Catherine N Dulmus
Biographic Data
| ID | 76343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine N Dulmus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine N |
| FAMILY NAME | Dulmus |
| SIGNATURE | DULMUS C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Therapist–Patient Demographic Profile Matching: A Movement Toward Performance-Based Practice
Purpose: Patients of substance use disorder (SUD), who successfully complete the treatment programs recommended by their therapists, have better health outcomes than the vast majority who drop out in the middle. We investigated the contribution of race and gender of both patients and therapists to address the cause of treatment noncompletion and gaps in knowledge. Method: Data collected from 11 SUD treatment outpatient programs, comprising 2,230 …
Are Grittier Front-Line Therapists More Likely to Implement Evidence-Based Interventions
Research-Supported Treatment and Organizational Culture and Climate’s Impact on Child Welfare Outcomes
Objective: Research-supported treatments (RSTs) are considered the gold standard of client care. Investigating how to best implement and sustain RSTs in real-world practice is important. The present study addressed a gap in the literature concerning the relative contribution of RSTs and culture and climate to client outcomes in community-based child welfare services. Method: Using data collected from 55 programs within a single, large child and f…
Refining the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale: An Alternative Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Barriers to adopting evidence-based practices into real-world mental health organizations have received considerable attention and study. One particular attempt is Aarons's Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS), which measures a worker's attitudes toward adopting new treatments, interventions, and practices. This study follows Aarons's work by conducting a confirmatory factor analysis of the EBPAS administered in a large child and family…
Differential Outcomes in Agency-Based Mental Health Care Between Minority and Majority Youth
Background: Childhood mental health problems represent a significant public health concern globally. There is a converging discussion among researchers and practitioners alike that the research results of effectiveness studies are not fully generalizable and applicable to ethnoracial minority groups in real-world practice settings. Methods: Archival data on discharges from eight residential programs for children and youth aged 5–18 and operated b…
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention as Standard Practice: Working with the American Indian/Native Alaskan Populations
Alcohol use and the resulting problems associated with high-risk drinking in the American Indian/Native Alaskan (AI/NA) population are well-documented, as alcohol misuse has taken an incredible toll on many AI/NA communities. Presently, both overall health issues and alcohol use occur disproportionately within this population. This article provides an updated overview of the impact of alcohol use in the United States and within AI/NA communities …
Do Organizational Culture and Climate Matter for Successful Client Outcomes
Objectives: The existing literature on the impact of workplace conditions on client care suggests that good cultures and climates provide the best outcomes for clients. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and climate and the proportion of children and youth successfully discharged from a large organization in New York state. Method: Thirty-three child and youth programs with existin…
Factors Influencing Worker Morale: Evaluating Provider Demographics, Workplace Environment and Using ESTs
Objectives: Mental health organizations are strongly encouraged to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs); however, little is known about their working environments. The present study investigated how provider demographics, workplace environment, and whether ESTs were used affected the worker morale. Method: Frontline workers ( N = 1,273) from 55 different programs in a single, large organization completed a measure of organizational c…
Is Openness to Using Empirically Supported Treatments Related to Organizational Culture and Climate
The overall purpose of this study is to investigate workers' openness towards implementing a new empirically supported treatment (EST) and whether the workers' openness scores relate to their workplace culture and climate scores. Participants in this study (N=1273) worked in a total of 55 different programs in a large child and family services organization and completed a survey measuring their attitudes toward ESTs. Results indicate that work gr…
Individual Worker-Level Attitudes Toward Empirically Supported Treatments
OBJECTIVES: There is a growing literature indicating that organizational and individual worker-level factors affect decisions about whether or not empirically supported treatments (ESTs) are adopted within health care agencies. The purpose of this pilot study is to further investigate and measure worker's attitudes within a community organization. METHOD: A small organization participated in the study due to their diversity in services offered. O…
Empirically Supported Treatment’s Impact on Organizational Culture and Climate
OBJECTIVES: With the continued push to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs) into community-based organizations, it is important to investigate whether working condition disruptions occur during this process. While there are many studies investigating best practices and how to adopt them, the literature lacks studies investigating the working conditions in programs that currently use ESTs. METHOD: This study compared the culture and c…
A University–Community Partnership to Advance Research in Practice Settings: The HUB Research Model
