Michael J Holosko
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4883149 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael J Holosko |
| PRENOMES | Michael J |
| SOBRENOME | Holosko |
| ASSINATURA | HOLOSKO M J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1610-0079 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Citation impact factors among social work faculty in Hong Kong
Most studies in the published literature on social work faculty and departmental scholarship are from the United States. The present study added an international sample from the Hong Kong SAR to this knowledge-building work. Data are reported on the faculties’ citational impact at five local universities offering social work degrees (N = 149). For social work trained faculty, their h and g scores were M = 11.23 (6.8) and M = 19.6 (11.5), respecti…
Evaluating Youth Drop-In Programs
In North America, neighbourhood youth centres typically offer essential community-based programs to disadvantaged and marginalized populations. In addition to providing pro-social and supportive environments, they provide a host of educational and skill-development opportunities and interventions that build self-esteem, increase positive life relationships and experiences, and address social determinants of health. However, evaluators of such cen…
Utilizing Youth Media Practice to Influence Change
Purpose: Youth media practice (YMP) refers to various activities through which young people are empowered to express their views and develop critical reflectiveness via media productions. There is scant empirical research about YMP’s effectiveness. This study developed and field-tested an information and communication technology (ICT)–based YMP. Method: By using “My National/Ethnic Identity” as a heuristic production theme, a pilot study was cond…
Asian scholarship in selected journals related to Chinese older people
This study assessed Asian scholarship in top-ranked social work and international gerontological journals, with a particular focus on Chinese older people. Two of the authors empirically assessed the abstracts and methods of six top-ranked empirical social work journals, and five international core gerontology journals. Studies about Asian scholarship in general were not well represented in the top-ranked core social work journals to any signific…
African American Social Work Faculty
Purpose: This study explored the scholarship experiences of top-ranked African American faculty in schools of social work. Method: Qualitative interviews were conducted with N = 10 top-ranked African American faculty identified as achieving considerable productivity and impact of scholarship. Findings: Four major themes were identified, each of which had 2–3 subcategories. These included (1) mentorship, (2) collaboration, (3) time, and (4) strate…
Citation Impact Factors Among Faculty in Canadian Social Work Programs
Purpose: We report impact data on faculty ( N = 454) working in 30 of Canada’s accredited social work programs during 2016. Method: Using the Publish or Perish website, faculty member’s h and g indices, and their most frequently cited articles published in the last decade were analyzed both individually and by school. Findings: (a) computed h scores were R a 0.8–11.9, M = 4.4 and g scores were R a 1.3–21.3, M = 7.7; (b) the top-ranked citation im…
How Are African Americans Currently Represented in Various Social Work Venues
Purpose: This study explored how African Americans are currently represented in social work journals, research, and schools. Method: Journal publication content and editorship, research methods and designs, and school mission statements and course titles were examined. Results: Only 14% of publications in the top 5 social work journals targeted African Americans as study subjects. The terms “African American” and “race” appeared in only 10% of mi…
Do Black Lives Really Matter—To Social Work? Introduction to the Special Edition
This article presents and summarizes the special issue entitled: Practice, Research, and Scholarship on African American. The authors examine the professions’ contradictory actions in partnering with African American scholars, communities, and people to achieve its social justice and civil rights mission. It reintroduces the reader of this collection to June Gary Hopps who originally rung the clarion call to action about the profession’s waffling…
A Review of Information and Communication Technology Enhanced Social Work Interventions
Objectives: Information and communications technology (ICT) has impacted almost all human service disciplines and currently is evolving in social work. This study provides a systematic review of ICT-enhanced social work interventions, with particular reference to their intervention fidelity (IF), validity, and the role of ICT in the helping relationship process. Method: We assessed specific articles published in journals classified under the “Soc…
An Exploratory Case Study of a Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline
Using archival data, this case study systematically examines telephone calls received by a regional sexual assault hotline in the Southeastern United States over a 5-year period. A stratified random sample ( n = 383) reveals that hotline staff require diversity and depth in knowledge and skills, demonstrated by the hotline's primary use as a crisis service, combined with notable use by long-term survivors. Findings include the utility of the hotl…
Selected Recent Articles About Chinese Instrument/Scale Development and Intervention Research
We are pleased to present this special edition of Research on Social Work Practice based upon a set of recent selected empirical studies on Chinese instrument/scale development and intervention research. Specifically, these selected articles reflected the types of designs submitted for publication to Research on Social Work Practice in 2015–2016 and also their methodological quality. Prior to presenting introductory comments about these articles,…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Intervention Research
