Julie Cooper Altman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4890668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Cooper Altman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie Cooper |
| FAMILY NAME | Altman |
| SIGNATURE | ALTMAN J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adelphi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1266-6806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Preparing Allied Health Students to Address Social Work’s Grand Challenge to End Homelessness
Meeting Social Work’s Grand Challenge to end homelessness requires skills in collaborating across professions and the ability to actively engage marginalized people who may have physical, mental, and social challenges. We present our experience building an interprofessional community service and training Center in a neighborhood with high numbers of people experiencing homelessness. The Center provides services to people unhoused while simultaneo…
I could not have made it without them”
This article reports findings from an evaluation of an MSW child welfare training program focused on increasing retention of knowledgeable, competent and experienced child protective service workers. From qualitative data gathered as part of the process evaluation, we found the cohort effect to be the most salient factor participants experienced as contributing to their successful program completion and their 100% retention rate. Analysis of the …
Literature and the Human Condition in Teaching and Learning
The benefits of literature are countless. Social workers, however, are usually not inclined to count the teaching and practice of social work among its beneficiaries. We believe that literature is one of the ways to enrich vital components of social work knowledge, attitudes, and skills. In this article, we begin by calling attention to a historical precedent for the use of literature in social work education and practice. We then examine recent …
Inspiring and Training Students for Social Action
In social work, it is believed that certain knowledge and skills are learned more effectively through experience than through didactic classroom content. Members of the faculty of a school of social work have developed a Social Action Day to reinforce curriculum and translate into practice material about advocacy and ethical responsibilities for social action; show the breadth of social work practice; and enhance the school's sense of community. …
Translating Knowledge for Child Welfare Practice Cross-Nationally
Some researchers contend that the rise in child abuse allegations among Caribbean immigrants in New York City is consistent with the large body of research suggesting that maltreatment is driven by the complex interaction of interpersonal, economic, social, and environmental factors. Others believe it has more to do with cultural child-rearing norms sanctioning the use of physical punishment of children. The goals of the research reported here we…
The Quality of Life Paradox
Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to investigate the quality of life of 102 persons who left the welfare rolls of a suburban county. Largely in low-wage jobs, if employed, and exposed to economic hardship, two-thirds nonetheless reported improved quality of life. Former recipients reported mistreatment by caseworkers and diminished self-worth, leading investigators to infer that it is not so much that life after welfare is b…
Rethinking Social Work's Role in Public Assistance
This article presents an argument for revisiting social work's relationship to public assistance in the wake of 10 years of welfare reform. Three case studies drawn from a mixed-method study of the quality of life of former TANF recipients illustrate the range, depth and complexity of the needs of persons while they are on the welfare rolls, transitioning off and living without cash relief. The article briefly traces the history of social work's …
A Study of Engagement in Neighborhood-Based Child Welfare Services
This article reports the results of a mixed-method study that examined processes and outcomes of parent-worker engagement in child welfare. Knowledge gained from a qualitative exploration of engagement at one neighborhood-based child welfare agency informed the gathering of quantitative data from 74 different parent-worker dyads in this sequential exploratory design. Quantitative analyses yielded little relationship between engagement and either …
Normative Versus Felt Needs of Women in the Era of Welfare Reform
There has long existed a conflict over the role and needs of poor women and children in the field of social welfare. The balance between what clients want and think they need and what policy makers think they need or ought to want is precarious. This article presents a study that gave voice to welfare recipients’ perceptions of their needs and wants as they faced the uncertainties of life during welfare reform. Five focus groups were used to coll…
How Certain Are You
Social cognitive mediators and relational outcomes associated with parental divorce
People exposed to parental divorce experience a number of relational and attitudinal effects. One such effect, the inter-generational transmission of divorce, involves a greater risk for divorce among those adult children whose parents were divorced. Social cognitive theory would explain many of the outcomes of parental divorce as inhibitory or disinhibitory effects learned through vicarious experience. Predictions from social cognitive theory we…
Social Motherhood Revisited
A Study of Engagement in Neighborhood-Based Child Welfare Services
This article reports the results of a mixed-method study that examined processes and outcomes of parent-worker engagement in child welfare. Knowledge gained from a qualitative exploration of engagement at one neighborhood-based child welfare agency informed the gathering of quantitative data from 74 different parent-worker dyads in this sequential exploratory design. Quantitative analyses yielded little relationship between engagement and either …
Social cognitive mediators and relational outcomes associated with parental divorce
People exposed to parental divorce experience a number of relational and attitudinal effects. One such effect, the inter-generational transmission of divorce, involves a greater risk for divorce among those adult children whose parents were divorced. Social cognitive theory would explain many of the outcomes of parental divorce as inhibitory or disinhibitory effects learned through vicarious experience. Predictions from social cognitive theory we…
The Quality of Life Paradox
Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to investigate the quality of life of 102 persons who left the welfare rolls of a suburban county. Largely in low-wage jobs, if employed, and exposed to economic hardship, two-thirds nonetheless reported improved quality of life. Former recipients reported mistreatment by caseworkers and diminished self-worth, leading investigators to infer that it is not so much that life after welfare is b…