Human service organizations are uniquely positioned, given their scope of practice and access to consumers with the widest range of needs to significantly increase the national capacity for research if they were effectively equipped with the knowledge, skills, and funding to integrate research and development into their ongoing organizational activities. A university–community research partnership is one approach to achieving this goal. This arti…
Abortion Policy and Vulnerable Women in the United States: A Call for Social Work Policy Practice
Repressive abortion policy in the United States creates undue burdens for groups of vulnerable women, including adolescents, women of color, women living in rural areas, and women with economic disadvantages. Repressive abortion policy creates a two-tiered system of access to reproductive health care that is a particular disadvantage to vulnerable women. In this study, current policy is discussed with examples of such policies outlined in three a…
Social Work Education: Status Quo or Change
The authors believe that Stoesz and Karger did not go far enough in their critique. The struggling state of the profession and of social work education is symptomatic of a much larger and fundamental systemic problem that cannot be addressed solely by fixing the Council on Social Work Education or increasing requirements for Social Science Citation Index publications. Social work must build a broad-based capacity for rigorous scientific inquiry a…
Handbook of Gerontology: Evidence‐Based Approaches to Theory, Practice, and Policy
Preface. About the Editors. Contributors. PART I: INTRODUCTION. 1 Global Aging (Karen M. Sowers and William S. Rowe). PART II: EVIDENCE-BASED THEORY. 2 Biological Aspects and Theories of Aging (Laura J. Pankow and Jeffrey M. Solotoroff). 3 Cognitive and Affective Theories of Adult Development (Bert Hayslip Jr. and Benjamin P. Chapman). 4 Personality Theories of Successful Aging (Natalie C. Ebner and Alexandra M. Freund). 5 Wisdom, Life Longings, …
Comparing Sex Offender Risk Classification Using the Static-99 and LSI-R Assessment Instruments
Objective: This study compares sex offender risk classification using two popular actuarial risk assessment instruments—the Static-99 and the Level of Service Inventory–Revised (LSI-R). Despite their extensive use, the two scales assess different types of risk factors and research has yet to compare them. Method: Static-99 and LSI-R risk assessments were compared for 30 adult male sex offenders attending a community-based treatment program. Resul…
Factors relating to self-identification among bullying victims
Perspectives on the Mission of the Social Work Profession: A Random Survey of Nasw Members
Individuals with MSW degrees and who were members of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in the United States (N=862) were surveyed and asked what best represents the social work profession mission for them. They were provided with 7 pre-selected choices (i.e advocacy; lobbying; social justice; community organization; clinical work with individuals, families, and groups; advancement of the social work profession; or other) from whic…
Principles for Organizational Change in Human Service Agencies
Human service agencies are facing profound changes as a result of variations in current societal political, social and environmental forces. This paper provides a review of the literature on organizational change in an effort to determine which strategies are most successful in facilitating this process and achieving desired results within agencies. Models, methods and approaches are discussed. Five principles to increase success in organizationa…
School-Based Violence Prevention Programs: A Review of Selected Programs with Empirical Evidence
School violence in the United States is an issue of grave concern for educators, students, parents, and communities. Many schools have responded to the problem by initiating prevention interventions without empirical evidence of effectiveness, assuming it is better to do something rather than to do nothing. In some cases though, more harm than good may result when such intervention strategies and programs are implemented only for the sake of doin…
Kids-Parents-School Personnel: Few Are Talking and Even Less Are Listening
Teacher awareness and a desire to create a positive environment can result in an atmosphere where caring is the norm and bullying is not tolerated. Yet, if parents and teachers are not communicating, timely and well-reasoned responses to bullying cannot be offered. This study examined communication patterns between children, parents and school personnel in regard to bullying in a rural school setting in the United States. A convenience sample of …
The Criminal Bully -Linking Criminal Peer Bullying Behavior in Schools to a Continuum of Delinquency
In light of a recent wave of anti-bullying legislation following several high-profile incidents of school violence, this study explores the criminality that is inherent in certain acts of school bullying. These acts include physical aggression, theft of property or money, and damage to property, among others. As research continues to link school bullying and childhood aggression to later delinquency and adult criminal offending, “criminal bullies…
Bully-Victimization Related to Gender and Grade Level: Implications for Prevention Efforts
This descriptive study used the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire to obtain data from a convenience sample (N = 192) of three rural public school students in grades 3 through 8. The objectives of the study were to determine the type and frequency of bully-victimization experienced by male and female students relating to gender and grade level. Using frequencies and percentages, elementary school males and females described, weekly or more, relati…
Abuse of Power: When School Personnel Bully Students
