Jane F Gilgun
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77753 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jane F Gilgun |
| NOMBRES | Jane F |
| APELLIDO | Gilgun |
| FIRMA | GILGUN J F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7494-7174 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Jane the evangelist versus fire-breathing dragons
In this article, I show the connections between critical social work and the thought of Norman Denzin. The connection is pragmatist philosophy whose roots are European. Denzin came to pragmatism through C. Wright Mills’ notion of the sociological imagination whose focus is the intersection of biography and history. This notion is analogous to social work’s person-environment interactions. I illustrate the intersections of history and biography th…
“I may have benefited more than anyone else”
This commentary is a response to an invitation the editorial board of Qualitative Social Work extended to me to comment on an article that reports on my career interview as a qualitative social work researcher. The article appears in the present issue of the journal (Staller, 2024). The editors and I agree that Karen Staller did an exemplary job of interpreting the transcripts on which the article is based but that the transcripts were incomplete…
Reflections on the thoughts of Norman Denzin
Social work qualitative research and the work of Norman Denzin have much in common. Norman’s work was values-based, built on notions of justice, care, dignity, worth, equality, and self-determination with the purpose of identifying and describing problematic social conditions and, in turn, taking action to bring about social change and transformation. This statement fits social work perfectly. In this article, I describe the work of Norman Denzin…
The myth of redemptive interpersonal violence
Writing Up Qualitative Research
This chapter provides guidelines for writing journal articles based on qualitative approaches. The guidelines are part of the tradition of the Chicago school of sociology and the author’s experience as a writer and reviewer. The guidelines include understanding experiences in context, immersion, interpretations grounded in accounts of informants’ lived experiences, and research as action oriented. The chapter also covers writing articles that rep…
A Four‐Factor Outcome Model for Family Case Management Services With Children and Families Who Have Experienced Complex Trauma
This article proposes a four‐factor outcome model for case management services with children and families when the children have experienced complex trauma. The factors are relationships between service users and practitioners, personal characteristics of service users and practitioners, social service system influences, and external influences. The model is based upon research on the common factors model of psychotherapy outcomes, research that …
Mothers’ Experiences with Pastoral Care in Cases of Child Sexual Abuse
Research and Theory Building in Social Work
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa
Enduring Themes of Qualitative Family Research
Contemporary qualitative family research has a rich intellectual heritage that provides researchers with ideas and language that guide them in the procedures of their work and helps them to explain to themselves and to others the traditions on which their work is based. The characteristics of qualitative research that I discuss in this article are understanding experiences in context, immersion, interpretations grounded in accounts that individua…
The Uses of Humour in Case Management with High-Risk Children and their Families
While humour is prevalent in social services, discussions of humour are rare in social work journals. The present article discusses the uses of humour among a team of service providers in a child and family service agency where the families are among the most high-risk in the county that the agency serves. We viewed humour as the amusement at incongruity, which appears to be its essential feature, and recognised that humour can foster effectivene…
The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory
Strangers, Patients, Monsters, Jailers, or Children
Manganese poisoning (MP) is one of many chronic, degenerative conditions that result in spousal caregiver stress. Partners who were once fully functioning become strangers to those who love them. In time, spousal caregivers may come to view their erstwhile partners as patients, jailers, monsters, or bratty children. We explore spousal caregiver perceptions of loved ones with MP, based on the narrated experiences of five full-time South African ca…
The Four Cornerstones of Qualitative Research
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is more than the application of best research evidence to practice. Advocates for evidence-based medicine (EBM), the parent discipline of EBP, state that EBP has three, and possibly four, components: best research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences and wants. Person-centered physicians also advocate for the person of the practitioner as a fourth component. In this article, the author shows the cent…
Qualitative Research and Family Psychology.
