John G Orme
Biographic Data
| ID | 5940184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John G Orme |
| GIVEN NAMES | John G |
| FAMILY NAME | Orme |
| SIGNATURE | ORME J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 433 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Vital Few and Useful Many foster families from start to finish
Impact of Social Work Practice in Public Defense
Public defenders are increasingly welcoming social workers into their practice, but there is little understanding of the impact of social work services in this context. This study used propensity score matching to determine the effect of social work services on public defense clients in terms of the number and severity of criminal charges when statistically controlling for pre-existing criminal history and demographic characteristics. Findings in…
Against all odds: Vital Few foster families
The Vital Few foster parents: Replication and extension
Foster parenting together: Assessing foster parent applicant couples
Foster parenting together: Foster parent couples
Who Is Willing to Foster Children With Disabilities
Children with disabilities represent a significant and increasing proportion of children in foster care. In a national sample of 304 foster mothers we identified two groups of mothers, one willing to foster children with any type of disability except HIV/AIDS (51%) (Unconditional mothers), and a second group who were more selective (49%) (Selective mothers). Unconditional mothers fostered longer, fostered more children, and had more foster childr…
Measuring Willingness to Foster Children with Disabilities and Special Medical Conditions
In this article, the authors present the Willingness to Foster Scale-Disabilities and Medical Conditions (WFS-DMC) and report results concerning its psychometric properties. The WFS-DMC is a new measure designed to accurately and efficiently assess the willingness of parents to foster children with special needs, in particular, disabilities and special medical conditions. The authors tested the WFS-DMC with a national sample of 298 foster mothers…
The vital few foster mothers
Validation Study of a Co-Parenting Scale for Foster Couples
This study examined the Casey Foster Applicant Inventory-Applicant–Co-Parenting Scale (CFAI-CP), a new scale developed to measure foster parent applicants' co-parenting potential. Also, this study illustrates statistical methods used to analyze the psychometric properties of dyadic data. Factor structure and measurement invariance were tested with 111 approved foster couples. Mplus was used to accommodate ordinal-level data. Exploratory factor an…
Measuring the willingness to foster children with emotional and behavioral problems
The Available Time Scale: Measuring Foster Parents' Available Time to Foster
Journal Article The Available Time Scale: Measuring Foster Parents' Available Time to Foster Get access Donna J. Cherry, PhD, Donna J. Cherry, PhD postdoctoral associate College of Medicine, Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD professor College of Social Work, University of Tennessee Address correspondence to John G. Orme, College of Social Work, Un…
Measuring Foster Parent Potential: Casey Foster Parent Inventory-Applicant Version
Objective: The Casey Foster Applicant Inventory-Applicant Version (CFAI-A) is a new standardized self-report measure designed to assess the potential to foster parent successfully. The CFAI-A is described, and results concerning its psychometric properties are presented. Method: Data from a sample of 304 foster mothers from 35 states are analyzed. Results: Six CFAI-A subscales were identified, and internal consistency reliability for these subsca…
Measuring Foster Parent Potential: Casey Foster Applicant Inventory-Worker Version (CFAI-W)
Objective: This article examines the psychometric properties of the Casey Foster Applicant Inventory-Worker Version (CFAI-W), a questionnaire designed to assess the potential of foster family care applicants to provide foster care. Method: Retrospective data were collected from 208 foster care workers who completed two copies of the CFAI-W, one for the best foster family and one for the worst foster family they had ever known. Results: The CFAI-W…
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Cultural Receptivity in Fostering Scale
Objective: The psychometric properties of a new measure of foster parents’ openness toward participating in activities that promote children’s cultural development are evaluated. The measure is titled the Cultural Receptivity in Fostering Scale (CRFS). Method: Data from 304 foster mothers who completed the CRFS and a battery of measures on psychosocial functioning are analyzed. Results: The CRFS demonstrates excellent internal consistency reliabi…
Foster Parents' Reasons for Fostering and Foster Family Utilization
Better utilization of foster families might be linked to parents' reasons for fostering. This study used data from the National Survey of Current and Former Foster Parents to examine relationships between reasons for fostering and types of services and length of service foster parents provide. Top reasons for fostering were child-centered. The least endorsed reasons were self-oriented. Those who fostered to help children with special problems wer…
Parental and familial characteristics used in the selection of foster families
