Bruce A Thyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 125941 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bruce A Thyer |
| PRENOMES | Bruce A |
| SOBRENOME | Thyer |
| ASSINATURA | THYER B A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3864-9115 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 136 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 190 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Reporting LCSW Pass Rate Data should be Added to CSWE’s Educational and Accreditation Standards
Most professions require that members have acquired a degree in their discipline and the passage of some form of standardized examination. For the field of clinical social work, this involves earning a Masters of Social Work (MSW) degree from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and subsequently completing the Licensed Clinical Worker Exam developed and prepared by the Association of Social Work Boards. Virtually al…
Preserving Academic Freedom and Critical Thinking in Social Work Education
Some Critical Questions for Use by Students
Promoting Diversity, Inclusion and Equity by Not Mandating Theories and Ideologies in Social Work
The valued principles of diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE) are best promoted within social work by treating various theories, perspectives and ideologies equally, and not mandating some over others. By doing so, DIE principles are promoted. Through mandating selected positions about important topics in social work education, practice and research, diversity of thought, inclusion of ideas, and equity among various perspectives is suppressed. D…
A review of Seeking Safety’s effects on reducing PTSD symptoms and substance use
The treatment called Seeking Safety was developed to provide effective care for persons with concurrent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance abuse disorder (SUD). For over 25 years, considerable effort has gone into both the promotion of Seeking Safety and toward empirically evaluating its effectiveness. A sizable body of the literature has been published testing the hypotheses that clients who receive Seeking Safety actually do im…
Promoting Policy Practice Among Social Work Students
Social justice is recognized as one of the core values of social work. In pursuit of this, social workers are expected to engage in policy practice. However, surveys of MSW programs and practicing social workers suggest that studying and engaging in policy practice is not a widespread occurrence. One barrier to policy practice seems to be that social workers in clinical practice lack the knowledge and self-efficacy to engage effectively in it. In…
Introduction
Don’t Waste Your Time Doing Social Work Research
Mandated Ideologies are Harmful to Social Work Practice and Research
Using experimental research designs to evaluate social work practice in China
Prohibiting Harmful Practices Against LGBTQIA+ Individuals and Students in Field Placement
Field practicum is known as the “signature pedagogy” for social work. Though the Council of Social Work Education’s accreditation standards guide the placement processes, research on the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQIA+) students shows that this population continues to face discrimination in practicum placements. In this point-of-view article, we present…
Farewell and Bon Voyage
The DSW to the Rescue? A Response to Feldman
Feldman's appraisal of the current status of social work research, using as its touchstone the 1991 Austin Report, is a frank and fair appraisal of how the discipline has come short of fulfilling its aspirations to become a more science-based profession. In many ways, Feldman has stood in the center of research developments within our field for the past 40 years or longer. He offers informed and thoughtful analyses of what we have accomplished an…
Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida
Child welfare professionals use structured decision-making models (SDMs) to increase consistency in decision-making. The current study examined the relationship between safety and removal decisions of case managers in Florida. Secondary data from a previous study were used. Results indicated that participants identified the home as "unsafe" 50% of the time, while recommending in-home services 75% of the time. This inconsistency in identifying a h…
How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst
Evolutionary psychology and social work
Evolutionary psychology (EP) has become an important metatheory over the past three decades. EP is centered upon Darwin’s theory of natural selection and how this process has played an important role in the development of the human brain and behavior. Evolutionary psychology attempts to explain biological phenomena in terms of evolutionary forces, in this case brain structure and function, which directly impacts human behavior. There has been a r…
Pathways to Becoming a Full Professor
This article offers some general guidelines to social work faculty seeking to be promoted to the rank of Full Professor, guidelines that we hope will provide a beginning discussion for individual programs to develop more transparent criteria and expectations for promotion to the highest rank in the academy. Specifically, we offer guidance about the types of accomplishments in the areas of scholarship, teaching and service that can enhance one's c…
Tips and tricks
In this article, I discuss how Chinese social work scholars can enhance their ability to publish their research in English language journals successfully. I describe the processes of developing sophisticated skills in writing research as one of gradual shaping, initially beginning with smaller-scale contributions to journals and only attempting to undertake and write up more sophisticated research projects by building upon past successes. A varie…