Qualitative approaches have much to offer family psychology. Among the uses for qualitative methods are theory building, model and hypothesis testing, descriptions of lived experiences, typologies, items for surveys and measurement tools, and case examples that answer questions that surveys cannot. Despite the usefulness of these products, issues related to generalizability, subjectivity, and language, among others, block some researchers from ap…
Evidence-Based Practice, Descriptive Research and the Resilience-Schema-Gender-Brain Functioning (RSGB) Assessment
Jane F. Gilgun is a professor at the School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. She does research on children, adolescents and adults who have confronted serious adversi ties. Her focus is on the development of violent behaviours, the meanings of violence to perpetrators and how persons cope with, adapt to and overcome adversities. She has presented locally, nationally and internationally on resilience, her violence researc…
Lighten Up
The balance between what we learn from research and what others have said about similar topics can pose dilemmas for qualitative researchers. How many citations are enough? How much allegiance do we owe to other scholars and how much to informants' lived experiences, our theoretical analyses, and the lessons we draw about methods and methodologies from our own experience as researchers? The various reasons we use or do not use citations in writin…
"Grab" and Good Science
Qualitative researchers have an array of choices in how to write up their research. Yet many write in distanced, third-person voices and give short shrift to the voices of informants, as if neither they nor their informants were part of the research. In doing so, they might believe that their writing style is scientific. Unfortunately, such styles of writing not only silence their informants and themselves, but many times they also contradict the…
The 4-D
This paper is a report on a field test of the 4-D, a set of four clinical assessment tools that is based on the Circle of Courage, an American Indian Medicine Wheel that is widely used in youth-caring agencies throughout the United States and internationally (Brendtro, Brokenleg, & Van Bockern, 1990). This article is a companion to an earlier article called “Completing the Circle” published in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environme…
The Four Cornerstones of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work
The purpose of this article is to place evidence-based practice within its wider scholarly contexts and draw lessons from the experiences of other professions that are engaged in implementing it. The analysis is based primarily on evidence-based medicine, the parent discipline of evidence-based practice, but the author also draws on evidence-based nursing and evidence-based social work in the United Kingdom. It was found that the experiences of o…
Qualitative Methods and the Development of Clinical Assessment Tools
Practitioners are under increased pressure to demonstrate effectiveness and to do so in as short a time as possible. In addition, evidence-based practice calls for practitioners to take into consideration not only best research evidence but also the wants and preferences of patients, and their own clinical expertise. In light of these demands, standardized assessment tools are likely to become increasingly central in clinical practice in a variet…
Fictionalizing Life Stories
This narrative is a fictionalization of a story an informant shared during a research interview. The story was so compelling that standard social science formats did not seem to fit. Although the core narrative is faithful to the man's account, details from the life history accounts of other informants who had sexually abused children and/or who had been sexually abused as children flesh out the present account
Completing the Circle
The four themes of the Circle of Courage, a Native American medicine wheel that focuses on child socialization, connect with and add to key ideas from Western theories of human development. These themes are belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. The purpose of this paper is to present a framework developed from the integration of the Circle of Courage with theories of human development. A key feature of the framework is the role of adu…
Fingernails Painted Red
This article is a feminist, semiotic analysis of a narrative text provided by a man who killed his two toddler sons, his girlfriend, an unrelated woman, and possibly two other women, including his wife. The author's purposes were (a) to do a close analysis of the text to link the narrator's account to gendered cultural themes and practices and (b) to demonstrate that, in some cases, researchers cannot emerge unscathed from close analyses of "hot"…
We Shared Something Special
At first glance, suggesting that incest perpetrators have moral perspectives on incest seems like an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Yet, incest perpetrators are embedded in cultures that view incest as morally repugnant, and laws make incest illegal. Along with other members of their cultures, incest perpetrators are socialized in varying degrees to understand the proscriptions against incest. Consequences for perpetrators can involve repugn…
The Four Cornerstones of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work
The purpose of this article is to place evidence-based practice within its wider scholarly contexts and draw lessons from the experiences of other professions that are engaged in implementing it. The analysis is based primarily on evidence-based medicine, the parent discipline of evidence-based practice, but the author also draws on evidence-based nursing and evidence-based social work in the United Kingdom. It was found that the experiences of o…
We Shared Something Special
