Riki Savaya
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 243601 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Riki Savaya |
| PRENOMES | Riki |
| SOBRENOME | Savaya |
| ASSINATURA | SAVAYA R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0869-4839 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 216 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Toward a definition of professional identity for social work
Defining professional identity has long been a contested matter, even more so in social work with ongoing questions about our professional status. To address these questions, this article explores how professional identity is theorized, defined, and/or measured in peer-reviewed social work literature by reporting on a subset of findings from a scoping review. The search protocol produced a total dataset of ninety-one peer-reviewed articles, sixty…
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers
This paper identifies mechanisms that impact the professional identity of qualified social workers. Professional identity has become a focal point in social work, especially considering contemporary neoliberal settings and pressing global concerns about workplace conditions affecting the status of the profession. On this basis, a scoping literature review was implemented with an aim to identify how professional identity is experienced, sustained,…
Social Alienation and Psychological Distress in Israeli Adolescents
Shame and Pride among Social Workers in Israel
The research on shame and pride among social workers is in its infancy. Given the potential consequences of these emotions on social workers and social work practice, this study had two main aims: (i) to identify practice situations in which social workers in Israel felt shame and pride and (ii) to classify and map these situations into conceptual domains. A concept mapping approach was used to achieve these aims. Eighty social workers recruited …
Flourishing in Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli Adolescents
Social Workers in Israel
In this article, we report findings pertaining to connections between social workers’ exposure to daily stressors, the work benefits they receive, their levels of burnout and their well-being. We examined (i) the associations between social workers’ perceived exposure to daily stressors and their well-being; (ii) the mediating effect of burnout on these associations; and (iii) the moderating effect of extrinsic and intrinsic work benefits on the …
Professional identity, perceived job performance and sense of personal accomplishment among social workers in Israel
This study examined the associations between social workers' professional identity and the quality of their work, as reflected by their perceived job performance and sense of personal accomplishment. Based on literature attesting to the contribution of the working alliance between social workers and their service-users to the attainment of interventions' goals, a model in which the working alliance mediated the associations between social workers…
Value Profiles and Perceived Job Performance of Social Workers in Israel
Values play a crucial role in the credo of social work. Recent definitions of the profession delineate the values that should guide social work worldwide. At the same time, social workers’ employment patterns and changes in the traditional welfare state have resulted in fragmentations in the profession, highlighting the importance of shared professional values. This study is the first to examine value profiles endorsed by social workers, as well …
Perceptions of Service Providers’ Burnout
This paper reports the findings of a study comparing service providers’ and service users’ perceptions of providers’ burnout. It addresses two issues: the similarities and differences in their perceptions; and the associations between any gaps in their perceptions and the service users’ satisfaction and perceptions of change. The study was conducted on 270 matched pairs of service users and service providers in a human service agency in a major c…
Cultural Identity and Intervention Strategies of Arab Minority Social Workers in Israel
This paper examines the associations between the cultural identity of Arab social workers in Israel and their intervention preferences. The Arab cultural identity was assessed by means of four scales measuring attributes that are central to Arab culture: religiosity, collectivism, belief in gender hierarchy and attitudes towards sexual behaviour. The choice of intervention strategies was ascertained using hypothetical vignettes of cases that soci…
Predictors of Perceived Changes by Service Users
The study reported in this article examines the associations between service users’ hope, the social worker–service user working alliance, and social worker burnout as perceived by service users, on the one hand, and perceived change in the service users’ presenting problems, on the other. The study was conducted with 342 service users of a large municipal welfare agency. Consistent with the study hypotheses, the findings show (a) positive associ…
Religious Coping Strategies and Mental Health Among Religious Jewish Gay and Bisexual Men
Social Worker Burnout in Israel
The paper examines the contributions to burnout of three day-to-day job stressors—abuse by service users, thwarted implementation of professional decisions and job-related dilemmas—which had been identified as especially upsetting by social workers in a previous study. The study participants were 363 social workers employed in direct service provision in municipal welfare departments in Israel. Since some were employed in the Tel Aviv–Yafo munici…
