Thomas P Holland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4229207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas P Holland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas P |
| FAMILY NAME | Holland |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLAND T P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Group behavioral parent training in an incarcerated setting
Measuring Staff Empowerment
Growing interest in the empowerment of workers is evident in for-profit organizations as well as nonprofits. Empowerment is understood as a result of better matches between worker characteristics and organizational needs, and it is believed to result in increased satisfaction and productivity. Whether such assumptions are empirically supported remains to be demon strated. A key requisite for such studies is a valid and reliable scale for measurin…
Development and Validation of the Needs Inventory for Caregivers of the Hospitalized Elderly
As the population continues to age, more and more families are faced with caring for aging family members and the concurrent increase in stress and needs brought about by hospitalization of the aging family member. The social service staff at Wesley Woods Genatnc Hospital wished to evaluate their services and explore the impact of a family conference conducted by a social worker/registered nurse team on the needs experienced by the family members…
Working With Families
Quality Control in Field Education
The Council on Social Work Education's Curriculum Policy statement mandates educationally directed, coordinated, and monitored field education experience for all students. A National survey of field education directors and coordinators found that faculties use a variety of methods, tools, and procedures to monitor students' performance in field education. The study conclusions point to the need for BSW and MSW programs to give greater priority to…
Management of the Field Instruction Program in Social Work Education
The Council on Social Work Education mandates educationally directed, coordinated, and monitored field practicum experiences for all social work students. This key component of the social work curriculum requires personnel, resources, and a management structure to accomplish its objectives. A survey of accredited schools in the U.S. that offer both the MSW and BSW degrees questioned respondents about their current patterns of managing field instr…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Foster Parent Training
As child welfare agencies confront limited resources and increasing demands for demonstrating positive results from expenditures, growing attention has been directed to the potential benefits of training programs for foster parents. A number of such programs have been designed and tried by child welfare agencies, and numerous claims have been made regarding the purported beneficial effects and positive consequences of training programs for foster…
Measuring the Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Treatment
Building systematic knowledge about the treatment of alcoholism and substance abuse is constrained by the scarcity of refined measurement instruments that have been developed from a base in theory. A five dimensional index was constructed from a basic set of characteristics of substance abuse problems. Preliminary field testin with 51 clients at three stages of treatment revealed strong reliability estimates as well as evidence of construct and d…
"Comments on "Scientific Imperatives in Social Work Research and Practice
Organizations and Values in Human Services
A congruence framework, emphasizing person-environment fit, is utilized to examine selected dimensions of staff members' values and agency characteristics of structure and technology. Drawing from the fields of ethics and organizational theory, this article explores the interactions of individual staff, work group, and organizational levels of service delivery, with particular attention to their respective emphases on means versus ends of action …
Social Work Research and Evaluation . Richard M. Grinnell Jr
Measurement of Institutional Resident Management Practices
The improvement of residential treatment programs requires a better understanding of unit management practices and their influences upon residents. The authors present a sixteen-item objective scale which measures resident management practices along a continuum from institutionally-oriented to individually-oriented. Assessments of the scale's reliability and validity support its usefulness as a tool for studying this important aspect of residenti…
Institutional Structure and Resident Outcomes
Thomas P. Holland, Andrew Konick, William Buffum, Mieko Kotake Smith, Marcia Petchers, Institutional Structure and Resident Outcomes, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 433-444
Measure Employee Influence in Residential Institutions
The centralization of influence in residential mental health institutions is an important variable to those who wish to study the impact of organizational structure on various performance outcomes. The "control graph method" developed by Tannenbaum and his associates has been the most popular approach to the measurement of perceived influence distribution in organization. The authors discuss the benefits and weakness of this approach as the basis…
Evaluation Research
