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Children and Youth Services Review, 2009
A growing body of research suggests that the "systems of care" approach to children's mental heal... more A growing body of research suggests that the "systems of care" approach to children's mental health can be effective in improving children's behavior and reducing stress on their families. What is less understood is how systems of care achieve these improvements. Through a series of focus groups, this study examined parent advocates, a key but understudied element of systems of care. Focus groups were conducted with parent advocates to examine how they themselves perceive their role within the systems of care model of service delivery. A research team identified several consistent themes from the focus group transcripts: unique role of parent advocates; similarities and differences between advocates and care managers; and, the value of having personal experience. For example, parent advocates saw themselves as navigators for families, helping them understand the system and access traditional and non-traditional services. Because of their own experiences with mental health services, parent advocates also believe they can communicate with family members in ways that professionals cannot. Results from this study can help strengthen the role of parent advocates by clarifying their contributions to service delivery. Future research should measure the extent to which parent advocates can produce the benefits identified in this study.
International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, 2009
Using data from the International Crime Victimization Survey, we investigate the relative contrib... more Using data from the International Crime Victimization Survey, we investigate the relative contribution of macro-level variables (democracy level, economic development, world system status, inequality) and individual-level variables (marital status, age, gender, education, income) in predicting the occurrence and intensity of household property crime victimization (burglary, theft from vehicle, and vehicle theft). The study utilizes multilevel regression analysis, which controls for the “nesting” of individuals living in the same nation and controls for unmeasured random effects among the 42 nations under study. The results of the zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) regression analysis indicate that all of the individual demographic characteristics have some effect on household property crime victimization as do some macro-level variables (economic development and world system status).
CENTER (ERIC) his document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization origin... more CENTER (ERIC) his document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality.
Using urban schools to provide a pivotal platform from which to launch mental health services, th... more Using urban schools to provide a pivotal platform from which to launch mental health services, the target population in this study was a group of students (n=41), ages 5-13, with serious emotional disturbances and their families at two elementary schools in Cleveland, Ohio. The children were referred for school-based mental health services by their teachers. A private, non-profit agency provided intensive mental health services, including diagnostic assessment, individual and group therapy, in-home family therapy, family support groups, comprehensive case management, intensive summer therapeutic programming, and classroom support and consultation to the teachers. Overall, 95.6 percent of the parents or caretakers were happy with the services provided though the school-based mental health program. Approximately 95.7 percent felt that their child was doing better since starting the program and they were happy with the progress that their child and family made. The children evidenced similar positive responses on their portion of the client satisfaction surveys. Results indicated that 76.4 percent of the teachers (n=18) found the consultations with the school-based mental health staff helpful, 50 percent felt their students improved attendance, 44 percent felt their students improved academically, and 39 percent felt their students' disruptive behavior improved. (CR) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.
This descriptive study in the Cleveland (Ohio) public school system evaluated the impact of an in... more This descriptive study in the Cleveland (Ohio) public school system evaluated the impact of an intensive, school-based mental health program. Forty-two African American elementary school students were referred for school-based mental services due to overt behavioral problems. Children were evaluated for risk status across three domains: community, family, and individual child. Data collected included client demographic information, diagnostic assessment information, family history, standardized ratings of child emotional and behavioral functioning, and client satisfaction data. The study found that the community had higher ratings across significant risk factors than the broader surrounding community, that 83 percent of families lived in poverty above and beyond the high poverty levels of their neighborhoods, that less than 10 percent of families were intact, and that the mental health needs of the referred children were substantive. The intervention program emphasized family-focuse...
Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence
... Crime, Delinquency, and Youth Gangs Daniel J. Flannery, David L. Hussey, Laurie Biebelhausen,... more ... Crime, Delinquency, and Youth Gangs Daniel J. Flannery, David L. Hussey, Laurie Biebelhausen, and Kelly L. Wester Introduction ... 504 Daniel J. Flannery, David L. Hussey, Laurie Biebelhausen, and Kelly L. Wester Enfocus Software - Customer Support Page 4. ...
Child welfare
Using cross-sectional analyses in conjunction with dynamic modeling (hierarchical linear modeling... more Using cross-sectional analyses in conjunction with dynamic modeling (hierarchical linear modeling), the authors profiled 119 treatment foster care youth and constructed behavioral change trajectories for a subset of 97 children. Children generally showed improvements in internalizing and critical pathology problem domains but remained the same on measures of externalizing behaviors and total problem score. The number of previous out-of-home placements was positively associated with increased levels of psychiatric symptomatology and served as the most robust predictor for modeling treatment response trajectories across problem domains. Placement instability places the well-being of children at heightened risk, therefore, accurate assessment of child need and risk in relation to caregiver capacities is critical.
Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems, 2014
Although juvenile arrests for violent crimes and juvenile victimization rates have declined, juve... more Although juvenile arrests for violent crimes and juvenile victimization rates have declined, juveniles adjudicated as delinquent continue to be at substantial risk of perpetrating—and/or being the victims—of violent acts. A complex nexus of risk and protective factors interact to impact juvenile delinquency and violent behavior phenomena. Effective prevention and intervention programming targeting salient risk and protective factors warrant the attention of policy makers, criminal justice administrators, educators, parents, communities, and others in the field of juvenile delinquency and violence prevention.
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2002
We aimed to identify profile characteristics for a recent sample of young residential children, e... more We aimed to identify profile characteristics for a recent sample of young residential children, examine the differential impact that profile characteristics have on behavior change, and describe the relationship between behavioral symptomatology and length of stay in residential treatment. A sample of 142 consecutively admitted residential treatment children were studied over a five-year period. Hierarchical Linear Modeling was the primary
Strategic Management, 1998
Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems
Purpose of the study: Purpose of the study to meta-analysis on trends of adolescent delinquency b... more Purpose of the study: Purpose of the study to meta-analysis on trends of adolescent delinquency behavior. This analysis was taken to obtain hypothesis and map analysis of theories trends of adolescent delinquency behavior as the foundation of the theory of research on the tendency of adolescent delinquency behavior in Islamic Education Institution of Ponorogo Regency. Methodology: The research methods are: a) library research, b) inclusion criteria are: first, the primary study of the behavior of juvenile delinquents, second, research reports that require statistical information, third, research gaps and maps from various journals totaling 89, 3) data analysis to change the F value to t, d and r, sampling error and measurement error correction. Main Findings: The primary studies there is a positive relationship between social cohesion and behaviour delinquency, errors in sampling of 3.634% and error in the measurement of 0.22%.The results of empirical research that the tendency of adolescent delinquency is influenced by the parental environment and no empirical research support is influenced by the religious environment of Pesantren, religious friendship, and psychosocial control. Applications of this study: This research can be useful for adolescents who develop in Pesantren through religious environments, religious friendships, and psychosocial control. This research in Ponorogo District, East Java, Indonesia which consisted of 88 Pesantren (in the form of Salafy, 'Ashry and combinations) from 161 high schools. This metaanalysis is to find out empirical and not empirical research to develop research theory. Novelty/Originality of this study: Social bonding is reflected in the psychology of adolescent development, as important element for understanding and constructing theories about adolescent delinquency behaviour. Social cohesion, social control and psychosocial control assumes that the behaviour tendencies delinquency adolescents is influenced by internal and environmental factors such as religiosity boarding school, religiosity family, and religiosity friendship.
Social Work Research, 1999
Using generalizability theory as a guide, this study discusses statistical problems and strategie... more Using generalizability theory as a guide, this study discusses statistical problems and strategies of analyzing longitudinal rating data involving multiple raters--a common type of data issue frequently encountered in social work evaluations. To disentangle raters' bias from clients' true change, the study shows the importance of looking into the multifaceted structure of measurement error. To analyze data containing nonnegligible variability associated with raters, this study proposes using a three-level hierarchical linear model. It demonstrates that the three-level model produces a better model fit to the data, smaller sample residual, and more accurate significance testing than the popular two-level model when analyzing rating data with nonnegligible raters' influences. Key words: generalizability; hierarchial linear model; longitudinal data; multiple raters; seriously emotionally disturbed children Monitoring client progress and evaluating the effectiveness of a program intervention are of central interest to social work research. Studies with these objectives often involve longitudinal designs and collection of subjective rating data. Analyzing such data, however, is not as straightforward as investigators may wish. In a longitudinal inquiry, research questions often address the change of client outcomes over time. Because change is inevitably a function of measurement, disentangling raters' bias from the clients' true change is crucial to most data analyses. This article discusses statistical problems and strategies in analyzing one type of rating data, namely, subjective ratings made by multiple raters at two or more time points. By this definition, we exclude the methodologically less complicated case of self-administered data from consideration. Examples of multiple-rater data include teachers' and parents' ratings of children's behavioral functioning, case workers' and service consumers' ratings on a program outcome, and so forth. Longitudinal rating data are likely to be collected by more than one rater. In a longitudinal study, keeping track of study