Apprehensions and Expectations of the Adoption of Systematically Planned, Outcome-Oriented Practice
Objectives: The study examined social workers’ apprehensions and expectations of the impending adoption of systematically planned, empirically based, outcome-oriented practice (SEOP). Method: Employing a mixed methods longitudinal design, the study used concept mapping to identify and map workers’ apprehensions and expectations and a self-reported questionnaire to measure their levels. Results: Apprehensions were that SEOP will increase monitorin…
Binary phenomenon of hope
This is the second article in a phenomenological study of hope among 10 Israeli reserve soldiers with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. The aim of the second analysis was to learn about the veterans' conceptualization of hope. The picture of hope that emerges from the analysis of their interviews is of a binary phenomenon in which hope develops but may also be arrested, is conscious but also unconscious, and strengthens the individual but ma…
Mental Health of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth and Young Adults
Drawing on minority stress theory, this study examined the mental health effects of the added burden of disadvantaged social status in an I sraeli sample of 461 self‐identified lesbian, gay, and bisexual ( LGB ) youths. Bisexuality was associated with lower levels of well‐being, and, at a younger age, with higher levels of mental distress. In bisexuals, this relationship was fully mediated by family support and acceptance, internalized homophobia…
Cultural Intervention Strategies Employed by Arab Social Workers in Israel
Journal Article Cultural Intervention Strategies Employed by Arab Social Workers in Israel: Identification and Conceptualisation Get access Khawla Zoabi, Khawla Zoabi Ms. Khawla Zoabi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University. Her dissertation deals with intervention strategies of Palestinian social workers in Israel. She works as a Lecturer at the Sakhnin College for Teacher Education. Professor Savaya is…
Critical Reflection to Identify Gaps between Espoused Theory and Theory-in-Use
Critical reflection (CR) is a process by which one may identify the assumptions governing one's actions, question them, and develop alternative behaviors. This article presents two cases that demonstrate the use of CR to raise social workers' awareness of gaps between what Schon and Argryis term social workers' "espoused theories" and the "theories-in-use" that actually guide social workers' practice and to help them to develop more effective mod…
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Patients' Experiences of Hope
In this qualitative study we examined the experience and perception of hope of 10 Israeli soldiers with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with the goal of achieving an understanding of the manners in which hope intertwines with trauma. The results indicate that hope is an integrative, changing, multidimensional phenomenon which plays a unique role in the individual's life. Viewing hope as a crucial aspect of human life was further evi…
Effects of Family and Friend Support on LGB Youths' Mental Health and Sexual Orientation Milestones
This study examined the effects of social support components and providers on mental health and sexual orientation (SO) milestones of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youths. Data were collected on 461 self-identified LGB adolescents and young adults. Family acceptance and support yielded the strongest positive effect on self-acceptance of SO, whereas friends' support and acceptance yielded the strongest positive effect on disclosure of SO. Famil…
Predictors of Sustainability of Social Programs
This article presents the findings of a large scale study that tested a comprehensive model of predictors of three manifestations of sustainability: continuation, institutionalization, and duration. Based on the literature the predictors were arrayed in four groups: variables pertaining to the project, the auspice organization, the community, and the main funder. The total sample consisted of 197 projects. Informants were asked to fill out a deta…
Adjustment of adolescent adoptees
Stressful Encounters with Social Work Clients
This article presents the findings of an analysis of 130 critical incidents reported by social workers in Israel. Almost all the incidents turned out to be upsetting events that caused the writers a great deal of pain, frustration, and self-doubt. Content analysis yielded four main categories of incidents or events: (1) client hostility and aggression toward the worker, (2) client behaviors that violated the unwritten rules of the profession or t…
Innovation in schools of social work
An exploratory study was carried out on innovations introduced in schools of social work from 11 countries, based on a content analysis of semi-structured questionnaires. The innovations that emerged from these responses reflect, in part, the emerging requirements of coping with the global changes that affect social work practice today
Social Workers' and Service Users' Causal Attributions for Poverty
Poverty and its etiology have been major subjects of concern for the social work profession throughout its history. This study focused on four causal attributions for poverty: social-structural, motivational, psychological, and fatalistic. More specifically, it examined the differences between social workers' and service users' perceptions of the causes of poverty. Participants were 401 service users and 410 social workers located in a variety of…