What can evaluation research tell us about social science theory? It is the purpose of this paper to examine that question. There has been much written in the current literature about the relationship between theory and practice. Because it is evaluation research (Breedlove, 1972: 71-89; Newbrough, 1966: 39-52; Suchman, 1971: 43-48; Suchman, 1967; Weiss, 1973: 37-45; Fitz- Gibbons and Morris, 1975: 1-4) that attempts to analyze the results of pra…
Organizational Structure and Institutional Care
This study examines the formal organizational structure of a residential institution for the mentally retarded and specifies some of the influences of alternative structures upon selected staff behaviors in resident care. The objective was to test the proposition that decentralization of institutional structure facilitates the individualization of resident care. Longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses of a number of specific organizational vari…
Changing Social Policies on Mental Retardation
This paper draws upon social-change theory for analyzing some current policies and practices in the field of mental retardation. A theoretical framework is developed from the works of several change and conflict theorists. On this basis, the author examines some recent key developments in policy and services for the retarded. The roles and interests of medical elites and the partisan parents' movement are seen as crucial factors
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Foster Parent Training
As child welfare agencies confront limited resources and increasing demands for demonstrating positive results from expenditures, growing attention has been directed to the potential benefits of training programs for foster parents. A number of such programs have been designed and tried by child welfare agencies, and numerous claims have been made regarding the purported beneficial effects and positive consequences of training programs for foster…
Institutional Structure and Resident Outcomes
Thomas P. Holland, Andrew Konick, William Buffum, Mieko Kotake Smith, Marcia Petchers, Institutional Structure and Resident Outcomes, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 433-444
Measuring Staff Empowerment
Growing interest in the empowerment of workers is evident in for-profit organizations as well as nonprofits. Empowerment is understood as a result of better matches between worker characteristics and organizational needs, and it is believed to result in increased satisfaction and productivity. Whether such assumptions are empirically supported remains to be demon strated. A key requisite for such studies is a valid and reliable scale for measurin…
Organizational Structure and Institutional Care
This study examines the formal organizational structure of a residential institution for the mentally retarded and specifies some of the influences of alternative structures upon selected staff behaviors in resident care. The objective was to test the proposition that decentralization of institutional structure facilitates the individualization of resident care. Longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses of a number of specific organizational vari…
Quality Control in Field Education
The Council on Social Work Education's Curriculum Policy statement mandates educationally directed, coordinated, and monitored field education experience for all students. A National survey of field education directors and coordinators found that faculties use a variety of methods, tools, and procedures to monitor students' performance in field education. The study conclusions point to the need for BSW and MSW programs to give greater priority to…
Measurement of Institutional Resident Management Practices
The improvement of residential treatment programs requires a better understanding of unit management practices and their influences upon residents. The authors present a sixteen-item objective scale which measures resident management practices along a continuum from institutionally-oriented to individually-oriented. Assessments of the scale's reliability and validity support its usefulness as a tool for studying this important aspect of residenti…
"Comments on "Scientific Imperatives in Social Work Research and Practice
Organizations and Values in Human Services
A congruence framework, emphasizing person-environment fit, is utilized to examine selected dimensions of staff members' values and agency characteristics of structure and technology. Drawing from the fields of ethics and organizational theory, this article explores the interactions of individual staff, work group, and organizational levels of service delivery, with particular attention to their respective emphases on means versus ends of action …
Changing Social Policies on Mental Retardation
This paper draws upon social-change theory for analyzing some current policies and practices in the field of mental retardation. A theoretical framework is developed from the works of several change and conflict theorists. On this basis, the author examines some recent key developments in policy and services for the retarded. The roles and interests of medical elites and the partisan parents' movement are seen as crucial factors
Organizational Structure and Institutional Care
This study examines the formal organizational structure of a residential institution for the mentally retarded and specifies some of the influences of alternative structures upon selected staff behaviors in resident care. The objective was to test the proposition that decentralization of institutional structure facilitates the individualization of resident care. Longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses of a number of specific organizational vari…