An Overview of the Use of Mechanical Turk in Behavioral Sciences
Crowdsourcing is a process in which a firm parcels out work to a “crowd” and offers payment for anyone within the crowd who completes the task determined by that firm. A growing number of behavioral scientists have begun using the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to facilitate their research and practice, but there is apparently not one academic study in social work reporting the use of crowdsourcing tools. Social work professionals have the responsibilit…
Citation Impact of Women in Social Work
Purpose: We assessed citation impact scholarship of women in the top 25-ranked schools of social work in the United States. Method: We used a mixed methodology. Part 1 was a secondary data analysis of the top-25 U.S. News and World Report ranked schools from 2012 using the Hirsch h-index over a 10-year period. Qualitative interviews were conducted with graduates from top-ranked schools. We then examined the faculty websites. Results: The mean h-s…
A Call for Field Coordination Leadership to Implement the Signature Pedagogy
This article presents an overview of how social work leadership skills can assist field coordinators to implement the signature pedagogy in their schools. Although this call has been made before, no other article has described specific planning steps to implement this initiative. This work fills a distinct void in the literature about this subject. The main assumptions are that (1) schools must adopt and clearly operationalize field education as …
An Ecological Approach to Evaluating a System of Care Program
System of care (SOC) models in North America were developed in response to the needs of children with a severe emotional disturbance. Such children experience problems across life spheres including issues at home that put them at risk of abuse and neglect, difficulties at school including special education classification and dropping-out, and involvement with the juvenile courts. SOC evaluations and research suggests that an overreliance of evalu…
Research Productivity in Top-Ranked Schools in Psychology and Social Work
Objectives: We sought the answer to one major research question—Does psychology have a more defined culture of research than social work? Methods: Using U.S. News and World Report 2012 and 2013 rankings, we compared psychology faculty ( N = 969) from their 25 top ranked programs with a controlled sample of social work faculty ( N = 970) in their respectively ranked programs. We conducted analyses and between- and within-group comparisons across e…
Citation Impact Scores of Top African American Scholars in Social Work Schools
U.S. tenure-track positions have steadily declined over the past 30 years and emphasis on research productivity has escalated. To achieve higher research and scholarship goals, the literature revealed that African American scholars have additional issues to overcome beyond the usual hurdles and challenges confronting other faculty. This study explored current research productivity by examining citation impact scores ( h-indices) collected from Pu…
American Social Work and Psychology Faculty Members' Scholarly Productivity
The h-index is a relatively new measure of scholarly productivity, and is a simple tabulation of the number of articles (h) a given author has published which have been cited at least h times. For example, a scholar with an h-index of 10 has published ten articles which have been cited in subsequent articles at least ten times. The h-index for all social work and psychology tenured or tenure-track faculty housed in the top-25 American social work…
The Development and Initial Validation of the Empathy Scale for Social Workers
Empathy is a core principle essential to social work. Despite this emphasis, minimal empirical research of empathy has been undertaken by social work researchers. The purpose of this study was to develop and initially validate the Empathy Scale for Social Workers (ESSW). The ESSW is a 41-item self-report inventory designed to assess empathy in social work practitioners. The sample ( N = 271) consisted of social workers who had attained the Master…
Dietary and Behavioral Strategies of Neandertals and Anatomically Modern Humans
This article describes how decision-makers may use a relatively simple cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) method in policy formulation in human service organizations. The main contention of this article is that decision-makers need to know how to better effect policy decisions based on quantitative data. CEA is a decision-making tool which has been used sparingly in human service organizations, even though it is considered to be extremely useful i…
Ethical Guidelines for Designing and Conducting Evaluations of Social Work Practice
We review selected aspects of current ethical guidelines pertaining to the design and conduct of social work evaluation and research studies. We contend that there are significant differences between social science research and evaluation studies, and that the uncritical application of ethical guidelines suitable for regulating social science research may hinder social workers undertaking clinical and program evaluations. What is needed are ethic…
What Types of Designs are We Using in Social Work Research and Evaluation
This article addresses a void in the literature about social work research and evaluation (R&E) designs, in particular related to the quality of its published work. Data were collected by reviewing three empirically oriented journals, Research on Social Work Practice, Journal of Social Service Research, and Social Work Research over three publication years 2005, 2006, and 2007. A total of N = 329 articles were content analyzed accordingly: resear…
Social Work Leadership