At first glance, suggesting that incest perpetrators have moral perspectives on incest seems like an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Yet, incest perpetrators are embedded in cultures that view incest as morally repugnant, and laws make incest illegal. Along with other members of their cultures, incest perpetrators are socialized in varying degrees to understand the proscriptions against incest. Consequences for perpetrators can involve repugn…
Enduring Themes of Qualitative Family Research
Contemporary qualitative family research has a rich intellectual heritage that provides researchers with ideas and language that guide them in the procedures of their work and helps them to explain to themselves and to others the traditions on which their work is based. The characteristics of qualitative research that I discuss in this article are understanding experiences in context, immersion, interpretations grounded in accounts that individua…
Completing the Circle
The four themes of the Circle of Courage, a Native American medicine wheel that focuses on child socialization, connect with and add to key ideas from Western theories of human development. These themes are belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. The purpose of this paper is to present a framework developed from the integration of the Circle of Courage with theories of human development. A key feature of the framework is the role of adu…
Evidence-Based Practice, Descriptive Research and the Resilience-Schema-Gender-Brain Functioning (RSGB) Assessment
Jane F. Gilgun is a professor at the School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. She does research on children, adolescents and adults who have confronted serious adversi ties. Her focus is on the development of violent behaviours, the meanings of violence to perpetrators and how persons cope with, adapt to and overcome adversities. She has presented locally, nationally and internationally on resilience, her violence researc…
Fingernails Painted Red
This article is a feminist, semiotic analysis of a narrative text provided by a man who killed his two toddler sons, his girlfriend, an unrelated woman, and possibly two other women, including his wife. The author's purposes were (a) to do a close analysis of the text to link the narrator's account to gendered cultural themes and practices and (b) to demonstrate that, in some cases, researchers cannot emerge unscathed from close analyses of "hot"…
The Uses of Humour in Case Management with High-Risk Children and their Families
While humour is prevalent in social services, discussions of humour are rare in social work journals. The present article discusses the uses of humour among a team of service providers in a child and family service agency where the families are among the most high-risk in the county that the agency serves. We viewed humour as the amusement at incongruity, which appears to be its essential feature, and recognised that humour can foster effectivene…
Qualitative Methods and the Development of Clinical Assessment Tools
Practitioners are under increased pressure to demonstrate effectiveness and to do so in as short a time as possible. In addition, evidence-based practice calls for practitioners to take into consideration not only best research evidence but also the wants and preferences of patients, and their own clinical expertise. In light of these demands, standardized assessment tools are likely to become increasingly central in clinical practice in a variet…
Decision-making in interdisciplinary treatment teams
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa
The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory
"Grab" and Good Science
Qualitative researchers have an array of choices in how to write up their research. Yet many write in distanced, third-person voices and give short shrift to the voices of informants, as if neither they nor their informants were part of the research. In doing so, they might believe that their writing style is scientific. Unfortunately, such styles of writing not only silence their informants and themselves, but many times they also contradict the…
Fictionalizing Life Stories
This narrative is a fictionalization of a story an informant shared during a research interview. The story was so compelling that standard social science formats did not seem to fit. Although the core narrative is faithful to the man's account, details from the life history accounts of other informants who had sexually abused children and/or who had been sexually abused as children flesh out the present account
A Four‐Factor Outcome Model for Family Case Management Services With Children and Families Who Have Experienced Complex Trauma
This article proposes a four‐factor outcome model for case management services with children and families when the children have experienced complex trauma. The factors are relationships between service users and practitioners, personal characteristics of service users and practitioners, social service system influences, and external influences. The model is based upon research on the common factors model of psychotherapy outcomes, research that …
The Four Cornerstones of Qualitative Research
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is more than the application of best research evidence to practice. Advocates for evidence-based medicine (EBM), the parent discipline of EBP, state that EBP has three, and possibly four, components: best research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences and wants. Person-centered physicians also advocate for the person of the practitioner as a fourth component. In this article, the author shows the cent…
The 4-D
This paper is a report on a field test of the 4-D, a set of four clinical assessment tools that is based on the Circle of Courage, an American Indian Medicine Wheel that is widely used in youth-caring agencies throughout the United States and internationally (Brendtro, Brokenleg, & Van Bockern, 1990). This article is a companion to an earlier article called “Completing the Circle” published in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environme…