Bullying is a serious concern in our schools. Some estimates suggest that a high proportion of U.S. children have been victimized by bullying, with much of the bullying occurring in schools. This article examines the particular issue of bullying of children by school personnel. Data were gathered from a sample of school personnel in three rural public schools located within the same school district. Of the seventy school personnel who responded t…
School Personnel's Observations of Bullying and Victimization Among Rural Elementary and Middle School Children
School bullying and aggression is recognized as a public health problem and appears to be the most prevalent form of school violence in elementary and middle schools (Olweus, 1993). Bullying behavior among peers has detrimental effects for the bully and the victim as well as others who witness it. Research has shown that children who are involved in school bullying or are victims are at risk of developing problems later in life (Craig, Peters, & …
Individual Worker-Level Attitudes Toward Empirically Supported Treatments
OBJECTIVES: There is a growing literature indicating that organizational and individual worker-level factors affect decisions about whether or not empirically supported treatments (ESTs) are adopted within health care agencies. The purpose of this pilot study is to further investigate and measure worker's attitudes within a community organization. METHOD: A small organization participated in the study due to their diversity in services offered. O…
Empirically Supported Treatment’s Impact on Organizational Culture and Climate
OBJECTIVES: With the continued push to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs) into community-based organizations, it is important to investigate whether working condition disruptions occur during this process. While there are many studies investigating best practices and how to adopt them, the literature lacks studies investigating the working conditions in programs that currently use ESTs. METHOD: This study compared the culture and c…
Facilitating Writing by Practitioners: Survey of Practitioners Who Have Published
The profession would benefit if practitioners viewed disseminating knowledge, including writing for publication, as part of professional practice. The literature has acknowledged the importance of practitioners' contributions to the profession's knowledge base, but little is known about what facilitates practitioners' writing for publication or what barriers they experience. A survey was mailed to practitioners who had published in social work pe…
Abortion Policy and Vulnerable Women in the United States: A Call for Social Work Policy Practice
Repressive abortion policy in the United States creates undue burdens for groups of vulnerable women, including adolescents, women of color, women living in rural areas, and women with economic disadvantages. Repressive abortion policy creates a two-tiered system of access to reproductive health care that is a particular disadvantage to vulnerable women. In this study, current policy is discussed with examples of such policies outlined in three a…
Do Organizational Culture and Climate Matter for Successful Client Outcomes
Objectives: The existing literature on the impact of workplace conditions on client care suggests that good cultures and climates provide the best outcomes for clients. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and climate and the proportion of children and youth successfully discharged from a large organization in New York state. Method: Thirty-three child and youth programs with existin…
Factors Influencing Worker Morale: Evaluating Provider Demographics, Workplace Environment and Using ESTs
Objectives: Mental health organizations are strongly encouraged to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs); however, little is known about their working environments. The present study investigated how provider demographics, workplace environment, and whether ESTs were used affected the worker morale. Method: Frontline workers ( N = 1,273) from 55 different programs in a single, large organization completed a measure of organizational c…
Is Openness to Using Empirically Supported Treatments Related to Organizational Culture and Climate
The overall purpose of this study is to investigate workers' openness towards implementing a new empirically supported treatment (EST) and whether the workers' openness scores relate to their workplace culture and climate scores. Participants in this study (N=1273) worked in a total of 55 different programs in a large child and family services organization and completed a survey measuring their attitudes toward ESTs. Results indicate that work gr…
A University–Community Partnership to Advance Research in Practice Settings: The HUB Research Model
Human service organizations are uniquely positioned, given their scope of practice and access to consumers with the widest range of needs to significantly increase the national capacity for research if they were effectively equipped with the knowledge, skills, and funding to integrate research and development into their ongoing organizational activities. A university–community research partnership is one approach to achieving this goal. This arti…
Factors relating to self-identification among bullying victims
Refining the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale: An Alternative Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Barriers to adopting evidence-based practices into real-world mental health organizations have received considerable attention and study. One particular attempt is Aarons's Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS), which measures a worker's attitudes toward adopting new treatments, interventions, and practices. This study follows Aarons's work by conducting a confirmatory factor analysis of the EBPAS administered in a large child and family…
Social Work Education: Status Quo or Change