Years Plus of Research on Social Work Practice
The effects of family structure and race on decision-making in child welfare
Decision-making among child welfare professionals is complex, influencing children and their families. The primary aim of this study was to examine how removal decisions of case managers are affected by family structure, given the intersectionality of family structure and race using an experimental case vignette design. The non-probability convenience sample included 54 case managers working throughout the state of Florida. According to the resul…
The 100 Most Influential Contemporary Social Work Faculty as Assessed by the H-Index
The names of faculty employed by the 76 member social work programs of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work were retrieved via a web-search. This resulted in a list of 2204 social work faculty. Their individual H-Indices were then obtained, using either the Publish or Perish software, or via manual calculations from Google Scholar. The top 100 most influential contemporary social work faculty were identified, resulti…
Differences in health-related quality of life among persons living with HIV/Aids
We sought to identify differences in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among a sample of HIV positive individuals receiving case management services in northern Florida. Our study consisted of 97 individuals receiving HIV case management that included 56 males (57.7%) and 81 African Americans (83.5%) who were 47.05 years old (SD = 9.33). HRQoL was measured using the HIV/AIDS Targeted-Quality of Life scale (HAT-QOL). Results show significant …
Science and Pseudoscience in Social Work Practice
Doctoral Education in Social Work
A Bibliography of Randomized Controlled Experiments in Social Work (1949–2013)
A strong theme in the social work literature contends that randomized experiments are an impractical, inappropriate, unethical, and rarely undertaken research method for use in social work. In a test of this claim, the author undertook a review of the English-language published literature and prepared a provisional bibliography of primary social work studies that used experimental methodology. Astonishingly, over 740 such studies were located, wi…
Evidence-Based Practice and Social Work
The essential features of contemporary evidence-based practice (EBP) are outlined, with specific reference to the applications of this model to various areas of social work, micro through macro. EBP is seen as a welcome addition to our field, representing a fuller and more comprehensive development of earlier and related positions such as empirical clinical practice within social work, and the delineation of empirically-supported therapies within…
The Quest for Evidence-Based Practice
Throughout the history of professional social work in the United States, the field has embraced a positivistic view of science, a view continuing to be held by the mainstream of the profession. All social workers, to some extent, embrace the fundamental tenets of positivism. However, the rhetoric espousing positivistic science has not been matched by corresponding actions on the part of our professional associations. The rise of the evidence-base…
Social Learning Theory
The conceptual foundations of social learning theory (SLT), respondent conditioning, opérant conditioning, and observational learning, are empirically-supported approaches to understanding normative human development and the etiology of psychosocial problems. The principles of SLT are completely consistent with the currently popular eco-systems framework within social work practice. A thorough integration of SLT within the eco-systems model will …
Guidelines for Evaluating Outcome Studies on Social Work Practice
In order for the findings of practice research to have an impact on the profession, they must be publicly disseminated in a scientifically credible manner. This article presents guidelines to evaluate articles describing practice research studies using group designs in social work Apart from their use by social practitioners seeking guidance from the professional literature, these guidelines may also be used by researchers themselves to assist in…
Religious Discrimination in Social Work Academic Programs
Recent reports in the media have suggested that social work students are being discriminated against within BSW and MSW programs due to their religious beliefs. We review the substance of these public allegations and provide some further examples of religious discrimination occurring within the classroom, in faculty evaluations of students, and in being unfairly dismissed from social work programs. These individual stories, combined with contempo…
Differential Effectiveness of Prevalent Social Work Practice Models
This meta-analysis of 45 recently published (1990–1994) independent studies of social work's differential effectiveness by prevalent practice models builds on the more general findings of related meta-analyses that have estimated that three-quarters of the clients who participate in social work interventions do better than the average client who does not. It found that the effectiveness of interventions based on different practice models—personal…
Preparing Current and Future Practitioners to Integrate Research in Real Practice Settings
Past efforts aimed at promoting a better integration between research and practice are reviewed. These include the empirical clinical practice movement (ECP), originating within social work; the empirically supported treatment (EST) initiative of clinical psychology; and the evidence-based practice (EBP) model developed within medicine. The presence of ECP and EST has diminished within the disciplinary literatures, largely replaced by the thrivin…
