Roberta G Sands
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 92828 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roberta G Sands |
| PRENOMES | Roberta G |
| SOBRENOME | Sands |
| ASSINATURA | SANDS R G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Learning from African American Lesbian Mothers about Conducting Research
The aim of this article is to convey lessons learned from a recent research study on Black lesbian, parented, partnered mothers and their families’ experiences, lessons that challenge the cisheteronormative methodology for family studies and conducting research. Methodological barriers, including the researcher’s white identity, language usage, and the political context, are used as examples of challenges gaining access to potential research part…
The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox
The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox
"Spiritual transformation is the process of changing one's beliefs, values, attitudes, and everyday behaviors related to a transcendent experience or higher power. Jewish adults who adopt Orthodoxy provide a clear example of spiritual transformation within a religious context. With little prior exposure to traditional practice, these baalei teshuvah (literally, "masters of return" in Hebrew) turn away from their former way of life, take on strict…
Moving beyond the 'official story
This article examines the qualitative interview as a site for meetings between interviewers and interviewees from groups that are in conflict. It shows how interviewees who initially resisted participation and voiced what one called the 'official story' of her group moved beyond this position enabling the encounter to become a meaningful experience for both parties. This critical case analysis is based on three interviews from three different stu…
Rethinking social inclusion
This qualitative study examines the relational dimension of social inclusion by exploring the ways in which persons in recovery from mental illness understand and define their relationships with various communities. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 20 participants who were heterogeneous with respect to gender, psychiatric diagnoses, sexual orientation and gender identity, and living environments. We found competencies for establishin…
African American Women's Experiences Around Conversion to Islam
This article focuses on the experiences of African American women who converted from Christianity to Islam. Examining qualitative data from interviews with 15 Muslim women, we identified common experiences the women had in their paths to Islam. These experiences included predisposing conditions, experiencing challenges, social ties and relationships with Muslims, observing others, and positive experiences during the conversion process. We also fo…
Conceptualizing Community
In this article we describe a focus group study of the perspectives of diverse groups of mental health consumers on the concept of community. We identify the core domains that constitute the notion of community, and commonalities and differences in the perception of community along the lines of ethnicity and sexual orientation/gender identity. Seven focus groups were conducted with a total of 62 participants. Transcripts were analyzed using the g…
The Social Integration of Baalei Teshuvah
This article focuses on the perceptions of baalei teshuvah, Jews who were raised with little identification with Judaism as a religious system and subsequently became Orthodox, as an example of the social integration of a group that migrates from one community to another. The baalei teshuvah participants perceived themselves as unique and distinct from those who were raised Orthodox and preferred to associate with others like themselves. They exp…
Spirituality and Religiousness Among American Jews
In this article we examine the association between spirituality and religiousness for Jews in the United States. Using data from the most recent National Jewish Population Survey of 2000–2001, a large national sample, we examined the extent to which these two concepts correlate. In addition, we compared the relative importance of sociodemographic factors, stressors, and Jewish contextual factors in predicting spirituality and religiousness. We fo…
Gender Differences in the Construction of Spirituality, Work, Learning, and Community by Baalei Teshuvah
A Model of Spiritual Transformation of Baalei Teshuvah
Baalei teshuvah are Jewish men and women who strengthen their religious-spiritual observances of Judaism and become Orthodox. The authors undertook a qualitative research study comprised of individual interviews with 48 baalei teshuvah, two focus groups, and interviews with 10 key informants. From these data, the authors inductively derived a model of baalei teshvuvahapos;s spiritual transformation over time. Seven non-linear processes are descri…
Interview Shocks and Shockwaves
This article uses a postmodern lens to examine "shocks," cognitive emotional reactions of the interviewer to the unexpected, and shows how shocks and "shockwaves," responses to shocks, are related to the process of Othering. The concepts master narrative, coherence, Othering, positionality, and nonunitary subjectivity are used to present the analysis. Using excerpts from research interviews as illustrations, the article describes three types of s…
The Direction of Denominational Switching in Judaism
This research note examines patterns of denominational switching and the characteristics of switchers within Judaism in the United States. Viewing orthodox, conservative, and reform Judaism and a fourth 'nonspecific' group as categories that range from the most traditional to the least traditional, respectively, we focus on the movement of individuals toward or away from a more traditional denomination in comparison with remaining in the same den…
The Journey Toward Intercultural Sensitivity
This paper reports on the use of Milton Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) to analyze logs that were submitted by mental health service providers who participated in an intensive training program on intercultural competency. Program participants wrote eight monthly reflective logs about cultural experiences that occurred between training sessions. The categories of intercultural sensitivity described in the DMIS wer…