participants over time is expensive. By the same token, using a group of same raters (interviewers) requires additional resources that may be practically infeasible. Just like the attrition of study participants, raters may change jobs and make themselves no longer a part of the data-collection team. During the past two decades, the number of longitudinal studies has grown at a fast pace, primarily because more social worker-researchers have recognized the importance and advantages of a dynamic inquiry. (We searched on the keyword "longitudinal" from the database Social Work Abstracts between 1977 and 1997, and found 542 journal articles in total. Among these articles, 191 [or more than one third] were published during the past seven years. Longitudinal studies often were used in the areas of program evaluations, such as assessment of programs preventing drug and alcohol abuse, mental health treatment services, welfare, foster care, and adoption programs; and correlates studies, such as factors associated with poverty, homelessness, children's aggressive behaviors, teenage pregnancy, living arrangement and service use for elderly people, HIV epidemic, and so forth.) However, the design of such studies has not received equally important attention. A typical scenario is the application of an instrument that was primarily designed for a cross-sectional study to other time points. Although the instrument has proven to be valid and reliable at a static time point, its usefulness to dynamic inquiry remains questionable. By doing so, the researcher may underestimate the importance of choosing the optimal number of raters and time points to achieve maximum generalizability. In this study we addressed the following questions: How can researchers analyze longitudinal rating data containing multiple sources of measurement error? …
Residential Treatment For Children & Youth, 2008
Music therapy is emerging as a practice medium that is applicable for children who have experienc... more Music therapy is emerging as a practice medium that is applicable for children who have experienced severe and prolonged interpersonal trauma in highly compromised caretaking relationships. Complex trauma is an evolving diagnostic and conceptual schema that attempts to describe fundamental trauma-related disturbances, including the interplay between interpersonal trauma and interpersonal functioning. Children with early and significant trauma histories often manifest
Music Therapy Perspectives, 2002
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1993
Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2007
... Detained females in particular manifest higher rates of mental disorders (Abrantes, Hoffman, ... more ... Detained females in particular manifest higher rates of mental disorders (Abrantes, Hoffman, & Anton, 2005; Robertson, Dill, Husain, & Undesser, 2004 ... abuse, 26 youth (19%) were diagnosed with alcohol dependence, 30 youth (22%) were diagnosed with mari-juana abuse, 98 ...
Journal of Social Service Research, 2004
This study critically reviews sampling procedures commonly found in social work research. Through... more This study critically reviews sampling procedures commonly found in social work research. Through a Monte Carlo study simulating conditions of probability and nonprobability sampling procedures, the study demonstrates consequences of using nonprobability sampling procedures and identifies conditions under which researchers should examine the issue critically and exercise caution in reporting findings. Five empirical strategies to address dilemmas are recommended. The study calls for greater efforts to fund and coordinate large-scale social work research particularly at the federal level.
Journal of School Violence, 2007
... The Cleveland Heights-University Heights (CH-UH) School District serves an inner-ring suburba... more ... The Cleveland Heights-University Heights (CH-UH) School District serves an inner-ring suburban metropolis bordering Cleveland, Ohio. ... 7. I intervened in a student conflict by prompting students to use social problem-solving strategies. ... 128 JOURNAL OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE ...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2008
This study describes the extent and severity of multiple comorbidities in ajuvenile detention cen... more This study describes the extent and severity of multiple comorbidities in ajuvenile detention center population, and explores how these numerous problems impact the utilization of treatment services, costs, and outcomes including those for substance abuse, mental illness, and criminal activity. Cluster analyses of the outcome scales at intake yielded two groups: youth high (42%) and youth lower (58%) on all factors. Girls experienced the most significant impairments across emotional problems, behavior complexity, internal mental distress, and victimization domains, utilized significantly more units of residential treatment,individual counseling and case management, and had the highest treatment costs. The total cost of services ($1,171,290, N = 114) was significantly related to substance problems in the past year (r = .219, p < .05), emotional problems (r = .237, p < .05), behavior complexity (r = .318, p < .05), internal mental distress (r = .263, p < .05), environmental risk (r = .205, p < .05), and conflict tactics (r = .240, p < .05). Despite initial differences in measures of baseline severity, high and low cluster youth, and boys and girls in general, achieved similar results on the key outcome variables 12 months later. Study implications include a need for co-occurring, integrated treatment efforts that address family, emotional, and mental health problems of delinquent youth (especially females) in order to improve their ability to successfully attend to substance abuse problems and interpersonal conflicts.
