice and improv…
Building a Bridge or Digging a Pipeline? Clinical Data Mining in Evidence-Informed Knowledge Building
Challenging the “bridge metaphor” theme of this conference, this article contends that current practice–research integration strategies are more like research-to-practice “pipelines.” The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the potential of clinical data-mining studies conducted by practitioners, practitioner-oriented PhD students, and methodologically pluralist researchers to promoting a truly collaborative, two-way traffic in evidence-inf…
Obituary
Researching “Good Death” in a Hong Kong Palliative Care Program: A Clinical Data-Mining Study
This study operationalizes and assesses the percentage of "good deaths" achieved among Chinese cancer patients in a palliative care program, the profile of these patients, the relationship between patients with a good death and psychosocial factors, and the differences in background factors, and physical and psychosocial conditions between patients who experienced a good death and those who did not. Clinical data mining was the research method us…
Clinical data-mining: Learning from practice in international settings
This article describes a practice-based, mixed-method research methodology – Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) – as a strategy for engaging international practitioners for describing, evaluating and reflecting upon endogenous forms of practice with the ultimate goal of improving practice and contributing to knowledge (Epstein, 2010). These knowledge contributions are perforce ‘local’, but through conceptual reflection and/or empirical replication they m…
Reconciling Evidence-based Practice, Evidence-informed Practice, and Practice-based Research: The Role of Clinical Data-Mining
Journal Article Reconciling Evidence-based Practice, Evidence-informed Practice, and Practice-based Research: The Role of Clinical Data-Mining Get access Irwin Epstein, PhD Irwin Epstein, PhD H. Rehr Professor of Applied Social Work Research School of Social Work, Hunter College, City University of New York, 129 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10025; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed …
Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: A clinical data‐mining evaluation
Lalayants M, Epstein I, Adamy D. Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: a clinical data-mining evaluation Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 156–166 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This article presents the results of an evaluation of a multidisciplinary consultation program in child protection by applying a clinical data-mining ap…
The use of social science sources in social work practice journals: An application of citation analysis
Social work draws on the social sciences to contribute to its knowledge base and to increase the effectiveness of its interventions. Yet there is little empirical documentation of which social workers are most likely to use social science sources, what sources they draw on, how these sources contribute to social work writing and practice, and the extent to which the use of the social sciences has increased historically. The study discussed in thi…
In quest of a research-based model for clinical practice: Or, why can't a social worker be more like a researcher
Pressured by a quick publication deadline, enervated by three decades of promoting practice-research integration, and inspired by Julie Andrews's return to Broadway, the author reviews three clinical research texts in the light of the dreams that inspired them and the reality of their implied wishes. Implications for future clinical research evaluation are considered. Musical accompaniment is optional but recommended
Pedagogy of the Preturbed: Teaching Research to the Reluctants
At all educational levels, social work students resist taking research courses and struggle with their contents. This paper describes some pedagogical principles that are believed to be associated with effective research teaching. Survival techniques for research faculty are discussed as well. The importance of humor in student learning and faculty surival is stressed
Social Workers' Attitudes toward Poverty and Social Action: 1968-1984
Throughout social work history there has been concern about social workers' commitment to the poor and to social action on their behalf. This article compares the findings of surveys of professional social workers conducted in 1968 and 1984 to determine the changes, if any, in social workers' attitudes toward poverty, lowincome clients, and activist goals and strategies for the profession. The implications of the data for the identity of the prof…
Mental health training for Southeast Asian refugee resettlement workers
The resettlement of refugees has been carried out primarily by a number of voluntary agencies in co-operation with the US State Department, the United Nations, and the Immigration and Naturalization Services. A significant and growing number of refugees are selecting New York City, Boston, Massachusetts, or Providence, Rhode Island, as their intended place of residence. Moreover, there is increasing evidence of secondary migration to the northeas…
Behavior Modification in the Classroom: Education or Social Control
This study presents an analysis of the empirical literature on behavior modification in the classroom. Data were drawn from all relevant articles published in four behavior modification journals from 1963 through 1976. An assessment of the intervention techniques employed and the behavioral objectives sought in this literature suggests that traditional intervention techniques are still primarily directed towards control rather than educational go…
Incorporating Knowledge of Research Methodology into Social Work Practice
The thesis is presented that knowledge and use of research methodology can make a significant contribution to social work practice. Accordingly, several hypotheses regarding the potential uses of research methods are presented. Assuming that effective social work practice requires valid and reliable information, it is argued that social research methods can be regarded as a tool for gathering such information. Two strategies for the incorporation…