The authors believe that Stoesz and Karger did not go far enough in their critique. The struggling state of the profession and of social work education is symptomatic of a much larger and fundamental systemic problem that cannot be addressed solely by fixing the Council on Social Work Education or increasing requirements for Social Science Citation Index publications. Social work must build a broad-based capacity for rigorous scientific inquiry a…
Therapist–Patient Demographic Profile Matching: A Movement Toward Performance-Based Practice
Purpose: Patients of substance use disorder (SUD), who successfully complete the treatment programs recommended by their therapists, have better health outcomes than the vast majority who drop out in the middle. We investigated the contribution of race and gender of both patients and therapists to address the cause of treatment noncompletion and gaps in knowledge. Method: Data collected from 11 SUD treatment outpatient programs, comprising 2,230 …
Principles for Organizational Change in Human Service Agencies
Human service agencies are facing profound changes as a result of variations in current societal political, social and environmental forces. This paper provides a review of the literature on organizational change in an effort to determine which strategies are most successful in facilitating this process and achieving desired results within agencies. Models, methods and approaches are discussed. Five principles to increase success in organizationa…
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention as Standard Practice: Working with the American Indian/Native Alaskan Populations
Alcohol use and the resulting problems associated with high-risk drinking in the American Indian/Native Alaskan (AI/NA) population are well-documented, as alcohol misuse has taken an incredible toll on many AI/NA communities. Presently, both overall health issues and alcohol use occur disproportionately within this population. This article provides an updated overview of the impact of alcohol use in the United States and within AI/NA communities …
School-Based Violence Prevention Programs: A Review of Selected Programs with Empirical Evidence
School violence in the United States is an issue of grave concern for educators, students, parents, and communities. Many schools have responded to the problem by initiating prevention interventions without empirical evidence of effectiveness, assuming it is better to do something rather than to do nothing. In some cases though, more harm than good may result when such intervention strategies and programs are implemented only for the sake of doin…
Perceptions of Bullying and Non-Bullying Children: Results from an Exploratory Study in a U.S. Rural School
This exploratory study focuses on the differences between children who self identify as bullies versus those who do not. Students (N = 192), grades 3 through 8, from a rural school district in the United States were surveyed as to their experiences with bullying in the school setting. A total of 70 students in the sample identified themselves as bullies. No substantial differences were found between the two groups in regard to gender or age, howe…
Hotspots” for Bullying: Exploring the Role of Environment in School Violence
Bullying is a chronic and ubiquitous problem that has ignited concern about children's safety at school. Most studies completed thus far have focused on the interpersonal psychological characteristics of bully and victim, but little has been examined regarding common locations or hotspots for bullying. This study found location to be of import in that hotspots can be identified at each school and differ with regard to gender and grade. Schools ca…
Children's Psychological Response to Parental Victimization: How Do Girls and Boys Differ
This study found that African American children, 6 through 12 years of age, whose parents had been victims of community violence (i.e., gunshot or stabbing) experienced distress symptoms differently, depending on their gender. In the authors' previous work (Dulmus & Wodarski, 2000), children, age 6-12, whose parents were victims of community violence (e.g., gunshot, stabbing), and whose victimization the children did not witness, were found to be…
Workfare Programs: Issues and Recommendations for Self-Sufficiency
Workfare initially originated as an approach to guide welfare recipients towards self-sufficiency. Today, the same strategy is being utilized as a desperate means by the States to move welfare recipients into the workforce in order not to suffer further cuts in federal assistance. This paper reviews many of the common barriers which participants experience as they attempt to move from being welfare recipients to employees. In addition, it present…
Cognitive Variables
The literature indicates systematic attempts have been made to combine the approach of cognitive therapy with behavior therapy. The following paper reflects that much research has been done in this area showing great promise. Certainly the cognitive variable is significant in the treatment of human behavior, yet it can not be considered in isolation of other dimensions of behavior. Significant contributions have been made in the treatment of depr…
Cognitive Variables
The literature indicates systematic attempts have been made to combine the approach of cognitive therapy with behavior therapy. The following paper reflects that much research has been done in this area showing great promise. Certainly the cognitive variable is significant in the treatment of human behavior, yet it can not be considered in isolation of other dimensions of behavior. Significant contributions have been made in the treatment of depr…
Trauma-related symptomatology among children of parents victimized by urban community violence
The effects of parents' victimization by community violence on children's psychological functioning was examined in a group of 30 6-12-year-old African-American children. In comparison with 30 demographically similar children in the same urban community whose parents had never been victimized, the victims' children exhibited higher levels of distress symptoms. Implications for research and practice are discussed