Hypothesis Generation in Social Work Research
This article describes the process of generating hypotheses from empirical, qualitalive data. Arguing that a discovery oriented, qualitative method of hypothesis generation has great potential for the development of social work knowledge, the paper shows how the grounded theory method originated by Glaser and Strauss (1976) builds on both induction and deduction and develops the research design over the course of the research. The conceptual fram…
How Perpetrators View Child Sexual Abuse
Journal Article How Perpetrators View Child Sexual Abuse Get access Jane F. Gilgun, Jane F. Gilgun Jane F. Gilgun, PhD, is Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, 224 Church Street, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Teresa M. Connor, MSW, is Social Worker, Program for Healthy Adolescent Sexual Expression, East Communities Family Center, Maplewood, Minnesota. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Go…
Self-centeredness and the adult male perpetrator of child sexual abuse
Decision-making in interdisciplinary treatment teams
How Perpetrators View Child Sexual Abuse
Journal Article How Perpetrators View Child Sexual Abuse Get access Jane F. Gilgun, Jane F. Gilgun Jane F. Gilgun, PhD, is Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, 224 Church Street, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Teresa M. Connor, MSW, is Social Worker, Program for Healthy Adolescent Sexual Expression, East Communities Family Center, Maplewood, Minnesota. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Go…
Hypothesis Generation in Social Work Research
This article describes the process of generating hypotheses from empirical, qualitalive data. Arguing that a discovery oriented, qualitative method of hypothesis generation has great potential for the development of social work knowledge, the paper shows how the grounded theory method originated by Glaser and Strauss (1976) builds on both induction and deduction and develops the research design over the course of the research. The conceptual fram…
Publishing Research Reports Based on Qualitative Methods
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Qualitative Methods in Family Research
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Fit Between Qualitative Research and Characteristics of Families - Kerry Daly The Qualitative Tradition in Family Research - Gerald Handel Definitions, Methodologies, and Methods in Qualitative Family Research - Jane F Gilgun PART TWO: INTERVIEWS Interviews with Individuals Interviewing College Students About Their Constructions of Love - Susan U Snyder Case Study Interviews - Linda K Matocha Caring for Persons with AID…
We Shared Something Special
At first glance, suggesting that incest perpetrators have moral perspectives on incest seems like an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Yet, incest perpetrators are embedded in cultures that view incest as morally repugnant, and laws make incest illegal. Along with other members of their cultures, incest perpetrators are socialized in varying degrees to understand the proscriptions against incest. Consequences for perpetrators can involve repugn…
Fingernails Painted Red
This article is a feminist, semiotic analysis of a narrative text provided by a man who killed his two toddler sons, his girlfriend, an unrelated woman, and possibly two other women, including his wife. The author's purposes were (a) to do a close analysis of the text to link the narrator's account to gendered cultural themes and practices and (b) to demonstrate that, in some cases, researchers cannot emerge unscathed from close analyses of "hot"…
Completing the Circle
The four themes of the Circle of Courage, a Native American medicine wheel that focuses on child socialization, connect with and add to key ideas from Western theories of human development. These themes are belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. The purpose of this paper is to present a framework developed from the integration of the Circle of Courage with theories of human development. A key feature of the framework is the role of adu…
The Four Cornerstones of Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work
The purpose of this article is to place evidence-based practice within its wider scholarly contexts and draw lessons from the experiences of other professions that are engaged in implementing it. The analysis is based primarily on evidence-based medicine, the parent discipline of evidence-based practice, but the author also draws on evidence-based nursing and evidence-based social work in the United Kingdom. It was found that the experiences of o…
Qualitative Methods and the Development of Clinical Assessment Tools
Practitioners are under increased pressure to demonstrate effectiveness and to do so in as short a time as possible. In addition, evidence-based practice calls for practitioners to take into consideration not only best research evidence but also the wants and preferences of patients, and their own clinical expertise. In light of these demands, standardized assessment tools are likely to become increasingly central in clinical practice in a variet…
Fictionalizing Life Stories
This narrative is a fictionalization of a story an informant shared during a research interview. The story was so compelling that standard social science formats did not seem to fit. Although the core narrative is faithful to the man's account, details from the life history accounts of other informants who had sexually abused children and/or who had been sexually abused as children flesh out the present account
Qualitative Research and Family Psychology.