Professional Role Orientations and Conflict Strategies
■ This paper explores the social action effects of the role orientations of social workers. A bureaucratic orientation is found to be conservatizing; a client orientation, radicalizing; and a professional orientation—when taken alone—is neither. When coupled with agency or client orientations, however, professionalization intensifies the conservatizing effects of agency orientation and the radicalizing effects of client orientation. Some possible…
Organizational Careers, Professionalization, and Social-Worker Radicalism
This paper tests the popular proposition that organizational-professional rank is inversely associated with social worker radicalism. The findings, based on a survey of 899 professional social workers, indicate partial support for this hypothesis within the total profession and among caseworkers and full support among group workers and community organizers. For the latter two specialities, the conservatizing efforts of upward mobility are more po…
Pedagogy of the Preturbed: Teaching Research to the Reluctants
At all educational levels, social work students resist taking research courses and struggle with their contents. This paper describes some pedagogical principles that are believed to be associated with effective research teaching. Survival techniques for research faculty are discussed as well. The importance of humor in student learning and faculty surival is stressed
The New York Statement on the Evolving Definition of Practice Research Designed for Continuing Dialogue: A Bulletin From the 3rd International Conference on Practice Research (2014)
This Statement on Practice Research is a work in progress. It emerges out of deliberations from three international conferences on defining and operationalizing practice research. It seeks to capture both a process and outcome in which practitioners, researchers, service users, and educators collectively engage in a negotiated process of inquiry. One of the goals of this form of research is to place equal emphasis on improving practice and improv…
Reconciling Evidence-based Practice, Evidence-informed Practice, and Practice-based Research: The Role of Clinical Data-Mining
Journal Article Reconciling Evidence-based Practice, Evidence-informed Practice, and Practice-based Research: The Role of Clinical Data-Mining Get access Irwin Epstein, PhD Irwin Epstein, PhD H. Rehr Professor of Applied Social Work Research School of Social Work, Hunter College, City University of New York, 129 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10025; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed …
Building a Bridge or Digging a Pipeline? Clinical Data Mining in Evidence-Informed Knowledge Building
Challenging the “bridge metaphor” theme of this conference, this article contends that current practice–research integration strategies are more like research-to-practice “pipelines.” The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the potential of clinical data-mining studies conducted by practitioners, practitioner-oriented PhD students, and methodologically pluralist researchers to promoting a truly collaborative, two-way traffic in evidence-inf…
Social Workers' Attitudes toward Poverty and Social Action: 1968-1984
Throughout social work history there has been concern about social workers' commitment to the poor and to social action on their behalf. This article compares the findings of surveys of professional social workers conducted in 1968 and 1984 to determine the changes, if any, in social workers' attitudes toward poverty, lowincome clients, and activist goals and strategies for the profession. The implications of the data for the identity of the prof…
The Hong Kong Statement on Practice Research 2017: Contexts and Challenges of the Far East
This statement on social work practice research highlights the contributions of scholars, practitioners, and conference participants in the Fourth International Conference on Practice Research (ICPR) in 2017, hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in May 2017. It focuses on the contexts and challenges of carrying out practice research in the Far East and beyond as well as raises pertinent questions about the development of practice resear…
Clinical data-mining: Learning from practice in international settings
This article describes a practice-based, mixed-method research methodology – Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) – as a strategy for engaging international practitioners for describing, evaluating and reflecting upon endogenous forms of practice with the ultimate goal of improving practice and contributing to knowledge (Epstein, 2010). These knowledge contributions are perforce ‘local’, but through conceptual reflection and/or empirical replication they m…
Professional Role Orientations and Conflict Strategies
■ This paper explores the social action effects of the role orientations of social workers. A bureaucratic orientation is found to be conservatizing; a client orientation, radicalizing; and a professional orientation—when taken alone—is neither. When coupled with agency or client orientations, however, professionalization intensifies the conservatizing effects of agency orientation and the radicalizing effects of client orientation. Some possible…
The use of social science sources in social work practice journals: An application of citation analysis
Social work draws on the social sciences to contribute to its knowledge base and to increase the effectiveness of its interventions. Yet there is little empirical documentation of which social workers are most likely to use social science sources, what sources they draw on, how these sources contribute to social work writing and practice, and the extent to which the use of the social sciences has increased historically. The study discussed in thi…
In quest of a research-based model for clinical practice: Or, why can't a social worker be more like a researcher
Pressured by a quick publication deadline, enervated by three decades of promoting practice-research integration, and inspired by Julie Andrews's return to Broadway, the author reviews three clinical research texts in the light of the dreams that inspired them and the reality of their implied wishes. Implications for future clinical research evaluation are considered. Musical accompaniment is optional but recommended
