Kevin J Corcoran
Biographic Data
| ID | 5378122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin J Corcoran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin J |
| FAMILY NAME | Corcoran |
| SIGNATURE | CORCORAN K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7078-3886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Common Sense Metaphysics
Persons, Bodies and Consciousness, Oh My
Persons, Bodies and Consciousness, Oh My
All my friends are doing it
The purpose of the authors in this study was to determine if the proportionality of peers who believe other youth are having oral sex or vaginal/anal intercourse influence the youth's intention to also have oral sex or vaginal/anal intercourse in the next three months. The results supported the hypothesis that the proportionality of perceiving one's peers as sexually active was correlated with one's intent to have oral sex in the next three month…
Albert R. Roberts
Demand on mental workload
The present study introduces a novel paradigm that combines the clinical aspects of disordered eating and problematic drinking utilizing mental demand to measure the information-processing load imposed by a task. A total of 175 female undergraduates (median age = 19) rated the mental demand of receiving alcohol- and food-related olfactory cues and performing a disorder-salient Stroop task. Results show that women who were high on disordered eatin…
From the Scientific Revolution to Evidence-Based Practice
This article concerns the introduction of evidence-based practice (EBP) in foundation research. Five suggestions are discussed: (a) EBP relative to other epistemologies, (b) EBP in the context of the history of science, (c) research designs and levels of EBP, (d) EBP and measurement, and (e) systematic reviews as a review topic of the content of the research course
Rethinking Human Nature
I'm no soul, man
Joseph Baltimore argues that the account of postmortem survival I offered five years ago fails, based on the plausible assertion that identity is a relation that each thing necessarily stands in to itself. I believe that Baltimore is mistaken when he claims that the account I offer violates the necessity of identity, and also mistaken when he asserts that the account I offer cannot satisfy Noonan's ‘only x and y principle’
Rethinking Human Nature
Can Community Change Be Measured for an Outcomes‐Based Initiative? A Comparative Case Study of the Success by 6® Initiative
One of the challenges facing nonprofit organizations today is the demand for measurable results. Increasingly, these organizations are focusing less on program outputs and program outcomes in favor of community outcomes or changes demonstrated in the larger community. Success by 6® is a popular United Way initiative that emphasizes defining and measuring community outcomes. In this paper, we describe our work with 24 Success by 6® initiatives aro…
Mental Health Screening Results for Native American and Euro-American Youth in Oregon Juvenile Justice Settings
Mental health needs of Native American youth in the Oregon juvenile justice system are compared to those of Euro-American youth. The comparison is between 109 Euro-American youth and 22 Native American youth drawn from two samples of youth adjudicated to community service and incarcerated. The youth completed a mental health history and indices of mental health and health status. Native American youth are disproportionately represented in the Ore…
Incidence of Chaotic Eating Behaviors in Binge-Eating Disorder
Because dieting is not as common in patients with binge-eating disorder (BED) as among patients with bulimia or anorexia nervosa, the authors assessed the incidence, frequency, and contributing factors of semistarvation-like eating patterns in BED patients in this study, the first to explore such behaviors in a clinical population. They administered the Semistarvation-Associated Behaviors Scale (SSABS) to 54 women seeking BED treatment and to 29 …
Disagreement About the Occurrence of Male-to-Female Intimate Partner Violence
This work explored the reasons underlying inter-partner disagreement about the occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV). Research indicates that partners often do not agree about episodes of conflict in their relationship. We conducted interviews with 48 women and men with and without histories of IPV to investigate this lack of agreement. Participant responses were analyzed and themes were identified about why men and women disagree about e…
Sexual aggression and sociocultural risk
Sexual aggression and sociocultural risk
Persons and Bodies
The Prevalence and Characteristics of Male Perpetrators of Acquaintance Rape
Previous research has found that whereas 15% to 25% of college women report being the victims of acquaintance rape, only 4% to 15% of men report committing acquaintance rape. This study follows Kazdin's suggestion to use all of the potentially important components to attempt to find a result when previous researchers have failed to achieve significant findings. A new methodology is used to attempt to find a percentage of males who admit to commit…
Clients Without a Cause
This article considers the legal right to effective treatment. Such a cause of action is distinguish able from the estabhshed right to treatment because the standard of care ensured by the latter is so minimal Tort law of negligence, law of the fiduciary, and contract law were explored. The outcome suggests there is little legal basis for social work to assume a right to effective treatment
Fear of Aids and Homophobia Scales
