Edward Pecukonis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4516225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Pecukonis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Pecukonis |
| SIGNATURE | PECUKONIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6350-4113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public health financial social work: A model syllabus for research practice for graduate social work students
Social work students consistently dread research and research classes, but studies suggest that integrating research with more appealing topics may help overcome this bias. As such, a new class integrating public health and financial social work was developed with an applied research project. The course objective is to foster and strengthen student interest in research methods related to public health and financial social work. We outline how int…
Professional Centrism and its Role in Shaping Interprofessional Education: Implications for Social Work Education
This article explores the role of profession centrism in shaping interprofessional education. Profession centrism is concerned with how a person is socialized within a health profession and how this process affects their ability to work effectively with others. If social work defines health as an important practice domain, then learning to minimize the impact of profession centrism and understanding its role in regulating the delivery of health c…
Educating the Next Generation of Public Health Social Work Leaders: Findings from a Summit
This article reports the findings of a 2-day public health social work (PHSW) summit that brought together PHSW educators, practitioners, and administrators to generate ideas for preparing the next generation of PHSW leaders. Data from focus groups revealed four themes: the importance of PHSW in our healthcare delivery system, the need for public health social workers to develop their professional identity, the significance of branding/promoting …
Teaching Motivational Interviewing to Child Welfare Social Work Students Using Live Supervision and Standardized Clients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective: Motivational interviewing (MI) has demonstrated effectiveness with varied populations; however, methods of training students in MI vary. The present study tests the efficacy of a brief experiential training approach used to teach MI to child welfare social work students. We hypothesized that students exposed to the experimental training would demonstrate more MI adherent behaviors, experience less decay in skills at follow-up, and repo…
The love that I was missing”: Exploring the lived experience of motherhood among teen mothers in foster care
Correlates and Consequences of Father Nurturance in an African American College Sample
The objectives of the present study are to identify sociodemographic factors associated with father nurturance and assess the relationship between parental (mother and father) nurturance and youth psychological well-being among 216 African American college-aged youth. Participants attended a historically Black college in the Mid-Atlantic region. Findings indicated that the frequency and duration of the participants' interactions with their father…
Where Have All the Teachers Gone? The Selling Out of Social Work Education
This article addresses a significant challenge in social work education: the move to emphasize research and the downgrading of teaching and practice. We argue that this is a disturbing trend that has the potential to diminish the education of social work students. Grant-funded research has become the end all of social work education. We propose that the profession needs to endorse the scholar-teacher-practitioner that will be able to combine scho…
The Nurturant Fathering Scale: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis With an African American Sample of College Students
Objective: The objective of this study was to test the factor structure of the Nurturant Fathering Scale (NFS) among an African American sample in the mid-Atlantic region that have neither Caribbean heritage nor immigration experiences but who do have diverse family structures (N = 212). Method: A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted in order to evaluate the factor structure of the NFS. Results: A final, 8-item model, with two error c…
Screening and Brief Intervention Practice Model for Social Workers in Non-Substance-Abuse Practice Settings
The social costs of substance abuse problems in the United States are staggering. Although social work has a long history of working in the substance abuse field, the profession does not pay similar attention to potential substance abuse problems in non-substance-abuse practice areas despite the high prevalence of substance abuse in these settings. A screening and brief intervention practice model that emphasizes a feasible and practical framewor…
Perceptions of Self and Collective Efficacy in Community Organization Theory and Practice
The concepts of learned helplessness and locus of control have been shown to be reliable predictors of both individual and group behaviors across a wide variety of social situations. Little effort, however, has been directed at understanding the variables associated with these constructs which influence the decision of a disempowered group to take social action when faced with adversity or challenge. This paper analyzes the concepts of perceived …
The love that I was missing”: Exploring the lived experience of motherhood among teen mothers in foster care
Perceptions of Self and Collective Efficacy in Community Organization Theory and Practice
The concepts of learned helplessness and locus of control have been shown to be reliable predictors of both individual and group behaviors across a wide variety of social situations. Little effort, however, has been directed at understanding the variables associated with these constructs which influence the decision of a disempowered group to take social action when faced with adversity or challenge. This paper analyzes the concepts of perceived …
Teaching Motivational Interviewing to Child Welfare Social Work Students Using Live Supervision and Standardized Clients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective: Motivational interviewing (MI) has demonstrated effectiveness with varied populations; however, methods of training students in MI vary. The present study tests the efficacy of a brief experiential training approach used to teach MI to child welfare social work students. We hypothesized that students exposed to the experimental training would demonstrate more MI adherent behaviors, experience less decay in skills at follow-up, and repo…
Where Have All the Teachers Gone? The Selling Out of Social Work Education
This article addresses a significant challenge in social work education: the move to emphasize research and the downgrading of teaching and practice. We argue that this is a disturbing trend that has the potential to diminish the education of social work students. Grant-funded research has become the end all of social work education. We propose that the profession needs to endorse the scholar-teacher-practitioner that will be able to combine scho…