The Impact of Religious Intensification on Family Relations
Using the example of South African Jewish families in which the daughters became Ultra-Orthodox, this article examines the reactions and adaptations of mothers to their daughters' religious intensification. A qualitative study in which 15 mothers and 15 daughters were interviewed found that the mothers' initial reactions were primarily positive and ambivalent, with some negative reactions, but over time the mothers became increasingly ambivalent.…
Factors Associated with Stress Among Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren
This cross‐sectional study of 129 grandparents raising their grandchildren examined the extent to which social supports are related to the grandparents' stress (psychological anxiety). A hierarchical regression analysis, with variables entered in blocks, revealed that contextual factors, stressors related to caregiving, and lack of supports accounted for 35% of the variance. Younger grandparents, grandchildren with psychological and physical prob…
Ba’Alot teshuvah daughters and their mothers
Grandparent Caregivers' Perception of the Stress of Surrogate Parenting
This paper examined the relationship between sociodemo-graphic factors, Stressors, and resources, and the perception of stress by grandparents caring for their grandchildren. A sample of 129 grandparents had face-to-face interviews. A hierarchical block regression analysis produced a model that accounted for 49 percent of the variance. For the first block (sociodemographic factors) younger age and being white were significant, but in the context …
Service Components of Case Management Which Reduce Inpatient Care Use for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
The Impact of Employment and Serious Illness on Grandmothers Who Are Raising Their Grandchildren
Increasing numbers of children are living in families consisting of grandparents and grandchildren. This paper presents findings of a study in which 123 caregiving grandmothers were interviewed. Fifty-eight percent of these grandmothers were "career caregivers," whose homes were always filled with a child or grandchild. Most of them were in good to excellent physical health and their mental health was at least as good as that of a national sample…
Gender and the Perception of Diversity and Intimidation Among University Students
Two modes of case management
Can you overlap here?”
Interdisciplinary teams sometimes view overlapping roles as problematic. In this article, a 1‐min, 7‐s segment of team conversation in which “overlap” is discussed is subjected to a microanalysis. The analysis includes an expansion of the meaning of the text (cf. Labov & Fanshel, 1977) and reveals participants’ territoriality in the face of an ideology of interdisciplinary collaboration. The larger ethnographic study of which this is a part, as w…
The Missing Voice in Interdisciplinary Communication
The research problem investigated in this article emerged from a year-long ethnographic study of the interdisciplinary process of teams evaluating children for mental retardation/developmental disabilities. The researchers noticed that when a discipline was not present at team meetings, others attempted to speak for it. This article examines the team process and case consequences of such a "missing voice." Data collected through participant obser…
Using Postmodern Feminist Theory to Deconstruct "Phallacies" of Poverty
This article demonstrates how postmodern feminist deconstruction can be used to uncover phallocentric biases in current theories of the feminization of poverty. It discusses deconstruction, critiques themes from the literature on policy, deconstructs statements from leading theorists, and questions the proposed solution to the feminization of poverty: marriage for women and the creation and preservation of good-paying jobs for men
Interview Shocks and Shockwaves
This article uses a postmodern lens to examine "shocks," cognitive emotional reactions of the interviewer to the unexpected, and shows how shocks and "shockwaves," responses to shocks, are related to the process of Othering. The concepts master narrative, coherence, Othering, positionality, and nonunitary subjectivity are used to present the analysis. Using excerpts from research interviews as illustrations, the article describes three types of s…
Moving beyond the 'official story
This article examines the qualitative interview as a site for meetings between interviewers and interviewees from groups that are in conflict. It shows how interviewees who initially resisted participation and voiced what one called the 'official story' of her group moved beyond this position enabling the encounter to become a meaningful experience for both parties. This critical case analysis is based on three interviews from three different stu…
Conceptualizing Community
In this article we describe a focus group study of the perspectives of diverse groups of mental health consumers on the concept of community. We identify the core domains that constitute the notion of community, and commonalities and differences in the perception of community along the lines of ethnicity and sexual orientation/gender identity. Seven focus groups were conducted with a total of 62 participants. Transcripts were analyzed using the g…
Faculty Mentoring Faculty in a Public University
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRoberta G. SandsRoberta G. Sands is associate professor in the School of Social Work, at the University of Pennsylvania, L. Alayne Parson is associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, and Josann Duane is assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Graphics at The Ohio State University.L. Alayne ParsonRoberta G. Sands is associate professor in the School of Social Work, at the Universi…
The Direction of Denominational Switching in Judaism
This research note examines patterns of denominational switching and the characteristics of switchers within Judaism in the United States. Viewing orthodox, conservative, and reform Judaism and a fourth 'nonspecific' group as categories that range from the most traditional to the least traditional, respectively, we focus on the movement of individuals toward or away from a more traditional denomination in comparison with remaining in the same den…
Can you overlap here?”