Evaluation Research
What can evaluation research tell us about social science theory? It is the purpose of this paper to examine that question. There has been much written in the current literature about the relationship between theory and practice. Because it is evaluation research (Breedlove, 1972: 71-89; Newbrough, 1966: 39-52; Suchman, 1971: 43-48; Suchman, 1967; Weiss, 1973: 37-45; Fitz- Gibbons and Morris, 1975: 1-4) that attempts to analyze the results of pra…
Measure Employee Influence in Residential Institutions
The centralization of influence in residential mental health institutions is an important variable to those who wish to study the impact of organizational structure on various performance outcomes. The "control graph method" developed by Tannenbaum and his associates has been the most popular approach to the measurement of perceived influence distribution in organization. The authors discuss the benefits and weakness of this approach as the basis…
Institutional Structure and Resident Outcomes
Thomas P. Holland, Andrew Konick, William Buffum, Mieko Kotake Smith, Marcia Petchers, Institutional Structure and Resident Outcomes, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 433-444
Measurement of Institutional Resident Management Practices
The improvement of residential treatment programs requires a better understanding of unit management practices and their influences upon residents. The authors present a sixteen-item objective scale which measures resident management practices along a continuum from institutionally-oriented to individually-oriented. Assessments of the scale's reliability and validity support its usefulness as a tool for studying this important aspect of residenti…
"Comments on "Scientific Imperatives in Social Work Research and Practice
Organizations and Values in Human Services
A congruence framework, emphasizing person-environment fit, is utilized to examine selected dimensions of staff members' values and agency characteristics of structure and technology. Drawing from the fields of ethics and organizational theory, this article explores the interactions of individual staff, work group, and organizational levels of service delivery, with particular attention to their respective emphases on means versus ends of action …
Social Work Research and Evaluation . Richard M. Grinnell Jr
Measuring the Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Treatment
Building systematic knowledge about the treatment of alcoholism and substance abuse is constrained by the scarcity of refined measurement instruments that have been developed from a base in theory. A five dimensional index was constructed from a basic set of characteristics of substance abuse problems. Preliminary field testin with 51 clients at three stages of treatment revealed strong reliability estimates as well as evidence of construct and d…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Foster Parent Training
As child welfare agencies confront limited resources and increasing demands for demonstrating positive results from expenditures, growing attention has been directed to the potential benefits of training programs for foster parents. A number of such programs have been designed and tried by child welfare agencies, and numerous claims have been made regarding the purported beneficial effects and positive consequences of training programs for foster…
Management of the Field Instruction Program in Social Work Education
The Council on Social Work Education mandates educationally directed, coordinated, and monitored field practicum experiences for all social work students. This key component of the social work curriculum requires personnel, resources, and a management structure to accomplish its objectives. A survey of accredited schools in the U.S. that offer both the MSW and BSW degrees questioned respondents about their current patterns of managing field instr…
Quality Control in Field Education
The Council on Social Work Education's Curriculum Policy statement mandates educationally directed, coordinated, and monitored field education experience for all students. A National survey of field education directors and coordinators found that faculties use a variety of methods, tools, and procedures to monitor students' performance in field education. The study conclusions point to the need for BSW and MSW programs to give greater priority to…
Working With Families
Measuring Staff Empowerment
Growing interest in the empowerment of workers is evident in for-profit organizations as well as nonprofits. Empowerment is understood as a result of better matches between worker characteristics and organizational needs, and it is believed to result in increased satisfaction and productivity. Whether such assumptions are empirically supported remains to be demon strated. A key requisite for such studies is a valid and reliable scale for measurin…
Development and Validation of the Needs Inventory for Caregivers of the Hospitalized Elderly
As the population continues to age, more and more families are faced with caring for aging family members and the concurrent increase in stress and needs brought about by hospitalization of the aging family member. The social service staff at Wesley Woods Genatnc Hospital wished to evaluate their services and explore the impact of a family conference conducted by a social worker/registered nurse team on the needs experienced by the family members…
Group behavioral parent training in an incarcerated setting
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