Psychometric properties of the Fear of AIDS Scale and the Homophobia Scale from 85 heterosexual undergraduates (and 44 gay, lesbian, and bisexual undergraduates) were estimated. Responses on the Homophobia Scale were internally consistent (alpha = .88), had 4% standard error of measurement, and scores differed by subjects' sexual orientation. Responses to Fear of AIDS Scale were moderately internally consistent (alpha = .75), had 12% standard err…
Is Theistic Experience Phenomenologically Possible
William Forgie's negative conclusion concerning the possibility of theistic experience in particular turns on a sophisticated, if idiosyncratic, phenomenology of experience in general. Forgie introduces us to his position by having us imagine two people, Tim and Tom Tibbetts. He then asks us to suppose that Tim and Tom are identical twins who live next door. Imagine that looking over the fence one fine sunny day you have what you take to be a ver…
The Children's Action Tendency Scale
The Children's Action Tendency Scale (CATS) is designed to ascertain how a youth will tend to behave in conflict situations. Although the CATS has favorable psychometric properties, it was developed with an Anglo sample. We evaluated the CATS with a sample of Latino youth and obtained similarly positive findings with respect to the instrument's reliability and validity, suggesting that it may be usefully employed in social work practice with Lati…
The Influence of the Victim's Consumption of Alcohol on Perceptions of Stranger and Acquaintance Rape
Previous research has suggested that observers perceive rape victims who consume alcohol prior to being assaulted as more culpable for the attack than they do nondrinking victims. It is uncertain whether such attributional biases result from the victim's perceived violation of traditional gender norms or from the presumption that drinking victims are ambiguous in their refusal of sexual advances. The mediating effects of the victim's relationship…
Practice Evaluation in the Context of Managed Care
This article discusses the practice evaluation model in the context of quality assurance reviews in managed care. Managed care demands the three essential elements of practice evaluation; namely, specified client problems and treatment goals, suitable measurements, and analysis of change. The article delineates and demonstrates two case-recording procedures that facilitate quality assurance reviews of clinical social work practice
Practice Evaluation
This article considers some of the reasons practitioners find SSD too difficult to use in routine clinical practice. The Practice Evaluation model is reviewed and illustrated. This model emphasizes simple designs, observations, and graphing, and is considered efficient and sufficient for the purpose of clinical practice
Efficacy, "skills," reinforcement, and choice behavior
Experiential Empathy
Accurate empathy is presented in terms of the previous theoretical and operational definitions. The departure from the Rogerian hypothesis is explored, and a new theoretical view of experiential empathy is presented. This theory is an extension of Rogers' perspectives and draws upon the works of Feldenkrais and Gendlin. The relationships between the empathic process and the right hemisphere and its functions are established and compared to Truax …
From the Scientific Revolution to Evidence-Based Practice
This article concerns the introduction of evidence-based practice (EBP) in foundation research. Five suggestions are discussed: (a) EBP relative to other epistemologies, (b) EBP in the context of the history of science, (c) research designs and levels of EBP, (d) EBP and measurement, and (e) systematic reviews as a review topic of the content of the research course
Practice Evaluation in the Context of Managed Care
This article discusses the practice evaluation model in the context of quality assurance reviews in managed care. Managed care demands the three essential elements of practice evaluation; namely, specified client problems and treatment goals, suitable measurements, and analysis of change. The article delineates and demonstrates two case-recording procedures that facilitate quality assurance reviews of clinical social work practice
All my friends are doing it
The purpose of the authors in this study was to determine if the proportionality of peers who believe other youth are having oral sex or vaginal/anal intercourse influence the youth's intention to also have oral sex or vaginal/anal intercourse in the next three months. The results supported the hypothesis that the proportionality of perceiving one's peers as sexually active was correlated with one's intent to have oral sex in the next three month…
The Influence of the Victim's Consumption of Alcohol on Perceptions of Stranger and Acquaintance Rape
Previous research has suggested that observers perceive rape victims who consume alcohol prior to being assaulted as more culpable for the attack than they do nondrinking victims. It is uncertain whether such attributional biases result from the victim's perceived violation of traditional gender norms or from the presumption that drinking victims are ambiguous in their refusal of sexual advances. The mediating effects of the victim's relationship…
Morality-Conscience Guilt Scale as a Predictor of Ethical Behavior in a Cheating Situation Among College Females
One hundred ninety-four females participated in a study of the ability of Mosher's (1968) Morality-Conscience (MC) Guilt Scale to predict ethical behavior in a situation that provided some opportunity for cheating. The results provide initial evidence for the existence of two subscales of the MC guilt scale: a Self-Punishment scale and a Moralistic scale. The two proposed subscales correlate differentially with the Interpersonal Trust Scale (Rott…