This article argues that social work academics are educationally remiss for not defining the concepts touted as important for the profession and for our students. Through a content analysis of published literature, the author distilled five core attributes of social work leadership that underpin all other knowledge, personal, and skilled capacities. These core attributes are defined and how they have been used to date is described. This work is a…
Enhancing Practitioner Knowledge Through a Unique Abstracting Format Used With Research on Social Work Practice Journal Articles
In an effort to bridge the long-standing schism between social work researchers and practitioners, Research on Social Work Practice ( RSWP) presents an additional structured abstract for inclusion in their published articles called the practitioner knowledge abstract (PKA). Its conceptualization and rationale are presented, as are some case examples. Its intent is to assist in disseminating empirical knowledge in nonthreatening ways to our practi…
Social Work Leadership
This article argues that social work academics are educationally remiss for not defining the concepts touted as important for the profession and for our students. Through a content analysis of published literature, the author distilled five core attributes of social work leadership that underpin all other knowledge, personal, and skilled capacities. These core attributes are defined and how they have been used to date is described. This work is a…
What Types of Designs are We Using in Social Work Research and Evaluation
This article addresses a void in the literature about social work research and evaluation (R&E) designs, in particular related to the quality of its published work. Data were collected by reviewing three empirically oriented journals, Research on Social Work Practice, Journal of Social Service Research, and Social Work Research over three publication years 2005, 2006, and 2007. A total of N = 329 articles were content analyzed accordingly: resear…
Citation Impact of Women in Social Work
Purpose: We assessed citation impact scholarship of women in the top 25-ranked schools of social work in the United States. Method: We used a mixed methodology. Part 1 was a secondary data analysis of the top-25 U.S. News and World Report ranked schools from 2012 using the Hirsch h-index over a 10-year period. Qualitative interviews were conducted with graduates from top-ranked schools. We then examined the faculty websites. Results: The mean h-s…
Research Productivity in Top-Ranked Schools in Psychology and Social Work
Objectives: We sought the answer to one major research question—Does psychology have a more defined culture of research than social work? Methods: Using U.S. News and World Report 2012 and 2013 rankings, we compared psychology faculty ( N = 969) from their 25 top ranked programs with a controlled sample of social work faculty ( N = 970) in their respectively ranked programs. We conducted analyses and between- and within-group comparisons across e…
Citation Impact Scores of Top African American Scholars in Social Work Schools
U.S. tenure-track positions have steadily declined over the past 30 years and emphasis on research productivity has escalated. To achieve higher research and scholarship goals, the literature revealed that African American scholars have additional issues to overcome beyond the usual hurdles and challenges confronting other faculty. This study explored current research productivity by examining citation impact scores ( h-indices) collected from Pu…
Why Don't Social Workers Make Better Child Welfare Workers Than Non–Social Workers
This invited response contends that Dr. Perry's main findings are really not that surprising nor should they be. It argues that he should have asked a different question rather than the one posed in his title. The reasons offered for social workers not differing from non–social workers in their respective performance of tasks at Florida's Department of Children and Families are the relative sameness in baccalaureate education at their foundation …
Utilizing Youth Media Practice to Influence Change
Purpose: Youth media practice (YMP) refers to various activities through which young people are empowered to express their views and develop critical reflectiveness via media productions. There is scant empirical research about YMP’s effectiveness. This study developed and field-tested an information and communication technology (ICT)–based YMP. Method: By using “My National/Ethnic Identity” as a heuristic production theme, a pilot study was cond…
African American Social Work Faculty
Purpose: This study explored the scholarship experiences of top-ranked African American faculty in schools of social work. Method: Qualitative interviews were conducted with N = 10 top-ranked African American faculty identified as achieving considerable productivity and impact of scholarship. Findings: Four major themes were identified, each of which had 2–3 subcategories. These included (1) mentorship, (2) collaboration, (3) time, and (4) strate…
Dietary and Behavioral Strategies of Neandertals and Anatomically Modern Humans
This article describes how decision-makers may use a relatively simple cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) method in policy formulation in human service organizations. The main contention of this article is that decision-makers need to know how to better effect policy decisions based on quantitative data. CEA is a decision-making tool which has been used sparingly in human service organizations, even though it is considered to be extremely useful i…
A Suggested Authors' Checklist for Submitting Manuscripts to Research on Social Work Practice
A checklist of factors to be considered by authors planning to submit an outcome study for editorial review and possible publication in the journal Research on Social Work Practice is presented. This list is intended to help authors assure themselves that their article is indeed appropriate for this journal. It is hoped that the presentation of this type of checklist will further advance the methodological rigor of research into the outcomes of s…
The History of the Working Definition of Practice