Organizational Careers, Professionalization, and Social-Worker Radicalism
This paper tests the popular proposition that organizational-professional rank is inversely associated with social worker radicalism. The findings, based on a survey of 899 professional social workers, indicate partial support for this hypothesis within the total profession and among caseworkers and full support among group workers and community organizers. For the latter two specialities, the conservatizing efforts of upward mobility are more po…
Social Workers and Social Action: Attitudes Toward Social Action Strategies
Journal Article Social Workers and Social Action: Attitudes Toward Social Action Strategies Get access Irwin Epstein, MSW Irwin Epstein, MSW Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 13, Issue 2, April 1968, Pages 101–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/13.2.101 Published: 01 April 1968
Mental health training for Southeast Asian refugee resettlement workers
The resettlement of refugees has been carried out primarily by a number of voluntary agencies in co-operation with the US State Department, the United Nations, and the Immigration and Naturalization Services. A significant and growing number of refugees are selecting New York City, Boston, Massachusetts, or Providence, Rhode Island, as their intended place of residence. Moreover, there is increasing evidence of secondary migration to the northeas…
Professionalization, Professionalism, and Social-Worker Radicalism
My Love Affair with Practice-Research: A “Virtue Friendship” Based on Methodological Pluralism
One Last Fandango Professor Por Favor ? The Potential Contribution of Clinical Data-Mining to Randomized Clinical Trials
Dialogues and debates in practice research
Introduction to the Third International Conference on Practice Research, New York, 2014
Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: A clinical data‐mining evaluation
Lalayants M, Epstein I, Adamy D. Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: a clinical data-mining evaluation Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 156–166 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This article presents the results of an evaluation of a multidisciplinary consultation program in child protection by applying a clinical data-mining ap…
Social Workers and Social Action: Attitudes Toward Social Action Strategies
Journal Article Social Workers and Social Action: Attitudes Toward Social Action Strategies Get access Irwin Epstein, MSW Irwin Epstein, MSW Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 13, Issue 2, April 1968, Pages 101–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/13.2.101 Published: 01 April 1968
Professional Role Orientations and Conflict Strategies
■ This paper explores the social action effects of the role orientations of social workers. A bureaucratic orientation is found to be conservatizing; a client orientation, radicalizing; and a professional orientation—when taken alone—is neither. When coupled with agency or client orientations, however, professionalization intensifies the conservatizing effects of agency orientation and the radicalizing effects of client orientation. Some possible…
Organizational Careers, Professionalization, and Social-Worker Radicalism
This paper tests the popular proposition that organizational-professional rank is inversely associated with social worker radicalism. The findings, based on a survey of 899 professional social workers, indicate partial support for this hypothesis within the total profession and among caseworkers and full support among group workers and community organizers. For the latter two specialities, the conservatizing efforts of upward mobility are more po…
Dilemmas in evaluation: Implications for administrators of social action programs
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Professionalization, Professionalism, and Social-Worker Radicalism
Incorporating Knowledge of Research Methodology into Social Work Practice
The thesis is presented that knowledge and use of research methodology can make a significant contribution to social work practice. Accordingly, several hypotheses regarding the potential uses of research methods are presented. Assuming that effective social work practice requires valid and reliable information, it is argued that social research methods can be regarded as a tool for gathering such information. Two strategies for the incorporation…
Behavior Modification in the Classroom: Education or Social Control
This study presents an analysis of the empirical literature on behavior modification in the classroom. Data were drawn from all relevant articles published in four behavior modification journals from 1963 through 1976. An assessment of the intervention techniques employed and the behavioral objectives sought in this literature suggests that traditional intervention techniques are still primarily directed towards control rather than educational go…
Pedagogy of the Preturbed: Teaching Research to the Reluctants
At all educational levels, social work students resist taking research courses and struggle with their contents. This paper describes some pedagogical principles that are believed to be associated with effective research teaching. Survival techniques for research faculty are discussed as well. The importance of humor in student learning and faculty surival is stressed
Social Workers' Attitudes toward Poverty and Social Action: 1968-1984
Throughout social work history there has been concern about social workers' commitment to the poor and to social action on their behalf. This article compares the findings of surveys of professional social workers conducted in 1968 and 1984 to determine the changes, if any, in social workers' attitudes toward poverty, lowincome clients, and activist goals and strategies for the profession. The implications of the data for the identity of the prof…
Mental health training for Southeast Asian refugee resettlement workers