The Help with Fostering Inventory
Parental and familial characteristics of family foster care applicants
Detecting and Statistically Correcting Sample Selection Bias
Researchers seldom realize 100% participation for any research study. If participants and non-participants are systematically different, substantive results may be biased in unknown ways, and external or internal validity may be compromised. Typically social work researchers use bivariate tests to detect selection bias (e.g., χ2 to compare the race of participants and non-participants). Occasionally multiple regression methods are used (e.g., log…
Foster family resources, psychosocial functioning, and retention
Journal Article Foster family resources, psychosocial functioning, and retention Get access Kathryn W. Rhodes, PhD, Kathryn W. Rhodes, PhD research associate University of Tennessee, Knoxville Correspondence concerning this article and requests for copies should be addressed to Kathryn W. Rhodes, 7302 Jarnigan Road, Chattanooga, TN 37421; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John…
The Foster Parent Potential Scale
Objective: A new measure of the potential of foster family applicants to provide quality family foster care is described and field tested in this study. The measure is titled the Foster Parent Potential Scale (FPPS). Method: Prospective data from 105 foster applicant families are analyzed. Results: Results support the internal consistency reliability of the FPPS, and for the most part its predictive, convergent, and discriminant validity. The not…
Foster Parent's Role Performance Responsibilities: Perceptions of Foster Mothers, Fathers, and Workers
Willingness to Foster Children with Emotional or Behavioral Problems
There is a large and growing number of children in family foster care with emotional or behavioral problems, but fewer families are willing to foster such children. We know virtually nothing about families who are willing to foster such children. This longitudinal study of 142 foster family applicants found that most families were at least willing to discuss fostering children with most kinds of problems. Children who set fires, behave destructiv…
Recruitment and Foster Family Service
Using data from the National Survey of Current and Former Foster Parents this study examined how foster parents first found out about the need for foster parents (mass media, other foster parents, religious organization, or civic organization) affected foster family service (number of children fostered, years of fostering service, fostering of children with special needs, and families' intent to continue fostering). Respondents who became aware o…
A Comparison of Family Foster Parents Who Quit, Consider Quitting, and Plan to Continue Fostering
We examine why some foster families continue to foster whereas others do not. Reasons for quitting include lack of agency support, poor communication with caseworkers, lack of say in foster children's future, and difficulties with foster children's behavior. As compared with continuing foster parents, former foster parents and foster parents planning to quit say that they receive less postlicensure training and are less likely to have a foster-pa…
Foster Family Characteristics and Behavioral and Emotional Problems of Foster Children: A Narrative Review
The purpose of this article is to review the literature on the foster family characteristics that are thought to contribute to the behavioral and emotional problems of foster children. The review is shaped by an understanding of the personal and familial factors associated with children's problem behaviors in the general population. These factors include parenting, the family home environment, family functioning, marital functioning, family demog…
The long-term correlates of family foster care
Foster family resources, psychosocial functioning, and retention
Journal Article Foster family resources, psychosocial functioning, and retention Get access Kathryn W. Rhodes, PhD, Kathryn W. Rhodes, PhD research associate University of Tennessee, Knoxville Correspondence concerning this article and requests for copies should be addressed to Kathryn W. Rhodes, 7302 Jarnigan Road, Chattanooga, TN 37421; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John…
Measuring Foster Parent Potential: Casey Foster Parent Inventory-Applicant Version
Objective: The Casey Foster Applicant Inventory-Applicant Version (CFAI-A) is a new standardized self-report measure designed to assess the potential to foster parent successfully. The CFAI-A is described, and results concerning its psychometric properties are presented. Method: Data from a sample of 304 foster mothers from 35 states are analyzed. Results: Six CFAI-A subscales were identified, and internal consistency reliability for these subsca…
Willingness to Foster Children with Emotional or Behavioral Problems
There is a large and growing number of children in family foster care with emotional or behavioral problems, but fewer families are willing to foster such children. We know virtually nothing about families who are willing to foster such children. This longitudinal study of 142 foster family applicants found that most families were at least willing to discuss fostering children with most kinds of problems. Children who set fires, behave destructiv…