Interdisciplinary teams sometimes view overlapping roles as problematic. In this article, a 1‐min, 7‐s segment of team conversation in which “overlap” is discussed is subjected to a microanalysis. The analysis includes an expansion of the meaning of the text (cf. Labov & Fanshel, 1977) and reveals participants’ territoriality in the face of an ideology of interdisciplinary collaboration. The larger ethnographic study of which this is a part, as w…
Mother-Headed Single-Parent Families
A disproportionate number of women who head single-parent families are black and poor. Subjected to the interactingforces of sexism, racism, and classism, their major problem is economic. Ideologies about women's "place"restrict women from active, participatory roles (as family heads and as workers) and relegate them to the category of "Other." The mother-headed single parent family is the Other of family forms. This article elaborates on the ide…
The Social Integration of Baalei Teshuvah
This article focuses on the perceptions of baalei teshuvah, Jews who were raised with little identification with Judaism as a religious system and subsequently became Orthodox, as an example of the social integration of a group that migrates from one community to another. The baalei teshuvah participants perceived themselves as unique and distinct from those who were raised Orthodox and preferred to associate with others like themselves. They exp…
Two modes of case management
The Journey Toward Intercultural Sensitivity
This paper reports on the use of Milton Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) to analyze logs that were submitted by mental health service providers who participated in an intensive training program on intercultural competency. Program participants wrote eight monthly reflective logs about cultural experiences that occurred between training sessions. The categories of intercultural sensitivity described in the DMIS wer…
The Missing Voice in Interdisciplinary Communication
The research problem investigated in this article emerged from a year-long ethnographic study of the interdisciplinary process of teams evaluating children for mental retardation/developmental disabilities. The researchers noticed that when a discipline was not present at team meetings, others attempted to speak for it. This article examines the team process and case consequences of such a "missing voice." Data collected through participant obser…
Using Postmodern Feminist Theory to Deconstruct "Phallacies" of Poverty
This article demonstrates how postmodern feminist deconstruction can be used to uncover phallocentric biases in current theories of the feminization of poverty. It discusses deconstruction, critiques themes from the literature on policy, deconstructs statements from leading theorists, and questions the proposed solution to the feminization of poverty: marriage for women and the creation and preservation of good-paying jobs for men
The Impact of Religious Intensification on Family Relations
Using the example of South African Jewish families in which the daughters became Ultra-Orthodox, this article examines the reactions and adaptations of mothers to their daughters' religious intensification. A qualitative study in which 15 mothers and 15 daughters were interviewed found that the mothers' initial reactions were primarily positive and ambivalent, with some negative reactions, but over time the mothers became increasingly ambivalent.…
Grandparent Caregivers' Perception of the Stress of Surrogate Parenting
This paper examined the relationship between sociodemo-graphic factors, Stressors, and resources, and the perception of stress by grandparents caring for their grandchildren. A sample of 129 grandparents had face-to-face interviews. A hierarchical block regression analysis produced a model that accounted for 49 percent of the variance. For the first block (sociodemographic factors) younger age and being white were significant, but in the context …
Gender and the Perception of Diversity and Intimidation Among University Students
Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Mental Health Interview
Journal Article Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Mental Health Interview Get access Roberta G. Sands Roberta G. Sands Roberta G. Sands, PhD, is Associate Professor, College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1947 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Annual Clinical Social Work Conference of the National Association of Social Workers, San Francisco, California, September 1986. The author wi…