Workfare Programs: Issues and Recommendations for Self-Sufficiency
Workfare initially originated as an approach to guide welfare recipients towards self-sufficiency. Today, the same strategy is being utilized as a desperate means by the States to move welfare recipients into the workforce in order not to suffer further cuts in federal assistance. This paper reviews many of the common barriers which participants experience as they attempt to move from being welfare recipients to employees. In addition, it present…
Facilitating Writing by Practitioners: Survey of Practitioners Who Have Published
The profession would benefit if practitioners viewed disseminating knowledge, including writing for publication, as part of professional practice. The literature has acknowledged the importance of practitioners' contributions to the profession's knowledge base, but little is known about what facilitates practitioners' writing for publication or what barriers they experience. A survey was mailed to practitioners who had published in social work pe…
School-Based Violence Prevention Programs: A Review of Selected Programs with Empirical Evidence
School violence in the United States is an issue of grave concern for educators, students, parents, and communities. Many schools have responded to the problem by initiating prevention interventions without empirical evidence of effectiveness, assuming it is better to do something rather than to do nothing. In some cases though, more harm than good may result when such intervention strategies and programs are implemented only for the sake of doin…
Kids-Parents-School Personnel: Few Are Talking and Even Less Are Listening
Teacher awareness and a desire to create a positive environment can result in an atmosphere where caring is the norm and bullying is not tolerated. Yet, if parents and teachers are not communicating, timely and well-reasoned responses to bullying cannot be offered. This study examined communication patterns between children, parents and school personnel in regard to bullying in a rural school setting in the United States. A convenience sample of …
The Criminal Bully -Linking Criminal Peer Bullying Behavior in Schools to a Continuum of Delinquency
In light of a recent wave of anti-bullying legislation following several high-profile incidents of school violence, this study explores the criminality that is inherent in certain acts of school bullying. These acts include physical aggression, theft of property or money, and damage to property, among others. As research continues to link school bullying and childhood aggression to later delinquency and adult criminal offending, “criminal bullies…
Bully-Victimization Related to Gender and Grade Level: Implications for Prevention Efforts
This descriptive study used the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire to obtain data from a convenience sample (N = 192) of three rural public school students in grades 3 through 8. The objectives of the study were to determine the type and frequency of bully-victimization experienced by male and female students relating to gender and grade level. Using frequencies and percentages, elementary school males and females described, weekly or more, relati…
Abuse of Power: When School Personnel Bully Students
Bullying is a serious concern in our schools. Some estimates suggest that a high proportion of U.S. children have been victimized by bullying, with much of the bullying occurring in schools. This article examines the particular issue of bullying of children by school personnel. Data were gathered from a sample of school personnel in three rural public schools located within the same school district. Of the seventy school personnel who responded t…
School Personnel's Observations of Bullying and Victimization Among Rural Elementary and Middle School Children
School bullying and aggression is recognized as a public health problem and appears to be the most prevalent form of school violence in elementary and middle schools (Olweus, 1993). Bullying behavior among peers has detrimental effects for the bully and the victim as well as others who witness it. Research has shown that children who are involved in school bullying or are victims are at risk of developing problems later in life (Craig, Peters, & …
Perceptions of Bullying and Non-Bullying Children: Results from an Exploratory Study in a U.S. Rural School
This exploratory study focuses on the differences between children who self identify as bullies versus those who do not. Students (N = 192), grades 3 through 8, from a rural school district in the United States were surveyed as to their experiences with bullying in the school setting. A total of 70 students in the sample identified themselves as bullies. No substantial differences were found between the two groups in regard to gender or age, howe…
Hotspots” for Bullying: Exploring the Role of Environment in School Violence
Bullying is a chronic and ubiquitous problem that has ignited concern about children's safety at school. Most studies completed thus far have focused on the interpersonal psychological characteristics of bully and victim, but little has been examined regarding common locations or hotspots for bullying. This study found location to be of import in that hotspots can be identified at each school and differ with regard to gender and grade. Schools ca…
Children's Psychological Response to Parental Victimization: How Do Girls and Boys Differ
This study found that African American children, 6 through 12 years of age, whose parents had been victims of community violence (i.e., gunshot or stabbing) experienced distress symptoms differently, depending on their gender. In the authors' previous work (Dulmus & Wodarski, 2000), children, age 6-12, whose parents were victims of community violence (e.g., gunshot, stabbing), and whose victimization the children did not witness, were found to be…