The Prevalence and Characteristics of Male Perpetrators of Acquaintance Rape
Previous research has found that whereas 15% to 25% of college women report being the victims of acquaintance rape, only 4% to 15% of men report committing acquaintance rape. This study follows Kazdin's suggestion to use all of the potentially important components to attempt to find a result when previous researchers have failed to achieve significant findings. A new methodology is used to attempt to find a percentage of males who admit to commit…
Can Community Change Be Measured for an Outcomes‐Based Initiative? A Comparative Case Study of the Success by 6® Initiative
One of the challenges facing nonprofit organizations today is the demand for measurable results. Increasingly, these organizations are focusing less on program outputs and program outcomes in favor of community outcomes or changes demonstrated in the larger community. Success by 6® is a popular United Way initiative that emphasizes defining and measuring community outcomes. In this paper, we describe our work with 24 Success by 6® initiatives aro…
Practice Evaluation
This article considers some of the reasons practitioners find SSD too difficult to use in routine clinical practice. The Practice Evaluation model is reviewed and illustrated. This model emphasizes simple designs, observations, and graphing, and is considered efficient and sufficient for the purpose of clinical practice
Cheating Following Success and Failure in Heavy and Moderate Social Drinkers
Two groups of American undergraduates (moderate and heavy social drinkers) completed a matrix task and received either positive or negative feedback on their performance. Following this they were given a maze task, which was designed so that cheating could be detected. Heavy drinkers cheated more than moderate drinkers under success conditions (positive feedback). Heavy drinkers who received positive feedback also cheated more than heavy drinkers…
The Association of Burnout and Social Work Practitioners' Impressions of Their Clients
This study examined the association between burnout and social work practitioners' impressions of their clients. The results provide empirical evidence that burnout adversely affects social work practice; emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were significantly correlated with negative impressions of clients
Intervention in the Experience of Burnout
Burnout has been considered a result of stress and lack of interpersonal skills. Consequently, this study compared two interpersonal skills workshops with matched controls to determine the effect of training on burnout. The results support the hypothesis that skill development can impact upon social workers' experience of burnout for an affective-oriented training, but not for a cognitive-oriented training
Experiential Empathy
Accurate empathy is presented in terms of the previous theoretical and operational definitions. The departure from the Rogerian hypothesis is explored, and a new theoretical view of experiential empathy is presented. This theory is an extension of Rogers' perspectives and draws upon the works of Feldenkrais and Gendlin. The relationships between the empathic process and the right hemisphere and its functions are established and compared to Truax …
Intervention in the Experience of Burnout
Burnout has been considered a result of stress and lack of interpersonal skills. Consequently, this study compared two interpersonal skills workshops with matched controls to determine the effect of training on burnout. The results support the hypothesis that skill development can impact upon social workers' experience of burnout for an affective-oriented training, but not for a cognitive-oriented training
Relapse and obesity
Relapse and obesity
The Association of Burnout and Social Work Practitioners' Impressions of Their Clients
This study examined the association between burnout and social work practitioners' impressions of their clients. The results provide empirical evidence that burnout adversely affects social work practice; emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were significantly correlated with negative impressions of clients
Morality-Conscience Guilt Scale as a Predictor of Ethical Behavior in a Cheating Situation Among College Females
One hundred ninety-four females participated in a study of the ability of Mosher's (1968) Morality-Conscience (MC) Guilt Scale to predict ethical behavior in a situation that provided some opportunity for cheating. The results provide initial evidence for the existence of two subscales of the MC guilt scale: a Self-Punishment scale and a Moralistic scale. The two proposed subscales correlate differentially with the Interpersonal Trust Scale (Rott…
Cheating Following Success and Failure in Heavy and Moderate Social Drinkers
Two groups of American undergraduates (moderate and heavy social drinkers) completed a matrix task and received either positive or negative feedback on their performance. Following this they were given a maze task, which was designed so that cheating could be detected. Heavy drinkers cheated more than moderate drinkers under success conditions (positive feedback). Heavy drinkers who received positive feedback also cheated more than heavy drinkers…
Efficacy, "skills," reinforcement, and choice behavior
Efficacy, "skills," reinforcement, and choice behavior
Practice Evaluation
This article considers some of the reasons practitioners find SSD too difficult to use in routine clinical practice. The Practice Evaluation model is reviewed and illustrated. This model emphasizes simple designs, observations, and graphing, and is considered efficient and sufficient for the purpose of clinical practice