Correlates of success and lack of success in deinstitutionalization
Spirituality and Religiousness Among American Jews
In this article we examine the association between spirituality and religiousness for Jews in the United States. Using data from the most recent National Jewish Population Survey of 2000–2001, a large national sample, we examined the extent to which these two concepts correlate. In addition, we compared the relative importance of sociodemographic factors, stressors, and Jewish contextual factors in predicting spirituality and religiousness. We fo…
Clinical Practice with Women in Their Middle Years
Women in their middle years make substantial use of social services, but because of inaccurate assumptions and biases in developmental theories, the unique concerns of this population have not been sufficiently addressed. Middleaged women must reconcile their masculine and feminine selves by reassessing their interpersonal relationships, their physical beings, and the meaning of work and achievement. The authors describe a four-phase clinical app…
Language and consciousness in industrial workers
Correlates of success and lack of success in deinstitutionalization
Clinical Practice with Women in Their Middle Years
Women in their middle years make substantial use of social services, but because of inaccurate assumptions and biases in developmental theories, the unique concerns of this population have not been sufficiently addressed. Middleaged women must reconcile their masculine and feminine selves by reassessing their interpersonal relationships, their physical beings, and the meaning of work and achievement. The authors describe a four-phase clinical app…
Death Attitudes among Mid-Life Women
The relationships between death anxiety, age, developmental concerns, and socioeconomic status were analyzed using a sample of seventy-four women ages thirty through forty-nine who had recently returned to the university. Templer's death anxiety scale as well as a thematic apperception procedure were employed to measure attitudes about death. Concurrent and construct validation of the direct and indirect measures of death yielded different, often…
Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Mental Health Interview
Journal Article Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Mental Health Interview Get access Roberta G. Sands Roberta G. Sands Roberta G. Sands, PhD, is Associate Professor, College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1947 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Annual Clinical Social Work Conference of the National Association of Social Workers, San Francisco, California, September 1986. The author wi…
Mother-Headed Single-Parent Families
A disproportionate number of women who head single-parent families are black and poor. Subjected to the interactingforces of sexism, racism, and classism, their major problem is economic. Ideologies about women's "place"restrict women from active, participatory roles (as family heads and as workers) and relegate them to the category of "Other." The mother-headed single parent family is the Other of family forms. This article elaborates on the ide…
Faculty Mentoring Faculty in a Public University
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRoberta G. SandsRoberta G. Sands is associate professor in the School of Social Work, at the University of Pennsylvania, L. Alayne Parson is associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, and Josann Duane is assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Graphics at The Ohio State University.L. Alayne ParsonRoberta G. Sands is associate professor in the School of Social Work, at the Universi…
Using Postmodern Feminist Theory to Deconstruct "Phallacies" of Poverty
This article demonstrates how postmodern feminist deconstruction can be used to uncover phallocentric biases in current theories of the feminization of poverty. It discusses deconstruction, critiques themes from the literature on policy, deconstructs statements from leading theorists, and questions the proposed solution to the feminization of poverty: marriage for women and the creation and preservation of good-paying jobs for men
Can you overlap here?”
