Norman A Polansky
Biographic Data
| ID | 95628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman A Polansky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman A |
| FAMILY NAME | Polansky |
| SIGNATURE | POLANSKY N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Historical Perspective on Evaluation Research
Editor's Note: Professor Polansky was a pioneer in promoting empirical research within the field of social work. The editor of our field's earliest research textbook [Polansky, N. (Ed.) (1960). Social work research. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press], Dr. Polansky's involvement as a student, practitioner, and researcher with some of the major figures of psychological and social work research renders his historical observations of particula…
Loneliness, depression, stress, and social supports in neglectful families
Comparisons of neglectful with non-neglectful low-SES parents revealed that the neglectful parents reported more life stresses, greater depression and loneliness, and weaker informal social supports. In the neglectful families, loneliness was positively associated with life stresses and negatively associated with network supports, but not with caseworker-assessed social isolation
On research as the magic wand
Family radicals
Integrated ego psychology
Cynical notes on change
Social distancing of the neglectful family
Determinants of Loneliness Among Neglectful and Other Low-Income Mothers
Despite its ubiquity among social work's clients, the problem of loneliness has received scant attention from researchers in our field. The present survey of 306 rural and urban families showed loneliness more common among neglectful mothers than for controls in similar life circumstances. Ecological determinants of loneliness and strategies for coping with it among low-income women were also explored, with implications drawn for practice
Evaluative Research for Social Workers . Tony Tripodi
Comparative Norms for the Childhood Level of Living Scale
Social work research has thus far developed few scales used widely both in research and in practice. The Childhood Level of Living Scale, devised initially for research into child neglect, has attracted numerous expressions of practitioner interest. Hence, there is a need for further independent verification of its validity and precision. The present paper collates results from studies conducted independently in four American cities, each applyin…
Is There an American Standard of Child Care
The authors set out to test whether a scale used for research into child neglect, the Childhood Level of Living Scale, contains cultural bias in its means of judging the adequacy of child care. Their broader aim was to probe the possibility that there is a core of agreement among subcultures in this country on what constitutes minimally adequate child care
Theory and Measurement of Social Interest: Empirical Tests of Alfred Adler's Concept and Jungian Psychology in Perspective
Theory and Measurement of Social Interest: Empirical Tests of Alfred Adler's Concept and Jungian Psychology in Perspective Get access Theory and Measurement of Social Interest: Empirical Tests of Alfred Adler's Concept. By James E. Crandall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. 181 pp. $22.50. Jungian Psychology in Perspective. By Mattoon Mary Ann. New York: Free Press, 1981. 334 pp. $21.95. Norman A. Polansky Norman A. Polansky School of S…
Social Distancing of the Neglectful Family
The sociological concept of social distance has been applied to the neglectful family in order to elucidate its ecology. A scale was adapted from Bogardus's work, using indicators of social distance relevant to encounters in neighborhoods. Three samples of respondents from different ethnic groups in America expressed relative distancing from a hypothetical neglectful family as contrasted with a family representing valued behavior. The indicators …
Child Abuse and Neglect
On loneliness: A program for social work
(1980). On loneliness: A program for social work. Smith College Studies in Social Work: Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 85-113
The Absent Father in Child Neglect
Permanent absence of the father is probably disadvantageous to a child's development, but the precise linkage to developmental deficit has remained unclear. The tenability of two rather contrasting hypotheses was tested in this study of 125 low-income families, of whom forty-six were referred as neglectful: (a) that the father contributes directly in income and to household maintenance and indirectly by bolstering the mother's morale and function…
Help for the help‐less
Isolation of the neglectful family
An abbreviated version of a paper submitted to the Journal in April 1978. Research was supported by Grant 90-C-442 from the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Social Origins of Depression: A Study of Psychiatric Disorders in Women
Child Maltreatment in the United States: A Challenge to Social Institutions . Saad Z. Nagi
Leonard S. Kogan's Contribution to Social Work Research: An Appreciation
No abstract available for this article
Explorations in Psychiatric Sociology
Perceived similarity: A paradox in interviewing
How many counselors operate on the assumption that a client will be more verbally accessible if he thinks his interviewer is like himself? This truism not only makes good sense; it has the support of psychoanalytic theory as well. But is it true
Ego Psychology: Theory and Practice . Gertrude Blanck , Rubin Blanck
Roots of Futility
The Dynamics of Power: A Field Study of Social Influence in Groups of Children
An Investigation of Behavioral Contagion in Groups
Peer Reviewed
Clients' Reactions to Initial Interviews: A Field Study
Problems in of Interpersonal Relations Research on Groups
Determinants of Loneliness Among Neglectful and Other Low-Income Mothers
Despite its ubiquity among social work's clients, the problem of loneliness has received scant attention from researchers in our field. The present survey of 306 rural and urban families showed loneliness more common among neglectful mothers than for controls in similar life circumstances. Ecological determinants of loneliness and strategies for coping with it among low-income women were also explored, with implications drawn for practice
The concept of verbal accessibility 1
The Use of Near-Sociometric Data in Research on Group Treatment Processes
The Expected Behavior of a Potentially Helpful Person