A Bibliography of Randomized Controlled Experiments in Social Work (1949–2013)
A strong theme in the social work literature contends that randomized experiments are an impractical, inappropriate, unethical, and rarely undertaken research method for use in social work. In a test of this claim, the author undertook a review of the English-language published literature and prepared a provisional bibliography of primary social work studies that used experimental methodology. Astonishingly, over 740 such studies were located, wi…
Statistics and Research
Journal Article Statistics and Research Get access Bruce A. Thyer Bruce A. Thyer Florida State UniversityTallahassee, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 32, Issue 6, November-December 1987, Page 552, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/32.6.552 Published: 01 January 1987
Mandated Ideologies are Harmful to Social Work Practice and Research
Using Single-system Research Designs to Evaluate Practice
The use of single-system research designs (SSRDs) has the potential to help social workers empirically evaluate the outcomes of practice. Descriptions of using SSRDs to evaluate social work practice are provided. SSRDs have the potential to help social workers in Chinese contexts to provide scientifically credible evidence to others that social services benefit the people
Contingency Analysis
Drawing from the empirical foundations of operant psychology, the author proposes a unified theory, known as contingency analysis, for social work practice. This theory is based on four simple propositions that account for human behavior at all levels of social work practice—the individual, the family, the group, the community, and society. By using extensive citations from the literature, the author shows that this approach has great utility for…
Twenty Years of Publishing Research on Social Work Practice
he inaugural issue of Research on Social WorkPractice was published in January, 1991, fully 20years ago. At the time, some social workers believedthat there was no need for a further social work journalfocusedonresearch,butacomprehensivemarketsurveyofDeansandDirectorsofsocialworkprogramsbySagePublications produced such positive resultsthat the pub-lisher was encouraged to move ahead on the develop-ment of a new research journal.Over the years, I …
Should Social Work Clients Have the Right to Effective Treatment
Currently, the codes of ethics developed for social workers by NASW and other professional associations do not suggest that clients have the right to receive effective, empirically validated treatment. In addition, the codes place no explicit emphasis on empirically validated treatments when referring to social work competence, education, research, supervision, or the profession as a whole. Does the social work client have the right to receive ef…
Social Learning Theory
Social work education thoroughly grounded in contemporary social learning theory would provide a comprehensive approach to understanding human behavior, teaching social work practice, conducting social work research, analyzing and developing social welfare policy, and guiding the field practicum. At present, the role of social learning theory in social work education is grossly underused. This article describes how social learning principles can …
The effects of family structure and race on decision-making in child welfare
Decision-making among child welfare professionals is complex, influencing children and their families. The primary aim of this study was to examine how removal decisions of case managers are affected by family structure, given the intersectionality of family structure and race using an experimental case vignette design. The non-probability convenience sample included 54 case managers working throughout the state of Florida. According to the resul…
Celebrating Our 25th Anniversary
This January 2015 issue marks the 25th anniversary of the initial publication of Research on Social Work Practice (RSWP). For some readers, the journal has been present throughout their entire professional lives. However, back in the late 1980s, one heard frequent complaints over the poor quality and excessive length of time the peer review process took among the existing stable of social work journals. Once accepted, it often took 2 or more year…
Social justice
Although political conservatives outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace, the conservative political ideology is largely absent from academic, practice and policy discourse within the social work and social welfare communities. This article describes a conservative perspective on the topic of social justice and illustrates how this view actually promotes a more socially just practice than a liberal orientation to practice and po…
Use of Novel Unsupported and Empirically Supported Therapies by Licensed Clinical Social Workers
Journal Article Use of Novel Unsupported and Empirically Supported Therapies by Licensed Clinical Social Workers: An Exploratory Study Get access Monica Pignotti, MSW, Monica Pignotti, MSW PhD candidate College of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahasee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce A. Thyer, PhD, LCSW Bruce A. Thyer, PhD, LCSW professor College of Social Work, Florida State University, T…
The CSWE and Social Work Accreditation
Many of the criticisms of Stoesz and Karger contained within their article titled “Reinventing Social Work Education” and focused against the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) are misdirected. The CSWE accreditation mandate does not extend to the publishing records (or lack thereof) of social work faculty or deans, to the GRE scores of social work students, nor to the citation patterns of social work journals in general. There certainly are…