Interdisciplinary teams sometimes view overlapping roles as problematic. In this article, a 1‐min, 7‐s segment of team conversation in which “overlap” is discussed is subjected to a microanalysis. The analysis includes an expansion of the meaning of the text (cf. Labov & Fanshel, 1977) and reveals participants’ territoriality in the face of an ideology of interdisciplinary collaboration. The larger ethnographic study of which this is a part, as w…
The Missing Voice in Interdisciplinary Communication
The research problem investigated in this article emerged from a year-long ethnographic study of the interdisciplinary process of teams evaluating children for mental retardation/developmental disabilities. The researchers noticed that when a discipline was not present at team meetings, others attempted to speak for it. This article examines the team process and case consequences of such a "missing voice." Data collected through participant obser…
Two modes of case management
The Impact of Employment and Serious Illness on Grandmothers Who Are Raising Their Grandchildren
Increasing numbers of children are living in families consisting of grandparents and grandchildren. This paper presents findings of a study in which 123 caregiving grandmothers were interviewed. Fifty-eight percent of these grandmothers were "career caregivers," whose homes were always filled with a child or grandchild. Most of them were in good to excellent physical health and their mental health was at least as good as that of a national sample…
Gender and the Perception of Diversity and Intimidation Among University Students
Service Components of Case Management Which Reduce Inpatient Care Use for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Factors Associated with Stress Among Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren
This cross‐sectional study of 129 grandparents raising their grandchildren examined the extent to which social supports are related to the grandparents' stress (psychological anxiety). A hierarchical regression analysis, with variables entered in blocks, revealed that contextual factors, stressors related to caregiving, and lack of supports accounted for 35% of the variance. Younger grandparents, grandchildren with psychological and physical prob…
Ba’Alot teshuvah daughters and their mothers
Grandparent Caregivers' Perception of the Stress of Surrogate Parenting
This paper examined the relationship between sociodemo-graphic factors, Stressors, and resources, and the perception of stress by grandparents caring for their grandchildren. A sample of 129 grandparents had face-to-face interviews. A hierarchical block regression analysis produced a model that accounted for 49 percent of the variance. For the first block (sociodemographic factors) younger age and being white were significant, but in the context …
The Impact of Religious Intensification on Family Relations
Using the example of South African Jewish families in which the daughters became Ultra-Orthodox, this article examines the reactions and adaptations of mothers to their daughters' religious intensification. A qualitative study in which 15 mothers and 15 daughters were interviewed found that the mothers' initial reactions were primarily positive and ambivalent, with some negative reactions, but over time the mothers became increasingly ambivalent.…
The Journey Toward Intercultural Sensitivity
This paper reports on the use of Milton Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) to analyze logs that were submitted by mental health service providers who participated in an intensive training program on intercultural competency. Program participants wrote eight monthly reflective logs about cultural experiences that occurred between training sessions. The categories of intercultural sensitivity described in the DMIS wer…
Interview Shocks and Shockwaves
This article uses a postmodern lens to examine "shocks," cognitive emotional reactions of the interviewer to the unexpected, and shows how shocks and "shockwaves," responses to shocks, are related to the process of Othering. The concepts master narrative, coherence, Othering, positionality, and nonunitary subjectivity are used to present the analysis. Using excerpts from research interviews as illustrations, the article describes three types of s…
The Direction of Denominational Switching in Judaism
This research note examines patterns of denominational switching and the characteristics of switchers within Judaism in the United States. Viewing orthodox, conservative, and reform Judaism and a fourth 'nonspecific' group as categories that range from the most traditional to the least traditional, respectively, we focus on the movement of individuals toward or away from a more traditional denomination in comparison with remaining in the same den…
Gender Differences in the Construction of Spirituality, Work, Learning, and Community by Baalei Teshuvah
A Model of Spiritual Transformation of Baalei Teshuvah
Baalei teshuvah are Jewish men and women who strengthen their religious-spiritual observances of Judaism and become Orthodox. The authors undertook a qualitative research study comprised of individual interviews with 48 baalei teshuvah, two focus groups, and interviews with 10 key informants. From these data, the authors inductively derived a model of baalei teshvuvahapos;s spiritual transformation over time. Seven non-linear processes are descri…
Spirituality and Religiousness Among American Jews
In this article we examine the association between spirituality and religiousness for Jews in the United States. Using data from the most recent National Jewish Population Survey of 2000–2001, a large national sample, we examined the extent to which these two concepts correlate. In addition, we compared the relative importance of sociodemographic factors, stressors, and Jewish contextual factors in predicting spirituality and religiousness. We fo…
The Social Integration of Baalei Teshuvah
This article focuses on the perceptions of baalei teshuvah, Jews who were raised with little identification with Judaism as a religious system and subsequently became Orthodox, as an example of the social integration of a group that migrates from one community to another. The baalei teshuvah participants perceived themselves as unique and distinct from those who were raised Orthodox and preferred to associate with others like themselves. They exp…
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