Joanne C Gersten
Biographic Data
| ID | 4229019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne C Gersten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gersten |
| SIGNATURE | GERSTEN J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Linking empirically based theory and evaluation: The family bereavement program
Conclusion We have illustrated how our “small theory” (Lipsey, 1990) of bereavement guided the development and evaluation of a preventive intervention for bereaved children. Our small theory, based on prior empirical research, enabled us to identify family processes that appeared to mediate the effects of parental death on child mental health. Our intervention was designed to attempt to change these processes. The evaluation of our experimental t…
Theory‐based screening for prevention: Focusing on mediating processes in children of divorce
Prevention programs in mental health theoretically can benefit from selecting participants who have a greater likelihood of developing psychological problems because of their exposure to the putative mediators targeted for change in an intervention. Screening on mediators may increase statistical power to detect program effects, enhance the cost-effectiveness of intervention trials, and decrease the possibility of iatrogenic effects. The circumst…
Small theory and the strategic choices of prevention research
Our comments on the discussion of mediational screening for prevention research highlight two issues: (a) There are advantages to giving a high priority to theory in a strategic sequence of prevention research studies. (b) Screening to identify a subgroup that is experiencing problems on processes the program is designed to change may be useful in accomplishing specific goals within an overall strategy of prevention research studies
Epidemiology and preventive interventions: Parental death in childhood as a case example
Illustrates how standard epidemiologic principles form the knowledge base to justify a preventive intervention for an at-risk population. These principles were applied to a sample of 92 from the population of children aged 8 to 15 at alleged risk for mental health disorders because a parent died. Prior work on this alleged risk population is sparse and flawed. Validly determining the population effect of an alleged risk factor requires assessing …
The use of structural equation modeling in generative research: Toward the design of a preventive intervention for bereaved children
Describes a generative study of processes which may lead to symptomatology in children who have experienced the death of a parent. Based on existing literature, four putative mediating variables were identified: parental demoralization, family warmth, negative family events, and positive stable family events. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to compare several potential causal models involving these variables. The results were mo…
The Effect of Police and Mental Health Intervention on Juvenile Deviance: Specifying Contingencies in the Impact of Formal Reaction
Frances Palamara, Francis T. Cullen, Joanne C. Gersten, The Effect of Police and Mental Health Intervention on Juvenile Deviance: Specifying Contingencies in the Impact of Formal Reaction, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 90-105
The Behavioral Effects of Father Absence on Children and Their Mothers
This study investigates the effects of the presence or absence of the father in the home in two samples of New York City families: a sample of 1000 Welfare AFDC families and a subsample of lower-middle income families from a random cross-section sample. The effects of natural fathers, surrogate fathers and absent fathers were examined for mothers and their children, respectively. The variables included measures derived from mothers' home intervie…
The Power of Time
An Evaluation of the Etiologic Role of Stressful Life-Change Events in Psychological Disorders
Joanne C. Gersten, Thomas S. Langner, Jeanne G. Eisenberg, Ora Simcha-Fagan, An Evaluation of the Etiologic Role of Stressful Life-Change Events in Psychological Disorders, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 228-244
A behavioral classification of welfare children from survey data
From survey data on 1000 urban Welfare AFDC children aged six to eighteen, a hierarchical cluster analysis yielded six distinct behavioral types of Welfare children. Characteristics of each type, and its relationship to treatment, ethnicity, and other variables are discussed. Advantages of this system of behavioral classification for research and population assessment are outlined
Violence and Behavior Disorders
Elizabeth D. McCarthy, Thomas S. Langner, Joanne C. Gersten, Jeanne G. Eisenberg, Lida Orzeck; Violence and Behavior Disorders, Journal of Communication, V
Differences in the behavior of welfare and non-welfare children in relation to parental characteristics
This paper reports differences in the prevalence of various behaviors of children and parents in two large but markedly different socioeconomic samples from the same urban area. For child behavior differences between samples, the relationships of parental variables to those behaviors were examined using multiple regression techniques. Various parental dimensions (particularly coldness and excitability) showed strong and comparable relationships t…
An Evaluation of the Etiologic Role of Stressful Life-Change Events in Psychological Disorders
Joanne C. Gersten, Thomas S. Langner, Jeanne G. Eisenberg, Ora Simcha-Fagan, An Evaluation of the Etiologic Role of Stressful Life-Change Events in Psychological Disorders, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 228-244
Theory‐based screening for prevention: Focusing on mediating processes in children of divorce
Prevention programs in mental health theoretically can benefit from selecting participants who have a greater likelihood of developing psychological problems because of their exposure to the putative mediators targeted for change in an intervention. Screening on mediators may increase statistical power to detect program effects, enhance the cost-effectiveness of intervention trials, and decrease the possibility of iatrogenic effects. The circumst…
The use of structural equation modeling in generative research: Toward the design of a preventive intervention for bereaved children
Describes a generative study of processes which may lead to symptomatology in children who have experienced the death of a parent. Based on existing literature, four putative mediating variables were identified: parental demoralization, family warmth, negative family events, and positive stable family events. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to compare several potential causal models involving these variables. The results were mo…
Epidemiology and preventive interventions: Parental death in childhood as a case example
