The Research Process in the Human Services Behind the Scenes

by Alexander, Leslie; Solomon, Phyllis

• ISBN13: 9780534626105
• ISBN10: 0534626106
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-23
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Understand the process of research on a daily basis with THE RESEARCH PROCESS IN HUMAN SERVICES: BEHIND THE SCENES! This human services text includes twenty original research articles that provide you with models for your own work. Each article is accompanied by commentaries from the articles' authors in which they describe how and why they came to do the research, concerns in the design and conduct of the study, their own views about the strengths and limitations of the research, advice about future research in the area, and human subjects' issues, including working with IRBs. Through this presentation, the text documents the lived experience of doing research, including its challenges, as well as its joys.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	x
Foreword	xii
Contributors	xv
Introduction	xxi
SECTION I - HUMAN SERVICE EXPERIMENTS, QUASI-EXPERIMENTS, AND META-ANALYSIS	1	(148)
Randomized Experiments
Increasing access to child mental health services for urban children and their caregivers. Health & Social Work, 23, 9-15.	3	(17)
McKay, M. M.
Stoewe, J.
McCadam, K.
Gonzales, J.
Commentary
Mary M. McKay
A community-based trial of vocational problem-solving to increase employment among methadone patients. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 21, 19-26.	20	(21)
Zanis, D. A.
Coviello, D.
Alterman, A. I.
Appling, S. E.
Commentary
David A. Zanis
Quasi-experiments
The impact of ethnicity on prospective functional outcomes from community-based psychosocial rehabilitation for persons with schizophrenia. Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 657-673.	41	(25)
Phillips, E.
Barrio, C.
Brekke, J. S.
Commentary
John S. Brekke
The effects of organizational climate and interorganizational coordination on the quality and outcomes of children's service systems. Child Abuse & Neglect, 22, 401-421.	66	(32)
Glisson, C.
Hemmelgarn, A.
Commentary
Charles Glisson
Confidentiality intervention: Effects on provider-consumer-family collaboration. Research on Social Work Practice, 14, 3-13.	98	(24)
Marshall, T.
Solomon, P.
Commentary
Tina Marshall
Meta-analysis
Are mainstream programs for juvenile delinquency less effective with minority youth than majority youth? A meta-analysis of outcomes research. Research on Social Work Practice, 13, 3-26.	122	(27)
Wilson, S. J.
Lipsey, M. W.
Soydan, H.
Commentary
Sandra Jo Wilson
SECTION II - CORRELATIONAL/OBSERVATIONAL DESIGNS	149	(104)
Cross-Sectional
Client-service matching in substance abuse treatment for women with children. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 22, 161-168.	151	(20)
Smith, B. D.
Marsh, J. C.
Commentary
Jeanne C. Marsh
Brenda D. Smith
Longitudinal/Cohort
How much is enough? Perspectives of care recipients and professionals on the sufficiency of in-home care. The Gerontologist, 41, 723-732.	171	(23)
Morrow-Howell, N. L.
Proctor, E. K.
Rozario, P. A.
Commentary
Nancy L. Morrow-Howell
Enola K. Proctor
Philip A. Rozario
Predicting incarceration of clients of a psychiatric probation and parole service. Psychiatric Services, 53, 50-56.	194	(20)
Solomon, P.
Draine, J.
Marcus, S.
Commentary
Phyllis Solomon
Jeffrey Draine
Case Control Designs
Adverse Childhood experiences: Are they risk factors for adult homelessness? American Journal of Public Health, 87, 249-255.	214	(20)
Herman, D. B.
Susser, E. S.
Struening, E. L.
Link, B. L.
Commentary
Dan Herman
A comparison of homeless and matched housed adolescents on family environment variables. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 9, 53-66.	234	(19)
Wolfe, S.
Toro, P.
McCaskill, P.
Commentary
Paul A. Toro
Susan Wolfe
Pamela McCaskill
SECTION III - QUALITATIVE METHODS	253	(100)
Intensive Interviews
Lesbian identity development: An examination of differences across generations. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 69, 347-361.	255	(26)
Parks, C.
Commentary
Cheryl A. Parks
Dynamics of income packaging: A 10-year longitudinal study. Social Work, 47, 291-300.	281	(21)
Zippay, A.
Commentary
Allison Zippay
Focus Groups
Voices of African American families: Perspectives on residential treatment. Social Work, 47, 461-470.	302	(24)
Kruzich, J.
Friesen, B.
Williams-Murphy, T.
Longley, M.
Commentary
Jean M. Kruzich
Barbara J. Friesen
Ethnographic Methods
Social patterns of substance-use among people with dual diagnoses. Mental Health Services Research, 3, 3-14.	326	(27)
Alverson, H.
Alverson, M.
Drake, R. E.
Commentary
Hoyt Alverson
Marianne Alverson
Robert E. Drake
SECTION IV - MIXED METHODS	353	(64)
The bottom line: Employment and barriers to work among former SSI DA&A beneficiaries. Journal of Contemporary Drug Problems, 30, 195-240.	354	(33)
Campbell, K.
Baumohl, J.
Hunt, S. R.
Commentary
Jim Baumohl
Impoverishment and child maltreatment in African American and European American neighborhoods. Development and Psychopathology, 10, 215-233.	387	(30)
Korbin, J. E.
Coulton, C. J.
Chard, S.
Platt-Houston, C.
Su, M.
Commentary
Claudia Coulton
Jill Korbin
SECTION V - USE OF AVAILABLE DATA	417	(64)
The effect of services on the recurrence of child maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 26, 187-205.	418	(25)
DePanfilis, D.
Zuravin, S. J.
Commentary
Diane DePanfilis
Transracial adoptees in the media: 1986-1996. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 72, 289-293.	443	(16)
Hollingsworth, L. D.
Commentary
Leslie Doty Hollingsworth
Social embeddedness and psychological well-being among African Americans and Whites. American Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 519-536.	459	(22)
Snowden, L. R.
Commentary
Lonnie R. Snowden
Index	481