Qualitative approaches have much to offer family psychology. Among the uses for qualitative methods are theory building, model and hypothesis testing, descriptions of lived experiences, typologies, items for surveys and measurement tools, and case examples that answer questions that surveys cannot. Despite the usefulness of these products, issues related to generalizability, subjectivity, and language, among others, block some researchers from ap…
Evidence-Based Practice, Descriptive Research and the Resilience-Schema-Gender-Brain Functioning (RSGB) Assessment
Jane F. Gilgun is a professor at the School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. She does research on children, adolescents and adults who have confronted serious adversi ties. Her focus is on the development of violent behaviours, the meanings of violence to perpetrators and how persons cope with, adapt to and overcome adversities. She has presented locally, nationally and internationally on resilience, her violence researc…
Lighten Up
The balance between what we learn from research and what others have said about similar topics can pose dilemmas for qualitative researchers. How many citations are enough? How much allegiance do we owe to other scholars and how much to informants' lived experiences, our theoretical analyses, and the lessons we draw about methods and methodologies from our own experience as researchers? The various reasons we use or do not use citations in writin…
"Grab" and Good Science
Qualitative researchers have an array of choices in how to write up their research. Yet many write in distanced, third-person voices and give short shrift to the voices of informants, as if neither they nor their informants were part of the research. In doing so, they might believe that their writing style is scientific. Unfortunately, such styles of writing not only silence their informants and themselves, but many times they also contradict the…
The 4-D
This paper is a report on a field test of the 4-D, a set of four clinical assessment tools that is based on the Circle of Courage, an American Indian Medicine Wheel that is widely used in youth-caring agencies throughout the United States and internationally (Brendtro, Brokenleg, & Van Bockern, 1990). This article is a companion to an earlier article called “Completing the Circle” published in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environme…
The Four Cornerstones of Qualitative Research
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is more than the application of best research evidence to practice. Advocates for evidence-based medicine (EBM), the parent discipline of EBP, state that EBP has three, and possibly four, components: best research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences and wants. Person-centered physicians also advocate for the person of the practitioner as a fourth component. In this article, the author shows the cent…
The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory
Strangers, Patients, Monsters, Jailers, or Children
Manganese poisoning (MP) is one of many chronic, degenerative conditions that result in spousal caregiver stress. Partners who were once fully functioning become strangers to those who love them. In time, spousal caregivers may come to view their erstwhile partners as patients, jailers, monsters, or bratty children. We explore spousal caregiver perceptions of loved ones with MP, based on the narrated experiences of five full-time South African ca…
Enduring Themes of Qualitative Family Research
Contemporary qualitative family research has a rich intellectual heritage that provides researchers with ideas and language that guide them in the procedures of their work and helps them to explain to themselves and to others the traditions on which their work is based. The characteristics of qualitative research that I discuss in this article are understanding experiences in context, immersion, interpretations grounded in accounts that individua…
The Uses of Humour in Case Management with High-Risk Children and their Families
While humour is prevalent in social services, discussions of humour are rare in social work journals. The present article discusses the uses of humour among a team of service providers in a child and family service agency where the families are among the most high-risk in the county that the agency serves. We viewed humour as the amusement at incongruity, which appears to be its essential feature, and recognised that humour can foster effectivene…
Research and Theory Building in Social Work
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa
Mothers’ Experiences with Pastoral Care in Cases of Child Sexual Abuse
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