Illustrates how standard epidemiologic principles form the knowledge base to justify a preventive intervention for an at-risk population. These principles were applied to a sample of 92 from the population of children aged 8 to 15 at alleged risk for mental health disorders because a parent died. Prior work on this alleged risk population is sparse and flawed. Validly determining the population effect of an alleged risk factor requires assessing …
Linking empirically based theory and evaluation: The family bereavement program
Conclusion We have illustrated how our “small theory” (Lipsey, 1990) of bereavement guided the development and evaluation of a preventive intervention for bereaved children. Our small theory, based on prior empirical research, enabled us to identify family processes that appeared to mediate the effects of parental death on child mental health. Our intervention was designed to attempt to change these processes. The evaluation of our experimental t…
The Effect of Police and Mental Health Intervention on Juvenile Deviance: Specifying Contingencies in the Impact of Formal Reaction
Frances Palamara, Francis T. Cullen, Joanne C. Gersten, The Effect of Police and Mental Health Intervention on Juvenile Deviance: Specifying Contingencies in the Impact of Formal Reaction, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 90-105
Small theory and the strategic choices of prevention research
Our comments on the discussion of mediational screening for prevention research highlight two issues: (a) There are advantages to giving a high priority to theory in a strategic sequence of prevention research studies. (b) Screening to identify a subgroup that is experiencing problems on processes the program is designed to change may be useful in accomplishing specific goals within an overall strategy of prevention research studies
Violence and Behavior Disorders
Elizabeth D. McCarthy, Thomas S. Langner, Joanne C. Gersten, Jeanne G. Eisenberg, Lida Orzeck; Violence and Behavior Disorders, Journal of Communication, V
Differences in the behavior of welfare and non-welfare children in relation to parental characteristics
This paper reports differences in the prevalence of various behaviors of children and parents in two large but markedly different socioeconomic samples from the same urban area. For child behavior differences between samples, the relationships of parental variables to those behaviors were examined using multiple regression techniques. Various parental dimensions (particularly coldness and excitability) showed strong and comparable relationships t…
A behavioral classification of welfare children from survey data
From survey data on 1000 urban Welfare AFDC children aged six to eighteen, a hierarchical cluster analysis yielded six distinct behavioral types of Welfare children. Characteristics of each type, and its relationship to treatment, ethnicity, and other variables are discussed. Advantages of this system of behavioral classification for research and population assessment are outlined
An Evaluation of the Etiologic Role of Stressful Life-Change Events in Psychological Disorders
Joanne C. Gersten, Thomas S. Langner, Jeanne G. Eisenberg, Ora Simcha-Fagan, An Evaluation of the Etiologic Role of Stressful Life-Change Events in Psychological Disorders, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 228-244
The Power of Time
The Behavioral Effects of Father Absence on Children and Their Mothers
This study investigates the effects of the presence or absence of the father in the home in two samples of New York City families: a sample of 1000 Welfare AFDC families and a subsample of lower-middle income families from a random cross-section sample. The effects of natural fathers, surrogate fathers and absent fathers were examined for mothers and their children, respectively. The variables included measures derived from mothers' home intervie…
The Effect of Police and Mental Health Intervention on Juvenile Deviance: Specifying Contingencies in the Impact of Formal Reaction
Frances Palamara, Francis T. Cullen, Joanne C. Gersten, The Effect of Police and Mental Health Intervention on Juvenile Deviance: Specifying Contingencies in the Impact of Formal Reaction, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 90-105
Theory‐based screening for prevention: Focusing on mediating processes in children of divorce
Prevention programs in mental health theoretically can benefit from selecting participants who have a greater likelihood of developing psychological problems because of their exposure to the putative mediators targeted for change in an intervention. Screening on mediators may increase statistical power to detect program effects, enhance the cost-effectiveness of intervention trials, and decrease the possibility of iatrogenic effects. The circumst…
Small theory and the strategic choices of prevention research
Our comments on the discussion of mediational screening for prevention research highlight two issues: (a) There are advantages to giving a high priority to theory in a strategic sequence of prevention research studies. (b) Screening to identify a subgroup that is experiencing problems on processes the program is designed to change may be useful in accomplishing specific goals within an overall strategy of prevention research studies
Epidemiology and preventive interventions: Parental death in childhood as a case example
Illustrates how standard epidemiologic principles form the knowledge base to justify a preventive intervention for an at-risk population. These principles were applied to a sample of 92 from the population of children aged 8 to 15 at alleged risk for mental health disorders because a parent died. Prior work on this alleged risk population is sparse and flawed. Validly determining the population effect of an alleged risk factor requires assessing …
The use of structural equation modeling in generative research: Toward the design of a preventive intervention for bereaved children
Describes a generative study of processes which may lead to symptomatology in children who have experienced the death of a parent. Based on existing literature, four putative mediating variables were identified: parental demoralization, family warmth, negative family events, and positive stable family events. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to compare several potential causal models involving these variables. The results were mo…
Linking empirically based theory and evaluation: The family bereavement program
Conclusion We have illustrated how our “small theory” (Lipsey, 1990) of bereavement guided the development and evaluation of a preventive intervention for bereaved children. Our small theory, based on prior empirical research, enabled us to identify family processes that appeared to mediate the effects of parental death on child mental health. Our intervention was designed to attempt to change these processes. The evaluation of our experimental t…
Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Library science (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demography (3 works)