Disposition of child physical abuse reports: Review of the literature and test of a predictive model
Foster Parents' Reasons for Fostering and Foster Family Utilization
Better utilization of foster families might be linked to parents' reasons for fostering. This study used data from the National Survey of Current and Former Foster Parents to examine relationships between reasons for fostering and types of services and length of service foster parents provide. Top reasons for fostering were child-centered. The least endorsed reasons were self-oriented. Those who fostered to help children with special problems wer…
Parental and familial characteristics of family foster care applicants
Foster Parent's Role Performance Responsibilities: Perceptions of Foster Mothers, Fathers, and Workers
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Cultural Receptivity in Fostering Scale
Objective: The psychometric properties of a new measure of foster parents’ openness toward participating in activities that promote children’s cultural development are evaluated. The measure is titled the Cultural Receptivity in Fostering Scale (CRFS). Method: Data from 304 foster mothers who completed the CRFS and a battery of measures on psychosocial functioning are analyzed. Results: The CRFS demonstrates excellent internal consistency reliabi…
A Brief Measure of Children's Behavior Problems: The Behavior Rating Index for Children
This article reports the evaluation of the Behavior Rating Index for Children, a 13-item summated category partition scale that provides a prothetic measure of children's behavior problems
Multiple Regression with Missing Data
In conducting research, data are frequently missing for some subjects. This article discusses the assumptions and disadvantages of two methods frequently used with missing data, listwise and pairwise deletion, and it proposes the use of a little known alternative method referred to as "coding missing data." These three methods are illustrated using the analysis of a hypothetical data set, and special emphasis is placed on the interpretation of re…
The vital few foster mothers
Measuring the willingness to foster children with emotional and behavioral problems
The Available Time Scale: Measuring Foster Parents' Available Time to Foster
Journal Article The Available Time Scale: Measuring Foster Parents' Available Time to Foster Get access Donna J. Cherry, PhD, Donna J. Cherry, PhD postdoctoral associate College of Medicine, Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD professor College of Social Work, University of Tennessee Address correspondence to John G. Orme, College of Social Work, Un…
Detecting and Statistically Correcting Sample Selection Bias
Researchers seldom realize 100% participation for any research study. If participants and non-participants are systematically different, substantive results may be biased in unknown ways, and external or internal validity may be compromised. Typically social work researchers use bivariate tests to detect selection bias (e.g., χ2 to compare the race of participants and non-participants). Occasionally multiple regression methods are used (e.g., log…
Validation Study of a Co-Parenting Scale for Foster Couples
This study examined the Casey Foster Applicant Inventory-Applicant–Co-Parenting Scale (CFAI-CP), a new scale developed to measure foster parent applicants' co-parenting potential. Also, this study illustrates statistical methods used to analyze the psychometric properties of dyadic data. Factor structure and measurement invariance were tested with 111 approved foster couples. Mplus was used to accommodate ordinal-level data. Exploratory factor an…
Parental and familial characteristics used in the selection of foster families
The Foster Parent Potential Scale
Objective: A new measure of the potential of foster family applicants to provide quality family foster care is described and field tested in this study. The measure is titled the Foster Parent Potential Scale (FPPS). Method: Prospective data from 105 foster applicant families are analyzed. Results: Results support the internal consistency reliability of the FPPS, and for the most part its predictive, convergent, and discriminant validity. The not…
Willingness to Foster Special Needs Children and Foster Family Utilization
Examining the Construct Validity of Three Parenting Knowledge Measures Using Lisrel
Adequate measures of parenting knowledge are necessary for understanding the role of such knowledge in child development, for the evaluation of parent education programs, and for the measurement of individuals in practice. The present study examined the construct validity of three measures of parenting knowledge using confirmatory factor analysis performed with LISREL, an especially powerful and general computer program for testing and estimating…
Who Is Willing to Foster Children With Disabilities
Children with disabilities represent a significant and increasing proportion of children in foster care. In a national sample of 304 foster mothers we identified two groups of mothers, one willing to foster children with any type of disability except HIV/AIDS (51%) (Unconditional mothers), and a second group who were more selective (49%) (Selective mothers). Unconditional mothers fostered longer, fostered more children, and had more foster childr…