Academic Affiliations of Social Work Journal Article Authors
The academic affiliations of the authors of all regular journal articles published in the Journal of Social Service Research, Social Work, Social Service Review, Journal of Social Work Education, Social Casework, and Child Welfare between 1984-1988 were reviewed and tabulated, producing a ranking of the colleges and universities whose faculty are making the most substantive contributions to the social work literature. The resulls are compared wit…
Should the GRE Be Used as an Admissions Requirement by Schools of Social Work
The Graduate Record Examination developed and administered by the Educational Testing Service is purported to be a valid predictor of academic success in graduate school. A large number of graduate school sof social work require applicants to submit their GRE scores as a part of the admissions process, and such scores are often a major factor in deciding to admit prospective students. In a test of the validitiy of the GRE, we adminsitered a readi…
Don’t Waste Your Time Doing Social Work Research
American Social Work and Psychology Faculty Members' Scholarly Productivity
The h-index is a relatively new measure of scholarly productivity, and is a simple tabulation of the number of articles (h) a given author has published which have been cited at least h times. For example, a scholar with an h-index of 10 has published ten articles which have been cited in subsequent articles at least ten times. The h-index for all social work and psychology tenured or tenure-track faculty housed in the top-25 American social work…
A Test of the Validity of the LCSW Examination
Journal Article A Test of the Validity of the LCSW Examination: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Get access David L. Albright, MSW, David L. Albright, MSW graduate student College of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce A. Thyer, PhD, LCSW Bruce A. Thyer, PhD, LCSW professor College of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee Address correspondenc…
Normative Data of the Rational Behavior Inventory
Concurrent Validity of the Rational Behavior Inventory
In a correlational study of the premise that irrational beliefs are associated with psychopathology, greater levels of irrationality were significantly correlated with increased levels of state and trait anxiety, depression, and an external locus of control for 102 university undergraduates
Religious Orthodoxy and Rational Thinking
Relationship between Irrationality and Sexual Arousability
Cognitive therapies aimed at the alleviation of sexual dysfunctioning or deficits in arousal are often based on the premise that irrational self-statements and unrealistic belief systems inhibit one's capacity for sexual enjoyment (1, 2). In a test of this hypothesis the Sexual Arousal Inventory, a measure of females' sexual arousability (3), and the Rational Behavior Inventory, a measure of the rationality of one's personal belief systems (4) as…
Discriminant and Concurrent Validity of Two Commonly Used Measures of Test Anxiety
For each of two groups of 34 and 71 undergraduate college students respectively categorized as clinically test anxious (CTA sample) and as non-test anxious (NTA sample), evidence was sought regarding the discriminant validity and the concurrent validity of each of two measures—the 20-item self-report Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI) and the 8-item behavior analogue measure of test-taking performance entitled Anagram Solution Task. Normative informati…
Discriminant Validity of the Rational Behavior Inventory with Respect to Social Desirability
The clinical theory of rational-emotive therapy suggests that various forms of neurosis are characterized by specific patterns of irrational th~nking (2 ) . This position is supported by recent investigations which employed the Rational Behavior Inventory ( 4 ) as a measure of irrational belief system; strong associations were found between irrationality and various indices of psychopathology such as test, sute and trait anxiety, depression, a mo…
Cognitive Belief Systems and Their Persistence
It is a basic tenet of rational emotive and other cognitive restructuring psychotherapies that irrational belief systems are relatively stable constructs. The present study investigated this premise by examining the 10-wk. test-retest reliability of the Rational Behavior Inventory, a well-documented measure of irrational beliefs, employing a sample of 74 undergraduates. Correlations between scores for the first and second administrations of the i…
Will the “Cult of the Laboratory” Hinder the Spread of Applied Behavior Analysis
Recent articles on behavior analysis have suggested that the field is drifting in several unfortunate directions, becoming less laboratory-based, less analytic, and more technical, at the expense of conceptual rigor. A number of authors have suggested that one countercontrol to these trends is a return to an animal-based laboratory-apprenticeship model of behavioral education. The present article contends that this model is now unworkable for a n…
Behavioral Social Work in Community and Organizational Settings
Principles and methods of behavioral social work have found little application at the community and organizational levels of intervention. It is the contention of the authors that integration of such content would enhance practice at these levels. Components of behavioral community intervention are indicated and illustrated in micro/macro settings, with advantages to practice specified. Ethical Considerations in using this methodology are discuss…
Endocrine and cardiovascular responses during phobic anxiety
