James K Whittaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5510254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James K Whittaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | James K |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittaker |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTAKER J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Person-Environment Practice
Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention. Despite the centrality of "person-environment" as a key construct in direct practice, the domain of environmental assessment/intervention has received relatively little systematic attention in the practice literature. For a variety of reasons, the core fo…
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
The International Work Group for Therapeutic Residential Care convened an International Summit on ‘Pathways to Evidence-Based Practice’ at Loughborough University (GBR), Centre for Child and Fami...
Commentary
Previous article FreeCommentary: Social Network Analysis and the Social Work ProfessionElizabeth M. Tracy and James K. WhittakerElizabeth M. TracyCase Western Reserve University Search for more articles by this author and James K. WhittakerUniversity of Washington Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code Secti…
Evidence‐based intervention and services for high‐risk youth
This paper explores the cross‐national challenges of integrating evidence‐based interventions into existing services for high‐resource‐using children and youth. Using several North American model programme exemplars that have demonstrated efficacy, the paper explores multiple challenges confronting policy‐makers, evaluation researchers and practitioners who seek to enhance outcomes for troubled children and youth and improve overall service effec…
Integrating evidence-based practice in the child mental health agency
This article describes a linked set of activities designed to address the present "science-to-service" gap in evidence-based practice from the perspective of the nonprofit child mental health agency: (a) implementing "systems-of-care" principles; (b) logic modeling; (c) strategic partnerships with external researchers; (d) selective, in-depth program evaluation; (e) critical comparison with a limited number of evidence-based practice models of na…
Rethinking “Child Placement”
This article critically examines the centrality of “child placement” as a defining construct in child welfare services and suggests that preoccupation with the physical location of the child directs attention away from the twin goals of promoting healthy child development in a safe, nurturing context and enhancing the adequacy of family functioning, which should be the central concerns of public policy. The implications of this fixation with plac…
Learning from the “family preservation” initiative
A Home of Another Kind
Why Some Children Succeed Despite the Odds and Fair Start for Children
Why Some Children Succeed Despite the Odds and Fair Start for Children: Lessons Learned from Seven Demonstration Projects Why Some Children Succeed Despite the OddsRhodes Warren A. and Brown Waln K.. New York: Praeger, 1991. 208 pp. $42.95 hardback, ISBN 0-275-93705-4. Fair Start for Children: Lessons Learned from Seven Demonstration ProjectsLarner Mary, Halpern Robert, and Hardavy Oscar. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. 270 pp. $27.50…
Multiple indicators of success in residential youth care and treatment
Based on a large, ongoing empirical research effort to determine factors associated with the successful community adjustment of troubled adolescents leaving residential treatment, this paper focuses on multiple indicators of success measured at multiple points of time in the treatment process. Implications for research and clinical practice are discussed
The evidence base for social support interventions in child and family practice
Parental involvement in children's residential treatment
Definitions and methods for prevention research with youth and families
The Ecological Paradigm in Child, Youth, and Family Services
This paper identifies and explores the implications of the ecological paradigm for child, youth, and family services. Historical and theoretical roots of the "person-in-environment" configuration are examined along with recent empirical evidence that suggests the complementarity of "life skills teaching" and "social support facilitation" as elements of effective service programs for children, youths, and families. Implications are drawn for polic…
Decision Making in Child Welfare Services
Clinical Social Work . Helen Northen
The social “R & D” paradigm in child and youth services
Diversity in a Youth Correctional System
Residential Length of Stay in the Context of a Distributed-Lag Model
Residential length of stay, or alternatively the turnover of families in a residential area, is expressed in terms of a distributed-lag model. The parameters of the rational form of the distributed-lag model are estimated from cross-sectional data via a nonlinear maximum-likelihood procedure reported by Nelson and Schwert (1974). The empirical application is based upon data provided by Marshall (1971), and the accuracy of the distributed-lag mode…
The Changing Character of Residential Child Care
Residential child-caring agencies are facing mounting pressure to justify their continued existence. Key issues involve Cost of care, effectiveness, and the purported harmful effects of institutional placement. Critical to the debate is the articulation between the group-care environment and the other major systems that affect the child: Family, peer group, school, and community. This article analyzes the current state of the child-caring institu…
The Children's Cause . Gilbert Y. Steiner
Child Wefare
Models of Group Development
While generally underdeveloped, some areas of social group work theory have an abun- dance of models which tend to confuse rather than clarify matters for the practitioner. This paper takes one such area—small-group development—and attempts to integrate existing formulations into the five-stage model suggested by Garland, Jones, and Kolodny. Practice implications are developed for each of the five stages in terms of the three overall models for s…
The Ecological Paradigm in Child, Youth, and Family Services
This paper identifies and explores the implications of the ecological paradigm for child, youth, and family services. Historical and theoretical roots of the "person-in-environment" configuration are examined along with recent empirical evidence that suggests the complementarity of "life skills teaching" and "social support facilitation" as elements of effective service programs for children, youths, and families. Implications are drawn for polic…
Evidence‐based intervention and services for high‐risk youth
This paper explores the cross‐national challenges of integrating evidence‐based interventions into existing services for high‐resource‐using children and youth. Using several North American model programme exemplars that have demonstrated efficacy, the paper explores multiple challenges confronting policy‐makers, evaluation researchers and practitioners who seek to enhance outcomes for troubled children and youth and improve overall service effec…
Rethinking “Child Placement”
This article critically examines the centrality of “child placement” as a defining construct in child welfare services and suggests that preoccupation with the physical location of the child directs attention away from the twin goals of promoting healthy child development in a safe, nurturing context and enhancing the adequacy of family functioning, which should be the central concerns of public policy. The implications of this fixation with plac…