Mental Health of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth and Young Adults
Drawing on minority stress theory, this study examined the mental health effects of the added burden of disadvantaged social status in an I sraeli sample of 461 self‐identified lesbian, gay, and bisexual ( LGB ) youths. Bisexuality was associated with lower levels of well‐being, and, at a younger age, with higher levels of mental distress. In bisexuals, this relationship was fully mediated by family support and acceptance, internalized homophobia…
Social Workers' and Service Users' Causal Attributions for Poverty
Poverty and its etiology have been major subjects of concern for the social work profession throughout its history. This study focused on four causal attributions for poverty: social-structural, motivational, psychological, and fatalistic. More specifically, it examined the differences between social workers' and service users' perceptions of the causes of poverty. Participants were 401 service users and 410 social workers located in a variety of…
Religious Coping Strategies and Mental Health Among Religious Jewish Gay and Bisexual Men
Sustainability of Social Programs
The article reports on the findings of a comparative case study of six projects that operated in Israel between 1980 and 2000. The study findings identify characteristics of the programs, the host organizations, and the social and political environment, which differentiated programs that are sustained from those that are not. The findings reaffirm the importance of the human factor, namely, the commitment of the leadership of the host organizatio…
The under-use of psychological services by Israeli Arabs
Predictors of Sustainability of Social Programs
This article presents the findings of a large scale study that tested a comprehensive model of predictors of three manifestations of sustainability: continuation, institutionalization, and duration. Based on the literature the predictors were arrayed in four groups: variables pertaining to the project, the auspice organization, the community, and the main funder. The total sample consisted of 197 projects. Informants were asked to fill out a deta…
Stressful Encounters with Social Work Clients
This article presents the findings of an analysis of 130 critical incidents reported by social workers in Israel. Almost all the incidents turned out to be upsetting events that caused the writers a great deal of pain, frustration, and self-doubt. Content analysis yielded four main categories of incidents or events: (1) client hostility and aggression toward the worker, (2) client behaviors that violated the unwritten rules of the profession or t…
Social Workers in Israel
In this article, we report findings pertaining to connections between social workers’ exposure to daily stressors, the work benefits they receive, their levels of burnout and their well-being. We examined (i) the associations between social workers’ perceived exposure to daily stressors and their well-being; (ii) the mediating effect of burnout on these associations; and (iii) the moderating effect of extrinsic and intrinsic work benefits on the …
Cultural Identity and Intervention Strategies of Arab Minority Social Workers in Israel
This paper examines the associations between the cultural identity of Arab social workers in Israel and their intervention preferences. The Arab cultural identity was assessed by means of four scales measuring attributes that are central to Arab culture: religiosity, collectivism, belief in gender hierarchy and attitudes towards sexual behaviour. The choice of intervention strategies was ascertained using hypothetical vignettes of cases that soci…
When Clients Stay Away
This article describes the endeavor of a group of Jewish-Israeli practitioners in a marital and family counseling agency to design and implement acceptable intervention strategies for the Arab-Israeli population. Stretching over 2 years, and marked by repeated trial and error, the efforts resulted in greater cultural sensitivity on the part of the agency's Jewish staff members and in an intervention strategy that the Arab population helped to bot…
Professional identity, perceived job performance and sense of personal accomplishment among social workers in Israel
This study examined the associations between social workers' professional identity and the quality of their work, as reflected by their perceived job performance and sense of personal accomplishment. Based on literature attesting to the contribution of the working alliance between social workers and their service-users to the attainment of interventions' goals, a model in which the working alliance mediated the associations between social workers…
Lifestyle Differences in Traditionalism and Modernity and Reasons for Divorce Among Muslim Palestinian Citizens of Israel
This study compared the various reasons for divorce endorsed by a large, heterogeneous sample of divorced male and female Muslim Palestinian citizens oflsrael who reported modem-traditional lifestyle differences as one of their reasons with the reasons of those who did not. The findings show that the divorced women who named these lifestyle differences as one of the reasons for their divorce reported significantly more other reasons for divorce a…
Sources of meaning in life for young and old Israeli Jews and Arabs
Attitudes Towards Family and Marital Counseling Among Israeli Arab Women