I could not have made it without them”
This article reports findings from an evaluation of an MSW child welfare training program focused on increasing retention of knowledgeable, competent and experienced child protective service workers. From qualitative data gathered as part of the process evaluation, we found the cohort effect to be the most salient factor participants experienced as contributing to their successful program completion and their 100% retention rate. Analysis of the …
Inspiring and Training Students for Social Action
In social work, it is believed that certain knowledge and skills are learned more effectively through experience than through didactic classroom content. Members of the faculty of a school of social work have developed a Social Action Day to reinforce curriculum and translate into practice material about advocacy and ethical responsibilities for social action; show the breadth of social work practice; and enhance the school's sense of community. …
Literature and the Human Condition in Teaching and Learning
The benefits of literature are countless. Social workers, however, are usually not inclined to count the teaching and practice of social work among its beneficiaries. We believe that literature is one of the ways to enrich vital components of social work knowledge, attitudes, and skills. In this article, we begin by calling attention to a historical precedent for the use of literature in social work education and practice. We then examine recent …
Social Motherhood Revisited
Social Motherhood Revisited
How Certain Are You
Social cognitive mediators and relational outcomes associated with parental divorce
People exposed to parental divorce experience a number of relational and attitudinal effects. One such effect, the inter-generational transmission of divorce, involves a greater risk for divorce among those adult children whose parents were divorced. Social cognitive theory would explain many of the outcomes of parental divorce as inhibitory or disinhibitory effects learned through vicarious experience. Predictions from social cognitive theory we…
A Study of Engagement in Neighborhood-Based Child Welfare Services
This article reports the results of a mixed-method study that examined processes and outcomes of parent-worker engagement in child welfare. Knowledge gained from a qualitative exploration of engagement at one neighborhood-based child welfare agency informed the gathering of quantitative data from 74 different parent-worker dyads in this sequential exploratory design. Quantitative analyses yielded little relationship between engagement and either …
Normative Versus Felt Needs of Women in the Era of Welfare Reform
There has long existed a conflict over the role and needs of poor women and children in the field of social welfare. The balance between what clients want and think they need and what policy makers think they need or ought to want is precarious. This article presents a study that gave voice to welfare recipients’ perceptions of their needs and wants as they faced the uncertainties of life during welfare reform. Five focus groups were used to coll…
The Quality of Life Paradox
Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to investigate the quality of life of 102 persons who left the welfare rolls of a suburban county. Largely in low-wage jobs, if employed, and exposed to economic hardship, two-thirds nonetheless reported improved quality of life. Former recipients reported mistreatment by caseworkers and diminished self-worth, leading investigators to infer that it is not so much that life after welfare is b…
Rethinking Social Work's Role in Public Assistance
This article presents an argument for revisiting social work's relationship to public assistance in the wake of 10 years of welfare reform. Three case studies drawn from a mixed-method study of the quality of life of former TANF recipients illustrate the range, depth and complexity of the needs of persons while they are on the welfare rolls, transitioning off and living without cash relief. The article briefly traces the history of social work's …
Translating Knowledge for Child Welfare Practice Cross-Nationally
Some researchers contend that the rise in child abuse allegations among Caribbean immigrants in New York City is consistent with the large body of research suggesting that maltreatment is driven by the complex interaction of interpersonal, economic, social, and environmental factors. Others believe it has more to do with cultural child-rearing norms sanctioning the use of physical punishment of children. The goals of the research reported here we…
Inspiring and Training Students for Social Action
In social work, it is believed that certain knowledge and skills are learned more effectively through experience than through didactic classroom content. Members of the faculty of a school of social work have developed a Social Action Day to reinforce curriculum and translate into practice material about advocacy and ethical responsibilities for social action; show the breadth of social work practice; and enhance the school's sense of community. …
I could not have made it without them”
This article reports findings from an evaluation of an MSW child welfare training program focused on increasing retention of knowledgeable, competent and experienced child protective service workers. From qualitative data gathered as part of the process evaluation, we found the cohort effect to be the most salient factor participants experienced as contributing to their successful program completion and their 100% retention rate. Analysis of the …
Literature and the Human Condition in Teaching and Learning
The benefits of literature are countless. Social workers, however, are usually not inclined to count the teaching and practice of social work among its beneficiaries. We believe that literature is one of the ways to enrich vital components of social work knowledge, attitudes, and skills. In this article, we begin by calling attention to a historical precedent for the use of literature in social work education and practice. We then examine recent …
Preparing Allied Health Students to Address Social Work’s Grand Challenge to End Homelessness
Meeting Social Work’s Grand Challenge to end homelessness requires skills in collaborating across professions and the ability to actively engage marginalized people who may have physical, mental, and social challenges. We present our experience building an interprofessional community service and training Center in a neighborhood with high numbers of people experiencing homelessness. The Center provides services to people unhoused while simultaneo…
Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 works) · Welfare (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Work (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works)