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This study examines the relationship between childhood victimization and self- reported current symptoms of psychosis in an incarcerated female population in the United States. Participants are 159 randomly selected women incarcerated in...
This dissertation examines the research and theory offered for Programs of Assertive Community Treatment, the model that is supported by Institutional Psychiatry as the most well validated and best model of intervention applicable to the...
Given social workers' essential connection to child welfare work and the importance of field day training to both worker retention and client wellbeing, this study used a theories of transfer framework and qualitative interviews with...
This article subjects a randomized controlled trial published in the American Journal of Psychiatry to a methodological and statistical critique, including a re-analysis of the effect size statistics presented. The published trial tested...
Florida's innovative Law Enforcement Families Partnership (LEFP) was created to reduce and prevent officer-involved domestic violence in the state. Administered by the Institute for Family Violence Studies at Florida State University and...
Although much is known about the death penalty attitudes of US adults, the attitudes of social workers are less clear. The current study assesses the death penalty attitudes of 406 social work students at a southern university. Support...
This syllabus was created as a discussion piece as part of the Research Reproducibility 2020 Conference (Topic: Educating for Reproducibility: Pathways to Research Integrity) at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA on March 17...
This article examines the quality of research regarding the effectiveness of residential treatment centers for substance abusing adolescents and begins to examine if methodological rigor is associated with substance abuse outcomes. A...
For parents of minor children, the co-parenting relationship is often a highly salient yet volatile aspect of post-divorce life. The nature of this relationship is also dependent upon the greater social context, particularly those...
Adolescents, and especially male adolescents, make up a disproportionately smaller portion of maltreatment reports compared to younger children. This study used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to better...
The Mental Illness Beliefs Inventory (MIBI) measures the extent to which an individual subscribes to the medical model of mental illness. This paper reports the results of two preliminary validation studies. The first study establishes...
This article explores the association between employment and recidivism for parolees released from Texas prisons. Along with determining whether obtaining employment on release from prison is associated with decreased odds of...
This article discusses a case study implementing a manualized financial therapy intervention in an online setting. The benefits of financial therapy are discussed, and the pros and cons of online therapy are contrasted. A description the...
Obesity is a public health epidemic, particularly among underrepresented populations. With a large proportion of immigrants, Latino Americans comprise the largest minority population in the United States. This study examined the...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of gender and faculty rank to determine their contribution to individual variance in research productivity for doctoral social work faculty in Israel. Design/methodology/approach...
Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the role of gender and faculty rank in explaining variance in individual research impact and productivity for social work doctoral faculty. Methods: Research impact and productivity...
This article presents the first statewide data regarding correctional officers' attitudes about and personal experiences with domestic violence. Online surveys were administered to Florida correctional officers asking a series of...
Response to: Davies, J., Read, Hengartner, M. P., Cosci, F., Fava, Chouinard, G., van Os, J. … Guy, A. (2017). Clinical guidelines on antidepressant withdrawal urgently need updating.BMJ, 365: l2238 doi: 10.1136/bmj.l2238
Objectives: This article reports the first estimated h-index values for social work faculty. Methods: Multiple raters blindly assessed two samples of faculty (1) tenure-track faculty at institutions listed in the U.S. News and World...
Objectives: This study evaluates the utility of a new measure—the h-index—that may provide a more valid approach to evaluating journal quality in the social work profession. Methods: H-index values are compared with Thomson ISI five-year...
The Limits of Evidence Based Medicine and Its Application to Mental Health Evidence-Based Practice. (Part Two): Assertive Community Treatment assertively reviewed
This article is the second of two published in EHPP, the first appeared in the current spring 2013 volume. The first article argued the very serious limitations of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and its very popular mental health offshoot...
This study provides an introduction to the use of multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) analysis for assessing latent factor structure, and compares this statistical technique to confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in the...
Social work is perhaps most distinctive for its clear and outspoken commitment toward improving the well-being of society's vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, while still emphasizing the importance of respecting and defending personal...
This chapter explores the relevance of practice guidelines for the advancement of clinical social work by attempting to explicate the current epistemology of empirical social work practice, Justificationism, and contrasting it with an...
Access to research and scholarship is essential for the practice of social work and the development of intra- and interdisciplinary knowledge. Therefore “open access” is a necessity for the field of social work to function and thrive....
Purpose: This study examined the effectiveness of an abstinence education program that was sensitive to federally mandated curriculum and measures. Methods: The intervention was delivered to 5, 772 middle school and high school students....
In the Western world, since at least the 15th century, state-sanctioned force has been employed to control those who disturb others by their violent or existentially destabilizing behaviors such as threatening or inflicting self-harm....
Women entering prison report high rates of childhood victimization. Women in prison also report higher rates of nonfatal suicidal behavior (self-reported suicide attempts) than women in the general population and similar rates to their...
A virus does not make distinctions. It just spreads, it just hits. But the ones who are challenged already are getting challenged even more. The richest countries in the world, making up some 13% of the global population, have ahead of...
Conflicts over finances are a key reason why marital relationships dissolve. Financial literacy interventions provide a strategy to ameliorate this conflict. Because financial literacy interventions have a mixed history of success, a new...
Child welfare policies and practices are changing to allow more youth to remain in care beyond age 18. Yet, the majority of youth do not stay. Given recent evidence suggesting that remaining in care may be beneficial, there is a need to...
Background: Youth aging out of the child welfare system become parents at rates two to three times higher than their non-child welfare system involved peers. Substantial literature acknowledges that youth aging out who are parenting are...
To examine psychiatric prescribing in response to perinatal/neonatal death, we analyzed data from a cross-sectional survey of 235 bereaved parents participating in an on-line support community. Of the 88 respondents prescribed medication...
Objective: To use meta-analytic techniques to evaluating the effectiveness of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) at reducing future physical abuse among physically abusive families. Methods: A systematic search identified six...
Postpartum psychosis (PPP) is a serious mental health issue associated with maternal suicide and infanticide. Although a growing research base suggests that childhood abuse is predictive of psychosis, bipolar disorder, and postpartum...
This article describes a federally funded pilot program designed to connect low-income families at supervised visitation (SV) programs to other community resources to improve their economic well-being. The pilot program established...
The Role of Services in Mental Health Recovery: A Qualitative Examination of Service Experiences Among Individuals Diagnosed With Serious Mental Illness
Mental health services are provided to people diagnosed with mental disorders to foster rehabilitation by enhancing emotional and behavioral functioning. The purpose of this project was to understand from the perspective of service...
In the United States, antidepressant medications are heavily promoted through direct-to consumer advertising, which is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Advertisements for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors...
The vulnerability and instability of low-income mothers situated in a context with a weak public safety net make informal social support one of few options many low-income mothers have to meet basic needs. This systematic review examines...
Background: The research process within prisons has largely considered researchers’ perspectives. Only one known study explicitly examined incarcerated persons’ perceptions and no known studies have explored incarcerated persons’...
We argue that human existential pain and threat may usefully be helped by a noncoercive educational approach that also resonates with many interpersonally focused psychological approaches, rather than by the widely touted current medical...
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