Measuring Willingness to Foster Children with Disabilities and Special Medical Conditions
In this article, the authors present the Willingness to Foster Scale-Disabilities and Medical Conditions (WFS-DMC) and report results concerning its psychometric properties. The WFS-DMC is a new measure designed to accurately and efficiently assess the willingness of parents to foster children with special needs, in particular, disabilities and special medical conditions. The authors tested the WFS-DMC with a national sample of 298 foster mothers…
Introduction to multiple regression for categorical and limited dependent variables
Journal Article Introduction to multiple regression for categorical and limited dependent variables Get access John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD Associate Professor College of Social Work, Children's Mental Health Services Research Center, Henson Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Cheryl Buehler, PhD Cheryl Buehler, PhD Professor Dep…
The Habit Clinics: Behavioral Social Work and Prevention in the 1920s
This paper describes the early development of a group of social agencies during the 1920s, the Massachusetts Habit Clinics, in which social workers utilized behavioral treatment methods to alleviate behavioral problems of preschool children. In addition, Habit Clinic social workers were intimately and vigorously involved in both secondary and primary efforts toward the prevention of such childhood behavioral problems. The paper discusses the use …
A Brief Measure of Children's Behavior Problems: The Behavior Rating Index for Children
This article reports the evaluation of the Behavior Rating Index for Children, a 13-item summated category partition scale that provides a prothetic measure of children's behavior problems
The Statistical Power of a Decade of Social Work Education Research
Statistical power is the probability of correctly rejecting the null hypothesis. This paper reports a review of a decade of studies, reported in the Journal of Social Work Education, that found that a disturbing number of studies employed statistical tests of hypotheses that had inadequate statistical power and, thus, an inadequate probability of detecting the effects of the variables under study
Reliability and Bias in Categorizing Individual Client Problems
A number of clinical outcome measures based on individualized sets of client problems have been shown to be very useful in recent years. When such measures are employed, category schemes to organize these individualized problems are necessary for purposes of data analysis and presentation. Such category schemes must be reliable and valid. Questions of the psychometric adequacy of available category schemes have been virtually ignored. The study r…
Statistical Power as a Methodological Issue in the Evaluation of Social Work Practice
Measuring Parental Knowledge of Normative Child Development
Parental knowledge of normative child development is an important determinant of effective parenting. There has been a proliferation of measures of this construct in recent years, although very little is known about the reliability and validity of these measures. The present study examined the reliability and validity of three of these measures and found that only one of the three is adequate. Caution is urged in the use of the numerous available…
Family support programs: A quasi-experimental evaluation
Statistical Power Analysis: A Computer Program . Michael Borenstein , Jacob Cohen
Examining the Construct Validity of Three Parenting Knowledge Measures Using Lisrel
Adequate measures of parenting knowledge are necessary for understanding the role of such knowledge in child development, for the evaluation of parent education programs, and for the measurement of individuals in practice. The present study examined the construct validity of three measures of parenting knowledge using confirmatory factor analysis performed with LISREL, an especially powerful and general computer program for testing and estimating…
Multiple Regression with Missing Data
In conducting research, data are frequently missing for some subjects. This article discusses the assumptions and disadvantages of two methods frequently used with missing data, listwise and pairwise deletion, and it proposes the use of a little known alternative method referred to as "coding missing data." These three methods are illustrated using the analysis of a hypothetical data set, and special emphasis is placed on the interpretation of re…
Reliability and Validity of the Protective Services Questionnaire (PSQ)
A reliable and valid objective measure of child welfare knowledge would be a valuable contribution to child welfare practice and to the social work profession. The current article examines the reliability and validity of the Protective Services Questionnaire (PSQ), a putative measure of knowledge of child welfare. Results indicate that the measure is generally reliable, and in some respects its convergent validity is promising, but its factorial …
Statistical Conclusion Validity for Single-System Designs
A number of questions have been raised concerning the validity of conclusions drawn from the statistical analysis of single-system designs. Much of this controversy has focused on the appropriateness of different statistical tests. Many factors other than the statistical test employed influence the validity of conclusions drawn from the statistical analysis of single-system designs. This article details these factors and provides suggestions to e…