This article reviews the history of efforts to develop a comprehensive definition of social work practice, including the attempts by the Charity Organizational Societies and Settlement Houses, the scientific philanthropy movement, the Flexner conference, the Milford conference, the United Nations' survey, the Hollis-Taylor report, the 1958 working definition, the Boehm curriculum study, Barlett's analysis, the Madison meeting, the O'Hare meeting,…
How Are African Americans Currently Represented in Various Social Work Venues
Purpose: This study explored how African Americans are currently represented in social work journals, research, and schools. Method: Journal publication content and editorship, research methods and designs, and school mission statements and course titles were examined. Results: Only 14% of publications in the top 5 social work journals targeted African Americans as study subjects. The terms “African American” and “race” appeared in only 10% of mi…
Do Black Lives Really Matter—To Social Work? Introduction to the Special Edition
This article presents and summarizes the special issue entitled: Practice, Research, and Scholarship on African American. The authors examine the professions’ contradictory actions in partnering with African American scholars, communities, and people to achieve its social justice and civil rights mission. It reintroduces the reader of this collection to June Gary Hopps who originally rung the clarion call to action about the profession’s waffling…
An Overview of the Use of Mechanical Turk in Behavioral Sciences
Crowdsourcing is a process in which a firm parcels out work to a “crowd” and offers payment for anyone within the crowd who completes the task determined by that firm. A growing number of behavioral scientists have begun using the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to facilitate their research and practice, but there is apparently not one academic study in social work reporting the use of crowdsourcing tools. Social work professionals have the responsibilit…
The Development and Initial Validation of the Empathy Scale for Social Workers
Empathy is a core principle essential to social work. Despite this emphasis, minimal empirical research of empathy has been undertaken by social work researchers. The purpose of this study was to develop and initially validate the Empathy Scale for Social Workers (ESSW). The ESSW is a 41-item self-report inventory designed to assess empathy in social work practitioners. The sample ( N = 271) consisted of social workers who had attained the Master…
Citation Impact Factors Among Faculty in Canadian Social Work Programs
Purpose: We report impact data on faculty ( N = 454) working in 30 of Canada’s accredited social work programs during 2016. Method: Using the Publish or Perish website, faculty member’s h and g indices, and their most frequently cited articles published in the last decade were analyzed both individually and by school. Findings: (a) computed h scores were R a 0.8–11.9, M = 4.4 and g scores were R a 1.3–21.3, M = 7.7; (b) the top-ranked citation im…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Intervention Research
A Call for Field Coordination Leadership to Implement the Signature Pedagogy
This article presents an overview of how social work leadership skills can assist field coordinators to implement the signature pedagogy in their schools. Although this call has been made before, no other article has described specific planning steps to implement this initiative. This work fills a distinct void in the literature about this subject. The main assumptions are that (1) schools must adopt and clearly operationalize field education as …
American Social Work and Psychology Faculty Members' Scholarly Productivity
The h-index is a relatively new measure of scholarly productivity, and is a simple tabulation of the number of articles (h) a given author has published which have been cited at least h times. For example, a scholar with an h-index of 10 has published ten articles which have been cited in subsequent articles at least ten times. The h-index for all social work and psychology tenured or tenure-track faculty housed in the top-25 American social work…
Is Social Work a Profession? The Canadian Response
This article presents an analysis of social work in Canada regarding Flexner’s perception of our professional status. It presents an overview of the content of social work practice, highlighting the uniqueness of Canada’s social welfare system. It argues that Canadian social welfare has characteristics that distinguish it from social welfare in its U.S. neighbor to the south and that such features need to be understood and identified prior to con…
Citation impact factors among social work faculty in Hong Kong
Most studies in the published literature on social work faculty and departmental scholarship are from the United States. The present study added an international sample from the Hong Kong SAR to this knowledge-building work. Data are reported on the faculties’ citational impact at five local universities offering social work degrees (N = 149). For social work trained faculty, their h and g scores were M = 11.23 (6.8) and M = 19.6 (11.5), respecti…
An Ecological Approach to Evaluating a System of Care Program
System of care (SOC) models in North America were developed in response to the needs of children with a severe emotional disturbance. Such children experience problems across life spheres including issues at home that put them at risk of abuse and neglect, difficulties at school including special education classification and dropping-out, and involvement with the juvenile courts. SOC evaluations and research suggests that an overreliance of evalu…
A New Working Definition of Social Work Practice
The authors summarize the conclusions provided by the contributors to this special issue examining the definition of social work practice. Prior definitions, including Bartlett's, have proved to be inadequate. Suggestions for developing an improved conceptualization of social work practice are provided