A Laboratory Study of Behavioral Contagion
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071810126;view=2up;ui=fullscreen#page/n0/mode/2up
Social distancing of the neglectful family
Is There an American Standard of Child Care
The authors set out to test whether a scale used for research into child neglect, the Childhood Level of Living Scale, contains cultural bias in its means of judging the adequacy of child care. Their broader aim was to probe the possibility that there is a core of agreement among subcultures in this country on what constitutes minimally adequate child care
Social Distancing of the Neglectful Family
The sociological concept of social distance has been applied to the neglectful family in order to elucidate its ecology. A scale was adapted from Bogardus's work, using indicators of social distance relevant to encounters in neighborhoods. Three samples of respondents from different ethnic groups in America expressed relative distancing from a hypothetical neglectful family as contrasted with a family representing valued behavior. The indicators …
Experimental Studies of Clients' Reactions to Initial Interviews
Family radicals
A Historical Perspective on Evaluation Research
Editor's Note: Professor Polansky was a pioneer in promoting empirical research within the field of social work. The editor of our field's earliest research textbook [Polansky, N. (Ed.) (1960). Social work research. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press], Dr. Polansky's involvement as a student, practitioner, and researcher with some of the major figures of psychological and social work research renders his historical observations of particula…
On loneliness: A program for social work
(1980). On loneliness: A program for social work. Smith College Studies in Social Work: Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 85-113
Perceived similarity: A paradox in interviewing
How many counselors operate on the assumption that a client will be more verbally accessible if he thinks his interviewer is like himself? This truism not only makes good sense; it has the support of psychoanalytic theory as well. But is it true
How Shall a Life-History Be Written
The Prison as an Autocracy
University of Iowa.The work under discussion here was done in the Fort Madison, Ia., State Prison under the direction of Drs.F
Problems in of Interpersonal Relations Research on Groups
The Use of Near-Sociometric Data in Research on Group Treatment Processes
An Investigation of Behavioral Contagion in Groups
Peer Reviewed
A Laboratory Study of Behavioral Contagion
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071810126;view=2up;ui=fullscreen#page/n0/mode/2up
Why research in the social work curriculum
The Dynamics of Power: A Field Study of Social Influence in Groups of Children
Practice of Social Workers in Psychiatric Hospitals and Clinics . Tessie D. Berkman
The Expected Behavior of a Potentially Helpful Person
Group Work with Children and Youth II. Research Problems and Possibilities [with Comments]
Experimental Studies of Clients' Reactions to Initial Interviews
Clients' Reactions to Initial Interviews: A Field Study
Effect of Staff Role on Children's Verbal Accessibility
In principle, the totality of the treatment situation provided by an institution for emo tionally disturbed children is as susceptible to rational design and control as is individ ual psychotherapy. Putting this principle into practice, however, is extremely difficult. Among other things, we need a good deal more systematic information than we now have about the varying effects upon chil dren of the many possible patterns by which staff responsib…
Children's verbal accessibility as a function of content and personality
Verbal Inaccessibility in Young Adolescents Showing Delinquent Trends
Patienthood in the Mental Hospital and Social Psychology in Treating Mental Illness: An Experimental Approach
Journal Article Patienthood in the Mental Hospital and Social Psychology in Treating Mental Illness: An Experimental Approach Get access Patienthood in the Mental Hospital. By Levinson Daniel J. and Gallagher Eugene. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1964. 265 pp. $5.95. Social Psychology in Treating Mental Illness: An Experimental Approach. Edited by Fairweather George W.. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1964. 300 pp. $7.95. Norman A. Polansky Norman A…
The concept of verbal accessibility 1
Intermediary group treatment of inaccessible children
A guidance center was concerned about the substantial number of children who prove inaccessible to the usual clinic approach. A method was sought whereby specific deficits preventing outpatient treatment could be mitigated, using social group workers and an intensive, specially designed group program for children and parents. Results with 47 children are presented
On duplicity in the interview
Patterns of partially blocked verbal communication are identified as duplicity, a term of Kaiser's which is here defined and applied to casework. A number of illustrative maneuvers by clients has been collected. These are here grouped according to the two proximate aims: escaping responsibility for one's words and controlling the interview. Suggestions are offered for helping the client yield these ultimately unsatisfying ways of coping with the …
Verbal accessibility and fusion fantasy in a mountain county
It has frequently been reported that mountaineers are reticent about discussing feelings with outsiders, and this has been regarded as a basic difficulty in offering them a “talking” type of treatment. Actually, no systematic studies to verify this had been done. A theory of the processes involved in verbal accessibility was needed. This report presents such a theory and its application in a study
Ego Psychology and Communication: Theory for the Interview
The process of infantilization
Infantilization was identified by David Levy as one form of maternal over-protection. Recent research on child neglect in rural Appalachia suggested an intergenerational “cycle of infantilization” among mothers. A study was made, linking IQ decrement among a group of mildly retarded children to specific child-rearing practices of their mothers. The results clarify the development of the infantile personality, especially among handicapped children
Ego Psychology and Communication: Theory for the Interview
Roots of Futility
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