Children and Youth Services Review, 2009
A growing body of research suggests that the "systems of care" approach to children's mental heal... more A growing body of research suggests that the "systems of care" approach to children's mental health can be effective in improving children's behavior and reducing stress on their families. What is less understood is how systems of care achieve these improvements. Through a series of focus groups, this study examined parent advocates, a key but understudied element of systems of care. Focus groups were conducted with parent advocates to examine how they themselves perceive their role within the systems of care model of service delivery. A research team identified several consistent themes from the focus group transcripts: unique role of parent advocates; similarities and differences between advocates and care managers; and, the value of having personal experience. For example, parent advocates saw themselves as navigators for families, helping them understand the system and access traditional and non-traditional services. Because of their own experiences with mental health services, parent advocates also believe they can communicate with family members in ways that professionals cannot. Results from this study can help strengthen the role of parent advocates by clarifying their contributions to service delivery. Future research should measure the extent to which parent advocates can produce the benefits identified in this study.
International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, 2009
Using data from the International Crime Victimization Survey, we investigate the relative contrib... more Using data from the International Crime Victimization Survey, we investigate the relative contribution of macro-level variables (democracy level, economic development, world system status, inequality) and individual-level variables (marital status, age, gender, education, income) in predicting the occurrence and intensity of household property crime victimization (burglary, theft from vehicle, and vehicle theft). The study utilizes multilevel regression analysis, which controls for the “nesting” of individuals living in the same nation and controls for unmeasured random effects among the 42 nations under study. The results of the zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) regression analysis indicate that all of the individual demographic characteristics have some effect on household property crime victimization as do some macro-level variables (economic development and world system status).
CENTER (ERIC) his document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization origin... more CENTER (ERIC) his document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality.
Using urban schools to provide a pivotal platform from which to launch mental health services, th... more Using urban schools to provide a pivotal platform from which to launch mental health services, the target population in this study was a group of students (n=41), ages 5-13, with serious emotional disturbances and their families at two elementary schools in Cleveland, Ohio. The children were referred for school-based mental health services by their teachers. A private, non-profit agency provided intensive mental health services, including diagnostic assessment, individual and group therapy, in-home family therapy, family support groups, comprehensive case management, intensive summer therapeutic programming, and classroom support and consultation to the teachers. Overall, 95.6 percent of the parents or caretakers were happy with the services provided though the school-based mental health program. Approximately 95.7 percent felt that their child was doing better since starting the program and they were happy with the progress that their child and family made. The children evidenced similar positive responses on their portion of the client satisfaction surveys. Results indicated that 76.4 percent of the teachers (n=18) found the consultations with the school-based mental health staff helpful, 50 percent felt their students improved attendance, 44 percent felt their students improved academically, and 39 percent felt their students' disruptive behavior improved. (CR) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.
This descriptive study in the Cleveland (Ohio) public school system evaluated the impact of an in... more This descriptive study in the Cleveland (Ohio) public school system evaluated the impact of an intensive, school-based mental health program. Forty-two African American elementary school students were referred for school-based mental services due to overt behavioral problems. Children were evaluated for risk status across three domains: community, family, and individual child. Data collected included client demographic information, diagnostic assessment information, family history, standardized ratings of child emotional and behavioral functioning, and client satisfaction data. The study found that the community had higher ratings across significant risk factors than the broader surrounding community, that 83 percent of families lived in poverty above and beyond the high poverty levels of their neighborhoods, that less than 10 percent of families were intact, and that the mental health needs of the referred children were substantive. The intervention program emphasized family-focuse...
Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence
... Crime, Delinquency, and Youth Gangs Daniel J. Flannery, David L. Hussey, Laurie Biebelhausen,... more ... Crime, Delinquency, and Youth Gangs Daniel J. Flannery, David L. Hussey, Laurie Biebelhausen, and Kelly L. Wester Introduction ... 504 Daniel J. Flannery, David L. Hussey, Laurie Biebelhausen, and Kelly L. Wester Enfocus Software - Customer Support Page 4. ...
Child welfare
Using cross-sectional analyses in conjunction with dynamic modeling (hierarchical linear modeling... more Using cross-sectional analyses in conjunction with dynamic modeling (hierarchical linear modeling), the authors profiled 119 treatment foster care youth and constructed behavioral change trajectories for a subset of 97 children. Children generally showed improvements in internalizing and critical pathology problem domains but remained the same on measures of externalizing behaviors and total problem score. The number of previous out-of-home placements was positively associated with increased levels of psychiatric symptomatology and served as the most robust predictor for modeling treatment response trajectories across problem domains. Placement instability places the well-being of children at heightened risk, therefore, accurate assessment of child need and risk in relation to caregiver capacities is critical.
Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems, 2014
Although juvenile arrests for violent crimes and juvenile victimization rates have declined, juve... more Although juvenile arrests for violent crimes and juvenile victimization rates have declined, juveniles adjudicated as delinquent continue to be at substantial risk of perpetrating—and/or being the victims—of violent acts. A complex nexus of risk and protective factors interact to impact juvenile delinquency and violent behavior phenomena. Effective prevention and intervention programming targeting salient risk and protective factors warrant the attention of policy makers, criminal justice administrators, educators, parents, communities, and others in the field of juvenile delinquency and violence prevention.
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2002
We aimed to identify profile characteristics for a recent sample of young residential children, e... more We aimed to identify profile characteristics for a recent sample of young residential children, examine the differential impact that profile characteristics have on behavior change, and describe the relationship between behavioral symptomatology and length of stay in residential treatment. A sample of 142 consecutively admitted residential treatment children were studied over a five-year period. Hierarchical Linear Modeling was the primary
Strategic Management, 1998
Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems
Purpose of the study: Purpose of the study to meta-analysis on trends of adolescent delinquency b... more Purpose of the study: Purpose of the study to meta-analysis on trends of adolescent delinquency behavior. This analysis was taken to obtain hypothesis and map analysis of theories trends of adolescent delinquency behavior as the foundation of the theory of research on the tendency of adolescent delinquency behavior in Islamic Education Institution of Ponorogo Regency. Methodology: The research methods are: a) library research, b) inclusion criteria are: first, the primary study of the behavior of juvenile delinquents, second, research reports that require statistical information, third, research gaps and maps from various journals totaling 89, 3) data analysis to change the F value to t, d and r, sampling error and measurement error correction. Main Findings: The primary studies there is a positive relationship between social cohesion and behaviour delinquency, errors in sampling of 3.634% and error in the measurement of 0.22%.The results of empirical research that the tendency of adolescent delinquency is influenced by the parental environment and no empirical research support is influenced by the religious environment of Pesantren, religious friendship, and psychosocial control. Applications of this study: This research can be useful for adolescents who develop in Pesantren through religious environments, religious friendships, and psychosocial control. This research in Ponorogo District, East Java, Indonesia which consisted of 88 Pesantren (in the form of Salafy, 'Ashry and combinations) from 161 high schools. This metaanalysis is to find out empirical and not empirical research to develop research theory. Novelty/Originality of this study: Social bonding is reflected in the psychology of adolescent development, as important element for understanding and constructing theories about adolescent delinquency behaviour. Social cohesion, social control and psychosocial control assumes that the behaviour tendencies delinquency adolescents is influenced by internal and environmental factors such as religiosity boarding school, religiosity family, and religiosity friendship.
Social Work Research, 1999
Using generalizability theory as a guide, this study discusses statistical problems and strategie... more Using generalizability theory as a guide, this study discusses statistical problems and strategies of analyzing longitudinal rating data involving multiple raters--a common type of data issue frequently encountered in social work evaluations. To disentangle raters' bias from clients' true change, the study shows the importance of looking into the multifaceted structure of measurement error. To analyze data containing nonnegligible variability associated with raters, this study proposes using a three-level hierarchical linear model. It demonstrates that the three-level model produces a better model fit to the data, smaller sample residual, and more accurate significance testing than the popular two-level model when analyzing rating data with nonnegligible raters' influences. Key words: generalizability; hierarchial linear model; longitudinal data; multiple raters; seriously emotionally disturbed children Monitoring client progress and evaluating the effectiveness of a program intervention are of central interest to social work research. Studies with these objectives often involve longitudinal designs and collection of subjective rating data. Analyzing such data, however, is not as straightforward as investigators may wish. In a longitudinal inquiry, research questions often address the change of client outcomes over time. Because change is inevitably a function of measurement, disentangling raters' bias from the clients' true change is crucial to most data analyses. This article discusses statistical problems and strategies in analyzing one type of rating data, namely, subjective ratings made by multiple raters at two or more time points. By this definition, we exclude the methodologically less complicated case of self-administered data from consideration. Examples of multiple-rater data include teachers' and parents' ratings of children's behavioral functioning, case workers' and service consumers' ratings on a program outcome, and so forth. Longitudinal rating data are likely to be collected by more than one rater. In a longitudinal study, keeping track of study