This is an empirical study of attitudes towards family and marital counseling among Israeli Arab women living in the multiethnic community of Jalfa-Tel Aviv. Using vignettes in a 3 x 3 factorial design, the study found that the women expressed most readiness to seek professional help for problems with their children and least readiness to seek help for problems with their spouses. Findings also showed that the ethnic identity-Jewish or Arab-of th…
Social Worker Burnout in Israel
The paper examines the contributions to burnout of three day-to-day job stressors—abuse by service users, thwarted implementation of professional decisions and job-related dilemmas—which had been identified as especially upsetting by social workers in a previous study. The study participants were 363 social workers employed in direct service provision in municipal welfare departments in Israel. Since some were employed in the Tel Aviv–Yafo munici…
Value Profiles and Perceived Job Performance of Social Workers in Israel
Values play a crucial role in the credo of social work. Recent definitions of the profession delineate the values that should guide social work worldwide. At the same time, social workers’ employment patterns and changes in the traditional welfare state have resulted in fragmentations in the profession, highlighting the importance of shared professional values. This study is the first to examine value profiles endorsed by social workers, as well …
Predictors of Perceived Changes by Service Users
The study reported in this article examines the associations between service users’ hope, the social worker–service user working alliance, and social worker burnout as perceived by service users, on the one hand, and perceived change in the service users’ presenting problems, on the other. The study was conducted with 342 service users of a large municipal welfare agency. Consistent with the study hypotheses, the findings show (a) positive associ…
Cultural Intervention Strategies Employed by Arab Social Workers in Israel
Journal Article Cultural Intervention Strategies Employed by Arab Social Workers in Israel: Identification and Conceptualisation Get access Khawla Zoabi, Khawla Zoabi Ms. Khawla Zoabi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University. Her dissertation deals with intervention strategies of Palestinian social workers in Israel. She works as a Lecturer at the Sakhnin College for Teacher Education. Professor Savaya is…
Critical Reflection to Identify Gaps between Espoused Theory and Theory-in-Use
Critical reflection (CR) is a process by which one may identify the assumptions governing one's actions, question them, and develop alternative behaviors. This article presents two cases that demonstrate the use of CR to raise social workers' awareness of gaps between what Schon and Argryis term social workers' "espoused theories" and the "theories-in-use" that actually guide social workers' practice and to help them to develop more effective mod…
Reasons for divorce among muslim arabs in israel
This is an exploratory, cross-cultural study examining the reasons for divorce in a sample of 312 Muslim Arabs in Israel. Findings showed a combination of modern and traditional reasons, which reflect the transition that Arab society in Israel is undergoing. On the modern side, over two-thirds of both the men and women endorsed ‘did not get along’ and communications problems, common reasons in the West today. On the traditional side, large propor…
Apprehensions and Expectations of the Adoption of Systematically Planned, Outcome-Oriented Practice
Objectives: The study examined social workers’ apprehensions and expectations of the impending adoption of systematically planned, empirically based, outcome-oriented practice (SEOP). Method: Employing a mixed methods longitudinal design, the study used concept mapping to identify and map workers’ apprehensions and expectations and a self-reported questionnaire to measure their levels. Results: Apprehensions were that SEOP will increase monitorin…
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Patients' Experiences of Hope
In this qualitative study we examined the experience and perception of hope of 10 Israeli soldiers with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with the goal of achieving an understanding of the manners in which hope intertwines with trauma. The results indicate that hope is an integrative, changing, multidimensional phenomenon which plays a unique role in the individual's life. Viewing hope as a crucial aspect of human life was further evi…
Adjustment of adolescent adoptees
Predictors of Adjustment to Divorce of Palestinian Israelis
This article examines the association between features of legal proceedings in divorce and the emotional adjustment of divorced persons among a heterogeneous, mixed‐gender sample of 312 divorced Muslim Palestinian citizens of Israel. The findings show that legal factors had only a limited association with the emotional adjustment of the respondents. The only legal factor studied that contributed significantly to the respondents' adjustment was th…
Thinking Processes in Social Workers' Use of a Clinical Decision Support System
The authors examined the thinking processes in the use of a decision support system (DSS) by social workers in a human services agency to determine whether they used the system to improve their case reasoning. Information was obtained from in-depth interviews with eight social workers who used a DSS in their work and from content analysis of “narrative justifications” appended to 1,074 decisions that differed from those recommended by the DSS. Fi…
Attitudes Towards Family and Marital Counseling Among Israeli Arab Women