The Changing Character of Residential Child Care
Residential child-caring agencies are facing mounting pressure to justify their continued existence. Key issues involve Cost of care, effectiveness, and the purported harmful effects of institutional placement. Critical to the debate is the articulation between the group-care environment and the other major systems that affect the child: Family, peer group, school, and community. This article analyzes the current state of the child-caring institu…
The evidence base for social support interventions in child and family practice
Parental involvement in children's residential treatment
Learning from the “family preservation” initiative
Models of Group Development
While generally underdeveloped, some areas of social group work theory have an abun- dance of models which tend to confuse rather than clarify matters for the practitioner. This paper takes one such area—small-group development—and attempts to integrate existing formulations into the five-stage model suggested by Garland, Jones, and Kolodny. Practice implications are developed for each of the five stages in terms of the three overall models for s…
Commentary
Previous article FreeCommentary: Social Network Analysis and the Social Work ProfessionElizabeth M. Tracy and James K. WhittakerElizabeth M. TracyCase Western Reserve University Search for more articles by this author and James K. WhittakerUniversity of Washington Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code Secti…
A Home of Another Kind
Models of Group Development
While generally underdeveloped, some areas of social group work theory have an abun- dance of models which tend to confuse rather than clarify matters for the practitioner. This paper takes one such area—small-group development—and attempts to integrate existing formulations into the five-stage model suggested by Garland, Jones, and Kolodny. Practice implications are developed for each of the five stages in terms of the three overall models for s…
Child Wefare
The Children's Cause . Gilbert Y. Steiner
The Changing Character of Residential Child Care
Residential child-caring agencies are facing mounting pressure to justify their continued existence. Key issues involve Cost of care, effectiveness, and the purported harmful effects of institutional placement. Critical to the debate is the articulation between the group-care environment and the other major systems that affect the child: Family, peer group, school, and community. This article analyzes the current state of the child-caring institu…
Diversity in a Youth Correctional System
Residential Length of Stay in the Context of a Distributed-Lag Model
Residential length of stay, or alternatively the turnover of families in a residential area, is expressed in terms of a distributed-lag model. The parameters of the rational form of the distributed-lag model are estimated from cross-sectional data via a nonlinear maximum-likelihood procedure reported by Nelson and Schwert (1974). The empirical application is based upon data provided by Marshall (1971), and the accuracy of the distributed-lag mode…
The social “R & D” paradigm in child and youth services
Clinical Social Work . Helen Northen
Decision Making in Child Welfare Services
Definitions and methods for prevention research with youth and families
The Ecological Paradigm in Child, Youth, and Family Services
This paper identifies and explores the implications of the ecological paradigm for child, youth, and family services. Historical and theoretical roots of the "person-in-environment" configuration are examined along with recent empirical evidence that suggests the complementarity of "life skills teaching" and "social support facilitation" as elements of effective service programs for children, youths, and families. Implications are drawn for polic…
The evidence base for social support interventions in child and family practice
Parental involvement in children's residential treatment
Multiple indicators of success in residential youth care and treatment
Based on a large, ongoing empirical research effort to determine factors associated with the successful community adjustment of troubled adolescents leaving residential treatment, this paper focuses on multiple indicators of success measured at multiple points of time in the treatment process. Implications for research and clinical practice are discussed
Why Some Children Succeed Despite the Odds and Fair Start for Children
Why Some Children Succeed Despite the Odds and Fair Start for Children: Lessons Learned from Seven Demonstration Projects Why Some Children Succeed Despite the OddsRhodes Warren A. and Brown Waln K.. New York: Praeger, 1991. 208 pp. $42.95 hardback, ISBN 0-275-93705-4. Fair Start for Children: Lessons Learned from Seven Demonstration ProjectsLarner Mary, Halpern Robert, and Hardavy Oscar. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. 270 pp. $27.50…
Learning from the “family preservation” initiative
A Home of Another Kind
Rethinking “Child Placement”
This article critically examines the centrality of “child placement” as a defining construct in child welfare services and suggests that preoccupation with the physical location of the child directs attention away from the twin goals of promoting healthy child development in a safe, nurturing context and enhancing the adequacy of family functioning, which should be the central concerns of public policy. The implications of this fixation with plac…
Integrating evidence-based practice in the child mental health agency
This article describes a linked set of activities designed to address the present "science-to-service" gap in evidence-based practice from the perspective of the nonprofit child mental health agency: (a) implementing "systems-of-care" principles; (b) logic modeling; (c) strategic partnerships with external researchers; (d) selective, in-depth program evaluation; (e) critical comparison with a limited number of evidence-based practice models of na…
Evidence‐based intervention and services for high‐risk youth
This paper explores the cross‐national challenges of integrating evidence‐based interventions into existing services for high‐resource‐using children and youth. Using several North American model programme exemplars that have demonstrated efficacy, the paper explores multiple challenges confronting policy‐makers, evaluation researchers and practitioners who seek to enhance outcomes for troubled children and youth and improve overall service effec…
Commentary
Previous article FreeCommentary: Social Network Analysis and the Social Work ProfessionElizabeth M. Tracy and James K. WhittakerElizabeth M. TracyCase Western Reserve University Search for more articles by this author and James K. WhittakerUniversity of Washington Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code Secti…
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
The International Work Group for Therapeutic Residential Care convened an International Summit on ‘Pathways to Evidence-Based Practice’ at Loughborough University (GBR), Centre for Child and Fami...
Person-Environment Practice
Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention. Despite the centrality of "person-environment" as a key construct in direct practice, the domain of environmental assessment/intervention has received relatively little systematic attention in the practice literature. For a variety of reasons, the core fo…
Psychology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Medicine (7 works)