Professional Centrism and its Role in Shaping Interprofessional Education: Implications for Social Work Education
This article explores the role of profession centrism in shaping interprofessional education. Profession centrism is concerned with how a person is socialized within a health profession and how this process affects their ability to work effectively with others. If social work defines health as an important practice domain, then learning to minimize the impact of profession centrism and understanding its role in regulating the delivery of health c…
Correlates and Consequences of Father Nurturance in an African American College Sample
The objectives of the present study are to identify sociodemographic factors associated with father nurturance and assess the relationship between parental (mother and father) nurturance and youth psychological well-being among 216 African American college-aged youth. Participants attended a historically Black college in the Mid-Atlantic region. Findings indicated that the frequency and duration of the participants' interactions with their father…
The Nurturant Fathering Scale: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis With an African American Sample of College Students
Objective: The objective of this study was to test the factor structure of the Nurturant Fathering Scale (NFS) among an African American sample in the mid-Atlantic region that have neither Caribbean heritage nor immigration experiences but who do have diverse family structures (N = 212). Method: A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted in order to evaluate the factor structure of the NFS. Results: A final, 8-item model, with two error c…
Perceptions of Self and Collective Efficacy in Community Organization Theory and Practice
The concepts of learned helplessness and locus of control have been shown to be reliable predictors of both individual and group behaviors across a wide variety of social situations. Little effort, however, has been directed at understanding the variables associated with these constructs which influence the decision of a disempowered group to take social action when faced with adversity or challenge. This paper analyzes the concepts of perceived …
Screening and Brief Intervention Practice Model for Social Workers in Non-Substance-Abuse Practice Settings
The social costs of substance abuse problems in the United States are staggering. Although social work has a long history of working in the substance abuse field, the profession does not pay similar attention to potential substance abuse problems in non-substance-abuse practice areas despite the high prevalence of substance abuse in these settings. A screening and brief intervention practice model that emphasizes a feasible and practical framewor…
The Nurturant Fathering Scale: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis With an African American Sample of College Students
Objective: The objective of this study was to test the factor structure of the Nurturant Fathering Scale (NFS) among an African American sample in the mid-Atlantic region that have neither Caribbean heritage nor immigration experiences but who do have diverse family structures (N = 212). Method: A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted in order to evaluate the factor structure of the NFS. Results: A final, 8-item model, with two error c…
Where Have All the Teachers Gone? The Selling Out of Social Work Education
This article addresses a significant challenge in social work education: the move to emphasize research and the downgrading of teaching and practice. We argue that this is a disturbing trend that has the potential to diminish the education of social work students. Grant-funded research has become the end all of social work education. We propose that the profession needs to endorse the scholar-teacher-practitioner that will be able to combine scho…
The love that I was missing”: Exploring the lived experience of motherhood among teen mothers in foster care
Correlates and Consequences of Father Nurturance in an African American College Sample
The objectives of the present study are to identify sociodemographic factors associated with father nurturance and assess the relationship between parental (mother and father) nurturance and youth psychological well-being among 216 African American college-aged youth. Participants attended a historically Black college in the Mid-Atlantic region. Findings indicated that the frequency and duration of the participants' interactions with their father…
Teaching Motivational Interviewing to Child Welfare Social Work Students Using Live Supervision and Standardized Clients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective: Motivational interviewing (MI) has demonstrated effectiveness with varied populations; however, methods of training students in MI vary. The present study tests the efficacy of a brief experiential training approach used to teach MI to child welfare social work students. We hypothesized that students exposed to the experimental training would demonstrate more MI adherent behaviors, experience less decay in skills at follow-up, and repo…
Educating the Next Generation of Public Health Social Work Leaders: Findings from a Summit
This article reports the findings of a 2-day public health social work (PHSW) summit that brought together PHSW educators, practitioners, and administrators to generate ideas for preparing the next generation of PHSW leaders. Data from focus groups revealed four themes: the importance of PHSW in our healthcare delivery system, the need for public health social workers to develop their professional identity, the significance of branding/promoting …
Professional Centrism and its Role in Shaping Interprofessional Education: Implications for Social Work Education
This article explores the role of profession centrism in shaping interprofessional education. Profession centrism is concerned with how a person is socialized within a health profession and how this process affects their ability to work effectively with others. If social work defines health as an important practice domain, then learning to minimize the impact of profession centrism and understanding its role in regulating the delivery of health c…
Public health financial social work: A model syllabus for research practice for graduate social work students
Social work students consistently dread research and research classes, but studies suggest that integrating research with more appealing topics may help overcome this bias. As such, a new class integrating public health and financial social work was developed with an applied research project. The course objective is to foster and strengthen student interest in research methods related to public health and financial social work. We outline how int…
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Social Work (5 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)