This is an empirical study of attitudes towards family and marital counseling among Israeli Arab women living in the multiethnic community of Jalfa-Tel Aviv. Using vignettes in a 3 x 3 factorial design, the study found that the women expressed most readiness to seek professional help for problems with their children and least readiness to seek help for problems with their spouses. Findings also showed that the ethnic identity-Jewish or Arab-of th…
Reactions of Practitioners to the Introduction of a Standard Instrument to Monitor Clinical Outcomes
This paper describes, step by step, the efforts made by the authors to introduce a clinical monitoring system into a marital and family counselling clinic in Tel Aviv, Israel. The monitoring system which was chosen for that purpose was the McMaster Clinical Rating Scale (MCRS). Systematic training helped the counsellors to become more receptive to the idea of monitoring, acknowledge its potential utility, and try it out. However, they failed to u…
When Clients Stay Away
This article describes the endeavor of a group of Jewish-Israeli practitioners in a marital and family counseling agency to design and implement acceptable intervention strategies for the Arab-Israeli population. Stretching over 2 years, and marked by repeated trial and error, the efforts resulted in greater cultural sensitivity on the part of the agency's Jewish staff members and in an intervention strategy that the Arab population helped to bot…
A Qualitative cum Quantitative Approach to Construct Definition in a Minority Population
The paper describes the combined use of qualitative and quantitative methods to provide a preliminary definition of the construct, the reasons for divorce among Israeli Arab women. The qualitative methods consisted of personal in terviews and a focus group, the quantitative method of Trochim's concept mapping. The combined approach was adopted in the wake of skepticism about the ability of research instruments developed in the West to study Weste…
Associations among Economic Need, Self-Esteem, and Israeli Arab Women's Attitudes toward and Use of Professional Services
This study examines the effects of economic need and self-esteem on the attitudes toward and use of professional (instrumental and psychotherapeutic) services by Arab women living in the mixed Arab-Jewish town of Jaffa, Israel. Findings show that self-esteem was associated with the women's help-seeking behavior but not their attitudes only when economic need was not taken into account. When economic need was included in the analyses, the effect o…
The under-use of psychological services by Israeli Arabs
Development of a Model for Evaluating Social Work Curriculum
This paper describes an internal evaluation performed on the BSW curriculum of the School of Social Work of Tel Aviv University, Israel. It focuses on the inductive, participatory method by which the evaluation was designed, and on the measure that was developed. The aim of the paper is to encourage internal evaluation of social work curricula and to provide a model for doing so that others can adopt
Sources of meaning in life for young and old Israeli Jews and Arabs
Reasons for divorce among muslim arabs in israel
This is an exploratory, cross-cultural study examining the reasons for divorce in a sample of 312 Muslim Arabs in Israel. Findings showed a combination of modern and traditional reasons, which reflect the transition that Arab society in Israel is undergoing. On the modern side, over two-thirds of both the men and women endorsed ‘did not get along’ and communications problems, common reasons in the West today. On the traditional side, large propor…
Lifestyle Differences in Traditionalism and Modernity and Reasons for Divorce Among Muslim Palestinian Citizens of Israel
This study compared the various reasons for divorce endorsed by a large, heterogeneous sample of divorced male and female Muslim Palestinian citizens oflsrael who reported modem-traditional lifestyle differences as one of their reasons with the reasons of those who did not. The findings show that the divorced women who named these lifestyle differences as one of the reasons for their divorce reported significantly more other reasons for divorce a…
Perceptions of the Societal Image of Muslim Arab Divorced Men and Women in Israel
This study examined perceptions by divorced Muslim men and women citizens of Israel of their society's image of divorced persons and the associations between these perceptions and their adjustment to their divorce. The study is based on the reports of a heterogeneous sample of 312 divorced men and women in this community. Findings show that, on the whole, the participants perceive their society as stigmatizing divorced women as bad parents and sp…
Divorce Among Moslem Arabs Living in Israel
This article compares reasons for divorce among two groups of Arab women: regular divorcees, who divorced after living with their husbands, and contract divorcees, who divorced during the waiting period between the signing of the marriage contract and actual cohabitation. The regular divorcees reported more reasons for divorcing than the contract divorcees and were considerably more prone to cite their husband's physical, sexual, and verbal abuse…
Divorce Among “Unmarried” Muslim Arabs in Israel
This paper explores the reasons for what we term “contract divorce” among a sample of 56 such divorced Muslim Arab women in Israel. “Contract divorce” occurs when the marital union is dismantled during the customary period of delay between the time the couple sign the legally binding marital contract, which makes them man and wife in both Islamic and Israeli law, and the time they move in together and consummate their marriage. This period of del…