A Preliminary Examination of the Knowledge of Normative Infant Development (KNID) Inventory Using Structural Equation Modeling
Structural equation modeling is a general statistical model that combines confirmatory factor analysis, multiple regression, and path analysis. It provides a comprehensive approach for testing the adequacy of measures, but virtually no applications of this approach exist in the social work literature. This article presents a new measure of parental knowledge of normative infant development, it describes the use of structural equation modeling to …
Self-esteem in parents of children abducted by the other parent
Ethics and the Single-System Design
This paper offers a beginning sketch of a code of ethics for evaluators using single-system designs. Extending the research section of the NASW Code of Ethics, this paper attempts to add the evaluative dimension to basic Hippocratlc ethics-from "providing help" to "providing demonstrable help," and from "doing no harm" to "demonstrating that no harm is done." Because single-system designs oblige practitioners to be more specific in their practice…
Predicting severity of child abuse injury with ordinal probit regression
To compensate for insufficient resources, many child protection agencies use screening instruments to prioritize reports of abuse for investigations. Like most risk assessment instruments, however, the variables included in the screens are selected on the basis of clinical observations. Because an empirically derived screen may lead to more-accurate predictions, this article identifies predictors of injury severity caused by physical abuse from i…
The problem of sample size estimation: Confidence intervals
Journal Article The problem of sample size estimation: Confidence intervals Get access John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD Associate Professor College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Herson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-3333 An earlier version of this article was presented at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, March 1993, New York. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Walt…
Disposition of child physical abuse reports: Review of the literature and test of a predictive model
The Utility of Force in a World of Scarcity
The long-term correlates of family foster care
Analyzing single-subject design data using statistical process control charts
Journal Article Analyzing single-subject design data using statistical process control charts Get access John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD Associate Professor College of Social Work University of Tennessee, Henson Hall Knoxville, TN 37996 e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mary Ellen Cox, PhD Mary Ellen Cox, PhD Research Associate College of Social Work University of Tennessee, Henson…
Introduction to multiple regression for categorical and limited dependent variables
Journal Article Introduction to multiple regression for categorical and limited dependent variables Get access John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD Associate Professor College of Social Work, Children's Mental Health Services Research Center, Henson Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Cheryl Buehler, PhD Cheryl Buehler, PhD Professor Dep…
Foster Family Characteristics and Behavioral and Emotional Problems of Foster Children: A Narrative Review
The purpose of this article is to review the literature on the foster family characteristics that are thought to contribute to the behavioral and emotional problems of foster children. The review is shaped by an understanding of the personal and familial factors associated with children's problem behaviors in the general population. These factors include parenting, the family home environment, family functioning, marital functioning, family demog…
A Comparison of Family Foster Parents Who Quit, Consider Quitting, and Plan to Continue Fostering
We examine why some foster families continue to foster whereas others do not. Reasons for quitting include lack of agency support, poor communication with caseworkers, lack of say in foster children's future, and difficulties with foster children's behavior. As compared with continuing foster parents, former foster parents and foster parents planning to quit say that they receive less postlicensure training and are less likely to have a foster-pa…
Recruitment and Foster Family Service
Using data from the National Survey of Current and Former Foster Parents this study examined how foster parents first found out about the need for foster parents (mass media, other foster parents, religious organization, or civic organization) affected foster family service (number of children fostered, years of fostering service, fostering of children with special needs, and families' intent to continue fostering). Respondents who became aware o…
Psychology (43 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (28 works) · Developmental psychology (28 works) · Computer Science (26 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Foster care (19 works) · Nursing (19 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works)