participants over time is expensive. By the same token, using a group of same raters (interviewers) requires additional resources that may be practically infeasible. Just like the attrition of study participants, raters may change jobs and make themselves no longer a part of the data-collection team. During the past two decades, the number of longitudinal studies has grown at a fast pace, primarily because more social worker-researchers have recognized the importance and advantages of a dynamic inquiry. (We searched on the keyword "longitudinal" from the database Social Work Abstracts between 1977 and 1997, and found 542 journal articles in total. Among these articles, 191 [or more than one third] were published during the past seven years. Longitudinal studies often were used in the areas of program evaluations, such as assessment of programs preventing drug and alcohol abuse, mental health treatment services, welfare, foster care, and adoption programs; and correlates studies, such as factors associated with poverty, homelessness, children's aggressive behaviors, teenage pregnancy, living arrangement and service use for elderly people, HIV epidemic, and so forth.) However, the design of such studies has not received equally important attention. A typical scenario is the application of an instrument that was primarily designed for a cross-sectional study to other time points. Although the instrument has proven to be valid and reliable at a static time point, its usefulness to dynamic inquiry remains questionable. By doing so, the researcher may underestimate the importance of choosing the optimal number of raters and time points to achieve maximum generalizability. In this study we addressed the following questions: How can researchers analyze longitudinal rating data containing multiple sources of measurement error? …
Residential Treatment For Children & Youth, 2008
Music therapy is emerging as a practice medium that is applicable for children who have experienc... more Music therapy is emerging as a practice medium that is applicable for children who have experienced severe and prolonged interpersonal trauma in highly compromised caretaking relationships. Complex trauma is an evolving diagnostic and conceptual schema that attempts to describe fundamental trauma-related disturbances, including the interplay between interpersonal trauma and interpersonal functioning. Children with early and significant trauma histories often manifest
Music Therapy Perspectives, 2002
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1993
Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2007
... Detained females in particular manifest higher rates of mental disorders (Abrantes, Hoffman, ... more ... Detained females in particular manifest higher rates of mental disorders (Abrantes, Hoffman, & Anton, 2005; Robertson, Dill, Husain, & Undesser, 2004 ... abuse, 26 youth (19%) were diagnosed with alcohol dependence, 30 youth (22%) were diagnosed with mari-juana abuse, 98 ...
Journal of Social Service Research, 2004
This study critically reviews sampling procedures commonly found in social work research. Through... more This study critically reviews sampling procedures commonly found in social work research. Through a Monte Carlo study simulating conditions of probability and nonprobability sampling procedures, the study demonstrates consequences of using nonprobability sampling procedures and identifies conditions under which researchers should examine the issue critically and exercise caution in reporting findings. Five empirical strategies to address dilemmas are recommended. The study calls for greater efforts to fund and coordinate large-scale social work research particularly at the federal level.
Journal of School Violence, 2007
... The Cleveland Heights-University Heights (CH-UH) School District serves an inner-ring suburba... more ... The Cleveland Heights-University Heights (CH-UH) School District serves an inner-ring suburban metropolis bordering Cleveland, Ohio. ... 7. I intervened in a student conflict by prompting students to use social problem-solving strategies. ... 128 JOURNAL OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE ...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2008
This study describes the extent and severity of multiple comorbidities in ajuvenile detention cen... more This study describes the extent and severity of multiple comorbidities in ajuvenile detention center population, and explores how these numerous problems impact the utilization of treatment services, costs, and outcomes including those for substance abuse, mental illness, and criminal activity. Cluster analyses of the outcome scales at intake yielded two groups: youth high (42%) and youth lower (58%) on all factors. Girls experienced the most significant impairments across emotional problems, behavior complexity, internal mental distress, and victimization domains, utilized significantly more units of residential treatment,individual counseling and case management, and had the highest treatment costs. The total cost of services ($1,171,290, N = 114) was significantly related to substance problems in the past year (r = .219, p < .05), emotional problems (r = .237, p < .05), behavior complexity (r = .318, p < .05), internal mental distress (r = .263, p < .05), environmental risk (r = .205, p < .05), and conflict tactics (r = .240, p < .05). Despite initial differences in measures of baseline severity, high and low cluster youth, and boys and girls in general, achieved similar results on the key outcome variables 12 months later. Study implications include a need for co-occurring, integrated treatment efforts that address family, emotional, and mental health problems of delinquent youth (especially females) in order to improve their ability to successfully attend to substance abuse problems and interpersonal conflicts.