Practice Evaluation in the Context of Managed Care
This article discusses the practice evaluation model in the context of quality assurance reviews in managed care. Managed care demands the three essential elements of practice evaluation; namely, specified client problems and treatment goals, suitable measurements, and analysis of change. The article delineates and demonstrates two case-recording procedures that facilitate quality assurance reviews of clinical social work practice
The Influence of the Victim's Consumption of Alcohol on Perceptions of Stranger and Acquaintance Rape
Previous research has suggested that observers perceive rape victims who consume alcohol prior to being assaulted as more culpable for the attack than they do nondrinking victims. It is uncertain whether such attributional biases result from the victim's perceived violation of traditional gender norms or from the presumption that drinking victims are ambiguous in their refusal of sexual advances. The mediating effects of the victim's relationship…
Is Theistic Experience Phenomenologically Possible
William Forgie's negative conclusion concerning the possibility of theistic experience in particular turns on a sophisticated, if idiosyncratic, phenomenology of experience in general. Forgie introduces us to his position by having us imagine two people, Tim and Tom Tibbetts. He then asks us to suppose that Tim and Tom are identical twins who live next door. Imagine that looking over the fence one fine sunny day you have what you take to be a ver…
The Children's Action Tendency Scale
The Children's Action Tendency Scale (CATS) is designed to ascertain how a youth will tend to behave in conflict situations. Although the CATS has favorable psychometric properties, it was developed with an Anglo sample. We evaluated the CATS with a sample of Latino youth and obtained similarly positive findings with respect to the instrument's reliability and validity, suggesting that it may be usefully employed in social work practice with Lati…
Fear of Aids and Homophobia Scales
Psychometric properties of the Fear of AIDS Scale and the Homophobia Scale from 85 heterosexual undergraduates (and 44 gay, lesbian, and bisexual undergraduates) were estimated. Responses on the Homophobia Scale were internally consistent (alpha = .88), had 4% standard error of measurement, and scores differed by subjects' sexual orientation. Responses to Fear of AIDS Scale were moderately internally consistent (alpha = .75), had 12% standard err…
Persons and Bodies
The Prevalence and Characteristics of Male Perpetrators of Acquaintance Rape
Previous research has found that whereas 15% to 25% of college women report being the victims of acquaintance rape, only 4% to 15% of men report committing acquaintance rape. This study follows Kazdin's suggestion to use all of the potentially important components to attempt to find a result when previous researchers have failed to achieve significant findings. A new methodology is used to attempt to find a percentage of males who admit to commit…
Clients Without a Cause
This article considers the legal right to effective treatment. Such a cause of action is distinguish able from the estabhshed right to treatment because the standard of care ensured by the latter is so minimal Tort law of negligence, law of the fiduciary, and contract law were explored. The outcome suggests there is little legal basis for social work to assume a right to effective treatment
Sexual aggression and sociocultural risk
Sexual aggression and sociocultural risk
Disagreement About the Occurrence of Male-to-Female Intimate Partner Violence
This work explored the reasons underlying inter-partner disagreement about the occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV). Research indicates that partners often do not agree about episodes of conflict in their relationship. We conducted interviews with 48 women and men with and without histories of IPV to investigate this lack of agreement. Participant responses were analyzed and themes were identified about why men and women disagree about e…
Incidence of Chaotic Eating Behaviors in Binge-Eating Disorder
Because dieting is not as common in patients with binge-eating disorder (BED) as among patients with bulimia or anorexia nervosa, the authors assessed the incidence, frequency, and contributing factors of semistarvation-like eating patterns in BED patients in this study, the first to explore such behaviors in a clinical population. They administered the Semistarvation-Associated Behaviors Scale (SSABS) to 54 women seeking BED treatment and to 29 …
Mental Health Screening Results for Native American and Euro-American Youth in Oregon Juvenile Justice Settings
Mental health needs of Native American youth in the Oregon juvenile justice system are compared to those of Euro-American youth. The comparison is between 109 Euro-American youth and 22 Native American youth drawn from two samples of youth adjudicated to community service and incarcerated. The youth completed a mental health history and indices of mental health and health status. Native American youth are disproportionately represented in the Ore…
Rethinking Human Nature
I'm no soul, man
Joseph Baltimore argues that the account of postmortem survival I offered five years ago fails, based on the plausible assertion that identity is a relation that each thing necessarily stands in to itself. I believe that Baltimore is mistaken when he claims that the account I offer violates the necessity of identity, and also mistaken when he asserts that the account I offer cannot satisfy Noonan's ‘only x and y principle’
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