The resettlement of refugees has been carried out primarily by a number of voluntary agencies in co-operation with the US State Department, the United Nations, and the Immigration and Naturalization Services. A significant and growing number of refugees are selecting New York City, Boston, Massachusetts, or Providence, Rhode Island, as their intended place of residence. Moreover, there is increasing evidence of secondary migration to the northeas…
In quest of a research-based model for clinical practice: Or, why can't a social worker be more like a researcher
Pressured by a quick publication deadline, enervated by three decades of promoting practice-research integration, and inspired by Julie Andrews's return to Broadway, the author reviews three clinical research texts in the light of the dreams that inspired them and the reality of their implied wishes. Implications for future clinical research evaluation are considered. Musical accompaniment is optional but recommended
The use of social science sources in social work practice journals: An application of citation analysis
Social work draws on the social sciences to contribute to its knowledge base and to increase the effectiveness of its interventions. Yet there is little empirical documentation of which social workers are most likely to use social science sources, what sources they draw on, how these sources contribute to social work writing and practice, and the extent to which the use of the social sciences has increased historically. The study discussed in thi…
Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: A clinical data‐mining evaluation
Lalayants M, Epstein I, Adamy D. Multidisciplinary consultation in child protection: a clinical data-mining evaluation Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 156–166 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This article presents the results of an evaluation of a multidisciplinary consultation program in child protection by applying a clinical data-mining ap…
Reconciling Evidence-based Practice, Evidence-informed Practice, and Practice-based Research: The Role of Clinical Data-Mining
Journal Article Reconciling Evidence-based Practice, Evidence-informed Practice, and Practice-based Research: The Role of Clinical Data-Mining Get access Irwin Epstein, PhD Irwin Epstein, PhD H. Rehr Professor of Applied Social Work Research School of Social Work, Hunter College, City University of New York, 129 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10025; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed …
Researching “Good Death” in a Hong Kong Palliative Care Program: A Clinical Data-Mining Study
This study operationalizes and assesses the percentage of "good deaths" achieved among Chinese cancer patients in a palliative care program, the profile of these patients, the relationship between patients with a good death and psychosocial factors, and the differences in background factors, and physical and psychosocial conditions between patients who experienced a good death and those who did not. Clinical data mining was the research method us…
Clinical data-mining: Learning from practice in international settings
This article describes a practice-based, mixed-method research methodology – Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) – as a strategy for engaging international practitioners for describing, evaluating and reflecting upon endogenous forms of practice with the ultimate goal of improving practice and contributing to knowledge (Epstein, 2010). These knowledge contributions are perforce ‘local’, but through conceptual reflection and/or empirical replication they m…
Obituary
Building a Bridge or Digging a Pipeline? Clinical Data Mining in Evidence-Informed Knowledge Building
Challenging the “bridge metaphor” theme of this conference, this article contends that current practice–research integration strategies are more like research-to-practice “pipelines.” The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the potential of clinical data-mining studies conducted by practitioners, practitioner-oriented PhD students, and methodologically pluralist researchers to promoting a truly collaborative, two-way traffic in evidence-inf…
Introduction to the Third International Conference on Practice Research, New York, 2014
The New York Statement on the Evolving Definition of Practice Research Designed for Continuing Dialogue: A Bulletin From the 3rd International Conference on Practice Research (2014)
This Statement on Practice Research is a work in progress. It emerges out of deliberations from three international conferences on defining and operationalizing practice research. It seeks to capture both a process and outcome in which practitioners, researchers, service users, and educators collectively engage in a negotiated process of inquiry. One of the goals of this form of research is to place equal emphasis on improving practice and improv…
Looking Backwards to Look Forward: A Foreword
Clinical Data Mining in an Allied Health Organisation: A Real World Experience
Dialogues and debates in practice research
The Hong Kong Statement on Practice Research 2017: Contexts and Challenges of the Far East
This statement on social work practice research highlights the contributions of scholars, practitioners, and conference participants in the Fourth International Conference on Practice Research (ICPR) in 2017, hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in May 2017. It focuses on the contexts and challenges of carrying out practice research in the Far East and beyond as well as raises pertinent questions about the development of practice resear…
Practice research: A “virtue friendship” with ever-changing definitions
Inspired by the writings of Aristotle as interpreted by the living philosopher Alexander Nehamas on the nature of friendship, this paper conceptualises practice research in social work as a “virtue friendship”. In so doing, it considers the fate of Clinical Data-Mining as a practice research methodology. It concludes with a recommendation that we ask Cicero’s ever-relevant question “Cui Bono?” in assessing practice research’s contribution to soci…
Psychology (21 works) · Political science (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Social Work (15 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)