In vivo exposure therapy for phobias is uniquely suited for controlled studies of endocrine and physiologic responses during psychologic stress. In this study, exposure therapy induced significant increases in subjective anxiety, pulse, blood pressure, plasma norepinephrine, epinephrine, insulin, cortisol, and growth hormone, but did not change plasma glucagon or pancreatic polypeptide. Although the subjective and behavioral manifestations of anx…
Health and Social Welfare Needs of the Elderly
In a period of shrinking fiscal resources it is especially important that budgetary decision-making processes be based upon empirical data relating to the actual health and social service needs of the elderly. The present study consisted of a comprehensive survey of the social service needs of a random sample of 75 normative elderly citizens drawn from a multi-ethnic population. The results provide a preliminary data-base for administrative and p…
Life skills counseling with adolescents
Assessing the Importance of Experimental Outcomes
This article discusses a common statistical error that frequently appears in efforts to assess the importance of experimental outcomes in the social work practice and research literature, failure to provide proportions of explained variance in a manner which permits judgements as to their substantive importance or clinical significance. It then briefly describes a partial remedy and presents practical statistical formulas which research consumers…
Agoraphobia
The disabling escape and avoidance behaviors of agoraphobics are known to be psychological sequelae to the onset of apparently spontaneous attacks of severe anxiety. Evidence is cited in favor of the view that such spontaneous panic attacks have a biological etiology and that the avoidance rituals and escape behavior of the agoraphobic may be accounted for in terms of superstitious conditioning. Although panic attacks subside within a few minutes…
Punishment-Induced Aggression
Instances of physical child abuse following parental exposure to an aversive stimulus may be viewed as an instance of punishment-induced aggression. This behavior-analytic perspective is more parsimonious than alternative hypotheses about the existence of parental cognitive, trait or dispositional mediators of child abuse, and suggests alternative methods of intervention
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Burn-Out Among Social Work Professionals
Although the phenomenon of staff burn-out represents a significant problem for the effective administration and functioning of social service settings, there has been a general paucity of empirically based research on this issue. The staggering financial, personal and social costs associated with staff burn-out emphasize the fact that we can no longer accept the sole use of descriptive and correlational studies of the problem. This paper suggests…
Community-Based Self-Help Groups for the Treatment of Agoraphobia
The design and conduct of community-based self-help groups for the treatment of agoraphobia are discussed. Such groups incorporate procedures encouraging members to engage in prolonged therapeutic exposure to anxiety-evoking situations. Exposure therapy and its variants have been empirically established as the treatment of choice for agoraphobia, and self-help groups lend themselves extremely well to community mental health outreach and service e…
Progress in Behavioral Social Work
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Contingency Analysis
Drawing from the empirical foundations of operant psychology, the author proposes a unified theory, known as contingency analysis, for social work practice. This theory is based on four simple propositions that account for human behavior at all levels of social work practice—the individual, the family, the group, the community, and society. By using extensive citations from the literature, the author shows that this approach has great utility for…
Statistics and Research
Journal Article Statistics and Research Get access Bruce A. Thyer Bruce A. Thyer Florida State UniversityTallahassee, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 32, Issue 6, November-December 1987, Page 552, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/32.6.552 Published: 01 January 1987
Behavioral Social Work
A review of the course content in behavior therapy and single-subject research designs offered by 67 of the 99 accredited or preaccredited graduate schools of social work was conducted. Although behavior therapy is a viable perspective in social work education, the approach seems embedded in a context of clinical eclecticism which does not seem likely to provide adequate training in either learning theory or behavioral methods
Is the Florida safety belt law effective
Is the Florida safety belt law effective? B A Thyer, and J LandisCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.3.323 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Development and Validation of the Clinical Anxiety Scale
The development and validation of a new rapid assessment instrument, the Clinical Anxiety Scale (CAS), is described. The CAS has good reliability and validity and is compatible in format with a number of other rapid assessment instruments designed for human service professionals who wish to evaluate the effects of their interventions with clients experiencing dysfunctional anxiety
First Principles of Practice Research
Critics of applying conventional quantitative research methods to the problems of social work practice research have ignored the considerable progress which has been achieved during the past decade in scientifically documenting the effectiveness of social services. A set of First Principles of Practice Research is outlined for use by researchers in the design and conduct of practice research, and for use by the consumers of research to evaluate t…
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