Comparing Sex Offender Risk Classification Using the Static-99 and LSI-R Assessment Instruments
Objective: This study compares sex offender risk classification using two popular actuarial risk assessment instruments—the Static-99 and the Level of Service Inventory–Revised (LSI-R). Despite their extensive use, the two scales assess different types of risk factors and research has yet to compare them. Method: Static-99 and LSI-R risk assessments were compared for 30 adult male sex offenders attending a community-based treatment program. Resul…
Factors relating to self-identification among bullying victims
Perspectives on the Mission of the Social Work Profession: A Random Survey of Nasw Members
Individuals with MSW degrees and who were members of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in the United States (N=862) were surveyed and asked what best represents the social work profession mission for them. They were provided with 7 pre-selected choices (i.e advocacy; lobbying; social justice; community organization; clinical work with individuals, families, and groups; advancement of the social work profession; or other) from whic…
Principles for Organizational Change in Human Service Agencies
Human service agencies are facing profound changes as a result of variations in current societal political, social and environmental forces. This paper provides a review of the literature on organizational change in an effort to determine which strategies are most successful in facilitating this process and achieving desired results within agencies. Models, methods and approaches are discussed. Five principles to increase success in organizationa…
Handbook of Gerontology: Evidence‐Based Approaches to Theory, Practice, and Policy
Preface. About the Editors. Contributors. PART I: INTRODUCTION. 1 Global Aging (Karen M. Sowers and William S. Rowe). PART II: EVIDENCE-BASED THEORY. 2 Biological Aspects and Theories of Aging (Laura J. Pankow and Jeffrey M. Solotoroff). 3 Cognitive and Affective Theories of Adult Development (Bert Hayslip Jr. and Benjamin P. Chapman). 4 Personality Theories of Successful Aging (Natalie C. Ebner and Alexandra M. Freund). 5 Wisdom, Life Longings, …
Social Work Education: Status Quo or Change
The authors believe that Stoesz and Karger did not go far enough in their critique. The struggling state of the profession and of social work education is symptomatic of a much larger and fundamental systemic problem that cannot be addressed solely by fixing the Council on Social Work Education or increasing requirements for Social Science Citation Index publications. Social work must build a broad-based capacity for rigorous scientific inquiry a…
Abortion Policy and Vulnerable Women in the United States: A Call for Social Work Policy Practice
Repressive abortion policy in the United States creates undue burdens for groups of vulnerable women, including adolescents, women of color, women living in rural areas, and women with economic disadvantages. Repressive abortion policy creates a two-tiered system of access to reproductive health care that is a particular disadvantage to vulnerable women. In this study, current policy is discussed with examples of such policies outlined in three a…
A University–Community Partnership to Advance Research in Practice Settings: The HUB Research Model
Human service organizations are uniquely positioned, given their scope of practice and access to consumers with the widest range of needs to significantly increase the national capacity for research if they were effectively equipped with the knowledge, skills, and funding to integrate research and development into their ongoing organizational activities. A university–community research partnership is one approach to achieving this goal. This arti…
Individual Worker-Level Attitudes Toward Empirically Supported Treatments
OBJECTIVES: There is a growing literature indicating that organizational and individual worker-level factors affect decisions about whether or not empirically supported treatments (ESTs) are adopted within health care agencies. The purpose of this pilot study is to further investigate and measure worker's attitudes within a community organization. METHOD: A small organization participated in the study due to their diversity in services offered. O…
Empirically Supported Treatment’s Impact on Organizational Culture and Climate
OBJECTIVES: With the continued push to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs) into community-based organizations, it is important to investigate whether working condition disruptions occur during this process. While there are many studies investigating best practices and how to adopt them, the literature lacks studies investigating the working conditions in programs that currently use ESTs. METHOD: This study compared the culture and c…
Do Organizational Culture and Climate Matter for Successful Client Outcomes
Objectives: The existing literature on the impact of workplace conditions on client care suggests that good cultures and climates provide the best outcomes for clients. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and climate and the proportion of children and youth successfully discharged from a large organization in New York state. Method: Thirty-three child and youth programs with existin…
Factors Influencing Worker Morale: Evaluating Provider Demographics, Workplace Environment and Using ESTs
Objectives: Mental health organizations are strongly encouraged to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs); however, little is known about their working environments. The present study investigated how provider demographics, workplace environment, and whether ESTs were used affected the worker morale. Method: Frontline workers ( N = 1,273) from 55 different programs in a single, large organization completed a measure of organizational c…
Psychology (26 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (9 works) · Public relations (9 works)