Gordon MacNeil
Biographic Data
| ID | 6187020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon MacNeil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | MacNeil |
| SIGNATURE | MACNEIL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Clinician Responses to Client Traumas: A Chronological Review of Constructs and Terminology
This paper presents a chronologically-organized review of various concepts and constructs in the literature describing professional burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress reactions, as well as other related terms and constructs that have been used to describe these experiences among clinical practitioners and other social service professionals. A timeline will provide a graphic illustration of the historical relationships between…
Professional Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Compassion Fatigue
The emotional and psychological risks associated with providing direct social work services to vulnerable populations have been largely overlooked in social work educational curriculum and agency training (Cunningham, 2004; Courtois, 2002; Shackelford, 2006). These risks should be conceptualized as occurring in two separate forms: trauma-related stress and professional burnout. Vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue …
Helping Aging Parents of Adult Children with Serious Mental Illness
This manuscript reports the results of a study that pilot tested a home-delivered, multi-dimensional problem-solving intervention aimed at helping aging parental caregivers of adult children with schizophrenia. The results indicate that the participants (N=5) who received the 10-session intervention showed increased life satisfaction and emotional well being, and reduced feelings of burden, compared to those participants in the control group (N=1…
Standardized Clients in the Classroom: A Novel Instructional Technique for Social Work Educators
Objective: This study was designed to test the effectiveness and acceptability of using standardized clients (SCs) to provide social work students with opportunities to practice assessment skills prior to contact with real clients. Method: Effectiveness was examined utilizing a 3-year non-equivalent control group design in the same master of social work mental health course. In Year 1, the no-intervention control group, SCs were not included in c…
Rationale for Utilizing Standardized Clients in the Training and Evaluation of Social Work Students
The gap between classroom preparation and field performance continues to be a major problem to social work educators. “Standardized Clients” (SCs) have been accepted by medical educators since the 1970s but have not been systematically integrated into social work education. This paper advocates the feasibility and effectiveness of using SCs, in both the education and evaluation of social work students, and in a wide variety of applications, there…
A Short-Form Scale to Measure Alcohol Abuse
This article reports the findings of a study undertaken to validate partially a new short-form scale, the Index of Alcohol Involvement (IAI), that was designed to measure the degree or magnitude of alcohol abuse. The purpose of the article is to provide basic psychometric characteristics of the IAI and to provide guidelines for administration and scoring
Rationale for Utilizing Standardized Clients in the Training and Evaluation of Social Work Students
The gap between classroom preparation and field performance continues to be a major problem to social work educators. “Standardized Clients” (SCs) have been accepted by medical educators since the 1970s but have not been systematically integrated into social work education. This paper advocates the feasibility and effectiveness of using SCs, in both the education and evaluation of social work students, and in a wide variety of applications, there…
Standardized Clients in the Classroom: A Novel Instructional Technique for Social Work Educators
Objective: This study was designed to test the effectiveness and acceptability of using standardized clients (SCs) to provide social work students with opportunities to practice assessment skills prior to contact with real clients. Method: Effectiveness was examined utilizing a 3-year non-equivalent control group design in the same master of social work mental health course. In Year 1, the no-intervention control group, SCs were not included in c…
A Short-Form Scale to Measure Alcohol Abuse
This article reports the findings of a study undertaken to validate partially a new short-form scale, the Index of Alcohol Involvement (IAI), that was designed to measure the degree or magnitude of alcohol abuse. The purpose of the article is to provide basic psychometric characteristics of the IAI and to provide guidelines for administration and scoring
Helping Aging Parents of Adult Children with Serious Mental Illness
This manuscript reports the results of a study that pilot tested a home-delivered, multi-dimensional problem-solving intervention aimed at helping aging parental caregivers of adult children with schizophrenia. The results indicate that the participants (N=5) who received the 10-session intervention showed increased life satisfaction and emotional well being, and reduced feelings of burden, compared to those participants in the control group (N=1…
A Short-Form Scale to Measure Alcohol Abuse
This article reports the findings of a study undertaken to validate partially a new short-form scale, the Index of Alcohol Involvement (IAI), that was designed to measure the degree or magnitude of alcohol abuse. The purpose of the article is to provide basic psychometric characteristics of the IAI and to provide guidelines for administration and scoring
Rationale for Utilizing Standardized Clients in the Training and Evaluation of Social Work Students
The gap between classroom preparation and field performance continues to be a major problem to social work educators. “Standardized Clients” (SCs) have been accepted by medical educators since the 1970s but have not been systematically integrated into social work education. This paper advocates the feasibility and effectiveness of using SCs, in both the education and evaluation of social work students, and in a wide variety of applications, there…
Standardized Clients in the Classroom: A Novel Instructional Technique for Social Work Educators
Objective: This study was designed to test the effectiveness and acceptability of using standardized clients (SCs) to provide social work students with opportunities to practice assessment skills prior to contact with real clients. Method: Effectiveness was examined utilizing a 3-year non-equivalent control group design in the same master of social work mental health course. In Year 1, the no-intervention control group, SCs were not included in c…
Professional Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Compassion Fatigue
The emotional and psychological risks associated with providing direct social work services to vulnerable populations have been largely overlooked in social work educational curriculum and agency training (Cunningham, 2004; Courtois, 2002; Shackelford, 2006). These risks should be conceptualized as occurring in two separate forms: trauma-related stress and professional burnout. Vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue …
Helping Aging Parents of Adult Children with Serious Mental Illness
This manuscript reports the results of a study that pilot tested a home-delivered, multi-dimensional problem-solving intervention aimed at helping aging parental caregivers of adult children with schizophrenia. The results indicate that the participants (N=5) who received the 10-session intervention showed increased life satisfaction and emotional well being, and reduced feelings of burden, compared to those participants in the control group (N=1…
Clinician Responses to Client Traumas: A Chronological Review of Constructs and Terminology
This paper presents a chronologically-organized review of various concepts and constructs in the literature describing professional burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress reactions, as well as other related terms and constructs that have been used to describe these experiences among clinical practitioners and other social service professionals. A timeline will provide a graphic illustration of the historical relationships between…
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works) · Burnout (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Compassion fatigue (2 works)