Equity Perceptions as a Determinant of Computer User Satisfaction in Human Services
This study employs Joshi's “equity implementation theory” to examine acceptance of computerization among 272 human service workers in three large, public social service agencies in Israel. This theory holds that worker acceptance of computer technology is contingent on both the perceived gains and losses the CT brings the worker and the comparative gains and losses to the workers' peers and managers. The findings showed that the more the perceive…
Coalition-Based Social Change Initiatives
This paper presents a model for establishing and maintaining social change coalitions. The model, based on the authors' study of a successful coalition-based social change initiative, highlights the potential contribution of a neutral, external support agency whose goal is to help a group of organizations collaborate in an effort to promote change in social policy in an area of shared concern. The external agency brings knowledge and experience i…
Thinking Processes in Social Workers' Use of a Clinical Decision Support System
The authors examined the thinking processes in the use of a decision support system (DSS) by social workers in a human services agency to determine whether they used the system to improve their case reasoning. Information was obtained from in-depth interviews with eight social workers who used a DSS in their work and from content analysis of “narrative justifications” appended to 1,074 decisions that differed from those recommended by the DSS. Fi…
Help-seeking among Muslim Arab Divorcees in Israel
The study investigated the help-seeking of Muslim Arab divorcees living in Israel. Analysis of responses to Veroff et al.’s Patterns of Helpseeking Scale shows low rates of help-seeking by divorcees of both genders, yet higher rates among the female than among the male divorcees. They also show that the propensity to seek help increased with the experience of more stressful events around the divorce. The help-seeking patterns of the men and women…
Predictors of Adjustment to Divorce of Palestinian Israelis
This article examines the association between features of legal proceedings in divorce and the emotional adjustment of divorced persons among a heterogeneous, mixed‐gender sample of 312 divorced Muslim Palestinian citizens of Israel. The findings show that legal factors had only a limited association with the emotional adjustment of the respondents. The only legal factor studied that contributed significantly to the respondents' adjustment was th…
Sustainability of Social Programs
The article reports on the findings of a comparative case study of six projects that operated in Israel between 1980 and 2000. The study findings identify characteristics of the programs, the host organizations, and the social and political environment, which differentiated programs that are sustained from those that are not. The findings reaffirm the importance of the human factor, namely, the commitment of the leadership of the host organizatio…
Social Workers' and Service Users' Causal Attributions for Poverty
Poverty and its etiology have been major subjects of concern for the social work profession throughout its history. This study focused on four causal attributions for poverty: social-structural, motivational, psychological, and fatalistic. More specifically, it examined the differences between social workers' and service users' perceptions of the causes of poverty. Participants were 401 service users and 410 social workers located in a variety of…
Innovation in schools of social work
An exploratory study was carried out on innovations introduced in schools of social work from 11 countries, based on a content analysis of semi-structured questionnaires. The innovations that emerged from these responses reflect, in part, the emerging requirements of coping with the global changes that affect social work practice today
Effects of Family and Friend Support on LGB Youths' Mental Health and Sexual Orientation Milestones
This study examined the effects of social support components and providers on mental health and sexual orientation (SO) milestones of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youths. Data were collected on 461 self-identified LGB adolescents and young adults. Family acceptance and support yielded the strongest positive effect on self-acceptance of SO, whereas friends' support and acceptance yielded the strongest positive effect on disclosure of SO. Famil…
Predictors of Sustainability of Social Programs
This article presents the findings of a large scale study that tested a comprehensive model of predictors of three manifestations of sustainability: continuation, institutionalization, and duration. Based on the literature the predictors were arrayed in four groups: variables pertaining to the project, the auspice organization, the community, and the main funder. The total sample consisted of 197 projects. Informants were asked to fill out a deta…
Adjustment of adolescent adoptees
Stressful Encounters with Social Work Clients
This article presents the findings of an analysis of 130 critical incidents reported by social workers in Israel. Almost all the incidents turned out to be upsetting events that caused the writers a great deal of pain, frustration, and self-doubt. Content analysis yielded four main categories of incidents or events: (1) client hostility and aggression toward the worker, (2) client behaviors that violated the unwritten rules of the profession or t…
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