Evaluating Inter-organizational Approaches to Service Delivery
Program evaluators are well versed on the difficulties and complexities involved in assessing programs in single-human-service organizations. This article describes a model that was effective in evaluating an interorganizational program, the Family Violence Services Project, which was administered collaboratively by two agencies in southwestern Ontario. The model included a sequential planning and implementation process, and much collaboration be…
Service User Input
This study explores the current trend of incorporating service user data into program evaluations. Using a case study approach and citing three years of evaluation data of the Trauma Program at Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital, northern Ontario, the author challenges the traditional assumptions that promote service user data in program evaluations. The main conclusion is that although service user data is touted as being important, its political…
Is Social Work a Profession? The Canadian Response
This article presents an analysis of social work in Canada regarding Flexner’s perception of our professional status. It presents an overview of the content of social work practice, highlighting the uniqueness of Canada’s social welfare system. It argues that Canadian social welfare has characteristics that distinguish it from social welfare in its U.S. neighbor to the south and that such features need to be understood and identified prior to con…
A New Working Definition of Social Work Practice
The authors summarize the conclusions provided by the contributors to this special issue examining the definition of social work practice. Prior definitions, including Bartlett's, have proved to be inadequate. Suggestions for developing an improved conceptualization of social work practice are provided
The History of the Working Definition of Practice
This article reviews the history of efforts to develop a comprehensive definition of social work practice, including the attempts by the Charity Organizational Societies and Settlement Houses, the scientific philanthropy movement, the Flexner conference, the Milford conference, the United Nations' survey, the Hollis-Taylor report, the 1958 working definition, the Boehm curriculum study, Barlett's analysis, the Madison meeting, the O'Hare meeting,…
Guest Editor's Foreword
Using Information Technology in Planning Program Evaluation
This paper addresses how information technology can be used effectively in program evaluation. Four evaluation planning prerequisites derived from the program evaluation experience of the authors are presented: (1) organizational and program commitment to the evaluation, (2) the why, when and how of the evaluation, (3) specification of goals and objectives of the evaluation and (4) retrievability of information needed for evaluation. A descriptio…
A Suggested Authors' Checklist for Submitting Manuscripts to Research on Social Work Practice
A checklist of factors to be considered by authors planning to submit an outcome study for editorial review and possible publication in the journal Research on Social Work Practice is presented. This list is intended to help authors assure themselves that their article is indeed appropriate for this journal. It is hoped that the presentation of this type of checklist will further advance the methodological rigor of research into the outcomes of s…
Why Don't Social Workers Make Better Child Welfare Workers Than Non–Social Workers
This invited response contends that Dr. Perry's main findings are really not that surprising nor should they be. It argues that he should have asked a different question rather than the one posed in his title. The reasons offered for social workers not differing from non–social workers in their respective performance of tasks at Florida's Department of Children and Families are the relative sameness in baccalaureate education at their foundation …
Enhancing Practitioner Knowledge Through a Unique Abstracting Format Used With Research on Social Work Practice Journal Articles
In an effort to bridge the long-standing schism between social work researchers and practitioners, Research on Social Work Practice ( RSWP) presents an additional structured abstract for inclusion in their published articles called the practitioner knowledge abstract (PKA). Its conceptualization and rationale are presented, as are some case examples. Its intent is to assist in disseminating empirical knowledge in nonthreatening ways to our practi…
Ethical Guidelines for Designing and Conducting Evaluations of Social Work Practice
We review selected aspects of current ethical guidelines pertaining to the design and conduct of social work evaluation and research studies. We contend that there are significant differences between social science research and evaluation studies, and that the uncritical application of ethical guidelines suitable for regulating social science research may hinder social workers undertaking clinical and program evaluations. What is needed are ethic…
What Types of Designs are We Using in Social Work Research and Evaluation
This article addresses a void in the literature about social work research and evaluation (R&E) designs, in particular related to the quality of its published work. Data were collected by reviewing three empirically oriented journals, Research on Social Work Practice, Journal of Social Service Research, and Social Work Research over three publication years 2005, 2006, and 2007. A total of N = 329 articles were content analyzed accordingly: resear…
Social Work Leadership
This article argues that social work academics are educationally remiss for not defining the concepts touted as important for the profession and for our students. Through a content analysis of published literature, the author distilled five core attributes of social work leadership that underpin all other knowledge, personal, and skilled capacities. These core attributes are defined and how they have been used to date is described. This work is a…
The Development and Initial Validation of the Empathy Scale for Social Workers
Empathy is a core principle essential to social work. Despite this emphasis, minimal empirical research of empathy has been undertaken by social work researchers. The purpose of this study was to develop and initially validate the Empathy Scale for Social Workers (ESSW). The ESSW is a 41-item self-report inventory designed to assess empathy in social work practitioners. The sample ( N = 271) consisted of social workers who had attained the Master…
Dietary and Behavioral Strategies of Neandertals and Anatomically Modern Humans
This article describes how decision-makers may use a relatively simple cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) method in policy formulation in human service organizations. The main contention of this article is that decision-makers need to know how to better effect policy decisions based on quantitative data. CEA is a decision-making tool which has been used sparingly in human service organizations, even though it is considered to be extremely useful i…
An Ecological Approach to Evaluating a System of Care Program
System of care (SOC) models in North America were developed in response to the needs of children with a severe emotional disturbance. Such children experience problems across life spheres including issues at home that put them at risk of abuse and neglect, difficulties at school including special education classification and dropping-out, and involvement with the juvenile courts. SOC evaluations and research suggests that an overreliance of evalu…
Research Productivity in Top-Ranked Schools in Psychology and Social Work
Objectives: We sought the answer to one major research question—Does psychology have a more defined culture of research than social work? Methods: Using U.S. News and World Report 2012 and 2013 rankings, we compared psychology faculty ( N = 969) from their 25 top ranked programs with a controlled sample of social work faculty ( N = 970) in their respectively ranked programs. We conducted analyses and between- and within-group comparisons across e…
Citation Impact Scores of Top African American Scholars in Social Work Schools
U.S. tenure-track positions have steadily declined over the past 30 years and emphasis on research productivity has escalated. To achieve higher research and scholarship goals, the literature revealed that African American scholars have additional issues to overcome beyond the usual hurdles and challenges confronting other faculty. This study explored current research productivity by examining citation impact scores ( h-indices) collected from Pu…
American Social Work and Psychology Faculty Members' Scholarly Productivity
The h-index is a relatively new measure of scholarly productivity, and is a simple tabulation of the number of articles (h) a given author has published which have been cited at least h times. For example, a scholar with an h-index of 10 has published ten articles which have been cited in subsequent articles at least ten times. The h-index for all social work and psychology tenured or tenure-track faculty housed in the top-25 American social work…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Intervention Research
An Overview of the Use of Mechanical Turk in Behavioral Sciences
Crowdsourcing is a process in which a firm parcels out work to a “crowd” and offers payment for anyone within the crowd who completes the task determined by that firm. A growing number of behavioral scientists have begun using the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to facilitate their research and practice, but there is apparently not one academic study in social work reporting the use of crowdsourcing tools. Social work professionals have the responsibilit…
Citation Impact of Women in Social Work
Purpose: We assessed citation impact scholarship of women in the top 25-ranked schools of social work in the United States. Method: We used a mixed methodology. Part 1 was a secondary data analysis of the top-25 U.S. News and World Report ranked schools from 2012 using the Hirsch h-index over a 10-year period. Qualitative interviews were conducted with graduates from top-ranked schools. We then examined the faculty websites. Results: The mean h-s…
A Call for Field Coordination Leadership to Implement the Signature Pedagogy
This article presents an overview of how social work leadership skills can assist field coordinators to implement the signature pedagogy in their schools. Although this call has been made before, no other article has described specific planning steps to implement this initiative. This work fills a distinct void in the literature about this subject. The main assumptions are that (1) schools must adopt and clearly operationalize field education as …
A Review of Information and Communication Technology Enhanced Social Work Interventions
Objectives: Information and communications technology (ICT) has impacted almost all human service disciplines and currently is evolving in social work. This study provides a systematic review of ICT-enhanced social work interventions, with particular reference to their intervention fidelity (IF), validity, and the role of ICT in the helping relationship process. Method: We assessed specific articles published in journals classified under the “Soc…
An Exploratory Case Study of a Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline
Using archival data, this case study systematically examines telephone calls received by a regional sexual assault hotline in the Southeastern United States over a 5-year period. A stratified random sample ( n = 383) reveals that hotline staff require diversity and depth in knowledge and skills, demonstrated by the hotline's primary use as a crisis service, combined with notable use by long-term survivors. Findings include the utility of the hotl…
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